(CBS News) Get ready for some big changes in your mail service. After losing $16 billion last year, the postmaster general will make announce Wednesday that the Postal Service intends to halt Saturday delivery of first-class mail by this summer, Aug. 1, CBS News has learned. That means most mailers, letters and catalogs would not arrive on Saturdays, ending a 150-year tradition. The plan to shrink...
Lance Armstrong Under Criminal Investigation
Labels: Business Federal investigators are in the midst of an active criminal investigation of disgraced former Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, ABC News has learned.The revelation comes in stark contrast to statements made by the U.S. Attorney for Southern California, Andre Birotte, who addressed his own criminal inquiry of Armstrong for the first time publicly on Tuesday. Birotte's...
Feb
05
Richard III still the criminal king
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Ahmadinejad starts historic Egypt visit
Labels: Technology CAIRO: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Cairo on Tuesday, marking the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, Egyptian television footage showed.Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi welcomed Ahmadinejad at Cairo airport as he disembarked from the plane, the footage showed.Ahmadinejad, who is on a three-day visit, will attend an Organisation...
Signs of runaway heat seen in Dreamliner batteries
Labels: Health TOKYO An investigation into a lithium ion battery that overheated on a Boeing 787 flight in Japan last month found evidence of the same type of "thermal runaway" seen in a similar incident in Boston, officials said Tuesday. The Japan Transportation Safety Board said that CAT scans and other analysis found damage to all eight cells in the battery that overheated on the All Nippon Airways 787 on Jan....
Boy Rescued in Ala. Standoff 'Laughing, Joking'
Labels: Business The 5-year-old boy held hostage in a nearly week-long standoff in Alabama is in good spirits and apparently unharmed after being reunited with his family at a hospital, according to his family and law enforcement officials.The boy, identified only as Ethan, was rescued by the FBI Monday afternoon after they rushed the underground bunker where suspect Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, was...
Feb
04
'Stop whining about right-wing media'
Labels: WorldFormer Vice President Al Gore exaggerates the role of right-wing media in blocking progressive policies, Howard Kurtz says.STORY HIGHLIGHTSAl Gore says right-wing media help account for resistance to Democrats' policiesPresident Barack Obama said media coverage could determine future of bipartisanshipHoward Kurtz: Fox News, Rush Limbaugh have influence, but White House has bigger voiceHe says conservative...
MPs call for ways to avoid 6.9m-strong population
Labels: Technology SINGAPORE: Some 60 Members of Parliament (MPs) have indicated their interest to take part in the debate on the White Paper on Population.There were several references to the much-talked-about population number, which the government is using to prepare infrastructure plans.There were calls to find ways to avoid the need to grow Singapore's population to 6.9 million people.Suggestions included...
Several killed in California tour bus wreck
Labels: LifestyleFrom Paul Vercammen, Chandler Friedman and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN updated 6:45 AM EST, Mon February 4, 2013STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Authorities identify the bus company; safety records indicate it's "satisfactory"A patrol officer says he expects the death toll to riseAt least 42 are injured from the crash in San Bernardino CountyAmbulances take turns on one lane of a mountainous roadSan Bernardino,...
Tour bus crash kills at least 8 in California
Labels: Health Updated 6 a.m. EST YUCAIPA, Calif. At least eight people were killed and 38 injured Sunday when a tour bus careened out of control while traveling down a Southern California mountain road, struck a car, flipped and plowed into a pickup truck, authorities said. The accident occurred around 6:30 p.m. about 80 miles east of Los Angeles and left State Route 38 littered with debris, the bus sideways...
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