Lebron James has parted ways with agent Leon Rose of Creative Artists Agency and will now be represented by his longtime friend, Rich Paul, who also has left CAA to start his own company: Klutch Sports Management, sources told Yahoo! Sports. James made the move official when he filed paperwork with the NBA Players’ Association […]
Chris Stevens, U.S. ambassador to Libya, killed along with three others in a rocket attack outside the American Consulate in Benghazi, was “a courageous and exemplary representative of the United States,” President Barack Obama said in his statement as he condemned the attack. Initial reports said the slain embassy staffers–who also included foreign service information […]
Documents show the U.S. was given more warnings about potential terrorist attacks in the weeks leading up to 9/11, writes Vanity Fair contributing editor Kurt Eichenwald of New York Times. The documents predate the presidential daily briefing on Aug. 6, 2001, which said, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” “The administration’s reaction to what Mr. Bush […]
Sri Lanka’s diamond-swallowing saga took an unexpected turn Tuesday when police revealed the stone swallowed by a visitor at a gem exhibition was a fake and they are searching for the real stone valued at $13,000. Police arrested Chou Wan, 32, after a gem owner complained a man had swallowed his 1.5 carat diamond at […]
Thousands of public school teachers formed picket lines in Chicago on Monday and parents scrambled for child care during their first strike in a quarter century over reforms sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and endorsed by President Barack Obama’s administration. Some 29,000 teachers and support staff in the nation’s third-largest school system were involved, leaving […]
A bomb hoax in Philadelphia that turned a Dallas-bound flight around and led to a full-scale SWAT response was apparently triggered by a spiteful ex-girlfriend who telephoned authorities to say her former beau was aboard the US Air flight armed with liquid explosives, police told ABC News. According to authorities, Christopher Shell, a salesman in […]
A 14-year-old boy from Ohio says he is lucky to have a second life after he was swallowed up by a sewer drain pipe and carried 1,500 feet by rising waters. Jeff LaPorta suffered scrapes and bruises on his legs and received six stitches in his arm, but that only tells a part of his […]
Much of a finger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didn’t have any power, five days after Isaac ravaged the state. Thousands of evacuees remained at shelters or bunked with friends or relatives. “My family is split up,” said Angela Serpas, from severely […]
An earthquake of 7.6 magnitude struck off the Philippine archipelago on Friday destroying roads and bridges and sending people fleeing to higher ground in fear of a tsunami. The quake was centered off the east coast, 91 miles (146 km) off the town of Guiuan in Samar Province at a depth of about 20 miles (32 […]
Isaac made landfall Tuesday night on the southeastern Louisiana coast as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 80 mph. Arriving on the eve of the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Isaac is the first hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast since Ike in 2008. Now, Isaac’s core is expected to pass west of New Orleans […]
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