Jane Lynch, wife, finalize divorce in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has finalized Jane Lynch’s divorce from her wife more than four years after the couple were married.
Month: October 2014
Orbital Sciences’ unmanned rocket explodes on liftoff in Virginia
An unmanned Antares rocket exploded seconds after liftoff from a commercial launch pad in Virginia on Tuesday, marking the first accident since NASA turned to private operators to deliver cargo to the International Space Station, but officials said no one was hurt. The 14-story rocket, built and launched by Orbital Sciences Corp, blasted off its seaside launch pad at the Wallops Flight Facility at 6:22 p.m. EDT/2222 GMT carrying a Cygnus cargo ship bound for the space station.
Obama defends U.S. Ebola guidelines, backs American volunteers in Africa
By Tami Chappell and Roberta Rampton ATLANTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the second of two nurses infected while treating an Ebola patient left an Atlanta hospital, President Barack Obama on Tuesday said policies adopted in the United States should not discourage Americans willing to fight West Africa’s outbreak. Obama weighed in for the first time since states including New York and New Jersey imposed automatic 21-day quarantines on doctors and nurses returning from the three countries at the heart of the outbreak – rules that go beyond federal guidelines. “We don’t want to discourage our healthcare workers from going to the front lines and dealing with this in an effective way,” Obama told reporters at the White House South Lawn. Some states have imposed their own safeguards, including mandatory quarantines for doctors and nurses returning from the three countries at the center of the epidemic, saying federal policies do not adequately protect the public.
Haunted houses for adults in demand, spark community outrage
By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) – On a recent October night, Ruben Perez’s friends set out to show him the worst that New York City has to offer. All were part of the Halloween scene at Nightmare New York, a haunted house for adults. With Hollywood-grade stagecraft and professional actors, haunted houses are in increasingly high demand. Nightmare welcomes about 35,000 annual visitors, each of whom pays up to $60 to take part in scenes from New York’s darkest days, featuring characters, real or imaginary, from outsize rats said to be spawned by Hurricane Sandy to the 1970s serial killer David Berkowitz, better known as the Son of Sam.
States ask Congress to intervene on drug prices
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicaid chiefs from red and blue states are urging Congress to stem the cost of revolutionary new drugs for hepatitis C, cancer, and other diseases.
Orbital Sciences’ unmanned rocket explodes on lift-off in Virgnia -NASA
An unmanned Antares rocket exploded seconds after lift off from a commercial launch pad in Virginia on Tuesday, a NASA TV broadcast showed. The 14-story rocket, built and launched by Orbital Sciences Corp, bolted off its seaside launch pad at the Wallops Flight Facility at 6:22 p.m. EDT/2222 GMT carrying a Cygnus cargo ship for the International Space Station. The cause of the accident was not immediately known, said NASA mission commentator Dan Huot. NASA said there were no injuries.
Pope Francis says Big Bang theory does not contradict role of God
Scientific theories including the “Big Bang” believed to have brought the universe into being 13.7 billion years ago and the idea that life developed through a process of evolution do not conflict with Catholic teaching, Pope Francis said on Tuesday. Addressing a meeting of the Pontificial Academy of Sciences, an independent body housed in the Vatican and financed largely by the Holy See, Francis said scientific explanations for the world did not exclude the role of God in creation. The Church once opposed early scientific explanations of the universe that contradicted the account of creation in the Bible, famously condemning the 17th century astronomer Galileo Galilei who showed that the earth revolved around the sun. Pope Pius XII described evolution as a valid scientific approach to the development of humans in 1950 and Pope John Paul reiterated that in 1996.
Marvel unveils slate of films through 2019
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Doctor Strange,” ”Black Panther,” ”Captain Marvel” and the “Inhumans” are joining the Marvel cinematic universe.
Obama says volunteers in Ebola fight need support, not restrictions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that health workers volunteering to help treat Ebola patients in West Africa should be applauded and he warned that government quarantine policies should not discourage their work needed to help contain the disease. Obama spoke for the first time since governors in New York and New Jersey ordered the quarantining of health workers returning from West Africa, rules that goes beyond federal guidelines. He said U.S. officials need to be guided by science rather than fears. …
Fla. House race about partisanship _ and lingerie
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Republicans who flipped a Democratic seat in Congress during the 2010 tea party movement could now lose it in part because of a snarky comment about a lingerie party.