Television
9:39 am
Tue December 13, 2011

Louis C.K. Reflects On 'Louie,' Loss, Love And Life

In the FX TV series Louie, comic Louis C.K. plays a divorced father of two struggling to balance his comedy career with being a single dad. The show, which has just been picked up for a third season, is often based on events that have happened to C.K. in his own life.

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It's All Politics
9:34 am
Tue December 13, 2011

New Poll Suggests Latino Voters See 'Hostile' GOP

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Nearly half of the Latino voters in a new survey said nominating Sen. Marco Rubio as a vice presidential candidate would have no effect on their votes.

The overwhelming majority of Latino voters believe that the Republican Party ignores them or is outright "hostile," and that nominating Hispanic Sen. Marco Rubio as a vice presidential candidate might do little to change it, according to a national poll released Monday.

The December survey, conducted by impreMedia and the polling group Latino Decisions, is the first to test the popularity of the freshman senator from Florida with America's Hispanics.

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The Two-Way
9:25 am
Tue December 13, 2011

White House's 'Promise Kept' Iraq Timeline Starts On Jan. 20, 2009

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"Promise Kept," it says on the landing page of the Iraq War interactive timeline posted by the White House today.

A message from the White House on its Twitter page popped up a few minutes ago saying:

"After nearly 9 years of sacrifice, America's war in Iraq is coming to an end. Experience the interactive timeline: wh.gov/iraq"

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Shots - Health Blog
9:05 am
Tue December 13, 2011

Dirty Little Secret: Almost Nobody Cleans Contacts Properly

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Odds are that's a nasty dirty lens.

People who wear contact lenses say they're diligent about keeping them clean. But press them for details, and it turns out that hardly anyone is doing it the right way.

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Technology
8:54 am
Tue December 13, 2011

The Technology Helping Repressive Regimes Spy

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Software allows repressive governments to track and monitor the movements of dissidents.

As protesters in the Middle East use social media to organize and communicate, the regimes they're battling are using sophisticated technology to intercept their emails, text messages and cell phones calls.

On Wednesday's Fresh Air, journalist Ben Elgin talks about a Bloomberg News series "Wired for Repression," which details how Western companies are selling surveillance technology to regimes including Iran, Syria, Bahrain and Tunisia.

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The Two-Way
8:25 am
Tue December 13, 2011

One Man Blamed In Grenade, Gun Attack That Kills Several In Belgium

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Rescuers evacuate injured people in Liege, Belgium, today, after a grenade and gun attack that killed at least three and injured dozens.

Authorities now say a lone attacker who had recently been in prison on weapons and drug charges appears to have been responsible for a harrowing grenade and gun attack today in Liege, Belgium.

As of now, it's being reported that the attacker killed three people and wounded more than 60 before taking his own life.

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The Two-Way
7:40 am
Tue December 13, 2011

Buildings Design Sparks Anger Over 9/11 Similarity

Originally published on Tue December 13, 2011 10:48 am

A Dutch architectural firm says its designers didn't see the resemblance.

But many, many others certainly do think the two buildings — linked by a "cloud" of skybridges — that MVRDV has proposed for a project in Seoul look very much like the haunting images of the World Trade Center's twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001, after they were hit by high-jacked passenger planes.

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Shots - Health Blog
7:26 am
Tue December 13, 2011

Insurers Often Don't Pay For Teen Weight-Loss Surgery

Weight-loss surgery for morbidly obese teenagers is getting some traction, when diets and exercise fail.

Getting the procedure paid for is another matter, since many insurers and employers are still wary of covering it for children. The surgery costs upwards of $20,000, and it's still being evaluated to determine which adolescents would benefit most from it.

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World
7:00 am
Tue December 13, 2011

Captured Drone May Have Limited Benefit For Iran

Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 8:12 am

Iranian officials have crowed they are mining "priceless technological information" from a CIA spy drone that went down days ago inside Iran's borders, broadcasting triumphant images of what they said was the craft on state TV.

But many experts say the loss of the RQ-170 Sentinel drone — like the U-2 spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 — may have more value as propaganda than as a treasure trove of technological secrets.

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