New password-stealing virus targets Facebook
(Reuters)
Reuters - Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook's estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information.
Happiness Is ... Making More Money Than the Next Guy
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - One key to happiness might be whether you make more than
your peers, regardless of whether that income is six figures or just a mediocre
take-home, a new study finds.
Dutch fuming at retired US general's gays comment
(AP)
AP - The Dutch prime minister Friday denounced as "irresponsible" a claim by a retired U.S. general that gay Dutch soldiers were partly to blame for allowing Europe's worst massacre since World War II.
Report: USDA lax in watching organics market
(AP)
AP - The Agriculture Department has failed to enforce penalties against some who falsely marketed foods as organic, according to an internal department investigation.
Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward
(AP)
AP - From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.
Rice regrets how US prioritized rebuilding in Iraq
(AP)
AP - Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she would "many times over liberate" Iraq again, but she regretted the Bush administration failed to work closer with Iraqis to rebuild the war-torn country.
Calif police department on alert for deadly traps
(AP)
AP - Police in this picturesque city in rural Riverside County have been on edge in recent weeks. Someone is trying to kill them.
State of health care debate: Pundits attack 11-year-old
(McClatchy Newspapers)
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Conservative talk show hosts and columnists have ridiculed an 11-year-old Washington state boy's account of his mother's death as a "sob story" exploited by the White House and congressional Democrats like a "kiddie shield" to defend their health care legislation.
PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama in immigration dance
(AP)
AP - President Barack Obama promised to make overhauling the immigration system a top priority in his first year as president. He's now in Year Two, and the odds that he'll get to sign a bill before the November midterm elections appear long.
Ore. lawsuit claims Boy Scouts sex abuse coverup
(AP)
AP - The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years.