http://www.mail.com/locations/258-north-america.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/258-north-america.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1862168-obama-offers-faith-groups-birth-control-rule.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a wave of lawsuits over what government can tell religious groups to do, the Obama administration is proposing a compromise for faith-based nonprofits that object to covering birth control in their employee health plans. Some of the lawsuits appear headed for the Supreme Court, threatening another divisive legal battle over Presid... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1862168-obama-offers-faith-groups-birth-control-rule.html 2013-02-02T07:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861188-clinton-out-kerry-secretary.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton formally resigned Friday as America's secretary of state, capping a four-year tenure that saw her shatter records for the number of countries visited. John Kerry was sworn in to replace her. In a letter sent to President Barack Obama shortly before she left the State Department for the last time in her official cap... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861188-clinton-out-kerry-secretary.html 2013-02-01T21:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862506-scott-brown-wont-seek-kerrys-senate-seat.html BOSTON (AP) — Former Sen. Scott Brown said Friday he would not run in a special Senate election in Massachusetts, dealing a setback to Republican hopes of winning the seat being vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry. Brown, who electrified his party with an upset win in a 2010 special election but lost his re-election bid in November, ended weeks of in... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862506-scott-brown-wont-seek-kerrys-senate-seat.html 2013-02-02T03:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862572-montana-man-up-sob-story-that-pizza.html HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man whose tearful reluctance to rob a pizza restaurant earned him free food apparently made up the sob story that gained him the clerk's sympathy. David Randall Lacey, 35, entered a Papa John's pizza restaurant on Jan. 22 with a bandanna over his face and gave the clerk a note demanding money, Helena police said. He broke do... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862572-montana-man-up-sob-story-that-pizza.html 2013-02-01T21:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862138-apnewsbreak-family-sues-minn-office-attack.html MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a man who was among six people gunned down at his Minneapolis office last year is suing the company, claiming it botched the firing of the employee who carried out the attack and should have known from his work history that he was potentially dangerous. The lawsuit being filed on behalf of Jacob Beneke's family is the firs... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862138-apnewsbreak-family-sues-minn-office-attack.html 2013-02-01T20:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861644-detroit-toyota-big-us-sales-gains-january.html DETROIT (AP) — American consumers ignored tax increases and trudged through winter weather to buy new cars and trucks at an unusually strong pace last month. It was the auto industry's best January since 2008. "It was like a sprinter out of the starting blocks," said Mike Jackson, CEO of AutoNation Inc., the country's largest auto dealership chain. U.S. a... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861644-detroit-toyota-big-us-sales-gains-january.html 2013-02-01T20:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861042-33-die-mexico-oil-company-office-building-blast.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — A blast that collapsed the lower floors of a building in the headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121, is being looked at as an accident although all lines of investigation remain open, the head of Petroleos Mexicanos said Friday. As hundreds of emergency worke... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861042-33-die-mexico-oil-company-office-building-blast.html 2013-02-01T23:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1861766-engagement-grammy-nods-clarkson-stronger.html NEW YORK (AP) — Kelly Clarkson says she's extremely happy she's nominated for three Grammy Awards, but there's something else the pop singer is more thrilled about: her recent engagement. "I couldn't even find someone to go on a date with that I enjoyed their company. Like, it was just rough," she said in a recent interview. "You don't see it coming. And ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1861766-engagement-grammy-nods-clarkson-stronger.html 2013-02-01T19:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861488-suicide-bomber-kills-guard-us-embassy-turkey.html ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In the second deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in five months, a suicide bomber struck the American Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a Turkish security guard in what the White House described as a terrorist attack. Washington immediately warned Americans to stay away from all U.S. diplomatic facilities in Turkey and to be... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861488-suicide-bomber-kills-guard-us-embassy-turkey.html 2013-02-01T19:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862016-mahony-defends-legacy-church-abuse-blog.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Retired Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony defended his tattered legacy in a sharply worded letter to his successor, a day after Archbishop Jose Gomez stripped him of his administrative duties and bowed to a court order to release thousands of pages of confidential files on sexually abusive priests. In a letter posted Friday on his pe... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862016-mahony-defends-legacy-church-abuse-blog.html 2013-02-02T08:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862142-authorities-release-photo-accused-ala-abductor.html MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — After four anxious days, only the slimmest of details has come to light in a police standoff with an Alabama man who is accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in a bunker, a sign of just how delicate the negotiations are. Police have used a ventilation pipe to the underground bunker to talk to the man and deliver the boy med... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 02:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862142-authorities-release-photo-accused-ala-abductor.html 2013-02-02T02:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1862170-super-bowl-watch-katrina-coin-flip-bets-modell.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Around the Super Bowl and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the game: MODELL HOF DEBATE One of the liveliest debates this weekend in New Orleans could be not about the Super Bowl itself, but on whether late Baltimore R... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1862170-super-bowl-watch-katrina-coin-flip-bets-modell.html 2013-02-01T21:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1862210-nba-union-head-hunter-indefinite-leave.html NEW YORK (AP) — NBA players put union chief Billy Hunter on an indefinite leave Friday, two weeks after a report they commissioned questioned Hunter's leadership and criticized him for bad decisions and questionable business practices. The union is forming an interim executive committee and an advisory committee, the group's president, Derek Fisher, said ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:29:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1862210-nba-union-head-hunter-indefinite-leave.html 2013-02-01T22:29:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1862586-ind-dnr-wants-charges-dropped-deer-rescue-case.html INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Department of Natural Resources said Friday it is asking a prosecutor to drop charges against a couple who nursed an injured baby deer back to health and kept it in an enclosure on their property for two years. The misdemeanor charges of illegal possession of a white-tailed deer against police officer Jeff Counceller and hi... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1862586-ind-dnr-wants-charges-dropped-deer-rescue-case.html 2013-02-01T19:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862762-cuba-us-spar-blame-poor-ties.html HAVANA (AP) — A senior Cuban official sharply criticized U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday for suggesting Cuba was stuck in the past, saying the only anachronistic element of the relationship is Washington's half-century-old economic embargo. Josefina Vidal, the head of the Foreign Ministry's North American affairs division, said Obama was poorly info... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862762-cuba-us-spar-blame-poor-ties.html 2013-02-01T19:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862496-waitress-fired-posting-customer-comment-online.html ST. LOUIS (AP) — The note at the top of the restaurant receipt read simply, "I give God 10%, why do you get 18?" The snarky comment has created a furor online after a waitress posted it on the website Reddit. She has been fired, while the customer who scribbled the note has been vilified. And the controversy has forced the president of the restaurant chai... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862496-waitress-fired-posting-customer-comment-online.html 2013-02-01T19:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862736-chicago-takes-leading-role-national-gun-debate.html CHICAGO (AP) — They are counting the dead from gunfire again in Chicago, a city awash in weapons despite having one of the strictest gun-control ordinances in the nation. After a year in which Chicago's death toll surpassed 500, the bloodshed has continued in 2013 at a rate of more than one killing a day. It was the city's deadliest January in more than a... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862736-chicago-takes-leading-role-national-gun-debate.html 2013-02-01T20:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862752-review-politics-old-style-humor-fiorello.html NEW YORK (AP) — What goes around comes around. It's a key principle in politics, and apparently in musical theater, too. In the 1940s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia saved the building that would become New York City Center from the wrecking ball. And so in 1994, when the Encores! series began there, it opened with a revival of "Fiorello!," the 1959 musical abou... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862752-review-politics-old-style-humor-fiorello.html 2013-02-01T19:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861220-white-house-hagel-will-win-senate-confirmation.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday dismissed criticism of Chuck Hagel's hesitant congressional testimony and insisted that it expects the Senate to confirm him as defense secretary. One day after Hagel was roughed up in a grueling confirmation hearing, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Hagel did a "fine job" and the Obama administration would... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861220-white-house-hagel-will-win-senate-confirmation.html 2013-02-01T18:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1862760-x-games-permit-to-undergo-thorough-scrutiny.html ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — The death of snowmobile rider Caleb Moore and another accident involving a driver-less snowmobile that careened into a fence and injured a spectator at the Winter X Games will trigger a more thorough review of the permit process for next year's event. On Thursday, Moore died from injuries suffered when he flew off his snowmobile and it... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1862760-x-games-permit-to-undergo-thorough-scrutiny.html 2013-02-01T22:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1861218-shriek-texts-missing-kids-startle-cell-users.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — The next time a child is abducted near you, your cellphone may shriek to life with an alert message. A new national Amber Alert system officially rolled out earlier this month to millions of cellphones, and because the alerts are automatically active on most newer phones, the messages have already taken tens of thousands of people by su... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1861218-shriek-texts-missing-kids-startle-cell-users.html 2013-02-01T18:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861142-police-chief-sign-fear-slain-attorney.html KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — Authorities don't know whether a Texas prosecutor who had extensive experience with organized crime feared for his life before he was fatally shot, but they're poring through the cases he handled for leads to his killer, officials said Friday. No arrests have been made since Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was gunned down Thur... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861142-police-chief-sign-fear-slain-attorney.html 2013-02-02T00:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862306-nasa-marks-10-years-loss-columbia-crew.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Schoolchildren joined NASA managers and relatives of the lost crew of space shuttle Columbia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy and remember the seven astronauts who died. More than 300 people gathered at Kennedy Space Center for the outdoor ceremony, just a few miles from where Columbia was supposed to land ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862306-nasa-marks-10-years-loss-columbia-crew.html 2013-02-01T21:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1862654-harkin-campaign-aide-iowa-donor-list.html IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's campaign fundraiser gave Iowa State University a list of possible donors to his namesake research institute, records show, though university officials have promised the powerful Democrat would have no influence over the center. The Harkin Institute of Public Policy would house the papers of the senator, who re... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1862654-harkin-campaign-aide-iowa-donor-list.html 2013-02-01T20:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861444-koch-yorks-feisty-mayor-dies-88.html NEW YORK (AP) — When Ed Koch was mayor, it seemed as if all of New York was being run by a deli counterman. Koch was funny, irritable, opinionated, often rude and prone to yelling. And it worked, for a while at least. With a Bronx-born combination of chutzpah and humor, Koch steered New York back from the brink of financial ruin and infused the city with ... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861444-koch-yorks-feisty-mayor-dies-88.html 2013-02-02T00:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861868-dow-ends-14000-1st-time-oct-2007.html NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow closed above 14,000 on Friday for the first time in more than five years. It was just a number on a board, but it was enough to raise the hopes of some investors and cause others concern about an overheated market. And it brought reminders of a different era, back before the financial crisis rocked the world economy. ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861868-dow-ends-14000-1st-time-oct-2007.html 2013-02-01T20:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1862526-goodell-recognize-bounties.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says his biggest regret about the New Orleans Saints' bounty scandal is that he can't get everyone to recognize bounties need to be eliminated from the game. Goodell said he hasn't been able to make the point clearly enough with the players' union and others that the league will not tolerate pay for hard h... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:13:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1862526-goodell-recognize-bounties.html 2013-02-01T18:13:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861470-mattel-4q-wall-streets-expectations.html NEW YORK (AP) — It was a blue Christmas in toyland. Weak demand over the holidays for toys like Barbie and Matchbox led Mattel's results to fall short of expectations in the key holiday quarter. A litigation charge also weighed on results and net income fell 17 percent. Still the results from the world's largest toymaker came in strong... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861470-mattel-4q-wall-streets-expectations.html 2013-02-01T18:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1862374-beckham-paris-flashbulbs-burn-differently.html PARIS (AP) — In London, the paparazzi hunt in packs, as David Beckham and other celebrities know well. When Beckham moved to Los Angeles, high-speed road chases by photographers were the norm until a Hollywood star became governor and set a few ground rules. The Parisians — soon to have the star in their midst, playing for soccer club Paris-Saint Germain — catch their prey f... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:52:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1862374-beckham-paris-flashbulbs-burn-differently.html 2013-02-01T17:52:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1862590-goodell-light-reception-orleans.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made light of the reception he's gotten in New Orleans, where he is unpopular with Saints fans because of the bounty scandal. Goodell joked that his picture is in every restaurant, he has a float in the Mardi Gras parade and there's even a voodoo doll. In a more serious vein, he said that while he gets com... 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