Google Creates a Spectacle With Wi-Fi Glasses

Prototype opens up new possibilities in mobile--and new challenges to fashion sensibility

2012-04-06

Barbara Ortutay AP Technology Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- If you think texting while walking is dangerous, just wait until everyone starts wearing Google's futuristic, Internet-connected glasses. Read the complete article

Connecticut on Track to Abolish Death Penalty

Senate’s approval means chances are good state will become the fifth in last five years to outlaw practice

2012-04-05

Shannon Young The Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The state Senate voted Thursday voted to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut, a state that has executed only one prisoner in a half-century and is now on track to join a national trend away from capital punishment. Read the complete article

Obama Believes Women Should be Admitted to Augusta Golf Club

"We're kind of long past the time when women should be excluded from anything," press secretary says

2012-04-05

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A White House spokesman said President Barack Obama believes women should be admitted as members to the all-male Augusta National, home of the Masters golf tournament. Read the complete article

Painkiller Sales Soar Around US, Fuel Addiction

Key ingredients in OxyContin, Vicodin are being distributed in record numbers

2012-04-05

Chris Hawley The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- Sales of the nation's two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients' suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic. Read the complete article

Court Upholds California Affirmative Action Ban

Proponents of policy vow to keep fighting against 1996’s Prop 209 initiative

2012-04-04

Christina Hoag The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Affirmative action proponents took a hit Monday as a federal appeals court panel upheld California's ban on using race, ethnicity and gender in admitting students to public colleges and universities. Read the complete article

Yahoo Dumping 2,000 Workers in Latest Purge

The housecleaning marks Yahoo's sixth mass layoff in the past four years

2012-04-04

Michael Liedtke AP Technology Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo is laying off 2,000 employees as new CEO Scott Thompson eliminates jobs that don't fit into his plans for turning around the beleaguered Internet company. Read the complete article

Trucker Harassment Class-Action Suit Backfires

Government agency aiming to crack down on discrimination has its tactics criticized, and now future investigations could be harder to carry out

2012-04-04

Ryan J. Foley The Associated Press

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- They were learning to become truck drivers but wound up in a nightmare. In detailed accounts to a federal agency, dozens of female employees of one of the nation's largest trucking companies told of being propositioned, groped and even assaulted by male drivers during cross-country training rides. Read the complete article

Students Protest Pricey Courses, Then Get Pepper-Sprayed

Santa Monica College police were trying to stop group from pushing its way into trustees meeting

2012-04-04

Shaya Tayefe Mohajer The Associated Press

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Police at a California college pepper-sprayed as many as 30 demonstrators after students angry over a plan to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trustees meeting, authorities said. Read the complete article

Obama Says Today's GOP Would Reject Ronald Reagan

At annual AP meeting, president presents himself as protector of the middle class

2012-04-03

Ken Thomas The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday Republicans want to enforce a "radical vision" on the nation, accusing the opposition party of moving so far to the right that even one of its beloved figures, Ronald Reagan, could not win a Republican presidential primary today. Read the complete article

Recovery Threatened by Runaway Student Loan Debt

Average post-college debt is now $25,000, a number that could set stage for new economic crisis

2012-04-03

Tom Raum The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal student loan program seemed like a great idea back in 1965: Borrow to go to college now, pay it back later when you have a job. Read the complete article