US begins probe into commuter train crash
2013-05-18 16:47:17 - More than 60 people were hospitalized on Friday night after an eastbound commuter train derailed and collided with a westbound passenger train on an adjacent track.

Saturday's Powerball Jackpot May Be Largest in US History
2013-05-18 15:59:56 - The Powerball jackpot being drawn on Saturday night could be even higher than the record $600 million being advertised, pushing it near or above the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, a Texas Lottery official said on Saturday.

Official: 'Amazing' no one died in train crash
2013-05-18 15:51:26 - - Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it's fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren't even more injuries.

Students can't resist distraction for two minutes ... and neither can you
2013-05-18 13:52:33 - Are gadgets making us dumber? Two new studies suggest they might be. One found that people who are interrupted by technology score 20 percent lower on a standard cognition test. A second demonstrated that some students, even when on their best behavior, can't concentrate on homework for more than two minutes without distracting themselves by using social media or writing an email.Interruptions are...

'Absolutely staggering': Dozens injured in Connecticut train crash
2013-05-18 12:50:17 - Sixty people were injured, five of them critically, and rail traffic from New York to Boston was shut down after a Metro-North commuter train derailed and plowed into a second train Friday in Fairfield, Conn., Gov. Dan Malloy said.An eastbound train derailed at 6:10 p.m. ET and struck a westbound train between the Fairfield and Bridgeport stations, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority official ...

Plane makes belly landing at Newark Airport, no injuries reported
2013-05-18 11:51:02 - A US Airways flight made a belly landing at Newark International Airport in the early morning hours on Saturday after the plane reported a problem with its landing gear, a spokesman for the airline said.No injuries were reported after Express Flight 4560 landed just after 1 a.m. carrying 31 passengers and three crew from Philadelphia, US Airways spokesman Davien Anderson said in a statement. The D...

Ben Franklin Tried to Change Our Alphabet
2013-05-18 10:59:05 - If Benjamin Franklin were alive today, he'd probably be a dynamite texter. As Smithsonian explains, Franklin once designed a phonetic alphabet for the nation because he thought the one in place was too unwieldy. Alas, it never caught on. Some highlights of his "A Reformed Mode of Spelling," first developed...

Aurora Victim's Mom Blasts Arizona Sen. Flake in Bloomberg Gun Ad
2013-05-18 10:59:03 - A new ad released by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun group uses the mother of a victim in the Aurora, Col. theater shooting to attack Republican Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake.

A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back
2013-05-18 10:50:18 - - The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute.

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