Shooting Rampage Botched In Germany When Gun Jams

Shooting Rampage Botched In Germany When Gun Jams
Police: 82-year-old Man In Germany Planned Shooting At Jehovah's Witnesses Meeting, Gun Jams
EA preps Warhammer MMORPG for the Mac
Electronic Arts has introduced a beta version of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning for the Mac. The final (Mac) cut of the popular MMORPG is scheduled to be released in Fall 2009.

Video: Western Medicine For Chinese Patients

Video: Western Medicine For Chinese Patients
Dr. Jon LaPook speaks to Dr. Pong, a Chinese physician who practices Western medicine for a predominantly Chinese patient base.
Apple iPhone 'more powerful' than Nintendo Wii
A TellTale Games developer has claimed that the iPhone is more powerful than the Wii. The developerknown as Yarewas responding to complaints about poor frame rate issues in Tales of Monkey Island for the Wii.
Obama Beer Summit Choices Make For A Happy Hour

President Obama holds a sudsy summit tonight with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the officer who arrested him. We asked The Beer Sommelier: What do their beer choices say? For one thing, they've picked brews designed to be downed pint after pint with mates.

Kayaking To A Different View Of The Rio Grande

Kristinia DeBarge Not Saying Goodbye Anytime Soon
Kristinia DeBarge, Next Generation Of The Singing Family, Ready To Dominate Music World
UbiSoft pledges to cut software piracy
UbiSoft CEO Yves Guillemot has pledged to 'tremendously decrease' software piracy. The CEO also confirmed that Ubisoft was shifting its casual focus from the DS to other platforms, including Natal and the Wii.
Kayaking To A Different View Of The Rio Grande

The Rio Grande is far more than a border between the United States and Mexico, and it's more than a barrier to illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. To one man who lives in the borderlands, the river is a kayaker's paradise.

Nintendo clueless about "hardcore" Wii games

Photos: What's Wrong with Girls Gone Wild?
A Look Behind the Scenes of the Legal Trouble Facing Girls Gone Wild
Nintendo clueless about "hardcore" Wii games
A Nintendo VP has admitted that she does not know why "hardcore" Wii games such as MadWorld and The Conduit have generated disappointing sales.
Books To Lure The Gamer's Gaze

Gamers are people, too. That's right, whether a child at heart or a real live one stuck in the gaze of flashing starships, cars or rock stars, they're able to do more than just click on and tune out. Yes, there's hope for game boys and girls, found in the ancient pleasures of books.

Video: Early Backstage: The Neely's

Video: Early Backstage: The Neely's
Adam the Audience Guy caught up with Food Network stars the Neely's and spoke with them about how they got their start.
Ubisoft blames Nintendo DS over weak sales
Ubisoft has confirmed that its first fiscal quarter sales plummeted 50 percent to €83 million. The company attributed the slowdown to a number of factors, including decreased Nintendo DS game sales and "poorer-than-anticipated" market conditions.
Kayaking To A Different View Of The Rio Grande

The Rio Grande is far more than a border between the United States and Mexico, and it's more than a barrier to illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. To one man who lives in the borderlands, the river is a kayaker's paradise.

Blatter To Personally Invite Obama To World Cup

Blatter To Personally Invite Obama To World Cup
FIFA Head Sepp Blatter To Invite President Obama To 2010 World Cup At White House Meeting
What Causes Sparks In The Microwave?

We all know we're not supposed to put metal in the microwave, right? But why not? Physicist Maarten Rutgers has some scientific answers — and some of them will surprise you.

Contador Maintains Tour de France Lead

Contador Maintains Tour de France Lead
Spanish Cyclist Holds off Threat from Lance Armstrong in Penultimate Stage of Race
9% of U.S. households subscribe to Netflix
Netflix has shown solid growth in the second quarter and now has 10.6million subscribers, or about 9.1% of U.S. households. The SanFrancisco Bay area leads the nation with a share of 20.7%. Blu-rayadoption still isn’t great as consumers are moving toward cheapersubscription plans and Redbox appears to be emerging as the main rivalfor Netflix in the movie rental market.
iPhone Helps Campers "Capture" Bird

Last week, birding counselor Dave Jasper and the kids from the Camp Chiricahua were hiking down Miller Canyon in Southern Arizona when all of the sudden they heard something they weren't supposed to. It was a brown-backed solitaire, a thrush common in Mexico, but one that has never been documented north of the border. Just how Jasper and friends verified their finding could only have happened in this "connected" day and age. Host Scott Simon talks to Jasper about the discovery.

Prison for Pervert Preacher: Evangelist Convicted on 10 Sex-Abuse Counts

Prison for Pervert Preacher: Evangelist Convicted on 10 Sex-Abuse Counts
Self-Styled Prophet ?Married? Young Girls, Could Get Life
James Cameron previews 'Avatar' at Comic-Con
James Cameron has offered Comic-Con attendees a sneak peak of his animated 3D 'Avatar' film.
Israel To Ban 'Catastrophe' Reference In Texts

Israel's education minister says the country is removing references to what Palestinians call the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren. The phrase was inserted by a former education minister in 2007. Botrous Mansour, general director of the Nazareth Baptist School, in Nazareth, offers his insight.

Kelis Welcomes 1st Child With Soon-to-be Ex Nas

Kelis Welcomes 1st Child With Soon-to-be Ex Nas
Singer Kelis Welcomes Her First Child With Soon-to-be Ex Nas; It's A Boy Named Knight
Microsoft unleashes Halo Legends on Xbox Live
Microsoft has announced plans to create a series of anime short films based on the Halo universe. Halo Legends will be produced by Microsoft's 343 Industries and is expected to feature "creative direction" from anime pioneer Shinji Aramaki of Appleseed EX Machina fame and Mamoru Oshii, director of the Ghost in the Shell movies.
Second City Takes On Obama In New Show

When Barack Obama was elected president, some comedians complained. But Obama does not intimidate Second City, the Chicago-based comedy troupe, which is performing a show called Barack Stars in the nation's capitol this month.

Claws out in Splinter Cell snub catfight

China Loses Dispute over U.S. CDs, DVDs
WTO Rules Beijing Must Ease Sales Restrictions on American Products, Incl. Music, Movies, Software
Claws out in Splinter Cell snub catfight
A Ubisoft designer has insisted that the decision to designate Splinter Cell: Conviction an Xbox 360 exclusive was 'purely business.'

Video: Bus Shooting Suspect Convicted

Video: Bus Shooting Suspect Convicted
Michael Pace opened fire on a Chicago bus, killing Blair Holt and wounding five other people. Holt took the bullet to protect his friend. Pace was sentenced to 100 years in prison without parole.
Carmack: PS3 offers "theoretical" raw performance
John Carmack has opined that the Playstation 3 offers "a little bit more theoretical raw performance" compared to other consoles. Carmackthe founder of iD Softwarealso told GameInformer that more "sweat equity" was required to develop PS3 titles.

Microsoft: Mobile Xbox device inevitable

Montana Man Believed To Be World's Oldest
Born in 1896, 112-Year-Old Walter Breuning Says Keep Your Mind Active "Or It Just Goes Right Down the Chute"
Microsoft: Mobile Xbox device inevitable
A senior Microsoft executive has confirmed that the release of a mobile Xbox device was inevitable. However, the executive conceded that Microsoft remained unsure how to enter the mobile market.

Space Station Toilet Malfunctions

Space Station Toilet Malfunctions
13 Astronauts Hampered by Breakdown; Endeavour Facility to be Used as Backup
What Happened To Our Moonbases And Jetpacks?

On the eve of the moon landing anniversary, Host Liane Hansen speaks with Daniel Wilson, author of Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived, about all of the predictions for spaceflight that never came to pass.

A Love Affair With The Romance Novel

A Nationwide Community Gathered To Watch Cronkite
It Was More Than An Audience That Followed Walter Cronkite _ It Was A Nationwide Community
Amazon takes a page from 1984, deletes Orwell books from Kindles
We all have our bad days, but it seems that Amazon had a week ofparticularly bad decisions this week. First it was a $200 replacementfee for broken Kindles and now we hear that the company may have takenGeorge Orwell’s visions of a future world literally and remotelydeleted books from Kindle ebook readers. Meet Amazon, your Big Brother.
A Love Affair With The Romance Novel

Times are tough in American publishing. There's the growing cost of publication and distribution, and new competition for attention from online readers. Despite the downturn, one kind of story is still selling better than many other forms of adult fiction.

Video: Politics for Entertainment

Video: Politics for Entertainment
Bob Schieffer talks to Armando Iannucci, director of the film "In The Loop," a political satire.
Deaf hit by end of TV subtitling service
The UK's Teletext analog TV text service is to close next yeartwo years ahead of schedule, leaving large parts of the UK population without subtitling for the hard of hearing.

Reaction To 61st Annual Emmy Award Nominations

Reaction To 61st Annual Emmy Award Nominations
Reaction To 61st Annual Emmy Award Nominations
Pachter: Apple prepping game console for 2013 launch
Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has predicted that Apple will launch a game console by 2013. According to Pachter, the company was following a "deliberate strategy" to transform Apple TV into an "entertainment and Internet hub."

Comcast to stream HBO and Cinemax content online

Britain Prepares To Open First Supreme Court
Britain Prepares To Open First Supreme Court In Latest Round Of Constitutional Reform
Comcast to stream HBO and Cinemax content online
Comcast said that it will offer its customers free access to HBO andCinemax content via the Internet through On Demand trial. Of course, ifyou aren’t a HBO or Cinemax subscriber in the first place, you don’tget free access to those shows, which represent a combined 750 hours ofprogramming initially. The added value, as Comcast claims, may belimited, especially if you get too excited over this new offering andrun into your Internet bandwidth barrier.

Selig: Ban Suspended Juicers from Minors

Selig: Ban Suspended Juicers from Minors
MLB Players Serving Steroid Suspensions Shouldn't Be Allowed To Play in Minor Leagues, Commissioner Says
Teen tells Morgan Stanley the obvious
Twitter is for old people, and teens won't pay for phone calls: just two of the conclusions from Morgan Stanley's latest research note. Even more surprising, though, is the fact that the paper was written by a 15-year-old intern.

IMPACT: Crooked Afghan Police Challenge Marines

IMPACT: Crooked Afghan Police Challenge Marines
IMPACT: Crooked, Pot-smoking Police Pose Challenge To US Marines In Southern Afghanistan
Organic Motion deploys OpenSTAGE technology at Sony Wonder Lab
Organic Motion has deployed its OpenSTAGE platform at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab (SWTL) in Manhattan. Unlike Microsoft's Project Natal, Organic Motion utilizes 14 cameras and advanced software to create an exact representation, or "digital clone" of an individual.

Video: A Day To Remember

Video: A Day To Remember
For millions around the world, June 25th will be remembered as the day Michael Jackson died, but for Martha Gillis it will always be the day her nephew, 1st Lt. Brian Bradshaw, was killed by an IED in Afghanistan.
Chicle Gum A Truly American Chew

Chewing gum goes back a long way, nearly 11,000 years. Host Liane Hansen speaks with writer Jennifer Mathews about the history of the sticky substance. Mathews is the author of Chicle: The Chewing Gum of the Americas, From the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley.

Bethesda to update PS3 owners on Fallout 3 DLC status

Five Ways To Save Now On Healthcare
Forget Waiting For Washington To Act On Reform Measures; Money Magazine's Amanda Gengler Offers Tips
Bethesda to update PS3 owners on Fallout 3 DLC status
Bethesda Softworks is reportedly planning to update PS3 owners on the status of Fallout's long-awaited DLC. Operation: Anchorage was originally expected to debut in late June, followed by the release of The Pitt and Broken Steel some 4-6 weeks apart. However, the downloadable content has yet to appear on Sony's Playstation network.
IPod Kid Swaps For A Walkman

Nineteen seventy-nine was the year that Michael Jackson released the album Off the Wall. It was also the year that Sony released the Walkman. Thirteen-year-old Scott Campbell of the United Kingdom swapped his iPod for the original Walkman for one week.

Attack on Ancient Babylon

Attack on Ancient Babylon
UNESCO Reports Says Archaeological Site Used as Military Base Since Invasion Damaged by Troops, Contractors, Looters
Bluetooth support added to iSamurai's deadly arsenal
Toy Kite has enabled Bluetooth support for its popular sword fighting game. iSamuraiwhich uses Apple's recently released 3.0 softwareis reportedly the first "Wii-like" title for the iPhone.
Facebook Ads A Big, Fat Wrinkle For Some Users

An invite to a Facebook group led NPR's Margot Adler to take a closer look at the ads on her profile page. What she saw were pitches for smoothing wrinkles and weight loss. Then she decided to ignore them.

Report: Train, Car Collide In MI; 5 Dead

Report: Train, Car Collide In MI; 5 Dead
Amtrak Train Crashes Into Car; Victims Were Car Passengers
Norman Chad Calls The World Series Of Poker

It's ESPN color commentator Norman Chad's job to call all the action in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Chad talks about this year's poker event, his own love of playing, and what he's learned from watching the best players in the world hold 'em and fold 'em.

Why Judicial `Activism' Explains Little

Why Judicial `Activism' Explains Little
Kermit Roosevelt: The Notion Of Empathy Does A Better Job Explaining Differences Between Liberals And Conservative Jurists
Sony chief downplays rift with Activision over PS3 price cut
Sony CEO Howard Stringer has downplayed a rift with Activision chief Bobby Kotick over the latter's demand for an immediate Playstation 3 price cut. According to Stringer, Kotick "likes to make a lot of noise."

Shared Memory Graphics accuses Apple and Sony of patent infringement

Celebs Bid Farewell to MJ
Staple Center Memorial Sees Outpouring From Fans And Celebrities Alike
Shared Memory Graphics accuses Apple and Sony of patent infringement
Shared Memory Graphics has accused three industry heavyweights of patent infringement. The California-based company alleges that two patented graphic accelerators are currently used in Apple iPods, Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PSP/PS2.

UN Chief: $1 Billion Needed Against Swine Flu

UN Chief: $1 Billion Needed Against Swine Flu
UN Chief Says $1 Billion May Be Needed For Antivirals, Vaccines Against Swine Flu This Year
Sony, Panasonic get into 3D content
Japanese giants Sony and Panasonic are to separately set up dedicated units to create 3D movies.
Geriatric YouTube Stars Dish About Pop Music

From the back booth of Sulimay's Restaurant in Philadelphia, three saucy old-timers have become a viral success — as pop music critics.

Roger Federer Wins Sixth Wimbledon Final
Defeats American Andy Roddick, Claims Record 15th Grand Slam Title
Have A Cow

The theme today is "cow." Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first word starts with "co" and the second word starts with "w." For example, if the clue is "person who can fix a hard drive in 10 minutes," the answer would be, "computer whiz."

Recession Adds To Challenges For Suburban Arts

Recession Adds To Challenges For Suburban Arts
Surviving Recession In Big Cities' Shadows A Challenge For Suburban Arts Organizations

Random Drawing For Jackson Memorial Tix
Fans May Register For 17,500 Free Tickets; Family Announces Worldwide Streaming Video of Event
Celebrate July 4th With Backyard Science

In case you forgot to pick up some sparklers for the holiday weekend, don't despair. Ira Flatow and a team of backyard science experts explain how to (safely) make firecrackers, smoke bombs and even an Oreo-fueled rocket, all while learning some basic scientific principles.

Obama's Pet Peeve: "The Shine Police"

Obama's Pet Peeve: "The Shine Police"
President Targets Makeup People, Says He Prefers Jordan To Kobe, Lauds White House Pastry Chef
Battlefield 1943 to hit the virtual beaches
Electronic Arts says that Battlefield 1943, the download-only first person shooter game will be released on the Xbox Live and PlayStation Network next week. Xbox users can download on July 8th, and those on the PlayStation network can download beginning July 9th.

PS3 slim and price cut rumors surface again

Neverland Burial Not an Option for Jackson
Too Complicated To Get Permits, Source Says; No Public Memorial Planned At Ranch Either
PS3 slim and price cut rumors surface again
The Playstation 3 slim rumor is one of those rumors that just won’t goaway. New pictures and information provided by usual “industry sources”that a new PS3 form factor may be on track for a release this month,along with a long expected price cut. Both rumors seem very credible,especially since Sony has to cut the PS3’s price and since it canshrink the size of the PS3 box due to a much less power-hungry Cell BEprocessor.