Pat Dollard

Los Angeles Times: Once upon a time, there was a studio in Burbank that spun classic fairy tales into silver-screen gold.

The Hill: Jimmy Carter said Sunday that Fox News commentators including Glenn Beck have “deliberately distorted” the news.

Activists burn a symbol of carbon dioxide in Berlin Agencie France Presse: Emissions of fossil-fuel gases that stoke climate change edged back less than hoped in 2009 as falls in advanced economies were largely outweighed by rises in China and India, scientists said Sunday. For 2010, emissions are likely to resume their upward track, scaling [...]

GENEVA (AP) – Scientists may have been able to capture elusive atoms of antimatter, but don’t expect that to lead to interstellar rocket engines or powerful bombs anytime soon – if ever. Even as they announced the important advance in studying antimatter, they emphasized that science-fiction uses of the stuff – like propelling the starship [...]

CHICAGO (AP) – As if air travel over the Thanksgiving holiday isn’t tough enough, it could be even worse this year: Airports could see even more disruptions because of a loosely organized Internet boycott of full-body scans. Even if only a small percentage of passengers participate, experts say it could mean longer lines, bigger delays [...]

Los Angeles Times: Reporting from London —In a humiliating about-face, Ireland’s finance minister said Sunday he would recommend that his country ask for an international bailout to stabilize its foundering banking sector and save the country from skyrocketing borrowing costs. The exact size of the rescue package is still to be worked out, but analysts [...]

Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Chicago — Arturo Reyes sat quietly as his family talked about traveling to Mexico over the holidays. Suddenly, he broke into the conversation. “We cannot do it; we are illegal,” his daughter Angelica Reyes-Servin remembers him saying. “If we leave, we may never get back again.” The room fell silent. [...]

KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan Taliban described Obama’s plan to withdraw combat troops by the end of 2014 as “irrational,”

Washington Times: The Obama administration has dispatched a team of experts to Asian capitals to report that North Korea appears to have started a program to enrich uranium, possibly to manufacture more nuclear weapons, a senior U.S. administration official said Saturday. The team was sent out after North Korea told two visiting American experts earlier [...]

Washington (AP) – President Barack Obama has asked security officials whether there’s a less intrusive way to screen U.S. airline passengers than the pat-downs and body scans causing a holiday-season uproar. For now, they’ve told him there isn’t one, the president said Saturday in response to a question at the NATO summit in Lisbon. “I [...]

Los Angeles Times: After a wearying weekend in New York, Leslie Michelson was unloading suitcases from a taxi around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday outside his Whittier Drive home in Beverly Hills when he heard what he called “very unusual noises.” They sounded like gunshots but they couldn’t be, Michelson figured. Not in the flats of Beverly [...]

Washington Post: After 17 years, “don’t ask, don’t tell” may finally be on its way out. Even if the Senate resists the latest efforts to end the policy, it appears that most members of the military – from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on down – support the law’s repeal. But there’s [...]