Newser - Top Storieshttp://www.newser.com/2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorFri, 13 Nov 2009 2:28:09 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73944/airport-busts-brit-with-1000-spiders.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homA British pet shop owner was nabbed at the airport in Rio de Janiero this week after customs officers found 1,000 live spiders in his checked baggage. Police say it's the biggest seizure of wildlife ever made at the airport. The spider-smuggler now faces up to a year in...http://www.newser.com/story/73944/airport-busts-brit-with-1000-spiders.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homFri, 13 Nov 2009 2:05:05 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73941/how-palin-can-make-a-comeback.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homSarah Palin is despised by Democrats and distrusted by independents, but that doesn't mean they won't be "serving up moose burgers in the White House" by 2013, writes Matthew Continetti . Palin won the Alaska governorship in 2006 on a center-right, bipartisan platform. Using that playbook again and learning from Ronald...http://www.newser.com/story/73941/how-palin-can-make-a-comeback.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homFri, 13 Nov 2009 1:41:51 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73940/ark-man-gets-life-for-tv-anchors-murder.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homAn Arkansas man has been sentenced to life without parole for the savage rape and murder of Anne Pressly, a morning news anchor for KATV. Pressley, 26, died 5 days after she was found beaten unconscious in her home last year. Curtis Lavelle Vance's defense team told the court he...http://www.newser.com/story/73940/ark-man-gets-life-for-tv-anchors-murder.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homFri, 13 Nov 2009 1:21:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73938/white-house-counsel-craig-stepping-down.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homWhite House counsel Gregory Craig is expected to resign as early as Friday, reports the Washington Post. Craig has taken much heat over the clumsy handling of the Guantanamo Bay closure, and his resignation isn't a huge surprise. It's still the highest-level departure in the Obama administration. He will be...http://www.newser.com/story/73938/white-house-counsel-craig-stepping-down.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homThu, 12 Nov 2009 22:37:18 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73937/bomb-hits-pakistan-spy-agency-7-dead.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homA suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan's main spy agency building in the northwest, killing at least seven people and striking at the heart of the institution overseeing much of the country's anti-terror campaign. The blast in Peshawar was the latest in a string of bloody attacks since the government launched...http://www.newser.com/story/73937/bomb-hits-pakistan-spy-agency-7-dead.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homThu, 12 Nov 2009 22:22:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73933/crawford-blackmailed-over-daughters-photo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homCindy Crawford was the target of a bizarre extortion attempt involving a photo of her young daughter. Court documents say a German man threatened to go public with a photo of the 7-year-old girl that showed her bound to a chair and gagged. A Crawford rep says the photo was...http://www.newser.com/story/73933/crawford-blackmailed-over-daughters-photo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homThu, 12 Nov 2009 21:55:31 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73929/buffett-financial-panic-is-behind-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homWarren Buffett says the worst is over. "The financial panic is behind us," he declared at Columbia University. The Berkshire Hathaway chief acknowledged that the US economy "still is sputtering some," but he sounded a bullish note on investment opportunities around the globe. While he gave "high marks" to Ben...http://www.newser.com/story/73929/buffett-financial-panic-is-behind-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homThu, 12 Nov 2009 21:14:15 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73927/wife-poses-as-schoolgirl-to-nab-husband.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homA UK woman posed as a teenage girl online to entrap her 68-year-old husband in a pedophile arrest. Police say the wife, 61, became suspicious of her husband's constant use of the Internet, signed into a chatroom he used, and struck up a steamy conversation as a 14-year-old. After he...http://www.newser.com/story/73927/wife-poses-as-schoolgirl-to-nab-husband.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homThu, 12 Nov 2009 20:45:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73928/more-americans-smoking.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homThe number of smokers has ticked up a notch after five years of decline or holding steady. The percentage of Americans who light up rose from 19.8% in 2007 to 20.6% in 2008, a CDC report says. The longer-term picture is better: Since 1998, the percentage has dropped...http://www.newser.com/story/73928/more-americans-smoking.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=homThu, 12 Nov 2009 20:29:00 CST