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- Parents Sue After Teen Dies During Wisdom Tooth Surgery
- Comet Lovejoy Survives Fiery Plunge Through Sun, NASA Says
- World's shortest woman wants to be Bollywood star
- Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts
- Controversial Air Force casket photo prompts investigation
- Unexplained shower of apples falls from sky over town
- Christopher Hitchens, writer and Vanity Fair contributor, dies at 62
- Newt Gingrich fights to hold Iowa lead amid 'no negativity' pledge at Fox debate
- Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer
- Train-hopping couple buried alive under coal
- China Gets Revenge On Obama With Tariff On U.S. Autos
- Brain-Eating Amoeba Fatalities Linked to Common Cold Remedy
- Utah Family Supports School that Outed Gay Son
- The World's Fastest Camera
- Feds issue scathing report against AZ sheriff
- House passes $1T budget bill, avoids shutdown
- Facebook Timeline goes live--out with old, in with new
- Bargainers reach deal to head off gov't shutdown
- FBI considered sting aimed at Gingrich
- AP-GfK Poll: More than half say Obama should lose
- Filipino police rescue US boy from kidnappers
- Obama faults Republican 'lurch into extremes' for DC gridlock
- McQueary Says He Saw 'Some Type of Intercourse' Between Sandusky, Boy
- 'Dear Vlad, is it Something I Said?': John McCain Tweets Response to Putin Tirade
- Russia's Mars probe will crash to Earth in January
- Fla. congressman draws ire for Nazi comparison
- APNewsBreak: Miss. man sentenced for Obama threat
- The digital ways kids cheat
- 'Batman' star Bale tries to visit China activist
- Web Not Happy About New Line of Lego for Girls
- Regulators sue former top Fannie, Freddie execs
- Now that Iowa is a dead heat, Romney is national GOP frontrunner again
- Former POW Jessica Lynch finishing teaching degree
- Retired professor arrested in Oklahoma child porn case
- Police arrest man accused of light saber assault at Toys R Us
- AP-GfK Poll: Obama re-election odds roughly 50-50
- Christopher Hitchens, militant pundit, dies at 62
- 3 dead, 2 wounded in California office shooting
- Man who fled wife's murder scene, abducted daughters kills self
- Giant plumes of methane bubbling to surface of Arctic Ocean
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Controversial Air Force casket photo prompts investigation
Thu,15 Dec 2011 10:47 AM PST
The Sideshow - The Air Force has launched an investigation into a controversial photo that shows several non-commissioned officers posing with an open casket, in which a fellow airman poses with a noose around his neck and chains over his body. The Air Force Times received a copy of the photo over email, which includes the caption, "Da [...] Full Story | Top |
Unexplained shower of apples falls from sky over town
Thu,15 Dec 2011 02:19 PM PST
The Sideshow - More than 100 apples mysteriously rained down upon a small British town on Monday night. The still-unexplained apple shower left 20 yards of city streets and car windshields covered in the cascading fruit just after the daily rush hour. The news immediately brought up comparisons to biblical tales of raining frogs and whether such reported [...] Full Story | Top |
Christopher Hitchens, writer and Vanity Fair contributor, dies at 62
Thu,15 Dec 2011 09:10 PM PST
The Cutline - Christopher Hitchens, the author, writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor, has died, the magazine announced late Thursday. He was 62. Hitchens, who had been battling esophageal cancer since early 2010, died at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, surrounded by friends, Vanity Fair said. "There will never be another like Christopher," Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon [...] Full Story | Top |
Newt Gingrich fights to hold Iowa lead amid 'no negativity' pledge at Fox debate
Thu,15 Dec 2011 08:20 PM PST
The Ticket - Newt Gingrich put himself in a difficult position ahead of Thursday night's Fox News debate in Sioux City, Iowa: He sought to adhere to his pledge not to go negative against his Republican presidential opponents while still holding his lead in the Iowa polls. And the former House Speaker appeared to successfully straddle the balance, [...] Full Story | Top |
Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer
Fri,16 Dec 2011 04:46 AM PST
Christian Science Monitor - Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured drone's systems inside Iran. Full Story | Top |
Train-hopping couple buried alive under coal
Fri,16 Dec 2011 08:29 AM PST
The Sideshow - A young couple hopping railroad cars across the country was found dead under a mound of coal at a Florida power plant. Christopher Artes, 25, and Medeana Hendershot, 22, shared a passion for illegally hopping freight trains and traveling the country without a set plan. They had spent the past several months traveling across the [...] Full Story | Top |
Brain-Eating Amoeba Fatalities Linked to Common Cold Remedy
Fri,16 Dec 2011 10:30 AM PST
LiveScience.com - Louisiana's state health department has issued a warning about the dangers of improperly using nasal-irrigation devices called neti pots, responding to two recent deaths in the state that are thought to have resulted from "brain-eating amoebas" entering people's brains through their sinuses while they were using the devices. Full Story | Top |
The World's Fastest Camera
Thu,15 Dec 2011 07:30 AM PST
This Could Be Big - It's difficult to imagine how a camera could possibly capture a trillion frames per second. The idea that anything can happen a trillion times in the space of a second is difficult to rationalize, but at the MIT Media Lab they have built a camera that can, and in doing so have redefined slow motion [...] Full Story | Top |
Feds issue scathing report against AZ sheriff
Fri,16 Dec 2011 10:56 AM PST
AP -  A scathing U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday found that Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office carried out a blatant pattern of discrimination against Latinos and held a "systematic disregard" for the Constitution amid a series of immigration crackdowns that have turned the lawman into a prominent national political figure.
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House passes $1T budget bill, avoids shutdown
Fri,16 Dec 2011 11:52 AM PST
AP -  The House has passed a $1 trillion-plus catchall budget bill paying for day-to-day operations of 10 Cabinet departments and averting a government shutdown, while Senate talks on renewing a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits reached a critical phase.
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Bargainers reach deal to head off gov't shutdown
Thu,15 Dec 2011 07:55 PM PST
AP -  Congressional negotiators reached agreement Thursday on a compromise spending bill to avert a weekend federal shutdown. They also worked toward a deal renewing the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits for another year but prepared a shorter version as a fallback.
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FBI considered sting aimed at Gingrich
Fri,16 Dec 2011 11:34 AM PST
The Washington Post - It is a curious case in the annals of the FBI: The bureau considered a sting operation against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich after sifting through allegations from a notorious arms dealer that a $10 million bribe might get Congress to lift the Iraqi arms embargo. Full Story | Top |
AP-GfK Poll: More than half say Obama should lose
Fri,16 Dec 2011 10:32 AM PST
AP -  A majority of adults say President Barack Obama does not deserve a second term but are evenly divided on whether he will win re-election next year, says a new Associated Press-GfK poll that highlights some of the campaign obstacles he faces.
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Filipino police rescue US boy from kidnappers
Thu,15 Dec 2011 07:01 PM PST
AP - Philippine police stormed a kidnappers' hideout and rescued a 4-year-old American boy who was held for ransom for eight days, officials said Friday. Five suspects were arrested in the second recent case of a kidnapped U.S. minor in the Philippines. Full Story | Top |
Russia's Mars probe will crash to Earth in January
Fri,16 Dec 2011 04:38 AM PST
AP -  A Russian spacecraft bound for a moon of Mars and stuck in Earth's orbit will come crashing back next month, but its toxic fuel and radioactive material on board will pose no danger of contamination, the Russian space agency said Friday.
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The digital ways kids cheat
Fri,16 Dec 2011 07:56 AM PST
The Lookout - The low-tech days of cheaters writing answers on their hands are over, according to this round up of the new and digital ways kids are finding to cheat on tests by USA Today's Greg Toppo. Some companies sell tiny earbuds that let test-takers communicate with a helper outside the exam room. (In China, two students taking [...] Full Story | Top |
'Batman' star Bale tries to visit China activist
Fri,16 Dec 2011 03:08 PM PST
AP -  "Batman" star Christian Bale, in the midst of promoting a film he made in China that some critics have called propaganda, was physically stopped by government-backed guards from visiting a blind activist living under house arrest — with a CNN crew in tow to record the scuffle.
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Web Not Happy About New Line of Lego for Girls
Fri,16 Dec 2011 09:18 AM PST
Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow us on Twitter @YahooTrending! The toy giant Lego is coming out with a new line of toys for girls. The Danish plastic toy maker announced the "Lego Friends" line geared toward girls ages 5 and up. People on Twitter are lashing out at Lego for creating a line that [...] Full Story | Top |
Regulators sue former top Fannie, Freddie execs
Fri,16 Dec 2011 01:40 PM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Six former top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were sued by U.S. regulators on charges of misleading investors about the mortgage finance companies' exposure to risky home loans in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. The case is one of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's biggest actions against high-level financial industry executives, although the regulator did not specify a dollar amount for damages in the alleged fraud. ...
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Now that Iowa is a dead heat, Romney is national GOP frontrunner again
Fri,16 Dec 2011 12:38 PM PST
The Signal - Newt Gingrich's likelihood of winning the Republican nomination plummeted in the prediction markets from nearly 40 percent midday on Tuesday to about 20 percent midday on Thursday, holding at 19.6 percent as of this writing. Gingrich still has a large lead in Real Clear Politics' aggregated trend of national Republican polls with 33.2 percentage points [...] Full Story | Top |
Retired professor arrested in Oklahoma child porn case
Thu,15 Dec 2011 03:05 PM PST
Reuters - OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Police on Thursday arrested a retired college professor in Pennsylvania on charges he conspired with an Oklahoma elementary school teacher to take lewd photos of third- and fourth-grade girls. Gary Joseph Doby, 65, was arrested at his home in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, where he had been a professor of early childhood development at Bloomsburg University, authorities said. He also taught for two years at Oklahoma Baptist University in the mid-1980s. ... Full Story | Top |
Police arrest man accused of light saber assault at Toys R Us
Thu,15 Dec 2011 08:28 AM PST
The Sideshow - Police in Portland, Ore, were alerted to a disturbance in the Force Wednesday night after a man allegedly went on a rampage with a plastic light saber at a local Toys R Us store. After fielding a 9-1-1 call, police officers made their way to the scene, only to find that the attacker had left [...] Full Story | Top |
AP-GfK Poll: Obama re-election odds roughly 50-50
Fri,16 Dec 2011 12:43 AM PST
AP - Entering 2012, President Barack Obama's re-election prospects are essentially a 50-50 proposition, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. It found that most Americans say the president deserves to be voted out of office even though they have concerns about the Republican alternatives. Full Story | Top |
Christopher Hitchens, militant pundit, dies at 62
Fri,16 Dec 2011 06:42 AM PST
AP -  Cancer weakened but did not soften Christopher Hitchens. He did not repent or forgive or ask for pity. As if granted diplomatic immunity, his mind's eye looked plainly upon the attack and counterattack of disease and treatments that robbed him of his hair, his stamina, his speaking voice and eventually his life.
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Man who fled wife's murder scene, abducted daughters kills self
Fri,16 Dec 2011 09:17 AM PST
Reuters -  FORT MONTGOMERY, New York (Reuters) - A tense standoff at a motel with a man who fled the scene of his estranged wife's murder and abducted their two young daughters ended on Friday when he committed suicide, police said. Anthony Trapp, 39, of Old Bridge, New Jersey, was found dead of apparently self-inflicted wounds in a room at the motel in Fort Montgomery, New York, just over the New Jersey border at about 9 a.m., the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement. ...
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Giant plumes of methane bubbling to surface of Arctic Ocean
Wed,14 Dec 2011 08:38 AM PST
The Sideshow - Russian scientists have discovered hundreds of plumes of methane gas, some 1,000 meters in diameter, bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Scientists are concerned that as the Arctic Shelf recedes, the unprecedented levels of gas released could greatly accelerate global climate change. Igor Semiletov of the Russian Academy of Sciences tells the UK's [...] Full Story | Top |
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