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News: Santorum: no apology needed for Quran burning Santorum says he doesn't believe in separation of church and state Penn Judge: Muslims Allowed to Attack People for Insulting Mohammad Pressure builds for civilian drone flights at home Seven U.S. soldiers wounded after Afghan NATO base attacked Fugates of Kentucky: Skin Bluer than Lake Louise Santorum win in Michigan could be chaos for GOP Gingrich warns of role of "secular left" Republican leaders are eager to get to race against Obama Shipwreck treasure returns to Spain from Florida Sometimes even Warren Buffett gets it wrong 11-Year-Old Girl Dies After Fight With Classmate Over Boy US says it's steadfast in rebuilding Afghanistan NY nurse called in alert when Kennedy took newborn American officers killed in Afghan Interior Ministry Christie says contested GOP convention is possible G20 to Europe: show us the money Watch a helicopter get destroyed by physics without even leaving the ground Former Senator Says Santorum 'Least Tolerant' Person He Ever Worked With Photos: Rick Santorum's Daytona 500 racer Down to the wire in 2-man GOP race in Michigan Obama: No magic bullet to lower gas prices Israel raids south Gaza after rocket attacks "Bad" cocaine killed American TV producer in Uganda Snub? Jan Brewer to Skip Out on White House Dinner Georgia on his mind, Gingrich fights in own backyard Rare whale caught on film for first time Rick Santorum: JFK's 1960 Speech Made Me Want to Throw Up NYPD monitoring of Muslims enters mayoral race Dog Who Bit Denver News Anchor Should Have Been Put Down Suspect wanted in biker funeral killing arrested Ca. girl, 11, fights classmate, dies hours later Syria referendum goes ahead amid military onslaught On Oscar weekend, 'Act of Valor' storms box office Exclusive: Saudi oil boost could calm markets: Senator Schumer Arizona governor endorses Romney in primary Seven Americans wounded in attack on NATO base in Afghanistan Michigan vote could determine Romney fate, Santorum challenge could push contest into June Chavez surgery gives rival an opening before vote New list of 49 foods to avoid includes some that seem healthy Santorum: no apology needed for Quran burning Sun,26 Feb 2012 01:09 PM PST Associated Press - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum criticized President Barack Obama's apology for the burning of Qurans in Afghanistan, adding that Afghanistan should apologize to the U.S. for the deaths of four U.S. soldiers during six days of violence sparked by the incident. Full Story Top Santorum says he doesn't believe in separation of church and state Sun,26 Feb 2012 08:43 AM PST Associated Press - WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Sunday that he doesn't believe in the separation of church and state, adding that he was sickened by John F. Kennedy's assurances to Baptist ministers 52 years ago that he would not impose his Catholic faith on them. Full Story Top Penn Judge: Muslims Allowed to Attack People for Insulting Mohammad Fri,24 Feb 2012 01:00 PM PST Yahoo! Contributor Network - COMMENTARY | Jonathon Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, reports on a disturbing case in which a state judge in Pennsylvania threw out an assault case involving a Muslim attacking an atheist for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. Full Story Top Pressure builds for civilian drone flights at home Sun,26 Feb 2012 01:11 PM PST Associated Press - Heads up: Drones are going mainstream. Civilian cousins of the unmanned military aircraft that have tracked and killed terrorists in the Middle East and Asia are in demand by police departments, border patrols, power companies, news organizations and others wanting a bird's-eye view that's too impractical or dangerous for conventional planes or helicopters to get. Full Story Top Seven U.S. soldiers wounded after Afghan NATO base attacked Sun,26 Feb 2012 02:53 PM PST Reuters - KUNDUZ/KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Seven U.S. military trainers were wounded on Sunday when a grenade was thrown at their base in northern Afghanistan, police said, as anti-Western fury deepened over the burning of the Koran at a NATO base. Despite an apology from U.S. President Barack Obama, riots raged across the country for a sixth day on Sunday against the desecration of the Muslim holy book at a NATO air base at Bagram. Some protesters hoisted the white Taliban flag. The Afghan Interior Ministry identified one of its employees as a suspect in the fatal shooting of two U.S. ... Full Story Top Fugates of Kentucky: Skin Bluer than Lake Louise Wed,22 Feb 2012 06:29 AM PST Good Morning America - Genetics and In-Breeding Cause Six Generations of Family to Turn Blue Full Story Top Santorum win in Michigan could be chaos for GOP Sun,26 Feb 2012 03:48 PM PST Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican presidential race faces a potential turning point on Tuesday in contests in Arizona and Michigan, where upstart Rick Santorum threatens to plunge an already unpredictable nominating battle into chaos. Mitt Romney, the former front-runner and presumed nominee, and Santorum are in a close race in Michigan, the state where Romney was raised and his father was an auto executive and popular governor. ... Full Story Top Gingrich warns of role of "secular left" Sun,26 Feb 2012 04:48 PM PST Associated Press - Newt Gingrich warned members of a Georgia church Sunday that the "secular left" is trying to undermine American principles established by the Founding Fathers as he sought to rejuvenate his presidential bid. Full Story Top Republican leaders are eager to get to race against Obama Sat,25 Feb 2012 01:28 PM PST The Ticket - WASHINGTON, D.C.--The ongoing race for the Republican presidential nomination appears to be causing heartburn among some party leaders who are eager to start taking on a president who has begun to feel the political benefit of a rehabilitating economy and a divisive GOP primary process. "I definitely would like to see it finished before the [...] Full Story Top Shipwreck treasure returns to Spain from Florida Sat,25 Feb 2012 08:25 AM PST Associated Press - Two military planes carrying 17 tons of silver and gold coins scooped up from a sunken Spanish warship landed in Madrid on Saturday, ending a more than 200-year odyssey that took the treasure from an ocean floor to Florida courtrooms. Full Story Top Sometimes even Warren Buffett gets it wrong Sun,26 Feb 2012 09:23 AM PST Associated Press - The Oracle of Omaha earned his nickname — and more than a few billion dollars — by spotting investments that others overlooked, but Warren Buffett makes mistakes. Full Story Top 11-Year-Old Girl Dies After Fight With Classmate Over Boy Sun,26 Feb 2012 01:36 PM PST ABC News - Health officials and police in Long Beach, Calif., are trying to determine how an 11-year-old girl died after getting into a fight with another girl over a boy. Joanna Ramos, a fifth grader at Willard Elementary School, died Friday night in the hospital after complaining... Full Story Top US says it's steadfast in rebuilding Afghanistan Sun,26 Feb 2012 03:27 PM PST Associated Press - The top U.S. diplomat in Kabul and a campaign adviser to President Barack Obama said Sunday the U.S. isn't rethinking its commitment to Afghanistan after violent protests left more than two dozen people dead, including two Americans shot inside a government ministry. Full Story Top NY nurse called in alert when Kennedy took newborn Sun,26 Feb 2012 06:12 AM PST Associated Press - A lawyer for a suburban New York maternity nurse says she called in a hospital alert for a newborn abduction when one of Robert F. Kennedy's sons tried to take his own son off the floor for a walk. Full Story Top American officers killed in Afghan Interior Ministry Sat,25 Feb 2012 01:52 PM PST Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Two American officers were shot dead at close range in Afghanistan's Interior Ministry on Saturday, a U.S. official said, as rage gripped the country for a fifth day over the burning of the Muslim holy book at a NATO base. NATO recalled all staff working at ministries in the Afghan capital, Kabul, following the attack, with its top commander in Afghanistan calling the killer a coward. ... Full Story Top Christie says contested GOP convention is possible Sun,26 Feb 2012 09:10 AM PST Associated Press - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't ruling out the possibility the topsy-turvy GOP presidential race ends up in a contested party convention this summer if Mitt Romney loses Tuesday's Michigan primary. Full Story Top G20 to Europe: show us the money Sun,26 Feb 2012 01:40 PM PST Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Leading economies told Europe it must put up extra money to fight its debt crisis if it wants more help from the rest of the world, piling pressure on Germany to drop its opposition to a bigger European bailout. Euro zone countries pledged on Sunday at a Group of 20 meetings of finance leaders to reassess the strength of their bailout fund in March, which could clear the way for other G20 countries to contribute more funds to the International Monetary Fund. ... Full Story Top Watch a helicopter get destroyed by physics without even leaving the ground Fri,24 Feb 2012 02:44 PM PST Technology News Blog - It was the most stunning helicopter accident Para, Brazil has ever seen. And it all happened without the helicopter even leaving the ground. The shocking destruction of the plane was caused by a phenomenon called ground resonance. Like an out-of-balance washing machine, … Continue reading → Full Story Top Former Senator Says Santorum 'Least Tolerant' Person He Ever Worked With Fri,24 Feb 2012 03:39 PM PST Yahoo! Contributor Network - COMMENTARY | Does former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum seem a bit too extreme and intolerant for your tastes? You're not alone. In fact, former Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold told Buzzfeed this week that the presidential hopeful was the "least tolerant" individual he has "ever dealt with." Full Story Top Photos: Rick Santorum's Daytona 500 racer Sat,25 Feb 2012 09:30 AM PST The Ticket - DETROIT, Michigan -- Mitt Romney may have tickets to Sunday's Daytona 500 NASCAR race in Florida, but he'll be watching his rival's name fly down the track. Santorum's presidential campaign is sponsoring Tony Raines' car in Sunday's race. Crew members in Florida spent Saturday preparing the car, and AP photographer Rainier Ehrhardt snapped some early [...] Full Story Top Down to the wire in 2-man GOP race in Michigan Sat,25 Feb 2012 06:23 PM PST Associated Press - Republican Mitt Romney fought Saturday to prove he is the strongest challenger to President Barack Obama, an increasingly difficult task given the tight race in his native state of Michigan against surging conservative Rick Santorum. Full Story Top Obama: No magic bullet to lower gas prices Sat,25 Feb 2012 03:11 AM PST Associated Press - President Barack Obama says there is no easy answer to the problem of rising energy prices, dismissing Republican plans to address the problem as little more than gimmicks. Full Story Top Israel raids south Gaza after rocket attacks Sat,25 Feb 2012 05:40 PM PST AFP - Israeli warplanes early Sunday carried out an attack on the south of the Gaza Strip after rockets were fired at Israel, according to the army. Full Story Top "Bad" cocaine killed American TV producer in Uganda Sat,25 Feb 2012 03:22 PM PST Reuters - KAMPALA (Reuters) - An American television producer found dead on a hotel balcony in Uganda last week died after taking contaminated cocaine, police and a private investigator said on Saturday. An official toxicology report confirmed the narcotic was in Jeff Rice's blood, dispelling initial suspicions the father-of-two known for his work on the U.S. show "The Amazing Race," had been poisoned by attackers. Rice, who was found slumped over a table bleeding through the nose and mouth, died of asphyxiation, a post mortem showed. Drug users who fall unconscious risk inhaling vomit. "Rice ... ... Full Story Top Snub? Jan Brewer to Skip Out on White House Dinner Sat,25 Feb 2012 10:36 PM PST The Blaze - While in Washington D.C. for the weekend at the National Governors Association conference, Republican Arizona Governor Jan Brewer will not be crossing paths with President Obama at events unrelated to the conference's focus on economic issues. Considering their now infamous encounter last month, some may not be surprised by the news that Brewer plans to skip out on a White House dinner honoring the nation's governors Sunday. Bloomberg reports on Brewer's pass on the black-tie dinner invite:"Brewer said in an interview today that she had a scheduling conflict. ... Full Story Top Georgia on his mind, Gingrich fights in own backyard Sat,25 Feb 2012 03:43 PM PST Reuters - ATLANTA (Reuters) - Only a month ago, Newt Gingrich was atop the Republican presidential race. Now he is in a fight for a win even in his home state of Georgia as his campaign stakes its future on the Super Tuesday primaries. Two polls out of three in recent days show Gingrich running a close race in the state with either Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum, who is making inroads with the large number of evangelical Republicans in Georgia. But he will take hope that one of those polls gave him a healthy lead of 13 percentage points over Santorum and 19 over Romney. ... Full Story Top Rare whale caught on film for first time Thu,23 Feb 2012 02:39 AM PST AFP - Australian researchers Thursday revealed they had filmed a pod of extremely rare Shepherd's beaked whales for the first time ever. Full Story Top Rick Santorum: JFK's 1960 Speech Made Me Want to Throw Up Sun,26 Feb 2012 09:16 AM PST ABC OTUS News - GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said today that watching John F. Kennedy's speech to the Baptist ministers in Houston in 1960 made him want to "throw up." "To say that people of faith have no role in the public square?  You bet that makes you... Full Story Top NYPD monitoring of Muslims enters mayoral race Sun,26 Feb 2012 12:25 PM PST Associated Press - Potential candidates for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office are taking stands on the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim students, ranging from cautious support to a warning about curtailing civil liberties. Full Story Top Dog Who Bit Denver News Anchor Should Have Been Put Down Fri,24 Feb 2012 03:39 PM PST Yahoo! Contributor Network - COMMENTARY | According to Good Morning America, a Denver NBC affiliate news anchor, Kyle Dyer, is recovering well after having been bit by a dog. The bite occurred on live television on February 8 as Dyer was covering a story about the dog being rescued from a frozen reservoir. Full Story Top Suspect wanted in biker funeral killing arrested Sun,26 Feb 2012 12:45 PM PST Associated Press - Police have arrested a suspect in the death of a motorcycle gang member, ending a months-long search for the victim's fellow Hells Angels member who has been wanted since the fatal shooting at a California funeral. Full Story Top Ca. girl, 11, fights classmate, dies hours later Sun,26 Feb 2012 12:04 PM PST Associated Press - An 11-year-old girl died following an after school fight at a Long Beach elementary school, but authorities say they have no immediate plans for arrests. Full Story Top Syria referendum goes ahead amid military onslaught Sun,26 Feb 2012 01:33 PM PST Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 59 Syrian civilians and soldiers were killed on Sunday in bloodshed that coincided with a vote on a new constitution that could keep President Bashar al-Assad in power until 2028. Assad says the referendum shows his commitment to democratic reform while Western powers and Syrians involved in an 11-month-old revolt against his rule have described it as a farce. ... Full Story Top On Oscar weekend, 'Act of Valor' storms box office Sun,26 Feb 2012 11:58 AM PST Associated Press - On Oscar weekend, the real-life action stars of "Act of Valor" bested Hollywood's pretend heroes. Full Story Top Exclusive: Saudi oil boost could calm markets: Senator Schumer Sun,26 Feb 2012 04:10 AM PST Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should do more to encourage Saudi Arabia to boost its oil production to make up for lost Iranian oil, Senator Charles Schumer said on Sunday, urging renewed diplomacy as a way to ease the run-up in oil prices. Tensions surrounding Iran's nuclear program have pushed oil prices to nine-month highs, and U.S. gasoline prices have surged, becoming a top political issue in the run-up to the 2012 presidential elections. ... Full Story Top Arizona governor endorses Romney in primary Sun,26 Feb 2012 06:52 AM PST Associated Press - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is endorsing Mitt Romney in her state's Republican presidential primary on Tuesday. Full Story Top Seven Americans wounded in attack on NATO base in Afghanistan Sun,26 Feb 2012 05:12 AM PST Reuters - KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Seven U.S. military trainers were wounded on Sunday when protesters in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan threw a grenade at their base, provincial police chief Samihullah Qatra told reporters. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed there had been an explosion outside one of its bases in northern Afghanistan, but declined to comment on casualties. (Reporting by Fraidoon Elhaam in Kunduz, Amie Ferris-Rotman in Kabul; Editing by Michael Georgy) Full Story Top Michigan vote could determine Romney fate, Santorum challenge could push contest into June Sun,26 Feb 2012 08:30 AM PST Associated Press - WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney's slipping lock on the Republican presidential nomination faces its biggest challenge on Tuesday when party voters cast ballots in the primary election in his native state of Michigan. Full Story Top Chavez surgery gives rival an opening before vote Sun,26 Feb 2012 01:23 PM PST Associated Press - Throughout his presidency, Hugo Chavez has relied on his vigor and endurance: playing baseball, speaking for hours at a stretch and making decisions on the fly while bounding around Venezuela exuding energy. Full Story Top New list of 49 foods to avoid includes some that seem healthy Fri,24 Feb 2012 12:54 PM PST The Sideshow - The New Zealand Medical Journal's new list of "non-essential, energy dense, nutritionally deficient" (aka NEEDNT) foods, aimed at helping educate obese people about foods to avoid, includes a number of usual suspects on the 'do not eat if you are dieting' list. Coming in at #1 (list is alphabetical, not in ascending/descending order of value) [...] Full Story Top

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