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Today's Most Popular News Headlines - Yahoo! News: President Obama related to country's first enslaved man Mitt Romney Spokesman Tells Reporters 'Kiss My …' at Polish Holy Site Chick-fil-A braces for protests, same-sex 'kiss-in' F-22 Fighter Loses $79 Billion Advantage in Dogfights: Report Road Rage Revenge Gets Wet About-face: Former climate change skeptic now says global warming is man-made Is Antonio Villaraigosa poised to be America's first Latino president? Former NFL Cheerleader Sarah Jones Denies She Is the 'Female Sandusky' Obama Plans to Lay Out 'Specific Agenda' for 2nd Term Australia finds record drug haul among Thai terracotta pots Romney denies criticizing Palestinian culture Add it up: The prediction models look dismal for Obama. Can he still win? Ebola Outbreak Prompts Ugandans to Stop Kissing Former Vice President Dick Cheney says Romney's tax returns are a distraction India power cut hits millions, among world's worst outages China slams drug claims as Phelps targets history Federal court fight continues over America's first great Olympian This Is the Obama-Aurora Billboard Everyone's Talking About 11-Year-Old Singer Explains 'Worst National Anthem' Rendition Olympics fans find ways to circumvent NBC's online control Former Global Warming Skeptic Makes a 'Total Turnaround' New Bible translation has screenplay format NJ girl grabs wheel when grandfather dies No government shutdown battle before Election Day Apollo Moon Landing Flags Still Standing, Photos Reveal Eye injection gives a blind mouse the ability to see Ted Cruz appears likely to win Texas Senate runoff, thanks to tea party support Mass murder and mental illness: The Interplay of stigma, culture and disease Couple to remarry almost 50 years after divorce Rare mountain tornado photographed at 12,000 feet (VIDEO) Bachmann claims fundraising bounce amid controversy Man's last wish to give big tips inspires big donations Picture of Mitt Romney on woman's computer sends boyfriend into jealous rage Man who lost hand to alligator charged with unlawful feeding Air Force officer creates database of every U.S. bomb dropped since World War I Homeward bound: Did Romney get anything out of his foreign tour? Ohio Republican Rep. LaTourette retires, citing acrimony in Washington Accused Colorado movie theater gunman charged with multiple counts of murder Cult May Have Stolen Body of Grandmother, Police Say Romney comments at fundraiser irk Palestinians President Obama related to country's first enslaved man Mon,30 Jul 2012 03:02 PM PDT A study from Ancestry.com has determined that President Obama is related to John Punch, the first black African enslaved for life in America--which would make Punch the 11th great-grandfather of Obama. The connection is made through Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunhan. The website's records say she had ancestors who were white landowners in Colonial Virginia [...] Full Story Top Mitt Romney Spokesman Tells Reporters 'Kiss My …' at Polish Holy Site Tue,31 Jul 2012 04:04 AM PDT ABC OTUS News - WARSAW — Reporters traveling with Mitt Romney on his six-day foreign trip were reprimanded by a spokesman for asking the candidate questions after several days passed without a press conference. As Romney left the site of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw and... Full Story Top Chick-fil-A braces for protests, same-sex 'kiss-in' Tue,31 Jul 2012 10:30 AM PDT The still-simmering controversy sparked by the Chick-fil-A president's public comments against same-sex marriage is set to reignite this week, as more than 500,000 people say they will join former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day" on Wednesday by "simply showing up and eating" at one of the company's 1,600 restaurants, while protesters backed by [...] Full Story Top F-22 Fighter Loses $79 Billion Advantage in Dogfights: Report Mon,30 Jul 2012 01:11 PM PDT ABC News - The United States has spent nearly $80 billion to develop the most advanced stealth fighter jet in history, the F-22 Raptor, but the Air Force recently found out firsthand that while the planes own the skies at modern long-range air combat, it is "evenly matched"... Full Story Top Road Rage Revenge Gets Wet Tue,31 Jul 2012 09:56 AM PDT A wet and wild case of road-rage revenge has been caught on camera. Watch this car and SUV battle for space on a highway in Russia. One driver vented his frustration at a fellow driver who refused to merge.  The driver of the SUV takes... Full Story Top About-face: Former climate change skeptic now says global warming is man-made Tue,31 Jul 2012 06:46 AM PDT He finally came around to what other climate scientists have been spouting for years. Richard A. Muller, a physics professor at the University of California-Berkeley, announced over the weekend that his much-publicized investigation into climate data has found that humans' production of carbon dioxide is causing the world to slowly warm up. And this process [...] Full Story Top Is Antonio Villaraigosa poised to be America's first Latino president? Tue,31 Jul 2012 07:24 AM PDT LOS ANGELES—When Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gavels the 2012 Democratic National Convention into session in Charlotte, N.C., this September, his role as prominent cheerleader for President Barack Obama will be clear. It is less clear, for now, if Villaraigosa has designs on the ultimate convention role in 2016—taking center stage to accept his party's [...] Full Story Top Former NFL Cheerleader Sarah Jones Denies She Is the 'Female Sandusky' Mon,30 Jul 2012 11:05 PM PDT Good Morning America - Prosecutors Call Text Messages 'Steamy' Full Story Top Obama Plans to Lay Out 'Specific Agenda' for 2nd Term Mon,30 Jul 2012 07:12 PM PDT ABC OTUS News - President Obama tonight hinted that his re-election campaign will transition to a more positive and forward-looking message by the end of next month and into the fall. Obama told a group of high-dollar donors at a New York City fundraiser that he intends to spend... Full Story Top Australia finds record drug haul among Thai terracotta pots Mon,30 Jul 2012 09:49 PM PDT Reuters - SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police on Tuesday seized a record half a tonne of the drug ice and heroin worth up to A$500 million ($525 million) hidden in a shipment of terracotta pots from Thailand. Seven people, including four from Hong Kong, were arrested after a year-long investigation following a tip-off from U.S. authorities, police said. The 306 kg of methamphetamine, also known as ice, was Australia's biggest seizure of the drug, while the 252 kg of heroin was the nation's third largest-haul of heroin. ... Full Story Top Romney denies criticizing Palestinian culture Tue,31 Jul 2012 08:12 AM PDT WARSAW, Poland—Mitt Romney insisted Tuesday he was not specifically talking about Palestinian culture at a fundraiser in Israel on Monday when he was quoted suggesting culture was the reason for the economic disparity between Israel and the Palestinian territories. "That's an interesting topic that deserves scholarly analysis, but I actually didn't address that," Romney told [...] Full Story Top Add it up: The prediction models look dismal for Obama. Can he still win? Tue,31 Jul 2012 10:26 AM PDT I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math. Full Story Top Ebola Outbreak Prompts Ugandans to Stop Kissing Mon,30 Jul 2012 12:16 PM PDT ABC News - The president of Uganda is now calling on people in the East African country to avoid physical contact, including handshaking and kissing, to prevent the spread of the deadly and highly contagious Ebola virus.  The disease is believed to have killed 14 people in the... Full Story Top Former Vice President Dick Cheney says Romney's tax returns are a distraction Tue,31 Jul 2012 04:15 AM PDT Spinners and Winners Dick Cheney has heart -- specifically, a new heart. And with it comes a fiery and defiant Cheney that had been absent in recent years. In an exclusive interview with ABC News and Yahoo News, Cheney says he feels "excellent," and reflects on how far he has come since 2010 -- when [...] Full Story Top India power cut hits millions, among world's worst outages Tue,31 Jul 2012 01:13 PM PDT Reuters - NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Hundreds of millions of people across India were left without power on Tuesday in one of the world's worst blackouts, trapping miners, stranding train travelers and plunging hospitals into darkness when grids collapsed for the second time in two days. Stretching from Assam, near China, to the Himalayas and the northwestern deserts of Rajasthan, the outage covered states where half of India's 1.2 billion people live and embarrassed the government, which has failed to build up enough power capacity to meet soaring demand. ... Full Story Top China slams drug claims as Phelps targets history Tue,31 Jul 2012 08:30 AM PDT AFP - China hit back at doping claims concerning star swimmer Ye Shiwen on Tuesday as Michael Phelps aimed to become the most decorated Olympic athlete in history. Full Story Top Federal court fight continues over America's first great Olympian Tue,31 Jul 2012 07:00 AM PDT National Constitution Center - It was 100 years ago this month that Jim Thorpe put America on the world's sports map and made the Olympics a global phenomenon. But the fight over Thorpe's body still lingers in a federal court. Full Story Top This Is the Obama-Aurora Billboard Everyone's Talking About Sun,29 Jul 2012 01:34 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - This billboard got a lot of media attention this weekend for its meme-style juxtaposition of President Obama and Aurora-shooter James Holmes. Styled like something you'd see on Reddit, the billboard features side-by-side pictures of the two men with the words "kills 12 in movie theater with assault rifle, everyone freaks out" over Holmes' picture, and "kills thousands with his foreign policy, wins nobel peace prize" over Obama's picture. Maurice Clements is the guy in charge the billboard. ... Full Story Top 11-Year-Old Singer Explains 'Worst National Anthem' Rendition Tue,31 Jul 2012 05:09 AM PDT Eleven-year-old Harper Gruzins practiced "The Star-Spangled Banner" for weeks, but spectators showed little appreciation when she performed it Saturday at a Major League Soccer game in Dallas. About 22,000 fans inside the stadium offered some polite applause,... Full Story Top Olympics fans find ways to circumvent NBC's online control Tue,31 Jul 2012 06:34 AM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - It took Jason Legate, a Walnut Creek, California-resident, all of 10 minutes to connect his computer to a London-based server and access BBC's coverage of the Olympics Saturday, thereby circumventing NBC's lock on coverage in the United States. The 31-year-old system administrator said he has watched at least 12 hours of live BBC coverage (his favorite sport so far - judo) since he set up a virtual private network (VPN) connection to send all his Internet traffic to a server in London. ... Full Story Top Former Global Warming Skeptic Makes a 'Total Turnaround' Tue,31 Jul 2012 04:30 AM PDT LiveScience.com - A prominent scientist who was skeptical of the evidence that climate change was real, let alone that it was caused by humans, now says he has made a "total turnaround." Richard Muller, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, says he has become convinced that "the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct," and that humans are "almost entirely the cause" of that warming. Full Story Top New Bible translation has screenplay format Mon,30 Jul 2012 06:52 AM PDT Associated Press - A new Bible translation tackles the challenge of turning ancient Greek and Hebrew texts into modern American English and then adds a twist: It's written like a screenplay. Full Story Top NJ girl grabs wheel when grandfather dies Mon,30 Jul 2012 09:33 PM PDT Associated Press - As the pickup truck she was riding in careened down the road at 80 mph, 12-year-old Miranda Bowman knew one thing: She had to stop it. Full Story Top No government shutdown battle before Election Day Tue,31 Jul 2012 11:31 AM PDT Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, July 25, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Tuesday that he has reached an agreement with the White House and Republican leaders in the House to ensure there is no government shutdown battle before Election Day [...] Full Story Top Apollo Moon Landing Flags Still Standing, Photos Reveal Mon,30 Jul 2012 09:11 AM PDT SPACE.com - An enduring question ever since the manned moon landings of the 1960s has been: Are the flags planted by the astronauts still standing? Full Story Top Eye injection gives a blind mouse the ability to see Mon,30 Jul 2012 06:13 PM PDT Losing the use of your eyes via retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration — diseases that effect your ability to sense light — can be absolutely traumatizing. But thanks to new research on lab mice, these types of blindness may soon be reversible through … Continue reading → Full Story Top Ted Cruz appears likely to win Texas Senate runoff, thanks to tea party support Tue,31 Jul 2012 02:34 AM PDT Former state solicitor general Ted Cruz appears favored to win the Republican Senate runoff in Texas on Tuesday, which would hand the tea party a significant underdog victory in a massive state. Tea party support stretching from high-profile figures like Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum and Jim DeMint down to grassroot volunteers helped catapult Cruz to [...] Full Story Top Mass murder and mental illness: The Interplay of stigma, culture and disease Tue,31 Jul 2012 06:51 AM PDT Time.com - With recent revelations that alleged movie theater shooter James Holmes had been seeing a psychiatrist prior to carrying out the July 20 massacre in Aurora, Colo., questions about the link between violence and mental illness have risen once again into the media spotlight: What are the root causes of seemingly random violence? Does mental illness provoke it, or predispose people to harm others? Full Story Top Couple to remarry almost 50 years after divorce Mon,30 Jul 2012 09:37 AM PDT Never doubt the power of second chances. A couple, Lena Henderson and Roland Davis of West Seneca, New York, who divorced in 1964, are remarrying almost 50 years later. According to a story in the Buffalo News, the two married as teenagers in Chattanooga, Tenn., and had four children. But even after the pair divorced [...] Full Story Top Rare mountain tornado photographed at 12,000 feet (VIDEO) Tue,31 Jul 2012 10:14 AM PDT A tornado was caught on film at the crest of Colorado's Mount Evans on Saturday. The twister was discovered at 11,900 feet, making it the second highest ever recorded by the National Weather Service. "It's not unprecedented to have tornadoes in the mountains. But they are rare," National Weather Service meteorologist David Barjenbruch told the [...] Full Story Top Bachmann claims fundraising bounce amid controversy Tue,31 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT Recent controversy over Rep. Michele Bachmann's inquiries into whether Congress had been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood doesn't appear to have hampered her re-election campaign. The Minnesota Republican announced Tuesday that she raised more than $1 million between July 1 and July 25. "This incredible outpouring of support demonstrates the trust Minnesotans have placed in [...] Full Story Top Man's last wish to give big tips inspires big donations Tue,31 Jul 2012 12:57 PM PDT Before Aaron Collins passed away in July at the age of 29, he asked that his brother Seth "leave an awesome tip" for a waiter or waitress. "And I don't mean 25%," Aaron said. "I mean $500 on a ****ing pizza." [Related: Oakland church's fundraiser helps orphanage in Africa] The only problem, as NPR reports, [...] Full Story Top Picture of Mitt Romney on woman's computer sends boyfriend into jealous rage Tue,31 Jul 2012 02:48 PM PDT A jealous boyfriend in Tennessee did not recognize a picture of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney when he saw it on his girlfriend's Facebook page. He mistook him for a lover. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports: CLINTON — He suspected his live-in girlfriend of planning an affair, and when he saw a picture of [...] Full Story Top Man who lost hand to alligator charged with unlawful feeding Mon,30 Jul 2012 08:11 AM PDT Talk about adding insult to injury: An Everglades tour guide who lost his hand to an alligator last month was arrested over the weekend, charged with unlawful alligator feeding. Wallace Weatherholt, a 63-year-old airboat captain, was leading a tour on June 12 when the group encountered a 9-foot alligator. Passengers told the Fort Myers News-Press [...] Full Story Top Air Force officer creates database of every U.S. bomb dropped since World War I Mon,30 Jul 2012 12:02 PM PDT Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson, 45, has spent the past six years working on one of the most unusual historical projects in modern times: compiling a database of every bomb dropped by U.S. forces dating back to World War I. "It has proven useful in the real world, in real time," Robertson told the Boston Globe. [...] Full Story Top Homeward bound: Did Romney get anything out of his foreign tour? Tue,31 Jul 2012 02:27 PM PDT WARSAW, Poland—As Mitt Romney stood on stage here delivering the final speech of his weeklong overseas tour, television correspondents were positioned just yards away, pre-taping hits for Tuesday's morning news shows back in the United States—and the stories were not just about the substance of Romney's remarks. A little over an hour before, several reporters [...] Full Story Top Ohio Republican Rep. LaTourette retires, citing acrimony in Washington Tue,31 Jul 2012 07:23 AM PDT Ohio Republican Rep. Steve LaTourette announced Tuesday that he's sick of Washington and has decided to retire. "Washington and public life … is not the same as it was when I started a quarter century ago," the longtime moderate lawmaker said at a press conference in Painesville, Ohio. "The atmosphere today and the reality that exists [...] Full Story Top Accused Colorado movie theater gunman charged with multiple counts of murder Mon,30 Jul 2012 09:30 AM PDT [Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET] Prosecutors on Monday charged James Holmes with two dozen counts of first-degree murder and more than 100 other violent offenses related to the recent deadly rampage at a Colorado movie theater. Holmes, who appeared in court with the same cartoonish orange-red hair he had at the time of the shooting, [...] Full Story Top Cult May Have Stolen Body of Grandmother, Police Say Tue,31 Jul 2012 08:12 AM PDT Good Morning America - Body Of Grandmother Who Died 16 Years Ago Missing Full Story Top Romney comments at fundraiser irk Palestinians Mon,30 Jul 2012 07:45 AM PDT GDANSK, Poland—Mitt Romney ended his trip to Israel on a controversial note, angering Palestinian officials by suggesting Israelis have been more economically successful because of their culture. "As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which is about $21,000 dollars, and compare that with the GDP per capita [...] Full Story Top

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