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Today's Most Popular News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Banker's Insulting Waitress Tip Incites Class Warfare Between the 1% and the 99% Gay Marine's homecoming kiss goes viral Why Americans Are Paying More At the Pump Chardon High School Shooting: One Dead, Four Injured Pressure builds for civilian drone flights at home How to remove your Google Web Data History 11-Year-Old Girl Dies After Fight With Classmate Over Boy Cruise Ship Adrift in Pirate Infested Indian Ocean Chardon High School Shooting Left 'Friends Laying All Over the Place' As gas prices rise, Republican candidates step up the attacks on Obama's energy policy Amazing time-lapse video captures the night sky Detroit automakers race to keep up with sales Who Pays for Presidents to Raise Money for Re-election Campaigns? You Do! Santorum says he doesn't believe in separation of church and state Adolf Hitler's long-lost collection of paintings discovered Koran Burning: Can U.S. and Afghan Troops Work Together? Penn Judge: Muslims Allowed to Attack People for Insulting Mohammad Muslims and Arab Americans in Michigan aren't getting attention from Republican presidential candidates U.S. cites "heightened threat"; 9 killed in Afghan airport bomb Scott Walker, Wisconsin governor, braces for recall election, proclaims controversial law is working Tenn. nightclub shooting leaves 1 dead, 19 injured Gloria Allred accidentally reveals her 380-person press list California Schoolgirl's Death in Fight Ruled Homicide Chardon High School Shooting: Four Shot, One in Custody 22 tourists robbed in Mexico bus assault Crossover voter threat in Michigan? Officials say they're unconcerned Chardon High School Shooting: Gunman Identified as TJ Lane Osama bin Laden's Pakistan home is no more Mysterious orbs confound NC county for decades Biker gang fugitive arrested for funeral slaying Long, volatile race tests Mitt Romney's enthusiasm: 'It's a very grueling process,' aide says 1 killed, 4 wounded in school shooting in Ohio Students Shot at Ohio High School Santorum: Romney isn't conservative enough for GOP On the economy, personal background, not policy, is the biggest difference between Romney and Santorum: Character Sketch Santorum: no apology needed for Quran burning Sometimes even Warren Buffett gets it wrong Report: Russia, Ukraine foiled plot to kill Putin Case of slain socialite in DC takes bizarre turns Bill Clinton, Kohl, EU among 231 Nobel candidates Banker's Insulting Waitress Tip Incites Class Warfare Between the 1% and the 99% Mon,27 Feb 2012 08:46 AM PST Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow us on Twitter @YahooTrending. Just when you may have thought the ongoing battle between the 99% and the 1% was dying down, it may have been reignited. A wealthy banker left a $1.33 tip on a $133 lunch at the True Food Kitchen restaurant in Newport Beach, California. To add [...] Full Story Top Gay Marine's homecoming kiss goes viral Mon,27 Feb 2012 09:24 AM PST The Lookout - Five months after the military's ban on openly gay service expired, a photo of a young gay Marine's homecoming kiss has gone viral. Nearly 15,000 people have liked the picture on Facebook, which was posted in a group for gay Marines on Saturday. The Marine, Brandon Morgan, posted a response on his Facebook wall according [...] Full Story Top Why Americans Are Paying More At the Pump Mon,27 Feb 2012 10:37 AM PST U.S.News & World Report LP - Turmoil abroad and rising costs at home means consumers will have to shell out more for gas this summer Full Story Top Chardon High School Shooting: One Dead, Four Injured Mon,27 Feb 2012 06:06 AM PST Good Morning America - Ohio Authorities Said the Male Suspect is in Custody But Has Not Been Charged Full Story Top Pressure builds for civilian drone flights at home Mon,27 Feb 2012 12:25 PM PST Associated Press - Heads up: Drones are going mainstream. Full Story Top How to remove your Google Web Data History Mon,27 Feb 2012 04:04 PM PST CNET.com - March 1 is the day Google's new unified privacy policy goes into effect, which means your Google Web History will be shared among all of the Google products you use. 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 Cruise Ship Adrift in Pirate Infested Indian Ocean Mon,27 Feb 2012 09:41 AM PST ABC News - Second Emergency for Italian Costa Cruise Line Full Story Top Chardon High School Shooting Left 'Friends Laying All Over the Place' Mon,27 Feb 2012 06:06 AM PST Good Morning America - One Is Dead and Four Are Injured in Chardon High School Shooting Full Story Top As gas prices rise, Republican candidates step up the attacks on Obama's energy policy Mon,27 Feb 2012 08:17 AM PST The Ticket - ALLEN PARK, Mich -- Newt Gingrich this weekend issued a special thank you shout-out to President Obama for recently making a nationally-televised speech on America's energy policy, which Gingrich believes merely increased Americans' concerns over high gas prices. "I want to thank the president for the timing," the former House Speaker and presidential candidate said Saturday [...] Full Story Top Amazing time-lapse video captures the night sky Mon,27 Feb 2012 03:20 PM PST The Upshot - Temporal Distortion from Randy Halverson on Vimeo Think you've seen the night sky? Not like this. Photographer Randy Halverson took months (when the weather was clear) to shoot the stars overhead of the White River in central South Dakota, Arches National Park in Utah, Canyon of the Ancients area of Colorado, and Madison, Wisconsin. He put [...] Full Story Top Detroit automakers race to keep up with sales Mon,27 Feb 2012 07:19 PM PST Associated Press - Auto sales are growing so fast that Detroit can barely keep up. Full Story Top Who Pays for Presidents to Raise Money for Re-election Campaigns? You Do! Fri,24 Feb 2012 02:28 PM PST Power Players - Political Punch President Obama and Democrats have raised $250 million dollars so far this election cycle. But who actually pays for the president's travel costs so he can get to these multimillion dollar mansions to raise money? In part, you and I do. So far this year, President Obama has taken four trips, including 18 [...] 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 Adolf Hitler's long-lost collection of paintings discovered Mon,27 Feb 2012 10:43 AM PST The Sideshow - A Czech historian has discovered a long-lost collection of paintings belonging to Adolf Hitler. The Telegraph reports that the unearthed works of art include a "massive" painting entitled "Memories of Stalingrad." Even though the battle of Stalingrad was one of the German army's most brutal defeats in World War II, the painting is said to [...] Full Story Top Koran Burning: Can U.S. and Afghan Troops Work Together? Mon,27 Feb 2012 03:50 AM PST Time.com - As the anger over the Koran-burning controversy continued to convulse Afghanistan, another violent incident disrupted how the Kabul government interacts with its Western allies. On Saturday afternoon, a member of the Afghan Interior Ministry opened fire on two U.S. advisers -- a lieut. colonel and a major -- at the ministry's command-and-control center in the capital. The Americans were shot in the back of their heads as they sat at their desks, news reports said. "A countrywide manhunt is under way for the fugitive," Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi told TIME. ... 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 Muslims and Arab Americans in Michigan aren't getting attention from Republican presidential candidates Mon,27 Feb 2012 05:45 AM PST The Ticket - DEARBORN, Mich.--A light snow was falling outside the largest mosque in the country, the Islamic Center of America, as the parking lot filled with worshipers at Friday prayers. Outside, four people passed out flyers in support of Ron Paul, which included Arabic and English translations of Paul's campaign message. "Ron Paul's Plan to Restore America," the [...] Full Story Top U.S. cites "heightened threat"; 9 killed in Afghan airport bomb Mon,27 Feb 2012 01:09 PM PST Reuters - Seven U.S. military trainers were wounded on Sunday when a grenade was thrown at their base in northern Afghanistan, police said, underscoring the depth of anti-Western fury over the inadvertent burning of copies 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 against the desecration of the Muslim holy book last week at the biggest NATO base in Afghanistan. Some protesters hoisted the white Taliban flag. With few signs of the crisis abating, the U.S. ... Full Story Top Scott Walker, Wisconsin governor, braces for recall election, proclaims controversial law is working Mon,27 Feb 2012 04:04 AM PST The Ticket - Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin who is battling an effort to recall him from office, told Yahoo News that his controversial law that ended many collective bargaining rights for public-sector employees and sparked protests from labor unions and their allies one year ago is accomplishing his goal. "You've literally had tens of millions of [...] Full Story Top Tenn. nightclub shooting leaves 1 dead, 19 injured Sun,26 Feb 2012 06:20 PM PST Associated Press - Police in West Tennessee say one man was killed and 19 other people were injured early Sunday when gunmen opened fire in a nightclub. Full Story Top Gloria Allred accidentally reveals her 380-person press list Sun,26 Feb 2012 07:36 PM PST The Cutline - Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred attended an Oscar viewing party at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunday with Ginger White, the woman who alleges she had a 13-year affair with Herman Cain. Allred alerted media of her party plans in an email, but accidentally copied her personal distribution list instead of blind copying them, so that [...] Full Story Top California Schoolgirl's Death in Fight Ruled Homicide Mon,27 Feb 2012 01:19 PM PST ABC News - The death of a 10-year-old Southern California schoolgirl after a fight with another student has been ruled a homicide, the coroner said today. Investigators said Joanna Ramos, a fifth-grader at Willard Elementary School in Long Beach, died from blunt-force trauma to the head. "They did... Full Story Top Chardon High School Shooting: Four Shot, One in Custody Mon,27 Feb 2012 06:06 AM PST Good Morning America - The Ohio High School Went into Lockdown Around 7:45 This Morning Full Story Top 22 tourists robbed in Mexico bus assault Sun,26 Feb 2012 05:05 PM PST Associated Press - Mexican security officials say an armed group has robbed 22 foreign tourists who were traveling by bus near the coastal city of Puerto Vallarta. Full Story Top Crossover voter threat in Michigan? Officials say they're unconcerned Mon,27 Feb 2012 12:41 PM PST The Ticket - DEARBORN, Mich.-- As the state of Michigan prepares for Tuesday's presidential primary, questions remain about whether Democrats could skew the results via crossover voting. The state of Michigan has no party registration requirement, so any registered voter can participate in Tuesday's Republican presidential primary, including Democrats and independents. But select party leaders surveyed by Yahoo [...] Full Story Top Chardon High School Shooting: Gunman Identified as TJ Lane Mon,27 Feb 2012 06:06 AM PST Good Morning America - One Is Dead and Four Are Injured in Chardon High School Shooting Full Story Top Osama bin Laden's Pakistan home is no more Mon,27 Feb 2012 03:35 AM PST Associated Press - Pakistani authorities have reduced the house where Osama bin Laden lived for years before he was killed by U.S. commandos to rubble, destroying a concrete symbol of the country's association with one of the world's most reviled men. Full Story Top Mysterious orbs confound NC county for decades Mon,27 Feb 2012 09:08 AM PST Associated Press - Two orange orbs, just about 10 feet off the ground, floated past Steve Woody and his father as they hunted deer more than 50 years ago. The mysterious lights passed them, then dropped down the side of a gorge in the Blue Ridge foothills. Full Story Top Biker gang fugitive arrested for funeral slaying Sun,26 Feb 2012 08:55 PM PST Reuters - (Reuters) - A Hells Angels member missing since October has been arrested on suspicion of gunning down a fellow member of the notorious biker gang at their local chapter president's funeral, police said. Police tracked Steve Ruiz, 38, to a Days Inn Motel in Fremont, south of San Francisco, where he surrendered and was arrested on Saturday "for his murder warrant," San Jose Police Department spokesman Jason Dwyer said in a statement. Ruiz was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail. ... Full Story Top Long, volatile race tests Mitt Romney's enthusiasm: 'It's a very grueling process,' aide says Mon,27 Feb 2012 07:39 AM PST The Ticket - KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Mitt Romney has long been criticized for being stiff on the campaign stump. But on Friday night, a different Romney showed up at a town hall on the campus of Western Michigan University. Addressing a crowd of a few hundred people, the candidate was loose, jovial and genuinely funny—the man, those closest to him say, [...] Full Story Top 1 killed, 4 wounded in school shooting in Ohio Mon,27 Feb 2012 09:30 AM PST Associated Press - A gunman opened fire inside a high school cafeteria at the start of the school day Monday, killing one student and wounding four others, authorities said. A suspect — believed to be a student — was arrested a short distance away. Full Story Top Students Shot at Ohio High School Mon,27 Feb 2012 06:06 AM PST Good Morning America - At Least Two Student Injured at a High School Near Cleveland Full Story Top Santorum: Romney isn't conservative enough for GOP Sun,26 Feb 2012 06:55 PM PST Associated Press - The question of whether Mitt Romney is conservative enough to deserve the Republican presidential nomination regained center stage in the GOP contest Sunday, with Rick Santorum saying the former Massachusetts governor fails the test. Full Story Top On the economy, personal background, not policy, is the biggest difference between Romney and Santorum: Character Sketch Mon,27 Feb 2012 11:47 AM PST The Ticket - LIVONIA, Mich. -- Making an economic pitch to a Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Monday morning, Rick Santorum said proudly and, yes, oddly: "This is a tax plan that isn't conforming to any school of economics. America has its own destiny. We don't fit into any school." Continuing a stream-of-consciousness riff on his proposal to [...] Full Story Top 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 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 Report: Russia, Ukraine foiled plot to kill Putin Mon,27 Feb 2012 09:53 AM PST Associated Press - Russian and Ukrainian special services have arrested a group of suspects over an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Russia's state television reported Monday. Full Story Top Case of slain socialite in DC takes bizarre turns Mon,27 Feb 2012 03:11 PM PST Associated Press - She was a 91-year-old expatriate journalist with a deep fluency in foreign affairs and a taste for fashion and art. Her husband, German-born and four decades her junior, boasted of wide-reaching connections in international circles, claimed to be an Iraqi army brigadier general and strolled the neighborhood in a military-style uniform while puffing cigars. Full Story Top Bill Clinton, Kohl, EU among 231 Nobel candidates Mon,27 Feb 2012 07:04 AM PST AFP - A total of 231 nominees are up for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the Nobel Institute said Monday, with Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, the EU and WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning known to be on the list. Full Story Top

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