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Today's Most Popular News Headlines - Yahoo! News: How to remove your Google Web Data History Amazing time-lapse video captures the night sky Mayan Light Beam Photo: Message from Gods, or iPhone Glitch? President Obama Suggests Romney Shoveling 'A Load of You-Know-What' Fighting drugs and border violence at Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: What about the ranger's M14 rifle, Yogi? Chardon High School Shooting: Second Student Dies as Alleged Gunman Is Identified Are Rich People Unethical? Apps for Apes: Orangutans using iPads to paint and video chat with other apes Update: Banker's Insulting Waitress Tip Is a Hoax Banker's 1% Tip is a Hoax; Real Receipt Obtained Wyoming legislator David Miller introduces "doomsday" bill The top 5 ways Republicans will use Obama's words against him Banker's Insulting Waitress Tip Incites Class Warfare Between the 1% and the 99% Gay Marine's homecoming kiss goes viral Ohio School Shooting Death Toll Rises to Three Israel Probably Won't Tell the U.S. If It's Going to Attack Iran As Republican nomination extends into March, candidates face weakening odds in general election Prosecutor: School shooter chose random victims China to soften its one-child policy slogans, but not the law itself Investigators may have discovered earliest evidence of Christian iconography in Jerusalem Secret meeting leads to Kid Rock jam session at Romney rally Adolf Hitler's long-lost collection of paintings discovered Ohio School Shooting: Second Victim Brain Dead, Questions About Shooter Recreational marijuana measure to be put to voters McCain at Romney victory party, GOP primary the 'most negative campaign' he has witnessed: Scenes from the Michigan and Arizona primaries FedEx truck hits NY Amish buggy; adults, kids hurt Dow closes above 13,000, first time since crisis Day of reckoning, "dirty tricks" as Michigan votes Kinect-enabled carts coming to a Whole Foods near you? 2 dating websites sued over soldier's photo in ads Ohio shooting suspect's family 'devastated' Muslims and Arab Americans in Michigan aren't getting attention from Republican presidential candidates People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say Woman in iconic tsunami photo looks to future 'Band of Brothers' soldier dies at 90 in Wash. California Schoolgirl's Death in Fight Ruled Homicide Obama gains with women: Jobs, social issues help The curious case of the missing iPad 3 home button Why Americans Are Paying More At the Pump Obama rebukes Santorum on education 'snob' charge, points to policy on community colleges, worker training 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 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 Mayan Light Beam Photo: Message from Gods, or iPhone Glitch? Tue,28 Feb 2012 06:54 AM PST LiveScience.com - When Hector Siliezar visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza with his wife and kids in 2009, he snapped three iPhone photos of El Castillo, a pyramid that once served as a sacred temple to the Mayan god Kukulkan. A thunderstorm was brewing near the temple, and Siliezar was trying to capture lightning crackling dramatically over the ruins. Full Story Top President Obama Suggests Romney Shoveling 'A Load of You-Know-What' Tue,28 Feb 2012 09:16 AM PST ABC News - As Michigan Republicans headed to the polls Tuesday morning, President Obama delivered an aggressive defense of the bailout of the auto industry and his presidency in general, harshly criticizing GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney – though he never mentioned him by name. "I've got to admit,... Full Story Top Fighting drugs and border violence at Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: What about the ranger's M14 rifle, Yogi? Tue,28 Feb 2012 05:23 AM PST The Ticket - ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. -- On a hot desert morning last week, a group of 20 tourists gathered in the visitor center in Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to attend a mandatory safety briefing before taking a guarded van tour to Quitobaquito springs. The springs is part of the 69 percent of the [...] Full Story Top Chardon High School Shooting: Second Student Dies as Alleged Gunman Is Identified Mon,27 Feb 2012 06:06 AM PST Good Morning America - Two Dead and Three Are Injured in Chardon High School Shooting Full Story Top Are Rich People Unethical? Mon,27 Feb 2012 02:49 PM PST ABC News - At last, an explanation for Wall Street's disgrace, Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme and other high-society crimes and misdemeanors:  A  new study published in the Proceedings of that National Academy of Sciences found that wealthier people  were more apt to behave  unethically than those who had less money.... Full Story Top Apps for Apes: Orangutans using iPads to paint and video chat with other apes Tue,28 Feb 2012 09:44 AM PST The Sideshow - Orangutans across the world may soon join the ranks of millions of humans as proud owners of new iPads. As strange as that may sound, a conservation group is testing  its "Apps for Apes" program, allowing orangutans to communicate with each other remotely via the iPad's video chat technology. Orangutan Outreach founder Richard Zimmerman has [...] Full Story Top Update: Banker's Insulting Waitress Tip Is a Hoax Tue,28 Feb 2012 08:55 AM PST Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow us on Twitter @Knowlesitall. UPDATE: Trending Now spoke with True Food Kitchen and they sent us an exclusive copy of the original receipt, which you can see below. Yesterday we reported a story about a banker who allegedly left a $1.33 tip on a $133 lunch bill at True Food Kitchen [...] Full Story Top Banker's 1% Tip is a Hoax; Real Receipt Obtained Tue,28 Feb 2012 11:58 AM PST Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow us on Twitter @YahooTrending Yesterday we reported a story about a banker who allegedly left a $1.33 tip on a $133 lunch bill at True Food Kitchen in Newport Beach, California. In addition, he added a 'tip' to "get a real job." It was meant to be a dig from [...] Full Story Top Wyoming legislator David Miller introduces "doomsday" bill Tue,28 Feb 2012 09:18 AM PST The Sideshow - Wyoming Republican state legislator David Miller has introduced a bill to prepare his state for a doomsday scenario in which the nation's economy and social structure completely collapse. "Things happen quickly sometimes — look at Libya, look at Egypt, look at those situations," Miller told the Star-Tribune. "We wouldn't have time to meet as a [...] Full Story Top The top 5 ways Republicans will use Obama's words against him Tue,28 Feb 2012 03:22 AM PST Power Players - Spinners and Winners A few weeks ago Spinners and Winners went through the top five things Mitt Romney has said that Democrats would use against him if he wins the Republican nomination. Now the flip side: The top five things from Barack Obama you can be sure Republicans will use over and over again in [...] Full Story Top 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. UPDATE: According to The Smoking Gun, the restaurant says they found the original merchant copy, and the receipt going around the Web is Photoshopped. You can see our update on the story here. Just when you may have thought the ongoing battle between the 99% and [...] 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 Ohio School Shooting Death Toll Rises to Three Tue,28 Feb 2012 06:25 AM PST Good Morning America - Alleged Shooter TJ Lane is Expected to Make His First Court Appearance Today Full Story Top Israel Probably Won't Tell the U.S. If It's Going to Attack Iran Tue,28 Feb 2012 04:03 AM PST The Atlantic Wire - Israeli officials have reportedly let it be known that they won't give their United States counterparts a heads up if the country decides to launch an airstrike against Iran. According to the Associated Press, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told this fact to every American official coming to Israeli hoping to talk them out of a pre-emptive strike of Iranian nuclear facilities. Officials say it's for the U.S.'s own good, since if they don't know about the strike in advance, they can't be blamed for failing to stop it. ... Full Story Top As Republican nomination extends into March, candidates face weakening odds in general election Tue,28 Feb 2012 07:23 AM PST The Signal - The longer-than-expected Republican primary has given many more voters a chance to meet the candidates and cast ballots in meaningful elections, but it has caused some in the party to worry that it is weakening the eventual winner in his confrontation with President Obama. Mitt Romney is still the heavy favorite to win the nomination, with [...] Full Story Top Prosecutor: School shooter chose random victims Tue,28 Feb 2012 01:47 PM PST Associated Press - The teenage suspect in a school shooting that killed three students and wounded two didn't know his victims and chose them randomly, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Full Story Top China to soften its one-child policy slogans, but not the law itself Tue,28 Feb 2012 12:07 PM PST The Sideshow - The Chinese government isn't getting rid of its one-child policy currently in place. It's just making it sound better. China's communist party newspaper, People's Daily, reports that the government will revamp its abrasive-sounding slogans surrounding the policy. People's Daily cites several examples of "harsh slogans," including those "which sometimes even threaten criminal acts." The newly [...] Full Story Top Investigators may have discovered earliest evidence of Christian iconography in Jerusalem Tue,28 Feb 2012 03:17 PM PST The Sideshow - Investigators using a robotic arm equipped with a remote-controlled camera have discovered what is being called the earliest evidence of Christian iconography in Jerusalem. The newly discovered ossuary carries a Greek inscription calling on God to "raise up" someone, which is being interpreted as an early reference to the biblical resurrection of Jesus. A second [...] Full Story Top Secret meeting leads to Kid Rock jam session at Romney rally Mon,27 Feb 2012 06:47 PM PST ABC News - It had all the fixings of a Mitt Romney rally, and then Kid Rock hit the stage. On the eve of the Michigan primary, musician Kid Rock sang a live version of "Born Free," the official campaign song of the Romney... 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 Ohio School Shooting: Second Victim Brain Dead, Questions About Shooter Tue,28 Feb 2012 06:25 AM PST Good Morning America - Alleged Shooter TJ Lane is Expected to Make His First Court Appearance Today Full Story Top Recreational marijuana measure to be put to voters Mon,27 Feb 2012 07:45 PM PST Reuters - DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado voters will be asked to decide whether to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in a November ballot measure, setting up a potential showdown with the federal government over America's most commonly used illicit drug. The measure, which would legalize possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults, is one of two that will go to voters in November after a Washington state initiative to legalize pot earned enough signatures last month to qualify for the ballot there. ... Full Story Top McCain at Romney victory party, GOP primary the 'most negative campaign' he has witnessed: Scenes from the Michigan and Arizona primaries Tue,28 Feb 2012 04:57 PM PST The Ticket - PHOENIX, AZ--Senator John McCain told reporters at Mitt Romney's victory party in Phoenix that the 2012 Republican primary is the "most negative campaign I have ever observed in my career," and expressed hope that Romney would tie up the nomination as soon as possible. Surrounded by about a dozen reporters outside the Hyatt Regency ballroom, [...] Full Story Top FedEx truck hits NY Amish buggy; adults, kids hurt Tue,28 Feb 2012 08:52 AM PST Associated Press - Authorities say two young Amish children are in critical condition after their horse-drawn buggy was rear-ended by a FedEx truck on a northern New York road. Full Story Top Dow closes above 13,000, first time since crisis Tue,28 Feb 2012 04:42 PM PST Associated Press - The Dow Jones industrial average rode a surge of confidence in the economy Tuesday to close above 13,000, a threshold it last crossed four months before the financial crisis of 2008 and the darkest days of the Great Recession. Full Story Top Day of reckoning, "dirty tricks" as Michigan votes Tue,28 Feb 2012 02:28 PM PST Reuters - SOUTHFIELD/GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (Reuters) - Mitt Romney condemned rival Rick Santorum for urging Democrats to vote against him and "kidnap" the Michigan Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, as voters determined whether Romney would get a big win or a humiliating defeat. Santorum, running neck-and-neck with Romney in opinion polls, is trying to snatch an upset win in his rival's home state, where the Republican primary is open to both parties. ... Full Story Top Kinect-enabled carts coming to a Whole Foods near you? Tue,28 Feb 2012 10:52 AM PST Technology News Blog - The Kinect motion-sensing game peripheral is a lot of fun when it comes to family-friendly entertainment. But Whole Foods, in connection with a third-party developer, believes that Kinect may be the future of shopping. The Kinect-enabled shopping cart experience begins with you scanning … Continue reading → Full Story Top 2 dating websites sued over soldier's photo in ads Tue,28 Feb 2012 05:17 AM PST Associated Press - The picture of a handsome, uniformed soldier accompanying online ads that proclaim "Military Man Searching for Love" is an Army lieutenant who was killed in Iraq in 2007, according to a lawsuit filed by his parents Monday against two dating websites. Full Story Top Ohio shooting suspect's family 'devastated' Mon,27 Feb 2012 10:10 PM PST Associated Press - The family of a teenager suspected of opening fire in the cafeteria of a suburban Cleveland high school, killing one student and wounding four others, says it is "devastated" by the shootings. 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 People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say Tue,28 Feb 2012 10:56 AM PST LiveScience.com - The democratic process relies on the assumption that citizens (the majority of them, at least) can recognize the best political candidate, or best policy idea, when they see it. But a growing body of research has revealed an unfortunate aspect of the human psyche that would seem to disprove this notion, and imply instead that democratic elections produce mediocre leadership and policies. Full Story Top Woman in iconic tsunami photo looks to future Tue,28 Feb 2012 04:59 AM PST Reuters - ISHINOMAKI, Japan (Reuters) - The young Japanese woman clutches a beige blanket tight around her shoulders as she stares into the distance. Behind her hulks twisted metal and splintered wood left by the tsunami that devastated Ishinomaki, her hometown. The photograph, taken by Tadashi Okubo at the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, was picked up by Reuters and other agencies around the world, becoming an iconic image of the March 11 disaster that killed 20,000 people. The woman's name is Yuko Sugimoto. She is now 29 years old. When the photo was taken, around 7 a.m. ... Full Story Top 'Band of Brothers' soldier dies at 90 in Wash. Tue,28 Feb 2012 10:49 AM PST Associated Press - Lynn D. "Buck" Compton, a veteran whose World War II exploits were depicted in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers," has died, his family said. 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 Obama gains with women: Jobs, social issues help Tue,28 Feb 2012 07:40 AM PST Associated Press - It's looking like President Barack Obama may be back in the good graces of women. Full Story Top The curious case of the missing iPad 3 home button Tue,28 Feb 2012 11:59 AM PST CNET.com - Apple's unleashed its invite for a special event next week that will undoubtedly bring the next iPad, but there's something missing. 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 Obama rebukes Santorum on education 'snob' charge, points to policy on community colleges, worker training Mon,27 Feb 2012 03:56 PM PST The Ticket - The White House on Monday rolled out a "no-drama" response to Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum's charge that Barack Obama is a "snob" intent on pushing "everybody in America" to go to college. By the superheated standards of recent election-year Republican attacks on the president — they've called him a socialist waging war on organized [...] Full Story Top

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