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Another 'Heart Attack Grill' customer collapses while eating 'bypass burger'
Tue,24 Apr 2012 12:16 PM PDT
The Sideshow - No one can accuse The Heart Attack Grill of false advertising. A woman collapsed into unconsciousness at the Las Vegas restaurant while eating a "double bypass burger," drinking a margarita and smoking a cigarette. The unnamed customer was the second in just over two months to collapse at the restaurant while eating one of the [...] Full Story
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Obama picture with student at Colorado bar goes viral
Wed,25 Apr 2012 12:03 PM PDT
The Upshot - When University of Colorado student Madalyn Starkey posed for a picture with President Barack Obama, she had no idea the hilarious image would go viral. While traveling through Colorado on Tuesday, Obama stopped in at a local pub known as the Sink. In the photograph, Obama is grinning with his arm around Starkey while the [...] Full Story
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Marines discharge sergeant for Facebook posts
Wed,25 Apr 2012 02:38 PM PDT
Associated Press -

FILE - In this April 13,2012 file photo Marine Sgt. Gary Stein speaks with reporters in front of the federal court building in San Diego. The Marine Corps has decided to discharge the sergeant for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook. The Corps said Wednesday, April 25, 2012, that Sgt. Stein will be given an other than honorable discharge for violating Pentagon policy limiting speech of service members. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull,File)A sergeant will be discharged for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook in a case that called into question the Pentagon's policies about social media and its limits on the speech of active duty military personnel, the Marine Corps said Wednesday.


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Florida man mistakes girlfriend for hog, shoots her
Tue,24 Apr 2012 02:19 PM PDT
The Sideshow - A Florida couple was on a weekend camping trip that ended in an airlift to the emergency room. Steven Egan, 52, was hunting with his girlfriend, Lisa Simmons, in the northern part of the state when he mistook her for a hog and shot her. "He saw a hog and thought he shot it and [...] Full Story
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N. Korea: 'Mobile weapons' capable of striking US
Tue,24 Apr 2012 09:52 PM PDT
Associated Press - A senior North Korean army official says his country is armed with "powerful mobile weapons" capable of striking America. Full Story
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Staying put in Arizona after the immigration law: Not all undocumented immigrants joined the exodus
Tue,24 Apr 2012 04:53 PM PDT
The Lookout - Erika Andiola still remembers the day Arizona's tough anti-illegal immigration bill, known as SB1070, passed. She had been protesting outside the state capitol for days, sleeping on the ground and fasting, when the word spread through the crowd. She got a call from her mother, who, like Andiola, is undocumented. She told her daughter not [...] Full Story
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In Arizona immigration case, Supreme Court justices cast doubt on government's argument
Wed,25 Apr 2012 12:11 AM PDT
The Lookout - It was a tough day for U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, who argued on behalf of the government against Arizona's stringent anti-illegal immigration law at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The justices seemed deeply skeptical of the government's contention that Arizona cannot require police officers to ask about immigration status during routine stops. But, even [...] Full Story
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Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores
Tue,24 Apr 2012 10:46 PM PDT
The Daily Caller - A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district member of Congress. But now it's attracting barbs from farm kids themselves. Full Story
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N.Y. Mom Fired After Donating Kidney to Help Her Boss
Mon,23 Apr 2012 09:23 AM PDT
Good Morning America -

N.Y. Mom Fired After Donating Kidney to Help Her BossGiving a Kidney Helped Her Boss Move Higher on the Organ Donor List


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Once Obama's, younger voters in play this election
Wed,25 Apr 2012 12:18 AM PDT
Associated Press -

President Barack Obama greets students at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colo., on Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Obama spoke about student loans. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)Once thought to be solidly behind President Barack Obama, younger voters burdened by a bleak employment picture, high gas prices and student loan debt are being aggressively wooed by the Democrat and his likely Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.


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Madeleine McCann Investigation: 'Best Opportunity' Yet to Find Missing Girl, Says Detective Leading Review
Wed,25 Apr 2012 02:43 AM PDT
Good Morning America -

Madeleine McCann Investigation: 'Best Opportunity' Yet to Find Missing Girl, Says Detective Leading ReviewNew age Progression Image Shows Missing Girl at Nine; Police Make Appeal


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Whale found dead in Wash. had swallowed golf ball
Wed,25 Apr 2012 01:51 AM PDT
Associated Press -

This photo provided by Cascadia Research, biologists and volunteers examine a dead gray whale on April 23, 2012 at Camano Island, Wash. The initial exam found no trauma or obvious cause of death. The whale had swallowed some debris, including a golf ball, but it wasnít enough to kill the 37-foot male. The garbage was minimal and not the cause of death, which remains under investigation with tissue tests, said spokesman Brian Gorman. It's common for whales to pick up debris near urban areas because they are filter feeders. There were no signs of trauma or entanglement on the whale, he said. (AP Photo/Cascadia Research)A gray whale found dead in Washington state's Puget Sound had been feeding on shrimp and also had some debris, including a golf ball, in its stomach, but scientists don't know what killed the animal.


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The Yahoo News election outlook: 100 electoral votes will decide contest
Wed,25 Apr 2012 06:41 AM PDT
The Ticket - Economic growth may be stagnating, high-dollar donors may be harder to woo than they were four years ago, and Mitt Romney may be narrowing the gap in public-opinion polls, but President Barack Obama has one key thing going for him at the outset of this general election season: a significant advantage in the battle for 270 electoral votes. Full Story
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Dogs get $5,000 wedding with all the amenities
Tue,24 Apr 2012 10:10 AM PDT
The Sideshow - In this canine love story, ring around the collar was the intended effect. Scruffy Rubin and Snickers Carter had a wedding many couples dream of, featuring 100 guests, a wedding cake, open bar, receptionist and even security. But while the newlyweds are reportedly happy together, that are not actually human. The Desert Sun reports that [...] Full Story
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Rodney King reflects on an up-down life since riot
Wed,25 Apr 2012 01:12 AM PDT
Associated Press -

FILE - This March 31, 1991 frame from a video tape shot by George Holliday from his apartment in a suburb of Los Angeles shows what appears to be a group of police officers beating a man with nightsticks and kicking him as other officers look on. The April 29, 1992 acquittal of four police officers in the beating sparked rioting that spread across the city and into neighboring suburbs. Cars were demolished and homes and businesses were burned. Before order was restored, 55 people were dead, 2,300 injured and more than 1,500 buildings were damaged or destroyed. (AP Photo/George Holliday/Courtesy of KTLA Los Angeles)We saw his face a bloody, pulpy mess. And in 1992, when the four Los Angeles police officers who beat him after a traffic stop were acquitted, it touched off anger that affected an entire generation. Now, 20 years later, this is the face of Rodney King, and this is what has happened to him in the interim.


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'Justice for Trayvon': Alabama Man in Critical Condition After Mob Beating
Mon,23 Apr 2012 10:32 PM PDT
The Blaze -

"Racial comments from both sides may have made the confrontations more toxic."

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Mia Love: black, conservative, Mormon, GOP House candidate from Utah
Tue,24 Apr 2012 10:55 AM PDT
The Ticket - Amid the crowded field of House candidates across the country in 2012, expect to hear a lot about Mia Love, a Republican who is an African American and a Mormon and who on Saturday defeated a handful of rivals to clinch the party nomination in the campaign for Utah's fourth congressional district. Love is preparing to [...] Full Story
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Feds: Crooked TSA Screeners Arrested in Drug Trafficking Scheme
Wed,25 Apr 2012 12:43 PM PDT
ABC News -

Feds: Crooked TSA Screeners Arrested in Drug Trafficking SchemeFour Current, Former Screeners Got Thousands To Watch Drugs Slip Through Security, Feds Say


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Top vet rushes to soothe mad cow fears
Wed,25 Apr 2012 03:59 AM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hours after confirming to reporters that the United States had found its fourth-ever case of mad cow disease, John Clifford was ready to answer the world's questions about the safety of U.S. beef. Clifford, the government's chief veterinary officer at the agriculture department, had quickly called his counterparts in Mexico and Canada, the first and second-largest buyers of U.S. beef, to tell them about a California cow found to have an "atypical" type of the brain-wasting disease. Having taken up his post in May 2004, just six months after the first U.S. ... Full Story
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Fox News 'Mole' served with search warrant; laptop, iPhone seized
Wed,25 Apr 2012 09:22 AM PDT
The Cutline - Joe Muto, the former Fox News associate-producer-turned-infamous-"Fox Mole," was served with a search warrant by police early Wednesday. Investigators seized his laptop, Muto said. "I just got search warranted at 6:30 a.m. by a very polite crew from the DA's office," Muto tweeted. "Took my iPhone, laptop, some old notebooks." Gawker published several columns by [...] Full Story
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Egypt's Most Popular Comedian, Adel Imam, Guilty of Insulting Islam
Wed,25 Apr 2012 08:27 AM PDT
ABC News -

Egypt's Most Popular Comedian, Adel Imam, Guilty of Insulting IslamThe verdict of a popular Egyptian comedian convicted of offending Islam has been upheld by a Cairo court, raising fears among Egyptian liberals and secularists about the Islamic tide rising since the downfall of former President Hosni Mubarak last year Imam, one of the Arab...


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Ohio man's fossil find in Kentucky stumps experts
Wed,25 Apr 2012 10:17 AM PDT
Associated Press -

In this April 20, 2012, photo, amateur paleontologist Ron Fine, of Dayton, Ohio, discusses the fossil he discovered with Carl Brett, center, and David Meyer, professors of Geology at the University of Cincinnati, at Caster Library on the campus in Cincinnati. Experts in the U.S. are trying to figure out what the 450 million-year-old fossil dubbed Experts are trying to figure out what a fossil dubbed "Godzillus" used to be.


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Donald Trump demands Scotland nix wind turbines
Wed,25 Apr 2012 12:08 PM PDT
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In this photo released by the Scottish Parliament dated Wednesday April 25, 2012, US business magnate Donald Trump gives evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Economy Energy and Tourism Committee in Edinburgh, Scotland. Members of the committee are looking at how achievable the Scottish Government's green energy targets for 2020 are, with the meeting focusing on the impact the renewables industry could have on tourism and local communities. (AP Photo/Andrew Cowan/Scottish Parliament)He came, he saw, he blustered.


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First Lady Says Election Could Hinge on 'Few Thousand Folks'
Tue,24 Apr 2012 05:32 PM PDT
ABC OTUS News - Seeking to build a sense of urgency for November, First Lady Michelle Obama told a group of 400 campaign supporters in Iowa today that the election could come down to only a "few thousand folks." "I just want you to remember that in the end,... Full Story
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Mysterious Objects Punching Holes In Weird Saturn Ring
Wed,25 Apr 2012 04:22 AM PDT
SPACE.com - Mysterious objects appear to be doing some damage to Saturn's "weirdest ring," scientists say. Full Story
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Colbert Raises More Than PAC Backing Ron Paul
Wed,25 Apr 2012 10:36 AM PDT
ABC OTUS News -

Colbert Raises More Than PAC Backing Ron PaulStephen Colbert's political action committee has enough cash to play jokes and pull pranks through the presidential campaign,  but for now the comedian is mum on how he plans to spend that money. Colbert's Super PAC, Americans for A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow has $794,000 cash-on-hand...


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Supreme Court Set to Hear Challenge to Arizona's Immigration Law
Wed,25 Apr 2012 03:01 AM PDT
ABC OTUS News - Less than a month after hearing a challenge to the controversial Obama health care law brought by 26 states, the Supreme Court today will explore the relationship between the federal government and the states on another hot-button issue: immigration. At issue is S.B. 1070 —... Full Story
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Y! Big Story: What an e-book might really cost, for all of us
Tue,24 Apr 2012 04:47 PM PDT
Trending Now - Just why are e-books so expensive, and should they be? The knee-jerk answer to the second question is of course not. Does it make sense to pay a higher price for a digital title than for its print counterpart, especially after factoring in the cost of an e-book reader? (Tangential aside: Purchasing an e-book reader [...] Full Story
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Ex-spy: Destroying CIA tapes purged 'ugly visuals'
Tue,24 Apr 2012 03:17 PM PDT
Associated Press -

This undated handout photo provided by the CIA shows Jose Rodriguez. In a new book, the retired CIA officer who ordered the destruction of interrogation videos says he was tired of waiting for Washington's bureaucracy to make a decision that protected American lives. The tapes, filmed in a secret CIA prison in Thailand, showed the waterboarding of terrorists Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abd al-Nashiri. In his book, The retired top CIA officer who ordered the destruction of videos showing waterboarding says in a new book that he was tired of waiting for Washington's bureaucracy to make a decision that protected American lives.


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Pizza Hut unveils cheeseburger crusted pizza
Tue,24 Apr 2012 04:18 PM PDT
The Sideshow - Not content to shock customers with its hot dog stuffed crust fare, Pizza Hut has just unveiled two new decidedly odd pizza creations, including one surrounded by mini cheeseburgers. What's arguably most interesting about the pizza mashups (there's also one featuring chicken fingers) is that none of them are currently being offered in the U.S. [...] Full Story
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July 9: Doomsday for Your PC or Mac If It Has This Malware
Tue,24 Apr 2012 09:05 AM PDT
Mashable - There's a trojan out there that tricks computers -- both PCs and Macs -- into redirecting all their Internet traffic through malicious servers. Even though the trojan's creators have been stopped and arrested, millions of PCs could still be infected. For those machines, the Internet will cease to exist on July 9. Full Story
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Hugh Hefner declares war on bedroom politics
Tue,24 Apr 2012 05:44 AM PDT
The Lookout - Hugh Hefner is ready for war—not against his former wives or girlfriends, but against conservative politicians who he says are thrusting their viewpoints into other people's bedrooms. In a rare move, the founder of Playboy magazine picks up his pen and writes an editorial in the May issue of the men's magazine. The politics website [...] Full Story
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Obama on Fallon: POTUS 'slow jams' the news (VIDEO)
Wed,25 Apr 2012 05:36 AM PDT
The Ticket - President Barack Obama appeared on Tuesday's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," which taped at the Univ. of North Carolina where the "POTUS with the most-us"--as a member of the Fallon's house band, the Roots, called him--was courting the youth vote. Obama sat for the standard late-night interview ("A couple of knuckleheads shouldn't detract from what [...] Full Story
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Can world's 'most threatened' tribe be saved?
Wed,25 Apr 2012 08:00 AM PDT
LiveScience.com - A new international campaign hopes to save a group of people who have been dubbed "the most threatened tribe in the world" — the Awá tribe of Brazil — from encroaching outsiders who are gobbling up their land. Full Story
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New Saturn video created from Voyager and Cassini spacecraft images
Wed,25 Apr 2012 09:44 AM PDT
The Sideshow - Netherlands-based director Sander van den Berg has taken images from NASA's Cassini orbiter and Voyager spacecraft to create an amazing new video of Saturn entitled "Outer Space." At first, the compilation of images looks like relatively simple computer-generated imagery of the gas giant. But the images become awe-inspiring when you realize they are all actual [...] Full Story
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How To Get Free Wi-Fi Almost Anywhere
Wed,25 Apr 2012 10:55 AM PDT
Upgrade Your Life - You work in your car; you practically live in it. And when you need to maximize the mobile office otherwise known as the front seat, sometimes you need to access Wi-Fi without schlepping all your papers and gear into a cafe. But how can you tap into the best signal from the parking lot? Plenty [...] Full Story
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Watchdog: Pentagon Buys Weapons Backwards
Tue,24 Apr 2012 05:00 PM PDT
ABC News -

Watchdog: Pentagon Buys Weapons BackwardsThe federal agency charged with catching U.S. government waste said in a new report that the Pentagon has squandered millions in taxpayer dollars on expensive and complex weapons systems by spending first and asking questions later. The new report, prepared by the Government Accountability Office...


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Romney shifts focus to Obama, vowing to unveil a 'better America' if elected
Tue,24 Apr 2012 04:20 PM PDT
The Ticket - Click image to see more photos. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) MANCHESTER, N.H--Coming off a clean sweep of all five primaries up for grabs Tuesday, including Pennsylvania and New York, Mitt Romney kicked off his general election pitch, insisting the upcoming campaign will be about the "very different visions" he and President Obama have for the country. [...] Full Story
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Salton Sea: Is it drying up?
Wed,25 Apr 2012 02:55 PM PDT
The Upshot - The once-thriving sea in southeastern California that was a resort mecca is in danger of becoming an environmental disaster. Interest in the water body, along with a BBC report, caused searches on "Salton Sea" to surge on the Web. The inland sea, close to Coachella, which may have caught the eye of festival attendees, stretches [...] Full Story
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White House party crasher Tareq Salahi running for Virginia governor
Wed,25 Apr 2012 10:39 AM PDT
The Upshot - Former "Real Housewives of D.C." star and alleged White House party crasher Tareq Salahi announced he is running for governor of Virginia. "As a Virginia native for the last 42 years, I am troubled to see how our current political figure heads continue to waste tax payer dollars during these difficult economic times!" Salahi said [...] Full Story
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