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Today's Most Popular News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Frog relaxes, world goes wild (VIDEO) Parents' Bucket List for Dying Baby Girl Goes Viral Mo. woman wins $5.8M in 'Girls Gone Wild' case L.A. riots: Good Samaritan remembers his scary truck-driver rescue KFC ordered to pay $8.3 million to Australian girl New US Stealth Fighters Now at Iran's Back Door Sheriff: Body found in Wash. mountain bunker Virginia Woman Wins $1 Million Lottery Twice in the Same Day Y! Big Story: What the brain tells us University of Pennsylvania Dean Faked PhD Okla. Blind Dog Gets New Life with Canine Pal Odds of Finding Alien Life Boosted by Billions of Habitable Worlds Obama flashing executive power in election year Secret Service Agent at Heart of Scandal Identified 5 Mind-Bending Facts About Dreams Romney urges young people to take economic risks Obama Cracks Down On For-Profit Schools That Prey On Veterans Maine's GOP governor calls state workers 'corrupt' Judge wants to know more about Zimmerman finances Iranian naval admiral: 'If needed, we can move to within three miles of New York' High court's stance could spur immigration laws Child migrant surge to US stresses support system Israeli ex-intel chief slams PM's Iran stance Israel ex-spy warns against "messianic" war on Iran Fla. boy struck by SUV, killed at softball game Obama picture with student at Colorado bar goes viral Nugent says he's insulted by concert cancellation High tech survival tools Obama to single men: Look for superior genes Moderate earthquake shakes Southern California Obama, Romney tweak strategies for tight race this fall Obama Warns Women That Romney, GOP Will 'Close Doors of Opportunity' 'Best Job in World' Winner Dishes on New Life Chaperones among new Secret Service conduct rules Music fans hanker for Ray Charles hologram: poll Al Sharpton, Trayvon Martin family urge peace on 20th anniversary of L.A. race riots Obama Removes All Dignity from the Office of President Bomb defused in Northern Ireland would have caused devastation Police blow Wash. mountain bunker, find man dead US officials: Core al-Qaida 'essentially gone' Frog relaxes, world goes wild (VIDEO) Thu,26 Apr 2012 02:13 PM PDT The Sideshow - Frogs have a reputation for being kinetic creatures. Hoping from lily pad to lily pad, searching for flies. But sometimes, an amphibian just needs to relax. [ Related: Purina Animal All Stars ] Take this at-ease froggy, for example. She was caught on video while sitting on the edge of a deck, long legs hanging [...] Full Story Top Parents' Bucket List for Dying Baby Girl Goes Viral Fri,27 Apr 2012 11:01 AM PDT ABC News Blogs - On Good Friday at around 3:30 p.m., Laura and Mike Canahuati of Houston got a call from a neurologist confirming their worst fear. The tests results showed their 5-month old daughter Avery has a rare and incurable genetic disorder. Avery was diagnosed with spinal muscular... Full Story Top Mo. woman wins $5.8M in 'Girls Gone Wild' case Fri,27 Apr 2012 01:22 PM PDT Associated Press - The company that makes "Girls Gone Wild" DVDs is seeking to overturn a verdict awarding nearly $6 million to a St. Louis-area woman who claims her bare breasts were recorded without permission. Full Story Top L.A. riots: Good Samaritan remembers his scary truck-driver rescue Sat,28 Apr 2012 03:52 AM PDT The Lookout - In one of the most disturbing images from the Los Angeles riots, six black assailants dragged Reginald Denny, a 33-year-old truck driver, out of his truck in South Los Angeles and bashed his head in with a brick. A television chopper broadcast the violence live. The attack happened shortly after not-guilty verdicts were handed down [...] Full Story Top KFC ordered to pay $8.3 million to Australian girl Thu,26 Apr 2012 11:27 PM PDT AFP - Fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken has been ordered to pay Aus$8 million (US$8.3 million) to an Australian girl who suffered severe brain damage and was paralysed after eating a Twister wrap. Full Story Top New US Stealth Fighters Now at Iran's Back Door Fri,27 Apr 2012 07:29 AM PDT ABC News - F-22 Raptors Reportedly in UAE; Air Force Stresses 'Very Normal,' Non-Threatening Deployment Full Story Top Sheriff: Body found in Wash. mountain bunker Sat,28 Apr 2012 02:16 PM PDT Associated Press - After a nearly 23-hour standoff, police blew up the top of an elaborate bunker in the Cascade Mountains on Saturday and found the body of a man inside — believed to be that of a survivalist wanted in the deaths of his wife and daughter last weekend. Full Story Top Virginia Woman Wins $1 Million Lottery Twice in the Same Day Mon,23 Apr 2012 09:07 AM PDT Good Morning America - Virginia Fike Bought Two Powerball Tickets and Won $1 Million for Each Full Story Top Y! Big Story: What the brain tells us Fri,27 Apr 2012 05:05 PM PDT Trending Now - In the past 20 years, neuroscience, buoyed by advances in imaging technology—namely, functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI—has been giving us a cranial roadmap into our behavior, extreme and otherwise. As the technology keeps improving at a dramatic pace, so can the development of treatments for diseases, some of which couldn't even be diagnosed until [...] Full Story Top University of Pennsylvania Dean Faked PhD Fri,27 Apr 2012 10:37 AM PDT ABC News - University of Pennsylvania Let Dean with Bogus PhD Keep Working Full Story Top Okla. Blind Dog Gets New Life with Canine Pal Fri,27 Apr 2012 11:53 AM PDT ABC News Blogs - Putting two dogs of different breeds and from different backgrounds together in a confined space will usually end up in a lot of bark and likely some bite.  Rarely does that pairing end up in the two pooches becoming an inseparable pair. That latter, more... Full Story Top Odds of Finding Alien Life Boosted by Billions of Habitable Worlds Sat,28 Apr 2012 05:24 AM PDT SPACE.com - A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common type of stars in our galaxy could have huge consequences for the search for life. Full Story Top Obama flashing executive power in election year Sat,28 Apr 2012 06:38 AM PDT Associated Press - President Barack Obama, flashing his executive power in an election year, is promoting measures to safeguard veterans and members of the military against unscrupulous college recruiters. Full Story Top Secret Service Agent at Heart of Scandal Identified Sat,28 Apr 2012 07:17 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Arthur Huntington is the Secret Service agent who allegedly started the dispute over pay with the escort in Colombia, and the scandal has cost him his job and forced his family to move.  Full Story Top 5 Mind-Bending Facts About Dreams Sat,28 Apr 2012 07:50 AM PDT LiveScience.com - When your head hits the pillow, for many it's lights out for the conscious part of you. But the cells firing in your brain are very much awake, sparking enough energy to produce the sometimes vivid and sometimes downright haunted dreams that take place during the rapid-eye-movement stage of your sleep. Full Story Top Romney urges young people to take economic risks Fri,27 Apr 2012 06:46 PM PDT Associated Press - Mitt Romney on Friday encouraged young Americans facing bleak job prospects to "take risks" — and even borrow money from their parents — to help improve their economic fortunes. Full Story Top Obama Cracks Down On For-Profit Schools That Prey On Veterans Fri,27 Apr 2012 04:42 PM PDT ABC OTUS News - In front of thousands of service members, President Obama today signed an executive order aimed at protecting veterans from for-profit educational institutions trying to "swindle" and "hoodwink" them instead of providing the education they deserve. Speaking to the Army's Third Infantry Division at Fort Stewart,... Full Story Top Maine's GOP governor calls state workers 'corrupt' Fri,27 Apr 2012 02:54 PM PDT Associated Press - Maine's blunt-speaking governor is again creating a ruckus with his offhanded remarks — this time by calling state government middle managers "about as corrupt as can be." Full Story Top Judge wants to know more about Zimmerman finances Fri,27 Apr 2012 08:02 PM PDT Associated Press - Calling it an "oversight," George Zimmerman's attorney said Friday the neighborhood watch volunteer did not disclose that a website had raised more than $200,000 for his defense, even though his family told the judge they would have trouble coming up with his bond. Full Story Top Iranian naval admiral: 'If needed, we can move to within three miles of New York' Fri,27 Apr 2012 07:16 PM PDT The Daily Caller - The Islamic Republic of Iran said Tuesday that it has the ability to position a naval vessel within three miles of the East Coast of the United States. Full Story Top High court's stance could spur immigration laws Sat,28 Apr 2012 07:52 AM PDT Associated Press - Emboldened by signals that the U.S. Supreme Court may uphold parts of Arizona's immigration law, legislators and activists across the country say they are gearing up to push for similar get-tough measures in their states. Full Story Top Child migrant surge to US stresses support system Sat,28 Apr 2012 02:00 AM PDT Associated Press - An unprecedented surge of children caught trudging through South Texas scrublands or crossing at border ports of entry into the U.S. without their families has sent government and nonprofit agencies scrambling to expand their shelter, legal representation and reunification services. On any given day this year, the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement has been caring for more than 2,100 unaccompanied child immigrants. Full Story Top Israeli ex-intel chief slams PM's Iran stance Sat,28 Apr 2012 01:47 PM PDT Associated Press - The former head of Israel's Shin Bet security agency has accused the country's political leaders of exaggerating the effectiveness of a possible military attack on Iran, in a striking indication of Israel's turmoil over how to deal with the Iranian nuclear program. Full Story Top Israel ex-spy warns against "messianic" war on Iran Sat,28 Apr 2012 11:58 AM PDT Reuters - A former Israeli spymaster has branded the country's leaders unfit to tackle the Iranian nuclear program because of what he called the "messianic feelings" behind their threats to launch a pre-emptive war on Iran. Other veterans have come out against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak recently, but the criticism from former domestic intelligence chief Yuval Diskin was especially strong. ... Full Story Top Fla. boy struck by SUV, killed at softball game Sat,28 Apr 2012 01:30 PM PDT Associated Press - The wife of the police chief in a central Florida community accidentally ran over a family friend's 22-month-old son in a parking lot, authorities said. Full Story Top Obama picture with student at Colorado bar goes viral Wed,31 Dec 1969 04:00 PM PST 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 Top Nugent says he's insulted by concert cancellation Fri,27 Apr 2012 10:40 PM PDT Associated Press - Ted Nugent said he was insulted by the cancellation of his planned concert at an Army post over his comments about President Barack Obama. Full Story Top High tech survival tools Thu,26 Apr 2012 03:55 PM PDT The Future Is Now - If you want to learn survival skills, be it low or high tech, Reggie Bennett is the man. Friendly and unassuming, at first glance you may not realize that he is the quintessential survivalist. But with U.S. military training that taught him how to brave some of the globe's harshest conditions, and his time spent [...] Full Story Top Obama to single men: Look for superior genes Fri,27 Apr 2012 11:55 AM PDT The Ticket - It's perhaps not the sweetest thing a husband ever said to his wife, but President Barack Obama quipped Friday that he married first lady Michelle Obama in order to pass on her superior genes. She said he was "kinda cute." The Obamas traveled to Fort Stewart, Georgia, to highlight his new executive order meant to protect [...] Full Story Top Moderate earthquake shakes Southern California Sat,28 Apr 2012 10:56 AM PDT Associated Press - Some Southern Californians were shaken out of bed Saturday morning by a small earthquake that rattled homes across the Inland Empire region and caused buildings to sway in downtown Los Angeles. Full Story Top Obama, Romney tweak strategies for tight race this fall Sat,28 Apr 2012 12:31 PM PDT Reuters - After months of casting Republican Mitt Romney as someone who often changes positions for political convenience, President Barack Obama's campaign is calling Romney a far-right conservative - a contradictory set of messages that essentially invites voters to decide what they don't like about Romney. And Romney, who has built his campaign around declaring Obama a failure - particularly on the economy - began sounding a more positive note this week, offering hints about his vision for governing if he defeats the Democratic president in the November 6 election. ... Full Story Top Obama Warns Women That Romney, GOP Will 'Close Doors of Opportunity' Fri,27 Apr 2012 04:10 PM PDT ABC OTUS News - President Obama warned women voters today that Republicans in Congress and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney want to "close doors of opportunity we thought we'd kicked open a long time ago." "This is a party that prides itself in being rabidly anti-regulation. These are... Full Story Top 'Best Job in World' Winner Dishes on New Life Fri,27 Apr 2012 04:28 AM PDT ABC News Blogs - The man who in 2009 beat out 35,000 applicants for what was touted as the "best job in the world" — caretaker of Australia's Hamilton Island — got more than he bargained for, including amazing adventures, a brush with a deadly creature, while he lost... Full Story Top Chaperones among new Secret Service conduct rules Sat,28 Apr 2012 05:31 AM PDT Associated Press - Embarrassed by a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service will assign chaperones on some trips to enforce new rules of conduct that make clear that excessive drinking, entertaining foreigners in their hotel rooms and cavorting in disreputable establishments are no longer tolerated. Full Story Top Music fans hanker for Ray Charles hologram: poll Fri,27 Apr 2012 02:52 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When a hologram of late rapper Tupac Shakur appeared on stage with Snoop Dogg at the recent Coachella music festival, it stunned audiences by literally bringing the performer back to life - technologically, anyway. Reuters asked Los Angeles-based E-Poll Market Research, which surveys consumers about celebrities for Hollywood's major studios and TV networks, to pull together a list of dead celebrities who remain popular and, like Tupac, might still be big draws at a concert if only as a hologram. ... Full Story Top Al Sharpton, Trayvon Martin family urge peace on 20th anniversary of L.A. race riots Thu,26 Apr 2012 03:27 PM PDT The Lookout - To mark the 2oth anniversary of the deadly riots that engulfed Los Angeles following the 1992 Rodney King verdict, civil rights activist Al Sharpton and Trayvon Martin's parents are urging peace at events. Sharpton spoke to Yahoo News before he and Martin's family addressed a church on Thursday night. "Twenty years ago I came out [...] Full Story Top Obama Removes All Dignity from the Office of President Thu,26 Apr 2012 01:56 PM PDT Yahoo! Contributor Network - COMMENTARY | Remember when there was a sense of dignity in the office of president of the United States? Full Story Top Bomb defused in Northern Ireland would have caused devastation Sat,28 Apr 2012 11:14 AM PDT Reuters - BELFAST (Reuters) - Two bombs planted by militant Irish nationalists, including one packed with enough explosives to have killed anyone within a 50-metre (yard) radius, were defused in Northern Ireland on Saturday, police said. The 600-pound (270-kg) bomb, roughly the same size as one used to kill 29 people in the town of Omagh in the single deadliest attack of Northern Ireland's three decades of violence in 1998, was left in an abandoned vehicle in the town of Newry. ... Full Story Top Police blow Wash. mountain bunker, find man dead Sat,28 Apr 2012 04:15 PM PDT Associated Press - Peter Keller spent eight years carving his hole in the side of the mountain, camouflaging the rugged underground bunker with ferns and sticks and stocking it with a generator and ammunition boxes sealed in Ziploc bags. Suspected in the deaths of his wife, daughter and pets last weekend, he headed there prepared for the long haul with high-powered rifles, scope and body armor. Full Story Top US officials: Core al-Qaida 'essentially gone' Fri,27 Apr 2012 06:29 PM PDT Associated Press - A year after the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaida that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks is essentially gone but its affiliates remain a threat to America, U.S. counterterrorist officials say. Full Story Top

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