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8-Year-Old Gets 'Catastrophe Award' for Most Homework Excuses
Tue,29 May 2012 04:39 AM PDT
The mother of an 8-year-old Arizona girl who was presented with a "Catastrophe Award" for apparently having the most excuses for not having homework believes her child was humiliated by her teacher. Christina Valdez said her daughter, Cassandra Garcia, came home one day from class... Full Story | Top |
Marina Keegan: Yale grad's final essay gets new life after writer's death
Tue,29 May 2012 02:51 PM PDT
A 22-year-old Yale graduate, Marina Keegan, who penned her life's lessons in a final column for the Yale Daily News, died just days after commencement. But the words of her work, "The Opposite of Loneliness," have lived on. The Massachusetts resident died in a car crash on her way to a vacation house on Cape [...] Full Story | Top |
Report: Chavez's cancer has 'entered the end stage'
Wed,30 May 2012 08:56 AM PDT
HDNet - This reporter has been told that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma, an aggressive cancer that has "entered the end stage". The information and the quote come from a highly respected source close to Chavez and who is in a position to know his medical condition and history. This source says the prognosis is dire and that Chavez is now not expected to live "more than a couple of months at most." Chavez is running for re-elec tion in Venezuela but several sources--including the one who revealed the exact kind of cancer-- have told me that they believe it is doubtful the dictator will live to see the results. Full Story | Top |
Romney's birth certificate evokes his father's controversy
Tue,29 May 2012 04:30 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Finally, there is definitive proof: The presidential candidate was born in the United States, and his father was not. Yes, Republican Mitt Romney appears eligible to be president, according to a copy of Romney's birth certificate released to Reuters by his campaign. Willard Mitt Romney, the certificate says, was born in Detroit on March 12, 1947. His mother, Lenore, was born in Utah and his father, former Michigan governor and one-time Republican presidential candidate George Romney, was born in Mexico. ...
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Boy wins trip to Disney, gives it to fallen soldier's family
Wed,30 May 2012 06:29 AM PDT
A 9-year-old Massachusetts boy who earned an all-expenses-paid Disney World vacation through an innovative Facebook experiment gave the trip away to the family of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. Brendan Haas created the "Soldier for a Soldier" Facebook page in February. Inspired by the story of the guy who, through a series of trades, turned [...] Full Story | Top |
President Obama Causes Outrage with Reference to 'Polish Death Camp'
Tue,29 May 2012 05:22 PM PDT
ABC OTUS News - Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outraged Tuesday at President Obama's reference earlier that day to "a Polish death camp" — as opposed to a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland. "The White House will apologize for this outrageous error," Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski tweeted. Sikorski said... Full Story | Top |
Skydiver planning world record 120,000-foot jump from space
Tue,29 May 2012 01:03 PM PDT
This summer, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner will attempt to break the world record for the longest jump, plummeting more than 23 miles from the Earth's stratosphere. "I've done a lot of test jumps, so I'm good," Baumgartner confidently told Fox News before adding that he would "probably say a little prayer" before making the jump [...] Full Story | Top |
Polish prime minister demands Obama address Nazi gaffe
Wed,30 May 2012 06:47 AM PDT
Click image to see more photos. President Barack Obama (R) in the East Room of the White House in Washington, May 29, 2012. (Jason Reed/Reuters) Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk angrily demanded Wednesday that President Barack Obama explain his reference to "a Polish death camp" during a high-profile White House ceremony a day earlier, saying [...] Full Story | Top |
White House official says Obama 'misspoke' of 'Polish death camp'
Wed,30 May 2012 05:10 AM PDT
President Barack Obama "misspoke" when he called a Nazi facility used to process Jews for execution a "Polish death camp," a White House official told Agence France-Presse. The verbal gaffe came as the president was honoring a famous Pole, Jan Karski, posthumously awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian award. Karski [...] Full Story | Top |
Why Romney can't quit Trump
Wed,30 May 2012 03:13 AM PDT
Top Line Mitt Romney has crossed the threshold, gathering the majority of delegates in last night's Texas primary. And to celebrate this moment in his trajectory to the Republican nomination, Romney chose to stand onstage at a Las Vegas fundraiser ... with Donald Trump. Trump is still embracing "birther" theories, saying that President Obama was [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney Rebounds Among Women, While Obama's Favorability Slips
Wed,30 May 2012 09:00 AM PDT
ABC News -  A sharp advance among women has boosted Mitt Romney to his highest favorability rating of the presidential campaign – albeit still an unusually weak one – while Barack Obama's personal popularity has slipped in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. Obama still beats Romney in...
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Houston Waiter Gets $5K Tip to Replace Car
Wed,30 May 2012 06:35 AM PDT
Greg Rubar has waited tables at D'Amico's Italian Market Cafe in Houston for 16 years. But his car was flooded during a thunderstorm weeks ago and so he had been taking taxis to work and borrowing the restaurant's catering truck from the owners. But on... Full Story | Top |
Boy's Garage-Sale Find Reveals Long-Lost Photo of Uncle He Never Met
Tue,29 May 2012 09:32 AM PDT
Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow Trending Now on Twitter: @Knowlesitall and @YahooTrending. Addison Logan made a shocking discovery after buying an old Polaroid camera at a garage sale. When the 13-year-old opened the camera, there was a developed picture still in the film cartridge. Addison had bought the $1 camera because he thought it looked cool. When [...] Full Story | Top |
Huge Ancient Civilization's Collapse Explained
Tue,29 May 2012 05:34 AM PDT
LiveScience.com - The mysterious fall of the largest of the world's earliest urban civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh now appears to have a key culprit — ancient climate change, researchers say. Full Story | Top |
Police: Suspected Seattle gunman shoots himself
Wed,30 May 2012 02:25 PM PDT
Click image to see more photos. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Police say a man suspected of multiple shootings in Seattle Wednesday, shot himself as officers closed in. Officers believe the suspect was responsible for killing four people: three at a Seattle cafe, and one at a downtown parking lot as part of a carjacking. He is [...] Full Story | Top |
Nebraska couple wear matching outfits every day for 35 years
Tue,29 May 2012 11:48 AM PDT
Mel and Joey Schwanke have been married for nearly 65 years. And for more than half that time, they have been wearing matching outfits every single day. "We don't dare go somewhere without having matching outfits," Mel told Fremont, Neb., affiliate KETV. The couple reportedly have 146 custom-made matching outfits, which they've been rotating over [...] Full Story | Top |
Illinois state lawmaker has meltdown on House floor: 'Let my people go!'
Wed,30 May 2012 12:42 PM PDT
An Illinois state lawmaker lost his temper in dramatic fashion on Tuesday when he screamed and threw papers in the direction of his colleagues on the floor of the state House. Republican Mike Bost says he was simply protesting changes made to a proposed pension bill offered by House Speaker Michael Madigan, a Democrat. The [...] Full Story | Top |
Historic British mansion has 48 rooms but no toilet
Wed,30 May 2012 12:07 PM PDT
Fans of the British television drama "Downton Abbey" could live out the drama in a countryside estate of similar stature that has recently gone up for sale. Apethorpe Hall, an idyllic British manor with an astounding 48 rooms, has hit the market for what is considered a "bargain" price of 2.5 million pounds (about $3,882,500). [...] Full Story | Top |
AP Exclusive: Calif. 9/11 fund raided for deficits
Tue,29 May 2012 06:20 PM PDT
Associated Press -  After the 2001 terrorist attacks, California lawmakers sought a way to channel the patriotic fervor and use it to help victims' families and law enforcement. Their answer: Specialty memorial license plates emblazoned with the words, "We Will Never Forget."
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2 killed, 3 wounded in shooting at Seattle cafe
Wed,30 May 2012 02:17 PM PDT
Associated Press -  A gunman opened fire at a Seattle cafe on Wednesday, killing two people, critically wounding three others and setting off a manhunt that forced officials to close nearby schools, authorities said.
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Russian millionaire throws paper planes made of money into crowd
Wed,30 May 2012 10:45 AM PDT
Twenty-seven-year-old Russian millionaire Pavel Durov has earned himself plenty of new critics today after it was reported the mogul threw "paper planes" made of money from the windows of his St. Petersburg office into a growing crowd of pedestrians below. Durov is the CEO of Vkontakte, or "In Contact," Russia's most popular social networking site [...] Full Story | Top |
Lawmakers, Activists Target 'Gendercide' Sex Selection
Wed,30 May 2012 12:15 PM PDT
ABC News - In the style of activist-filmmaker James O'Keefe, an anti-abortion group has released an undercover video purportedly showing a Planned Parenthood counselor in Texas assisting a woman who says she's seeking a sex-selection abortion. "I see that you're saying that you want to terminate if it's... Full Story | Top |
Greek experts find Roman wrecks nearly a mile deep
Wed,30 May 2012 05:32 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Two Roman-era shipwrecks have been found in deep water off a western Greek island, challenging the conventional theory that ancient shipmasters stuck to coastal routes rather than risking the open sea, an official said Tuesday.
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Marriage proposal goes awry when brain surgeon loses ring in the sand
Tue,29 May 2012 09:48 AM PDT
A man and a woman are enjoying time on a beach, when the surprised woman finds a beautiful engagement ring buried in the sand. Then the man turns and proposes to her. Well ... that would have been a romantic story. Instead, Dr. Steve Carr forgot where he buried the ring. Carr, a brain surgeon [...] Full Story | Top |
Menopause and Sleep Loss
Tue,29 May 2012 07:12 AM PDT
Katie's Take Although it may be a bit TMI, I think for women my age this is worth sharing: about 6 in 10 of us have trouble sleeping, and the problem may be related to menopause. I must admit, over the past year I've had a few nights of staring at the ceiling around 3am. [...] Full Story | Top |
Y! Big Story: What the minimum wage gets you
Wed,30 May 2012 12:58 PM PDT
Everything you need to know to get up to speed on the story of the day What does $7.25 an hour get you? These days, barely two gallons of gas. You'd probably have to work 30 minutes to enjoy a tall Frappuccino (maybe more if prices keep going up), although that's an indulgence when a [...] Full Story | Top |
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