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Blitzer blasts Trump for 'ridiculous' birther comments
Tue,29 May 2012 02:52 PM PDT
 Donald Trump, de facto leader of the so-called "birther" movement, called into "The Situation Room" on Tuesday for what quickly became a testy interview with Wolf Blitzer about Trump's continued skepticism over the authenticity of President Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate. Trump, in Las Vegas to host a fundraiser for Mitt Romney on Tuesday, took issue [...]
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Romney mathematically clinches GOP presidential nomination
Tue,29 May 2012 06:11 PM PDT
 LAS VEGAS--Mitt Romney mathematically clinched the Republican nomination for president on Tuesday, accumulating enough delegates from his win in the Texas primary to pass the 1,144 needed to secure the nomination at his party's convention in August. The milestone for the former Massachusetts governor comes four years after he lost the nomination to Sen. John [...]
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Obama honors Medal of Freedom recipients for 'incredible impact'
Tue,29 May 2012 03:15 PM PDT
 It took a little coaxing from President Barack Obama for Bob Dylan to stand up Tuesday and retrieve his Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. "Come on, Bob," Obama prompted the musical icon, who was wearing shades and a stoic expression in a ceremony at the White House. Dylan, former astronaut John [...]
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Graduate's essay lives on after her 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 [...]
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Jeb Bush on veep speculation: 'I would consider the proposal very carefully'
Tue,29 May 2012 04:00 PM PDT
 Jeb Bush would consider an offer to become Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate "very carefully," the former Florida governor told Italian news outlet Linkiesta in an interview on Tuesday. "If Romney were to offer me the job of vice president, I would consider the proposal very carefully," Bush told the online news outlet, according [...]
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Wildfires burning in at least 3 states
Tue,29 May 2012 12:58 PM PDT
 Wildfires burning in at least three states have thousands of firefighters scrambling to contain them. In New Mexico, a pair of fires sparked by lightning merged and are close to becoming the largest wildfire in state history, fire officials told the Associated Press. More than 1,100 firefighters and nine [...]
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Folk musician Doc Watson dies in NC hospital at 89
Tue,29 May 2012 06:42 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Doc Watson, the blind Grammy-award winning folk musician whose mountain-rooted sound was embraced by generations and whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world, died Tuesday at a North Carolina hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his manager. He was 89.
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Romney lands in Vegas with Trump over his shoulder
Tue,29 May 2012 12:59 PM PDT
 Donald Trump wasn't here to greet Mitt Romney as he touched down in Nevada ahead of a major fundraiser here tonight. But he might as well have been. As Romney exited his campaign plane at McCarran Airport, the presumptive Republican nominee was cast against the backdrop of Trump's Boeing 757, which was parked a [...]
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Taliban blamed for 'poison attack' on Afghan schoolgirls
Tue,29 May 2012 12:01 PM PDT
 Police in northern Afghanistan say 160 schoolgirls were admitted to a local hospital after they were thought to be poisoned by the Taliban. It's the third such poisoning of Afghan schoolgirls in less than two weeks. The girls "complained of headaches, dizziness and vomiting before being taken to the hospital," Hafizullah Safi, director of the [...]
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Report: Rob Portman to meet with Israeli Prime Minister
Tue,29 May 2012 02:32 PM PDT
 ABC News scoops that Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, rumored to be on Mitt Romney's vice presidential shortlist, is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Thursday: Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday in Israel. An Israeli official confirmed the meeting to ABC News Tuesday. This high-profile [...]
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U.S., allies expel top Syrian diplomats
Tue,29 May 2012 09:09 AM PDT
 The United States, along with allies Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Canada, announced the expulsion of top Syrian diplomats on Tuesday to protest the May 25 massacre of some 100 people in the town of Houla.
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Top weather forecaster retires amid controversy
Tue,29 May 2012 11:18 AM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the National Weather Service has retired unexpectedly after an internal investigation found that agency employees improperly shifted millions of dollars in budget resources to weather service offices around the country. As a result of the investigation, agency officials have now asked Congress permission to redirect some $36 million in spending in the 2012 budget to local weather forecasting and equipment upgrades, Scott Smullen, a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said on Tuesday. ... 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 |
Reporter cooks and eats Elizabeth Warren's 'Cherokee' recipes
Tue,29 May 2012 01:12 PM PDT
Charles C.W. Cooke, writer at the National Review magazine, lived up to his name by taking his reporting to an extra culinary level. Cooke actually prepared the recipes that Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren submitted and published in the 1984 cookbook "Pow Wow Chow." While Warren's five recipes aren't all that authentically Cherokee, they [...] Full Story | Top |
6-year-old is youngest National Spelling Bee contestant ever
Tue,29 May 2012 02:34 PM PDT
Lori Anne Madison is already in the record books, and this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee hasn't even begun. That's because the 6-year-old from Virginia is the youngest person ever to qualify for the competition. "She's like a teenager in a 6-year-old body," says her mother, Sorina Madison. "Her brain, she understands things way ahead [...] Full Story | Top |
Ann Romney gets a press secretary
Tue,29 May 2012 05:18 PM PDT
ABC OTUS News - LAS VEGAS – The Romney campaign has hired a new press secretary to handle the schedule of Ann Romney, an indication that the 63-year-old grandmother of 18 will soon be ramping up her public schedule, ABC News has learned exclusively. Sarah Haley, formerly of Sen.... Full Story | Top |
Volvo's self-driven car convoy treks 125 miles
Tue,29 May 2012 05:46 PM PDT
Motorists may soon be able to use their cellphones while driving without fear of getting a ticket. In fact, they may be able to take their eyes off the road completely. Volvo has successfully completed a public test of a self-driven convoy of cars. A human driver led the convoy of three self-driven vehicles, which [...] Full Story | Top |
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