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Excel Shortcuts You Probably Didn't Know
Wed,27 Jun 2012 10:37 AM PDT
Microsoft Excel is an incredibly powerful spreadsheet program that millions of people use. It's got so many tools in it that even experts don't always know all the shortcuts. But just knowing a few tricks can vastly speed up — and simplify — your workflow. Note: Different versions of Excel may have different commands, so [...] Full Story | Top |
Could the Republicans really repeal Obamacare?
Fri,29 Jun 2012 02:15 AM PDT
The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of key provisions in the Affordable Care Act, the health care law commonly known as Obamacare, on Thursday, but on Capitol Hill, Republicans are vowing to press on with plans to fully repeal the law. Repealing the law won't happen before January 2013. It would be dependent on a triple [...] Full Story | Top |
Michelle Obama cites Jesus as model for citizenship
Fri,29 Jun 2012 08:53 AM PDT
ABC OTUS News - First lady Michelle Obama Thursday offered a rare public reflection on her religious faith, telling a conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church that the life of Jesus Christ is a model for democratic organizing. "It's kind of like church," Obama said. "Our faith journey... Full Story | Top |
Did Chief Justice Roberts save the Supreme Court?
Fri,29 Jun 2012 03:33 AM PDT
Top Line ABC 'Nightline' anchor Terry Moran joined Top Line for a special edition dissecting the Supreme Court's decision on health care, a blockbuster ruling which upheld President Obama's signature piece of legislation. And the president and supporters of the law were not the only victors. Chief Justice John "Roberts rode to the rescue of [...] Full Story | Top |
Pelosi-Boehner photo: lots of buzz
Fri,29 Jun 2012 10:01 AM PDT
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and House Speaker John Boehner (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP) Click! This photo speaks louder than words. The snap of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., seemed to say it all, about the emotions surrounding the Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Obama's health care law--even [...] Full Story | Top |
U.S. "Genius" visa attracts entrepreneurs and Playmates
Thu,28 Jun 2012 10:12 PM PDT
Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shera Bechard, the Canadian-born former girlfriend of Playboy Enterprises founder Hugh Hefner, would not be an obvious candidate for the special visas that the U.S. government reserves for "individuals with extraordinary ability." Playboy magazine named Bechard Miss November in 2010, and she also started an online photo-sharing craze called "Frisky Friday." Neither seems quite on the level of an "internationally recognized award, such as a Nobel Prize," which the government cites as a possible qualification. ...
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Holder contempt vote 'a transparently political stunt,' says White House
Thu,28 Jun 2012 02:31 PM PDT
The White House denounced the Republican-led House of Representatives vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, accusing President Barack Obama's foes of looking to score political points. Republicans said Holder's refusal to turn over documents tied to the Fast and Furious operation, which aimed to track how firearms sold in America [...] Full Story | Top |
Army Battalion Commander Killed in Fort Bragg Shooting
Thu,28 Jun 2012 07:38 PM PDT
Good Morning America - A U.S. Army battalion commander was killed by a fellow soldier on Thursday in a shooting incident at Fort Bragg, N.C. The alleged gunman then shot himself and is in custody; a third soldier was slightly injured in the shooting. An Army statement said the... Full Story | Top |
Congress passes student loan-rate extension
Fri,29 Jun 2012 10:40 AM PDT
The House of Representatives on Friday passed a transportation bill that included an extension of the low interest rate on government-subsidized student loans, just days before the rate would have doubled. The bill, which includes more than $100 billion in funding for highway projects over two years, extends the current 3.4 percent student loan rate [...] Full Story | Top |
Kentucky Father Arrested After Son Left in Hot Car
Thu,28 Jun 2012 04:33 AM PDT
A Kentucky father has been arrested for allegedly leaving his 2-year-old son inside a hot car parked outside his office. Kenneth Robinson, 31, told police he got distracted Monday and drove straight to work instead of dropping off the boy at daycare. The toddler was... Full Story | Top |
Americans evenly divided on court's Obamacare decision
Fri,29 Jun 2012 12:13 PM PDT
Americans are evenly divided, 46 percent to 46 percent, on whether they support the Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Barack Obama's health care reform on Thursday, according to a new Gallup poll. Nearly 80 percent of Democrats agree with the court, compared to 45 percent of independents and only 13 percent of Republicans. Full Story | Top |
Two little girls explain the 'worst haircut ever' (AUDIO)
Thu,28 Jun 2012 01:14 PM PDT
When five-year-old Sadie Cohen decided to give her younger sister a free haircut, the results weren't quite what either of the girls expected. Not only did they get screamed at by their parents, but they also were then interviewed by their journalist father. After Sadie emerged from "hiding under the radiator," WNPR reporter Jeff Cohen [...] Full Story | Top |
In latest Romney ad, Hillary Clinton attacks Obama
Fri,29 Jun 2012 10:26 AM PDT
In his effort to challenge President Barack Obama's attacks on his jobs record, Mitt Romney has enlisted a surprising new surrogate: Hillary Clinton. The Romney campaign quietly launched a new 30-second television ad Friday featuring footage of Clinton campaigning against Obama during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, in which she accused Obama of lying about [...] Full Story | Top |
'Miss Holocaust Survivor' crowned in Israel
Thu,28 Jun 2012 03:08 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Grinning and waving, 14 women who survived the horrors of World War II paraded Thursday in an unusual pageant, vying for the honor of being crowned Israel's first "Miss Holocaust Survivor."
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Scientists develop spray-on battery
Thu,28 Jun 2012 09:56 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists in the United States have developed a paint that can store and deliver electrical power just like a battery. Traditional lithium-ion batteries power most portable electronics. They are already pretty compact but limited to rectangular or cylindrical blocks. Researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas, have come up with a technique to break down each element of the traditional battery and incorporate it into a liquid that can be spray-painted in layers on virtually any surface. ...
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Supreme Court upholds Obamacare individual mandate as a tax
Thu,28 Jun 2012 06:55 AM PDT
In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court upheld his signature health care law's individual insurance mandate in a 5-4 decision, upending speculation after hostile-seeming oral arguments in March that the justices would overturn the law. The mandate has been upheld as a tax, with Chief Justice John Roberts, a Bush appointee, joining [...] Full Story | Top |
Map: Where Obamacare would expand Medicaid most
Fri,29 Jun 2012 10:54 AM PDT
While the Supreme Court narrowly upheld the core of President Obama's health care law Thursday, the justices came down hard against a provision that would have expanded Medicaid to millions more low-income Americans. As passed by Congress, the legislation expanded Medicaid to nearly everyone making up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line, which [...] Full Story | Top |
How the Global War on Drugs Drives HIV and AIDS
Thu,28 Jun 2012 03:57 PM PDT
Time.com - The war on drugs is driving much of the global AIDS pandemic, increasing new infections among injection-drug users in the U.S. and elsewhere, according to a new report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy. The commission — led by a distinguished panel including the former presidents of Mexico, Poland, Colombia, Brazil and Switzerland, along with Virgin Airlines entrepreneur Richard Branson, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker, and former Secretary of State George Schulz, among others — finds in its report that about one-third of all new infections outside of sub-Sarahan Africa occur in injection-drug users. Full Story | Top |
Rep. Gutierrez rips Arizona immigration law
Thu,28 Jun 2012 12:18 PM PDT
Justin Bieber is many things: Singer, actor ... Canadian? It's true! And Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.) used the Bieb's Canadian ancestry to make a point about the controversial Arizona immigration law. [Related: Arizona implements immigration law as feds push back] Gutierrez, who is against the law that allows Arizona law enforcement officials to ask [...] Full Story | Top |
John Roberts saves Obamacare: How does George W. Bush feel right now?
Thu,28 Jun 2012 01:01 PM PDT
In his White House memoir, "Courage and Consequence," Karl Rove recalls being the lone non-lawyer among the group of George W. Bush aides who initially interviewed John Roberts for the Supreme Court in 2005. Rove asked Roberts to go back in history to name the justice whom he most revered. Roberts' answer, Robert Jackson, intrigued and reassured Rove. When appointed in 1941, Jackson was serving as Franklin Roosevelt's attorney general and had been expected to be a pro-New Deal rubber-stamp on the court. But, as Rove put it, Jackson "instead demonstrated a fidelity to the Constitution that Roberts admired." Full Story | Top |
George Zimmerman bond decision delayed by judge
Fri,29 Jun 2012 09:33 AM PDT
A Florida judge is delaying his decision on whether to let George Zimmerman out of jail on bond, saying he will rule on the matter later. Judge Kenneth Lester revoked Zimmerman's $150,000 bond earlier this month after he said Zimmerman, who awaits trial for the death of Trayvon Martin, and his wife intentionally tried to [...] Full Story | Top |
Republicans say Supreme Court ruling will hurt swing-state Democrats in November
Thu,28 Jun 2012 11:22 AM PDT
The Supreme Court's decision Thursday to uphold the individual mandate in the president's health care law solidified health care as the cornerstone for President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign. But it remains a tricky issue for Democrats running for Senate in conservative and competitive states. Already facing attacks over their ties to and alleged support for "Obamacare," [...] Full Story | Top |
Chimps bite, drag man at sanctuary in South Africa
Fri,29 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Chimpanzees at a sanctuary for the animals in eastern South Africa pulled an American working there into their enclosure, bit him severely and dragged him nearly a half mile (kilometer), according to a paramedic official and local media reports.
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Frequent flier Clinton hits 100-country mark
Thu,28 Jun 2012 04:53 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Hillary Rodham Clinton made and marked history on Thursday, setting a new frequent-flier record for American secretaries of state by touching down in her 100th country and commemorating the strong stand one of her predecessors took against Soviet expansion.
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Time Is on His Side: Conservatives Feel Betrayed by John Roberts
Thu,28 Jun 2012 03:31 PM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -  The sense that John Roberts betrayed conservatives with his vote upholding Obamacare is widespread, but it's probably misplaced. Republicans have already seized on his "tax" label, and the young Chief Justice's interpretation of the commerce clause will have ramifications for years. Rush Limbaugh, in a heroic bit of ad-lib rapid response, declared soon after the decision, "We have been betrayed and deceived by the Supreme Court. ...
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Asteroid Hunters Announce First Private Deep Space Mission
Thu,28 Jun 2012 12:40 PM PDT
ABC News -  Asteroids could be heading for Earth right now, and the world should not have to live in fear. At least that's the message of a group of scientists and former astronauts working on the issue. They announced plans today to launch the first privately funded...
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Charlie Rangel's victory questioned with uncounted votes looming
Fri,29 Jun 2012 09:30 AM PDT
On Tuesday night, state Sen. Adriano Espaillat conceded to Rep. Charlie Rangel in New York's 13th District with the longtime incumbent enjoying a wide lead. But Rangel's front-runner status doesn't look so convincing anymore. Not only has his lead narrowed, but many votes are still outstanding, offering Rangel's opponents a reason to question his Democratic [...] Full Story | Top |
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes divorcing
Fri,29 Jun 2012 03:55 PM PDT
Associated Press -  It always seemed more than a little weird, didn't it? The whirlwind romance of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes with its very public, very emphatic proclamations of love. It all occurred too quickly and too loudly to seem real.
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Chinese astronauts parachute land after mission
Fri,29 Jun 2012 05:21 AM PDT
Associated Press -  China's first female astronaut and two other crew members emerged smiling from a capsule that returned safely to Earth on Friday from a 13-day mission to an orbiting module that is a prototype for a future space station.
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House votes to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress
Thu,28 Jun 2012 01:49 PM PDT
The full House of Representatives voted on Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over the Justice Department's decision to withhold documents related to the failed Fast and Furious gunwalking operation. By a vote of 255 to 67, House members voted to hold Holder in contempt, disregarding a protest walkout led [...] Full Story | Top |
Stunning Map Reveals World's Earthquakes Since 1898
Fri,29 Jun 2012 06:56 AM PDT
LiveScience.com -  If you've ever wondered where — and why — earthquakes happen the most, look no further than a new map, which plots more than a century's worth of nearly every recorded earthquake strong enough to at least rattle the bookshelves.
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