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- Vt. police: Man angry about arrest used tractor like monster truck to crush 7 cop vehicles
- Chick-fil-A Opponents Stage Same-Sex Kiss-In
- Crash survivor preaches dangers of texting while driving
- Retired porn star Jenna Jameson supports Mitt Romney
- How Romney's Tax Plan Could Raise Middle-Class Taxes
- Romney: Reid's claim about unpaid taxes 'untrue'
- Oklahoma is so hot that street lamps are melting
- Boehner: President Obama 'has never had a real job, for God's sake'
- Web Criticizes NBC for 'Badly-Timed' Olympics Commercial
- North Korea's Key to Olympic Medals: Refrigerators For Winners, Labor Camp Threat for Losers
- Obama, after jobs figures, hits Republicans on taxes
- Getting a reprieve: Young illegal immigrants see first signs of Obama's deferred action program
- Congress, with much left to do, takes 5 weeks off
- Long Island man may have faked own drowning to claim life insurance
- Farmer Crushes 7 Police Cars With Tractor
- Chick-fil-A Has 'Record-Setting' Sales on Appreciation Day
- Will the US Really Experience a Violent Upheaval in 2020?
- The White World of Sports: What Gabby Douglas' vault into Olympic history means
- Wow! 11-Year-Old Cheetah Breaks Land Speed Record
- Lifeguard gets $2,600 bill after rescuing boy from surf
- Nun, 82, Allegedly Splashed Human Blood on Nuke Plant
- Note from Lincoln spares soldier's life
- Romney Hires PR Vet To Bite Back on Bain Attacks
- World's longest yard sale stretches 690 miles from Michigan to Alabama
- Romney aide slams the press, Senate majority leader plays the press: The dumbest political quotes of the week
- Tanning Mom Isn't Tan Anymore
- Vermont man arrested after crushing five police cruisers with giant tractor
- IRS missing billions in ID theft
- What's Up With That? Decoding Olympians' Puzzling Practices
- Anti-Islam challenge to Tennessee lawmaker fails
- Drought diaries: How no water, extreme heat are hurting Americans
- Megabus passenger: 'There was blood everywhere'
- Rep. Darrell Issa Demands Details on White House Email Use
- Megabus Crash in Illinois: At Least 1 Dead, 30+ Injured
- Secret to Perfect Sandcastles Revealed
- Missile Defense Porn: Watching the Wrong Bombshells
- Police out in force for Jerusalem Gay Pride
- Syria pleads with Russia for aid in sign of desperation as fighting resumes in the capital
- Romney: 'I have paid taxes every year'
- Poll: Obama leads Romney among women voters in key swing states
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Crash survivor preaches dangers of texting while driving
Fri,3 Aug 2012 06:26 AM PDT
Chance Bothe knows firsthand the dangers of texting and driving. The Texas man typed this message to a friend while driving home from college earlier this year, "I need to quit texting because I could die in a car accident and then how would you feel ..." A few seconds later, Bothe's pickup veered off [...] Full Story | Top |
Retired porn star Jenna Jameson supports Mitt Romney
Fri,3 Aug 2012 07:37 AM PDT
Retired adult film actress Jenna Jameson voiced support for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a strip club Thursday, CBS San Francisco reports: "I'm very looking forward to a Republican being back in office," Jameson said while sipping champagne in a VIP room at Gold Club in the city's South of Market neighborhood. "When [...] Full Story | Top |
How Romney's Tax Plan Could Raise Middle-Class Taxes
Fri,3 Aug 2012 10:05 AM PDT
ABC OTUS News -  Mitt Romney's campaign is hitting back against a study released this week showing the GOP candidate's tax plan would raise taxes on the middle class while slashing the tax burden for millionaires, calling the report "biased" and "a joke." The study was developed by the...
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Oklahoma is so hot that street lamps are melting
Thu,2 Aug 2012 01:36 PM PDT
It's hard to not be concerned with global warming when its effects are right in front of your eyes. Sure, it's one thing when the ocean begins to reclaim islands, but when you can see the effects in your home … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Boehner: President Obama 'has never had a real job, for God's sake'
Thu,2 Aug 2012 12:05 PM PDT
Republican House Speaker John Boehner ripped into President Barack Obama during an interview Thursday with Fox News Radio's "Kilmeade and Friends," accusing him of never having "a real job." From the interview transcript: Boehner: "Sometimes I have to catch my breath and slow down because the rhetoric in this campaign is just so over the [...] Full Story | Top |
Web Criticizes NBC for 'Badly-Timed' Olympics Commercial
Fri,3 Aug 2012 10:20 AM PDT
Was it bad timing or insensitivity? Moments after Bob Costas was talking about Gabby Douglas's record-breaking gold medal and how she was the first African American to win the women's all-around title, a commercial came on featuring a monkey doing gymnastics. The spot was for NBC's fall show "Animal Practice," which the network has been [...] Full Story | Top |
North Korea's Key to Olympic Medals: Refrigerators For Winners, Labor Camp Threat for Losers
Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:54 AM PDT
ABC News -  North Korea's Olympic athletes are thrilling their countrymen with surprising success in winning medals and they are attributing their success to their Dear Leader Kim Jong Un.But others, including former North Korean athletes who have defected, suggest the success of the country's small contingent of athletes at the games may be the result of a policy of training them from a very young age at specialized schools, backed up by rewards like cars and refrigerators for winners and the threat of labor camps for losers. ...
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Obama, after jobs figures, hits Republicans on taxes
Fri,3 Aug 2012 10:25 AM PDT
Fighting to become the first president since World War II to win re-election with unemployment above 8 percent, Barack Obama on Friday acknowledged "more work to do" to boost job growth. The Democrat also accused Republicans of practicing "upside-down economics" that help the wealthy but neglect the middle class. Obama defended his economic record shortly [...] Full Story | Top |
Long Island man may have faked own drowning to claim life insurance
Fri,3 Aug 2012 11:08 AM PDT
An aggrieved New York woman has told police that her husband faked his own drowning to collect on a life insurance policy and to abandon his marriage. "This is a terrible nightmare that I just want to wake up from,'' 43-year-old Evana Roth told the New York Post. "Why did he do this? I think [...] Full Story | Top |
Farmer Crushes 7 Police Cars With Tractor
Fri,3 Aug 2012 08:57 AM PDT
Police in Vermont in hot pursuit of a suspect were without wheels when their quarry, an irate farmer with a tractor, allegedly crushed nearly half the department's fleet of vehicles. Orleans County police say 34-year-old Roger Pion, of Newport, Vt., drove a red tractor over... Full Story | Top |
Will the US Really Experience a Violent Upheaval in 2020?
Fri,3 Aug 2012 09:23 AM PDT
LiveScience.com -  Circa 1870, the North fought the South in the Civil War. Half a century later, around 1920, worker unrest, racial tensions and anti-Communist sentiment caused another nationwide upsurge of violence. Then, 50 years later, the Vietnam War and Civil Rights Movement triggered a third peak in violent political, social and racial conflict. Fifty years after that will be 2020. If history continues to repeat itself, we can expect a violent upheaval in the United States in a few years.
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The White World of Sports: What Gabby Douglas' vault into Olympic history means
Fri,3 Aug 2012 12:25 PM PDT
Late last night, minutes after NBC aired the much-anticipated cuticle-picker that was the Olympic women's all-around gymnastics finals—hours after the event actually took place, of course –the director cut from an on-floor interview with gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas to a broadcast booth somewhere nearby. In it sat longtime NBC commentator and sports journalism veteran Bob Costas, his primetime-friendly, man-child hairdo in perfect position. Full Story | Top |
Lifeguard gets $2,600 bill after rescuing boy from surf
Thu,2 Aug 2012 06:08 AM PDT
The nearly $2,600 billed to a 17-year-old lifeguard who rescued a drowning boy off the coast of Oregon is being paid by anonymous donors. John Clark of Vancouver, Wash., a trained lifeguard, jumped through the breakers and heavy swells to reach the boy in the ocean, reported KOIN-TV. Clark then calmed the boy and kept [...] Full Story | Top |
Note from Lincoln spares soldier's life
Thu,2 Aug 2012 01:34 PM PDT
Abraham Lincoln declared the end of slavery with his Emancipation Proclamation. But he also reviewed death sentences of soldiers who were court-martialed during the Civil War. Slate's David Plotz renewed interest in one such hand-written note he saw after he toured the National Archives' vaults recently. The document immortalizes Lincoln's decision to spare a soldier's [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney Hires PR Vet To Bite Back on Bain Attacks
Thu,2 Aug 2012 03:45 PM PDT
ABC OTUS News - The Romney campaign is hiring a corporate public relations specialist to help guide their response to questions about the candidate's time in the private sector with Bain Capital, Buzzfeed's Ben Smith reports. Michele Davis, currently with the D.C.-based Brunswick Group, has a long and colorful résumé... Full Story | Top |
World's longest yard sale stretches 690 miles from Michigan to Alabama
Thu,2 Aug 2012 03:29 PM PDT
The self-proclaimed World's Longest Yardsale kicked off on Thursday, stretching a reported 690 miles down the U.S. 127 corridor from Addison, Mich., to Gadsden, Ala. Along with the thousands of individual vendors selling their goods, the giant outdoor sale is meant to highlight the character and culture of the region, featuring musical performances, food and [...] Full Story | Top |
Tanning Mom Isn't Tan Anymore
Thu,2 Aug 2012 10:01 AM PDT
The "Tanning Mom" has stopped tanning. When we last saw Patricia Krentcil, she was nationally notorious for tanning five times a week. Krentcil first made headlines when she was accused of allowing her 6-year-old daughter (5 years old at the time) to use a tanning... Full Story | Top |
Vermont man arrested after crushing five police cruisers with giant tractor
Thu,2 Aug 2012 04:01 PM PDT
A Vermont farmer, apparently unhappy with his arrest last month, crushed five police cruisers parked at a police station with a giant tractor on Thursday. The man, 34-year-old Roger Pion, was arrested by Newport police two miles away after he abandoned the red tractor and attempted to flee on foot. According to the Burlington Free [...] Full Story | Top |
IRS missing billions in ID theft
Thu,2 Aug 2012 06:57 PM PDT
Associated Press - The Internal Revenue Service may have delivered more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves who filed fraudulent tax returns for 2011, Treasury Department investigators said Thursday. They estimate another $21 billion could make its way to ID thieves' pockets over the next five years. Full Story | Top |
What's Up With That? Decoding Olympians' Puzzling Practices
Thu,2 Aug 2012 06:52 PM PDT
Good Morning America -  The 2012 Olympic Games are well underway, and those of you who have been watching avidly may have noticed a few things that caused you to go "hmmm."For example, why do some swimmers wear two caps? Why do divers hop into the hot tub right after they dive? And why are some female beach volleyball players wearing so many clothes?We've got the answers. 1. What's with the mirrored swim goggles?Not only do these mirrored, metallic goggles look intimidating, they're highly functional. According to one online swim retailer, the metallic lens softens the glare of those bright fluorescent lights ...
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Anti-Islam challenge to Tennessee lawmaker fails
Thu,2 Aug 2012 10:44 PM PDT
Reuters -  NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A Tennessee Republican congresswoman survived a spirited primary election challenge on Thursday from an opponent whose campaign was based on opposition to Islam and to a new mosque built near Nashville. U.S. Representative Diane Black won the primary election by a comfortable margin over Lou Ann Zelenik, noted for her fierce opposition to the Islamic Center built in Murfreesboro, about 30 miles south of Nashville, although it was outside the congressional district she sought to represent. ...
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Drought diaries: How no water, extreme heat are hurting Americans
Thu,2 Aug 2012 01:52 PM PDT
The dry Truckee Canal near Teresa Pena-Raney's peach orchard in western Nevada. (Teresa Pena-Raney) Along the 195-mile Embarras River, a tributary of the Wabash in southeastern Illinois, rancher Jim Gardner worries about his 200 head of Angus cattle. There's enough hay -- for now. But in July, the cattle started eating winter's food, and this [...] Full Story | Top |
Megabus passenger: 'There was blood everywhere'
Fri,3 Aug 2012 05:43 AM PDT
Associated Press -  As a Megabus slammed into a bridge support pillar on an interstate highway in Illinois, the impact was so powerful that it flung 16-year-old passenger Baysha Collins from the upper-level seat where she was resting to a stairway leading to the lower level.
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Rep. Darrell Issa Demands Details on White House Email Use
Fri,3 Aug 2012 02:08 PM PDT
ABC OTUS News -  The powerful chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, today escalated a showdown with the White House over use of personal email accounts to conduct official government business. In a letter to White House chief of staff Jack Lew,...
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Missile Defense Porn: Watching the Wrong Bombshells
Fri,3 Aug 2012 07:36 AM PDT
ABC News - A top official at the government agency charged with protecting America from incoming nuclear missiles recently had to order his employees to keep their eyes on the sky and off pornographic websites they had accessed on secure computers. As first reported by Bloomberg News, Missile... Full Story | Top |
Romney: 'I have paid taxes every year'
Fri,3 Aug 2012 02:55 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney declared Friday that he has "paid taxes every year — and a lot of taxes" as he rejected an anonymous claim that he hadn't paid taxes for a decade on his vast personal wealth.
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Poll: Obama leads Romney among women voters in key swing states
Wed,1 Aug 2012 09:18 PM PDT
The Daily Caller - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama leads GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney among likely voters in three key swing states, according to a poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University, in cooperation with CBS News and The New York Times. The poll shows women, in particular, favoring Obama in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania. Full Story | Top |
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