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Chicago Man Saves Daughter From Abduction Attempt
Wed,29 Aug 2012 02:14 PM PDT
ABC News -  It started out as a family sightseeing trip to Chicago, and ended as a nightmare when Kelly Davis chased down a man he says tried to kidnap his two-year-old daughter. "We wanted take a nighttime adventure with our two daughters. We like to go to...
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FACT CHECK: Ryan takes factual shortcuts in speech
Thu,30 Aug 2012 11:20 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Laying out the first plans for his party's presidential ticket, GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan took some factual shortcuts Wednesday night when he attacked President Barack Obama's policies on Medicare, the economic stimulus and the budget deficit.
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LAPD commander removed in probe of rough arrest
Wed,29 Aug 2012 10:47 PM PDT
Associated Press - A Los Angeles Police Department commanding officer has been removed amid an internal investigation into a videotaped beating in which officers tackled a handcuffed registered nurse to the ground, police Chief Charlie Beck said Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
'Mysterious' Baltic Sea Object Is a Glacial Deposit
Thu,30 Aug 2012 08:48 AM PDT
LiveScience.com -  A feature on the floor of the Baltic Sea that was discovered last summer by Swedish treasure hunters is making headlines once again. The latest media coverage draws upon an hour-long radio interview with Peter Lindberg, head of the Ocean X Team (which made the "discovery"), in which Lindberg delivers a string of cryptic and titillating statements about the "strange" and "mysterious" seafloor object his team has been exploring for a year.
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CNN camerawoman speaks about RNC flap
Thu,30 Aug 2012 10:18 AM PDT
The black CNN camerawoman who had nuts thrown at her at the Republican National Convention said she's "not surprised" by the incident. "This is Florida, and I'm from the Deep South," Alabama native Patricia Carroll told journalist Richard Prince of the Maynard Institute. "You come to places like this, you can count the black people [...] Full Story | Top |
Jan Brewer accidentally endorses Obama at convention (VIDEO)
Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:02 AM PDT
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who pointed her finger in President Barack Obama's face during a heated confrontation on a Phoenix tarmac earlier this year, accidentally endorsed him on Wednesday at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. During an interview with MSNBC from the convention floor, Brewer, who has taken a hard line on border security [...] Full Story | Top |
'Missing' woman unknowingly joins search for herself
Wed,29 Aug 2012 09:52 AM PDT
A woman who was reported missing from an Icelandic tour unwittingly joined a search for herself. According to the Reykjavik Grapevine, a woman described as "Asian, about 160cm, in dark clothing and speaks English well" was listed as missing Saturday near the Eldgjá volcanic canyon in southern Iceland. A search continued through the weekend with [...] Full Story | Top |
Are You Being Monitored At Work?
Wed,29 Aug 2012 04:49 AM PDT
A 2011 survey found that over half of US employers are monitoring their employees' computer usage. How can you find out if you are one of them? And if you are, what should you do about it? There are two main ways employers track computer usage — with monitoring software on your desktop, and by [...] Full Story | Top |
Federal court rejects Texas voter ID law
Thu,30 Aug 2012 10:00 AM PDT
Associated Press - A federal court on Thursday rejected a Texas law that would require voters to present photo IDs to election officials before being allowed to cast ballots in November. Full Story | Top |
Los Angeles plans to charge families of electrocuted Good Samaritans
Thu,30 Aug 2012 10:45 AM PDT
The families of two Good Samaritans who were electrocuted after racing to the scene of a car wreck will still be charged for ambulance fees by the city of Los Angeles. On August 22, Irma Zamora and Stacey Schreiber died after rushing to the scene of a car wreck. Four others were also injured in [...] Full Story | Top |
Voters React to Ryan's Speech: Charming and Witty or Smug and Deceptive?
Thu,30 Aug 2012 08:53 AM PDT
Yahoo! Contributor Network - Yahoo! News asked voters to share their reactions to Paul Ryan's address at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. In their own words, here are perspectives from voters across the nation.Paul Ryan's acceptance speech at the RNC was hyped and full of hope, but he answered the call, with the bases loaded, and hit it out of the park Full Story | Top |
Clint Eastwood to speak at the Republican National Convention: reports
Thu,30 Aug 2012 11:45 AM PDT
TAMPA—Academy Award-winning actor and director Clint Eastwood will speak at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, multiple news outlets are reporting. Rumors about a "mystery speaker" swirled after convention organizers released a revised schedule earlier this week with a "To Be Announced" slot before a speech by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who will introduce Mitt [...] Full Story | Top |
Argentines plan to shoot gulls to save the whales
Wed,29 Aug 2012 05:58 AM PDT
Associated Press -  What began as bizarre bird behavior has turned into something out of a horror film for threatened whales in Argentina, where seagulls have learned that pecking at the whales' backs can get them a regular seafood dinner.
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Ohio man puts up 'Please Hire My Wife' billboard
Thu,30 Aug 2012 09:03 AM PDT
Holly Stuard's husband just put her resume in front of thousands of fresh faces. The Ohio man rented billboard space reading "Please Hire My Wife" to help the former Toledo University employee get back to work. "Over the last five or six months, she's had a few opportunities come along that we thought looked really [...] Full Story | Top |
Police: 100-year-old driver hits 11 near LA school
Thu,30 Aug 2012 04:45 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The screams of women and children didn't cause a 100-year-old driver to stop as he backed his large powder blue Cadillac onto a sidewalk across from an elementary school and hit 11 people, including nine children.
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Disguised SEAL who wrote bin Laden raid book makes first TV appearance
Thu,30 Aug 2012 10:31 AM PDT
The former Navy SEAL who wrote about his part in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was interviewed on "60 Minutes." The CBS news program disguised his face and altered his voice to protect his identity. "He calls himself Mark Owen. That's not his real name. We've disguised him and will keep his name [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama participates in surprise Reddit chat
Wed,29 Aug 2012 01:41 PM PDT
President Obama made a surprise appearance online on Wednesday, participating in a live chat on Reddit.com. "Hi, I'm Barack Obama, President of the United States," Obama wrote in a message on the site. "Ask me anything." The post prompted immediate skepticism about its authenticity, so the commander in tweet offered some proof, posting a message [...] Full Story | Top |
Sen. Hatch to Mitt Romney: Advice from one Mormon Republican to another
Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:04 AM PDT
Spinners and Winners Sen. Orrin Hatch had to fight for his political life this year, when he was nearly beaten in the Republican primary in his home state of Utah. Spinners and Winners caught up with Hatch on the convention floor in Tampa, where the long-time senator credited his background for his primary victory. Like [...] Full Story | Top |
Defendant in Texas rape case vanishes during trial
Thu,30 Aug 2012 12:17 AM PDT
Associated Press -  The first defendant to face trial among a group of men and boys accused of repeatedly raping a young Texas girl vanished Wednesday during a break in the proceedings, following emotionally charged testimony from the alleged victim.
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Condoleezza Rice calls for a 'compassionate' immigration policy at RNC
Wed,29 Aug 2012 07:08 PM PDT
TAMPA—Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice implored Republicans to champion a "compassionate" immigration policy in her speech at the Republican National Convention Wednesday. "We must continue to welcome the world's most ambitious people to be a part of us. In that way we stay young and optimistic and determined," Rice said. "We need immigration laws [...] Full Story | Top |
Flooding from Isaac forces evacuation of 60,000
Thu,30 Aug 2012 02:13 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Torrential rain dropped by Hurricane Isaac threatened to burst a dam on Thursday, forcing evacuation of up to 60,000 people in Louisiana and Mississippi and leaving large areas of the region flooded and without power. Isaac, which was downgraded to a tropical depression on Thursday after moving in from the Gulf on Tuesday, left little damage in New Orleans, where stronger barriers were installed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Only one fatality linked to the storm has been confirmed so far. But it left a soggy mess across widespread areas of the U.S. ...
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Former U.Va. athlete gets 23 years for slaying ex
Thu,30 Aug 2012 04:35 PM PDT
Associated Press -  A former University of Virginia lacrosse player who killed his ex-girlfriend in a drunken rage received a 23-year prison sentence Thursday in a case that forever changed the school's attitudes toward relationship violence and made it easier for abuse victims in the state to obtain restraining orders.
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Bomb from World War II detonated on purpose
Wed,29 Aug 2012 03:41 PM PDT
This is not a test. This is a video of an actual World War II-era, American-made bomb going off in the center of Munich, Germany. According to its description on YouTube, the explosive was discovered on Monday night by workers at the site of a building that was being demolished. Officials realized that the 550-pound [...] Full Story | Top |
Michelle Obama on Republican National Convention: 'I tend not to watch it'
Thu,30 Aug 2012 10:58 AM PDT
During yet another late night television appearance, first lady Michelle Obama told David Letterman that she hasn't been watching the Republican National Convention this week—but that doesn't mean American voters should follow her lead. "As the wife of the guy they're running against, I tend not to watch it," the first lady said on the [...] Full Story | Top |
'Freedom is Fabulous': Two Republican gay groups make waves in Tampa
Thu,30 Aug 2012 10:11 AM PDT
TAMPA--An older gentleman in a sparkling cowboy suit and matching hat made out of sequins gazed at a pair of buff male go-go dancers wearing tight jeans and skimpy tank tops that read "Freedom Is Fabulous." That was the scene at a local gay bar called "The Honeypot" on Tuesday night. More than 800 Republican [...] Full Story | Top |
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