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| Is the iPad Mini Worth Buying? Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 05:06 PM PDT Apple has unveiled a new member of the family: the iPad Mini. This device is a clear response to the market pressure the cheaper Amazon Kindle Fire HD and the Nexus 7 have placed on the existing iPad. So how does this scaled down version of the iPad compare with its newly refreshed big brother [...] Full Story | Top |
| Surfing the streets of NYC (VIDEO) Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 03:28 PM PDT Most people wouldn't blink at the sight of skateboarders passing by on the street. But a pair of guys in wetsuits riding motorized surfboards down the streets of New York City was a sight to behold, even for the hard-to-impress residents of the Big Apple. Technically, these guys aren't surfing. After all, there are no [...] Full Story | Top |
| Dog helps boy overcome fear Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 02:52 PM PDT Here's a tale of a hard-luck dog and a boy suffering from a rare condition that caused him to fear the outside world. And, spoiler alert: It has a happy ending for both. The boy, Owen Howkins, suffers from a rare genetic condition, Schwartz-Jampel syndrome. According to the story in the Daily Mail, the disorder [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama in Ohio: Romney is not to be trusted Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 02:43 PM PDT DAYTON, Ohioâ€"The presidential debates are over, Election Day is two week awayâ€"and the gloves are officially off. For weeks, President Barack Obama has criticized Republican nominee Mitt Romney for moderating his position on a range of issues throughout the campaign, but in a Tuesday afternoon rally here, he suggested that his challenger was not "trustworthy" [...] Full Story | Top |
| Romney: Obama’s campaign is ‘slipping’ Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 01:36 PM PDT HENDERSON, Nev.â€"Mitt Romney sought to claim momentum after Monday's final presidential debate, telling a packed rally in this battleground state that the one-on-one face-offs with President Barack Obama have "super charged" his campaign. Sharing the stage with his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, Romney repeated his charge that Obama has not put forward a clear [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sen. Portman may hang up his debate-prep boots Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 01:18 PM PDT DAYTON, Ohioâ€"Was this Rob Portman's final performance? The Republican Ohio senator who played the role of President Barack Obama during debate prep sessions with Mitt Romney, known for his master ability to channel the Democratic mind, could be retiring from the debate-prep world. "I think I may hang up my debate boots," Portman told Yahoo [...] Full Story | Top |
| Candidate releases ‘attack song’ against opponent Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 12:49 PM PDT Political attacks have been around as long as government itself, and they've stretched across all mediums from the paper flier to memes on social media sites like Twitter. But Washington, D.C. city council candidate Ron Moten has taken a different route with his new salvo against council member Yvette Alexander, releasing an "attack song," that [...] Full Story | Top |
| Slithering theater thief convicted, faces serious jail time Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 12:24 PM PDT A Pennsylvania man was convicted of slithering around theater floors and stealing moviegoers' wallets and purses. Anthony Johnson, 49, may have taken as much as $70,000 per week, according to authorities. Along with his accomplices, Johnson used the stolen credit cards and IDs to secure cash advances at local casinos. They also purchased thousands of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Halloween goes ‘Gangnam Style’ (VIDEO) Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 11:43 AM PDT "Gangnam Style" has gone spooky: Residents of Leesburg, Va., have tricked out their house with more than 8,500 lights and 250 channels of computer animation for one very viral video set to PSY's wildly popular hit "Gangnam Style." Click here to watch the video Like a similar display surfaced on Neatorama, this pumping light show [...] Full Story | Top |
| Vermont ski resort unveils gondola powered entirely by cow manure Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 10:50 AM PDT Ski and snowboard season for the Northeast opens in just a few weeks. And when it does, a Vermont ski area plans to unveil a gondola powered entirely by cow manure. Killington Resort in central Vermont has partnered with Green Mountain Power to convert manure from nearby dairy farms to electricity for its K-1 Express [...] Full Story | Top |
| Apple introduces the iPad Mini and other Mac upgrades Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 09:42 AM PDT [Updated at 2:30 p.m. ET] Check out the chat window below for a replay of the Yahoo! News/ABC News live-blog during Apple's press conference on Tuesday. The computer maker revealed upgrades to its MacBook, iPad, iBook app, and a new … Continue reading â†' Full Story | Top |
| Romney’s ‘Let Detroit Go Bankrupt’ op-ed jumps to top of NYT’s ‘Most Viewed’ list Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 09:26 AM PDT Mitt Romney's 2008 op-ed "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" soared to the top of The New York Times' online "Most Viewed" list Tuesday, following a testy exchange between the former governor and President Barack Obama over the auto bailout at Monday night's debate. Romney referenced the editorial after Obama said that if he had taken Romney's [...] Full Story | Top |
| The election is over! (Results embargoed two weeks) Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 08:43 AM PDT Monday night was the final set piece of the 2012 electionâ€"the last scheduled event in which a significant national audience will tune in to develop or refine their impressions of the candidates. Barring any more secret tapes or raids on high-value terrorists, the remainder of the election is largely outside the candidates' control. Instant polls [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama hammers Romney after Florida debate Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 08:39 AM PDT DELRAY BEACH, Fla.â€"The morning after Monday's showdownâ€"the third and final between the candidatesâ€"President Barack Obama spent a postdebate rally here accusing Mitt Romney of switching positions on foreign policy and called his ideas "wrong and reckless." "Last night [former Gov. Romney] was all over the map. Did you notice that?" Obama asked the crowd. "During [...] Full Story | Top |
| Dean takes on student in dance-off Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 07:57 AM PDT A Chicago high school student's senior prank took an unexpected turn when he tried to get teachers and staff to take him on in a dance battle. We're guessing the Whitney M. Young Magnet High School student wasn't counting on Dean of Students John Fanning. Norris Ogbuagu mock-aggressively danced in Fanning's face, as fellow students [...] Full Story | Top |
| Twitter users quick to mock Romney’s debate sweat Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 07:38 AM PDT Mitt Romney appeared to be sweating at times during Monday's presidential debate with President Barack Obama. And, predictably, the Republican candidate's perspiration did not go unnoticed, particularly on Twitter. "Obama looks cool," film critic Roger Ebert tweeted. "Romney looks sweaty." "If Romney sweats anymore I get a royalty," actor Albert Brooks wrote, a reference to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Pro-Romney super PAC to spend $17.7 million on October ad buy Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 06:10 AM PDT DELRAY BEACH, Fla.â€"Restore Our Future, a super PAC supporting Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, announced a new $17.7 million television ad buy Tuesday that will pay for commercials to run in 10 battleground state markets. The money will pay for two very different ads to air over the next seven days. The first features a [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama’s eleventh-hour pitch: His ‘morning again in America’ Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 06:05 AM PDT In 1984, President Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign unleashed an ad declaring "It's morning again in America." It asked voters, "Why would we ever want to return to where we were less than four short years ago?" On Tuesday, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign released its version of (homage to?) that classic piece of political messaging, [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Obama bin Laden’: Schieffer’s debate gaffe unfortunate but not unusual Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 05:59 AM PDT While prefacing a question for Mitt Romney about Pakistan during Monday's presidential debate on foreign policy, moderator Bob Schieffer had an unfortunate slip of the tongue, referring to Osama bin Laden as "Obama bin Laden." "We know that Pakistan has arrested the doctor who helped us catch Obama-uh-bin Laden," Schieffer said, seeming to realize his [...] Full Story | Top |
| Tuesday in politics: Obama in Fla. and Ohio, Romney in Nev. and Colo., and more Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 03:39 AM PDT The debates are over. Now it's the true homestretch â€" 14 days of relentless campaigning. President Barack Obama, following a final debate in which he aggressively called Republican challenger Mitt Romney "all over the map" on foreign policy, campaigns in Florida in the morning before joining Vice President Joe Biden in Ohio in the afternoon. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Team Obama: Romney ‘unsteady’ at the final presidential debate Monday, Oct 22, 2012 09:51 PM PDT BOCA RATON, Fla.--President Barack Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe went on the attack against surrogates for Republican challenger Mitt Romney who said the president was too aggressive during the final presidential debate Monday night. "This is a debate about who should be our commander in chief, so if they're going to whine and talk about [...] Full Story | Top |
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