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| Obama yearns for protest tunes, worries about Malia on Facebook Friday, Oct 26, 2012 03:48 PM PDT  President Barack Obama told MTV in an interview Friday that he wished there were more overtly political music today and said that he's not as concerned about elder daughter Malia dating or driving as he is about her being on Facebook. Interviewer Sway Calloway had asked the commander in chief whether he was more worried [...] Full Story | Top |
| Michelle Obama’s comedy skit promotes voting (VIDEO) Friday, Oct 26, 2012 03:18 PM PDT Election Day is coming up on November 6, and Michelle Obama is definitely doing her part to get out the vote. The first lady showed up on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to remind the audience that even though Election Day is not yet here, in some states early voting is already available. "We live in a [...] Full Story | Top |
| Ronald McDonald violates restraining order after entering McDonald’s restaurant Friday, Oct 26, 2012 02:36 PM PDT It was a very unhappy meal for a British man named Ronald McDonald who admitted to violating a restraining order when he followed his wife into a McDonald's restaurant. "Mr. McDonald followed his ex-wife along a number of streets. She parked in McDonald's in Westwood Cross and he followed her in," said prosecutor Julie Farbrace. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama up 4 percentage points over Romney in Ohio Friday, Oct 26, 2012 01:45 PM PDT A new CNN/ORC poll of likely voters shows President Barack Obama leading Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the crucial state of Ohio with less than two weeks before Election Day: According to a CNN/ORC International survey released Friday, President Barack Obama holds a four point advantage over Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the contest for [...] Full Story | Top |
| Hurricane to complicate final week of presidential campaigns Friday, Oct 26, 2012 12:16 PM PDT With the last full week of the presidential campaign approaching, Hurricane Sandy, a massive storm expected to strike the East Coast over the weekend, will complicate the candidates' best laid plans. The impending storm is already causing problems for Mitt Romney's final week schedule. The Republican nominee planned to participate in a day-long swing through [...] Full Story | Top |
| Romney sticks with ‘change’ in his closing argument Friday, Oct 26, 2012 11:59 AM PDT AMES, Iowaâ€"Mitt Romney again cast himself as an agent of change who is better equipped than President Barack Obama to turn around the nation's economy. With just over a week to go before Election Day, Romney aides described the candidate's speech at a rally in this battleground state as his closing argument to voters. He [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama rebuts claims he’s lying about attack on US Consulate in Libya Friday, Oct 26, 2012 11:43 AM PDT President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully denied deliberately misleading Americans about the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, telling radio host Michael Smerconish, "I've always been straight with the American people." Speaking to Smerconish during a 15-minute Oval Office interview, Obama also declared he was "absolutely" prepared to kill those [...] Full Story | Top |
| Santa Claus calling it quits—in smoking? Friday, Oct 26, 2012 11:22 AM PDT Santa's gone cold turkeyâ€"although he's still breathing second-hand smoke from those sooty chimneys. Vancouver, Canada, publisher Grafton and Scratch has released an edited version of Clement Clarke Moore's 1822 poem, "The Visit From St. Nicholas," better known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." As you may recall, between a description of a "droll little mouth" [...] Full Story | Top |
| Boston Globe: Romney rejected birth certificate changes for gay parents Friday, Oct 26, 2012 11:16 AM PDT Mitt Romney rejected a plan while governor of Massachusetts that would have allowed same-sex married couples to both be listed as the parents of children born to them, the Boston Globe reports from state records it obtained this month. After the state's highest court legalized gay marriage in 2003, the Registry of Vital Records presented [...] Full Story | Top |
| Lena Dunham’s Obama ad makes waves Friday, Oct 26, 2012 10:06 AM PDT Your first time should be "amazing." That's what "Girls" creator Lena Dunham has to say to virgin -- voters. In her controversial new Obama ad, "Your First Time," the actress who mocked herself as "a voice for a generation" in her show, has some advice for the first-time voter: When the time comes… to vote, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Emily Mortimer Panicked Before 'Newsroom' Prep Friday, Oct 26, 2012 09:32 AM PDT "The first was just sort of blind panic," she said about her initial reaction to landing the role of the neurotic super producer Mackenzie MacHale. Full Story | Top |
| Daniel Day-Lewis discusses ‘Lincoln’ in a crowded theater with Spielberg, O’Reilly and Oprah Friday, Oct 26, 2012 08:52 AM PDT In person, Daniel Day-Lewis looks almost nothing like Abraham Lincoln. (He looks something like an English soccer player.) On screen, though, Daniel Day-Lewis looks--and possibly sounds--almost exactly like Abraham Lincoln. "It's lucky for me that no one can say positively what he sounded like," said Day-Lewis on Thursday in New York, following Time magazine's packed [...] Full Story | Top |
| Share your snow photos Friday, Oct 26, 2012 08:48 AM PDT On Oct. 6, the top of Berthoud Pass in Colorado displays a dusting of snow. Click image to add your photos (Brett Linda Stapleton/Yahoo! Contributor Network) Snow started accumulating on America's mountain peaks weeks ago, but many regions of the country didn't start seeing snowfall until recently. Now that the first hints of winter are [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama camp sees ‘comeback’ in improved economic growth Friday, Oct 26, 2012 08:22 AM PDT President Barack Obama's re-election campaign cheered the modestly improved economic growth data released on Friday as "more evidence" that the country is still clawing back from the 2007-2008 global financial meltdown. Republican candidate Mitt Romney called the news a "discouraging" sign of an anemic recovery. "While we have more work to do, today's GDP growth [...] Full Story | Top |
| Smearing yard signs with Vaseline to protect against vandalism: N.C., Va. share swing-state stories Friday, Oct 26, 2012 07:29 AM PDT As Election Day approaches, Yahoo News has asked voters in swing states to share what it's like being in the thick of things as President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney smother them with attention. This week, we look at North Carolina and Virginia, two Southern states that are being contested this year. In [...] Full Story | Top |
| Florida and Ohio, show us your election! Friday, Oct 26, 2012 07:18 AM PDT Florida and Ohio residents, it's no mystery that the 2012 presidential candidates see your states' electoral votes as key to winning the election. So, you're getting a lot of attention from President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and their running mates that the rest of us don't see. We want to know what it's like, and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama tour wraps with personal touch Friday, Oct 26, 2012 06:02 AM PDT CLEVELAND, Ohioâ€"President Barack Obama's voice sounded coarse and tired when he delivered the final speech of a cross-country tour that had taken him to eight states in three days. About 12,000 supporters were waiting on the airport tarmac here when Air Force One landed and rolled behind the stage. With the music of U2 blaring [...] Full Story | Top |
| Weekend in politics: Polls get tighter, campaigning intensifies, and more Friday, Oct 26, 2012 03:56 AM PDT Saturday will mark 10 days and counting until Election Day. The campaigning for the White House? It's intensifying. The polls? They show a race between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney that couldn't get much closer. Obama appears in a half-hour special on MTV on Friday. The obvious mission: Reach out to younger [...] Full Story | Top |
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