Sunday, October 28, 2012

Daily News Digest: Most Popular News Headlines - Yahoo! News

Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 07:25 AM PDT
Today's Most Popular News Headlines - Yahoo! News:

Sandy: East Coast braces for epic hurricane, ‘life-threatening’ storm surge 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 07:25 AM PDT
[UPDATED: 8:00 p.m. ET] "Superstorm." "The Perfect Storm." "Frankenstorm." Whatever you want to call it, the East Coast is bracing for Hurricane Sandy, a "rare hybrid storm" that is expected to bring a life-threatening storm surge to the mid-Atlantic coast, Long Island Sound and New York harbor, forecasters say, with winds expected to be at [...]
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Advantage Obama in hunt for 270 electoral votes 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 03:04 PM PDT
President Barack Obama walks to St. John's Episcopal Church from the White House with his daughters Sasha, left, and Malia, in Washington, on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)President Barack Obama is poised to eke out a victory in the race for the 270 electoral votes needed to win re-election, having beaten back Republican Mitt Romney's attempts to convert momentum from the debates into support in all-important Ohio, according to an Associated Press analysis a week before Election Day.
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Kim Kardashian makes a splash at NYC bash 
Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 11:15 PM PDT
Kim Kardashian hosts the 2nd Annual Midori Green Halloween Party on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)Kim Kardashian isn't worried about the behemoth storm expected to pummel the eastern U.S. with rain and wind this week.
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Insurers nervous over prospect of Romney victory 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 08:13 AM PDT
This undated handout photo provided by the Bipartisan Policy Center shows G. William Hoagland. Health insurance CEOs are getting nervous about what could happen if Republican Mitt Romney wins the White House. Although the industry hates parts of President Barack Obama's health care law, major companies such as UnitedHealth Group and BlueCross Blue Shield stand to rake in billions of dollars from new customers who'll get health insurance under the law. The companies already have invested tens of millions to carry it out. "There are a lot of dollars and a lot of staff time that's been put into place to make this thing operational," G. William Hoagland, until recently a Cigna vice president, said of the health care law. (AP Photo/Bipartisan Policy Center)You'd think health insurance CEOs would be chilling the bubbly with Republican Mitt Romney's improved election prospects, but instead they're in a quandary.
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Madonna booed after touting Obama in La. Concert 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 01:28 AM PDT
FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2012 photo, Madonna performs during her concert in St. Petersburg, Russia. Madonna angered some New Orleans fans when she turned her concert there into an opportunity to push a political agenda. The Material Girl asked midway through Saturday night's performance: “Who's registered to vote?” She added: “I don't care who you vote for as long as you vote for Obama.” Drawing boos in touting Obama over Republican Mitt Romney, Madonna followed: “Seriously, I don't care who you vote for ... Do not take this privilege for granted. Go vote.” Madonna is often outspoken. Some Colorado fans, mindful of a mass shooting there, complained she used a fake gun to shoot a masked gunman in a recent concert act in Denver. A Madonna concert in Paris in July drew ire for a video showing a swastika on a politician's forehead. (AP Photo/ Alexander Demianchuk, Pool)Madonna drew boos and triggered a walkout by several concertgoers after she touted President Barack Obama on her "MDNA Tour" in New Orleans.
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Will Supreme Court turn up its nose at drug-sniffing dogs? 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 10:34 AM PDT
People line up for admission at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington(Reuters) - Two dogs, a chocolate Labrador retriever named Franky and a German shepherd named Aldo, should have their day at the U.S. Supreme Court. The court is scheduled on Wednesday to hear Florida's appeal of two decisions by that state's highest court that found the detection of drugs by trained police dogs had violated the constitutional ban on unreasonable searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. ...
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Close race makes up for waning zeal in expat vote 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 02:38 AM PDT
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Land O'LakesBERLIN (Reuters) - With the presidential election too close to call, hundreds of thousands of Americans living in Europe have been posting their absentee ballots with a sense that they could truly make a difference on November 6. From Berlin to Paris and London to Madrid, they have closely tracked the battle between Democrat President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, though the emotional temperature is several degrees lower than four years ago, when most expats rallied behind Obama after two terms of George W. Bush, whom many thought had tarnished the U.S. image abroad. ...
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Hurricane Sandy: Could it change the outcome of the presidential race? 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 03:33 PM PDT
President Barack Obama speaks as he attends a briefing with Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig Fugate, right, at the National Response Coordination Center at FEMA Headquarters in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Hurricane Sandy has scrambled the last week of the presidential race, upsetting campaign schedules, putting both President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney off-message, and raising doubts about Election Day and how early voting is going.
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October storm scrambles presidential contest 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 02:11 AM PDT
President Barack Obama holds up a baby at a campaign event at Elm Street Middle School, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)Scrambling to avoid the superstorm that threatens to disrupt the lives of millions of Americans up and down the East Coast, Republican Mitt Romney is returning to battleground Ohio to fight for momentum nine days before the election.
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Superstorm could impact 60 million people in US; coastal residents told to get out of the way 
Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 11:43 PM PDT
SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. - Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don't get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the rare behemoth storm inexorably gathering in the eastern U.S. will afflict a third of the country with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow, say officials who warned millions in coastal areas to get out of the way.
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Obama at 49 percent, Romney 46 percent nine days before election: Reuters/Ipsos poll 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 09:56 AM PDT
U.S. President Barack Obama jogs into a campaign rally in Las Vegas,WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has extended his narrow lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney among likely voters in a race that remains statistically tied nine days before the election, according to a Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll released on Sunday. Obama has a 49 percent to 46 percent edge over Romney, marking a 1 point increase from Saturday but still within the daily online survey's 4 percentage-point credibility interval for likely voters. Swings could be possible in the remaining days of the campaign, however. ...
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Magnitude 7.7 quake strikes off Canadian coast 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 05:23 PM PDT
Erica Avegalio, center, and her brother Albert Avegalio, right, load up on water and food at the Times Supermarket after learning of a tsunami warning Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Honolulu. A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked an island off the west coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center originally said there was no threat to the islands, but a warning was issued later Saturday and remains in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday. A small craft advisory is in effect until Sunday morning. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the west coast of Canada, but there were no reports of major damage. Residents in parts of British Columbia were evacuated, but the province appeared to escape the biggest quake in Canada since 1949 largely unscathed.
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Blood and Astronaut Pee: Creepy Cargo Returns to Earth on SpaceX Capsule Today 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 12:25 AM PDT
Blood and Astronaut Pee: Creepy Cargo Returns to Earth on SpaceX Capsule TodayA privately built spacecraft will carry some extra creepy cargo back to Earth from the International Space Station Sunday (Oct. 28): astronaut blood and urine.
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Execution looms for SD killer, ending 22-year saga 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 12:30 PM PDT
FILE - This July 18, 2012 file frame grab provided by KELO-TV shows convicted killer Donald Moeller during a court appearance in Sioux Falls, S.D. Moeller is scheduled to be executed to be executed the week of Oct. 29, 2012, for the 1990 killing of 9-year-old Becky O'Connell. His death sentence was the first handed down in South Dakota since the 1940s. (AP Photo/Courtesy KELO-TV, File)Torrential overnight rains had washed away the blood so the searchers at first thought the pale form lying on the earthen berm might be a mannequin.
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Supreme Court weighs new look at voting rights law 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 05:03 AM PDT
Supreme Court to decide whether to take a new look at key part of landmark voting rights law
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Steve Jobs's Secret Yacht Looks Like a Giant iPhone 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 05:48 PM PDT
Steve Jobs' Yacht Revealed, Christened 'Venus' [VIDEO]RELATED: Should You Buy an iPad 2?
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'Frankenstorm': Worse than sum of its parts 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 08:41 AM PDT
A person rides in a cart blown by the winds along the Altlantic Ocean in North Wildwood, N.J., Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, as the winds pick up ahead of Hurricane Sandy. From the lowest lying areas of the Jersey shore, where residents were already being encouraged to leave, to the state's northern highlands, where sandbags were being filled and cars moved into parking lots on high ground, New Jersey began preparing in earnest for Hurricane Sandy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)The storm that is threatening 60 million Americans in the eastern third of the nation in just a couple of days with high winds, drenching rains, extreme tides, flooding and probably snow is much more than just an ordinary weather system. It's a freakish and unprecedented monster.
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Obama balancing storm response with campaigning 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 06:36 PM PDT
President Barack Obama hugs his daughter Sasha as he walks with Malia as they leave St. John's Episcopal Church to walk across Lafayette Park as they return to the White House in Washington, on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)President Barack Obama has spent months trying to balance his re-election bid with running the government.
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Mom Raises Money to Watch Daughter's Killer Die 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 03:30 PM PDT
Friends, family members and strangers have helped Tina Curl’s grim dream come to fruitionâ€"to watch the man who raped and murdered her 9-year-old daughter be strapped to a gurney, fight for his final breath as lethal drugs course through his veins. Curl, 50, spent months...
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An uneasy economy, and those living through it 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 11:13 AM PDT
In this Oct. 19, 2012, photo, Ray and Candice Arvin pose inside their home in Charlotte, N.C. Romney supporter, Ray Arvin used to own a small business with five employees, selling equipment to power companies, but he went out of business in 2009. He’s now a salesman for another equipment company. Polls consistently find that the economy is the top concern of voters, and Romney tends to get an edge over Obama when people are asked who might do better with it. Whether that truly drives how Americans vote is a crucial question for Election Day. (AP Photo/Robert Ray)Here was Chas Kaufmann's life before the Great Recession: $28,000 in restaurant tabs in a year, cruises, house parties with fireworks. His Mr. Gutter business was booming in the Pennsylvania Poconos.
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East Coast storm wreaks havoc on presidential race 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 06:27 PM PDT
President Barack Obama speaks as he attends a briefing with Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig Fugate, right, at the National Response Coordination Center at FEMA Headquarters in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama frantically sought to close the deal with voters with precious few days left in an incredibly close race as this year's October surprise â€" an unprecedented storm menacing the East Coast â€" wreaked havoc on their best-laid plans.
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Reports: UK police arrest Gary Glitter 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 10:29 AM PDT
FILE - In this Jan, 11, 2000 file photo, British performer Gary Glitter, during a press conference in London. Police investigating the sex abuse scandal surrounding late BBC children's television host Jimmy Savile have arrested pop star Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Metropolitan Police said they arrested a man in his 60s early Sunday morning at his London home, on suspicion of sexual offenses, and that he remains in custody in a London police station. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)Police investigating child sex abuse allegations against the late BBC television host Jimmy Savile arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter on Sunday, British media reported, raising further questions about whether Savile was at the center of a broader pedophile ring.
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Hawaii tsunami warning canceled after lower than expected waves 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 03:12 PM PDT
Mike Nakamoto of Honolulu prepare's his client's boat moored at the Ala Wai Harbor to take it to deep water after learning of a tsunami warning Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Honolulu. A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked an island off the west coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center originally said there was no threat to the islands, but a warning was issued later Saturday and remains in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday. A small craft advisory is in effect until Sunday morning.(AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)HONOLULU (Reuters) - Hawaii state officials on Sunday canceled a tsunami advisory prompted by a powerful earthquake off the Canadian coast that sent thousands of people fleeing to higher ground, but did not cause major damage. The advisory was canceled shortly before 4 a.m. local time (1400 GMT) after the anticipated waves rolled in lower than expected, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. Kevin Richards, earthquake and tsunami manager for Hawaii State Civil Defense, said water, gas and power lines were not damaged by the smaller-than-expected waves. ...
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