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Romney: Green jobs funding could have helped hire 2 million teachers
Wed,3 Oct 2012 07:33 PM PDT
 When Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama were asked to compare their education plans, both candidates went out of their way to say they support public education. For his answer, Obama tapped into a recent gaffe Romney made when he suggested that prospective students should borrow money from their parents to pay for their college [...]
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Candidates get confrontational on Social Security, Medicare
Wed,3 Oct 2012 06:51 PM PDT
 The first presidential debate took a more confrontational tone as questions shifted from general comments on the economy to the future of Social Security and Medicare. "Social Security is structurally sound," President Barack Obama said. On entitlements, Obama also took a veiled shot at Mitt Romney's criticism of the 47 percent of Americans the GOP [...]
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From Obama's race to Romney's 47 percent: A guide to leaked videos
Wed,3 Oct 2012 04:04 PM PDT
ABC OTUS News -  In the two weeks since a left-leaning news site posted that discreetly filmed video of Mitt Romney discounting the "47 percent", a barrage of equally grainy and often ancient videos of his rival and his running mate have popped up from bloggers on both sides of the aisle.
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Candidates trade jokes on president's 20th wedding anniversary
Wed,3 Oct 2012 06:17 PM PDT
 Click image to see more photos from the debate. (Jason Reed/Reuters) During the first question of the night, President Barack Obama paused before answering to note that it is his 20th wedding anniversary with Michelle Obama. "I promise we won't be doing this in front of 40 million people next year," Obama said. When it [...]
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Turkey strikes back at Syria after mortar kills five civilians
Wed,3 Oct 2012 04:50 PM PDT
Reuters -  Turkey's military hit targets inside Syria on Wednesday in response to a mortar bomb fired from Syrian territory which killed five Turkish civilians. In the most serious cross-border escalation of the 18-month uprising in Syria, Turkey hit back at what it called "the last straw" when a mortar hit a residential neighborhood of the border town of Akcakale. NATO called an urgent meeting to discuss the matter. ...
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Mexican troops arrest two in killing of U.S. border agent: Officials
Wed,3 Oct 2012 04:39 PM PDT
Reuters -  Mexican troops arrested two men on Wednesday suspected of involvement in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot dead in Arizona while responding to a tripped ground sensor, Mexican security officials said. The agent who died was among three who were patrolling on foot about 5 miles north of the international border when gunfire erupted well before daybreak on Tuesday. A second agent was also wounded while the third, a woman, was unharmed. ...
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State Dept opens Benghazi consulate attack probe
Wed,3 Oct 2012 04:42 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Past investigations into attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions have blamed both the administration and Congress for failing to spend enough money to ensure that the overseas facilities were safe despite a clear rise in terror threats to American interests abroad.
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Schwarzenegger's advice for debate: 'Be as honest as possible'
Wed,3 Oct 2012 01:51 PM PDT
 Arnold Schwarzenegger is a movie star and a political star. As governor of California, he has been in two debates. On "Piers Morgan" tonight, the ex-"Governator" has some advice for the candidates for president as they face off in their first debate: "Be as honest as possible." No surprise that honesty is on the A-lister's [...]
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Colorado ranchers struggle to survive drought
Wed,3 Oct 2012 11:27 AM PDT
 LOMA, Colo.—A group of black-coffee-drinking cowboys wearing ten-gallon hats gathered last week at the Western Slope Cattlemen's Livestock Auction house. Waiting inside a crowded diner for the sale to begin, they watched a light rain wash dust off the pickup trucks outside. The unusual sight raised cautious hopes that a crushing drought, which spread across [...]
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N. Dakota oil boom minting up to 2,000 millionaires a year
Wed,3 Oct 2012 12:45 PM PDT
Reuters -  STANLEY, North Dakota (Reuters) - The retired men shooting the breeze at Joyce's Cafe in Stanley don't look like oil barons but appearances can be deceptive, especially in North Dakota. Take Robert Western, a farmer who was dressed in rumpled overalls and a baseball cap as he sipped coffee and discussed the oil boom that has transformed this once sleepy town. "Some of the younger people buy a lot more - machinery, vehicles, things like that," said the 75-year-old Western. "The rest of us, I guess it doesn't alter our lifestyle a great deal. I don't have a lot of needs. ...
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Colorado movie theater shooting suspect claims his rights were violated
Wed,3 Oct 2012 12:29 PM PDT
 Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes' constitutional rights were violated when his jail mug shot was recently released to the media, his defense team claims. In documents released on Wednesday, the court-appointed lawyers argue the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Department violated the judge's order to limit pretrial publicity by providing an updated photo of Holmes [...]
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Increase in craft beer helps turn industry around
Wed,3 Oct 2012 01:18 PM PDT
Brewers can finally toast to good sales this year, after a mid-year report published by the Brewer's Association cited a 14 percent growth in beer sales. The organization represents 1,400 U.S. breweries, or about 70 percent of the industry. Craft beer also experienced a spike... Full Story | Top |
Video: Handless magician performs card tricks
Wed,3 Oct 2012 12:09 PM PDT
Mahdi Gilbert does not have hands, but he has a seemingly magical ability to perform amazing card tricks that the average person can barely follow, let alone decipher. In this video, Gilbert performs some tricks before a small group at 2010's Magic-Con. The website for Magic-Con describes Gilbert as "a rare gentleman and scoundrel who [...] Full Story | Top |
Denver braces for 'debate' traffic
Wed,3 Oct 2012 12:31 PM PDT
Denver residents are bracing for gridlock conditions—or what qualifies as gridlock conditions in Colorado—on Wednesday night as the city hosts the first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney at the University of Denver. A six-mile stretch of Interstate 25 will be closed in both directions between 5 and 10 p.m., the city [...] Full Story | Top |
Startup gives users control over sale of personal data
Wed,3 Oct 2012 12:47 PM PDT
Most sites that you visit on the Web allow you to use their services without charging you money. There is a transaction happening, but you do not sign anything. You and the website have a sort of quasi-agreement: You, the user, do not pay to use the website's service, and in exchange, it shows you [...] Full Story | Top |
Seinfeld fires off letter to the Times ripping critic
Wed,3 Oct 2012 11:05 AM PDT
Jerry Seinfeld really has a lot of free time on his hands. On Tuesday, the New York Times published a column by Neil Genzlinger critical of screenwriters he thinks overuse the word "really" in their scripts. "Civilization crumbles a little bit almost every time I turn on the television," Genzlinger wrote, "and a single word-and-punctuation-mark [...] Full Story | Top |
Jailers accused of sending inmates on unsupervised beer runs
Wed,3 Oct 2012 01:35 PM PDT
Two corrections officers at American Samoa's only jail are accused of letting some inmates leave the jail to go on shopping trips for beer and chips. Officers Fiti Aina and Rocky Tua are being investigated after one of the Territorial Correctional Facility's inmates escaped. According to court documents, one inmate said he was allowed to [...] Full Story | Top |
How do blind people picture reality?
Wed,3 Oct 2012 09:31 AM PDT
LiveScience.com -  Paul Gabias has never seen a table. He was born prematurely and went blind shortly thereafter, most likely because of overexposure to oxygen in his incubator. And yet, Gabias, 60, has no trouble perceiving the table next to him. "My image of the table is exactly the same as a table," he said. "It has height, depth, width, texture; I can picture the whole thing all at once. It just has no color."
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Apple recruiting its retail employees to fix Maps
Wed,3 Oct 2012 10:44 AM PDT
Though many of us like the app and use it regularly, it's hard to argue that there aren't problems with Apple's new Maps application bundled in its latest iOS 6 operating system. Between melted bridges, closed restaurants, and farms being … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Photos: See the presidential candidates' Cheeto 'face-off'
Wed,3 Oct 2012 04:07 AM PDT
 IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR CHEETOS - Artist Jason Baalman poses in front of portraits of President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney made entirely of more than 2,000 individual Cheetos snacks Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, in Baalman's Colorado Springs, Colo., studio. Today, the Cheetos brand unveiled a new electoral polling model with the unveiling of 3 feet by 4 feet one-of-a-kind Cheetos portraits of the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees – President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney. Debuting on Facebook today at 11 a.m. CT, fans are encouraged to vote for their candidate's portrait – made entirely of more than 2,000 individual Cheetos cheese snacks – for a chance to win the actual portrait. (Photo by Jack Dempsey/Invision for Cheetos/AP Images)
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