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Today's Most Popular News: Girl scouts cut back on cookies Social Security posting $600B deficit over 10 years Security forces disappear off Cairo streets Humans may have left Africa earlier than thought For Fully Mature Black Holes, Time Stands Still Opinion: Gingrich’s take on Obama’s vision AP Exclusive: Teach For America gets $100M HI bill would give anyone Obama birth info for fee House GOP considers privatizing Medicare Ill. high court: Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor Mexican gangs using catapults to hurl pot into US Ugandan gay activist slain after photo published Relative: Mexico violence worried slain missionary Smugglers with "medieval catapult" nabbed at border Filibuster lives: Senate rejects changes in rules University awards first Beatles degree Charlie Sheen hospitalized with abdominal pain Obama's Reagan Bromance: Admiring the Gipper's Vision Snow, shovel, repeat: East Coast digs out again Study Ties Hot Flashes to Lower Breast Cancer Risk Girl scouts cut back on cookies Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:50 pm PST The Upshot - The economic downturn has claimed another victim: Thank U Berry Munch Girl Scout cookies. In an effort to cut costs, several Girl Scout councils are cutting the types of cookies they sell. Among the brands on the chopping block: Thank U Berry Munch, Dulce de Leche, and several more. The goal is for the Girl [...] Full Story Top Social Security posting $600B deficit over 10 years Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:58 am PST AP - Social Security will post nearly $600 billion in deficits over the next decade as the economy struggles to recover and millions of baby boomers stand at the brink of retirement, according to new congressional projections. Full Story Top Security forces disappear off Cairo streets Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:54 pm PST AP - Egyptian security forces have all but disappeared from the streets in the heart of the country's capital ahead of planned demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak's rule. Full Story Top Humans may have left Africa earlier than thought Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:23 pm PST AP - Modern humans may have left Africa thousands of years earlier than previously thought, turning right and heading across the Red Sea into Arabia rather than following the Nile to a northern exit, an international team of researchers says. Full Story Top For Fully Mature Black Holes, Time Stands Still Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:30 pm PST SPACE.com - The end of a black hole’s evolution may be a mind-bending kind of space-time independent of time. A new study proposes a method to tell how far any black hole is from reaching this end state. Full Story Top Opinion: Gingrich’s take on Obama’s vision Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:00 am PST Exclusive to Yahoo! News - By Newt Gingrich When I first heard that President Obama was using "winning the future" as the theme of his state of the union I thought it was ironically funny. I wrote a book, "Winning the Future: A 21st Century … Full Story Top AP Exclusive: Teach For America gets $100M Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:30 pm PST AP - Teach For America, the education organization that places recent college graduates in low-income public schools, is getting $100 million to launch its first-ever endowment in hopes of making the grass-roots organization a permanent fixture in education. Full Story Top HI bill would give anyone Obama birth info for fee Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:24 pm PST AP - Anyone would be able to get a copy of President Barack Obama's birth records for a $100 fee under a bill introduced in the state Legislature that backers hope will finally dispel claims he was born elsewhere. Full Story Top House GOP considers privatizing Medicare Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:11 pm PST AP - Months after they hammered Democrats for cutting Medicare, House Republicans are debating whether to relaunch their quest to privatize the health program for seniors. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is testing support for his idea to replace Medicare with a fixed payment to buy a private medical plan from a menu of coverage options. Full Story Top Ill. high court: Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:10 pm PST AP - Illinois' highest court put Rahm Emanuel back in the race for Chicago mayor Thursday, three days after a lower court threw the former White House chief of staff off the ballot because he had not lived in the city for a full year. Full Story Top Mexican gangs using catapults to hurl pot into US Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:51 pm PST AP - Drug smugglers are using an ancient invention as a new way to move marijuana across the border from Mexico to Arizona. Full Story Top Ugandan gay activist slain after photo published Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:16 pm PST AP - A prominent Ugandan gay rights activist whose picture was published by an anti-gay newspaper next to the words "Hang Them" was bludgeoned to death. Police said Thursday his sexual orientation had nothing to do with the killing and that one "robber" had been arrested. Full Story Top Relative: Mexico violence worried slain missionary Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:13 pm PST AP - A Texas couple who were attacked at an illegal roadblock in one of Mexico's most violent areas had been delivering babies and doing missionary work in the country for three decades, and they had come to expect such confrontations, the couple's son said Thursday. Full Story Top Smugglers with "medieval catapult" nabbed at border Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:56 am PST Reuters - In a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. Border, authorities said.. Full Story Top Filibuster lives: Senate rejects changes in rules Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:10 pm PST AP - The filibuster lives on. The Senate voted overwhelmingly late Thursday to reject efforts to change its rules to restrict the blockades that have sown gridlock and discord in recent years on Capitol Hill. Full Story Top University awards first Beatles degree Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:56 am PST Reuters - A Canadian woman has become the first person in the world to graduate with a Masters degree in Beatles studies. Full Story Top Charlie Sheen hospitalized with abdominal pain Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:13 pm PST AP - Charlie Sheen's publicist says the actor has been hospitalized with severe abdominal pains. Publicist Stan Rosenfield says Sheen has had a history of hernia problems and that the unidentified woman who made the early morning 911 call on Sheen's behalf "said he had severe stomach pains and said it was from a hernia condition." Full Story Top Obama's Reagan Bromance: Admiring the Gipper's Vision Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:40 pm PST Time.com - Barack Obama realized long ago that Ronald Reagan was a transformational President who reshaped the nation and its politics. Now Obama is fashioning his own presidency to follow the Gipper's playbook Full Story Top Snow, shovel, repeat: East Coast digs out again Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:28 pm PST AP - Enough already. Full Story Top Study Ties Hot Flashes to Lower Breast Cancer Risk Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:48 pm PST HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Here's some good news for women ever bothered by hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms: Your risk for breast cancer may be reduced as much as 50 percent, researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle report. Full Story Top

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