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Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News: What Myspace got wrong, and why nobody misses it Founder of TwitPic tweets his run-in with the law via his own Twitter photo-sharing service Princess Diana at 50: How her legacy lives on Glenn Beck’s future, and Fox News Channel’s without him Low budget is no problem for cell phone filmmaker Gallup: 72% of Americans favor Obama Afghanistan drawdown plan LAST TICKET: Mud wrestling with Sarah Palin; John Lennon hearts Ronald Reagan Romney camp urges earlier Utah primary Wedding vending machine will get you hitched in a hurry World of Warcraft expands free trial, gives new players a fresh way to get hooked Is feminism reducing the quality of America’s teaching force? Economists: Failure to raise debt limit could cause recession In Media Res: The Awl loses publisher; AP gets North Korea bureau; Paste returns Dems fundraise off Boehner’s emotions Networks swoon over Casey Anthony trial to fill summer void The $1 billion that no one in the United States wants Bush-appointed judge rules for Obama healthcare overhaul Obama defends Libya action: “A lot of this fuss is politics” Obama scolds Congress over debt limit negotiations IMF: U.S. growth won’t reach 3 percent before 2017 Most Americans now support gay marriage, but can’t legalize it Gov. Nikki Haley to South Carolina Republicans: Pay for your own primary American tourist left on Great Reef by tour boat company Defense Secretary Gates signs off The Bachmann bump: Will it last? Glenn Beck Says He Was Nearly ‘Lynched’, the Pope On Twitter, and an NFL Player Live-Tweets His Exchange With Police Verizon blows the competition away, officially the fastest 4G network in the nation Tina Brown defends photoshopping Princess Di onto Newsweek cover Foreign policy debate divides GOP presidential hopefuls Four signs the White House is worried about 2012 Gay couple claims Giuliani ignoring pledge to marry them News of the world: Greece approves austerity plan, France armed Libya rebels Florida condo uses DNA matching to sniff out which resident’s dogs are serial poopers Outside political groups kick off early 2012 ad war Weightlifting group allows woman to wear hijab, unitard in competitions How much will our wars cost? Report says $4 trillion FIRST CUTS: NYT retention challenge; press beats up on Patch Palin says she still hasn’t decided about 2012, contrary to what her daughter says FIRST LOOK: Bank of America settles with investors for $8.5 billion Pope sends first tweet, does so using iPad 2 What Myspace got wrong, and why nobody misses it Wed,29 Jun 2011 06:34 PM PDT Technology News Blog - The tale of Myspace is a cautionary one. Between 2006 and 2009, Myspace was the place to be for millions of internet citizens all over the world. At its peak, it was valued at as much as $20 billion (yes, … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top Founder of TwitPic tweets his run-in with the law via his own Twitter photo-sharing service Wed,29 Jun 2011 06:27 PM PDT Technology News Blog - A single errant tweet may have cost a prominent politician his job this month, but one high-profile Twitter user opted to live-tweet an indiscretion to top that â€" his own arrest. Late last night, TwitPic founder Noah Everett found himself in a … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top Princess Diana at 50: How her legacy lives on Wed,29 Jun 2011 03:57 PM PDT The Newsroom - If Princess Diana were still alive, Friday, July 1, would be her 50th birthday. Many are speculating what she would be like today â€" how she would look, where she would live, who she would have married. The magazine Newsweek … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top Glenn Beck’s future, and Fox News Channel’s without him Wed,29 Jun 2011 03:24 PM PDT The Cutline - It was supposed to be a quaint summer evening outdoors with the family. Green grass. Golden sunset. Picnic baskets. Old Hitchcock movie under the stars. But to hear Glenn Beck tell it, the scene at Manhattan's Bryant Park Monday evening was more like a lynching. No sooner had the talk show host sat down with [...] Full Story1 Top Low budget is no problem for cell phone filmmaker Wed,29 Jun 2011 02:36 PM PDT The Upshot - With the special-effects blockbuster "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" hitting theaters, now's a good time to remind budding auteurs that one doesn't need a hundred million dollar budget to make a good movie. In fact, with some creativity, you can make an award-winning flick for next to nothing. Tech company Nokia recently held a competition [...] Full Story1 Top Gallup: 72% of Americans favor Obama Afghanistan drawdown plan Wed,29 Jun 2011 02:33 PM PDT The Envoy - President Barack Obama has unusually broad public support for his decision to begin drawing down U.S. forces from Afghanistan, according to a new Gallup poll. Almost three in four Americans (72 percent) are in favor of Obama's decision to start bringing troops home from Afghanistan, while just one in four (23 percent) oppose it, the [...] Full Story1 Top LAST TICKET: Mud wrestling with Sarah Palin; John Lennon hearts Ronald Reagan Wed,29 Jun 2011 02:20 PM PDT The Ticket - Here are the stories we took note of today but didn't give the full blog treatment: • Congressional Republicans are just plain sick of signing pledges. (Politico) • Herman Cain gets a book deal. (CBS News) • Alaskans like President Obama more than Sarah Palin. (Anchorage Daily News) • John Lennon, Reaganite? (The Atlantic Wire) [...] Full Story1 Top Romney camp urges earlier Utah primary Wed,29 Jun 2011 01:32 PM PDT The Ticket - Utah advisers for Mitt Romney are pushing their home state to schedule an earlier 2012 presidential primary in the hopes of benefiting the former Massachusetts governor, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Romney's camp is making the case to Utah Republicans that pushing their primary back to before the present scheduled date of June 26, 2012 [...] Full Story1 Top Wedding vending machine will get you hitched in a hurry Wed,29 Jun 2011 01:32 PM PDT Technology News Blog - There is no shortage of ways to say "I do," and while some are more extravagant than others, nothing compares to the wedding vending machine concept called AutoWed. Making a quickie Vegas ceremony seem like overkill, this automated marriage bot … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top World of Warcraft expands free trial, gives new players a fresh way to get hooked Wed,29 Jun 2011 01:28 PM PDT Technology News Blog - If you've somehow managed to resist the global gaming phenomenon known as World of Warcraft, get ready to feel your defenses weakening. Yesterday, World of Warcraft's creator Blizzard announced that the game would be free to play through level 20 … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top Is feminism reducing the quality of America’s teaching force? Wed,29 Jun 2011 01:08 PM PDT The Lookout - Thanks to feminism, American schools are no longer benefitting from an invisible wage subsidy that allowed them to attract bright, over-qualified college-educated teachers at low wages and poor working conditions. That's the controversial conclusion reached in a recent report by Marc Tucker at the nonpartisan National Center on Education and the Economy. Tucker blasts the United States [...] Full Story1 Top Economists: Failure to raise debt limit could cause recession Wed,29 Jun 2011 12:55 PM PDT The Lookout - The pressure on Congress to get serious about a deal on the debt ceiling is mounting by the day. A group of 235 prominent economists, including six Nobel Prize winners and a former top White House economics adviser, today called on congressional leaders to raise the ceiling, and to do so "without attaching drastic and [...] Full Story1 Top In Media Res: The Awl loses publisher; AP gets North Korea bureau; Paste returns Wed,29 Jun 2011 12:54 PM PDT The Cutline - Awl gone: David Cho, the wunderkind publisher who helped Choire Sicha and Alex Balk turn The Awl into a well-trafficked website that advertisers pay to market themselves on, is leaving the small start-up to join Bill Simmons' new sports website, Grantland, as director of business development, the New York Observer reports. "The opportunity at Grantland [...] Full Story1 Top Dems fundraise off Boehner’s emotions Wed,29 Jun 2011 12:51 PM PDT The Ticket - House Speaker John Boehner is famous for letting his emotions get the best of him, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee won't let him hear the end of it. The group, tasked with  electing Democrats to the House, launched a fund raising initiative this week aimed at making fun of Boehner for his history of [...] Full Story1 Top Networks swoon over Casey Anthony trial to fill summer void Wed,29 Jun 2011 12:48 PM PDT The Cutline - As coverage of the Casey Anthony murder trial moves into its fifth week, several television networks, led by ABC and HLN, have used the case to fill what would ordinarily be the start of a slow, post-Weinergate summer news cycle. On "Good Morning America," ABC's chief legal analyst Dan Abrams has been regularly sparring with [...] Full Story1 Top The $1 billion that no one in the United States wants Wed,29 Jun 2011 12:41 PM PDT The Lookout - Budget cuts thanks to the stalled economy have imperiled care for the mentally ill, left a new school building unstaffed, and perhaps most disastrously, limited efforts to keep nukes out of the hands of terrorists. And yet the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond is sitting on $1 billion in gold dollar coins it says the [...] Full Story1 Top Bush-appointed judge rules for Obama healthcare overhaul Wed,29 Jun 2011 12:09 PM PDT The Lookout - So far in the legal fight over President Obama's health care overhaul, both sides have had victories and defeats. Two federal judges, both appointed by Republican presidents, have sided with conservative opponents of the law, ruling that its requirement that almost all Americans buy health insurance is unconstitutional. Three other federal judges, all appointed by [...] Full Story1 Top Obama defends Libya action: “A lot of this fuss is politics” Wed,29 Jun 2011 12:06 PM PDT The Envoy - President Barack Obama, speaking at a White House news conference today, defended his decision to join international military operations in Libya, accusing lawmakers who have questioned the legality of the action of playing politics. Obama stressed the limited nature of the U.S. military role in Libya--no ground forces would be deployed, he emphasized, and there [...] Full Story1 Top Obama scolds Congress over debt limit negotiations Wed,29 Jun 2011 11:24 AM PDT The Ticket - Amid ongoing frustration over a failure to reach a compromise on the debt limit, President Obama on Wednesday sharply scolded Congress, suggesting his daughters do a better job of getting things done ahead of time. "Malia and Sasha generally finish their homework a day ahead of time," Obama said during a press conference--his first major [...] Full Story1 Top IMF: U.S. growth won’t reach 3 percent before 2017 Wed,29 Jun 2011 11:14 AM PDT The Lookout - We've seen several recent forecasts of U.S. economic growth lately, none of them very rosy. But a new one from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is even gloomier. In an annual report on the U.S. economy, the IMF predicted that growth won't reach 3 percent for the next five years (pdf). Here are the exact [...] Full Story1 Top Most Americans now support gay marriage, but can’t legalize it Wed,29 Jun 2011 11:01 AM PDT Exclusives - By William Saletan Slate Two days after legalizing same-sex marriage in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo marched in the New York City gay pride parade. "You're going to see this message resonate all across the country now," he predicted. "If … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top Gov. Nikki Haley to South Carolina Republicans: Pay for your own primary Wed,29 Jun 2011 10:44 AM PDT The Ticket - South Carolina GOP Gov. Nikki Haley vetoed a spending bill from the state legislature Tuesday that would have allowed taxpayer money to help pay for next year's Republican presidential primary elections. Haley, who was elected in 2010, has warned since March that she would not allow public financing for the election, citing the state's history [...] Full Story1 Top American tourist left on Great Reef by tour boat company Wed,29 Jun 2011 10:00 AM PDT The Lookout - An American tourist fought off panic when an Australian tour boat company accidentally left him stranded near the Great Barrier Reef in his snorkeling gear. Michigan 28-year-old Ian Cole says he grew frightened when he surfaced and realized the Passions of Paradise tour boat was gone last Saturday. Since American couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan disappeared after [...] Full Story1 Top Defense Secretary Gates signs off Wed,29 Jun 2011 09:44 AM PDT The Envoy - Secretary of Defense Bob Gates sent an emotional farewell message to U.S. forces today ahead of his last day in the job Thursday. "For four and a half years, I have signed the orders deploying you, all too often into harm's way," Gates wrote, in a message shared by his press secretary Geoff Morrell with [...] Full Story1 Top The Bachmann bump: Will it last? Wed,29 Jun 2011 09:08 AM PDT The Ticket - Michele Bachmann's formal entrance in the 2012 race for the White House has Republicans in the early caucus and primary states pretty darn excited. Polls in three states show her presidential announcement gave her a major boost. But can she sustain it? The Minnesota representative's poll numbers rose into double digits in New Hampshire, according to [...] Full Story1 Top Glenn Beck Says He Was Nearly ‘Lynched’, the Pope On Twitter, and an NFL Player Live-Tweets His Exchange With Police Wed,29 Jun 2011 08:55 AM PDT Trending Now - Conservative radio host Glenn Beck stole the show at an outdoor movie screening in Manhattan this week. Moviegoers tweeted pictures of Beck and his family at the event. Though the pictures look like nothing's wrong, on his radio show Beck said it was a "hostile situation" and that he was "harassed." His daughter had persuaded [...] Full Story1 Top Verizon blows the competition away, officially the fastest 4G network in the nation Wed,29 Jun 2011 08:42 AM PDT Technology News Blog - Recently, PC Magazine undertook a rather daunting task: figuring out which mobile phone carrier's data speeds were the fastest. The test covered 21 cities (and every place in-between), and measured speeds from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, and MetroPCS. Once all … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top Tina Brown defends photoshopping Princess Di onto Newsweek cover Wed,29 Jun 2011 08:37 AM PDT The Cutline - One of the reasons Tina Brown and Barry Diller acquired Newsweek and its substantial debt earlier this year was desire of Brown--former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker--to be part of what she calls "the conversation." This week, she not only took part in the conversation; she became a good bit of it. [...] Full Story1 Top Foreign policy debate divides GOP presidential hopefuls Wed,29 Jun 2011 08:16 AM PDT Exclusives - By Alex Roarty National Journal What's driving the sudden fissures between Republican presidential candidates on foreign policy? Whether history, deficits, or politics, the foreign policy splits amount to the most substantive disagreements among the candidates on any policy issue. Even … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top Four signs the White House is worried about 2012 Wed,29 Jun 2011 08:09 AM PDT Exclusives - By Josh Kraushaar National Journal It's been a rough June for the White House. Instead of being able to run a campaign taking credit for economic improvement, President Obama will, according to the latest forecasts, be trying to win four more … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top Gay couple claims Giuliani ignoring pledge to marry them Wed,29 Jun 2011 07:56 AM PDT The Ticket - Friends of Rudy Giuliani say the former New York City mayor is reneging on his pledge to marry the same-sex couple now that gay marriage has been legalized in their home state, the New York Post reports. Back when Giuliani was struggling in 2001 with his very public divorce from Donna Hanover, Giuliani crashed at [...] Full Story1 Top News of the world: Greece approves austerity plan, France armed Libya rebels Wed,29 Jun 2011 07:32 AM PDT The Envoy - • Greece approves austerity plan. (Reuters) • NATO, Afghan security forces retake control of Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel. (Guardian) • The truth about U.S.-Taliban talks (Ahmed Rashid) • France confirms it air-dropped arms to Libyan rebels. (BBC) • Two French journalists freed in Afghanistan. (CNN) • Iranian journalist explains mix-up about his blog post on sanctions, [...] Full Story1 Top Florida condo uses DNA matching to sniff out which resident’s dogs are serial poopers Wed,29 Jun 2011 07:32 AM PDT Technology News Blog - There's nothing that can ruin a good day faster than accidentally stepping in a pile of dog excrement. It's messy, smelly, and downright disgusting. What's more, you can't really blame the dog, as it's the owner's responsibility to make sure … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top Outside political groups kick off early 2012 ad war Wed,29 Jun 2011 07:00 AM PDT The Ticket - Election Day 2012 is still more than 16 months away, but the ad wars are already starting to heat up. Priorities Action USA, a Democratic "super PAC" founded by two former aides to President Obama, launched TV ads in key 2012 swing states aiming to counter an anti-Obama ad blitz announced last week by American [...] Full Story1 Top Weightlifting group allows woman to wear hijab, unitard in competitions Wed,29 Jun 2011 06:40 AM PDT The Lookout - A Muslim weightlifter in Atlanta, Ga., will now be allowed to compete nationally after the sport's international ruling body said she may wear a hijab and body-covering unitard. Kulsoom Abdullah began lifting last year at her gym in Atlanta, and discovered she was surprisingly good at the sport. She qualified for the American Open Weightlifting Championships [...] Full Story1 Top How much will our wars cost? Report says $4 trillion Wed,29 Jun 2011 06:09 AM PDT The Lookout - A new report out of Brown University estimates that the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq--together with the counterinsurgency efforts in Pakistan--will, all told, cost $4 trillion and leave 225,000 dead, both civilians and soldiers. The group of economists, anthropologists, lawyers, humanitarian personnel, and political scientists involved in the project estimated that the cost of [...] Full Story1 Top FIRST CUTS: NYT retention challenge; press beats up on Patch Wed,29 Jun 2011 06:02 AM PDT The Cutline - Our list of headlines that should be on your morning media menu: • Jill Abramson: "Retention is becoming a challenge" at the New York Times. (Daily Intel) • Jack Shafer: "If we accept Business Insider's diagnosis of Patch as a business failure, will anybody step forward to make the case that the sites are a [...] Full Story1 Top Palin says she still hasn’t decided about 2012, contrary to what her daughter says Wed,29 Jun 2011 06:00 AM PDT The Ticket - Sarah Palin insists she is still deciding whether she'll run for president in 2012, contrary to what her daughter, Bristol, said in an interview Tuesday. Speaking to reporters at last night's Iowa premiere of "The Undefeated," a documentary about her political career, Palin said she had texted her daughter after hearing about Bristol's interview with [...] Full Story1 Top FIRST LOOK: Bank of America settles with investors for $8.5 billion Wed,29 Jun 2011 05:25 AM PDT The Lookout - Welcome to First Look, our daily roundup of early-bird news: • Bank of America will pay $8.5 billion to settle accusations it sold poor-quality mortgage-backed securities. (Washington Post) • A new report says the final bill for the U.S. wars in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan could total $4.4 trillion. (Politico) • A NATO chopper ended a Taliban attack that [...] Full Story1 Top Pope sends first tweet, does so using iPad 2 Tue,28 Jun 2011 06:26 PM PDT Technology News Blog - When you think of the Catholic Church, you probably don't imagine the Pope tweeting about the latest church news to thousands of social network followers, but that's just what happened today. Taking to Twitter for the very first time, Pope … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 Top

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