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What's in a name?
Wed,27 Jul 2011 06:31 PM PDT
The Newsroom - Harper Seven. Bear Blue. Pilot Inspektor. We're all familiar with the oddball baby names that Hollywood celebs hang around their children's necks here in America, but apparently, New Zealand has had enough. The country's baby name registrar has officially banned … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Yahoo!, communities across U.S. to honor 9/11 anniversary
Wed,27 Jul 2011 03:46 PM PDT
The Upshot - On September 11, 2011, business as usual at Yahoo! will pause for a Digital Moment of Silence to honor those killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. At 8:26 a.m. ET, the moment the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center, normal service on the site will cease for one minute. During that time, Yahoo! [...] Full Story | Top |
Israeli defense minister arrives in Washington for working visit
Wed,27 Jul 2011 02:38 PM PDT
The Envoy - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is arriving in Washington for a working visit with American officials Thursday, the Israeli embassy announced today. On his one-day trip to Washington, Barak will hold meetings with Vice President Joseph Biden at the White House; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department; and his new counterpart, Defense [...] Full Story | Top |
LAST TICKET: CBO says Reid's plan also falls short; Rickrolled by the White House?
Wed,27 Jul 2011 02:16 PM PDT
The Ticket - Here are the stories we took note of today but didn't give the full blog treatment: • The Congressional Budget Office said Harry Reid's deficit reduction plan falls short by $500 billion. (National Journal) • Michele Bachmann vowed to ban White House teleprompters-- and misspoke while she did it. (Mother Jones) • Sarah Palin is [...] Full Story | Top |
Own your own town for $800k
Wed,27 Jul 2011 02:00 PM PDT
The Upshot - Had it with life in the big city? The traffic, crowds, and high rent got you down? Then may we suggest you consider investing in the town of Scenic, South Dakota? And by "invest" we mean "buy the whole darn town for $800,000." That's right. The small town, which admittedly has seen better days, can [...] Full Story | Top |
John McCain unloads on the tea party
Wed,27 Jul 2011 01:08 PM PDT
The Ticket - Frustrated by the sniping of conservative critics who opoose House Speaker John Boehner's plan to raise the debt ceiling, Arizona Sen. John McCain unleashed on tea party groups Wednesday. The former Republican presidential candidate went on a tirade against conservative groups that are urging House members to reject Boehner's plan, and pulled a few lines [...] Full Story | Top |
Faces of the country's high school dropout crisis
Wed,27 Jul 2011 12:32 PM PDT
The Lookout - NPR's Claudio Sanchez is spotlighting the stories of teenagers around the country who have dropped out of school, or are at risk of doing so. Today Sanchez profiled 16-year-old Danny Lamont Jones, who started middle school at Tench Tilghman in East Baltimore when he was living in a nearby homeless shelter. His mother was an [...] Full Story | Top |
Herman Cain mum on details about meeting with Muslim leaders
Wed,27 Jul 2011 11:57 AM PDT
The Ticket - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain doesn't want to talk about his upcoming meeting with American Muslim leaders. Cain was in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to support the GOP's "Cut, Cap and Balance" plan to raise the debt ceiling. He answered a series of questions abut the proposal, but went silent when asked what he anticipates for [...] Full Story | Top |
A new Israeli refrain: The rent is too damn high
Wed,27 Jul 2011 11:15 AM PDT
The Envoy - The well-worn effort to jump-start peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians is entering a fraught new phase. Palestinians are petitioning the United Nations in September and formal U.S.-brokered peace talks are pretty much at a standstill. And in the midst of all this, Israelis have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv to protest [...] Full Story | Top |
Pro-Perry ads running in Iowa ahead of straw poll
Wed,27 Jul 2011 11:00 AM PDT
The Ticket - Rick Perry won't appear at next month's 2012 GOP straw poll in Iowa, and he's not likely to even have said whether or not he's running for president by then. But supporters are still aiming to boost Perry's chances as a write-in candidate at the event. GrowPAC, a New York-based political action committee, began running [...] Full Story | Top |
Debt deadlock: What will end this mess?
Wed,27 Jul 2011 10:34 AM PDT
Exclusives - By JANE SASSEEN Yahoo! News Is there any way out of this God-awful mess? That is the question being asked all over Washington, as Republicans and Democrats trade blame for the breakdown of contentious negotiations to raise the debt ceiling … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Could accused Norway killer land in luxurious prison?
Wed,27 Jul 2011 10:33 AM PDT
The Lookout - Confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik may end up serving time in a newly built maximum-security prison that's considered among the world's most luxurious, according to The Telegraph. The prison, Halden Fengsel, opened last year outside of Oslo and houses around 250 male inmates. But a Norwegian news outlet TV2 claims Breivik will more likely [...] Full Story | Top |
How do Obama, McCain stack up against Bachmann on missed votes?
Wed,27 Jul 2011 10:00 AM PDT
The Ticket - The Ticket received a significant number of responses to our story yesterday highlighting The Hill's analysis of the number of votes Michele Bachmann has missed since launching her presidential bid. Many of you asked, "But what about Barack Obama? Didn't he miss votes when he was running?" And the answer is yes. Every sitting member [...] Full Story | Top |
Casey Anthony seeking $1.5 million for interview, but will networks bite?
Wed,27 Jul 2011 09:12 AM PDT
The Cutline - Just 11 days ago, Casey Anthony walked out of a Florida jail and made a carefully orchestrated escape from the media mob that had followed her throughout her daughter's murder case. Now Anthony wants the attention back. According to several rumors now floating around, including one from Nancy Grace, Anthony and her team of lawyers [...] Full Story | Top |
Donations pour in for 9-year-old's clean water cause after tragic accident
Wed,27 Jul 2011 08:38 AM PDT
The Lookout - Nine-year-old Rachel Beckwith didn't live long enough to reach her goal of raising $300 to bring clean water to African villagers. She died in a 13-car accident on Interstate 90 in Bellevue, Wash., last week, the Seattle Times reported. Since then, hundreds of thousands of dollars have flowed into the charity page she set up shortly before [...] Full Story | Top |
Gary Johnson says he plans to stick it out through 2012
Wed,27 Jul 2011 08:32 AM PDT
The Ticket - Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is the first to admit that even after months of campaigning, hardly anyone has heard of him. And that's the very reason he refuses to drop out in his run for president. Confused? Here's the logic: Johnson, a libertarian-leaning candidate, always comes in at or near the bottom spot [...] Full Story | Top |
Did the U.S. just receive a debt ceiling extension?
Wed,27 Jul 2011 07:19 AM PDT
The Ticket - The New York Times reports Wednesday morning that there may be some wiggle room surrounding that Aug. 2 hard deadline to raise the debt ceiling. Binyamin Applebaum writes: Thanks to an inflow of tax payments and maneuvering by the Treasury Department, the government can probably continue to pay all of its bills for several days [...] Full Story | Top |
Study says mid-wage jobs hurt hardest by recession
Wed,27 Jul 2011 06:34 AM PDT
The Lookout - A study by the National Employment Law Project finds that middle-wage jobs--those that pay between $13 and $20 an hour--have been the biggest casualty of the recession. This year's job market has 8.4 percent fewer jobs in that pay range than existed prior to the onset of the crash in 2008. This is leading to [...] Full Story | Top |
2012 hopefuls cool to Boehner's debt proposal
Wed,27 Jul 2011 06:03 AM PDT
The Ticket - House Speaker John Boehner isn't just getting the cold shoulder from the White House and conservative Republicans on his debt ceiling proposal. So far, just one 2012 GOP presidential hopeful--Jon Huntsman--has come out in support of the Boehner's legislation, which would require two separate votes by Congress to increase the debt ceiling and mandate nearly [...] Full Story | Top |
FIRST CUTS: 'Sense of drift' at The Daily; Cooper dishes about daytime
Wed,27 Jul 2011 06:02 AM PDT
The Cutline - Our list of stories that should be on your morning media menu: • Guido Fawkes' smoking gun on Piers Morgan's alleged phone-hacking connection is not quite the smoking gun me made it out to be. (Forbes) • Though Morgan does seem to have admitted that some Daily Mirror stories were based on phone hacking. (The [...] Full Story | Top |
FIRST LOOK: U.S. 'boy killer' sent to jail for grisly cartel murders
Wed,27 Jul 2011 05:38 AM PDT
The Lookout - Welcome to First Look, our daily roundup of early-bird news: • A mountain lion traveled a record-setting 2,000 miles only to be run over in Connecticut. (WABC) • In case you were wondering: there is still no deal on raising the federal debt ceiling. (New York Times) • A 14-year-old U.S. teen was sent to jail for his [...] Full Story | Top |
Second Act: Artist Nathan Sawaya
Tue,26 Jul 2011 04:42 PM PDT
The Newsroom - The Emmy-nominated video show Second Act visited former attorney Nathan Sawaya in his Manhattan atelier. Sawaya is one of the foremost artists working in the medium of Lego bricks. His touring shows are called "The Art of the Brick." Click … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Why do people fear Rupert Murdoch?
Tue,26 Jul 2011 02:38 PM PDT
The Cutline - It's hard to believe it was only a week ago that News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch sat before Parliament, telling a select committee that he had "perhaps lost sight of" News of the World among his vast media empire's countless properties and its 53,000-plus employees. Murdoch's goal was to put some distance between himself and [...] Full Story | Top |
Three stories of survival
Tue,26 Jul 2011 02:29 PM PDT
The Upshot - The world is a dangerous place. Three amazing stories of survival in the face of bears, snakes, and a rogue kangaroo are sweeping the Web. We're happy to report that all three incidents have relatively happy endings. Teenagers escape bear attack When 17-year-old Samuel Gottsegen traveled to Alaska to be part of an outdoor training [...] Full Story | Top |
LAST TICKET: Debt ceiling madness; Romney thinking about VP picks
Tue,26 Jul 2011 01:53 PM PDT
The Ticket - Here are the stories we took note of today but didn't give the full blog treatment: • House conservative put up a fight against House Speaker John Boehner's debt ceiling plan. (Washington Times) • Majority Leader Eric Cantor tells them to stop whining. (Politico) • President Obama threatens to veto Boehner's plan. (USA Today) • [...] Full Story | Top |
Blogger claims to have evidence that Piers Morgan knew about phone-hacking
Tue,26 Jul 2011 01:30 PM PDT
The Cutline - Things already weren't looking so good for CNN anchor Piers Morgan's bid to keep his name off the growing list of casualties in the British phone-hacking scandal. But even though the former tabloid editor has categorically denied ever authorizing or publishing a hack-derived story during his tenure at the U.K.'s Daily Mirror, new evidence to [...] Full Story | Top |
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