Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News:
- Man uses a bird house to trick speeders into slowing down
- Teen racing champion Zach Veach tells you to put down your phone
- Harvard study says poverty doesn't explain away low American math scores
- Beer can car will provide a tasty brew, may draw unwanted attention from police
- The New Yorker publishes its first standalone e-book, 'After 9/11′
- Julian Assange lashes out at ex-WikiLeaks employee who deleted files, accuses him of working with FBI, CIA
- Stephen Colbert turns Katie Eastman, a 22-year-old "intrepid cub reporter" in Iowa, into a national celebrity
- Foreign journalists endangered in Tripoli
- LAST TICKET: Former Rep. Shays in for CT Senate; Obama's reading list
- Michigan Democrats switch congressional districts to circumvent redistricting woes
- Just Show Me: How to block apps and people on Facebook
- Obama offers cautious optimism on Libya: "This is not over yet"
- Confirmed: Paul Ryan not running for president in 2012
- Orrin Hatch reportedly won't be challenged in a Senate primary by Rep. Chaffetz
- Huntsman positions himself somewhere between left and right
- The New Yorker publishes its first standalone e-book, 'After 9/11′
- Romney plans to quadruple his $12M beachfront home
- Where is Gadhafi? Guessing game begins as an era ends in Libya
- UK adding wind and solar power to electric vehicle charging stations
- Missouri teacher sues state over 'Facebook law,' says she can't contact her own child online
- iOS 5 features integrated earthquake warning system for Japan
- How the world's newspapers covered Tripoli on their front pages
- Ron Paul's supporters give him a $1.8 million birthday present
- Photographer Stands Up To Cyberbullying, HP and Dell Feud On Twitter, and The Breakout Star At Kim Kardashian's Wedding
- MSNBC takes flak for its Libya coverage, or lack thereof
- NBC News hires star Middle East correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin away from Al Jazeera English
- Will Palin run for president? Karl Rove and an Iowa tea party organizer say that signs point to yes
- Daily Planet: Tripoli celebrates Libyan rebels; US disappointed at Iran jail sentence for US hikers
- Obama administration won't deport Venezuelan man who is married to an American man
- Rep. Maxine Waters: 'The tea party can go straight to hell'
- Jobless total exceeds population of all but four states
- FIRST CUTS: Covering Tripoli; Rather's milestones
- FIRST LOOK: Obama's jobs plan may target long-term unemployed
- Libyan rebels enter Tripoli
- Tecca TV: TechLife on underwater art, Star Wars currency, healing through social media, and more
- Where did webOS go wrong?
- LAST TICKET: Punk rockers for Ron Paul; Palin releases new Iowa video
- Perry walks back his book's rhetoric on Social Security
- As Libyan rebels advance, hundreds seek to flee Tripoli
- Just Show Me: How to register a friend code on the Nintendo Wii
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Harvard study says poverty doesn't explain away low American math scores
Mon,22 Aug 2011 02:40 PM PDT
The Lookout - America's child poverty problem does not entirely explain away its students' relatively low math scores, says a report from Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance. Researchers analyzed scores from the International Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, which is given in 65 countries. In 2009, about 32 percent of American students scored what the [...] Full Story | Top |
The New Yorker publishes its first standalone e-book, 'After 9/11′
Mon,22 Aug 2011 02:19 PM PDT
The Upshot - The New Yorker has ventured into e-books with "After 9/11," a collection of articles on the terrorist attacks and their aftermath that have appeared in the weekly magazine. Released as the New Yorker prepares its issue commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001, the title marks the publication's first standalone e-book (although there have [...] Full Story | Top |
Stephen Colbert turns Katie Eastman, a 22-year-old "intrepid cub reporter" in Iowa, into a national celebrity
Mon,22 Aug 2011 02:07 PM PDT
The Lookout - Katie Eastman, a 22-year-old TV reporter from Des Moines, Iowa, has become a national celebrity thanks to Stephen Colbert. Eastman's employer, WOI-ABC 5, refused to air an advertisement from Colbert's political action committee. The ad urged Iowa voters to cast their ballots for "Rick Parry," deliberately misspelled. Colbert, or at least his televised persona, then [...] Full Story | Top |
Foreign journalists endangered in Tripoli
Mon,22 Aug 2011 02:06 PM PDT
The Cutline - During the Egyptian uprising earlier this year, journalists on the ground were subject to violent attacks from mobs loyal to the country's then embattled dictator, Hosni Mubarak. Those covering the chaotic fall of Muammar Gadhafi's regime in Libya from the nation's capital city, Tripoli, now face their own dangers. BBC reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes came under [...] Full Story | Top |
LAST TICKET: Former Rep. Shays in for CT Senate; Obama's reading list
Mon,22 Aug 2011 02:00 PM PDT
The Ticket - Here are the stories we took note of today but didn't give the full blog treatment: • Former Rep. Chris Shays (R) revealed he's returning to Connecticut to run against Sen. Joe Lieberman (I) next year. (Greenwich Time) • Four Republican presidential candidates signed up for Sen. Jim DeMint's forum. (CNN's Political Ticker) • Florida [...] Full Story | Top |
Michigan Democrats switch congressional districts to circumvent redistricting woes
Mon,22 Aug 2011 01:39 PM PDT
The Ticket - A Republican-led congressional redistricting plan in Michigan has complicated the re-election plans of John Conyers and Hansen Clarke, two Democratic representatives from the state. But the lawmakers have found a novel way to avoid that challenge: they're switching their Detroit-area districts. "Rep. Hansen Clarke looks forward to running for reelection in the new 14th congressional district [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama offers cautious optimism on Libya: "This is not over yet"
Mon,22 Aug 2011 01:25 PM PDT
The Envoy - President Barack Obama said Monday that Libya is at a tipping point and the 42-year rule of Moammar Gadhafi is coming to an end. But he avoided any "Mission Accomplished" triumphalism during a press conference broadcast from his vacation rental farm in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Obama cautioned that the fight for democracy in Libya has [...] Full Story | Top |
Confirmed: Paul Ryan not running for president in 2012
Mon,22 Aug 2011 12:17 PM PDT
The Ticket - Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican who is the chairman of the House budget committee, will not run for president in 2012, according to a statement released by his office Monday. "I sincerely appreciate the support from those eager to chart a brighter future for the next generation. While humbled by the encouragement, I have not [...] Full Story | Top |
Orrin Hatch reportedly won't be challenged in a Senate primary by Rep. Chaffetz
Mon,22 Aug 2011 12:08 PM PDT
The Ticket - Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, will reportedly announce today that he has decided not to run for the Senate, ending speculation about what was shaping up to be one of 2012's biggest primary battles. Chaffetz has scheduled press conference at 4 p.m. MDT today to announce his decision. Anonymous sources tell the the Salt Lake [...] Full Story | Top |
Huntsman positions himself somewhere between left and right
Mon,22 Aug 2011 11:37 AM PDT
The Ticket - Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who received much fanfare from the news media when he first announced his presidential ambitions in June, continues to lag in the polls. It's a clear sign that his cool-tempered, centrist-ish approach isn't resonating with Republican voters. But that doesn't seem to have discouraged Hunstman. Over the past week, he [...] Full Story | Top |
The New Yorker publishes its first standalone e-book, 'After 9/11′
Mon,22 Aug 2011 11:21 AM PDT
The Cutline - The New Yorker has ventured into e-books with "After 9/11," a collection of articles on the terrorist attacks and their aftermath that have appeared in the weekly magazine. Released as the New Yorker prepares its issue commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001, the title marks the publication's first standalone e-book (although there have [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney plans to quadruple his $12M beachfront home
Mon,22 Aug 2011 10:22 AM PDT
The Ticket - Mitt Romney is planning to expand his $12 million beachfront home, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported this weekend. The newspaper reported Saturday that the Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor has filed an application to bulldoze his 3,009 sq. ft. house in La Jolla, Calif., and quadruple its size. Romney purchased the three-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom [...] Full Story | Top |
Where is Gadhafi? Guessing game begins as an era ends in Libya
Mon,22 Aug 2011 09:47 AM PDT
The Envoy - Where in the world is Moammar Gadhafi? "He's everywhere, he's nowhere; he's negotiating to get out, he will never surrender; who knows?" former United Nations official Mark Quarterman said of the contradictory reports about Gadhafi's fate in an interview Monday with The Envoy. What's important for Libya's reconciliation process is not just that the dictator [...] Full Story | Top |
How the world's newspapers covered Tripoli on their front pages
Mon,22 Aug 2011 08:57 AM PDT
The Cutline - "Libyan rebels entered the capital Tripoli Sunday to euphoric celebrations, celebratory gunfire and chants of 'God is great,'" Laura Rozen of Yahoo's The Envoy wrote of the dramatic events that unfolded over the weekend in what had been Moammar Gadhafi's North African stronghold. While cable news networks scrambled to cover the uprising in real-time, newspaper [...] Full Story | Top |
Ron Paul's supporters give him a $1.8 million birthday present
Mon,22 Aug 2011 08:38 AM PDT
The Ticket - Ron Paul turned 76 over the weekend, and his supporters rewarded him with more than $1.8 million in donations to his presidential campaign. Since his 2008 run for president, the Republican representative from Texas has honed a "money bomb" strategy to collect thousands of small donations in a short amount of time. The weekend fund-raising [...] Full Story | Top |
MSNBC takes flak for its Libya coverage, or lack thereof
Mon,22 Aug 2011 08:25 AM PDT
The Cutline - As reports of the rebel incursion into Tripoli began to arrive late Sunday afternoon, news coverage of the advance in the Libyan capital was at first conspicuously absent from American television, leaving viewers to tune in to the online feeds of Britain's Sky News (seen at right) and Al Jazeera English. Even as Fox News [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama administration won't deport Venezuelan man who is married to an American man
Mon,22 Aug 2011 07:13 AM PDT
The Lookout - The Obama administration has dropped its deportation case against Alex Benshimol, a 47-year-old Venezuelan man who is married to an American citizen, Doug Gentry. Though Benshimol and Gentry were legally married in Massachusetts in 2008, the Defense of Marriage Act prevents Gentry from sponsoring Benshimol for a green card. The federal government launched a deportation [...] Full Story | Top |
Rep. Maxine Waters: 'The tea party can go straight to hell'
Mon,22 Aug 2011 06:39 AM PDT
The Ticket - California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, who had some tough words for the leaders of her own party last week, took aim at the other side on Saturday, saying that the tea party could "go straight to hell." "I'm not afraid of anybody," Waters said at a weekend community meeting in Inglewood, California. "This is a [...] Full Story | Top |
Jobless total exceeds population of all but four states
Mon,22 Aug 2011 06:21 AM PDT
The Lookout - America's jobless crisis has been going on so long that the raw numbers have lost much of their power to convey the severity of the problem. The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel has found a clever new way to get at the issue. Wessel notes that there are more officially unemployed people in the United [...] Full Story | Top |
FIRST CUTS: Covering Tripoli; Rather's milestones
Mon,22 Aug 2011 06:05 AM PDT
The Cutline - Our list of stories that should be on your morning media menu: • Highlights from Sunday night's Tripoli coverage. (TVNewser) • Women "led the way" in reporting the news. (HuffPo) • New details about News of the World's 2002 hacking of Milly Dowler's phone. (WSJ) • A guide to 9/11 TV specials. (The Wrap) • [...] Full Story | Top |
FIRST LOOK: Obama's jobs plan may target long-term unemployed
Mon,22 Aug 2011 05:32 AM PDT
The Lookout - Welcome to First Look, our daily roundup of early-bird news: • Obama's jobs plan will likely target the long-term unemployed. (Wall Street Journal) • Rebels now hold most of Tripoli. (Reuters) • South Dakota school districts are moving to four-day weeks to save money. (AP) • An illegal immigrant who won civil damages against a Tenn. sheriff's office is [...] Full Story | Top |
Libyan rebels enter Tripoli
Sun,21 Aug 2011 06:55 PM PDT
The Envoy - Libyan rebels entered the capital Tripoli Sunday to euphoric celebrations, celebratory gunfire and chants of "God is great," as they appeared to be on the brink of seizing power from Moammar Gadhafi, who has ruled the North African nation for almost 42 years. You can see some of the celebrations at the rebels' arrival in the [...] Full Story | Top |
Where did webOS go wrong?
Fri,19 Aug 2011 04:57 PM PDT
Technology News Blog - When the Palm Pre smartphone first introduced us to the webOS operating system in June of 2009, many felt that it had a bright future ahead of it. Apple's iPhone was selling hand over fist, and Google's Android platform was just getting … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
LAST TICKET: Punk rockers for Ron Paul; Palin releases new Iowa video
Fri,19 Aug 2011 02:39 PM PDT
The Ticket - Here are the stories we took note of today but didn't give the full blog treatment: • A punk rock band made an anthem for Ron Paul. (TPM) • Former Reagan administration Treasury official Bruce Bartlett calls Rick Perry "an idiot." (CNN) • Sarah Palin releases a new campaign ad video about her trip to [...] Full Story | Top |
Perry walks back his book's rhetoric on Social Security
Fri,19 Aug 2011 02:11 PM PDT
The Ticket - Texas Gov. Rick Perry sets plenty of restrictions on the proper role of the federal government in his book, "Fed Up!," but now it seems the Republican presidential candidate may not hold himself to some of the ideals he put forward in his 2010 brief for states' rights. Faced with questions about Perry's views on [...] Full Story | Top |
As Libyan rebels advance, hundreds seek to flee Tripoli
Fri,19 Aug 2011 02:01 PM PDT
The Envoy - Libyan rebels continued to make advances on the ground Friday--prompting international officials to offer help in evacuating thousands of foreign migrant workers seeking to leave the capital city of Tripoli, the stronghold for Muammer Gadhafi and his loyalists. As rebel forces have cut off supply channels, the city faces mounting food, fuel and power shortages. [...] Full Story | Top |
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