Today's Most Popular News Headlines - Yahoo! News: | | 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 | NJ GOP lawmaker quit over wife's Carl Lewis email Mon,22 Aug 2011 03:53 PM PDT AP - A freshman Republican lawmaker resigned because his wife sent "an offensive and racist" email to the Democratic state Senate campaign of nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis, a GOP official acknowledged Monday. Full Story | Top | Cops increasingly under siege after homeless death Mon,22 Aug 2011 02:25 AM PDT AP - Until last month, the most pressing issues in this quiet Southern California suburb were whether to build homes on rolling hills north of the city, how best to preserve a historic movie theater and a downtown bar scene that got a little too popular for its own good.
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 | SC preacher accused of raping women behind church Sun,21 Aug 2011 12:01 PM PDT AP - Dale Richardson was saved at a tent revival 32 years ago, was called to preach the Lord's word in 2006 and, for the past year, had served as pastor at Freedom Free Will Baptist Church, a modest red brick structure on a South Carolina side road running along a railroad track.
Full Story | Top | Gaddafi on the run as rebels fight in Tripoli Mon,22 Aug 2011 04:04 PM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Remnants of forces still loyal to Muammar Gaddafi staged a desperate stand in Tripoli on Tuesday as rebels fought their way into the capital, but the whereabouts of the veteran leader was a mystery.
Full Story | Top | Upgrade Your Life: Revive a dying laptop battery Fri,19 Aug 2011 12:24 PM PDT Upgrade Your Life - Laptop battery wearing down? In this week's episode of Upgrade Your Life, Yahoo! News' Becky Worley shows us how to help batteries last longer ... and what to do when they run out! First, the basics Most laptops use batteries that can last for 3-5 years, or about 1000 charges. (A premium laptop's battery might [...] 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 | Balanced budget amendment to get votes in Congress Mon,22 Aug 2011 11:43 AM PDT AP - As a "supercommittee" tries to find $1.5 trillion in new deficit cuts this fall, Republicans will be pressing a far more ambitious goal: passing an amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget. 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 | Sunken treasure sparks legal tussle Sun,21 Aug 2011 04:07 PM PDT Reuters - WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - It was an eye-popping investment pitch no one else could match -- in return for $2 million, Manhattan accountant Neil Ash was offering investors a stake in the one of the biggest sunken treasures ever, an underwater site teeming with emeralds. 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 | Analysis: Victory hands new set of problems to Libya rebels Mon,22 Aug 2011 05:29 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Even as they battle Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds in Tripoli, Libyan rebel leaders must race to impose order and prevent bloody score-settling as the capital shakes off 42 years of despotism, analysts and Western officials say.
Full Story | Top | Obama summer reading list leans toward fiction Sat,20 Aug 2011 11:18 AM PDT Reuters - VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, perhaps seeking a break from harsh reality after a tough summer battling the economy and Republicans in Congress, has picked a summer reading list that is long on fiction.
Full Story | Top | Scientists warn that aliens may come to destroy us Mon,22 Aug 2011 09:00 AM PDT Digital Trends - There have been 20-30 major Hollywood alien apocalypse movies released in the last year or so, and more are on the way. They're unavoidable. Some of them are cataloged here, but there are almost too many to count. As such, it's no wonder that scientists have hostile aliens on the brain. Several researchers have released a study that says there is a good chance aliens will come and wipe us out if they think we're irresponsible, expanding too quickly, or a number of other reasons, reports the IB Times. ...
Full Story | Top | Seven ways Rick Perry wants to change the Constitution Fri,19 Aug 2011 06:16 AM PDT The Ticket - Rick Perry has many ideas about how to change the American government's founding document. From ending lifetime tenure for federal judges to completely scrapping two whole amendments, the Constitution would see a major overhaul if the Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate had his druthers. Perry laid out these proposed innovations to the founding document [...] Full Story | Top | Wingwalker dies after fall at Michigan air show Sun,21 Aug 2011 03:40 PM PDT Reuters - DETROIT (Reuters) - A wingwalker at an air show near Detroit fell to his death on Sunday, after he tried to transfer from an aircraft to a helicopter and plunged about 200 feet to the ground, officials said. Full Story | Top | Rick Perry Clueless On Use Of Executive Presidential Powers To Kill Obamacare Sun,21 Aug 2011 12:18 PM PDT Forbes - Looking toward to a not-s0-distant future where Rick Perry could occupy the Oval Office, candidate Perry had this to say when speaking last week in South Carolina-If I'm so fortunate to be elected the president of the United States, on Day One, when I walk into the Oval Office, there will be an executive order on that desk that eliminates as much of ObamaCare that I can have done with an executive order.Via MSNBCWhat should disturb you about this vision of the future is not so much that a President Perry would try to bring Obamacare to an end as that is to be expected from any GOP contender. ...
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 | Republicans may never get 2012 dream candidate Mon,22 Aug 2011 07:01 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans still hoping that another candidate will jump into the presidential race and give the party a better chance of defeating President Barack Obama in 2012 may need to get over it.
Full Story | Top | Life on Mars? Fossil find shows it's possible Sun,21 Aug 2011 12:18 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found Earth's oldest fossils in Australia and say their microscopic discovery is convincing evidence that cells and bacteria were able to thrive in an oxygen-free world more than 3.4 billion years ago.
Full Story | Top | Spitzer sued for libel over his Slate column Mon,22 Aug 2011 11:50 AM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was hit with two libel lawsuits seeking $90 million by former Marsh & McLennan Cos executives over a column posted on Slate.com about an insurance bid-rigging scandal.
Full Story | Top | Clashes near Gadhafi compound in Libyan capital Mon,22 Aug 2011 02:46 AM PDT AP - Tanks opened fire at rebels trying to storm Moammar Gadhafi's main compound in Tripoli on Monday, although the whereabouts of the longtime Libyan leader remained unknown a day after a lightning advance by opposition fighters who poured into Tripoli capital with surprising ease.
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 | Iran starts moving uranium centrifuges to bunker Mon,22 Aug 2011 06:35 AM PDT Reuters - TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has begun moving machines that enrich uranium to an underground bunker near the holy city of Qom, a senior official said, a move likely to fan Western fears of an Iranian advance toward nuclear weapons capability.
Full Story | Top | Prosecutors tell NY judge to drop Strauss-Kahn case Mon,22 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Monday, a stunning reversal that could revive the political future of a man many had seen as the next president of France.
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