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Union Leader endorses Newt Gingrich
Sun,27 Nov 2011 04:41 AM PST
The Ticket - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich received the coveted primary endorsement from New Hampshire's largest newspaper on Sunday, a major blow to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the polling front runner in the state. "We are in critical need of the innovative, forward-looking strategy and positive leadership that Gingrich has shown he is capable of providing," [...] Full Story | Top |
Megyn Kelly's pepper spray comments spark backlash
Wed,23 Nov 2011 02:26 PM PST
The Upshot - Pepper spray, its effects, and its appropriateness continue to be top of mind in the media. Following the protests at UC Davis, during which Occupy protesters were sprayed with pepper spray by a campus police officer, Fox News commentator Megyn Kelly went on the Bill O'Reilly show. Kelly appeared to downplay the physical effects of [...] Full Story | Top |
What would Gingrich's plan for dealing with illegal immigration look like?
Wed,23 Nov 2011 10:33 AM PST
The Lookout - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich became the first Republican candidate for the presidential nomination to explicitly spell out how he would deal with the estimated 11 million people living in the United States without legal immigration status at Tuesday night's debate. "If you've been here 25 years and you got three kids and two grandkids, [...] Full Story | Top |
Hacker group Anonymous targets UC-Davis pepper-spray cop
Wed,23 Nov 2011 10:17 AM PST
The Cutline - The rogue hacker group known as Anonymous posted a YouTube video disclosing the cellphone number, email and home address of Lt. John Pike, the University of California Davis police officer who sparked worldwide outrage when he pepper-sprayed a group of student protesters over the weekend. "Dear Officer John Pike," a computer-generated voice in the video [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama's Medicare chief to resign
Wed,23 Nov 2011 10:15 AM PST
The Ticket - President Obama's Medicare chief Don Berwick will step down down next month, the Associated Press confirms: The point man for carrying out President Barack Obama's health care law will be stepping down after Republicans succeeded in blocking his confirmation by the Senate, an official said Wednesday. ... Berwick's Dec. 2 resignation was confirmed by a [...] Full Story | Top |
Did this Russian TV news host give Obama the finger?
Wed,23 Nov 2011 10:15 AM PST
The Cutline - The host of a Russian television news channel has caused international stir over a video that shows her giving the middle finger to the camera while mentioning President Barack Obama during a newscast. In the video--which aired earlier this month on REN-TV--the host, Tatyana Limanova, reported that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had been named chairman [...] Full Story | Top |
Poll: Mormon stigma not insurmountable for Mitt Romney next November
Wed,23 Nov 2011 10:13 AM PST
The Ticket - Mitt Romney's Mormon faith is an obstacle in his campaign to win the Republican presidential nomination as recent polls--including one released in New Hampshire this week--have found. But the stigma isn't insurmountable for the former Massachusetts governor in the general election race, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. The Pew poll, [...] Full Story | Top |
Actor Steve Coogan testifies in phone-hacking case, slams tabloids, News International
Wed,23 Nov 2011 08:14 AM PST
The Cutline - A day after Hugh Grant gave more than two-and-a-half hours of testimony to the Parliamentary committee investigating phone-hacking claims, another British actor--Steve Coogan--testified about his experience with the U.K. tabloid press. "I learned years ago that aspects of my personal life do not meet with the approval of some tabloid editors or proprietors," Coogan said [...] Full Story | Top |
Illinois Republican wants to make Chicago area the 51st state
Wed,23 Nov 2011 08:09 AM PST
The Ticket - A state Republican legislator has introduced a bill to the Illinois General Assembly to separate the Chicago's county from the state--effectively making the midwestern city the 51st state in the union. The bill, filed by State Rep. Bill Mitchell of Decatur Tuesday, would "enact legislation dividing Illinois and Cook County into separate states" because county [...] Full Story | Top |
Michele Bachmann's Pakistan nuclear intelligence source revealed
Wed,23 Nov 2011 08:07 AM PST
The Envoy - Did Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) divulge classified information in discussing the vulnerability of Pakistani nuclear sites to jihadists at Tuesday's GOP presidential debate? Asked by CNN debate moderator Wolf Blitzer if the United States should continue providing foreign aid to Pakistan, Bachmann--a member of the House Intelligence panel--showed she knows her Pakistan brief. "Pakistan has [...] Full Story | Top |
James Murdoch steps down from U.K. newspaper boards
Wed,23 Nov 2011 07:24 AM PST
The Cutline - James Murdoch, favored son of News Corp. titan Rupert Murdoch, has resigned from two boards of directors at News International's newspaper subsidiaries. According to U.K. regulatory filings, Murdoch stepped down from the boards of News Group Newspapers Limited--which publishes The Sun, a weekly tabloid--and Times Newspapers Limited, which publishes the Times and Sunday Times. But [...] Full Story | Top |
Iowa conservatives debate how to stop Romney
Wed,23 Nov 2011 07:15 AM PST
The Ticket - As Mitt Romney hints he'll make play for Iowa, key social conservatives in the state held a secret meeting to talk about how to prevent him from winning there. At least 20 representatives of several influential conservative groups in the state—including the Family Leader, Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition and Iowa Right to Life—met in [...] Full Story | Top |
Jobless claims back up a bit, but spending, incomes increase
Wed,23 Nov 2011 06:56 AM PST
The Lookout - The number of people filing first-time claims for jobless benefits ticked up slightly last week, after a few weeks of declines. Meanwhile, consumers boosted spending a bit in October, as incomes jumped. Three hundred and ninety-three thousand people put in initial claims for jobless benefits, up 2000 from the previous week's figure, the Labor Department [...] Full Story | Top |
Ron Paul receives 600 seconds of speaking time at CNN debate
Wed,23 Nov 2011 06:33 AM PST
The Ticket - After several public complaints from Ron Paul's presidential campaign and his supporters over lack of air time at debates, the Texas congressman received a higher percentage of speaking time at Tuesday's CNN presidential debate than in any recent contest this election cycle. In the first hour of the GOP debate in South Carolina on Nov. [...] Full Story | Top |
Jimmy Fallon apologizes to Michele Bachmann for offensive song
Wed,23 Nov 2011 05:55 AM PST
The Ticket - Late night host Jimmy Fallon apologized to Michele Bachmann Tuesday after his house band played an offensive song as she walked on stage during an appearance on his show Monday. Fallon's house band, The Roots, played "Lyin' Ass Bitch" by Fishbone to welcome her to the late night show—a song most people, including Bachmann, didn't [...] Full Story | Top |
Anti-Romney or pro-Gingrich?
Wed,23 Nov 2011 05:16 AM PST
The Ticket - Or is that just the same thing? The Democratic National Committee blasted out this video Wednesday morning with clips from Tuesday night's CNN debate. It props up Newt Gingrich as much as it knocks down Mitt Romney. Take a look: Other popular Yahoo! News stories: Newt Gingrich 'prepared to take the heat' on immigration C-SPAN [...] Full Story | Top |
Sen. John Thune endorses Mitt Romney
Wed,23 Nov 2011 04:19 AM PST
The Ticket - South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune, who flirted with the idea of running for president earlier this year, announced Wednesday that he will endorse former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for president and will co-chair the campaign's National Advisory Council. "Mitt Romney has shown throughout his life in the private sector, as leader of the Olympics, [...] Full Story | Top |
Newt Gingrich 'prepared to take the heat' on immigration
Tue,22 Nov 2011 08:39 PM PST
The Ticket - Newt Gingrich, the latest frontrunner in the 2012 GOP presidential field has wasted little time in testing his appeal for the party's social conservative base, with comments in Tuesday night's CNN debate in favor of a more "humane" approach to enforcing immigration law. In the forum--a national-security debate that the cable network cosponsored with conservative [...] Full Story | Top |
Newt Gingrich won't appear on Missouri primary ballot
Tue,22 Nov 2011 04:48 PM PST
The Ticket - Newt Gingrich may be inching up in the polls, but he won't be on the ballot in Missouri's Republican presidential primary in February. The former House speaker failed to qualify for the state's Feb. 7 ballot, according to the Missouri Secretary of State's office. Candidates looking to appear on the ballot were required to pay [...] Full Story | Top |
Live-blogging the Republican presidential debate on national security
Tue,22 Nov 2011 04:04 PM PST
The Ticket - Join Yahoo! News and ABC News Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. ET to watch the Republican presidential debate from Washington, DC. Questions will focus on issues of national security, and the debate is co-sponsored by two conservative think tanks, The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. CNN will broadcast the debate, and you can watch [...] Full Story | Top |
Poll finds improved view on economy
Tue,22 Nov 2011 02:28 PM PST
The Lookout - Are Americans' views of the economy brightening a little? A new Marist poll finds that the share of respondents who say that the worst is yet to come for the economy is at 53 percent. That's a lot, but it's less than the 68 percent who said so in September. Forty-one percent said the worst [...] Full Story | Top |
C-SPAN battle: Historian shouts down congressman at hearing
Tue,22 Nov 2011 02:08 PM PST
The Ticket - Televised congressional hearings often serve as a platform for members of Congress to berate, bloviate and showboat for the cameras, but at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing Tuesday, historian Douglas Brinkley wouldn't stand for it. The topic at hand was drilling in the the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The trouble began when Alaska Republican Rep. [...] Full Story | Top |
Immigrant advocates want to recall Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
Tue,22 Nov 2011 01:48 PM PST
The Lookout - The group that helped oust Russell Pearce, the powerful anti-immigrant Arizona politician, earlier this month is now setting its sights on Jan Brewer, the state's Republican governor, and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Randy Parraz, one of the co-founders of Citizens for a Better Arizona, told Yahoo News that the group using its website to [...] Full Story | Top |
Bernanke bonded with toddler at 30,000 feet
Tue,22 Nov 2011 01:37 PM PST
The Lookout - "I heard Bernanke's voice reply. He must have said something funny to Oliver, because they both laughed, like old colleagues sharing a joke." Over at MSNBC, you can check out the never-before-revealed story, set during the height of the financial crisis, of the Federal Reserve chair's mid-air, transatlantic meeting with a 10-month-old baby. Full Story | Top |
Report: Sarah Palin scolded by Roger Ailes over 2012 announcement
Tue,22 Nov 2011 12:16 PM PST
The Cutline - When Yahoo News spoke to Roger Ailes at Fox News' 15th anniversary party in September, the cable channel chief said that if Sarah Palin decided to run for president, her position as a paid network contributor would be over. "She's out," Ailes said. "Done, immediately." He added: "We'd cover [her] like we would any other [...] Full Story | Top |
Occupy protester hands President Obama a note
Tue,22 Nov 2011 12:12 PM PST
The Ticket - The Occupy movement trailed President Obama to New Hampshire today, where protestors briefly interrupted his jobs speech at a Manchester high school. Using the so-called "human microphone" method, protestors shouted Obama down just minutes into his speech, calling attention to the arrest of peaceful protestors at Occupy movements around the country. They were quickly countered [...] Full Story | Top |
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