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Ratings: ABC/Yahoo News Republican debate drew biggest audience of 2012 race so far
Sun,11 Dec 2011 07:58 PM PST
The Cutline - The ABC News/Yahoo News Republican presidential debate drew 7.58 million total viewers on Saturday night, making it, to this point, the most-watched GOP debate of the 2012 campaign season. The two-hour debate--moderated by Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos from Des Moines, Iowa--also drew 2.1 million 25-to-54-year-old viewers, according to Nielsen data, more than any other [...] Full Story | Top |
What now? Why the next 10 days are the most critical of the GOP campaign
Sat,10 Dec 2011 09:32 PM PST
The Ticket - Six months ago, political junkies were deriding this year's Republican presidential race as one of the slowest and least exciting nomination battles in recent memory. Mitt Romney looked hard to beat. Newt Gingrich's campaign appeared all but dead. And several key Republicans whom many party insiders had begged to run—including Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels, Mike [...] Full Story | Top |
Yahoo! readers rate the debate: '$10,000 is more than some people make in a year'
Sat,10 Dec 2011 08:48 PM PST
The Ticket - For the Republican candidates' debate in Iowa on Saturday night, Yahoo News posed real-time questions to those watching the event live stream to gauge their feelings about candidates' responses to moderators (and each other), and solicited comments on a live blog of the event. Here are the key takeaways from our audience feedback, along with [...] Full Story | Top |
VIDEO: Mitt Romney offers Rick Perry a $10,000 bet on debate stage
Sat,10 Dec 2011 08:25 PM PST
The Ticket - At the Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa Saturday, Mitt Romney bet Rick Perry $10,000 on stage that he was wrong when Perry said that Romney supported an federal individual mandate to buy health care in his book, No Apology. You can watch the exchange below: Romney's offer soon went viral in the social [...] Full Story | Top |
Analysis: Newt Gingrich survives first big night of attacks
Sat,10 Dec 2011 08:04 PM PST
The Ticket - In his first debate Saturday as the polling Republican frontrunner, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich bore the brunt of the attacks from every contender on the stage on a host of issues. But after two hours of attacks in the forum, co-sponsored by Yahoo News, ABC News and the Des Moines Register, he appeared to [...] Full Story | Top |
Who are you watching the debate with?
Sat,10 Dec 2011 05:29 PM PST
The Ticket - Are you watching the Republican candidates this evening in Des Moines? We're streaming it here at Yahoo and you can also watch it on ABC. We'd like to see photos of who you're watching the debate with. You can upload them to our Flickr group or send them to showthecandidates@yahoo.com. We look forward to seeing [...] Full Story | Top |
Liveblogging the ABC News/Yahoo News GOP presidential debate in Iowa
Sat,10 Dec 2011 05:24 PM PST
The Ticket - With the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses less than a month away, don't expect the candidates to play nice when they take the stage for the Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, sponsored by ABC News and Yahoo News. During the debate, read and contribute to our liveblog below, which will feature real-time discussion and [...] Full Story | Top |
Prediction markets: Gingrich is electable
Fri,9 Dec 2011 03:11 PM PST
The Signal - Worried that the Democratic base won't muster the same urgency and energy it did in 2008, Barack Obama's campaign may be privately salivating over the prospect of a general election contest against Newt Gingrich. Arguably, the image of a President Gingrich should be even more horrifying to progressives than a McCain administration. Whether he deserves [...] Full Story | Top |
Smuggler tried to hide $140,000 drug stash in nacho cheese
Fri,9 Dec 2011 02:22 PM PST
The Lookout - Customs and Border officials nabbed a 21-year-old Mexican citizen this week on suspicion of smuggling $140,000 worth of methamphetamine in these three cans of liquid nacho cheese and jalapenos, the LA Times reports. Incredibly, this is not the first time nacho cheese has been used as a smuggling tool. In October, a customs officials found 7 [...] Full Story | Top |
When Chris Farley met Newt Gingrich
Fri,9 Dec 2011 12:38 PM PST
The Upshot - Newt Gingrich's front-runner status in the race for the Republican presidential nomination has inspired a surge of interest in the late Chris Farley's impression of the former Speaker of the House. Farley, who died in 1997, was well known for parodying Gingrich on "Saturday Night Live." In one memorable instance, Farley stormed into the House [...] Full Story | Top |
Jose Antonio Vargas kicked out of Mitt Romney event
Fri,9 Dec 2011 12:29 PM PST
The Cutline - Jose Antonio Vargas, the Filipino journalist and former Washington Post reporter who has written about his life as an undocumented immigrant, was escorted out of a Mitt Romney rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Friday. Security personnel removed Vargas--who showed up at the event with a homemade sign that read "I AM AN AMERICAN W/O [...] Full Story | Top |
Rick Perry's ad moves the Web
Fri,9 Dec 2011 11:48 AM PST
The Upshot - Rick Perry's latest ad has divided his campaign and gone viral on the Web. The TV spot shows Rick Perry wearing a jacket that could have been swiped from the "Brokeback Mountain" set (as former "Star Trek" star and gay activist George Takei has pointed out), as the candidate criticizes Obama for reversing the ban on [...] Full Story | Top |
Video: Student "freaks out" in library over others "breathing loudly"
Fri,9 Dec 2011 11:31 AM PST
The Sideshow - This video from the California State University, Northridge campus has ignited controversy across the Internet this morning. In the video, reportedly taken during finals week, a female student loses her temper with her fellow students, accusing them of being disruptive. (Be warned, there are a few choice words whispered during the rant): The unnamed student [...] Full Story | Top |
NASA's Voyager 1 first spacecraft to leave the solar system
Fri,9 Dec 2011 10:13 AM PST
The Sideshow - NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, first launched in 1977, is on the verge of traveling outside the solar system. This marks the first time that any spacecraft has ever left the solar system. The nuclear powered craft is at the mercy of solar winds, which currently have it navigating through an uncharted void near the edge [...] Full Story | Top |
Paralyzed Woman Makes Miraculous Recovery After Freak Accident
Fri,9 Dec 2011 08:47 AM PST
Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow us on Twitter @YahooTrending! Monique van der Vorst was paralyzed from the hip down at 13 when she suffered nerve damage during a routine ankle operation. Years later, she went on to win a silver medal for handcycling in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. However, that same year she was [...] Full Story | Top |
Meet Steve Deace: Iowa radio's Christian conservative hitmaker—and hitman
Fri,9 Dec 2011 08:35 AM PST
The Ticket - DES MOINES, Iowa—On an early December day, in a small radio studio on the icy outskirts of downtown Des Moines, talk radio host Steve Deace downplayed his influence with Hawkeye state voters. "Candidates win elections, not talk show hosts," Deace said in an interview. Mitt Romney might beg to differ. Four-years ago, in the run-up [...] Full Story | Top |
Wine "dregs" cut cow methane emissions, makes better milk
Fri,9 Dec 2011 08:34 AM PST
The Sideshow - Scientists in Australia have published a new research paper which claims that the discarded stems, seeds and skins from wine grapes not only boosts the milk production of dairy cows but is good for the environment, reducing methane emissions by 20%. The report, by the Victoria's Department of Primary Industries, found that milk production increased [...] Full Story | Top |
Show the Candidates: Your photos of what the Republicans need to see
Fri,9 Dec 2011 07:41 AM PST
The Ticket - We asked Yahoo! readers to show us what they wanted the Republican presidential candidates to see as they prepared for the Dec. 10 debate in Des Moines, Iowa. You responded with pictures of everything from your family to the house down the street that is for sale. Click the image above to view a selection [...] Full Story | Top |
Slain Virginia Tech police officer identified; suspect not a student
Fri,9 Dec 2011 06:46 AM PST
The Lookout - Virginia Tech identified the police officer who was shot dead Thursday afternoon as Deriek W. Crouse, a 39-year-old married father of five from Christiansburg, Va. Crouse is also a U.S. Army veteran. Police say they are still investigating why a white male approached Crouse as he was conducting a routine traffic stop and shot him [...] Full Story | Top |
Video: World's tightest parking spot
Fri,9 Dec 2011 06:32 AM PST
The Sideshow - In this time-lapsed security video, an unidentified man somehow manages to tuck his car into a Brooklyn street parking spot smaller than the vehicle itself. The silver sedan does slightly bump the cars in front and behind him, but the driver is careful to get out of his car and check to ensure he didn't [...] Full Story | Top |
Mitt Romney hits Newt Gingrich for criticizing Republican budget plan last spring
Fri,9 Dec 2011 05:27 AM PST
The Ticket - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has his guns aimed at front-running rival Newt Gingrich this week, and on Friday unveiled a web video slamming the former House Speaker for criticizing the budget plan passed by House Republicans earlier this year. Gingrich called the budget plan, written by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan "right-wing social [...] Full Story | Top |
Politicians never 'lie'
Fri,9 Dec 2011 02:56 AM PST
The Signal - With even a casually critical reading of the news, it becomes painfully clear that politicians are frequently truth challenged. Across the political spectrum, they all lie at times, regularly traversing the lie taxonomy, from exaggerations, deceptions and lies by omission, to outright fabrications. Republican George W. Bush, for example, claimed that the vast majority of [...] Full Story | Top |
Number of jailed journalists at highest level in 15 years
Thu,8 Dec 2011 07:58 PM PST
The Cutline - There were 179 journalists in jail on Dec. 1, according to a survey conducted by the Committee to Protect Journalists--34 more than there were on the same date in 2010. That puts the number of imprisoned journalists worldwide at its highest level in 15 years, according to CPJ estimates. The increase was largely driven by [...] Full Story | Top |
Japanese "light trucks" banned from highway for being too bright
Thu,8 Dec 2011 04:31 PM PST
The Sideshow - These popular vehicles in Japan have given new meaning to the term, "blinded by the light." But Japanese authorities are putting the brakes on so-called "light trucks," citing the danger posed to other drivers. There's huge competition amongst the "light truck" community in Japan's car culture. And if you've never heard of light trucks before, [...] Full Story | Top |
Video: Rescued penguins released after New Zealand oil spill
Thu,8 Dec 2011 03:54 PM PST
The Sideshow - In this video, 30 penguins are released back into the sea after their successful rescuefrom an oil spill in New Zealand back in October. Massey University Pauline Conayne veterinarian and penguin expert said that each of the penguins has been tagged with a tracking chip to monitor their progress as they acclimate back to living [...] Full Story | Top |
Why Iowa's conservative kingmaker Steve King hasn't picked a 2012 candidate
Thu,8 Dec 2011 03:20 PM PST
The Ticket - Rep. Steve King, the most influential conservative lawmaker in Iowa's House delegation, is like many Republican voters in his home state and across the country: He hasn't made up his mind who he's planning to support for president in 2012, even with the Jan. 3 caucus vote little more than three weeks away. And King--best [...] Full Story | Top |
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