Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News:
- Holiday Gift Guide: For the man in your life
- Intense daytime fireworks explode with brilliant color
- Just Show Me: How to check for system updates on Windows 7
- Amanpour out, Stephanopoulos back in at ABC's 'This Week'
- Rick Perry has some suggestions for you. Several, actually.
- New Stratolaunch plane will take people into Earth's orbit
- Donald Trump drops out as moderator of troubled GOP debate
- Space Burial: Virginia could subsidize your galactic resting place
- Donald Trump fires himself from debate-hosting duty
- Video: Dogs look out car windows, in slow motion
- How to protect your kids from cyberbullies
- Gun in plane carry-on bag accidentally fired by police officer
- Scientists just can't seem to catch the Higgs Boson… yet
- Eggbert, the giant talking egg who knows your name
- Mitt Romney in 2002: 'My views are progressive'
- Mayor's Bizarre Family Christmas Photo Goes Viral
- Newt Gingrich reminds staff and surrogates: Do not go negative in the primaries
- Critics on Chelsea Clinton's 'Rock Center' debut: Boring!
- Video: UFO filmed hovering over Russian protesters
- How to Grow a Salad in Your Window
- Laid-off Illinois teachers turn to nanny jobs
- Iran rejects U.S. request to return spy drone
- Ad agency turns Google Street View into a first-person shooter
- YouTube grants schools special access to 400,000 educational videos
- Just Show Me: How to change the registration on your Kindle Fire
- Remembering Noriega's infamous ouster
- Alabama Republican leading secret life as sperm donor in New Zealand
- Playboy releases Lindsay Lohan issue from custody a week early
- Disagreement over Keystone oil pipeline may prevent payroll tax cut from being extended
- New York Times photographer clashes with NYPD while covering Occupy arrests
- U.K. riot police to be equipped with laser rifles, Terminator not included
- Michele Flournoy, No. 3 official at Pentagon, to step down
- Newt Gingrich takes his fourth 'no-adultery pledge'
- Famous photo of female Pearl Harbor firefighters debunked
- Obama: We asked Iran to give us our drone back
- Michelle Obama helps break world record for jumping jacks
- Looking for new music? Check out Third Rock — America's Space Station
- Nintendo 3DS Circle Pad Pro will have 480-hour battery life, available February 7
- BuzzFeed makes buzzy hire of Politico's Ben Smith, to add 12 more journalists in 2012
- Kagan recused herself from Arizona immigration law case
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Intense daytime fireworks explode with brilliant color
Tue,13 Dec 2011 05:05 PM PST
Technology News Blog - Getting good photos or video of fireworks usually requires special techniques because motion blur and lighting conditions fight against camera sensors. So, why not circumvent that issue entirely by using some daytime fireworks? Admittedly, that's probably not what Chinese artist Cai … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Amanpour out, Stephanopoulos back in at ABC's 'This Week'
Tue,13 Dec 2011 03:02 PM PST
The Cutline - Christiane Amanpour, who was hired away from CNN by ABC News in 2010 to replace George Stephanopoulos as the host of "This Week," is stepping down from her perch at the network's ratings-challenged Sunday morning talk show. Amanpour will return to CNN International, where she'll host a daily daytime show; Stephanopoulos will return as host [...] Full Story | Top |
Rick Perry has some suggestions for you. Several, actually.
Tue,13 Dec 2011 12:49 PM PST
The Ticket - Politicians often rely on overused phrases: Everyone is "my friend" to John McCain; Barack Obama really wants you to let him be clear; Newt Gingrich enjoys speaking "frankly"; and Rick Perry, as you're about to find out, likes to make suggestions. Lots of them. Whether it's recommending a plan to get Big Government out of [...] Full Story | Top |
New Stratolaunch plane will take people into Earth's orbit
Tue,13 Dec 2011 12:30 PM PST
The Sideshow - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is teaming up with aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan to build a giant machine that is part airplane and part spaceship. The new vehicle will be able to transport people and cargo into Earth's orbit and is scheduled to be commercially available by 2016. Unlike traditional rockets, the Stratolaunch will not require [...] Full Story | Top |
Donald Trump drops out as moderator of troubled GOP debate
Tue,13 Dec 2011 11:44 AM PST
The Cutline - Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he will not moderate a Newsmax-sponsored GOP debate in Iowa later this month. Trump had been having trouble securing participants for the Dec. 27 debate; just two--Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum--had said they would attend. (Ron Paul said the event was "beneath the office of the Presidency.") The real [...] Full Story | Top |
Donald Trump fires himself from debate-hosting duty
Tue,13 Dec 2011 11:26 AM PST
The Ticket - After most of the 2012 Republican presidential candidates refused to attend a Newsmax-sponsored debate moderated by businessman/reality TV impresario Donald Trump, the Donald himself announced Wednesday that he would step aside from his role in the event. "I have decided not to be the moderator of the Newsmax debate," Trump said, according to Fox News. [...] Full Story | Top |
Video: Dogs look out car windows, in slow motion
Tue,13 Dec 2011 10:45 AM PST
The Sideshow - Documentary filmmaker Keith Hopkin has put together footage of various dogs sticking their heads out of car windows. He used the GoPro camera to capture the footage in slow motion, allowing the viewer to experience every nuance of cuteness and wonder on the dogs' faces: Dogs in Cars from keith on Vimeo. You can read [...] Full Story | Top |
Gun in plane carry-on bag accidentally fired by police officer
Tue,13 Dec 2011 10:31 AM PST
The Sideshow - Have gun, will travel--just not through airport security. A man who brought his gun into an Atlanta airport was arrested after a police officer accidentally fired it. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents at a security checkpoint discovered Richard Popkin's .22 Magnum revolver while he was making his way through Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Sunday. Popkin [...] Full Story | Top |
Eggbert, the giant talking egg who knows your name
Tue,13 Dec 2011 09:21 AM PST
The Sideshow - Does meeting a giant, talking egg that knows your name sound like a good way to spend the holidays? If you live near New Windsor, New York, you can meet and greet "Eggbert" who has been dusted off and taken out of long-term storage. The New York Times reports that Devitt's Nursery and Supply has [...] Full Story | Top |
Mitt Romney in 2002: 'My views are progressive'
Tue,13 Dec 2011 09:05 AM PST
The Ticket - A nine-year-old local newscast from Mitt Romney's campaign for governor in Massachusetts that shows him adopting the "progressive" label to describe his politics is making the rounds this morning. "I think the old standby definitions of who votes for which party have been blown away in this campaign," Romney said in a 2002 interview. "I think [...] Full Story | Top |
Mayor's Bizarre Family Christmas Photo Goes Viral
Tue,13 Dec 2011 08:52 AM PST
Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow us on Twitter @YahooTrending! Right about now, you're probably starting to receive Christmas cards from friends and family. It's pretty safe to assume that most of them are adorned with candid shots of smiling faces, and some even have a picture of the newest addition to the family: a [...] Full Story | Top |
Newt Gingrich reminds staff and surrogates: Do not go negative in the primaries
Tue,13 Dec 2011 08:33 AM PST
The Ticket - Early in the campaign, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich declined several opportunities to attack his Republican opponents--and despite a week of back-and-forth with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, he sent a letter to his staff Tuesday reminding them to stay positive. "It is critical the Republican nominee emerge from this primary campaign un-bloodied, so that [...] Full Story | Top |
Critics on Chelsea Clinton's 'Rock Center' debut: Boring!
Tue,13 Dec 2011 08:22 AM PST
The Cutline - Chelsea Clinton made her first appearance on NBC's "Rock Center With Brian Williams"--and ostensibly her debut as a journalist--on Monday, delivering a short video report on poverty in her home state of Arkansas. And television critics, while polite, were unimpressed. "Chelsea Clinton didn't electrify broadcast journalism with her debut," the Washington Post's Hank Steuver wrote, [...] Full Story | Top |
Video: UFO filmed hovering over Russian protesters
Tue,13 Dec 2011 08:19 AM PST
The Sideshow - Some 25,000 pro-democracy protesters in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square had an unexpected participant in their demonstrations on Saturday when a UFO was spotted hovering above the crowd. Here is a somewhat blurry video capture of the scene, taken by a person in the crowd: Several demonstrators in the crowd espied the hovering object, with reflecting blue [...] Full Story | Top |
How to Grow a Salad in Your Window
Tue,13 Dec 2011 08:02 AM PST
This Could Be Big - First pass under a rumbling elevated subway and then walk up five flights of stairs, there you'll find a bounty of fresh fruits and vegetables growing in an apartment window. Chives, red leaf lettuce, sage, basil, even strawberries, all growing above each other and next to each other like Hollywood squares. We're in the Brooklyn [...] Full Story | Top |
Laid-off Illinois teachers turn to nanny jobs
Tue,13 Dec 2011 07:39 AM PST
The Lookout - Some of the 8,800 Illinois teachers handed pink slips last year are finding work as nannies, and many are now earning more than they were inside the classroom. The Chicago Tribune's Vikki Ortiz Healy reports that four fresh graduates of Illinois State University's education school are applying for each teaching job opening as budget crunches [...] Full Story | Top |
Iran rejects U.S. request to return spy drone
Tue,13 Dec 2011 06:44 AM PST
The Envoy - Iran has--unsurprisingly--rejected an American request to return its downed spy drone. President Obama, speaking at a news conference with the visiting Iraqi prime minister Monday, said the United States had asked Iran to give the downed American reconnaissance plane back. "We've asked for it back," President Obama said of the drone Monday. "We'll see how [...] Full Story | Top |
Remembering Noriega's infamous ouster
Mon,12 Dec 2011 03:29 PM PST
The Upshot - Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega returned to his home country on Sunday after spending 22 years in prisons in the United States and France on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering. The 77-year-old still isn't a free man, though. Immediately upon arrival, he was taken to Panama's El Renacer prison to serve more time. [...] Full Story | Top |
Alabama Republican leading secret life as sperm donor in New Zealand
Mon,12 Dec 2011 02:33 PM PST
The Sideshow - A former top state official in Alabama has been discovered to be leading a secret life in New Zealand as a sperm donor for lesbian couples. David Fisher of the New Zealand Herald unearthed the story of Bill Johnson, 52, who as recently as 2010, ran in the Republican gubernatorial primary and is the former [...] Full Story | Top |
Playboy releases Lindsay Lohan issue from custody a week early
Mon,12 Dec 2011 01:59 PM PST
The Cutline - After photos from Lindsay Lohan's upcoming Playboy pictorial were purportedly leaked last week, founder Hugh Hefner has decided to go ahead and release the whole January/February issue featuring the troubled actress a week early. A day after the cover made its way to the Internet, the entire 11-page pictorial was posted via a digital magazine [...] Full Story | Top |
Disagreement over Keystone oil pipeline may prevent payroll tax cut from being extended
Mon,12 Dec 2011 01:55 PM PST
The Ticket - Republicans have suggested that getting a payroll tax cut extension through Congress is dependent on adding language to the bill that begins the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. But the Obama administration said Monday that Republicans won't earn sufficient Democratic support using that tactic. In order to secure passage of a payroll tax cut [...] Full Story | Top |
New York Times photographer clashes with NYPD while covering Occupy arrests
Mon,12 Dec 2011 01:37 PM PST
The Cutline - A freelance photographer for the New York Times covering an Occupy Wall Street protest at the World Financial Center on Monday clashed with police officers there. At least 17 protesters on the scene were arrested in the atrium of the building, according to the Times. A video uploaded to YouTube shows several NYPD officers repeatedly [...] Full Story | Top |
Michele Flournoy, No. 3 official at Pentagon, to step down
Mon,12 Dec 2011 01:02 PM PST
The Envoy - Michele Flournoy, a key architect of Obama's national security policy and one of the most senior female Pentagon officials in history, plans to step down from the number 3 job at the Defense Department in February, she told the Associated Press Monday. Flournoy, the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, said she "feels compelled to 'rebalance' [...] Full Story | Top |
Newt Gingrich takes his fourth 'no-adultery pledge'
Mon,12 Dec 2011 12:53 PM PST
The Ticket - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich this week signed a pledge to uphold conservative values from the Iowa-based group The Family Leader and vowed to restrict federal dollars from paying for abortion overseas, uphold the Defense of Marriage Act and stay true to his wife, Callista. "I will also oppose any judicial, bureaucratic, or legislative effort [...] Full Story | Top |
Famous photo of female Pearl Harbor firefighters debunked
Mon,12 Dec 2011 12:49 PM PST
The Sideshow - A photograph of three women reportedly fighting fires in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has been debunked. Katherine Lowe, 96, who is the woman standing second from the right in the picture, says that while the photo is real, it wasn't actually taken on December 7, 1941. On the morning of [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama: We asked Iran to give us our drone back
Mon,12 Dec 2011 11:30 AM PST
The Envoy - President Obama has a message for Iran: He would like America's downed spy drone back. Obama revealed the request for the return of the drone--which fell to earth in Iran recently, and has since been flaunted in video footage by the Iranian government--during a Monday White House news conference. The president shared the podium with [...] Full Story | Top |
Michelle Obama helps break world record for jumping jacks
Mon,12 Dec 2011 10:06 AM PST
The Sideshow - Michelle Obama has earned her family another place in history. This time, Mrs. Obama will share the honor with more than 300,000 other participants on Sunday who set the record for most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period. The previous world record was just 20,000. In a video from the White House, seen [...] Full Story | Top |
BuzzFeed makes buzzy hire of Politico's Ben Smith, to add 12 more journalists in 2012
Mon,12 Dec 2011 09:35 AM PST
The Cutline - Here's an outside-the-box media move from inside the Beltway: Ben Smith, the well-regarded Politico writer, is leaving the influential D.C. publication to become editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed, a site focused on highlighting buzzy social content on the Web. Smith starts at BuzzFeed Jan. 1. John Harris, Politico's editor-in-chief, says the Brooklyn-based Smith--who has been with publication [...] Full Story | Top |
Kagan recused herself from Arizona immigration law case
Mon,12 Dec 2011 09:17 AM PST
The Lookout - The Supreme Court has agreed to arbitrate the battle between the Obama administration and Arizona on the state's tough immigration law. The law, known as SB 1070, passed in 2010 but lower courts had blocked its full implementation. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan will recuse herself from the court's review of Arizona's immigration law because of [...] Full Story | Top |
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