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Yahoo News hires Steve Chaggaris as executive producer, elections
Tue,27 Dec 2011 08:01 PM PST
The Cutline - In the latest move to bolster Yahoo's original coverage of the 2012 presidential election, Yahoo News has hired Steve Chaggaris, the former Political Director of CBS News, as Executive Producer, Elections. Chaggaris will start on January 3, 2012. He'll be based in Washington, D.C. and will report to David Chalian, Washington Bureau Chief for Yahoo [...] Full Story | Top |
Syria opposition activist calls for international intervention to halt carnage
Tue,27 Dec 2011 01:02 PM PST
The Envoy - A prominent U.S.-based Syrian opposition activist living in exile from the Bashar al-Assad regime called for humanitarian intervention in Syria in an interview Tuesday . Radwan Ziadeh, a visiting scholar at Harvard University and a member of the main Syrian opposition bloc, the Syrian National Council, told Yahoo News Tuesday that the Arab League monitoring [...] Full Story | Top |
First Arab League monitors arrive in Syrian flashpoint city
Tue,27 Dec 2011 08:20 AM PST
The Envoy - Monitors from the Arab League arrived in the Syrian city of Homs Tuesday, as anti-government activists on the ground reported that military leaders had temporarily withdrawn tanks involved in President Bashar al-Assad's operation to quash mass protests. The observers arrived a day after the Assad regime's brutal crackdown on protests claimed a reported 34 fatalities [...] Full Story | Top |
Rick Santorum hunts for a big endorsement but comes up empty
Mon,26 Dec 2011 08:37 PM PST
The Ticket - ADEL, IOWA--Rick Santorum insisted he just felt like going hunting. But with just a week to go before Iowa's Republican presidential caucuses, it wasn't quite that simple. Dressed in a bright orange jacket and a baseball cap stitched with the letters "NRA," Santorum embarked on a post-Christmas Day pheasant hunt outside Des Moines Monday, but [...] Full Story | Top |
Physicist builds Lego Large Hadron Collider
Fri,23 Dec 2011 07:30 PM PST
Technology News Blog - As scientists at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland continue their search for the elusive Higgs boson "God particle," one physicist has built a tribute to their work entirely out of Lego bricks. Sascha Mehlhase, a researcher at the Niels Bohr … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
The challenging new spin on Rubik's Cube
Fri,23 Dec 2011 10:40 AM PST
Technology News Blog - It's a little late to make a Christmas or Hanukkah gift, but the IQ Cube might be a suitable New Year's present for the puzzle-obsessed people in your life. You know, the ones that are always telling you that their Rubik's Cube … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Top 5 Social Media Posts of 2011
Fri,23 Dec 2011 09:42 AM PST
Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow us on Twitter @YahooTrending! Let's start with number five and work our way to number one. At number 5 is the end of NASA's manned space exploration program with the launch of the space Shuttle Atlantis on July 21. But what makes this story stand out is what happened [...] Full Story | Top |
Surf Without Fear of Drowning
Fri,23 Dec 2011 08:27 AM PST
This Could Be Big - Shane Dorian is one of the most admired and well rounded surfers of the last 20 years. He spent much of the 90's and early 2000's competing on the World Tour against guys like Kelly Slater, and still competes at select events like this year's Pipeline Masters on Oahu. But since leaving the world tour [...] Full Story | Top |
Time-Saving Touchscreen Secrets
Fri,23 Dec 2011 03:07 PM PST
Upgrade Your Life - Touchscreens can be quick and convenient, but frustrating if you're entering large amounts of text. If you're one of the 22 million lucky people who got a new iPad for the holidays — or one of the 200 million people who already own an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad — here are my top tips [...] Full Story | Top |
What the TV ads in Iowa tell us about the 2012 Republican candidates: Gone in 30 seconds
Fri,23 Dec 2011 05:57 AM PST
The Ticket - By Seth Stevenson The biggest surprise in the Republican presidential campaign in Iowa has been the relative sluggishness—until this week—of the TV propaganda battle. "The Iowa ads started later this year than last time around," Ken Goldstein, the president of Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group, told Yahoo News. "Things are only starting to heat [...] Full Story | Top |
Steve Jobs wins a posthumous Grammy
Thu,22 Dec 2011 06:53 PM PST
Technology News Blog - Tributes to the late Apple executive keep pouring in a couple of months since he passed away. After a Mythbusters style documentary, an 80-minute tribute video, an iPad 2 snowboard, and a 7' tall bronze statue, comes a posthumous Grammy award from the National Academy … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
A Drone For Your Home
Thu,22 Dec 2011 02:41 PM PST
This Could Be Big - Looking for a last minute gift before the holidays can be a daunting task, but if you're shopping for someone with an interest in espionage we can help you out. The AR Drone from French company Parrot is a remote control quadracopter (meaning it has four spinning blades) equipped with cameras built into the belly [...] Full Story | Top |
Is Kim Jong-Il's ghost controlling the weather?
Thu,22 Dec 2011 12:46 PM PST
The Sideshow - The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) claims that forces of nature have erupted across the country following the death of dictator Kim Jong-il, reports the UK's Telegraph newspaper. However, it was unable to confirm whether the outbursts involved tears of joy or grief. The state-controlled "news agency" claims that ice ruptured with an "unprecedented loud [...] Full Story | Top |
Newt Gingrich aims to win the GOP nomination with animal photos
Thu,22 Dec 2011 12:28 PM PST
The Ticket - With less than two weeks to go before Iowa's Republican presidential caucus, Newt Gingrich is set to unveil what could be a game-changing secret weapon in his bid for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. His campaign announced it will launch a website featuring photos of Gingrich with animals. ABC's Elicia Dover reports: The campaign said [...] Full Story | Top |
U.S. offers $10-million bounty for Iran-based Qaida financier
Thu,22 Dec 2011 12:05 PM PST
The Envoy - The United States on Thursday offered a bounty of up to $10 million for information leading to the capture of an alleged al-Qaida financier based in Iran, Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, also known as Yasin al-Suri. The reward is "aimed at disrupting a financial network that has operated from within Iran's borders since 2005," Treasury [...] Full Story | Top |
George H.W. Bush calls Mitt Romney 'the best choice' in 2012 campaign
Thu,22 Dec 2011 11:35 AM PST
The Ticket - Mitt Romney has picked up a major, if still unofficial, endorsement in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Former President George H.W. Bush told the Houston Chronicle he believes Romney is the best candidate in the race—though he stopped short of officially endorsing his 2012 bid. "I think Romney is the best choice for [...] Full Story | Top |
Congressman apologizes for criticizing Michelle Obama's 'large posterior'
Thu,22 Dec 2011 10:39 AM PST
The Ticket - A Republican congressman from Wisconsin has offered a personal apology to First Lady Michelle Obama after he was overheard at an airport lounge criticizing her "large posterior." Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner was overheard loudly complaining on the phone in the Delta Lounge at Reagan National Airport outside Washington about Obama's healthy food initiative. According to Fishbowl [...] Full Story | Top |
White House condemns Syria's Assad as death toll mounts
Thu,22 Dec 2011 10:29 AM PST
The Envoy - The Obama administration has stepped up its condemnation of Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime for "indiscriminately" killing its people, and renewed its calls for Assad to leave power. The calls came as the advance team for an Arab League monitoring mission entered Syria on Thursday after weeks of negotiations during which hundreds more Syrians were reportedly [...] Full Story | Top |
Video: African Bullfrog plays video game
Thu,22 Dec 2011 09:51 AM PST
The Sideshow - In this video, a frog plays video games. No, really. Specifically, an African Bullfrog plays an app for the handheld game, Ant Smasher. The makers of the game note that more than 15 million people have downloaded it but we're pretty sure this is the first non-human player caught on video: Watching the bullfrog lunge [...] Full Story | Top |
Aside from bin Laden killing, not much coverage of Obama administration in 2011
Thu,22 Dec 2011 09:19 AM PST
The Cutline - With the tsunami in Japan and revolutions in the Middle East, it's no surprise that coverage of international news jumped in 2011, according to the year-end report by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. Nor is it shocking that Pew found news coverage of the economy dominated the American news hole--with 20 [...] Full Story | Top |
80-year-old grandmother fights off gunman
Thu,22 Dec 2011 08:39 AM PST
The Sideshow - An 80-year-old grandmother in Florida successfully fended off an armed attacker who was attempting to rob her 61-year-old daughter. Josefa Lopez told the Sentinel Sun she felt "no fear" when she used her aluminum cane to fight off the gunman who had physically assaulted her daughter. "I thought she was dead," Lopez said in Spanish. [...] Full Story | Top |
Have a Brilliant Idea? Be Quirky
Thu,22 Dec 2011 08:22 AM PST
This Could Be Big - When Ben Kaufman had an idea for an invention a few years ago, he ran into some trouble and realized that a great idea is not enough to get a product made. The vast multi-disciplinary skills someone needs to turn an idea into something tangible is just beyond what most people are capable of. A [...] Full Story | Top |
Meteorologist Storms Off During Live TV
Thu,22 Dec 2011 08:21 AM PST
Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow me on Twitter @Knowlesitall! What happens when a weatherman is sent out to cover a story and doesn't get enough time to give his weather report? Well, when KTLA meteorologist Henry DiCarlo's interview segment ran a bit longer than scheduled, instead of giving his weather forecast, he says, "I'm [...] Full Story | Top |
When is it OK to tell kids Santa isn't real?
Thu,22 Dec 2011 08:18 AM PST
The Sideshow - Have you told your kids the truth about Santa Claus yet? If you have, chances are they're older than 8. And if you haven't, chances are someone else did. According to a recent poll by iVillage, 51 percent of parents feel that children 8 and younger should believe in Santa, while just 6 percent said [...] Full Story | Top |
Stephen Colbert offered $400k for South Carolina GOP primary naming rights
Thu,22 Dec 2011 07:38 AM PST
The Ticket - Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert offered to pay $400,000 to buy the naming rights to South Carolina's upcoming Republican presidential primary—and contrary to earlier reports, he says the state GOP almost took him up on his offer. In an op-ed published in The State newspaper, Colbert says he contacted state GOP officials earlier this year [...] Full Story | Top |
8 GIs charged in death of fellow U.S. soldier in Afghanistan
Thu,22 Dec 2011 06:53 AM PST
The Envoy - The U.S. Army on Wednesday charged eight soldiers in connection with the death of fellow soldier Pvt. Danny Chen. Chen, 19, an infantryman in Afghanistan, was found dead from a gunshot wound in Kandahar on October 3rd. His death had initially been ruled a suicide. But Chen's family and Chinese-American activists said Chen had been [...] Full Story | Top |
Mitt Romney, like George H.W. Bush, is prudent at this juncture: Character Sketch
Thu,22 Dec 2011 06:10 AM PST
The Ticket - After months as a stealth candidate, conducting a presidential Rose Garden strategy without the rose garden, Mitt Romney has flip-flopped. From sitting down with Chris Wallace on Fox News in his first Sunday interview in nearly two years to making regular morning appearances on MSNBC, Romney is suddenly omnipresent on TV screens, even reading a [...] Full Story | Top |
Wives are the stars of new Republican campaign ads ahead of the holidays
Thu,22 Dec 2011 05:57 AM PST
The Ticket - Just days before Christmas, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry are looking to close out a stretch of negative campaigning by going positive in television ads featuring what some of the contenders believe could be their secret weapon with voters: their wives. Callista Gingrich, Ann Romney and Anita Perry all play prominent roles in [...] Full Story | Top |
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