Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News:
- Campaign trail photo of the day
- Slideshow: GOP candidates on the trail in Iowa
- Des Moines business owners enjoy caucus stimulus, but weren't suffering
- Romney's schedule offers clue about his Iowa expectations—they're high
- Christie warns he'll return 'Jersey style' if Iowans don't vote Romney
- Video: Newt Gingrich tears up in Iowa while speaking about his mother
- Video: Voter shows how negative TV ads are hurting Gingrich in Iowa
- Video: Des Moines coffee-shop owner evicts Occupy protesters; 'You're not allowed to ever come back'
- Photo: Is Michele Bachmann's iPad the new Teleprompter?
- Making big bets on Iowa: Gingrich and Perry, not Romney
- The Mitt Romney restoration: A vision of a past we can believe in
- Rand Paul kicks Newt Gingrich while he's down
- Michele Bachmann faces independent voters who plan to caucus in Iowa
- Facing air attack from Perry, Santorum stands by 'Bridge to Nowhere'
- Video: Talking with Ron Paul supporters in Iowa
- 'I want to win Iowa,' Romney says, and his weekend schedule proves it
- Egypt raids NGOs, including 3 U.S. pro-democracy groups
- Has Rick Santorum's moment finally arrived, just in time for Iowa?
- Ron who? Ignoring fellow Republicans, Romney targets Obama in Iowa
- Attending an Iowa caucus? Share your photos with Yahoo News
- Ron Paul's newsletters and Mitt Romney's Harvard years illustrate the mental approaches of the Iowa front-runners: Character Sketch
- U.S. downplays Iran warnings on Straits of Hormuz
- Ron Paul garners applause in Iowa, but does it come from caucusgoers?
- Rick Santorum is in third place in Iowa, new CNN poll says
- Rick Santorum: I would vote for Ron Paul if he becomes the GOP nominee
- Iowa GOP leader hopes quiet campaign isn't 'death knell' for caucuses
- Romney leads prediction markets even as poll numbers lag
- Do-over: Are Mitt Romney's 2008 voters enough for him to win Iowa this time?
- Yahoo News hires Steve Chaggaris as executive producer, elections
- Syria opposition activist calls for international intervention to halt carnage
- First Arab League monitors arrive in Syrian flashpoint city
- Rick Santorum hunts for a big endorsement but comes up empty
- Physicist builds Lego Large Hadron Collider
- Asus sued by toy robot maker for naming its tablet Transformer Prime
- Just Show Me: How to watch Netflix on your Kindle Fire
- Customize a Boeing 787 Dreamliner of your very own!
- The challenging new spin on Rubik's Cube
- PlayStation Vita launch day lineup and accessory pricing revealed
- Top 5 Social Media Posts of 2011
- Surf Without Fear of Drowning
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Campaign trail photo of the day
Fri,30 Dec 2011 12:22 PM PST
The Ticket - Via @JamilSmith, a segment producer for MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show," who tweeted, "Just in case it wasn't clear, Vast Majority of America: you're the dude holding the chair." Full Story | Top |
Slideshow: GOP candidates on the trail in Iowa
Fri,30 Dec 2011 12:14 PM PST
The Ticket - So much tension, campaigning and grandstanding in the final days before Tuesday's first-in-the-nation caucuses! Feel like you're there with this hand-picked selection of Iowa photos, courtesy your Ticket reporters on the ground in Iowa and the Election 2012 Flickr group. Have a photo to share? Join the Flickr group. Planning on attending a caucus next [...] Full Story | Top |
Des Moines business owners enjoy caucus stimulus, but weren't suffering
Fri,30 Dec 2011 11:58 AM PST
The Ticket - DES MOINES, Iowa--Don't tell Iowans that politicians don't know how to stimulate the economy. Thanks to the presence of the six major presidential candidates criss-crossing the state in anticipation of Tuesday's Republican caucuses, an influx of journalists, political staffers, candidate supporters and even Occupy Des Moines protesters is boosting Iowa's economy this week and next. "The [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney's schedule offers clue about his Iowa expectations—they're high
Fri,30 Dec 2011 11:52 AM PST
The Ticket - DES MOINES, Iowa--Mitt Romney isn't making any predictions about the outcome of next Tuesday's Republican presidential caucuses in Iowa, but his upcoming schedule suggests his campaign is confident he'll do well. Romney will stay overnight in Iowa next Tuesday after the caucuses, according to a press release sent out by his campaign on Friday. He [...] Full Story | Top |
Christie warns he'll return 'Jersey style' if Iowans don't vote Romney
Fri,30 Dec 2011 09:58 AM PST
The Ticket - WEST DES MOINES, Iowa--Chris Christie came to Iowa on Friday, not as a 2012 presidential candidate, as many Republicans in the state had hoped, but as Mitt Romney's most high-profile surrogate in the final days before Tuesday's first-in-the-nation caucuses. More than 100 people turned out before daylight in the parking lot of a Hy-Vee supermarket, [...] Full Story | Top |
Video: Newt Gingrich tears up in Iowa while speaking about his mother
Fri,30 Dec 2011 09:23 AM PST
The Ticket - DES MOINES, Iowa--In a rare personal moment on the campaign trail for Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker and Republican presidential candidate broke down when asked to speak about his mother, Kathleen Gingrich. At a town hall meeting at a coffee shop here, Gingrich reflected on the role his mother played in his life, and [...] Full Story | Top |
Video: Voter shows how negative TV ads are hurting Gingrich in Iowa
Fri,30 Dec 2011 08:40 AM PST
The Ticket - DES MOINES, Iowa--Newt Gingrich's support in Iowa is cratering, a new NBC/Marist poll out Friday morning indicates. The poll shows Mitt Romney and Ron Paul leading the pack in with the support of 23 percent and 21 percent, respectively, of likely Republican caucusg0ers. Gingrich, who was leading in most Iowa polls three weeks ago, is in [...] Full Story | Top |
Making big bets on Iowa: Gingrich and Perry, not Romney
Fri,30 Dec 2011 07:14 AM PST
The Signal - After months of speculation over how much effort Mitt Romney will put into winning in the Iowa caucus, the Huffington Post is declaring him "All in." Romney will spend Friday in New Hampshire before coming back to Iowa on Saturday and staying through the Tuesday caucuses. Previously, some observers assumed he would stay another day [...] Full Story | Top |
The Mitt Romney restoration: A vision of a past we can believe in
Fri,30 Dec 2011 05:53 AM PST
The Ticket - DAVENPORT, Iowa--I'm told the reason it remains illegal to raise chickens in Iowa City, where I live, is because Iowans moved to our relatively cosmopolitan college town to get away from the country people and, by extension, their chickens. Twentysomethings from bigger cities, where it is fashionable to raise your own chicks and harvest fresh [...] Full Story | Top |
Rand Paul kicks Newt Gingrich while he's down
Thu,29 Dec 2011 01:54 PM PST
The Ticket - Newt Gingrich seems to be sliding further down in the Republican presidential campaign polls every day, but Ron Paul isn't coasting to the finish line in Iowa. His son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, just sent out a fundraising letter that rubs Gingrich's new low numbers in his face: Not too long ago, Newt Gingrich said [...] Full Story | Top |
Michele Bachmann faces independent voters who plan to caucus in Iowa
Thu,29 Dec 2011 01:27 PM PST
The Ticket - DES MOINES, Iowa--Michele Bachmann finds Iowans "not to be highly partisan," she said during her opening remarks at a town hall here on Thursday. "I find Iowans to be genuinely independent-minded people." Those words proved true minutes later when Iowa voters began asking her questions. "I'd like to know how you think you'd be more successful [...] Full Story | Top |
Facing air attack from Perry, Santorum stands by 'Bridge to Nowhere'
Thu,29 Dec 2011 01:06 PM PST
The Ticket - MUSCATINE, Iowa--Rick Santorum doesn't care what Rick Perry says: he's proud of his earmarks. During a campaign stop Thursday at the Button Factory restaurant along the Mississippi River, Santorum responded to a new radio ad released by Perry's campaign that knocks him for supporting earmarks during his time in the Senate, from 1995 to 2006, [...] Full Story | Top |
Video: Talking with Ron Paul supporters in Iowa
Thu,29 Dec 2011 12:27 PM PST
The Ticket - NEWTON, Iowa--The crowd of roughly 150 supporters who turned up at a campaign event here on Wednesday to hear Ron Paul deliver his stump speech opposing the Federal Reserve system and promising to close foreign military bases around the world provided a window into one of Paul's biggest challenges in Iowa: converting his fervent supporters [...] Full Story | Top |
'I want to win Iowa,' Romney says, and his weekend schedule proves it
Thu,29 Dec 2011 11:41 AM PST
The Ticket - MASON CITY, Iowa--If there was any mystery about whether Mitt Romney is competing to win in Iowa, it's been ended by the candidate's schedule in the coming days. The former Massachusetts governor, who is set to wrap up a bus tour of the state with a rally tonight in Ames, heads to New Hampshire Friday [...] Full Story | Top |
Egypt raids NGOs, including 3 U.S. pro-democracy groups
Thu,29 Dec 2011 08:55 AM PST
The Envoy - The United States expressed deep concern over Egyptian police raids Thursday on several non-governmental organizations, including three U.S.-based pro-democracy groups. Egyptian authorities said the raids were conducted as part of an investigation into alleged foreign funding of the groups, many of which help train political parties to participate in the democratic process. But rights activists [...] Full Story | Top |
Has Rick Santorum's moment finally arrived, just in time for Iowa?
Thu,29 Dec 2011 08:39 AM PST
The Ticket - CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Despite a new CNN poll indicating what appears to be a last-minute surge for his candidacy--the first of the entire 2012 Republican presidential campaign--Rick Santorum is playing it cool. When reporters brought up the poll Wednesday after a town hall (his third of the day and his 359th in the state this year), Santorum [...] Full Story | Top |
Ron who? Ignoring fellow Republicans, Romney targets Obama in Iowa
Thu,29 Dec 2011 06:38 AM PST
The Ticket - CLINTON, Iowa--Listening to Mitt Romney on the stump, you would think the 2012 Republican presidential primary is already over. During his talks to crowds at tiny diners and coffee shops on the second day of his Iowa bus tour, Romney made only oblique mention of his rivals for the Republican nomination. Instead, he cast the [...] Full Story | Top |
Attending an Iowa caucus? Share your photos with Yahoo News
Thu,29 Dec 2011 05:58 AM PST
The Ticket - Are you an Iowa resident planning on attending your state's first-in-the-nation caucuses on Tuesday? We want to see your photos and share them with other Yahoo News readers. Send us pictures of your local caucus: the posters, the sign-in sheets, the crowd around the coffee machine--whatever you see that evening that captures your participation in [...] Full Story | Top |
U.S. downplays Iran warnings on Straits of Hormuz
Wed,28 Dec 2011 04:33 PM PST
The Envoy - American officials on Wednesday downplayed comments by two Iran officials in recent days warning that Iran could close the critical Straits of Hormuz to retaliate against further economic sanctions targeting its oil exports. But analysts said the comments reflect growing Iranian anxiety over economic hardship and could signal risk for miscalculation that could lead to [...] Full Story | Top |
Ron Paul garners applause in Iowa, but does it come from caucusgoers?
Wed,28 Dec 2011 03:42 PM PST
The Ticket - NEWTON, Iowa--Ron Paul narrowly leads the RealClearPolitics average of the most recent polls of Republican voters in Iowa, with Mitt Romney close behind. And he has attracted a loyal and active following that has helped him win straw polls across the country (and a close second place in the Aug. 13, 2011, Iowa straw poll) as well [...] Full Story | Top |
Rick Santorum is in third place in Iowa, new CNN poll says
Wed,28 Dec 2011 05:04 PM PST
The Ticket - DUBUQUE, Iowa -- After spending a majority of the campaign season at the bottom of the polls, Rick Santorum is seeing a last-minute rise in Iowa just days before the Republican caucuses, according to a CNN survey released Wednesday. The poll of registered Republicans in Iowa shows Mitt Romney leading with 25 percent, Ron Paul [...] Full Story | Top |
Rick Santorum: I would vote for Ron Paul if he becomes the GOP nominee
Wed,28 Dec 2011 12:31 PM PST
The Ticket - DUBUQUE, Iowa--Rick Santorum disagrees with presidential contender Ron Paul on a lot of issues, but if it came down to a choice between the libertarian-leaning member of Congress and President Barack Obama, Santorum would still vote for Paul on Election Day. "I'd vote for anybody over Barack Obama," Santorum said after a town hall here [...] Full Story | Top |
Iowa GOP leader hopes quiet campaign isn't 'death knell' for caucuses
Wed,28 Dec 2011 08:51 AM PST
The Ticket - DES MOINES, Iowa -- Only in the past few days of the long 2012 presidential campaign has Iowa felt like the hotbed of presidential candidates that it prides itself on being. For most of 2011, the race for the Republican presidential nomination was a national affair, taking place through debates and cable TV interviews. Gone [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney leads prediction markets even as poll numbers lag
Wed,28 Dec 2011 07:51 AM PST
The Signal - Mitt Romney's had another good week. Prediction market data from Betfair and Intrade indicates that the presidential hopeful has a nearly 70 percent likelihood to win the Republican nomination. His closest competitor, Newt Gingrich, isn't really even close; he's got a 9.5 percent chance of winning, while Ron Paul registers a 7.7 percent, and Jon [...] Full Story | Top |
Do-over: Are Mitt Romney's 2008 voters enough for him to win Iowa this time?
Wed,28 Dec 2011 06:45 AM PST
The Ticket - DAVENPORT, Iowa--When Mitt Romney returned to this state on Tuesday for the final push before next week's presidential caucuses, he began by telling more than 300 people at a hotel here about a speech Barack Obama delivered in the same city four years ago this week. "He promised to bring people together. He promised to change [...] Full Story | Top |
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 |
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