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News: Time-Saving Touchscreen Secrets Police: Utah mom, son rescued after Facebook post Man tried to take 247 animals on plane Obama to ask for debt limit hike: Treasury official Ex-Aide: Ron Paul Foreign Policy is 'Sheer Lunacy' Police: Neighbor chopped up US girl with hacksaw Insight: Violence creeping into Mexican capital Paul builds campaign on doomsday scenarios Yemen's leader causes headaches in Washington 50-strong brawl turns to melee at Mall of America Sears closing more stores as holiday sales slide Girl killed after running onto Calif. freeway Colombian city gets giant, outdoor escalator Detroit police say 3 deaths tied to dating services site Ex-Aide to Ron Paul Makes Stunning Claims About Old Boss: Anti-Israel, 9/11 Truther, Doesn't Believe U.S. Had Any Business Fighting Hitler Missing Ind. girl found dead, babysitter arrested Police: Babysitter beat, dismembered Indiana girl Golden Retriever Jams to Guitar, Until the Music Stops (VIDEO) Police arrest suspect in US soldier shooting Jewish gender segregation campaign turns violent Mark Zuckerberg Vacations in Vietnam Poor People May Be Quicker to Be Kind Iran threatens to stop Gulf oil if sanctions widened Fire at Conn. home kills ad exec's 3 kids, parents Mexico police arrested over torture video Ron Paul's Long Record of Glorious Failures in Congress Gingrich goes after rivals despite positive pledge Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed Slain Ind. girl's grandfather was sex offender Iran seeks death for American accused of spying Have a Brilliant Idea? Be Quirky Consumer confidence perks up, house prices sag Israeli girl's plight highlights Jewish extremism Obama taps economist, banker as Fed governors Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson announces retirement Idaho teen loses cancer fight after delivering son FBI shooting range is popular deer hangout Caught on Vid: Shoppers Launch Tirade at Walmart Manager Who 'Closes' Early on Christmas Eve Connecticut Christmas Fire: Grandfather Died Trying to Save Granddaughter More trouble for Gingrich as Iowa campaign quickens 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 Police: Utah mom, son rescued after Facebook post Mon,26 Dec 2011 04:41 PM PST Associated Press - A Utah woman used Facebook to seek help after she and her 17-month-old son were held hostage at a residence for nearly five days, police said. Full Story Top Man tried to take 247 animals on plane Mon,26 Dec 2011 08:56 AM PST AFP - A Czech national was nabbed in Argentina for trying to board a transatlantic flight with 247 live animals including poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles packed in a bulging suitcase, reports said Monday. Full Story Top Obama to ask for debt limit hike: Treasury official Tue,27 Dec 2011 08:33 AM PST Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House plans to ask Congress by the end of the week for an increase in the government's debt ceiling to allow the United States to pay its bills on time, according to a senior Treasury Department official on Tuesday. The approval is expected to go through without a challenge, given that Congress is in recess until later in January and the request is in line with an agreement to keep the U.S. government funded into 2013. ... Full Story Top Ex-Aide: Ron Paul Foreign Policy is 'Sheer Lunacy' Tue,27 Dec 2011 02:39 AM PST National Journal - Ron Paul is not having the best holiday season.  First the media discovered racist, anti-Semitic newsletters that went out under Paul's name in the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Then the New York Times did a story about the support Paul draws from white supremacists and anti-Semites.   Full Story Top Police: Neighbor chopped up US girl with hacksaw Tue,27 Dec 2011 09:14 AM PST Associated Press - A babysitter and trusted neighbor has confessed that he bludgeoned a 9-year-old Indiana girl to death with a brick then dismembered her, hiding her head, hands and feet at his home and dumping the rest of her remains nearby, police said Tuesday. Full Story Top Insight: Violence creeping into Mexican capital Tue,27 Dec 2011 04:10 AM PST Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - In a nation wracked by drug violence, this sprawling capital city of more than 20 million has been an oasis of relative peace. But the key to that calm - an informal truce among rival gangs - may be cracking. On a sunny afternoon this month, a group of gunmen drove into a slum in the north of Mexico City, the streets packed with shoppers and children leaving school. In plain sight, the killers lined three crack cocaine dealers against a wall and shot them in the head with AK-47 assault rifles. ... Full Story Top Paul builds campaign on doomsday scenarios Mon,26 Dec 2011 10:42 AM PST Reuters - WASHINGTON, Iowa (Reuters) - The man who might win the Republican Party's first presidential nominating contest fears that the United Nations may take control of the U.S. money supply. Campaigning for the January 3 Iowa caucuses, Ron Paul warns of eroding civil liberties, a Soviet Union-style economic collapse and violence in the streets. The Texas congressman, author of "End the Fed," also wants to eliminate the central banking system that underpins the world's largest economy. ... Full Story Top Yemen's leader causes headaches in Washington Tue,27 Dec 2011 07:19 PM PST Associated Press - The Obama administration is weighing an unprecedented diplomatic act — whether to bar a friendly president from U.S. soil. Full Story Top 50-strong brawl turns to melee at Mall of America Tue,27 Dec 2011 05:23 AM PST Associated Press - Officials says a moving melee involving scores of juveniles at the Mall of America took police and security officers over an hour to control as shoppers packed the sprawling shopping center the day after Christmas. Full Story Top Sears closing more stores as holiday sales slide Tue,27 Dec 2011 03:45 PM PST Reuters - (Reuters) - Sears Holdings Corp will close as many as 120 of its Kmart and Sears discount and department stores after its holiday sales slumped, sending its shares sliding more than 27 percent to their lowest level in three years. The retailer, which is controlled by its chairman, the hedge fund manager Edward Lampert, has seen sales decline every year since the $11 billion merger of the two chains in 2005, and likely faces further closings to cut expenses, preserve cash and push back against rivals such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Amazon.com Inc, analysts said. ... Full Story Top Girl killed after running onto Calif. freeway Mon,26 Dec 2011 04:49 PM PST Associated Press - Authorities say a 12-year-old girl was struck and killed on a Southern California freeway as she ran through traffic while attempting to retrieve clothing from the roadway. Full Story Top Colombian city gets giant, outdoor escalator Mon,26 Dec 2011 06:44 PM PST Associated Press - Officials in Colombia's second-largest city on Monday inaugurated a giant, outdoor escalator for residents of one of its poorest neighborhoods. Full Story Top Detroit police say 3 deaths tied to dating services site Mon,26 Dec 2011 03:34 PM PST Reuters - (Reuters) - Three women discovered dead in Detroit over the past week, including two found burned beyond recognition early on Christmas, were linked to a website called Packages that advertises adult escort services, police said on Monday. In two incidents over the last week, four women -- all African-Americans in their 20s -- have been found dead in the trunks of abandoned vehicles on Detroit's east side. The latest incident occurred about 1 a.m. on Sunday, when the Detroit Fire Department responded to reports of a car fire. ... Full Story Top Ex-Aide to Ron Paul Makes Stunning Claims About Old Boss: Anti-Israel, 9/11 Truther, Doesn't Believe U.S. Had Any Business Fighting Hitler Mon,26 Dec 2011 11:42 PM PST The Blaze - Eric Dondero, who worked for Ron Paul on and off for a total of 12 years dating back to 1987, released a jaw-dropping statement in Right Wing News Monday in regards to his old boss. It appears Dondero wrote the statement to answer questions presented to him of late by various media outlets in regards to controversial newsletters connected to the congressman that have consumed his campaign for President. ... Full Story Top Missing Ind. girl found dead, babysitter arrested Tue,27 Dec 2011 06:08 AM PST Associated Press - The neighbor who was babysitting a 9-year-old Indiana girl when she went missing last week will be formally charged with murder Tuesday, a heartbreaking turn for the girl's relatives who considered him a family friend. Full Story Top Police: Babysitter beat, dismembered Indiana girl Tue,27 Dec 2011 08:15 AM PST Associated Press - A babysitter and trusted neighbor has confessed that he bludgeoned a 9-year-old Indiana girl to death with a brick then dismembered her, hiding her head, hands and feet at his home and dumping the rest of her remains nearby, police said Tuesday. Full Story Top Golden Retriever Jams to Guitar, Until the Music Stops (VIDEO) Tue,27 Dec 2011 11:11 AM PST ABC News Blogs - Every concertgoer hates it when the final song is played, and this golden retriever is no exception. Nearly 1 million people have viewed the YouTube video of Bailey, the golden retriever, happily jamming to guitar tunes played by his owner's friend, Drew Arcoleo, a sophomore at the... Full Story Top Police arrest suspect in US soldier shooting Mon,26 Dec 2011 07:02 PM PST Associated Press - Police on Monday arrested a suspect in a shooting that critically wounded a soldier at his Southern California homecoming party after he survived a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan. Full Story Top Jewish gender segregation campaign turns violent Mon,26 Dec 2011 03:17 PM PST AFP - Clashes erupted on Monday between police and several hundred ultra-Orthodox Jews from a town near Jerusalem who are campaigning for men and women to be segregated, an AFP journalist said. Full Story Top Mark Zuckerberg Vacations in Vietnam Tue,27 Dec 2011 10:49 AM PST ABC News Blogs - Mark Zuckerberg may be welcome in Vietnam, even if his brainchild Facebook is not. The Facebook founder is vacationing in the communist country that blocks its citizen from using his social networking site. According to The Associated Press, Zuckerberg arrived in Vietnam Dec. 22. He spent... Full Story Top Poor People May Be Quicker to Be Kind Tue,27 Dec 2011 08:48 PM PST HealthDay - TUESDAY, Dec. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Poor people are quicker than middle-class or rich individuals to recognize the suffering of others and to show compassion, according to a new study. Full Story Top Iran threatens to stop Gulf oil if sanctions widened Tue,27 Dec 2011 03:47 PM PST Reuters - TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran threatened on Tuesday to stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz if foreign sanctions were imposed on its crude exports over its nuclear ambitions, a move that could trigger military conflict with economies dependent on Gulf oil. Western tensions with Iran have increased since a November 8 report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog saying Tehran appears to have worked on designing an atomic bomb and may still be pursuing research to that end. Iran strongly denies this and says it is developing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. ... Full Story Top Fire at Conn. home kills ad exec's 3 kids, parents Mon,26 Dec 2011 02:08 PM PST Associated Press - Fire swept through an advertising executive's Victorian home along the Connecticut shoreline, killing her three children and her parents. Full Story Top Mexico police arrested over torture video Mon,26 Dec 2011 10:57 PM PST Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities arrested five policemen on Monday on suspicion of torture after a video was made public showing police officers submerging a detainee's head in a bucket of water. An official at the attorney general's office said five Mexico City police officers were taken into custody over the alleged torture, which took place in the capital's tough inner city neighborhood of Tepito last month. ... Full Story Top Ron Paul's Long Record of Glorious Failures in Congress Tue,27 Dec 2011 02:29 AM PST The Atlantic Wire - Of the 620 bills sponsored by Ron Paul during his long career in the House of Representatives, only four have ever made it to a vote on the House floor and only one of those became an actual law. An analysis by The Washington Post shows that Paul's success rate of 0.2 percent falls far below that of most legislators, as Paul has chosen to stand up for his personal crusades, rather that build coalitions for more popular, but less ambitious, proposals.Related: Quoting Ayn Rand on Capitol Hill Is a Paul Family Tradition Full Story Top Gingrich goes after rivals despite positive pledge Tue,27 Dec 2011 04:59 PM PST Associated Press - No more Mr. Nice Guy. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich lambasted two of his top GOP rivals on Tuesday, despite his claim that he's sticking to a positive campaign. Full Story Top Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed Mon,26 Dec 2011 03:30 PM PST Associated Press - For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets. Full Story Top Slain Ind. girl's grandfather was sex offender Tue,27 Dec 2011 06:57 PM PST Associated Press - To assist her dying father, Tarah Souders made a choice: She moved her three young girls to a run-down trailer park in rural Indiana to help take care of him as his lungs rotted from emphysema. Full Story Top Iran seeks death for American accused of spying Tue,27 Dec 2011 01:45 PM PST Associated Press - An American man accused by Iran of working for the CIA could face the death penalty, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Tuesday. 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 Consumer confidence perks up, house prices sag Tue,27 Dec 2011 03:44 PM PST Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Improving labor market conditions lifted U.S. consumer confidence to an eight month high in December, but persistently weak house prices remain an obstacle to faster economic growth. The sharp rise in sentiment reported by the Conference Board on Tuesday offered hope for a pick-up in consumer spending after an anemic performance in November. "It suggests there is some real improvement in the economy. Consumer confidence really boils down to how people feel about the labor market," said Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, North ... Full Story Top Israeli girl's plight highlights Jewish extremism Tue,27 Dec 2011 05:12 AM PST Associated Press - A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel's latest religious war. Full Story Top Obama taps economist, banker as Fed governors Tue,27 Dec 2011 03:46 PM PST Reuters - HONOLULU/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will nominate Harvard economist Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell, an investment banker and former Treasury official, to the two empty seats on the Federal Reserve's policy-setting board of governors. The White House's pick of candidates, who have Democratic and Republican credentials respectively, may help speed their nomination through Congress amid a sluggish economic recovery that has failed to put a major dent in the unemployment rate, now at 8.6 percent. ... Full Story Top Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson announces retirement Tue,27 Dec 2011 01:08 PM PST Associated Press - Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska said Tuesday he will retire rather than seek a third term next year, dealing a significant setback to Democratic efforts to maintain control of the chamber. Full Story Top Idaho teen loses cancer fight after delivering son Tue,27 Dec 2011 03:23 PM PST Associated Press - Jenni Lake gave birth to a baby boy the month before her 18th birthday, though she was not destined to become just another teenage mother. Full Story Top FBI shooting range is popular deer hangout Mon,26 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST Associated Press - Call it a playground for Bambi and G-Men, where imaginary criminals are hunted and deer are the spectators. Full Story Top Caught on Vid: Shoppers Launch Tirade at Walmart Manager Who 'Closes' Early on Christmas Eve Tue,27 Dec 2011 10:41 AM PST The Blaze - If you've ever worked retail, you might side with the manager in this video. If you've ever had to do some very last-minute Christmas shopping, you might sympathize with the shoppers. Full Story Top Connecticut Christmas Fire: Grandfather Died Trying to Save Granddaughter Tue,27 Dec 2011 06:33 AM PST Good Morning America - The Fire Claimed the Lives of Five Family Members, Including Three Young Girls Full Story Top More trouble for Gingrich as Iowa campaign quickens Tue,27 Dec 2011 03:47 PM PST Reuters - DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's campaign struggled to fend off more bad news on Tuesday after he was quoted supporting main rival Mitt Romney's healthcare reform in Massachusetts. Gingrich, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, has seen his poll numbers drop in the early-voting state of Iowa under a blitz of negative ads accusing him of being an unreliable Washington insider. He tried to regain some of his lost momentum in a pugnacious interview with CNN in which he used some of his strongest language yet to attack his main opponents. ... Full Story Top

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