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Iran threatens U.S. Navy as sanctions hit economy
Tue,3 Jan 2012 03:29 PM PST
Reuters -  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran threatened on Tuesday to take action if the U.S. Navy moves an aircraft carrier into the Gulf, Tehran's most aggressive statement yet after weeks of saber-rattling as new U.S. and EU financial sanctions take a toll on its economy. The United States dismissed the Iranian threat, saying it was proof that sanctions imposed over Iran's nuclear program were working. The Pentagon said it would keep sending carrier strike groups through the Gulf regardless. ...
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Pepsi Says Mountain Dew Can Dissolve Mouse Carcasses
Mon,2 Jan 2012 01:39 PM PST
The Atlantic Wire - Pepsi Co., facing a lawsuit from a man who claims to have found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can, has an especially creative, if disgusting, defense: their soda would have dissolved a dead mouse before the man could have found it. An Illinois man sued Pepsi in 2009 after he claims he "spat out the soda to reveal a dead mouse," the Madison County Record reports. He claims he sent the mouse to Pepsi, which then "destroyed" the remains after he allowed them to test it, according to his complaint. ... Full Story | Top |
Pentagon pushes back on Iranian warnings on U.S. aircraft carrier
Tue,3 Jan 2012 08:58 AM PST
The Envoy - The Pentagon on Tuesday pushed back on Iranian warnings against returning a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. "The deployment of U.S. military assets in the Persian Gulf region will continue as it has for decades," Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said in a statement sent to Yahoo News Tuesday. "These are regularly [...] Full Story | Top |
Liveblogging caucus night with Yahoo News, ABC and Tucker Carlson
Tue,3 Jan 2012 06:30 PM PST
The Ticket - At long last, some people--not very many, but some--are casting actual votes in the campaign for the 2012 presidential nomination of the Republican Party. As Iowans vote and as the results come in, you can read and contribute to the liveblog below, featuring real-time discussion and analysis from Yahoo News and ABC News journalists, including: Jonathan [...] Full Story | Top |
20 tons of herring wash up on Norway coast
Tue,3 Jan 2012 10:33 AM PST
The Sideshow - An estimated 20 tons of dead herring fish mysteriously washed up on the cost of Norway and then disappeared. The fish remains turned up on Norway's northern coast on New Year's Eve, and officials are still looking to explain just how and why they showed up. "People say that something similar happened in the 80s," [...] Full Story | Top |
Two Navy pilots among those killed in murder-suicide
Mon,2 Jan 2012 04:17 PM PST
Reuters - CORONADO, Calif (Reuters) - Two Navy pilots were among four people killed in an apparent New Years Day murder-suicide on the wealthy island of Coronado off the coast of San Diego, officials said on Monday. The two were F/A-18 pilots training at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, the base said. The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office initially posted on its website that the both were male, and both 25 years old. The Medical Examiner's information said the third deceased man was a 31-year-old resident of nearby Chula Vista. The Office later took the information off the website. ... Full Story | Top |
Drought Led to Demise of Ancient City of Angkor
Tue,3 Jan 2012 06:47 AM PST
LiveScience.com - The ancient city of Angkor — the most famous monument of which is the breathtaking ruined temple of Angkor Wat — might have collapsed due to valiant but ultimately failed efforts to battle drought, scientists find. Full Story | Top |
Beyond Iowa: How Long Will It Take?
Tue,3 Jan 2012 11:54 AM PST
ABC News -  Caucus time is upon us, and on Tuesday more than 100,000 Iowans will trek to their local schools, churches and community centers to kick off the GOP presidential campaign in earnest, defining the early shape of the campaign and producing 2012′s first round of winners...
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Police: Body found at Wash. park is that of gunman
Tue,3 Jan 2012 08:30 AM PST
Associated Press -  An armed Iraq War veteran suspected of killing a Mount Rainier National Park ranger managed to evade snowshoe-wearing SWAT teams and dogs on his trail for nearly a day. He couldn't, however, escape the cold.
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US Supreme Court asked to ponder drug dog's sniff
Tue,3 Jan 2012 08:42 AM PST
Associated Press -  Franky the drug dog's supersensitive nose is at the heart of a question being put to the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a police dog's sniff outside a house give officers the right to get a search warrant for illegal drugs, or is the sniff an unconstitutional search?
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Mitt Romney on Iowa: 'We're going to win this thing'
Mon,2 Jan 2012 04:38 PM PST
The Ticket - MARION, Iowa—Appearing before a jubilant crowd at a rally here, Mitt Romney appeared to predict a victory in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses—surprising his own advisers in the process. "We're going to win this thing with all of our passion and strength and do everything we can to get this campaign on the right track to go [...] Full Story | Top |
Hu: Hostile forces seek to westernize, split China
Tue,3 Jan 2012 06:32 AM PST
Associated Press - Chinese President Hu Jintao has told Communist Party members that hostile forces abroad are trying to westernize and divide the country with their cultural influence and that officials must remain vigilant against such efforts. Full Story | Top |
As Iowans head to caucus, Obama argues he's kept his 'promises'
Tue,3 Jan 2012 05:23 PM PST
The Ticket - Mitt Romney has repeatedly attacked President Obama on the trail here in Iowa by citing the speeches then-candidate Obama made in the state during the Democratic primary four years ago and telling voters he hasn't delivered. Today, the Obama campaign released a video that seemed to respond to Romney's attacks—though it made no mention of [...] Full Story | Top |
Why didn't any of the 2012 candidates attack Mitt Romney in Iowa?
Tue,3 Jan 2012 07:18 AM PST
The Ticket - DES MOINES, Iowa--Mitt Romney has long been considered the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, but if he wins Iowa's caucuses on Tuesday, it will be partly because of one extraordinary fact: Not one of his Republican rivals ran a negative TV ad against him in the state. Sure, Romney was sometimes mentioned in [...] Full Story | Top |
Iran sentences former president's daughter to jail
Tue,3 Jan 2012 03:41 AM PST
Reuters -  TEHRAN (Reuters) - The daughter of influential former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was on Tuesday sentenced to jail and banned from political activities for "anti state propaganda" dating back to the 2009 disputed presidential election, Iranian media reported. The Islamic state has piled pressure on the opposition ahead of a parliamentary election in March 2, the first test of the clerical establishment's popularity since the 2009 vote that critics say was rigged to re-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. ...
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US Army expert forgot about C-4 in bag: court papers
Tue,3 Jan 2012 12:29 PM PST
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Army special forces engineer arrested for trying to take explosives aboard a U.S. commercial airliner in Texas told authorities he had forgotten they were in his bag and did not notice them when he packed, according to court papers filed on Tuesday. Trey Scott Atwater, who had been deployed to Afghanistan three times, was charged with trying to board an aircraft with explosives when he tried to fly out of Midland, Texas, on December 31 to Dallas, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court. ...
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Woman takes unique road to sue Honda over mileage
Tue,3 Jan 2012 07:25 AM PST
Associated Press - A woman who expected her 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid to be her dream car wants Honda to pay for not delivering the high mileage it promised. But rather than joining other owners in a class-action lawsuit, she is going solo in small claims court, an unusual move that could offer a bigger payout if it doesn't backfire. Full Story | Top |
Ron Paul greeted by overflow crowd first day back in Iowa
Mon,2 Jan 2012 12:23 PM PST
The Ticket - DES MOINES, Iowa-- Ron Paul's first public event in Iowa since the release of a Des Moines Register poll putting him within striking distance of Mitt Romney was so packed that workers took down a dividing wall at the downtown Marriott's Salon D ballroom. Supporters as well as national political reporters lined up to cover [...] Full Story | Top |
White House: Iran's threats are bid to distract from problems
Tue,3 Jan 2012 10:19 AM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday Iran's threat to take action if a U.S. aircraft carrier moves into the Gulf showed Tehran was increasingly isolated internationally, faced economic problems from to sanctions and wants to divert attention from its deepening problems. "It reflects the fact that Iran is in a position of weakness," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters. (Reporting By Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Vicki Allen) Full Story | Top |
Flushing Can Spread Diarrhea Disease
Mon,2 Jan 2012 05:00 AM PST
ABC News -  Flushing the toilet with the lid up can spray diarrhea-causing bacteria into the air, according to a new study of hospital toilets. Researchers from Leeds Teaching Hospitals in the U.K. detected C. difficile — a germ that can cause diarrhea and even life-threatening inflammation of the...
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Obama appeals to Iowa Democrats on caucus night
Tue,3 Jan 2012 01:55 PM PST
Associated Press -  Inserting his voice into a big night for Republicans, President Barack Obama was appealing to Iowa Democrats during the first balloting in the GOP presidential campaign, seeking to counter months of withering criticism in the state that launched his presidential ambitions four years ago.
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Soldier from NC may have flown with explosives
Tue,3 Jan 2012 04:15 PM PST
Associated Press -  A soldier charged with trying to bring explosives on an airplane told investigators he used them in Afghanistan but didn't realize any were in a bag he brought back to the U.S. and apparently carried on a flight from North Carolina to Texas.
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Rupert Murdoch splashes opinions on Twitter
Mon,2 Jan 2012 10:17 PM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has rung in the New Year with a new Twitter account that includes praise for Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum and opinions on President Barack Obama's policies and the Steve Jobs biography. By Monday night, just two days after he started his Twitter account, the 80-year-old chief of News Corp had already issued more than 20 tweets and acquired 74,000 followers. Teri Everett, a spokeswoman for News Corp, confirmed the Twitter account (http://twitter.com/#!/rupertmurdoch) was Murdoch's. ...
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Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry compete for the Tim Tebow vote: Scenes from the caucuses
Tue,3 Jan 2012 08:05 AM PST
The Ticket - DES MOINES, Iowa--He's mentioned during the presidential candidates' speeches. His image appears in their political ads. Is Tim Tebow the new Ronald Reagan? What does a young NFL quarterback have to do with politics? Nothing, really. But the born-again athlete's star power and popularity have prompted several of the presidential candidates to try to hook [...] Full Story | Top |
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