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Puppy overload: Dog breeder produces 27 puppies in three days
Thu,1 Mar 2012 03:14 PM PST
The Sideshow - A dog breeder in Germany found herself with what veterinarians technically describe as a "pile of puppies," after two of her dogs gave birth to 27 mastiffs in the span of three days. The breeder, Beatrice Oswald, told local media that Elfi, a two-year-old, gave birth to 11 puppies shortly before Anny, a three-year-old, whelped [...] Full Story | Top |
Voices unheard: Female bylines still lacking in male-dominated literary magazines
Thu,1 Mar 2012 02:16 PM PST
The Cutline - If you think journalism is becoming feminized, following in the footsteps of the nursing and teaching industries, bylines certainly don't show it. In fact, it's quite the opposite. A year after sparking feminist furor with a study that found a lack of female bylines in literary magazines, the Vida organization has published another annual count. [...] Full Story | Top |
Mitt Romney's unscripted moments do not always produce gaffes
Thu,1 Mar 2012 02:01 PM PST
The Ticket - BEXLEY, Ohio—It was one of Mitt Romney's best moments on the campaign trail. At a town hall here Wednesday at Capital University, a man stood up and told the Republican presidential candidate that he strongly admired his long career in the private sector and in politics. But, the man said, could Romney show that he actually [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama won't campaign on gas prices–but he did in 2008
Thu,1 Mar 2012 01:40 PM PST
The Ticket - During a brief stop in the battleground state of New Hampshire, President Barack Obama on Thursday criticized Republicans for "licking their chops" over painfully high gas prices and marveled: "Only in politics do people respond to bad news with such enthusiasm." Well, he would know. Some Republicans and enterprising journalists drilled, baby, drilled into old [...] Full Story | Top |
Santorum campaign spin: Michigan 'not a win' for Romney
Thu,1 Mar 2012 12:54 PM PST
The Ticket - The Santorum campaign is spinning the Michigan primary as a high point for the candidate, pointing to Romney's strong expectations and his personal roots in the state. Romney won the state of his birth by just 3 percentage points on Tuesday, but the candidates each won seven of the state's 14 Congressional districts. Full Story | Top |
"Stay the course?" Afghanistan watchers predict accelerated pullout
Thu,1 Mar 2012 12:53 PM PST
The Envoy - The Pentagon said it was "staying the course" in Afghanistan despite the killing Thursday of two U.S. soldiers by an Afghan soldier. But Washington national security analysts said that the United States is likely looking for ways to reduce the international footprint in Afghanistan while accelerating the pace of the drawdown from the country, currently [...] Full Story | Top |
Mansion servant enslaved by uber-rich New York family for nearly six years
Thu,1 Mar 2012 12:17 PM PST
The Sideshow - A wealthy New York woman is facing criminal charges after being accused of keeping an illegal immigrant as an indentured servant and forcing her to live in a closet for nearly six years. Documents posted on the Smoking Gun allege that Annie George, 39, and her now-deceased husband, Mathai Kolath George, hired an illegal immigrant [...] Full Story | Top |
Maryland gay marriage bill signed into law
Thu,1 Mar 2012 11:42 AM PST
The Ticket - Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed the state's gay marriage bill into law Thursday evening, capping off a month of big state-level wins for the gay rights movement around the country. "We're in a much more pro-active place," Michael Cole-Schwartz of the Human Rights Campaign, the country's largest LGBT advocacy and lobbying outfit, tells Yahoo News. [...] Full Story | Top |
U.S. pro-democracy workers flying out of Cairo, travel ban lifted
Thu,1 Mar 2012 11:03 AM PST
The Envoy - Sam LaHood, the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and five other U.S. pro-democracy workers flew out of Cairo Thursday after Egypt lifted a travel ban that had barred them from leaving the country for over a month, democracy groups and Egyptian media reports said. A U.S. military plane waiting at Cairo airport since [...] Full Story | Top |
Why did Ann Romney put 'Anna Karenina' on her Pinterest board?: Machine Politics
Thu,1 Mar 2012 10:57 AM PST
The Ticket - At this point in an election season, a campaign's every utterance shimmers with significance. At the same time, this time around, the campaigns have embraced social media. And the social networks, like whiskey, promote disinhibition. (Just ask Anthony Weiner.) Services like Twitter, Facebook and, more recently, the photo-sharing site Pinterest require that we let our [...] Full Story | Top |
Santorum knocks Romney for flubbing answer about Blunt amendment
Thu,1 Mar 2012 10:40 AM PST
The Ticket - ATLANTA -- Rick Santorum criticized Mitt Romney Thursday for flubbing an answer to a question about a bill in Congress that would grant a conscience exemption to President Barack Obama's federal health care law. Romney was asked about an amendment proposed by Roy Blunt, a Republican senator from Missouri, that would allow employers who offer [...] Full Story | Top |
New winged roller coaster 'the Swarm' rips the arms off crash test dummies
Thu,1 Mar 2012 10:35 AM PST
The Sideshow - A theme park in London is set to debut a powerful new winged roller coaster this month, but only after first figuring out how not to dismember its riders. Time reports that Thorpe Park has been conducting test runs of its new coaster, the Swarm, even enlisting fighter pilots who described the ride as "gut-wrenching." [...] Full Story | Top |
'Mad Men's' Falling Man Ads Stirs Up 9/11 Comparison
Thu,1 Mar 2012 09:24 AM PST
Trending Now - A new advertising campaign for the upcoming season of the critically acclaimed drama series "Mad Men" is stirring unexpected controversy. People are drawing comparisons between the billboards and the September 11 tragedy. Full Story | Top |
Birth control amendment rejected by Senate
Thu,1 Mar 2012 08:59 AM PST
The Ticket - In a win for Democrats, the Senate voted Thursday to table an amendment permitting employers and insurers to opt out of provisions in President Obama's health care proposal on moral or religious grounds. The Senate voted 51-48 to kill the amendment, which was offered by Senate Republican Minority Leader Roy Blunt of Missouri as an [...] Full Story | Top |
Exclusive First Look At Nike's Flyknit Technology
Thu,1 Mar 2012 08:33 AM PST
This Could Be Big - Only just announced in late February, we got an exclusive first look at the Nike Flyknit running shoes this week. We weren't able to take the samples for a run around the park because they're being closely guarded by Nike until they're released to the public this summer, but we were all blown away by [...] Full Story | Top |
Andrew Breitbart dead: Outspoken conservative was 43
Thu,1 Mar 2012 06:42 AM PST
The Cutline - Andrew Breitbart, the outspoken conservative writer, activist and website operator, has died unexpectedly in Los Angeles, where he lived with a wife and four young children. He was 43. Breitbart was pronounced dead at the UCLA Medical Center shortly after midnight, the Los Angeles County coroner's told Yahoo News. One of his websites, BigJournalism.com, announced [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney's 'oil we deserve' quote resonated most on Twitter
Thu,1 Mar 2012 06:37 AM PST
The Signal - As the Michigan primary lurched to its conclusion, the Twitter wit @LOLGOP seemed to best sum up the stakes for Mitt Romney: "HEADLINE: Michigan torn over whether to bail out Mitt Romney." By the time Arizona and then Michigan went to the Romney column, our analysis of tweets around the election registered its highest overall [...] Full Story | Top |
What to watch for Thursday in politics
Thu,1 Mar 2012 03:32 AM PST
The Ticket - President Obama will be in Nashua, N.H., at 12:45 p.m. EST Thursday talking about the economy. Earlier this week, Obama was in campaign mode when he spoke to a United Auto Workers gathering in Washington. Will that be the tense and tone of his New Hampshire speech, and how close will he come to actually [...] Full Story | Top |
"Saving Face": Horrific Acid Attacks Target Women in Pakistan
Wed,29 Feb 2012 07:57 PM PST
Around the World - Every year in Pakistan around 150 women are victims of acid attacks, horrific incidents where liquid acid is thrown on their face, leaving them permanently scared and disfigured. Many are left without access to proper medical care, while those that do have access often require up to 20 surgeries to properly treat the damage. In [...] Full Story | Top |
Daytime in no Time 's Nikki Boyer Visits Trending Now
Wed,29 Feb 2012 03:33 PM PST
Trending Now - Nikki Boyer, host of Yahoo!'s Daytime in no Time, joins us to talk about Lindsay Lohan's much-anticipated Today Show interview with Matt Lauer. Also, one of The View's most amazing moments, their favorites on Dancing With the Stars, and a Duggar receiving a ridiculous bribe. Full Story | Top |
The iceman gets his genome mapped
Wed,29 Feb 2012 02:43 PM PST
The Upshot - Talk about a cold case: the corpse of the world's oldest murder victim, "Oetzi the Iceman," has undergone the ultimate investigation: a mapping of his complete genome. The findings were published in the science journal Nature Communications. Here's what we now know: As reported by the BBC, the 5,300-year-old body, which was discovered frozen in [...] Full Story | Top |
Man dies after accidentally drinking gasoline from salsa jar then lighting cigarette
Wed,29 Feb 2012 02:42 PM PST
The Sideshow - A 43-year-old man in North Carolina died Tuesday after drinking gasoline and lighting a cigarette, police there say. Gary Allen Banning of Havelock, N.C., was taken to a local hospital late Monday after police responded to a 911 call from a resident reporting an apartment fire. Banning was transported to the University of North Carolina [...] Full Story | Top |
A subdued Mitt Romney talks jobs in Ohio, a day after big primary wins
Wed,29 Feb 2012 02:05 PM PST
The Ticket - TOLEDO, Ohio--After winning key primaries in Michigan and Arizona, Mitt Romney was back on the road again Wednesday, holding what his campaign described as a "grassroots rally" at a fence manufacturing plant. But with a little less than 150 people on site, the event didn't quite have the feel of a rally--and indeed, the candidate, [...] Full Story | Top |
Rick Santorum's little gaffes: endearing or problematic?
Wed,29 Feb 2012 01:47 PM PST
The Ticket - DETROIT -- Rick Santorum is a man who shoots from the hip, and he's proud of it. "I never have to worry about what I say," Santorum told supporters during a campaign stop in Traverse City, Mich., last weekend, "because I will say what's on my heart. I might not say it the most articulate [...] Full Story | Top |
Doctors rebuild man's dented forehead using his own body fat
Wed,29 Feb 2012 12:01 PM PST
The Sideshow - In June 2009, Tim Barter fell 25 feet from a drainpipe, hit his head on a brick wall and was left in a coma for 10 days. When he awoke, his forehead was caved in because doctors had performed an emergency life-saving operation to repair his shattered skull, cheekbone and eye socket. But even after [...] Full Story | Top |
The best sites for streaming hit movies on your computer
Wed,29 Feb 2012 11:40 AM PST
Today in Tech - Everybody's doing it — watching movies on their computers. So how do you get in on this cinematic system of instant gratification? There a number of services out there that allow you to stream movies on demand, and we've got the lowdown … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
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