Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News:
- Super Tuesday: Romney wins Ohio, but Santorum vows to fight on
- Online, voters still getting to know Santorum
- Just Show Me: How to childproof your Kindle Fire
- Netflix could soon be coming … to your cable TV box?
- Super Tuesday 2012: Fatigue sets in at CNN
- After scare, Romney almost certain to win Ohio
- Roomba's rugged cousin gets called up for military duty
- More colleges and employers requesting applicants' Facebook passwords than ever before
- Liveblogging Super Tuesday results with Jeff Greenfield, Walter Shapiro and ABC News
- George Washington-shaped Chicken McNugget sells for $8,100 on eBay
- Newt Gingrich to receive Secret Service protection
- Road trip: Driving Ohio's I-71 in search of Super Tuesday voters
- On Iran, Obama assails Republican candidates for 'beating the drums of war'
- Window for Iran diplomacy: How much time? Analysts parse Netanyahu's remarks to AIPAC
- Scott Hunt wants to help you prepare for doomsday
- President Obama: 'I don't know what's in Rush Limbaugh's heart'
- LulzSec leader turns informant, helps FBI bring down group
- As Ohio heads to polls, incumbents point to Toledo as economic poster child
- iPad 3 Rumors: What we think we know about Apple's next tablet
- Campaign reporters and their crippling caffeine addiction
- In Ohio, Rick Santorum says 'It's gut-check time'
- World powers propose new nuclear talks with Iran
- Why Ohio matters in November, but not on Super Tuesday
- In flyover campaign, Super Tuesday voters are delegate-rich but candidate-poor: Character Sketch
- Gingrich makes a stand in his home state: Romney is 'very good at deceiving voters,' spokesman says
- What to watch for Tuesday in politics
- Just Show Me: How to childproof your iPad
- Best fitness gadgets that give top results
- Thieves rob Girl Scouts of $200, Scouts fight back
- Where are Mitt Romney's sons?
- Obama to Netanyahu: Give Iran diplomacy more time
- Obama moves G-8 summit from Chicago to Camp David
- Photo project puts pixelated people into Polaroids
- Watch DARPA's disembodied robo arm perform everyday tasks without human input
- Escaped penguin outracing Tokyo authorities in bid for freedom
- Romney goes for the kill on Super Tuesday
- McCain calls for U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria
- 3-year-old girl recovering after swallowing 37 high-powered "Buckyballs" magnets
- Obama's re-election campaign quietly organizes while Republicans fight
- Obama's re-election ground game: a call script from Ohio
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Super Tuesday: Romney wins Ohio, but Santorum vows to fight on
Tue,6 Mar 2012 10:22 PM PST
The Ticket - In a Super Tuesday nail-biter, Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney barely edged out conservative rival Rick Santorum in the vital battleground of Ohio and won four of the night's other contests as voters helped widen his delegate lead without conclusively settling the fight for the nomination. Romney also notched victories in Idaho, Vermont, Virginia and [...] Full Story | Top |
Online, voters still getting to know Santorum
Tue,6 Mar 2012 08:59 PM PST
The Signal - On Super Tuesday, Yahoo! Search trends suggested that voters are still generally less familiar with Rick Santorum than with Mitt Romney. The top searches for Santorum still dealt with fairly basic topics, like "Rick Santorum on the issues," "Rick Santorum biography," and even "how much does Rick Santorum weigh?" Nearly half of Romney's top search terms, [...] Full Story | Top |
Super Tuesday 2012: Fatigue sets in at CNN
Tue,6 Mar 2012 05:14 PM PST
The Ticket - ATLANTA, Ga.--A little before midnight, in the part of CNN's Election Center dubbed "The Cube," Mark Preston, the network's political director, warned Anderson Cooper that while they would be on the air until 2 a.m., they still might not have enough evidence to declare a winner in Ohio. By 12:30 a.m., CNN--like many other outlets--called Ohio for Mitt Romney. [...] Full Story | Top |
After scare, Romney almost certain to win Ohio
Tue,6 Mar 2012 04:31 PM PST
The Signal - 11:14 PM ET: After a seesaw night, in which the Signal was drafting explanations for why we don't expect to get every prediction right, we're calling Ohio for Romney. The markets are now 97 percent in Romney's favor, in large part because the last 15 percent of the vote to be reported is primarily from [...] Full Story | Top |
George Washington-shaped Chicken McNugget sells for $8,100 on eBay
Tue,6 Mar 2012 01:57 PM PST
The Sideshow - A Nebraska woman who put a 3-year-old Chicken McNugget up for auction on eBay has netted $8,100 for her local church. Last month, the Sideshow told you about Rebekah Speight and the piece of fried fast food she says resembles George Washington. Speight said at the time she was selling the McNugget to help raise [...] Full Story | Top |
Newt Gingrich to receive Secret Service protection
Tue,6 Mar 2012 12:34 PM PST
The Ticket - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich will receive protection from the United States Secret Service beginning at midnight tonight, a source close to his campaign told Yahoo News. Gingrich, who is campaigning in Georgia and Alabama on Super Tuesday, is the third candidate still in the nomination race to receive a security unit from the government [...] Full Story | Top |
Road trip: Driving Ohio's I-71 in search of Super Tuesday voters
Tue,6 Mar 2012 12:15 PM PST
The Ticket - Stretching from Cleveland to Cincinnati, Interstate 71 cuts diagonally across Ohio, passing through cities, suburbs and farmland--all competitive regions in the state's Republican presidential primary. "Interstate 71 is like taking a tour of the United States," said John C. Green, a political scientist at the University of Akron who co-wrote a study on how Ohio's [...] Full Story | Top |
On Iran, Obama assails Republican candidates for 'beating the drums of war'
Tue,6 Mar 2012 11:51 AM PST
The Ticket - President Barack Obama on Tuesday bluntly accused Republican White House hopefuls of recklessly "beating the drums of war" against Iran for political gain while ignoring the potential human costs of such a conflict. "Some of these folks have a lot of bluster and a lot of big talk," he said scornfully at his first White [...] Full Story | Top |
Scott Hunt wants to help you prepare for doomsday
Tue,6 Mar 2012 10:55 AM PST
The Sideshow - The National Geographic Channel has launched a new program, "Doomsday Preppers" (National Geographic Channel, Tuesdays at 9pm ET/PT) that places four to six families per episode in a theoretical, apocalyptic setting and chronicles how they respond under doomsday pressure. As part of the show, Nat Geo enlisted Scott Hunt and his partner David Kobler, who [...] Full Story | Top |
President Obama: 'I don't know what's in Rush Limbaugh's heart'
Tue,6 Mar 2012 10:43 AM PST
The Ticket - At his first solo press conference of 2012, President Barack Obama addressed the controversy over Rush Limbaugh's insulting of Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who spoke to Congressional Democrats to advocate for free access to contraception. "I don't know what's in Rush Limbaugh's heart, so I'm not going to comment on the sincerity of [...] Full Story | Top |
As Ohio heads to polls, incumbents point to Toledo as economic poster child
Tue,6 Mar 2012 10:14 AM PST
The Ticket - TOLEDO, Ohio—"It's fun again," said Joe Choate, manager of the sprawling General Motors auto parts plant in this city of 287,000 on the shores of Lake Erie. Near death in 2009, when GM filed for bankruptcy, the plant went down to a skeleton crew of about 15 employees. Last May, GM announced it would invest [...] Full Story | Top |
Campaign reporters and their crippling caffeine addiction
Tue,6 Mar 2012 07:20 AM PST
The Ticket - It's no secret that journalists, like fatigued doctors, lawyers and overnight construction workers, consume a lot of caffeine. But political reporters—particularly in an election year—seem to guzzle more than most. And with no GOP candidate having locked up the race for certain this Super Tuesday--Mitt Romney looks to be close, but he's squandered that position [...] Full Story | Top |
In Ohio, Rick Santorum says 'It's gut-check time'
Tue,6 Mar 2012 07:15 AM PST
The Ticket - CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio--Rick Santorum, who has become a legitimate underdog challenger to longtime front-runner Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination, made his final pitch to Ohio voters Monday, calling Romney "the weakest candidate" for championing a state mandate to buy health insurance while he was governor of Massachusetts. "He won't be able to ignore [...] Full Story | Top |
World powers propose new nuclear talks with Iran
Tue,6 Mar 2012 05:52 AM PST
The Envoy - Top international Iran negotiator Catherine Ashton has written to Iran proposing new talks on its nuclear program as soon as possible. But Ashton, the European Union foreign policy chief, stresses in her letter to Iran's Saeed Jalili, the talks should initially focus on a confidence-building measure. "At this stage, the main focus of efforts will [...] Full Story | Top |
Why Ohio matters in November, but not on Super Tuesday
Tue,6 Mar 2012 03:48 AM PST
The Ticket - This is the first column by longtime political journalist and observer Jeff Greenfield, who joins the Yahoo! News team to contribute to our coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign. The host of PBS' "Need to Know," Greenfield won three Emmy awards over the course of a career covering national politics for several networks. You can [...] Full Story | Top |
What to watch for Tuesday in politics
Tue,6 Mar 2012 03:21 AM PST
The Ticket - Today is called "Super Tuesday" because there are Republican contests in 10 states and 419 delegates at stake. The states: Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. The timeline: Polls start closing in the East at 7 p.m. EST, with winners probably being declared in Georgia, Virginia and Vermont soon [...] Full Story | Top |
Thieves rob Girl Scouts of $200, Scouts fight back
Mon,5 Mar 2012 03:50 PM PST
The Upshot - Outside a Walmart near Houston, a group of Girl Scouts was selling cookies this past weekend. A man walked up and asked how much they were. Then, quicker than you can say "bad karma," the man grabbed $200 in cookie cash and ran to a getaway car. [Related: Young boy wishes to join Girl Scouts] [...] Full Story | Top |
Where are Mitt Romney's sons?
Mon,5 Mar 2012 03:32 PM PST
The Upshot - Viewers of this past weekend's sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live" may have been surprised to see the opener introduce Mitt Romney's five sons. Although it was a spoof, it was no joke: The presidential candidate really does have five adult children. But the good-looking, clean-cut mini-Mitts who had a starring role in their dad's 2008 [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama to Netanyahu: Give Iran diplomacy more time
Mon,5 Mar 2012 03:03 PM PST
The Envoy - President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held one of their more studiously cordial meetings at the White House Monday. But the concerted effort to project a united front--after a few previous prickly encounters--did little to mask the fact that there are genuine differences and tensions in the allies' views on how to [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama moves G-8 summit from Chicago to Camp David
Mon,5 Mar 2012 02:51 PM PST
The Ticket - How will it play in Chicago? As recently as January 25, Chicago's Chamber of Commerce was talking up the economic benefits of hosting the Group of Eight summit of economic powers and playing down the prospects for disruptions that could affect the talks and tarnish the Windy City's image. On Monday, President Barack Obama pulled [...] Full Story | Top |
Photo project puts pixelated people into Polaroids
Mon,5 Mar 2012 02:44 PM PST
Technology News Blog - While the world of digital photography might be moving towards higher resolutions, one artist is pursuing the ultimate in retro snapshots. For the series Pixels and Polaroids, mixed media artist Jherin Miller has superimposed "8-bit" retro video game style humans onto realistic … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Escaped penguin outracing Tokyo authorities in bid for freedom
Mon,5 Mar 2012 02:01 PM PST
The Sideshow - A determined, young penguin has escaped captivity by reportedly circumventing the walls of the Tokyo Sea Life Park and was last spotted swimming in Tokyo Bay, near the Japanese capital. "We first noticed the penguin might have fled when the director of a neighboring zoo e-mailed us Sunday with a photo," park official Takashi Sugino [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney goes for the kill on Super Tuesday
Mon,5 Mar 2012 12:56 PM PST
The Signal - We have held all along that Mitt Romney will be the Republican Party's nominee for president. Since his double win last week in Arizona and Michigan, his odds in the prediction markets have jumped above 80 percent. That's likely to go up again after Super Tuesday, since the most likely scenario has Romney winning 7 of [...] Full Story | Top |
McCain calls for U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria
Mon,5 Mar 2012 12:34 PM PST
The Ticket - Saying "the time has come for a new policy" in Syria, veteran Republican Sen. John McCain called Monday for U.S.-led airstrikes on President Bashar al-Assad's forces in an effort to protect civilians from a bloody yearlong crackdown by the regime. "The United States should lead an international effort to protect key population centers in Syria, [...] Full Story | Top |
3-year-old girl recovering after swallowing 37 high-powered "Buckyballs" magnets
Mon,5 Mar 2012 12:07 PM PST
The Sideshow - A 3-year-old with curious eating habits is recovering after swallowing 37 high-powered "Buckyballs" magnets. KPTV reports that after she ate them, the magnets formed a dangerous ring inside Payton Bushnell's digestive track, snapping her intestines together and ripping holes in both her small intestine and stomach. "They saw a circle had formed in her stomach, [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama's re-election campaign quietly organizes while Republicans fight
Mon,5 Mar 2012 11:17 AM PST
The Ticket - BEAVERCREEK, Ohio—President Barack Obama's supporters waited all of two months after his inauguration to start laying the groundwork here for what has become a re-election machine that is bigger and tougher than his would-be Republican rivals' nightmarish imaginings. Oh, I'm afraid the Obama campaign will be quite operational when his Republican challenger arrives. Powerful, the [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama's re-election ground game: a call script from Ohio
Mon,5 Mar 2012 11:10 AM PST
The Ticket - If you don't live in a battleground state, you may have been spared dinnertime telephone calls from various presidential campaigns and could be wondering what those pitches entail. An Obama volunteer and a campaign press aide were kind enough to share this call script with Yahoo News during a "neighborhood team meeting" and phone bank [...] Full Story | Top |
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