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Today's Most Popular News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Lottery winner on food stamps even after $1 million jackpot Thousands of spiders blanket Australian farm after escaping flood Lottery winner on food stamps: 'I thought maybe it was okay because I'm not working' Reclusive twins, 73, leave behind mystery in death Rush Limbaugh: Over 40 Advertisers Flee, Host Says 'Everything's Cool' Sun Fires Off 2 Huge Solar Flares in One-Two Punch What sank the Titanic? Scientists point to the moon The Other 1% Palin backs Gingrich, leaves door open for herself US physicists confirm Higgs finding is near New Mexico town elects mayor who called Obama evil Solar storm headed toward Earth may disrupt power A Grueling Super Tuesday for Romney and the GOP Ron Paul Loses North Dakota; the Campaign Presses On Alaska's Orange Goo Mystery Solved Parents Forget Child, 3, at Chuck E Cheese, Find Out on Evening News Liberal Congressman Kucinich defeated in Ohio Pentagon chiefs say U.S. should not act alone in Syria Sarkozy's 'Southern strategy': French president says 'too many foreigners' in France Supreme Court Ruling Prompts FBI to Turn Off 3,000 Tracking Devices The Daily Show's Jon Stewart takes on Iran war drums Bibi's Gift to Barack 3 reasons the Rush Limbaugh ad boycott is ineffective Texas Warns Spring Breakers to Steer Clear of Mexico Case would let thousands of Calif. criminals vote Super Tuesday: What we learned Knife-wielding kite surfer defeats Red Sea sharks $336 Million Powerball Winner, Louise White, Rhode Island Woman, Claims Prize Why Much of North America Skipped Winter AP Exclusive: Iran may be cleaning up nuke work Missing Michigan Family: Couple With 4-Month-Old Baby Disappear Super Tuesday: Romney wins Ohio, but Santorum vows to fight on Va. governor signs pre-abortion ultrasound bill Texas man executed for killing wife, her boyfriend To some working poor in India, home is parking lot California man arrested in killing of girlfriend with cannon All the Ads Pulled from Rush Limbaugh's Show The Mormons' Black Priesthood Ban: No Apology, Explanation Florida honors student wins reprieve from deportation Earth braces for biggest space storm in five years Lottery winner on food stamps even after $1 million jackpot Wed,7 Mar 2012 12:17 PM PST The Sideshow - People love stories about someone winning the lottery and then giving the money away. They're less likely to feel fondly about Amanda Clayton, who won $1 million in the Michigan State Lottery but is still collecting food stamps. "I thought that they would cut me off, but since they didn't, I thought maybe it was [...] Full Story Top Thousands of spiders blanket Australian farm after escaping flood Wed,7 Mar 2012 08:59 AM PST The Sideshow - Thousands of normally solitary wolf spiders have blanketed an Australian farm after fleeing a rising flood. Reuters reports that the flooding has forced more than 8,000 Australian (human) residents from their homes in the city of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. But for every temporarily displaced person, it appears several spiders have moved in [...] Full Story Top Lottery winner on food stamps: 'I thought maybe it was okay because I'm not working' Wed,7 Mar 2012 08:16 AM PST The Daily Caller - While most people have played the "if I had a million dollars I would ____ " thought game, few fill that blank in with "stay on public assistance." Full Story Top Reclusive twins, 73, leave behind mystery in death Wed,7 Mar 2012 12:32 AM PST Associated Press - Patricia and Joan Miller were identical twins who pursued their dreams together. As a team, the Miller sisters met Bing Crosby, appeared on a TV show in the 1950s and purchased a house in California's picturesque South Lake Tahoe. Full Story Top Rush Limbaugh: Over 40 Advertisers Flee, Host Says 'Everything's Cool' Wed,7 Mar 2012 12:25 PM PST ABC News - Talk show host Rush Limbaugh sought to reassure listeners Wednesday after the tally of local and national companies that have pulled their advertisements from his time slot topped 40, insisting that the show will go on and that the program is not losing revenue from the exodus. At last count, 42... Full Story Top Sun Fires Off 2 Huge Solar Flares in One-Two Punch Wed,7 Mar 2012 06:36 AM PST SPACE.com - The sun unleashed a cosmic double whammy Tuesday (March 6), erupting with two major flares to cap a busy day of powerful solar storms. One of the flares is the most powerful solar eruption of the year, so far. Full Story Top What sank the Titanic? Scientists point to the moon Tue,6 Mar 2012 10:13 AM PST Reuters - SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A century after the Titanic disaster, scientists have found an unexpected culprit of the crash: the moon. Anyone who knows history or blockbuster movies knows that the cause of the ocean liner's accident 100 years ago next month was that it hit an iceberg. "But the lunar connection may explain how an unusually large number of icebergs got into the path of the Titanic," said Donald Olson, a Texas State University physicist whose team of forensic astronomers examined the moon's role. ... Full Story Top The Other 1% Wed,7 Mar 2012 04:45 AM PST Power Players - Political Punch Matt Flavin is part of the one percent. No, not necessarily that one percent -- Flavin served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, which makes him a minority in this country. "One percent of the American population serves in uniform," said Flavin, who is not only a veteran, but also the former director of [...] Full Story Top Palin backs Gingrich, leaves door open for herself Wed,7 Mar 2012 05:22 AM PST AFP - Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin threw her weight behind Newt Gingrich as Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday -- but coyly left open the door for her own White House run if need be. Full Story Top US physicists confirm Higgs finding is near Wed,7 Mar 2012 01:54 AM PST AFP - US-based physicists said Wednesday that their experiments confirm those from a major European atom-smasher's that have narrowed the range where the elusive Higgs boson particle could be hiding. Full Story Top New Mexico town elects mayor who called Obama evil Wed,7 Mar 2012 12:15 PM PST Associated Press - A former New Mexico mayor who called President Barack Obama "the carnal manifestation of evil" and said Obama's election was part of a CIA conspiracy has been elected to his former job, according to unofficial resulted. Full Story Top Solar storm headed toward Earth may disrupt power Wed,7 Mar 2012 01:56 PM PST Associated Press - The largest solar storm in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights. Full Story Top A Grueling Super Tuesday for Romney and the GOP Wed,7 Mar 2012 04:02 AM PST National Journal - Bloodied but still advancing, Mitt Romney methodically progressed toward the GOP nomination after a grueling Super Tuesday that underscored the continuing class, religious and ideological divisions in a closely divided Republican electorate. Full Story Top Ron Paul Loses North Dakota; the Campaign Presses On Tue,6 Mar 2012 09:02 PM PST ABC News - FARGO, N.D. — Presidential hopeful Ron Paul's hopes for his first win of the presidential season were dashed again tonight when North Dakota handed the libertarian leaning Texas congressman another loss. The campaign was very optimistic about a win here, even abandoning the Super Tuesday... Full Story Top Alaska's Orange Goo Mystery Solved Tue,6 Mar 2012 10:58 PM PST LiveScience.com - A bizarre orange goo that invaded and baffled a remote Alaskan village and caught the world's attention last year has been identified. Despite occasional conspiracy theories and Internet speculation, it was both nonalien and nontoxic. But beyond that, nobody really knew what to make of it. Until now. Full Story Top Parents Forget Child, 3, at Chuck E Cheese, Find Out on Evening News Tue,6 Mar 2012 08:45 AM PST ABC News - Parents of a 3-year-old girl have some explaining to do after they forgot their daughter at a Chuck E Cheese and did not realize their mistake until they saw her picture on the evening news. Harmony  was left behind at the theme restaurant in Bel... Full Story Top Liberal Congressman Kucinich defeated in Ohio Wed,7 Mar 2012 08:15 AM PST Reuters - CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Dennis Kucinich, a colorful liberal in Congress who tried to have former President George W. Bush impeached over the Iraq war, was defeated by a fellow Democratic incumbent on Tuesday in the first of 11 primary races this year pitting members of the U.S. House against each other. Kucinich, 65, lost to Marcy Kaptur, the longest serving woman in Congress, who touted her influence as a senior member of the powerful committee that decides on government spending. ... Full Story Top Pentagon chiefs say U.S. should not act alone in Syria Wed,7 Mar 2012 10:36 AM PST The Envoy - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and top general Martin Dempsey, testifying to the Senate Armed Services panel Wednesday, cautioned that military intervention in Syria would be a risky and very complicated endeavor, but said it's a future possibility. But they stressed that the United States should not act alone. Facing tough questions from Sen. John McCain [...] Full Story Top Sarkozy's 'Southern strategy': French president says 'too many foreigners' in France Wed,7 Mar 2012 02:50 PM PST The Envoy - Fighting an uphill reelection campaign, French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Tuesday that there are too many foreigners in France. "Our system of integration is working increasingly badly, because we have too many foreigners on our territory and we can no longer manage to find them accommodation, a job, a school," Sarkozy said on a three-hour [...] Full Story Top Supreme Court Ruling Prompts FBI to Turn Off 3,000 Tracking Devices Wed,7 Mar 2012 07:40 AM PST ABC News - A Supreme Court decision has caused a "sea change" in law enforcement, prompting the FBI to turn off nearly 3,000 Global Positioning System (GPS) devices used to track suspects, according to the agency's general counsel. When the decision–U.S. v. Jones–was released at the end of... Full Story Top The Daily Show's Jon Stewart takes on Iran war drums Wed,7 Mar 2012 01:09 PM PST The Envoy - "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart turned his comedic attention Tuesday to the not-so-funny subject increasingly preoccupying Washington: the looming possibility of an Israeli military confrontation with Iran. Stewart played peacemaker in the segment, urging the not-yet-warring parties to brush off some of the more heated threats coming from the respective capitals, which he attributed to [...] Full Story Top Bibi's Gift to Barack Wed,7 Mar 2012 06:42 AM PST ABC News - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a gift to President Obama: The Book of Esther. Aides to the Israeli politician referred to the book as "background reading" on Iran for President Obama, the Jewish Daily Forward reports. For those not acquainted with the book, it... Full Story Top 3 reasons the Rush Limbaugh ad boycott is ineffective Tue,6 Mar 2012 10:00 AM PST The Week - Companies are racing to yank their ads from the controversial conservative's radio program. Is that the wrong move? Full Story Top Texas Warns Spring Breakers to Steer Clear of Mexico Wed,7 Mar 2012 08:45 AM PST ABC News - Advisory Follows State Dept. Warning About Drug Cartel Violence Full Story Top Case would let thousands of Calif. criminals vote Wed,7 Mar 2012 01:49 PM PST Associated Press - The nonpartisan League of Women Voters and two prisoners' rights groups sued California elections officials on Wednesday, claiming that tens of thousands of criminals being shifted to county jails and community supervision should be eligible to vote. Full Story Top Super Tuesday: What we learned Wed,7 Mar 2012 01:32 AM PST Associated Press - Republicans in 10 states weighed in on the GOP presidential nomination race in its busiest day yet. Mitt Romney won six states, Rick Santorum clinched three and Newt Gingrich prevailed in one. And along the way, clues were gleaned from the results about the path ahead. A look at what we learned: Full Story Top Knife-wielding kite surfer defeats Red Sea sharks Tue,6 Mar 2012 08:53 AM PST Reuters - WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish kite surfer Jan Lisewski fought off repeated shark attacks, overcame thirst and exhaustion in a two-day battle of survival on the Red Sea, Polish media reported on Tuesday. The 42-year-old Lisewski had completed two thirds of a 200 km (124 miles) attempt to cross the Red Sea from the Egyptian town of El Gouna to Duba in Saudi Arabia when the wind suddenly stopped, deflating his kite. ... Full Story Top $336 Million Powerball Winner, Louise White, Rhode Island Woman, Claims Prize Mon,5 Mar 2012 02:14 PM PST Good Morning America - A Trip to the Store to Buy Rainbow Sherbet Led to Purchase of Winning Ticket Full Story Top Why Much of North America Skipped Winter Wed,7 Mar 2012 04:56 AM PST LiveScience.com - For parts of North America, this winter was the winter that nearly wasn't. Full Story Top AP Exclusive: Iran may be cleaning up nuke work Wed,7 Mar 2012 06:35 PM PST Associated Press - Satellite images of an Iranian military facility appear to show trucks and earth-moving vehicles at the site, indicating an attempted cleanup of radioactive traces possibly left by tests of a nuclear-weapon trigger, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Full Story Top Missing Michigan Family: Couple With 4-Month-Old Baby Disappear Tue,6 Mar 2012 07:48 PM PST Good Morning America - Police Said Right Now There's No Reason to Suspect Foul Play Full Story Top 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 five 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 Alaska, Idaho, Vermont, Virginia [...] Full Story Top Va. governor signs pre-abortion ultrasound bill Wed,7 Mar 2012 04:58 PM PST Associated Press - Abdominal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions in Virginia will become mandatory under a bill signed into law Wednesday by the state's Republican governor, who had faced a national uproar when earlier versions of the measure had sought to make the exams medically invasive. Full Story Top Texas man executed for killing wife, her boyfriend Wed,7 Mar 2012 09:02 PM PST Associated Press - A Texas man condemned for fatally shooting his estranged wife and the neighbor who became her boyfriend denied killing them Wednesday, moments before he was put to death by lethal injection. Full Story Top To some working poor in India, home is parking lot Mon,5 Mar 2012 10:48 PM PST Associated Press - There is almost no movement in the pre-dawn cold, when the winter fog sits low over the old city and the only light comes from distant street lamps. The parking lot is silent, except for the occasional hacking cough. Full Story Top California man arrested in killing of girlfriend with cannon Tue,6 Mar 2012 07:01 PM PST Reuters - POTRERO, California (Reuters) - Authorities arrested a 39-year-old man suspected of killing his girlfriend on Tuesday by shooting a homemade cannon into a room of their remote California trailer home. Richard Dale Fox, who was treated for wounds he suffered in the blast, was booked on suspicion of detonating an explosive device in a manner resulting in death, said San Diego Sheriff's Department homicide Sergeant David Martinez. ... Full Story Top All the Ads Pulled from Rush Limbaugh's Show Tue,6 Mar 2012 10:21 AM PST The Atlantic Wire - Less than 10 companies had pulled their ads from Rush Limbaugh's radio show Tuesday, when The Atlantic Wire counted the ads still running. Since then, the number pulling their ads has more than doubled. Full Story Top The Mormons' Black Priesthood Ban: No Apology, Explanation Tue,6 Mar 2012 04:18 PM PST Yahoo! Contributor Network - In 1978, the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- also known as the Mormon church -- received a revelation that is now part of their scriptures, which allowed "all worthy male members" to be ordained to their priesthood and participate in their sacred temple rituals. Until that time, African American men were barred from holding the priesthood or being married for eternity to their spouses in Mormon temples. (Women and female-to-male transgendered Mormons are still barred from holding the priesthood.) Full Story Top Florida honors student wins reprieve from deportation Wed,7 Mar 2012 04:16 PM PST Reuters - MIAMI (Reuters) - A Miami high school honors student who faced imminent deportation to Colombia has won a two-year reprieve after 2,000 fellow students took to the city's streets to protest her removal from the United States, federal authorities said on Wednesday. The plight of Daniela Pelaez, 18, a North Miami High School senior and valedictorian, has put a spotlight on U.S. immigration policy like few other individual cases in recent history. The U.S. ... Full Story Top Earth braces for biggest space storm in five years Wed,7 Mar 2012 12:16 PM PST AFP - A pair of scorching explosions on the Sun's surface is sparking the biggest radiation and geomagnetic storm the Earth has experienced in five years, space weather experts said Wednesday. Full Story Top

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