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Today's Most Popular News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Mega Millions Fever: Tips for Buying Your Lucky Lottery Ticket Trayvon Martin shooting: New details emerge from Twitter account, witness testimony Trayvon Martin's family looks to trademark 'I am Trayvon,' 'Justice for Trayvon' George Zimmerman's lawyer abruptly cancels interview with Lawrence O'Donnell (VIDEO) Giant, 9-pound Gambian rats invading Florida Keys Adopted or abducted? Supreme Court justices challenge Obama administration over health care law Frustrated Senator Olympia Snowe Gives Obama an 'F' Pic de Bugarach: French commune home to 20,000 'doomsday cultists' awaiting alien salvation Starbugs? Strawberry Frappuccino Colored by Insects Trayvon Martin Shooter Told Cops Teenager Went For His Gun 'Ghost ship' off Canada heralds arrival of tsunami debris Americans angry with Obama over gas prices Strange sea creature on South Carolina coast ID'd as Atlantic sturgeon Monstrous New Wasp Species Discovered in Indonesia Trayvon Martin Dogged By Disciplinary Problems at School Obama's Solicitor General, Donald Verrilli, has rough start at health care oral arguments Mitt Romney's cars will have their own elevator in California home Trayvon Martin Investigator Wanted Manslaughter Charge Russell Simmons rips Geraldo's hoodie apology to Trayvon Martin supporters President Obama Asks Medvedev for 'Space' on Missile Defense - 'After My Election I Have More Flexibility' Tiny puppy in California could be world's smallest 'It's 100 Percent Beef': Company on Defensive as It Closes Plants Too Much Sitting Can Kill You, Study Suggests Miss Universe Disqualifies Transgender Contestant Dangerous Teen Craze Whip-Its Making a Comeback? Can the health care reform law survive without the individual mandate? Will Stockton Be the Biggest Municipal Bankruptcy Ever? Mysterious Geologic Structure Seen from Space JetBlue flight diverted to Texas after 'incoherent' captain subdued 'Almost Alcoholic': Close to the Real Thing, Says New Book Federal court rejects 'Joe the Plumber' suit Jane Fonda to play Nancy Reagan in film 'The Butler' Shampoo ad using Hitler's image sparks outrage, calls for removal School expels student for swearing on Twitter during non-school hours Skeptical justices question Obama healthcare law Obama campaign hoodies sale canceled after controversy Conservative justices question insurance mandate Blind dog rescued from trash pile gets its eyesight back and a new home Demonstrators brave the cold on second day of Supreme Court hearings over health care law Mega Millions Fever: Tips for Buying Your Lucky Lottery Ticket Tue,27 Mar 2012 06:41 AM PDT ABC News Blogs - ABC News' Yunji De Nies and Suzan Clarke report: Mega Millions fever is gripping the nation. The jackpot for the lottery game that's played in 42 states as well as the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Island is an estimated $363 million. Lives will... Full Story Top Trayvon Martin shooting: New details emerge from Twitter account, witness testimony Mon,26 Mar 2012 11:01 AM PDT The Cutline - As George Zimmerman's supporters work to stem the rising tide of public outrage aimed at the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin last month, a new picture of the victim—culled from the 17-year-old's Twitter account and witness testimony leaked from local law enforcement—has emerged. "With a single punch," the Orlando Sentinel, [...] Full Story Top Trayvon Martin's family looks to trademark 'I am Trayvon,' 'Justice for Trayvon' Tue,27 Mar 2012 07:21 AM PDT The Lookout - Trayvon Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton is seeking to trademark phrases with her son's name. According to applications filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by the family's attorney last week, Fulton wants to trademark "I am Trayvon" and "Justice for Trayvon" for use in DVDs and CDs memorializing the slain teenager. In the wake [...] Full Story Top George Zimmerman's lawyer abruptly cancels interview with Lawrence O'Donnell (VIDEO) Tue,27 Mar 2012 08:05 AM PDT The Cutline - After making the rounds on the morning show circuit, George Zimmerman's lawyer, Craig Sonner, was supposed to appear on Lawrence O'Donnell's primetime show on Monday night. But according to MSNBC, Sonner walked out of a remote Orlando studio shortly before the segment, leaving O'Donnell in the lurch. After a rant about the cancellation ("He wasn't [...] Full Story Top Giant, 9-pound Gambian rats invading Florida Keys Mon,26 Mar 2012 02:05 PM PDT The Sideshow - When it comes to giant rat infestations, New York gets all the attention. But a breed of giant Gambian rats have been rapidly reproducing in the Florida Keys despite a decade-long effort to wipe them out. KeysNet reports the invasive African native species first began showing up between 1999-2001 after a local exotic animal breeder [...] Full Story Top Adopted or abducted? Tue,27 Mar 2012 05:08 AM PDT Yahoo! News - From Australia to Spain, Ireland to America, and as recent as 1987, young mothers say they were "coerced", "manipulated", and "duped" into handing over their babies for adoption. Full Story Top Supreme Court justices challenge Obama administration over health care law Tue,27 Mar 2012 10:00 AM PDT The Ticket - With President Barack Obama's landmark health care law in the balance, the divided Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether the measure properly regulates commerce or overreaches the Constitution and allows Washington to improperly force Americans to eat their vegetables. Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose questioning is closely watched because he represents a potential swing vote, posed [...] Full Story Top Frustrated Senator Olympia Snowe Gives Obama an 'F' Tue,27 Mar 2012 03:16 AM PDT Power Players - Spinners and Winners If there were ever a Republican for President Obama to work with, it was Maine Senator Olympia Snowe. She was one of just three Republicans in the entire Congress to vote for his economic stimulus plan in 2009 and even tried to work with him on health care, but in an interview [...] Full Story Top Pic de Bugarach: French commune home to 20,000 'doomsday cultists' awaiting alien salvation Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:09 PM PDT The Sideshow - An estimated 20,000 New Age believers who say the "upside down" mountain is home to aliens who will rescue them from an impending apocalypse have saturated a small French commune near the foot of the picturesque Pic de Bugarach. The Independent reports the growing flock, who locals refer to as "esoterics," believe the world will [...] Full Story Top Starbugs? Strawberry Frappuccino Colored by Insects Mon,26 Mar 2012 09:29 AM PDT ABC News - You can get your Starbucks Strawberry Frappuccino venti, grande or tall. You just can't get it without insects, to which it owes its pink and rosy color. In what the company, in a statement, says was a move intended to reduce its use of artificial ingredients, Starbucks has started... Full Story Top Trayvon Martin Shooter Told Cops Teenager Went For His Gun Sun,25 Mar 2012 08:03 PM PDT Good Morning America - Slain Teenager Was Suspended From School at Time of Shooting Full Story Top 'Ghost ship' off Canada heralds arrival of tsunami debris Tue,27 Mar 2012 10:58 AM PDT Reuters - An empty Japanese fishing boat drifting off the coast of western Canada could be the first wave of 1.5 million tons of debris heading toward North America from Japan's tsunami last March. The wreckage from flattened Japanese coastal towns - including refrigerators, washing machines, televisions, roofs and fishing nets - is heading inexorably east across the Pacific and could arrive sooner than expected, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. ... Full Story Top Americans angry with Obama over gas prices Tue,27 Mar 2012 03:13 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling high gasoline prices, although most do not blame him for them, according to a Reuters/Ipsos online poll released on Tuesday. Sixty-eight percent disapprove and 24 percent approve of how Obama is responding to price increases that have become one of the biggest issues in the 2012 presidential campaign. In the past month, U.S. fuel prices have jumped about $0.30 per gallon to about $3. ... Full Story Top Strange sea creature on South Carolina coast ID'd as Atlantic sturgeon Mon,26 Mar 2012 12:00 PM PDT The Sideshow - Something strange washed ashore on Folly Beach in South Carolina this past weekend. The beast had some wondering if it was some sort of new species. [Related: 'Chupacabra' kills sheep in Mexico. False rumors persist] Be not afraid, land dwellers. According to AOL's Pawnation, the freakishly large creature may look alien, but it is harmless. [...] Full Story Top Monstrous New Wasp Species Discovered in Indonesia Tue,27 Mar 2012 09:26 AM PDT Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow Trending Now on Twitter: @Knowlesitall and @YahooTrending A new insect has been discovered in Indonesia, and it looks like something you would see only in your worst nightmare. It's a new species of wasp found last year by entomologist Lynn Kimsey, a professor at the University of California at Davis. This week, Kimsey [...] Full Story Top Trayvon Martin Dogged By Disciplinary Problems at School Tue,27 Mar 2012 08:18 AM PDT Good Morning America - War of Leaks Amid Rising Tensions Over Shooting of Florida Teen Full Story Top Obama's Solicitor General, Donald Verrilli, has rough start at health care oral arguments Tue,27 Mar 2012 01:04 PM PDT The Lookout - Click image to see more photos. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren) Supreme Court justices battered Obama's solicitor general, Donald Verrilli Jr., with questions today,  prodding him to explain why the government could compel Americans to buy health care insurance and not, for example, force them to purchase broccoli or burial insurance. Verrilli appeared to stumble over his words [...] Full Story Top Mitt Romney's cars will have their own elevator in California home Tue,27 Mar 2012 08:43 AM PDT The Sideshow - Mitt Romney wants to use his past success in the private sector to help drive the nation's economy forward. But Romney's personal fleet of vehicles will move at a luxurious descent from the comfort of their own private elevator in Romney's new California home. Politico reports that Romney's proposed renovations for his California beachfront property, [...] Full Story Top Trayvon Martin Investigator Wanted Manslaughter Charge Tue,27 Mar 2012 08:18 AM PDT Good Morning America - Prosecutor Blocked the Charge, Fearing Not Enough Evidence for Conviction Full Story Top Russell Simmons rips Geraldo's hoodie apology to Trayvon Martin supporters Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:50 PM PDT The Lookout - Geraldo Rivera offered something of an apology on Tuesday for controversial comments he made last week about the hooded sweatshirt Trayvon Martin was wearing when the unarmed 17-year-old was shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla., last month. Rivera's statement was posted to his Facebook page: I apologize to anyone offended [...] Full Story Top President Obama Asks Medvedev for 'Space' on Missile Defense - 'After My Election I Have More Flexibility' Mon,26 Mar 2012 03:17 AM PDT ABC News - SEOUL, South Korea — At the tail end of his 90 minute meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev Monday, President Obama said that he would have "more flexibility" to deal with controversial issues such as missile defense, but incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to... Full Story Top Tiny puppy in California could be world's smallest Mon,26 Mar 2012 05:17 PM PDT Associated Press - A puppy named after one of the world's biggest pop stars could set the world's record for tiniest dog. Full Story Top 'It's 100 Percent Beef': Company on Defensive as It Closes Plants Mon,26 Mar 2012 08:12 PM PDT ABC News - After two weeks of no comments, Beef Products Inc., the maker of "lean, finely textured beef," a product now known by the critics' term for it, "pink slime," came out swinging today during a news conference to announce the temporary closing of several facilities. The... Full Story Top Too Much Sitting Can Kill You, Study Suggests Tue,27 Mar 2012 01:27 AM PDT HealthDay - For better health, try standing up more, a new study suggests. Those who spend 11 or more hours a day sitting are 40 percent more likely to die over the next three years regardless of how physically active they are otherwise, researchers say. Full Story Top Miss Universe Disqualifies Transgender Contestant Mon,26 Mar 2012 10:13 AM PDT Good Morning America - Jenna Talackova is everything you think of when you hear the words "beauty queen." With her bright smile, flowing blonde hair and viciously long legs, you can't deny she's stunning. But Talackova, 23, has been disqualified from the Miss Universe Canada competition because she was... Full Story Top Dangerous Teen Craze Whip-Its Making a Comeback? Mon,26 Mar 2012 01:32 PM PDT Good Morning America - Easily Available to Teens, Inhalable Nitrous Oxide Endangers Brain and Heart, Doctors Say Full Story Top Can the health care reform law survive without the individual mandate? Tue,27 Mar 2012 03:26 AM PDT The Lookout - Could President Obama's sweeping health care reform law survive if the court strikes down the requirement that all Americans buy insurance? The short answer is yes -- but insurance companies certainly won't be happy about it. Both Justice Department lawyers and their challengers agree that the individual mandate is not "separable" from the rest of [...] Full Story Top Will Stockton Be the Biggest Municipal Bankruptcy Ever? Tue,27 Mar 2012 03:10 AM PDT Time.com - At half past five on a weekday afternoon, the Rose Barbershop is the only downtown business open for blocks in Stockton, Calif. Don Nagai used to give haircuts late into the night, but now "it's a ghost town," he says, putting the finishing touches on his last customer. "Same thing during the day; it's too dangerous for people to hang around," shrugs William Koga, 53, a longtime patron who said there had been two shootings over the past week near his corner grocery store. ... Full Story Top Mysterious Geologic Structure Seen from Space Mon,26 Mar 2012 11:58 AM PDT SPACE.com - This story was updated at 12:54 p.m. EDT. Full Story Top JetBlue flight diverted to Texas after 'incoherent' captain subdued Tue,27 Mar 2012 12:02 PM PDT The Sideshow - A JetBlue flight from New York to Las Vegas was diverted to Texas on Tuesday after the plane's captain became incoherent and had to be subdued. JetBlue flight 191, which departed John F. Kennedy International Airport at 7:28 a.m., was diverted to Amarillo due to what the airline called "a medical situation involving the captain." [...] Full Story Top 'Almost Alcoholic': Close to the Real Thing, Says New Book Mon,26 Mar 2012 02:57 PM PDT Good Morning America - Some Problem Drinking Can be 'Almost' Alcoholism Full Story Top Federal court rejects 'Joe the Plumber' suit Tue,27 Mar 2012 07:19 PM PDT Associated Press - Federal appeals judges Tuesday rejected a lawsuit by "Joe the Plumber" that claimed his rights were violated by a state records search after he voiced public concern over taxes to then-candidate Barack Obama. Full Story Top Jane Fonda to play Nancy Reagan in film 'The Butler' Tue,27 Mar 2012 10:40 AM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The right wing is going to love this: Jane Fonda, whose outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War continues to enrage conservatives, will play former first lady Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels' "The Butler." "The Butler" is a sprawling historical drama that centers on Eugene Allen, a black man who worked as butler in the White House under eight presidents. Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker ("The Last King of Scotland") is slated to play Allen. Oprah Winfrey, Hugh Jackman and Liam Neeson are among the other big names who are circling roles in the project. ... Full Story Top Shampoo ad using Hitler's image sparks outrage, calls for removal Mon,26 Mar 2012 08:27 AM PDT The Sideshow - A new Turkish shampoo commercial featuring video of Adolf Hitler declaring the hair rinse a product for "real men" has been met with formal complaints from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and others who say it is deeply offensive. "We follow with sadness and regret the use of Hitler figure in the Biomen Men Shampoo advertisement, [...] Full Story Top School expels student for swearing on Twitter during non-school hours Tue,27 Mar 2012 04:08 PM PDT Technology News Blog - From Facebook communications to tweets, you're no doubt already aware that nothing you do online is truly private. But should you have a reasonable expectation that your superiors aren't actively spying on you? That's the question a lot of people … Continue reading → Full Story Top Skeptical justices question Obama healthcare law Tue,27 Mar 2012 04:29 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration faced skeptical questioning from a U.S. Supreme Court dominated by conservatives on Tuesday during a tense two-hour showdown over a sweeping healthcare law that has divided Americans. A ruling on the law's key requirement that most people obtain health insurance or face a penalty appeared likely to come down to Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy, two conservatives who pummeled the administration's lawyer with questions. ... Full Story Top Obama campaign hoodies sale canceled after controversy Tue,27 Mar 2012 11:37 AM PDT The Sideshow - President Obama recently said that if he had a son, he'd look like murder victim Trayvon Martin. And in what some conservatives see as a direct connection between the national controversy surrounding the teen's death, the Obama 2012 re-election campaign announced via Twitter on Monday that it was putting its collegiate hooded sweatshirt on sale. [...] Full Story Top Conservative justices question insurance mandate Tue,27 Mar 2012 09:45 AM PDT Associated Press - Sharp questioning by the Supreme Court's conservative justices has cast serious doubt on the survival of the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul. Full Story Top Blind dog rescued from trash pile gets its eyesight back and a new home Mon,26 Mar 2012 07:19 AM PDT The Sideshow - In this video, a very sick and abandoned dog is found lying in the middle of a trash heap somewhere in Los Angeles. Volunteers at the animal rescue operation Hope for Paws had heard about the dog and brought a video camera with them to document their efforts. The video might make you cry, but [...] Full Story Top Demonstrators brave the cold on second day of Supreme Court hearings over health care law Tue,27 Mar 2012 06:14 AM PDT The Ticket - WASHINGTON—It's a frigid morning here outside the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill, as a few hundred early rising, sign-toting demonstrators march in circles below the white marble steps. Conservative and liberal groups have both set up P.A. systems along the sidewalk and are trying to outshout one another, while foot soldiers wave signs in [...] Full Story Top

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