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Poll shows Romney leading Santorum in Pennsylvania
Wed,4 Apr 2012 08:49 PM PDT
The Ticket - HARRISBURG, Penn. -- Three weeks before the Pennsylvania Republican primary, a state poll shows Mitt Romney leading Rick Santorum by five percentage points. Santorum, who trails Romney by hundreds of delegates, has acknowledged that Pennsylvania is a must-win for his campaign. Santorum represented the state in Congress from 1991-2007. Here's the breakdown from the Public [...] Full Story | Top |
The Next Cuban Revolution?
Wed,4 Apr 2012 07:20 PM PDT
Around the World - As the winds of change swirled during the Arab Spring over the past year, many began to wonder whether there might be a similar movement in Cuba — a "Cuban Spring." While visiting Cuba to cover the visit of Pope Benedict, we spent time with students at a University cafeteria, and in speaking with them [...] Full Story | Top |
Jerry Smith's Obama rebuke questioned by legal experts
Wed,4 Apr 2012 02:38 PM PDT
The Lookout - In what some are calling a partisan ploy, a federal judge issued a demand on Tuesday that Justice Department attorneys submit a three-page letter explaining whether they believe courts have the right to strike down laws. Judge Jerry Smith, a Reagan appointee who sits on the 5th Circuit Court, said some unspecified people were troubled [...] Full Story | Top |
The 45 overused medical procedures costing Americans billions (STUDY)
Wed,4 Apr 2012 02:21 PM PDT
The Sideshow - Nine U.S. medical specialty societies representing 374,000 physicians have put together a list of "Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question." As outlined in a March 2010 American Thinker article by Richard Baehr, many experts think the real problem with America's health care system is the inherently expensive cost of goods and services, as opposed [...] Full Story | Top |
Jay Carney: Obama didn't intend to challenge Supreme Court's authority
Wed,4 Apr 2012 01:33 PM PDT
The Ticket - Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, defended President Obama's stern comments on the Supreme Court, arguing Wednesday during a heated spat with reporters that the president did not intend to imply the court lacks the authority to overrule the law commonly known as Obamacare. "He certainly was not contending—that the Supreme Court doesn't have as [...] Full Story | Top |
The Yahoo News Delegate Calculator: An interactive look at the primary odds
Wed,4 Apr 2012 12:52 PM PDT
The Signal - Rick Santorum may be pinning his last ditch hopes on the Pennsylvania primary to boost his waning campaign, but in reality it's impossible for the former Senator to catch up to Mitt Romney, given his runaway lead in the delegate count. But, that doesn't mean Santorum can't inflict another kind of damage on the former [...] Full Story | Top |
Next Great Depression? MIT researchers predict 'global economic collapse' by 2030
Wed,4 Apr 2012 12:03 PM PDT
The Sideshow - A new study from researchers at Jay W. Forrester's institute at MIT says that the world could suffer from "global economic collapse" and "precipitous population decline" if people continue to consume the world's resources at the current pace. Smithsonian Magazine writes that Australian physicist Graham Turner says "the world is on track for disaster" and [...] Full Story | Top |
Does Your PC Have a Virus? Or Is It Just SLOW?
Wed,4 Apr 2012 11:11 AM PDT
Upgrade Your Life - Last week I talked about how to remove a virus. This week I'm going to step back and talk about how to figure out if you really have one. Accurate diagnosis can be tricky, so let's run through major symptoms, minor clues, and a few surefire ways to tell. 4 Major Virus Symptoms Your system [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney accuses Obama of phony arguments and 'rhetorical excess'
Wed,4 Apr 2012 10:44 AM PDT
The Ticket - WASHINGTON—Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took to the same Washington, D.C., hotel ballroom stage where President Barack Obama chided his Republican opponent for his full embrace of the House GOP budget, and urged the president to stop building "straw men" to make his re-election-year arguments. As the general election begins in earnest this week, Romney [...] Full Story | Top |
Texas tornadoes: How to help
Wed,4 Apr 2012 10:23 AM PDT
The Newsroom - On April 3, as many as a dozen tornadoes swept through the Dallas-Fort Worth region, destroying homes, tossing cars and trucks like toys, and leaving thousands of people without power. Full Story | Top |
Rare Chinese porcelain bowl sells for nearly $27 million
Wed,4 Apr 2012 09:41 AM PDT
The Sideshow - A 900-year-old Chinese bowl has sold at an auction for nearly $27 million on Wednesday. The extremely rare item was only expected to receive a winning bid of about one-third the eventual total during a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong, Associated Foreign Press reports. The purchase by an anonymous bidder breaks the previous record for [...] Full Story | Top |
Mega Millions winner says ticket still hidden inside Baltimore McDonald's
Wed,4 Apr 2012 09:04 AM PDT
The Sideshow - One of the three Mega Millions jackpot winners says her winning ticket remains stashed away inside the Baltimore McDonald's where she works. But some of Marlinde Wilson's co-workers think she is telling a Big Lie. "I left my ticket there, and it's somewhere safe that only I know about," Wilson told the New York Post. [...] Full Story | Top |
What Romney can learn from Obama's Mount Rushmore dreams: Character Sketch
Wed,4 Apr 2012 09:01 AM PDT
The Ticket - After his primary night sweep on Tuesday, Mitt Romney unveiled a new line of attack against the president. Reminding voters that Barack Obama has claimed that "he is doing an historically great job," Romney declared in a bemused tone, "It's enough to make you think that years of flying around on Air Force One—surrounded by [...] Full Story | Top |
Pennsylvania primary: Home state is Santorum's last hope
Wed,4 Apr 2012 08:08 AM PDT
The Ticket - PITTSBURGH—The morning after Mitt Romney defeated Rick Santorum in three more primary state elections, Santorum's staff awoke to national headlines declaring an all but official end to the primary season. "The Game is over," announced CBS News. "The fat lady has sung," said ABC News. What's an insurgent campaign to do? The same thing the [...] Full Story | Top |
Rescuers use iPhone to save boy trapped in well
Wed,4 Apr 2012 07:44 AM PDT
The Sideshow - A rescue team in China used an iPhone attached to a string to help rescue a 2-year-old boy. The toddler was stuck at the bottom of a 40-foot well in a village near Mengzi City. Rescuers used the iPhone camera to help them determine the best way to lower and tie a harness that kept [...] Full Story | Top |
Ryan Seacrest joins NBC; Lauer asks: Are you taking my job?
Wed,4 Apr 2012 06:04 AM PDT
The Cutline - Continuing an unusually busy week for the nation's morning shows, Ryan Seacrest announced on the "Today" show on Wednesday that he is joining NBC. Seacrest, who has long been rumored to be a potential replacement for Matt Lauer, made the announcement in an an exhaustively hyped segment with his would-be predecessor. "I've worked with the [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney focuses on Obama, plus more to watch for Wednesday in politics
Wed,4 Apr 2012 04:14 AM PDT
The Ticket - Mitt Romney, coming off three more wins Tuesday, can be expected to say nothing about his Republican opponents Wednesday in a speech at the American Society of News Editors and everything about President Obama. Romney's strategy: This is now about Romney vs. Obama, not Romney vs. Rick Santorum. Obama spoke at the ASNE convention Tuesday [...] Full Story | Top |
Santorum slips into irrelevancy as Romney vs. Obama kicks into gear
Wed,4 Apr 2012 02:37 AM PDT
The Ticket - Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum verbally circled April 24 (the Pennsylvania primary, 71 delegates at stake) and May 29 (the Texas primary, 155 delegates at stake) on his nomination calendar Tuesday night in his speech to supporters. But those goals fail to reflect the reality that he has now slid into irrelevancy in the race. [...] Full Story | Top |
[Video] Romney's speech in Wisconsin: 'We won a great victory tonight'
Tue,3 Apr 2012 08:10 PM PDT
The Ticket - Speaking from Milwaukee after sweeping Tuesday's three-state primary, Mitt Romney delivered a now-familiar victory speech: criticizing President Obama and casting himself as the Republican party's general election candidate. "We won a great victory tonight," Romney said. He then segued into attack mode. "Take a look at the [gas] prices and ask yourself: Four more years of that?" [...] Full Story | Top |
[Video] Rick Santorum speech after Wisconsin loss: 'It's halftime'
Tue,3 Apr 2012 08:04 PM PDT
The Ticket - Rick Santorum failed to win any of Tuesday's primary contests, further hurting his already slim chances at the Republican presidential nomination. Santorum took the stage in Mars, Penn. after the Maryland and D.C. races were declared to reiterate that he has no intention of stepping aside. "It's halftime," he said, saying approximately half the delegates [...] Full Story | Top |
If Rick Santorum were a balloon, he would look like this
Tue,3 Apr 2012 07:31 PM PDT
The Ticket - MARS, Penn. -- A few hundred people showed up for Rick Santorum's home state campaign kick-off here Tuesday night, including Harold Shaver, who arrived with a human-sized balloon that bears a striking resemblance to the former Pennsylvania senator. Shaver, who owns Kahuna Balloona & Co, spent two hours and used dozens of balloons to create [...] Full Story | Top |
Mitt Romney wins Wisconsin, Maryland and D.C. primaries
Tue,3 Apr 2012 05:00 PM PDT
The Ticket - Following expected primary victories over Rick Santorum in Maryland and D.C. Tuesday night, Mitt Romney won the biggest prize of the evening in Wisconsin, earning a significant number of delegates and bolstering his frontrunner status. Romney's victory speech before a rally in Milwaukee, Wisc., had the tone of a general election address: he focused on [...] Full Story | Top |
This week's Odd News video
Tue,3 Apr 2012 04:20 PM PDT
The Sideshow - This week's leading story in Odd News is about U.K. mother Danielle Young and the recently released ultrasound image of her 5-million-to-one pregnancy. Young has a rare condition known as uterus didelphys, or double uterus, and became pregnant with twins, one in each womb. Researchers believe that there are fewer than a hundred women worldwide [...] Full Story | Top |
Tornadoes in Dallas: Twisters touch down, tractor-trailers tossed (VIDEO)
Tue,3 Apr 2012 01:01 PM PDT
The Lookout - At least two tornadoes touched down near Dallas on Tuesday. The National Weather Service declared a tornado emergency for Dallas-Fort Worth, as warning sirens echoed throughout the downtown area. The weather service issued tornado warnings for dozens of counties in the area. Reports of massive damage across North Texas were rampant, as local television news [...] Full Story | Top |
'Oaksterdam University' pot-growing school raided by DEA agents (with expired tags)
Tue,3 Apr 2012 12:45 PM PDT
The Sideshow - U.S. marshals on Monday, along with federal agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and Internal Revenue Service, raided a Bay Area medical marijuana training facility known as "Oaksterdam University." The university, in Oakland, Calif., offers training classes to people seeking to become legal medical marijuana providers under California state law. "Clearly, they're trying to [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney spends election day handing out free sandwiches
Tue,3 Apr 2012 11:57 AM PDT
The Ticket - WAUKESHA, Wis.—As voters here headed to the polls, Mitt Romney spent at least part of election day handing out free sub sandwiches to supporters, urging them to turn out on his behalf in this crucial winner-take-all primary state. Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan spent about 20 minutes behind the counter at Cousins Subs, a local [...] Full Story | Top |
Firefighters donate Mega Millions winnings to ailing fellow fireman
Tue,3 Apr 2012 11:31 AM PDT
The Sideshow - UPDATE: I spoke with Albuquerque Fire Department Public Information Officer Melissa Romero who passed along this website for Vincent Cordova. If you're interested in donating to Condova's recovery fund, you can follow that link and find more information on who to contact to make your contribution. Original story begins below. ********** Five Albuquerque Station Eight [...] Full Story | Top |
George Pataki wins bracket with most tepid Romney endorsement
Tue,3 Apr 2012 11:07 AM PDT
The Ticket - The thousands of Yahoo! readers who played our Mitt Romney tepid endorsement bracket have spoken: Former New York Gov. George Pataki has given the most lackluster nod of support this election cycle. Pataki, by starting out his endorsement with the ringing words "He has a number of problems," edged out co-finalist Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, [...] Full Story | Top |
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