Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News:
- Just Show Me: 3 amazing cocktail apps for the iPad
- White House rejects Peres clemency appeal for Israeli spy Pollard
- First planetary system discovered with more planets than ours
- Obama campaign chief slams Romney 'hypocrisy' on Harvard, out-of-touch attacks
- Facebook gets shutter happy, buys Instagram for $1 billion
- George Zimmerman launches website for donations via PayPal for legal, living expenses
- New iPad keyboard case gives your tablet some MacBook flair
- iBrain can 'read your mind'; enlists Stephen Hawking
- 'How to delete your Instagram account' and other Twitter reactions to Facebook's $1B buy
- Obama administration, Brazil move toward deal protecting whiskeys and Cachaça
- Dick Lugar faces conservative attacks in Indiana primary
- Arizona lawmakers to review cyberbullying bill over free speech concerns
- Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion
- President Obama, Michelle Obama host White House Easter Egg Roll
- UFO or hoax? Aerial video over South Korea stirs speculation
- You can now get your own chocolate 3D printer for $4,600
- Elizabeth Warren's Senate campaign raises $6.9 million
- Should Santorum supporters in Pennsylvania vote for Romney? An economist's advice
- Know how to hack a video game console? The U.S. Navy wants you!
- Trayvon Martin shooting: no grand jury for Zimmerman
- Gingrich all but quits presidential campaign
- Tulsa shooting suspects Jake England and Alvin Watts held on $9.16 million bond each
- Vice President Joe Biden hits the campaign trail on Twitter
- Gingrich in North Carolina, Santorum with hospitalized daughter, plus more to watch for Monday in politics
- Senator calls Obama 'stupid' on Twitter
- 'The Hipster Games': 'Hunger Games' video spoof goes viral
- President Obama wishes Jews, Christians happy Passover, Easter
- Mike Wallace dead: '60 Minutes' legend was 93
- Tulsa shootings: Police arrest two men, fear it was a hate crime
- An American guide to British English for the London Olympics
- NBC fires producer over edited Zimmerman 911 call
- Sushi-making robots can crank out tasty fish rolls 24 hours a day
- What the Friday: World's first hotel for sheep opens in Japan
- Trisomy 18 in spotlight following Bella Santorum's hospitalization
- Bone Pugz video creator Abby Koocher talks to Yahoo News about going viral
- Meet the newest tech start-up: the Obama campaign
- Checking Santorum's delegate math: Are Romney's numbers really inflated?
- Gay BYU students contribute to "It Gets Better"
- Cyclist accident makes waves on the Web
- Charges filed against five who removed teen's kidney
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White House rejects Peres clemency appeal for Israeli spy Pollard
Mon,9 Apr 2012 07:06 PM PDT
The Ticket - The White House on Monday rejected Israeli President Shimon Peres's personal appeal to commute convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard's life sentence. "Our position hasn't changed," National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said in an email to Yahoo News. Asked whether the White House had received Peres's written plea to President Barack Obama for clemency, Vietor [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama campaign chief slams Romney 'hypocrisy' on Harvard, out-of-touch attacks
Mon,9 Apr 2012 04:59 PM PDT
The Ticket - Click image to see more photos (Reuters/Larry Downing) With the presidential campaign in full "I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I" swing, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign manager Jim Messina on Monday accused Mitt Romney of "hypocrisy" for his attacks on the president as a member of a coddled, out-of-touch, Harvard-educated elite. "I would brand it simply hypocrisy," Messina told reporters [...] Full Story | Top |
George Zimmerman launches website for donations via PayPal for legal, living expenses
Mon,9 Apr 2012 03:37 PM PDT
The Cutline - Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman has apparently launched a website—TheRealGeorgeZimmerman.com—to relay a message thanking his supporters, and to collect donations via PayPal for his living and defense expenses. The site had been down intermittently on Monday afternoon. "I am the real George Zimmerman," a message on the site begins. "On Sunday February 26th, I was [...] Full Story | Top |
iBrain can 'read your mind'; enlists Stephen Hawking
Mon,9 Apr 2012 03:31 PM PDT
The Sideshow - A team of California scientists have developed the world's first portable brain scanner, and it may soon be able to "read a person's mind," playing a major role in facilitating medical breakthroughs. "This is very exciting for us because it allows us to have a window into the brain. We're building technology that will allow [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama administration, Brazil move toward deal protecting whiskeys and Cachaça
Mon,9 Apr 2012 02:24 PM PDT
The Ticket - This calls for a toast: The United States and Brazil took a big step Monday toward protecting some of their best-known exports—Bourbon and Tennessee whiskeys and the sugarcane-derived cachaça. Cachaça is the primary ingredient in Brazil's national cocktail, the caipirinha. U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Brazilian Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade Fernando Pimentel [...] Full Story | Top |
Dick Lugar faces conservative attacks in Indiana primary
Mon,9 Apr 2012 12:59 PM PDT
The Ticket - Conservative groups the National Rifle Association and the Club for Growth launched an attack ad assault on Sen. Dick Lugar Monday as the Indiana Republican heads into a difficult GOP primary race. The groups criticize the senator for not being conservative enough. "Over 36 years in Washington, Dick Lugar has changed," a voice-over in the [...] Full Story | Top |
Arizona lawmakers to review cyberbullying bill over free speech concerns
Mon,9 Apr 2012 11:50 AM PDT
The Lookout - Members of the Arizona House and Senate will review a recently passed anti-cyberstalking bill after critics raised concerns that it's so broad it could authorize arrests for online "trolls" who write mean comments on social media and news sites. State Rep. Chad Campbell, a co-sponsor of the bill, told Yahoo News that lawmakers are trying [...] Full Story | Top |
Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion
Mon,9 Apr 2012 11:27 AM PDT
The Sideshow - A picture is worth a thousand words, but a popular photo-sharing app is worth far more: Facebook announced it is purchasing Instagram for $1 billion. To put the sale in perspective, the Wall Street Journal's Dennis K. Berman tweeted: "Remember this day. 551-day-old Instagram is worth $1 billion. 116-year-old New York Times Co.: $967 million." [...] Full Story | Top |
President Obama, Michelle Obama host White House Easter Egg Roll
Mon,9 Apr 2012 11:06 AM PDT
The Ticket - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hosted the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, an annual rite of spring that drew some 30,000 parents and kids to frolic on the South Lawn. Obama, wearing a crisp light-blue-and-white check shirt and khakis in a sea of seasonal pastels, oversaw two of the miniraces, [...] Full Story | Top |
UFO or hoax? Aerial video over South Korea stirs speculation
Mon,9 Apr 2012 10:40 AM PDT
The Sideshow - A new video has surfaced that some claim shows a saucer-shaped UFO zooming past the window of a passenger airplane flying over Seoul, South Korea. In the video, the unidentified passenger is filming the otherwise uneventful view from the plane's window. Suddenly he makes a startled sound as the white saucer-like image comes into view. [...] Full Story | Top |
Elizabeth Warren's Senate campaign raises $6.9 million
Mon,9 Apr 2012 09:57 AM PDT
The Ticket - Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren announced Monday an impressive fundraising haul of $6.9 million, more than double the total raised by Republican Sen. Scott Brown over the same period. "The incredible enthusiasm we have seen from people across the Commonwealth who are contributing to this campaign shows the strong grassroots momentum behind Elizabeth's fight for [...] Full Story | Top |
Should Santorum supporters in Pennsylvania vote for Romney? An economist's advice
Mon,9 Apr 2012 09:34 AM PDT
The Signal - The future of the Republican primary hinges on Pennsylvania, where Rick Santorum must win his home state to hang on to his tenuous position in the race. The political gambling markets that we watch so closely are extremely confident that Mitt Romney will ultimately win the nomination. This gives Santorum supporters in Pennsylvania an interesting choice [...] Full Story | Top |
Trayvon Martin shooting: no grand jury for Zimmerman
Mon,9 Apr 2012 09:14 AM PDT
The Lookout - Florida state attorney Angela Corey, the special prosecutor appointed to investigate the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, said on Monday that the case will not go to a grand jury. The decision does not rule out the possibility that George Zimmerman, Martin's shooter, could be arrested. The grand jury had been set to meet Tuesday [...] Full Story | Top |
Gingrich all but quits presidential campaign
Mon,9 Apr 2012 08:31 AM PDT
The Ticket - This week, Newt Gingrich will hold events in North Carolina, New York, Delaware and Missouri as he maintains a packed 2012 campaign schedule. But the former House speaker's activity belies what is quickly becoming the certain end of his presidential bid. Asked by "Fox News Sunday" host Brit Hume Sunday if he's resigned to the idea of [...] Full Story | Top |
Vice President Joe Biden hits the campaign trail on Twitter
Mon,9 Apr 2012 06:47 AM PDT
The Ticket - Vice President Joe Biden on Monday formally hit the campaign trail on Twitter, launching a new account (@JoeBiden) for what are sure to be regular attacks on the Republican candidate. It's maintained by President Barack Obama's campaign staff; tweets will be signed "Joe" when he sends them himself. The account kicked off with the inaugural [...] Full Story | Top |
Senator calls Obama 'stupid' on Twitter
Mon,9 Apr 2012 02:05 AM PDT
The Lookout - A veteran Republican senator set off a Twitter firestorm over the weekend by calling President Obama "stupid" for his recent comments on the Supreme Court health care case. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa wrote: "Constituents askd why i am not outraged at PresO attack on supreme court independence. Bcause Am ppl r not stupid as [...] Full Story | Top |
'The Hipster Games': 'Hunger Games' video spoof goes viral
Sun,8 Apr 2012 01:38 PM PDT
The Sideshow - "The Hunger Games," the film that topped the U.S. box office for the third weekend in a row with $33.5 million, has inspired plenty of parodies. But this one—pitting hipsters from Portland, Austin, Brooklyn, Oakland and Silver Lake, Calif., in a dystopian fight to the death—may be the best. [ Video: Sketchy and Yahoo! Comedy [...] Full Story | Top |
President Obama wishes Jews, Christians happy Passover, Easter
Sun,8 Apr 2012 01:17 PM PDT
The Ticket - President Barack Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to wish Jews and Christians celebrating Passover and Easter, respectively, this weekend well: For millions of Americans, this weekend is a time to celebrate redemption at God's hand. Tonight, Jews will gather for a second Seder, where they will retell the story of the Exodus. [...] Full Story | Top |
Mike Wallace dead: '60 Minutes' legend was 93
Sun,8 Apr 2012 08:35 AM PDT
The Cutline - Mike Wallace, the legendary CBS News broadcaster, interviewer and "60 Minutes" icon, has died, the network said Sunday. He was 93. Wallace, whose "probing, brazen style made his name synonymous with the tough interview -- a style he practically invented for television more than half a century ago" died "peacefully" on Saturday night, surrounded by [...] Full Story | Top |
Tulsa shootings: Police arrest two men, fear it was a hate crime
Sun,8 Apr 2012 07:12 AM PDT
The Lookout - Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma have arrested two men in connection with Friday's shooting spree that left three dead and two wounded--and sparked fears of a hate crime in the community. According to Tulsa police, two white men--19-year-old Jake England and 32-year-old Alvin Watts, were arrested early Sunday. "We're not exactly sure what their relationship is [...] Full Story | Top |
An American guide to British English for the London Olympics
Sat,7 Apr 2012 04:22 PM PDT
The Upshot - In 1882, Oscar Wilde wrote about Great Britain: "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." That still rings true today. So if you're one of the estimated 250,000 Americans going to the Olympics Games in London this summer, you might want to pack a dictionary. For English-to-English translations. For [...] Full Story | Top |
NBC fires producer over edited Zimmerman 911 call
Sat,7 Apr 2012 01:11 PM PDT
The Upshot - A producer for NBC News has been fired for editing a recording of George Zimmerman's call to police the night he fatally shot Trayvon Martin. The New York Times is reporting that "the person was fired on Thursday, according to two people with direct knowledge of the disciplinary action who declined to be identified discussing [...] Full Story | Top |
Trisomy 18 in spotlight following Bella Santorum's hospitalization
Fri,6 Apr 2012 03:27 PM PDT
The Upshot - There is speculation (though no confirmation) that the hospitalization of Rick Santorum's three-year-old daughter, Isabella, is related to Trisomy 18, the rare genetic condition she suffers from. News of Bella's sudden hospitalization sent off a massive number of searches for Trisomy 18. Over the course of just one hour, Yahoo! searches for "trisomy 18" surged [...] Full Story | Top |
Bone Pugz video creator Abby Koocher talks to Yahoo News about going viral
Fri,6 Apr 2012 02:53 PM PDT
The Sideshow - BONE PUGZ from Bone Pugz on Vimeo. "My 15-year-old self would probably be having a great panic attack." Abby Koocher, creator of the brilliant Bone Pugz video that is taking the Internet by storm, has given an exclusive interview to Yahoo News. (Warning: contains some NSFW language) In her video, Koocher uses four pug dogs [...] Full Story | Top |
Meet the newest tech start-up: the Obama campaign
Fri,6 Apr 2012 02:24 PM PDT
The Ticket - Were you to walk into parts of the Obama reelection campaign's headquarters, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in Silicon Valley. Beginning last year, Obama's re-election effort started hiring dozens of designers and developers, engineers, and data scientists. A cross check of the Obama for America FEC filings and Twitter bios turns up [...] Full Story | Top |
Checking Santorum's delegate math: Are Romney's numbers really inflated?
Fri,6 Apr 2012 02:04 PM PDT
The Ticket - Click image to see more photos. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) According to a campaign strategist for Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney doesn't have anywhere near the number of delegates that both his campaign and most media outlets report. A memo by strategist John Yob, made public Friday morning, claims that the figures from the Associated Press used by both [...] Full Story | Top |
Gay BYU students contribute to "It Gets Better"
Fri,6 Apr 2012 11:37 AM PDT
The Upshot - The "It Gets Better" campaign continues to gain support. The latest contribution to the video series comes from gay, lesbian, and bisexual students at Brigham Young University. The clip, which runs about nine minutes, features gay and lesbian BYU students, many of whom are members of the Mormon church. The students talk about when they [...] Full Story | Top |
Cyclist accident makes waves on the Web
Fri,6 Apr 2012 11:15 AM PDT
The Upshot - The story of a San Francisco cyclist who plowed into a pedestrian on March 29 and then apparently took to a bicycle blog forum to tell his side of the story is blowing up on the Web. Chris Bucchere allegedly struck 71-year-old Sutchi Hui—who later died—at a busy San Francisco intersection, and then identified himself [...] Full Story | Top |
Charges filed against five who removed teen's kidney
Fri,6 Apr 2012 11:09 AM PDT
The Upshot - Last year, a Chinese teen sold his kidney to raise money to buy an Apple iPad and iPhone. Now, five people, including the surgeon who conducted the operation, are being charged with "intentional injury." According to prosecutors, the boy, who was 17 at the time of the operation, has suffered from renal deficiency, a serious [...] Full Story | Top |
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