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Midwest storms: Tornadoes reported in Midwest
Sat,14 Apr 2012 12:44 PM PDT
The Lookout - Below are continuing updates tracking the severe weather battering parts of the Midwest. A round of severe weather which included tornadoes, heavy winds and baseball-sized hail has passed through Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas. The area around Wichita, Kan. has been impacted. Officials continue to track the storm as it moves northeast toward Illinois and Minnesota. All [...] Full Story | Top |
Artist makes George Zimmerman mug shot out of Skittles
Fri,13 Apr 2012 10:39 PM PDT
The Upshot - An artist in Denver has turned an infamous 2005 mug shot of George Zimmerman into a piece of pop art. Andy Bell, 31, used 12,250 Skittles to create a 3-by-4-foot portrait of Zimmerman, who was charged with second-degree murder on Wednesday in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Skittles have become a small but indelible [...] Full Story | Top |
US Secret Service agents sent home from Obama duty over misconduct allegations
Fri,13 Apr 2012 07:45 PM PDT
The Ticket - An undisclosed number of Secret Service agents with President Barack Obama at an international summit in Colombia have been relieved of their assignments and face an investigation over alleged misconduct, a spokesman for the Secret Service said late Friday. The Associated Press, citing an anonymous tip, reported that the allegations involved prostitutes in Cartagena, the [...] Full Story | Top |
Forecasters warn of life-threatening storms
Fri,13 Apr 2012 06:18 PM PDT
The Lookout - In an unusual move, national weather forecasters have issued an early warning that conditions are ripe for violent tornadoes to rip through the Midwest this weekend. According to a story by the Associated Press, the expected weekend storms will stretch from Texas to Minnesota and could be a "high-end, life threatening event." On Friday, a [...] Full Story | Top |
Holocaust violins play again
Fri,13 Apr 2012 03:28 PM PDT
The Upshot - What did the Holocaust sound like? For many who came to the death camps, it sounded of violins. The exhibit of 18 stringed instruments from the Holocaust, "Violins of Hope," is now on display at University of North Carolina, Charlotte: College of Arts + Architecture. Israeli violin maker Amnon Weinstein, who lost relatives in the [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama to Iran: It's your move in nuclear talks
Fri,13 Apr 2012 01:21 PM PDT
The Ticket - On the eve of high-stakes talks with Iran, the White House on Friday signaled a willingness to consider giving Tehran economic incentives—but only after the regime takes "concrete steps" toward freezing its suspect nuclear program. "We would certainly explore reciprocal actions that are responsive to concrete steps by the Iranians," said Ben Rhodes, President Barack [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama's North Korea policy 'absolutely not' a failure, White House says
Fri,13 Apr 2012 01:10 PM PDT
The Ticket - The White House denied Friday that North Korea's rocket launch showed that President Barack Obama's efforts to engage the isolated country's secretive Stalinist regime had been a failure. "Absolutely not," Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, told reporters aboard Air Force One as Obama headed from Washington to Florida, on his way [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney's NRA speech positions him as a champion of 'freedom'
Fri,13 Apr 2012 12:56 PM PDT
The Ticket - If you're searching for photo ops of Mitt Romney in blaze orange hunting gear, stop looking. Romney has dropped efforts to brand himself an avid hunter this campaign cycle after being famously ridiculed for portraying himself as one during the 2008 race. But he hasn't stopped positioning himself as a friend to gun owners as [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama paid a lower tax rate than his secretary, White House confirms
Fri,13 Apr 2012 12:27 PM PDT
The Ticket - President Barack Obama's secretary paid taxes at a higher rate than he did in 2011 despite having a "substantially lower income," the White House said Friday, casting the disparity as an argument for Congress to adopt the so-called "Buffett Rule." [Related: Your Top Tax Questions Answered] "The president's secretary pays a slightly higher rate this [...] Full Story | Top |
Rare Bay Bridge lightning strike captured on camera
Fri,13 Apr 2012 11:54 AM PDT
The Upshot - Phil McGrew (Flickr) The San Francisco Bay Area has been buffeted by bad weather lately, and as a rare thunder storm rumbled through, photographer Phil McGrew thought to set up his camera and snapped rare sight: Eight bolts of lightning hitting the Bay Bridge. The San Francisco currency trader, who took up photography two years ago, [...] Full Story | Top |
Beyoncé pens open letter praising Michelle Obama
Fri,13 Apr 2012 11:04 AM PDT
The Ticket - Amid the political controversy over Hilary Rosen's comments on Ann Romney's status as a stay-at-home mom, Michelle Obama thanked Beyoncé on Friday for an open letter in which the music superstar praised the first lady's mothering skills and declared her "the ULTIMATE example of a truly strong African American woman." "@Beyonce Thank you for the [...] Full Story | Top |
Judge in George Zimmerman case discloses tie to CNN legal analyst
Fri,13 Apr 2012 10:51 AM PDT
The Lookout - A Florida judge in the George Zimmerman case said in a surprise hearing on Friday that her husband has ties to a CNN legal analyst and commentator. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Judge Jessica Recksiedler disclosed that her husband works for the law firm of Mark NeJame, a prominent Orlando attorney, in the five-minute hearing [...] Full Story | Top |
Nazis get their own lobbyist on Capitol Hill
Fri,13 Apr 2012 10:40 AM PDT
The Sideshow - The American Nazi Party has apparently registered its own lobbyist on Capitol Hill, 2008 National Socialist Movement presidential candidate John Taylor Bowles. U.S. News found the PDF document— which shows that Bowles registered with the Clerk of the House as a lobbyist on Tuesday—on LegisStorm. According to the form filled out by Bowles, he registered [...] Full Story | Top |
Bus driver flees with cop hanging on to his windshield wipers
Fri,13 Apr 2012 10:05 AM PDT
The Upshot - It may have only been a routine traffic stop on an ordinary day near Hanoi—but Nguyen Manh Phan wouldn't let his man get away, as this article written in Vietnamese describes. Second Lt. Phan was directing vehicles in front of a hospital in Ba Vi district outside Hanoi on Monday when he asked a 39-seat [...] Full Story | Top |
Texas hail and mud drifts 'waist to shoulder' high
Fri,13 Apr 2012 08:50 AM PDT
The Sideshow - Maintenance crews in the Texas Panhandle are working to clear roads after several inches of hail fell Thursday night. In some areas, the hail mixed with heavy levels of dust to create muddy drifts that were waist- to shoulder-high, according to the Associated Press. "It was crazy," National Weather Service Meteorologist Justyn Jackson said about [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney: Obama administration has 'emboldened' North Korea
Fri,13 Apr 2012 07:58 AM PDT
The Ticket - Mitt Romney linked North Korea's failed rocket launch to the Obama administration in a statement released late Thursday night, saying the president's efforts to appease the regime have "emboldened" Pyongyang. In a statement condemning the launch, Romney said President Barack Obama has "no effective response" to North Korea's weapons program and supported a "food-aid deal" "that [...] Full Story | Top |
Newark Mayor Cory Booker saves woman from fire
Thu,12 Apr 2012 11:13 PM PDT
The Lookout - Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark rescued a woman trapped in a burning house Thursday night and carried her to safety. Booker was treated for smoke inhalation at a local hospital and released. He also suffered second-degree burns on his hand. During a press conference Friday morning, Booker rejected suggestions that he is a hero [...] Full Story | Top |
US denounces North Korea over failed rocket launch
Thu,12 Apr 2012 06:34 PM PDT
The Ticket - The White House late Thursday denounced North Korea's failed effort to launch a rocket, condemning the attempt as a severe breach of its international obligations and warned that the secretive regime's "pattern of aggressive behavior" had only succeeded in further isolating itself from the international community. "Despite the failure of its attempted missile launch, North Korea's [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama says Air Force One travel is 'not my choice' in sharp exchange
Thu,12 Apr 2012 04:47 PM PDT
The Ticket - Click image to see more photos. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) President Barack Obama on Thursday firmly rejected any criticism that his worldwide travel on Air Force One or his family's vacations have left him out of touch with Americans' struggles, saying flying aboard the famed official plane is "not my choice." "The fact of the matter [...] Full Story | Top |
North Korea launches long-range missile; launch fails
Thu,12 Apr 2012 04:21 PM PDT
The Upshot - UPDATE: [9:20pm ET]: This story will be updated as events unfold. U.S. officials say they believe the launch failed. U.N. Security Council is meeting Friday to discuss a response. This is the third failed attempt at an orbital launch since 1998. Defying international pressure, North Korea launched a long-range missile Friday morning. However, U.S. officials [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney campaign fundraises off Ann Romney stay-at-home mom criticism
Thu,12 Apr 2012 03:29 PM PDT
The Ticket - Democrats devalue stay-at-home moms. That's the message of a Mitt Romney campaign fundraising email issued Thursday afternoon seeking to capitalize on the bipartisan outrage over Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen's comments about Ann Romney. Democrats from the White House on down Thursday strongly opposed Rosen's comments that Mrs. Romney can't represent female voters because she's never [...] Full Story | Top |
Taste testers enlisted to sample fish exposed to Scottish gas leak
Thu,12 Apr 2012 02:51 PM PDT
The Sideshow - Scotland's government has brought in a team of taste testers to ensure the safety of fish potentially affected by an ongoing gas leak emanating from a North Sea oil platform owned by French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. The government brought to the Marine Scotland Science organization "specially trained sensory testers" who tasted [...] Full Story | Top |
George Zimmerman buys $79.84 worth of items from jail store
Thu,12 Apr 2012 02:47 PM PDT
The Upshot - George Zimmerman is cooling his heels in jail, where he recently purchased a collection of items from the Seminole County jail store to help pass the time. The Miami Herald recently tweeted a photo of a receipt from Zimmerman's $79.84 purchases that included playing cards, puzzle books, and Jolly Rancher candy. Zimmerman also bought socks, [...] Full Story | Top |
This video game will cost you $1,300
Thu,12 Apr 2012 02:12 PM PDT
Technology News Blog - Special editions of video games have been serious business in Japan for decades, often coming with soundtracks, art books, models, and other unique collectibles, and sometimes selling for hundreds of dollars. For its latest Resident Evil game, Capcom has put together a … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Snackman: New York City's snack-eating subway hero a Web hit
Thu,12 Apr 2012 02:07 PM PDT
The Upshot - Just a few days ago, Charles Sonder was an ordinary Everyman, who simply liked to enjoy a salty snack on the subway. Today, he's got a Facebook page, Web buzz, and a nickname: Snackman. The 24-year-old was captured on video munching cheddar Pringles while stepping in to break up a fight between two fellow riders [...] Full Story | Top |
What kind of car would President Obama be?
Thu,12 Apr 2012 01:21 PM PDT
The Ticket - Is President Barack Obama a conflicted crossover SUV? A doomed Corvair? An Edsel that is "out of touch with reality"? A solid Jeep that overcomes daunting obstacles? A family-friendly Toyota minivan? A reliable, safe Volvo? A conservative-leaning polling group asked 39 voters who cast ballots for him in 2008 but are unsure this time around [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama administration to Syria's Assad: 'Stop killing your people'
Thu,12 Apr 2012 11:45 AM PDT
The Ticket - The White House on Thursday bluntly told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to "stop killing your people" as the Obama administration closely watched whether Syrian forces kept the terms of a fragile cease-fire brokered by United Nations envoy Kofi Annan. In an unusually direct statement to the regime in Damascus, Obama press secretary Jay Carney said [...] Full Story | Top |
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