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Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News: Ann Romney, Chris Christie: Mitt Romney's heart and spine Ann Romney's full RNC speech Chris Christie's complete RNC speech Ex-Democrat Artur Davis: Obama has lost his 'halo' Scientists find the oldest bugs trapped in amber in Italy In the RNC hall, young Republicans wonder: where's the beer? Brainwave-controlled robotic exoskeleton will help stroke victims Ron Paul delegates cause ruckus on convention floor Ann Romney is today's Nancy Reagan, GOP delegate says Live-blog: Hurricane Isaac closes in on New Orleans, Gulf Coast Romney campaign trying to make #WeBuiltIt happen As Republicans nominate Romney, Ron Paul is a distant second Ann Romney at the RNC: My husband will 'lift up America' Help an ambitious space elevator company get back on its feet via Kickstarter Government billed more than $700,000 for sculpture to be grown over by foliage Why Maine walked out: Romney's new rules for 2016 and what they mean Tea party organizer wants Romney specifics: 'We're trying to figure out what he's for' Live video: Raw convention feed Where Do Obama, Romney Stand on Bush-era Tax Cuts?: Just Explain It Iggy Pop bobblehead somehow even scarier looking than Iggy Pop Romney and Ryan to campaign in Florida and Ohio following convention At GOP convention, cries of a cheesehead revolution! Hawaii delegate against birtherism: 'It inspires people to a polarization' Christie's keynote address comes with awkward political calculus: An economist's view Meteor explodes over Great Britain with violent force School asks deaf preschooler to change his sign language name Republican chief: Obama hasn't even run a lemonade stand Romney advisers: We don't know who RNC mystery guest speaker is Day Two of GOP Convention features Ann Romney, hurricane watch Romney strategist downplays potential convention bounce: 'All bets are off' Facebook's oldest user visits office, meets Mark Zuckerberg Can Twitter tell if you're a psychopath? Andrew Breitbart to be honored at Republican National Convention Isaac, now a hurricane, heads for New Orleans Bear put down after repeatedly breaking into local Colorado homes (VIDEO) Haley Barbour on Obama: 'He's a one percenter' How Ann Romney learned to stop worrying and love politics Young Artur Davis was 'political animal': former professor Mermaids at the Republican National Convention Obama to Americans in TS Isaac's path: Don't 'tempt fate' Ann Romney, Chris Christie: Mitt Romney's heart and spine Tue,28 Aug 2012 08:50 PM PDT Ann Romney, resplendent in red, vouched for Mitt Romney's heart. Chris Christie vouched for the Republican presidential candidate's spine. The potential future first lady and the blunt-talking New Jersey governor capped the second day of the Republican National Convention with a pair of much-anticipated speeches seemingly designed to counter two of Mitt Romney's perceived weaknesses. [...] Full Story Top Ann Romney's full RNC speech Tue,28 Aug 2012 08:39 PM PDT Ann Romney's speech at the Republican National Convention (as prepared for delivery). Full Story Top Chris Christie's complete RNC speech Tue,28 Aug 2012 08:33 PM PDT Chris Christie's keynote speech at the Republican National Convention (as prepared for delivery). Full Story Top Ex-Democrat Artur Davis: Obama has lost his 'halo' Tue,28 Aug 2012 07:17 PM PDT TAMPA—Former congressman Artur Davis—once a Democratic rising star, now a Republican weapon—accused President Barack Obama late Tuesday of bamboozling voters four years ago with "flowery words" and charged that the incumbent has lost the "halo" his supporters thought he had in 2008. "America is a land of second chances, and I gather in this close [...] Full Story Top Scientists find the oldest bugs trapped in amber in Italy Tue,28 Aug 2012 06:15 PM PDT Researchers working in Italy have found the oldest specimens of bugs trapped in amber. The critters are a whopping 230 million years old, which puts them in the late Triassic period. The team found one fly and two mites in droplets … Continue reading → Full Story Top In the RNC hall, young Republicans wonder: where's the beer? Tue,28 Aug 2012 06:10 PM PDT As Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin delivered her speech at the RNC Tuesday night, three men moved rapidly through the packed crowd on the concourse outside the convention floor, stopping briefly at every concession stand along the way to inspect the menu. "Beer? Do you have beer?!" one young man asked. His tone was best described [...] Full Story Top Brainwave-controlled robotic exoskeleton will help stroke victims Tue,28 Aug 2012 06:10 PM PDT We've seen some pretty amazing uses of robotics to help the disabled, including an exoskeleton that can give paraplegics the ability to walk again. Now researchers at Rice University are looking to help stroke sufferers move their limbs again by … Continue reading → Full Story Top Ron Paul delegates cause ruckus on convention floor Tue,28 Aug 2012 04:53 PM PDT He might not be the Republican nominee, but Ron Paul certainly has loyal delegates. And they're here to make their voices heard—literally. The boisterous delegates caused somewhat of an altercation on the convention floor this Tuesday evening, a night that should belong to Mitt Romney. Whenever a state that had Paul delegates announced its vote, [...] Full Story Top Ann Romney is today's Nancy Reagan, GOP delegate says Tue,28 Aug 2012 04:44 PM PDT TAMPA—A few hours before Ann Romney's prime-time speech to the Republican National Convention, excitement was building in the crowd at the prospect of hearing from a woman one delegate described as a Nancy Reagan for today who has "made motherhood honorable again." Ann Romney's mission was to warm up her husband's sometimes aloof image, soften [...] Full Story Top Live-blog: Hurricane Isaac closes in on New Orleans, Gulf Coast Tue,28 Aug 2012 03:57 PM PDT Isaac, now a Category 1 hurricane packing 80-plus-mph winds and torrential rains, has begun its assault on the northern Gulf Coast. The center of the storm is scheduled to make landfall near flood-prone New Orleans late Tuesday or early Wednesday. Storm warnings and watches stretch across Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Yahoo News will be [...] Full Story Top Romney campaign trying to make #WeBuiltIt happen Tue,28 Aug 2012 03:48 PM PDT Update, 10:55 p.m.: Here's a useful lesson for those hoping to drive messaging on Twitter. The Romney campaign tried repeatedly to get #webuiltit to take off. But #IStandWithAnn, championed by a user with fewer than 1,000 followers, easily surpassed the campaign's synthetic viral campaign. Original post: In an effort that appears highly coordinated, tweets from [...] Full Story Top As Republicans nominate Romney, Ron Paul is a distant second Tue,28 Aug 2012 03:39 PM PDT Mitt Romney was born in Michigan, served as governor of Massachusetts, vacations in New Hampshire (and France), saved the Olympics in Utah—but on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention, it was Chris Christie's New Jersey that gave him the number of delegates to formally nominate him to take on President Barack Obama. The Garden State [...] Full Story Top Ann Romney at the RNC: My husband will 'lift up America' Tue,28 Aug 2012 03:30 PM PDT TAMPA—Ann Romney will tell the Republican National Convention Tuesday that she and her husband, Mitt Romney, have not had a "storybook marriage" but have gone through struggles just like other Americans—including health scares like her bouts with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis. "I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in [...] Full Story Top Help an ambitious space elevator company get back on its feet via Kickstarter Tue,28 Aug 2012 02:35 PM PDT In the future, there might be elevators that can shuttle you to a place far higher than the tallest skyscraper on Earth and even more wondrous than a real-life Batcave: space. Companies and space agencies have been trying to come … Continue reading → Full Story Top Government billed more than $700,000 for sculpture to be grown over by foliage Tue,28 Aug 2012 02:20 PM PDT An Australian artist has created a rock sculpture in the shape of an egg that resides in a remote section of one of Australia's national parks. But in an even stranger development, the Department of Environment and Resource Management has paid the artist, Andy Goldsworthy, more than $700,000 for the creation, entitled "Strangler Cairn," which [...] Full Story Top Why Maine walked out: Romney's new rules for 2016 and what they mean Tue,28 Aug 2012 02:19 PM PDT TAMPA—With an attention to detail that an art restorer working on a Rembrandt might envy, the Romney team has been working overtime to guarantee a smooth convention without a single discordant note—in 2016. Changes in Republican Party rules proposed by the Mitt-ites would, in theory, lessen the odds of rogue delegates and raucous dissenters disrupting [...] Full Story Top Tea party organizer wants Romney specifics: 'We're trying to figure out what he's for' Tue,28 Aug 2012 01:51 PM PDT TAMPA -- The details of Mitt Romney's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention are still secret, but when the candidate takes the stage on Thursday night, FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe wants to hear one thing: Policy details. "We're trying to figure out what he's for," Kibbe told Yahoo News in an interview here on [...] Full Story Top Live video: Raw convention feed Tue,28 Aug 2012 01:27 PM PDT Live video: Raw convention feed from the Republican National Convention Full Story Top Where Do Obama, Romney Stand on Bush-era Tax Cuts?: Just Explain It Tue,28 Aug 2012 01:12 PM PDT Ben Franklin got it right when he wrote, 'nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.' This campaign season, though, we can bank on another certainty, the candidates battling to the death over taxes. You're probably hearing a lot about the Bush-era tax cuts in the news. Republicans and Democrats disagree over [...] Full Story Top Iggy Pop bobblehead somehow even scarier looking than Iggy Pop Tue,28 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT Iggy Pop, the permanently shirtless singer and frontman of legendary protopunk band The Stooges, is getting his own bobblehead. The 65-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is being honored with a limited edition 7-inch bobblehead--or "throbblehead"--that looks just as frightening as the leathery singer himself. Thankfully, Aggronautix, the company behind the figurines, is producing [...] Full Story Top Romney and Ryan to campaign in Florida and Ohio following convention Tue,28 Aug 2012 12:56 PM PDT TAMPA—Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will campaign in Florida this Friday before heading to Ohio on Saturday to attend a football game at Ryan's college alma mater. According to the Romney campaign, the presumptive Republican nominee and his vice presidential running mate will hold a rally in Lakeland, Fla., just outside Tampa on the morning [...] Full Story Top At GOP convention, cries of a cheesehead revolution! Tue,28 Aug 2012 12:53 PM PDT TAMPA—"We're in the midst of a cheesehead revolution!" That's the happy message from Sol Grosskopf, 25, a delegate from Wisconsin to the Republican presidential nominating convention. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, Gov. Scott Walker, and presumptive vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan are all Badgers. Grosskapf says he's excited to hear them speak—and the state's delegation [...] Full Story Top Hawaii delegate against birtherism: 'It inspires people to a polarization' Tue,28 Aug 2012 12:35 PM PDT Kimo Sutton, a delegate from Hawaii who helped run Rick Santorum's campaign in the state, said he's excited to be surrounded by Republicans since his state is one of the bluest in the nation. The Hawaii delegates, all wearing Hawaiian shirts and leis, are seated in the far back of the floor, reflecting their low [...] Full Story Top Christie's keynote address comes with awkward political calculus: An economist's view Tue,28 Aug 2012 12:27 PM PDT Economists tend to view events like the Republican convention in the agnostic light of strategy and incentives, in which lawmakers are rational creatures trying to maximize their political profit. (Yes, that view of politicians as rational can be lonely.) This view exposes a curious dilemma for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as he prepares to [...] Full Story Top Meteor explodes over Great Britain with violent force Tue,28 Aug 2012 12:24 PM PDT If you catch them at just the right time, a streaking meteor can be a stunning sight in the night sky. But when that meteor contains just a tiny bit of ice, a beautiful light show can turn into a … Continue reading → Full Story Top School asks deaf preschooler to change his sign language name Tue,28 Aug 2012 12:16 PM PDT Video courtesy KOLN/KGIN 1011 News/Nebraska Central News Three-and-a-half  year old Hunter Spanjer, who is deaf, signs his name by crossing his forefinger and index finger and moving his hand up and down. To his family, friends and those who know the Signing Exact English (S.E.E.) language that the Grand Island, Neb., boy uses, that gesture [...] Full Story Top Republican chief: Obama hasn't even run a lemonade stand Tue,28 Aug 2012 11:57 AM PDT Republicans gathered in Tampa to anoint Mitt Romney their nominee wasted no time Tuesday in going on the attack over the sour economy, with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus mockingly saying that President Barack Obama has never run so much as a lemonade stand. "Republicans believe America's greatness comes from the American people, not the federal [...] Full Story Top Romney advisers: We don't know who RNC mystery guest speaker is Tue,28 Aug 2012 11:26 AM PDT TAMPA, Fla. — Who is the mystery guest speaker at this year's Republican National Convention? Mitt Romney's top advisers claim that even they are out of the loop. "I do not know. I'm intrigued," Eric Ferhnstrom, a senior Romney adviser, told Yahoo! News' David Chalian and ABC News' Jonathan Karl during a discussion Tuesday morning [...] Full Story Top Day Two of GOP Convention features Ann Romney, hurricane watch Tue,28 Aug 2012 11:23 AM PDT With more than 100,000 red, white and blue balloons hanging in nets from the rafters, and Ann Romney waiting in the wings to deliver a high-stakes prime-time speech, Republicans formally opened the second day of their presidential nominating convention on Tuesday. Ann Romney's remarks aimed to introduce—or reintroduce—Mitt Romney to millions of Americans. Top Romney [...] Full Story Top Romney strategist downplays potential convention bounce: 'All bets are off' Tue,28 Aug 2012 10:55 AM PDT TAMPA—Mitt Romney's top political strategist downplayed expectations that the presumptive GOP nominee will get a polling bounce coming out of the Republican National Convention, suggesting this convention is different from those in the past. Speaking to reporters on board Romney's plane en route to Tampa, Stuart Stevens, a senior Romney adviser, said factors like Hurricane [...] Full Story Top Facebook's oldest user visits office, meets Mark Zuckerberg Tue,28 Aug 2012 09:51 AM PDT Though Facebook initially began its life as a place for college students to meet, interact, and even stalk each other, the social network has since expanded to include users of all walks of life. Yesterday, one of those post-collegiate users … Continue reading → Full Story Top Can Twitter tell if you're a psychopath? Tue,28 Aug 2012 09:46 AM PDT You probably have at least a few people on your Twitter or Facebook friends list that you'd consider "crazy," and a new study by Florida Atlantic University and the Online Privacy Foundation says you might be right. According to the … Continue reading → Full Story Top Andrew Breitbart to be honored at Republican National Convention Tue,28 Aug 2012 09:42 AM PDT TAMPA—The Republican National Convention will pay tribute to Andrew Breitbart, the late conservative activist and publisher who died in March at the age of 43 due to heart disease. Breitbart will be included in a moment of remembrance honoring prominent Republicans who have died since the 2008 convention, the RNC announced on Tuesday. The full [...] Full Story Top Isaac, now a hurricane, heads for New Orleans Tue,28 Aug 2012 09:33 AM PDT Tropical Storm Isaac is now Hurricane Isaac. The slow-moving storm, with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, achieved hurricane status at approximately 12:20 p.m. ET on Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said: ...RECONNAISSANCE DATA INDICATE ISAAC FINALLY ACHIEVES HURRICANE STATUS...REPORTS FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT MAXIMUM WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH ISAAC HAVE [...] Full Story Top Bear put down after repeatedly breaking into local Colorado homes (VIDEO) Tue,28 Aug 2012 09:32 AM PDT A bear in Conifer, Colorado, was put down after repeatedly breaking into a number of local homes. Local NBC affiliate 9News reports the bear even once broke into a family's bedroom. But the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPW) finally caught up with the bear after a return visit to the home of Jennifer [...] Full Story Top Haley Barbour on Obama: 'He's a one percenter' Tue,28 Aug 2012 09:22 AM PDT TAMPA—Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was holding court at a private party before the Republican National Committee on Sunday, where he called President Barack Obama a one percenter, and urged a group of conservative bloggers to rally behind Mitt Romney even though he's not perfect. "We've got two guys running for president, by the way, [...] Full Story Top How Ann Romney learned to stop worrying and love politics Tue,28 Aug 2012 08:29 AM PDT TAMPA--When the three major news networks announced last week that they would not air Ann Romney's Republican National Convention Monday night speech in Tampa, Republicans started scrambling. Romney's likeable wife of 43 years needed a primetime spot, they decided, and party leaders were reportedly ready to bump the popular Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to make [...] Full Story Top Young Artur Davis was 'political animal': former professor Tue,28 Aug 2012 08:27 AM PDT Democrat-turned-Republican Artur Davis, who is poised to take a star turn with a featured speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, "didn't stand out for his academic prowess" as a Harvard undergraduate but had an "insatiable interest in political gossip and current events" and was clearly already a "political animal," a former professor recalled [...] Full Story Top Mermaids at the Republican National Convention Tue,28 Aug 2012 08:23 AM PDT TAMPA—The Mermaid Delegation made its presence known at a Republican National Convention after-party on Monday night. While Republicans and journalists sipped top-shelf booze served from ice bars during a party at the Florida Aquarium, two women in bikini tops dressed as mermaids showed off their back-flip skills in a tank full of fish. On the [...] Full Story Top Obama to Americans in TS Isaac's path: Don't 'tempt fate' Tue,28 Aug 2012 08:23 AM PDT President Barack Obama warned Gulf Coast residents in Isaac's path not to "tempt fate" by ignoring government warnings—including possible calls to evacuate—as he detailed his administration's preparations for the powerful tropical storm on Tuesday. "Now is not the time to tempt fate, now is not the time to dismiss official warnings" he said in a [...] Full Story Top

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