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Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines: Paul Ryan sets tone for GOP ticket with rousing convention speech Isaac's rising water forces more people from homes Condoleezza Rice hits Obama on foreign policy in RNC speech Police: 100-year-old driver hits 11 near LA school Is Clint Eastwood the mystery RNC speaker? Obama in surprise Reddit chat: 'Ask me anything' Secret Service detail leaves gun unattended on Romney's flight West Nile virus cases hit 1,590; death toll at 66 Pentagon fighting Taliban on social media front Rob Portman jokes about being passed over for VP 19 killed in coal mine blast in southwest China Bomb from World War II detonated on purpose Trayvon Martin shooter wins appeal for new judge NASA discovers first two-planet system orbiting twin suns NYC man gets 40 years to life for dismembering boy Low cost spy plane takes off as military budgets squeezed Rudy Giuliani: Election between 'Mr. Cool' and 'Mr. Competent' Ann Romney urges Hispanic voters to get past 'their biases' Paul Ryan sets tone for GOP ticket with rousing convention speech Wed,29 Aug 2012 07:34 PM PDT Paul Ryan worked on this speech for weeks. The Republican vice presidential candidate used his remarks to the 2012 Republican National Convention as an opportunity to introduce his family, promote Mitt Romney's vision for economic recovery, draw contrasts with President Barack Obama and profess the role of faith in his life. He even [...] Full Story Top Isaac's rising water forces more people from homes Wed,29 Aug 2012 08:33 PM PDT Associated Press - The state sent scores of buses and dozens of high-water vehicles to help evacuate about 3,000 people from St. John the Baptist Parish after Tropical Storm Isaac pushed water from lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas into parts of LaPlace. Full Story Top Condoleezza Rice hits Obama on foreign policy in RNC speech Wed,29 Aug 2012 07:09 PM PDT ABC OTUS News - Condoleezza Rice never addressed President Obama by name, but the former secretary of state delivered a sharp rejection of his foreign policy in a speech at the Republican National Convention. Full Story Top Police: 100-year-old driver hits 11 near LA school Wed,29 Aug 2012 09:08 PM PDT Associated Press - A 100-year-old man backed his car on to a sidewalk and hit 11 people, including nine children, across from an elementary school in Los Angeles just after classes had ended Wednesday, authorities said. Full Story Top Is Clint Eastwood the mystery RNC speaker? Wed,29 Aug 2012 05:43 PM PDT ABC OTUS News - There's a big mystery in Tampa. Who is the "TBA" who will address the convention Thursday night just before Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney? Full Story Top Obama in surprise Reddit chat: 'Ask me anything' Wed,29 Aug 2012 01:41 PM PDT President Obama made a surprise appearance in a live chat on Reddit.com. "Hi, I'm Barack Obama, President of the United States," Obama wrote in a message on the site. Full Story Top Secret Service detail leaves gun unattended on Romney's flight Wed,29 Aug 2012 05:38 PM PDT ABC OTUS News - A member of Mitt Romney's Secret Service detail was removed from a campaign trip after she accidentally left her firearm unattended in the candidate's charter plane bathroom. Full Story Top West Nile virus cases hit 1,590; death toll at 66 Wed,29 Aug 2012 04:12 PM PDT ABC News - Reports of West Nile virus infection in the country now total 1,590, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday — an increase of more than 40 percent in one week alone. Full Story Top Pentagon fighting Taliban on social media front Wed,29 Aug 2012 08:11 PM PDT ABC OTUS News - The U.S. military is ramping up efforts to counter the Taliban's growing presence on social media sites by aggressively responding to falsehoods and reporting violations of the sites' guidelines on violent threats, experts say.Twitter accounts or websites associated with militant groups typically take responsibility for attacks whether or not they had anything to do with them.But most of the information they provide is either exaggerated or false, said Army Lt. Col. T.G. Taylor, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command. ... Full Story Top Rob Portman jokes about being passed over for VP Wed,29 Aug 2012 06:02 PM PDT TAMPA--For Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, there seem to be no hard feelings about not being selected as Mitt Romney's running mate. "My name is Rob Portman, and they say I was on Governor Romney's short list of vice presidential candidates," Portman said. "Apparently, it wasn't short enough." Portman went on to praise the man who [...] Full Story Top 19 killed in coal mine blast in southwest China Wed,29 Aug 2012 07:51 PM PDT Associated Press - A gas explosion at a coal mine in southwest China has killed 19 miners and trapped dozens more, state media reported Thursday. Full Story Top Bomb from World War II detonated on purpose Wed,29 Aug 2012 03:41 PM PDT This is not a test. This is a video of an actual World War II-era, American-made bomb going off in the center of Munich, Germany. According to its description on YouTube, the explosive was discovered on Monday night by workers at the site of a building that was being demolished. Officials realized that the 550-pound [...] Full Story Top Trayvon Martin shooter wins appeal for new judge Wed,29 Aug 2012 04:41 PM PDT Reuters - MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida appeals court ruled on Wednesday that George Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, should be granted a new judge in his case. The decision from the three-judge panel came in response to a motion filed by Zimmerman's lawyer asking the court to overturn a ruling by Judge Kenneth Lester refusing to step down from the case. "We direct the trial judge to enter an order of disqualification," the state's Fifth District Court of Appeal wrote in its opinion. One of the judges dissented in the decision. ... Full Story Top NASA discovers first two-planet system orbiting twin suns Wed,29 Aug 2012 07:16 PM PDT It's been almost a year ago since we made our first discovery of an exoplanet orbiting two suns, prompting everyone to compare it to the planet Tattooine in the "Star Wars" universe. A handful of other planets orbiting two stars … Continue reading → Full Story Top NYC man gets 40 years to life for dismembering boy Wed,29 Aug 2012 03:19 PM PDT Associated Press - A hardware store clerk was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping, killing and dismembering a lost little boy, bringing an end to a gruesome crime that horrified a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn. Full Story Top Low cost spy plane takes off as military budgets squeezed Wed,29 Aug 2012 07:12 PM PDT Reuters - BALTIMORE, Maryland (Reuters) - Northrop Grumman Corp, maker of the B-2 spy plane and the Global Hawk unmanned drone, will demonstrate a smaller, cheaper surveillance plane this week it hopes will be attractive to budget conscious U.S. law agencies and foreign countries. The new Air Claw system marks Northrop's latest effort to expand its overseas revenues and move into new non-military markets at home given the expected decline in U.S. military spending after a decade of sharp growth. ... Full Story Top Rudy Giuliani: Election between 'Mr. Cool' and 'Mr. Competent' Wed,29 Aug 2012 12:10 PM PDT TAMPA—Voters should consider "competence" over "cool" when deciding who to support for president in November, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday. Giuliani stopped by the media filing center near the Republican National Convention site, where he told reporters that voters "made a big mistake" by electing President Barack Obama in 2008. "If I [...] Full Story Top Ann Romney urges Hispanic voters to get past 'their biases' Wed,29 Aug 2012 11:38 AM PDT ABC OTUS News - Tampa, Fla. -- Ann Romney's convention speech was directly aimed at wooing female voters, but at a lunch event Wednesday she changed her focus and pitched her husband to Hispanic voters. Full Story Top

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