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Robot police drones could put disabled cops back on the beat
Fri,28 Sep 2012 09:29 PM PDT
In the classic sci-fi action movie "RoboCop" (watch on Netflix), severely injured police officer Alex Murphy returns to duty as a cyborg — a robot body with a human mind. Where the film's fictional doctors placed Murphy's brain into a … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

California governor signs bills to make textbooks lighter on wallets and backpacks
Fri,28 Sep 2012 09:23 PM PDT
The younger generations may one day never need to lug around heavy and expensive textbooks for their classes. California Governor Jerry Brown signed two bills yesterday that will fund the creation of 50 open source digital textbooks and will launch … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

Romney talks about longtime friend Netanyahu, jokes about bomb graphic
Fri,28 Sep 2012 02:49 PM PDT
ON THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN PLANE--Flying from Philadelphia to Boston, Mitt Romney gave reporters in the press cabin some quality candidate time. After joking with a reporter who had been accidentally left behind by the press bus and later passing out beef jerky, the GOP candidate was back again—this time to give reporters a read-out about [...] Full Story 		Top

Rare albino whale spotted off coast of Australia (VIDEO)
Fri,28 Sep 2012 02:48 PM PDT
A rare albino humpback whale has been spotted off the coast of Australia. And unlike the terrifying creature in "Moby Dick," this white whale has been drawing the enthusiastic attention of maritime tourists. CNN reports that the whale, nicknamed "Migaloo" by researchers, is the only known all-white humpback adult in the world today. Whale watchers [...] Full Story 		Top

Accidental text message lands a swimming coach behind bars
Fri,28 Sep 2012 02:45 PM PDT
We've all sent a text message to the wrong person at some point in our lives. Sometimes, it can be very embarrassing. But when 24-year-old swimming coach Craig Evans accidentally sent a sexually explicit message to his entire BlackBerry address book … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

Check out the coolest new place to have a cocktail: underwater
Fri,28 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT
There's so much to do if you go on vacation to the Maldives. You could work on your tan at the beautiful beaches, go swimming in the clear blue waters, or get hammered at what is being billed as the … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

U.S. intelligence takes blame for mixed Libya attack messages
Fri,28 Sep 2012 02:39 PM PDT
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's office on Friday tried to explain the shifting public explanations for who was behind the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya. DNI public affairs director Shawn Turner said U.S. intelligence concluded "in the immediate aftermath" of the assault that it had  begun "spontaneously" in the [...] Full Story 		Top

Romney distributes beef jerky to reporters, one of whom gets 'jerky envy'
Fri,28 Sep 2012 02:04 PM PDT
ON THE ROMNEY PLANE EN ROUTE TO BOSTON—It's no secret that Mitt Romney's campaign aides have strongly discouraged the candidate from doing too much talking to his traveling press corps, concerned that even the tiniest of gaffes could set off major waves in his bid for the presidency. But sometimes Romney just can't help himself. [...] Full Story 		Top

The world's first faked photo
Fri,28 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris may have uncovered the world's oldest staged photograph, a wartime image taken in 1855. Radiolab spoke with Morris, who unleashed his legendary attention to detail upon Roger Fenton's renowned photo, "The Valley of the Shadow of Death," considered to be one of the oldest known photographic images of warfare. The photo [...] Full Story 		Top

Sticker Shock: How much it costs to charge your favorite electronics
Fri,28 Sep 2012 11:27 AM PDT
There's one inescapable truth about our gadget-filled culture — all that tech, from iPhone to iPad to big-screen TV, has to be plugged into an electrical outlet at some point. And while feeding 1980s-era electronic devices battery after battery was an … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

Apple CEO apologizes for Maps, recommends you use Google instead
Fri,28 Sep 2012 11:21 AM PDT
Well, this is certainly... odd. Apple CEO Tim Cook took to his company's website earlier today, posting a letter apologizing for the now-infamous Maps debacle, suggesting that upset iPhone owners try other mapping applications such as the web version of … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

Iranian news agency duped by Onion story on Obama poll
Fri,28 Sep 2012 11:01 AM PDT
Iran's leading news agency published a mock poll that claimed rural whites in the U.S. favored Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over president Barack Obama. The mock poll was originally published on a popular U.S. media site, The Onion. The FARS news agency—which touts itself as Iran's leading independent news agency while others note its ties [...] Full Story 		Top

Obama, Netanyahu discuss Iran nuclear program
Fri,28 Sep 2012 10:34 AM PDT
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn't meet this week but spoke by telephone on Friday. Their conversation focused on efforts to curb Iran's suspect nuclear program, according to a rather dry White House statement. Obama's press operation also released the above photo of the call. The two leaders don't have a [...] Full Story 		Top

Mug shots and old tax liens: House campaign ad war escalates in South Florida
Fri,28 Sep 2012 09:40 AM PDT
Florida Republican Rep. Allen West's campaign unveiled an ad on Friday criticizing Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy and displaying a mug shot taken when he was 19 years old after an arrest outside a Miami bar, a part of Murphy's past the candidate has called "the biggest mistake of my life." The ad contrasts West's time [...] Full Story 		Top

Romney: 'I'm going to win Pennsylvania'
Fri,28 Sep 2012 08:42 AM PDT
PHILADELPHIA—Mitt Romney insisted he'll win Pennsylvania in November, despite recent polls showing President Barack Obama building a major lead in the state. Speaking at a morning fundraiser at the city's tony Union League Club, Romney repeatedly insisted he still has a shot at taking Pennsylvania—and ultimately the White House. "You know, we really would shock [...] Full Story 		Top

Freshly showered home intruder nabbed trying to make clean getaway
Fri,28 Sep 2012 07:54 AM PDT
Jennifer Burgess couldn't get away clean with this one. The 24-year-old homeless woman allegedly broke into a Sacramento, Calif., home and took a shower before she was caught by the homeowner. Randy Kizer says a stranger answered the door at his house when he came home after running morning errands, CBS Sacramento reports. "She had [...] Full Story 		Top

Woman got loaded gun past TSA: report
Fri,28 Sep 2012 07:17 AM PDT
At less than six inches and just under 10 ounces, the Ruger .380 is considered by gun owners to be a great little pocket pistol. So small, in fact, that you can sometimes get one onto an airplane. D'oh! Yep, the New York Daily News reports that a woman flew 938 miles from Orlando, Fla., [...] Full Story 		Top

Weekend in politics: Obama in Nev., Romney in Pa., debate prep, and more
Fri,28 Sep 2012 03:20 AM PDT
Mitt Romney plans to campaign Friday in Pennsylvania, a state where President Barack Obama is leading in the polls with 40 days left before the election. It will be Romney's first visit to the state in more than two months. Obama will attend two fundraisers Friday in Washington, D.C., and then head to Nevada on [...] Full Story 		Top

New art-house app lets you take just one picture, ever
Thu,27 Sep 2012 05:29 PM PDT
There are a lot of terrific camera apps out there. Most people prefer Instagram for its filters and ability to share your photos with others, while some prefer the more powerful set of tools Snapseed offers. One of the newest … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

Congresswoman wants to protect you from silly internet laws
Thu,27 Sep 2012 05:26 PM PDT
Remember that one time when our internet freedom was about to be severely stifled by the government, but then pretty much the entire internet rallied against it? House Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) remembers, and she wants to make sure the … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

Thieves take $10,000 in wedding presents when couple leaves gifts outside overnight
Thu,27 Sep 2012 04:20 PM PDT
A newlywed couple's marriage is off to a rough start after thieves took more than $10,000 worth of gifts that the couple left unprotected outdoors overnight. "Somebody had come and taken all of the wedding gifts," Amy Wright, the bride, told local Pennsylvania affiliate WFMZ. "Every last card was gone, the boxes, the gift bags." [...] Full Story 		Top

Study: Female brains commonly flooded with male DNA
Thu,27 Sep 2012 03:56 PM PDT
We already know that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but there are a lot of similarities between the sexes, too. Earlier in the year, we learned that women are affected by testosterone similar to how men … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

Facebook gets generous with new Facebook Gifts feature
Thu,27 Sep 2012 03:48 PM PDT
Most of us who have Facebook accounts are no strangers to wishing our friends a "happy birthday" on the site — after all, since the creepily omniscient site tells you who's celebrating what, it really is the least we can do. … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

U.S. responded to Benghazi attack as terrorism on 'Day One': Source
Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:56 PM PDT
When gunmen struck the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year, the response from American officials was almost simultaneous: They immediately set about collecting information about the attackers, some of whom were quickly identified as foreigners, and tracing links from them to known extremist groups, a knowledgeable source has told Yahoo [...] Full Story 		Top

Candidate's wife throws water on reporter
Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:45 PM PDT
One way to get rid of a pesky reporter: Throw a bucket of water on him. That's what the wife of a failed candidate embroiled in a campaign scandal did to Miami Local 10 senior political reporter Michael Putney. The TV journalist came away drenched but not any more enlightened than when he knocked on [...] Full Story 		Top

Netanyahu's 'red line' mocked on Twitter
Thu,27 Sep 2012 01:24 PM PDT
During his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the completion of Iran's nuclear enrichment program threatens the stability of the Middle East, Europe and the United States—and urged world leaders to draw a "red line" to prevent Iran from continuing on. In a highly unusual [...] Full Story 		Top

Google Play gaining on iTunes App Store in race for most apps available
Thu,27 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT
The war between Apple and Android wages on, and now the battlefield is the online app market. Google Play, the marketplace for Android devices, has always trailed the App Store in number of offerings, even though it launched just three months … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

Apple has its eyes on flexible iPhone screens
Thu,27 Sep 2012 12:57 PM PDT
Don't think the new iPhone 5 was enough of a leap over the previous generation of Apple's smartphone in terms of design? Well, a new patent by the Cupertino, Calif. tech powerhouse should have you very excited. The company has … Continue reading → Full Story 		Top

Nonpartisan D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics posts tweet against Scott Brown
Thu,27 Sep 2012 11:35 AM PDT
The Twitter account for the nonpartisan District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics posted a link to an editorial criticizing Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown on Thursday, an act the government agency tells Yahoo News was an accident. The link directed followers to a piece on the left-leaning Talking Points Memo website headlined "Really, [...] Full Story 		Top

Family fights highway off-ramp in their backyard
Thu,27 Sep 2012 11:32 AM PDT
When the Dodge family bought a modest home in Clark County, Wash., a decade ago it was tucked away at the end of a quiet dead-end street. Now a highway ramp is yards from the family's backyard. "Come here. Stand in our yard," Melissa Dodge told the Columbian newspaper as cars whizzed off Highway 500 [...] Full Story 		Top

Man goes street surfing through flooded British town (VIDEO)
Thu,27 Sep 2012 10:32 AM PDT
In the age of ridesharing, people are always coming up with new ways of getting to work. But Ryan Hart tried a unique approach, when he hitched a surfboard to the back of a pickup truck and surfed through the streets of a flooded English town. 'There were four of us and we thought we'd [...] Full Story 		Top

Romney slams Obama on defense cuts
Thu,27 Sep 2012 10:08 AM PDT
SPRINGFIELD, Va.—For the third straight day, Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama campaigned in the same state, with Romney arguing before an audience of military veterans that potential cuts to the defense budget are "unthinkable and devastating." Speaking in the battleground state at an American Legion post outside Washington, D.C., Romney blamed Obama for planned [...] Full Story 		Top

Obama: NFL refs' return is 'great day for America'
Thu,27 Sep 2012 09:14 AM PDT
President Barack Obama warmly welcomed the breakthrough deal that will see the NFL's regular refs return to work. Their temporary replacements angered and baffled football fans coast-to-coast with controversial calls. Obama thinks "it's a great day for America," White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One, as the president headed to [...] Full Story 		Top

Boy Scouts promise to review suspected sex molester files
Thu,27 Sep 2012 09:13 AM PDT
Under mounting pressure to explain the past handling of sex abuse allegations, the Boy Scouts of America will now double-check 50 years of secret member records to see if they missed anything. "The first thing is that we make sure anything in those files that law enforcement needs to know, we tell them," Scouts spokesman [...] Full Story 		Top

Team Obama: Romney's 'Pinocchio' nose reaches from VA to OH
Thu,27 Sep 2012 08:59 AM PDT
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign mockingly suggested Thursday that Mitt Romney's campaign has been so dishonest that if the Republican were Pinocchio, "his nose would be reaching from Virginia to Ohio." Romney's campaign immediately shot back, using the Democrat's own observation that sometimes his ads go "overboard." Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki's comments came when [...] Full Story 		Top

Teen bitten by 'world's most venomous snake'
Thu,27 Sep 2012 08:16 AM PDT
A 17-year-old Australian boy is in serious condition after being bitten by what most reptile experts believe is the world's most venomous snake. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the boy was admitted to a hospital in the town of Kurri Kurri with a snakebite on his left hand. He was later transferred to Calvary [...] Full Story 		Top

Stingray photobomb goes viral
Thu,27 Sep 2012 06:57 AM PDT
A photo of three seemingly terrified women being greeted by a giant stingray is making the rounds online. The "photobomb," posted to Reddit.com on Wednesday, appears to show a man in the water behind the women lift the stingray onto their backs just as the photo was taken. Several commenters pointed out that the undated [...] Full Story 		Top

Obama: Time for 'new economic patriotism'
Thu,27 Sep 2012 06:35 AM PDT
Forty-one days before Election Day, President Barack Obama made what sounded a lot like his closing arguments for a second term in a new two-minute television ad in which he criticizes Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and calls for "a new economic patriotism." "If I could sit down with you, in your living room or [...] Full Story 		Top

Thursday in politics: Obama and Romney campaign in Virginia, and more
Thu,27 Sep 2012 03:36 AM PDT
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both campaigned in Ohio — a state where Obama is leading in the polls. Today, they're both campaigning in Virginia — another state where Obama has an edge in the polls. Obama will be in Virginia Beach, and Romney will be in Springfield, which is only a [...] Full Story 		Top

MS-13 and the Threat of Transnational Gangs
Wed,26 Sep 2012 07:58 PM PDT
El Salvador is a small country in Central America with the unfortunate distinction of a big number. It has one of the highest murder rates in the world, an average of 18 killings every day. That's in large part because of the country's ruthless street gangs. So when the two biggest rivals called a truce [...] Full Story 		Top


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