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Weather Channel interns batten down the hatches for tornado week 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 04:04 PM PDT
The Weather Channel (TWC) is showing its sense of humor. In honor of Tornado Week, the 24/7 weather service has launched a tweet-powered tornado inside its office. Via weather.com: Our Weather Channel interns got so excited about Tornado Week they wanted to recreate a Twitter powered Tornado in our office - so we did, and [...]
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Rand Paul to endorse Mark Sanford 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 03:11 PM PDT
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul plans to endorse Republican nominee Mark Sanford ahead of a special election to fill the first district House seat in South Carolina, Yahoo News has confirmed. Paul's decision to endorse Sanford comes after national Republicans all but abandoned the former South Carolina governor after his ex-wife accused him of "trespassing" [...]
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Inmates posting reviews of prisons on Yelp 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 02:29 PM PDT
"Not recommended." When it comes to a firsthand prison review, do you really need to know anything other than that? Believe it or not, that was the actual review from a Yelp user named "Ticha B.," who reviewed California's San Quentin State Prison. And for the record, she gave it only one star. And as [...]
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World leaders love Twitter 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 02:18 PM PDT
It's not just celebrities who love Twitter: South American leaders, it turns out, heart to tweet. Some may even have gone overboard and may have over shared. A Reuters story reports that when some 1 million protesters hit the streets to criticize the government of Argentina President Cristina Fernandez, she responded by posting 61 tweets [...]
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Obama phones Jason Collins to express support 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 02:15 PM PDT
President Barack Obama telephoned NBA veteran Jason Collins on Monday, hours after the journeyman center became the first openly gay male athlete playing in a major professional team sport. "The president called Jason Collins to express his support and said he was impressed by his courage," a White House official said. First lady Michelle Obama [...]
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Man ordered to install septic system, insists his outhouse is just fine 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 01:51 PM PDT
A Pennsylvania man, who says his outhouse works just fine, is being ordered to install a septic system. The man told Lancaster Online that the septic system could cost him thousands. The man, 77-year-old Wilson Huyett, told the website that Salisbury Township told him he has to replace the outhouse with a septic system that [...]
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McConnell pulls an ‘Eastwood’ at a Kentucky bar 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 01:29 PM PDT
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is ready to take President Barack Obama up on that drink. Unfortunately, he's nowhere near the president. The Kentucky Republican posted a picture of himself Monday at a Kentucky bar, nestling a glass of beer next to an empty chair and a glass of wine, both presumably meant for Obama. [...]
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Obama meets 7-year-old cancer patient, YouTube star Jack Hoffman 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 01:11 PM PDT
Jack Hoffman, a 7-year-old whose 69-yard touchdown at a University of Nebraska-Lincoln football game exploded on the Internet, found himself in the Oval Office Monday. The Atkinson, Neb., star, who is battling brain cancer, met President Barack Obama and received a signed football from the president, according to the caption on a photo of their [...]
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Anti-abortion movement seeks new laws with Gosnell trial 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 01:10 PM PDT
Anti-abortion activists are harnessing the outrage generated over the trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor to pressure lawmakers to pass more restrictive abortion laws. The activists say the trial of 72-year-old Kermit Gosnell, which concludes Monday as attorneys on both sides make their closing arguments, shows that late-term abortions are inhumane and unsafe and should [...]
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White House to set president’s election commission in motion next month 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 12:52 PM PDT
We know little about President Barack Obama's new Commission on Election Administration except for its structure, as outlined in the executive order that explains its task is to improve voting in America, and the names of its two appointed co-chairs: Obama's former counsel Bob Bauer and Republican attorney Ben Ginsberg, who worked for Mitt Romney. [...]
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Daredevil dies while attempting to zip-line river using ponytail 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 11:01 AM PDT
Sailendra Nath Roy, a 48-year-old daredevil and Guinness World Record holder, died while attempting to zip-line over the Teesta River in West Bengal, India, while hanging from his ponytail. The BBC reports that a large crowd had gathered to watch Roy zip-line 600 feet, which would have broken his own record. But Roy made it [...]
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Man makes living by searching subway grates for lost treasure 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 09:59 AM PDT
One person's lost iPhone is another man's income. A story in the New York Post follows Eliel Santos on his hunt for cash, jewelry and technology—all dropped and probably assumed gone forever down the subway grates. Santos has been snagging subway loot for the past eight years. He uses dental floss, mousetrap glue—and a sharp [...]
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Karzai’s ‘ghost money’—he warned us in 2008 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 09:17 AM PDT
Word that the CIA gave Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office tens of millions of dollars in cash over a decade is a weird blend of shocking and entirely unsurprising. After all, when it comes to dollars, Karzai made his goals pretty clear as far back as December 2008. The New York Times reported Monday that [...]
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Cool: Ice needles on a beach in Minnesota 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 07:55 AM PDT
Springtime in Minnesota: the sun, the beach, the ice. Wait, what? Despite temperatures climbing to almost 80 degrees on Sunday, beachgoers to a lake in eastern Minnesota saw spiky mounds of ice in almost volcanic-looking formations along the edge of the beach. According to a local weather reporter on KARE, the ice needles formed when [...]
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Game changer: Maj. Gen. Abrams on the “homegrown” rejection of Taliban in Afghanistan 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 04:16 AM PDT
On the Radar Maj. Gen. Robert B. Abrams, the top U.S. and NATO commander in southern Afghanistan, is confident the country won't fall back into the grips of the Taliban and other extremists when international forces pull out in two years—pointing to what he calls a "homegrown" rejection of the Taliban and the readiness of [...]
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Monday in politics: Obama expected to nominate Charlotte mayor to run Transportation, and more 
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 02:51 AM PDT
President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx as his new Transportation Secretary, a White House official says. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)President Barack Obama will nominate Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx to run the Transportation Department, the Associated Press reports. Foxx will be the first black nominee among Obama's picks for second-term Cabinet spots. Also worth noting on Monday: • Obama will speak at the National Academy of Sciences annual meeting. • Republican former Gov. Mark [...]
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