Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News:
- Debt interactive: Countdown to the default deadline
- Korean scientists create glow in the dark beagle with an off switch
- College students would give up sex to trade textbooks for ebooks
- Yahoo!, communities across U.S. to honor 9/11 anniversary with moments of silence
- LAST TICKET: Palin back to Iowa; Sharron Angle doesn't like being called a hobbit
- Libyan rebel commander shot dead at opposition HQ
- Lacking votes, House Republicans postpone debt ceiling vote
- East Africa famine: How to help
- London police say mother of another murdered girl may have been targeted by News of the World
- Study says college doesn't help career prospects of unauthorized immigrants
- Rolling house gives new meaning to the term mobile home
- U.K. police arrest top member of LulzSec, or did they?
- George Pataki thinks only George Pataki can beat Obama in 2012
- Despite 20 million users, Google+ traffic already a minus
- Mitt Romney isn't the GOP presidential nominee, but he's campaigning like he is
- Atheist group sues over proposed cross at 9/11 memorial
- Iraq vet accused of faking parts of best-selling memoir
- AcousticLink brings old-fashioned instruments into the digital age
- Marcus Bachmann's reimbursements questioned as focus centers on potential First Husband
- U.S. accuses Iran of "secret deal" with al Qaeda financier cell
- White House press secretary Jay Carney lashes out at Fox News' Ed Henry at press briefing
- Alex Trebek the Hero, Celebs Unite to Help A Family, and a Presidential Prank on Twitter
- Conservative groups unswayed by new details of Boehner's debt plan
- Judge in phone hacking case warns inquiry could take more than a year, dismisses critics
- As journalist who lost legs in Afghanistan gets back to work, another killed amid Taliban attacks
- Five keys to debt deal compromise
- Could debt-ceiling stalemate cause another hit for housing?
- How did the medieval Knights Templar influence Norway gunman?
- Chris Christie taken to hospital after difficulty breathing
- Teacher suspended for blog rant will return to classroom
- Tim Gunn mocks Hillary Clinton's pantsuits
- Rep. Joe Walsh sued for $100,000 in child support
- Nintendo slashes 3DS price from $249 to $169, offers freebies to current owners
- Alex Trebek puts himself in jeopardy chasing burglar, sustains injury
- Rick Perry downplays default fears, calling debate 'political theater'
- News of the World: new Pakistani Foreign Minister woos India
- FBI powerpoint taught agents that Islam 'transforms' culture to 7th-century
- Herman Cain apologizes for comments about Muslims
- FIRST CUTS: The meaning of Al Sharpton's possible cable news stint; Layoffs hit L.A. Times
- FIRST LOOK: Lawyer says maid wasn't after DSK's money
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Debt interactive: Countdown to the default deadline
Thu,28 Jul 2011 08:06 PM PDT
The Newsroom - In the past decade, Congress has raised the debt limit 10 times to accommodate the nation's growing spending. Now once again, America is close to hitting that ceiling, and lawmakers must quickly come up with a debt reduction plan to avoid a federal government default by August 2. Full Story | Top |
Libyan rebel commander shot dead at opposition HQ
Thu,28 Jul 2011 03:17 PM PDT
The Envoy - The Libyan rebels' top military commander was assassinated at a hotel that serves as opposition headquarters in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi today. Abdel Fattah Younes, 67, a former Muammar Gadhafi loyalist and onetime Libyan interior minister who had switched sides early in the uprising, was shot dead, along with two aides, in an [...] Full Story | Top |
Lacking votes, House Republicans postpone debt ceiling vote
Thu,28 Jul 2011 03:04 PM PDT
The Ticket - Just moments before a scheduled vote on House Speaker John Boehner's plan to raise the debt limit, GOP leaders pulled the bill from the floor and postponed the vote. House Republican leaders spent the week lobbying the GOP caucus to support the measure, which would raise the debt ceiling by about $900 billion and reduce [...] Full Story | Top |
East Africa famine: How to help
Thu,28 Jul 2011 02:39 PM PDT
The Newsroom - Tens of thousands of starving Somalis have flooded Mogadishu refugee camps in search of food as the nation fights the region's worst drought in 60 years and ruling militants who are blocking aid from western countries. Full Story | Top |
Study says college doesn't help career prospects of unauthorized immigrants
Thu,28 Jul 2011 01:46 PM PDT
The Lookout - A new study out of the University of Chicago has found that illegal immigrants who attend college find their career paths obstructed by their immigration status and end up with the same kinds of jobs available to their parents. California Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed into law a state-level Dream Act to allow illegal immigrants [...] Full Story | Top |
George Pataki thinks only George Pataki can beat Obama in 2012
Thu,28 Jul 2011 01:00 PM PDT
The Ticket - Former New York Gov. George Pataki said Thursday he's not sure if any of the current field of GOP presidential hopefuls can beat President Obama in 2012. But according to New Hampshire's WMUR-TV, Pataki suggested he knows someone who might be able to win back the White House for the GOP. That person, he said, [...] Full Story | Top |
Despite 20 million users, Google+ traffic already a minus
Thu,28 Jul 2011 11:45 AM PDT
The Cutline - Google's latest stab at social media, Google+, is officially a month old. And while the search giant has been able to coax more than 20 million users to register, some detractors are pointing to initial traffic figures that appear to show visits to the service's website have already peaked. According to estimates released by Experian [...] Full Story | Top |
Mitt Romney isn't the GOP presidential nominee, but he's campaigning like he is
Thu,28 Jul 2011 11:33 AM PDT
The Ticket - The 2012 GOP presidential primary has grown more contentious in recent weeks. Among other things, Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santorum have questioned Michele Bachmann's legislative experience. Bachmann has suggested Pawlenty is as liberal as President Obama. Santorum has trashed Jon Huntsman for not being a true social conservative. And they all have taken aim at [...] Full Story | Top |
Atheist group sues over proposed cross at 9/11 memorial
Thu,28 Jul 2011 11:09 AM PDT
The Lookout - The group American Atheists and four New Yorkers are suing the states of New York and New Jersey for planning to place a cross--a piece of debris from the World Trade Center--at the 9-11 memorial for the attacks' victims. The planned memorial--which will at long last be unveiled this September--has received millions in federal money. [...] Full Story | Top |
Iraq vet accused of faking parts of best-selling memoir
Thu,28 Jul 2011 10:53 AM PDT
The Cutline - An AP investigation has revealed that a prominent Iraq veteran and activist may have fabricated portions of his best-selling account of his road to recovery from the injuries and PTSD he sustained while at war. The decorated former Army captain, Luis Carlos Montalvan, became an advocate for fellow injured veterans four years ago. He's aired [...] Full Story | Top |
Marcus Bachmann's reimbursements questioned as focus centers on potential First Husband
Thu,28 Jul 2011 10:37 AM PDT
The Ticket - Michele Bachmann may have the full attention of GOP primary voters, but her husband, Marcus Bachmann, keeps on making news. A story by Daily Caller reporter Matt Lewis on Marcus Bachmann's campaign reimbursements is the latest signal of increased focus on Michele Bachmann's spouse. Lewis suggests the congresswoman may have violated election law by reimbursing [...] Full Story | Top |
U.S. accuses Iran of "secret deal" with al Qaeda financier cell
Thu,28 Jul 2011 10:30 AM PDT
The Envoy - The U.S. Treasury Department today announced that it has designated as terrorists six members of an al Qaeda network whose head operates in Iran. This action marks the first time the U.S. government has so explicitly accused Iranian authorities of collaborating with an al Qaeda cell, which it alleged serves as a financial pipeline between [...] Full Story | Top |
White House press secretary Jay Carney lashes out at Fox News' Ed Henry at press briefing
Thu,28 Jul 2011 10:14 AM PDT
The Cutline - In a scene that underscored the Obama administration's icy, often contentious relationship with Fox News, White House press secretary Jay Carney lashed out at the cable channel's brand-new chief White House correspondent Ed Henry during Wednesday's press briefing. Henry, on his third official day with Fox News since jumping from CNN, pressed Carney on the [...] Full Story | Top |
Conservative groups unswayed by new details of Boehner's debt plan
Thu,28 Jul 2011 09:28 AM PDT
The Ticket - In anticipation of tonight's House vote and struggling to unite a fractured caucus, House Speaker John Boehner revamped his debt ceiling plan to include even more cuts. While that may suffice for some of the GOP's most conservative lawmakers, it hasn't swayed several influential grassroots organizations that have threatened to go after House members who [...] Full Story | Top |
Judge in phone hacking case warns inquiry could take more than a year, dismisses critics
Thu,28 Jul 2011 09:21 AM PDT
The Cutline - The British judge overseeing an inquiry into News International's phone hacking scandal has warned that the widening investigation could take up to a year or more. Lord Justice Leveson, who was appointed by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron to lead the independent investigation, held the first formal meeting with investigators in London on Thursday. In his [...] Full Story | Top |
Five keys to debt deal compromise
Thu,28 Jul 2011 09:17 AM PDT
Exclusives - By Major Garrett National Journal At times like this, it's tempting to recall the 1987 movie No Way Out and a deliciously biting Beltway line from that movie. It's when a beautiful but cynical Washington party girl, Susan Atwell (played … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
How did the medieval Knights Templar influence Norway gunman?
Thu,28 Jul 2011 09:13 AM PDT
The Lookout - In his 1,500-page manifesto, confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik claimed allegiance to a resurrected version of the Knights Templar, a medieval formation of Christian soldiers who waged brutal battle against Islam for control of the Holy Land and its relics. Breivik also wrote favorably of the mentorship of a British man known as [...] Full Story | Top |
Chris Christie taken to hospital after difficulty breathing
Thu,28 Jul 2011 09:11 AM PDT
The Ticket - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was taken to the hospital Thursday morning after he had trouble breathing. In a statement released by Christie's office, a spokesman says the governor, who suffers from asthma, was taken to Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, N.J., "out of an abundance of caution." "In line with someone dealing with asthma, [...] Full Story | Top |
Teacher suspended for blog rant will return to classroom
Thu,28 Jul 2011 08:55 AM PDT
The Lookout - The Pennsylvania high school teacher who made national news in February, when students and parents discovered her personal blog rant that some of her pupils were "rat-like," lazy and disrespectful, will be back in the classroom this fall. Reporter Christina Kristofic writes that Natalie Munroe will remain a teacher in the same high school, Central [...] Full Story | Top |
Tim Gunn mocks Hillary Clinton's pantsuits
Thu,28 Jul 2011 08:47 AM PDT
The Envoy - The Twitterverse was abuzz at the undiplomatic critique leveled this week at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's pantsuits-favoring fashion sense by style expert Tim Gunn. "Why must she dress that way?" Gunn lamented, in an appearance on TBS' "Lopez Tonight" Tuesday, after host George Lopez asked for Gunn's judgment on the style of various U.S. [...] Full Story | Top |
Rep. Joe Walsh sued for $100,000 in child support
Thu,28 Jul 2011 08:13 AM PDT
The Ticket - The ex-wife of Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) is suing the lawmaker for $117,437 in child support back payments and interest, the Chicago Sun-Times reported late Wednesday, creating a potential headache for the tea party freshman as he seeks re-election in 2012. Walsh's ex-wife, Laura Walsh, said she was surprised to discover the candidate had loaned [...] Full Story | Top |
Alex Trebek puts himself in jeopardy chasing burglar, sustains injury
Thu,28 Jul 2011 07:37 AM PDT
The Cutline - "Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek put himself in some, uh, peril this week, chasing an apparent burglar from his hotel room in San Francisco, and tearing his Achilles tendon in the process. "I'm going to start today with an answer to a question that I suspect is on many of your minds right now," Trebek, on [...] Full Story | Top |
Rick Perry downplays default fears, calling debate 'political theater'
Thu,28 Jul 2011 07:15 AM PDT
The Ticket - Rick Perry downplayed the ongoing debt debate in Washington, suggesting in a news conference Wednesday that a failure to raise the debt ceiling won't trigger the economic catastrophe lawmakers in Washington have suggested. "There's still gonna be revenues flowing in, so I think this threat that somehow or another the world is going to come [...] Full Story | Top |
News of the World: new Pakistani Foreign Minister woos India
Thu,28 Jul 2011 06:58 AM PDT
The Envoy - • India falls in love with Pakistan's first female foreign minister. (The Independent) • An in-depth report probes whether the 9/11 attacks had state support from Saudi Arabia. (Vanity Fair) • Bipartisan working group calls on Egypt military leaders to allow international monitors for elections. (Working Group on Egypt) • U.S. law is preventing aid [...] Full Story | Top |
FBI powerpoint taught agents that Islam 'transforms' culture to 7th-century
Thu,28 Jul 2011 06:25 AM PDT
The Lookout - Wired's Spencer Ackerman obtained a copy of an FBI training powerpoint on the Middle East, which taught agents that the "Arabic mind" is "swayed more by words than ideas and more by ideas than facts." The powerpoint also said that Islam "transforms [a] country's culture into 7th-century Arabian ways." Muslim civil rights leaders told Ackerman [...] Full Story | Top |
Herman Cain apologizes for comments about Muslims
Thu,28 Jul 2011 06:03 AM PDT
The Ticket - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain met with a Virginia-based Muslim group Wednesday and apologized for his recent controversial comments about the faith, including the suggestion that local governments could bar Muslims from building a place of worship. "While I stand by my opposition to the interference of shariah law into the American legal system, I [...] Full Story | Top |
FIRST CUTS: The meaning of Al Sharpton's possible cable news stint; Layoffs hit L.A. Times
Thu,28 Jul 2011 06:01 AM PDT
The Cutline - Our list of stories that should be on your morning media menu: • "The possible transition for [Al] Sharpton--from political influencer to television talent--highlights the complex relationships that can arise when cable news channels employ activists who take sides instead of journalists who don't," writes Brian Stelter. (New York Times) • "James O'Keefe's greatest hits." [...] Full Story | Top |
FIRST LOOK: Lawyer says maid wasn't after DSK's money
Thu,28 Jul 2011 05:36 AM PDT
The Lookout - Welcome to First Look, our daily roundup of early-bird news: • Authorities worry about the rise of the lone-wolf terrorist. (Time) • Decaying roads and bridges are costing the country billions each year, a report says. (Washington Post) • Two Hawaii farmers are accused of trapping 30 Thai men into forced labor in a fake guest worker program. [...] Full Story | Top |
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