Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News:
- Tecca TV: TechLife on underwater art, Star Wars currency, healing through social media, and more
- Where did webOS go wrong?
- LAST TICKET: Punk rockers for Ron Paul; Palin releases new Iowa video
- Perry walks back his book's rhetoric on Social Security
- As Libyan rebels advance, hundreds seek to flee Tripoli
- Just Show Me: How to register a friend code on the Nintendo Wii
- Paul distances himself from ad seeking dirt on Perry's personal life
- Apple investigates New York iRipoffs, goes on the offensive
- NYC organization struggles to preserve 'Tribute in Light' memorial
- Chicago police must pay 330k for killing dog in home raid
- How unusual is President Obama's vacation at Martha's Vineyard?
- Bill Clinton: poster child for plant-based diet
- O'Donnell says she felt sexually harassed by CNN host
- 'West Memphis Three' freed after 18 years
- Nivea pulls 'offensive' ad
- Stay put, young man: fewer Americans are moving to new places than any time since the Great Depression
- Nikki Haley doesn't want to be VP
- Former President Bill Clinton celebrates his 65th birthday
- Israel blames Gaza-based Palestinian terrorist group for coordinated attacks
- Palin tells the tea party to lay off Orrin Hatch
- Which NYC prison is nicest? Check Yelp
- Australian soldiers to tap into solar power on the field
- Woman tweets comment about restaurant employee, gets thrown out
- How Yahoo! Sports broke the Univ. of Miami college football story
- Lesbian Bride Rejected By Bridal Salon, Celebrity Sends Warning Tweet Before Stage Collapse, and Social Media Dominates Dictionary Additions
- Former News of the World P.I. ordered to give up names of people who ordered phone-hacking
- Barbour reportedly advising Perry on 2012 bid
- Education secretary pressed to explain Texas snub
- Feingold eschews Senate comeback, gubernatorial bid in Wisconsin
- Bank of America to lay off thousands–and struck by lightning
- Seven ways Rick Perry wants to change the Constitution
- FIRST CUTS: WSJ phone-hack op-ed, take two? New York Press R.I.P.
- FIRST LOOK: Markets slide for second straight day
- Holograms replace airline workers in Paris, are more patient than the real thing
- HP declares the discontinuation of webOS, remains mum on details
- American girl in Italy: 60 years later
- Foreign students walk off Hershey's factory job in protest
- Jon Stewart was right: Reporters are ignoring Ron Paul, analysis finds
- LAST TICKET: Huntsman gets the Vogue treatment; Bachmann wants to be your 'hombre-ette'
- Foreign tongue
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Where did webOS go wrong?
Fri,19 Aug 2011 04:57 PM PDT
Technology News Blog - When the Palm Pre smartphone first introduced us to the webOS operating system in June of 2009, many felt that it had a bright future ahead of it. Apple's iPhone was selling hand over fist, and Google's Android platform was just getting … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
LAST TICKET: Punk rockers for Ron Paul; Palin releases new Iowa video
Fri,19 Aug 2011 02:39 PM PDT
The Ticket - Here are the stories we took note of today but didn't give the full blog treatment: • A punk rock band made an anthem for Ron Paul. (TPM) • Former Reagan administration Treasury official Bruce Bartlett calls Rick Perry "an idiot." (CNN) • Sarah Palin releases a new campaign ad video about her trip to [...] Full Story | Top |
Perry walks back his book's rhetoric on Social Security
Fri,19 Aug 2011 02:11 PM PDT
The Ticket - Texas Gov. Rick Perry sets plenty of restrictions on the proper role of the federal government in his book, "Fed Up!," but now it seems the Republican presidential candidate may not hold himself to some of the ideals he put forward in his 2010 brief for states' rights. Faced with questions about Perry's views on [...] Full Story | Top |
As Libyan rebels advance, hundreds seek to flee Tripoli
Fri,19 Aug 2011 02:01 PM PDT
The Envoy - Libyan rebels continued to make advances on the ground Friday--prompting international officials to offer help in evacuating thousands of foreign migrant workers seeking to leave the capital city of Tripoli, the stronghold for Muammer Gadhafi and his loyalists. As rebel forces have cut off supply channels, the city faces mounting food, fuel and power shortages. [...] Full Story | Top |
Paul distances himself from ad seeking dirt on Perry's personal life
Fri,19 Aug 2011 01:22 PM PDT
The Ticket - Ron Paul insisted Friday he has nothing to do with an ad published in an Austin newspaper this week by one of his supporters that seeks dirt on Rick Perry's sex life. In an interview with Fox News, the Texas congressman insisted he hadn't heard about the ad and suggested it was "silly" that he [...] Full Story | Top |
NYC organization struggles to preserve 'Tribute in Light' memorial
Fri,19 Aug 2011 01:07 PM PDT
The Upshot - Six months after the World Trade Center attacks, as shell-shocked New Yorkers struggled to redefine the city and accept the new skyline, something beautiful appeared in the night sky. Two identical ghostly blue lights shot straight up from Ground Zero, right where the mammoth illuminated towers had once stood. It was chilling, it was touching, [...] Full Story | Top |
Chicago police must pay 330k for killing dog in home raid
Fri,19 Aug 2011 01:01 PM PDT
The Lookout - A federal jury says Chicago law enforcement must pay $330,000 to a family after officers shot their dog during a home raid that turned up no illegal activity. Thomas Russell, then 18, opened the door to his home in February 2009 to find police officers with their guns drawn. He asked if he could lock [...] Full Story | Top |
How unusual is President Obama's vacation at Martha's Vineyard?
Fri,19 Aug 2011 01:01 PM PDT
The Ticket - President Obama arrived in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Thursday for a family vacation that is sparking a small amount of controversy because of the president's choice to spend 10 days on the tony New England island amid a major economic crisis. Last night, Sarah Palin labeled the president's decision "very, very tone deaf" during an appearance [...] Full Story | Top |
Bill Clinton: poster child for plant-based diet
Fri,19 Aug 2011 12:56 PM PDT
The Lookout - Bill Clinton, once famous for his larger-than-life appetite, is now the poster child for a vegan lifestyle. Back in the 1990s, the former president was known--and even mocked--for his fast-food cravings. In a "Saturday Night Live" skit, the late Phil Hartman, playing Clinton, is shown jogging three blocks to McDonald's to mix it up with [...] Full Story | Top |
O'Donnell says she felt sexually harassed by CNN host
Fri,19 Aug 2011 12:14 PM PDT
The Ticket - Former Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is back in the news after she walked off in the middle of an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan where she was discussing her new book, an exchange she now says felt like "harassment." O'Donnell ended the interview abruptly when Morgan asked her about gay marriage, but it [...] Full Story | Top |
'West Memphis Three' freed after 18 years
Fri,19 Aug 2011 12:07 PM PDT
The Lookout - Three Arkansas men, who served 18 years in prison for the brutal murder of three boys, are going home. "I'm just tired," Jesse Misskelley Jr. told reporters. "This has been going on for 18 years. It's been an absolute living hell." The release of the "West Memphis Three" came after a complex and confusing plea [...] Full Story | Top |
Nivea pulls 'offensive' ad
Fri,19 Aug 2011 11:52 AM PDT
The Lookout - Companies like to push the envelope with their ads. Sometimes the gamble works, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes, like in the case of a new advertising campaign from Nivea, the whole thing turns into a fiasco. Nivea, a company that specializes in skin-care products, recently released a print ad that it has since pulled. How [...] Full Story | Top |
Nikki Haley doesn't want to be VP
Fri,19 Aug 2011 11:35 AM PDT
The Ticket - Nikki Haley has been frequently mentioned as a possible running mate for the eventual 2012 Republican nominee, but the South Carolina governor says she wouldn't accept the job if asked. In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Haley said the party needs someone with a more extensive resume than she possesses. "I've been in this [...] Full Story | Top |
Former President Bill Clinton celebrates his 65th birthday
Fri,19 Aug 2011 10:33 AM PDT
The Newsroom - Bill Clinton sure knows how to ring in another year. The former president, who turns 65 today, will be celebrating his birthday with a special concert at the Hollywood Bowl on October 15. His spokespeople told Yahoo! News, the charity … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Israel blames Gaza-based Palestinian terrorist group for coordinated attacks
Fri,19 Aug 2011 10:28 AM PDT
The Envoy - Israel is still reeling from Thursday's series of terrorist attacks that killed eight Israeli citizens and wounded 30 more near the Jewish state's southern border with Egypt. And beyond the immediate shock of the attacks, analysts are also concerned about the potential for violence to escalate. Israel blamed the attacks on a shadowy Palestinian terrorist [...] Full Story | Top |
Palin tells the tea party to lay off Orrin Hatch
Fri,19 Aug 2011 09:58 AM PDT
The Ticket - Sarah Palin defended Orrin Hatch, the Republican senator from Utah, Thursday evening, and said that the tea party should stop criticizing him. "He is doing good in terms of trying to get a balanced budget and he has been for the last couple of decades," the former Alaska governor told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren. [...] Full Story | Top |
Which NYC prison is nicest? Check Yelp
Fri,19 Aug 2011 09:56 AM PDT
The Lookout - New Yorkers have long prided themselves on their discerning taste. And now a few of them are taking to the internet to share their opinions on the city's prison system. The online reviews site Yelp--more commonly a place to find out what users think of local bars and restaurants--has become an outlet for critical evaluations of [...] Full Story | Top |
How Yahoo! Sports broke the Univ. of Miami college football story
Fri,19 Aug 2011 09:10 AM PDT
The Cutline - Even if you're not a sports fan, you've probably heard the explosive news this week that Nevin Shapiro, the University of Miami booster jailed for his role in a $930 million Ponzi scheme, told Yahoo! Sports he provided millions of dollars in impermissible benefits to at least 72 of the school's athletes from 2002 through [...] Full Story | Top |
Barbour reportedly advising Perry on 2012 bid
Fri,19 Aug 2011 08:15 AM PDT
The Ticket - Haley Barbour has been cagey about when or who he might endorse in the 2012 Republican presidential primary, but there are hints he may be leaning toward Rick Perry. A Republican source tells Roll Call's David M. Drucker the Mississippi governor has been privately advising Perry on his 2012 bid, revealing the two have been [...] Full Story | Top |
Education secretary pressed to explain Texas snub
Fri,19 Aug 2011 08:15 AM PDT
The Lookout - Education Secretary Arne Duncan is standing by his comment that he said he feels "very, very badly" for Texas schoolchildren. Time's Andrew Rotherham, an education reformer who used to work in the Clinton administration, pressed Duncan on why he would criticize Texas' education record. The state is in the middle of the pack on a [...] Full Story | Top |
Feingold eschews Senate comeback, gubernatorial bid in Wisconsin
Fri,19 Aug 2011 07:17 AM PDT
The Ticket - Former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold dashed Democratic hopes Friday with an announcement he will not run for Senate or in a gubernatorial recall race in 2012. "After twenty-eight continuous years as an elected official ... I have found the past eight months to be an opportunity to look at things from a different perspective," Feingold [...] Full Story | Top |
Bank of America to lay off thousands–and struck by lightning
Fri,19 Aug 2011 06:46 AM PDT
The Lookout - Thousands more people are set to be thrown out of work by one of the banks that played a key role in the mortgage mess. Bank of America is going to shed 3,500 jobs, the Wall Street Journal reports. And as part of a broader restructuring, it could cut another 10,000 or more--around 3.5 percent [...] Full Story | Top |
Seven ways Rick Perry wants to change the Constitution
Fri,19 Aug 2011 06:16 AM PDT
The Ticket - Rick Perry has many ideas about how to change the American government's founding document. From ending lifetime tenure for federal judges to completely scrapping two whole amendments, the Constitution would see a major overhaul if the Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate had his druthers. Perry laid out these proposed innovations to the founding document [...] Full Story | Top |
FIRST CUTS: WSJ phone-hack op-ed, take two? New York Press R.I.P.
Fri,19 Aug 2011 06:08 AM PDT
The Cutline - Our list of stories that should be on your morning media menu: • Jack Shafer asks whether the Wall Street Journal will "examine it and reconsider its July 18 editorial" defending News Corp. in the midst of the phone-hacking scandal. (Slate) • A judge has dismissed claims that Bloomberg L.P. discriminated against pregnant women. (New [...] Full Story | Top |
FIRST LOOK: Markets slide for second straight day
Fri,19 Aug 2011 05:39 AM PDT
The Lookout - Welcome to First Look, our daily roundup of early-bird news: • European markets weathered a second straight day of brutal losses after Thursday's worldwide rout, amid fears over debt and economic troubles on the continent and in the United States. (The New York Times) • With markets in turmoil, Vice President Biden sought to assure [...] Full Story | Top |
American girl in Italy: 60 years later
Thu,18 Aug 2011 03:10 PM PDT
The Lookout - A stunning young woman walks down a street in Florence, her head held high. All around, men playfully gawk at her grace and beauty. Just then the camera shutter snaps. "American Girl in Italy" is among the most popular snapshots of all time, and it's turning 60 years old this month. The photo, which was [...] Full Story | Top |
Foreign students walk off Hershey's factory job in protest
Thu,18 Aug 2011 02:43 PM PDT
The Lookout - Hundreds of foreign students on a State Department cultural exchange visa program walked off their factory jobs in protest on Wednesday. The J-1 visa program brings foreign students to the country to work for two months and learn English, and was designed in part to fill seasonal tourism jobs at resorts and seaside towns. The [...] Full Story | Top |
Jon Stewart was right: Reporters are ignoring Ron Paul, analysis finds
Thu,18 Aug 2011 02:04 PM PDT
The Cutline - As we reported on Tuesday, the Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has been getting limited coverage from the news media, despite his second-place finish in last weekend's Iowa straw poll. Now there's some actual data to back that perception up. As our colleague Chris Moody points out, an analysis by the PEW Research Center's Project [...] Full Story | Top |
Foreign tongue
Thu,18 Aug 2011 01:59 PM PDT
The Newsroom - Ever heard of a frenectomy? And no, it's not a procedure to remove your Facebook friends. Or enemies. It's a surgical procedure to lengthen your tongue by cutting ... OK, you probably don't want to know the details, but a … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
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