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Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson open to running for president again in 2016
Tue,2 Oct 2012 07:05 PM PDT
Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson would run for president again in four years if he's not elected in November, the candidate announced during a town hall meeting Tuesday night. "As long as I'm relevant, I will continue this through 2016," Johnson said during the meeting, which was simulcast live online. A former two-term governor of [...] Full Story | Top |
You can have the perfect cup of coffee for only $11,000
Tue,2 Oct 2012 05:16 PM PDT
Coffee drinkers sure are passionate about their coffee, as three engineering masterminds have proven with their newest $11,000 coffee maker, the Blossom One Limited. MIT graduate Jeremy Kuempel, former NASA intern Matt Walliser, and all-around industrial design expert Joey Roth … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Forest Service wins Paintball war with aggressive mountain goats
Tue,2 Oct 2012 04:11 PM PDT
The U.S. Forest Service has reopened a popular trail in the Olympic National Forest but not before it had to deploy Paintball guns in a war for dominance against several unruly mountain goats. The Associated Press reports that Forest Service employee Kurt Aluzas was tasked with "teaching" the goats to avoid humans after the animals [...] Full Story | Top |
Where is Jesse Jackson Jr.?
Tue,2 Oct 2012 03:42 PM PDT
His name is on the ballot. But Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. hasn't made a campaign appearance since the primary. The Democratic congressman from Chicago is running for re-election for his seat in the House of Representatives, but has been out of sight for the last three months, being treated for bipolar disorder. Campaign advisers told [...] Full Story | Top |
From Obama debate prep, with secrecy
Tue,2 Oct 2012 03:16 PM PDT
LAS VEGAS - President Barack Obama took a break Tuesday from secretive preparations for his debate with Mitt Romney to make an unannounced trip to the Hoover Dam. "It's spectacular and I've never seen it before," Obama said to journalists, according to pool reporter David Nakamura of the Washington Post. "I didn't realize it was [...] Full Story | Top |
84-year-old woman rescued after car crashes into ocean (VIDEO)
Tue,2 Oct 2012 02:58 PM PDT
An elderly woman escaped almost certain death after a group of strangers bravely dived into the ocean to save her after her car crashed into the water. The Portland Press Herald reports that 84-year-old Ursula Nixon lost control of her car, driving through two fences and submerging her blue Nissan into Maine's Portland Harbor. "It [...] Full Story | Top |
Sugar-based rechargeable battery is pretty sweet
Tue,2 Oct 2012 01:51 PM PDT
Japanese researchers have discovered a way to make rechargeable batteries more effective for less money by using the sucrose found in common sugar. Not only would this ideally make the latest battery-powered technology more accessible to more people, but the … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Aurora victims appeal for dialogue on gun violence in presidential debate
Tue,2 Oct 2012 01:43 PM PDT
Surviving victims of the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting are speaking out about gun violence in the hopes that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will do the same. Relatives of eight of the 12 people who died this past July during a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" have sent a letter to Wednesday [...] Full Story | Top |
Pilot fakes imminent plane crash before marriage proposal (VIDEO)
Tue,2 Oct 2012 01:15 PM PDT
A Chicago man took unusual marriage proposals to new heights when he faked an impending plane crash before asking his girlfriend to marry him. Commercial pilot Ryan Thompson took his girlfriend, Carlie Kennedy, for a ride in a small aircraft to view the Chicago skyline. What Kennedy didn't know was that Thompson had concocted an [...] Full Story | Top |
Warren, Brown debate reveals more friction to come in Massachusetts Senate race
Tue,2 Oct 2012 12:47 PM PDT
Both cheers and hisses filled the debate hall at the University of Massachusetts Lowell on Monday night, most loudly when Republican Sen. Scott Brown jabbed at Democratic challenger and Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren after she interrupted his answer about a jobs bill. "Excuse me, excuse me, I'm not a student in your classroom," Brown [...] Full Story | Top |
'Stoner dog' epidemic sees dramatic rise in number of hospitalized pets
Tue,2 Oct 2012 12:26 PM PDT
Colorado veterinarians have a message for medical marijuana users: Don't get your dog stoned. Marijuana is toxic in a dog's system, they say, and has even resulted in some canine deaths. "There are huge spikes in the frequency of marijuana ingestion in places where it's become legal," veterinarian Dr. Debbie Van Pelt told local CBS [...] Full Story | Top |
Super PACs' role during the debate: Call the other guy a liar
Tue,2 Oct 2012 12:03 PM PDT
Wednesday's presidential debate is one of those Big Moments—and not just for the candidates competing. The army of opposition researchers at American Bridge 21st Century, a Washington-based liberal super PAC, has prepared for more than a year for nights like this. Dozens of Democratic worker bees have combed through thousands of hours of video of [...] Full Story | Top |
Republicans press Clinton on Libyan security
Tue,2 Oct 2012 11:38 AM PDT
Top Republican lawmakers wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday saying they had information that U.S. diplomats requested increased security at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, ahead of the Sept. 11 attack, and that the requests were turned down by officials in Washington. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and [...] Full Story | Top |
O'Reilly's debate advice for Romney: 'Smack the president'
Tue,2 Oct 2012 11:04 AM PDT
Bill O'Reilly thinks Mitt Romney has to verbally "smack the president" during Wednesday's debate in Denver. "It's all on him," O'Reilly said on "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday. "All President Obama has to do is basically just be himself and not say anything, just repeat the same old thing. But Mitt Romney has to convince [...] Full Story | Top |
Apple: iPhone 5 defect "normal"
Tue,2 Oct 2012 11:00 AM PDT
For a device that's barely a week old, the Apple iPhone 5 sure has seen its share of controversies. Among the (arguably minor) issues experienced by the Apple faithful is a now-notorious purple haze artifact that appears when you try … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Can Ken Feinberg save the Aurora victims fund?
Tue,2 Oct 2012 10:45 AM PDT
AURORA, Colo.—Across the street from the shuttered Century 16 movie theater in the Denver suburb of Aurora is an empty patch of brown grass. Until recently, the space was filled with stuffed animals, flowers, balloons, candles and even replicas of gravestones on which people could write messages. They were placed there by local residents in [...] Full Story | Top |
Weather Channel's call to name winter storms spurs mixed reviews
Tue,2 Oct 2012 09:59 AM PDT
Move over, Snowmageddon, major winter storms to hit the U.S. will now have genuine given names like Nemo, Yogi and Zeus. So says The Weather Channel. Government agencies have officially named tropical storms and hurricanes for more than 60 years, but not winter storms in the United States. Tuesday morning, the cable television network devoted [...] Full Story | Top |
Dog takes a ride in car's grille
Tue,2 Oct 2012 09:51 AM PDT
A very unlucky dog was transported around 11 miles along a Massachusetts highway in the grille of a Toyota sedan without the driver knowing it. Fortunately, the pooch escaped with relatively minor injuries. According to the Taunton Daily Gazette, the driver of the car saw a white dog dart out in the middle of the [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama, Romney take fight over economy—to LinkedIn
Tue,2 Oct 2012 09:47 AM PDT
They've dueled on the airwaves, on Twitter and on Facebook, and now President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are taking their fight over the economy to an audience heavy with job seekers—the networking site LinkedIn. The Democratic incumbent and his Republican rival contributed brief posts on what they would do if elected [...] Full Story | Top |
Boehner: Romney's debate performance 'very important'
Tue,2 Oct 2012 09:30 AM PDT
NAPLES, Fla.—Pundits and party operatives from both sides of the aisle are publicly downplaying the importance of the upcoming presidential debates between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. But not House Speaker John Boehner. He sees the contests as crucial for the Republican challenger. Speaking at a small rally here in this Republican stronghold Tuesday, [...] Full Story | Top |
Man suspected in failed bank robbery goes on to rob again
Tue,2 Oct 2012 09:21 AM PDT
Authorities in Ohio are searching for a man suspected of robbing a bank on Monday, a day after he failed to rob a different one. On Sunday in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, police responded to a call from a bank where they say an unarmed man wearing a nylon stocking mask, blazer and Cleveland Browns baseball [...] Full Story | Top |
Kentucky restaurant shut down after roadkill found in kitchen
Tue,2 Oct 2012 09:02 AM PDT
Customers at the Red Flower Chinese Restaurant in Williamsburg, Ky., alerted authorities after they spotted something they probably wish they hadn't: restaurant employees wheeling roadkill back to the kitchen. Local CBS affiliate WYMT interviewed the witnesses. The roadkill was apparently a deer stuffed into a trash can. "There was actually a blood trail they were [...] Full Story | Top |
After Week 4, NFL still predicting a Romney victory
Tue,2 Oct 2012 08:56 AM PDT
According to our highly scientific 31 rules for using the NFL to predict the election, Mitt Romney now has a 69 percent chance of winning in November. Two weeks ago, I published a rule for every NFL franchise to compete with the Redskins Rule, which demonstrates a strong correlation between Washington's last home game before [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney won't deport immigrants who have Obama's deferred action status
Tue,2 Oct 2012 07:48 AM PDT
Mitt Romney told The Denver Post on Monday that if he's elected president, he will not cancel President Barack Obama's deferred action program for young illegal immigrants before instituting another immigration plan: "The people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is a two-year visa, should expect that [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney's garbage man stars in new attack ad (VIDEO)
Tue,2 Oct 2012 06:25 AM PDT
A labor union that supports President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has released an attack ad that features a sanitation worker collecting trash outside Mitt Romney's multimillion-dollar California mansion. "My name is Richard Hayes, and I pick up Mitt Romney's trash," the man says to the camera in the 60-second Web ad. "We're kind of like [...] Full Story | Top |
Tuesday in politics: Obama and Romney cramming for debate, and more
Tue,2 Oct 2012 03:26 AM PDT
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are scheduled to spend one more day of debate preparation Tuesday. Obama will be at a resort in Henderson, Nev., where he has been since Sunday, and Romney will do his homework in a Denver hotel. Romney said on Monday that the Wednesday debate is not about winning or [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney: Debates won't be about 'winning or losing'
Mon,1 Oct 2012 07:35 PM PDT
DENVER—Two days before his first face-off with President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney said on Monday that the presidential debate won't be about "winning or losing" but instead it will be a chance for the candidates to describe the "pathway" on which they'd like to take the country. "People want to know who's going to win, [...] Full Story | Top |
Ikea is going green in a bright new way
Mon,1 Oct 2012 06:20 PM PDT
Ikea has long been known for its easy-to-assemble modern furniture and its Swedish meatballs, but the company is also pushing to establish itself as a leader for green living. The company announced that it plans to sell only LED lights … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
How Chinese hackers broke into the White House
Mon,1 Oct 2012 04:38 PM PDT
When it comes to home security, few — if any — places in the world are safer than the White House. But, as it turns out, even the office and residence of the president of the United States of America … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Rare 'fire whirl' caught on film (VIDEO)
Mon,1 Oct 2012 04:36 PM PDT
A filmmaker has captures rare and exciting footage of "fire whirls" in the Australian outback. Chris Tangey was scouting locations in Australia, and his camera was ready when the whirl, or "fire devil," materialized. A fire whirl occurs when a vortex of flame is created. Put simply, it is basically a tornado made of flames. [...] Full Story | Top |
Interactive storefront lets you redefine window shopping
Mon,1 Oct 2012 04:33 PM PDT
Window shopping has just been redefined by Adidas with the rollout of its new interactive storefront window. The window is a fully functional touchscreen that lets you drag life-size products directly to your smartphone, which acts as a shopping cart. … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Obama: Debate prep is 'a drag'
Mon,1 Oct 2012 04:07 PM PDT
President Barack Obama, holed up at a swank Las Vegas-area resort to get ready for his first debate with Mitt Romney, jokingly told a volunteer on Monday that debate prep can be "a drag." Obama popped in his campaign's field office in Henderson, Nev., to give staff there a pep talk and phone a few [...] Full Story | Top |
Czech president shot by air-gun-wielding assailant (VIDEO)
Mon,1 Oct 2012 02:32 PM PDT
In an eerie scene captured on video, Czech President Vaclav Klaus is approached by an armed assailant and shot in the arm. However, the attacker, who was dressed in camouflage, was carrying an "airsoft" gun that fires only harmless, plastic shells. Airsoft guns are replicas of actual firearms, bearing a striking similarity to the real [...] Full Story | Top |
The story behind the stingray photobomb
Mon,1 Oct 2012 01:47 PM PDT
An image of three seemingly terrified women being "photobombed" by a man with a giant stingray went viral last week after it was posted online, catching the women in it by surprise. "Our phones just started going off," Kendall Harlan, one of the women, told Yahoo News. "Friends were texting us [things] like, 'Did you [...] Full Story | Top |
NYC gym teacher claims 6-year-old student beat him up
Mon,1 Oct 2012 12:53 PM PDT
At 5-foot-10 and 220 pounds, gym teacher John Webster is not a slight figure. But the former college football player claims a 50-pound, 6-year-old student physically assaulted him and sent him into therapy. The New York Post reports that Webster fractured his ankle and injured his knee, all at the hands of 4-foot-2 Rodrigo Carpio. [...] Full Story | Top |
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