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| Woman says she gave birth on Philly subway Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 02:56 PM PDT A woman told police that she gave birth on the Philadelphia subway on Tuesday afternoon. The woman wasn't planning on giving her baby such a dramatic entrance, but the newborn wasn't going to wait. According to a report from CBS 3 in Philadelphia, the new mom approached transit police officer Loyd Rodgers at Philadelphia's Broad [...] Full Story | Top |
| Damien Hirst art show killed 9,000 butterflies Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 02:18 PM PDT The artist Damien Hirst is known to stir up controversy. He's submerged a shark in a tank of formaldehyde, ditto a bisected cow and calf, and in an installation called "In and Out of Love," at the Tate Modern, filled two windowless rooms with live butterflies. The show's over, but the criticism has just begun. [...] Full Story | Top |
| FBI arrests man in alleged terror plot to blow up New York Federal Reserve Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 01:29 PM PDT The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a 21-year-old Bangladeshi man in New York on Wednesday after he allegedly attempted to detonate what he thought was a thousand-pound bomb at the Federal Reserve Bank in lower Manhattan. The man, Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, was arrested after he bought and attempted to use explosives that were "rendered [...] Full Story | Top |
| 96-year-old claims to be world’s oldest father (VIDEO) Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 01:26 PM PDT Most people can only dream of living for 100 years, let alone fathering a child nearly a century after being born themselves. But that is apparently a reality today, as a 96-year-old Indian man claims to have fathered a child, his second in recent years. Ramajit Raghav and his 52-year-old wife, Shakuntala Devi, reportedly gave [...] Full Story | Top |
| Teacher accused of bullying student with scented candle Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 11:56 AM PDT A high-school Spanish teacher in Hiawassee, Ga., is being accused of "bullying" one of her students, who suffers from a severe nut allergy, by burning a scented candle containing nut oil and apparently triggering an allergic reaction. The teen's mother, Shannon Baldwin-Nguyen, says the teacher, Lynn Swanson, knew about her daughter's allergy and was warned [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama on debates: He’s getting ‘the hang of this thing’ Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 11:49 AM PDT MOUNT VERNON, Iowaâ€"Speaking publicly for the first time since his second national debate with Mitt Romney, President Barack Obamaâ€"who began a campaign swing here in a small college gymâ€"joked about his "improving" performance on the debate stage with the Republican nominee. "Now, as many of you know, we had a second debate [Tuesday] night. You know, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Homeless man helps save baby born at truck stop Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 11:45 AM PDT A homeless man hitchhiking at a truck stop near Oklahoma City turned out to be an angel for a young pregnant woman. Keaton Mason and her fiance were heading to a hospital because Mason was labor. They didn't make it, and Mason ended up giving birth in their white Honda at a truck stop along [...] Full Story | Top |
| Police use Taser on blind man, thinking his cane was samurai sword Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 11:22 AM PDT A blind man carrying a white cane received a 50,000-volt Taser shock from British police who thought his walking stick was a samurai sword. "It felt like I was grabbing an electricity pylon," 61-year-old Colin Farmer told the BBC. Lancashire police officer Stuart Williams said authorities had received several calls describing a man walking through [...] Full Story | Top |
| Jeffrey Wright finds hunger games comforting Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 11:17 AM PDT Jeffrey Wright has conquered Broadway, television and film, but now the actor is tackling his most mainstream role yet in the second film of the bestselling Hunger Games series. Full Story | Top |
| Romney: Obama ‘running on fumes’ instead of policies Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 11:08 AM PDT CHESAPEAKE, Va.â€"Mitt Romney slammed President Barack Obama for not offering more details about his second-term agenda in Tuesday night's debate, telling voters here on Wednesday that his opponent has focused on attacking GOP proposals instead of explaining his own policies. "He can't even explain what he's done in the past four years. He's spent most [...] Full Story | Top |
| Dads sing tune from ‘Little Mermaid’ Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 09:29 AM PDT Being a father (especially to a young girl) comes with certain duties, one of which is listening to "The Little Mermaid" soundtrack until the tunes take up permanent residence in the cerebellum. Behold a group of fathers who embrace the awesome responsibility. This group of manly men sings (in some cases, not well) "Part of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama still on defense Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 09:06 AM PDT Woody Allen is often quoted as saying that "80 percent of success is showing up." Hackneyed though this expression has become, it applies quite accurately to the election as it stands today. President Barack Obama showed up at the debate on Tuesday night and stabled his teetering campaign. Given the wide consensus that Obama did [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama senior adviser questions polls Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 08:49 AM PDT MOUNT VERNON, Iowaâ€"President Barack Obama's senior campaign adviser moved to dispel the notion that GOP nominee Mitt Romney took votes from Obama in October, and questioned two national polls showing growing support for the challenger. Speaking to reporters on the press charter bus while leaving the presidential debate at Hofstra University on Long Island late [...] Full Story | Top |
| Ryan dodges college football question: Who will win, Wisconsin or Ohio State? Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 07:54 AM PDT Not wanting to alienate voters in the crucial swing state of Ohio, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan dodged a direct question from "Today" show host Matt Lauer on Wednesday about an upcoming Big Ten college football clash between Wisconsin and Ohio State. "On Nov. 17, a week or so after the election, Wisconsin will play Ohio [...] Full Story | Top |
| Trippy video shows ‘star trails’ Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 07:17 AM PDT ISS Startrails from Christoph Malin on Vimeo. You have never seen the sky look quite like this. As surfaced by Discovery's Bad Astronomy blog, astrophotographer (yes, that's a thing) Christoph Malin created a new, trippy video from International Space Station footage he calls "Startrails." In this video, the images are time-lapsed. But instead of each [...] Full Story | Top |
| Biden, Ryan hit morning talk shows to debate the debate Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 07:10 AM PDT A week after sparring in their own debate, Vice President Joe Biden and vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan hit the morning talk show circuit on Wednesday to talk about Tuesday night's town hall contest between President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney. "I didn't have any doubt about how the president would perform," Biden [...] Full Story | Top |
| Wednesday in politics: Obama, Romney campaign after aggressive debate, and more Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 03:42 AM PDT President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney will be back on the campaign trail Wednesday following a debate that at times felt like a verbal fistfight. Obama produced a much more assertive performance at the Hofstra University clash, and Romney maintained the energetic demeanor that chalked up a win for him in the first [...] Full Story | Top |
| No Twitter record, #bindersfullofwomen and immigration: The second debate in social Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 11:02 PM PDT The first presidential debate set a new record for Twitter traffic around a U.S. political eventâ€"so expectations were high that Tuesday's town hall debate might set a new mark. But at the end of the debate, the official tally from Twitter was a mere 7.3 million tweetsâ€"around 3 million shy of the recordâ€"sent over the [...] Full Story | Top |
| In spin room, Obama campaign celebrates while the boss is still talking Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 09:34 PM PDT HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.â€"Mitt Romney's senior staff did not enter the spin room after Tuesday night's debate with the same kind of bounce in their step they exhibited in Denver after the Republican presidential nominee's first showdown with President Barack Obama. Unlike the first debate, when the Romney campaign rushed to be the first to declare victory [...] Full Story | Top |
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