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| Obama wins the second debate. Too bad it’s not the one that mattered. Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 09:08 PM PDT When the evening began, one observation dominated the conversation: “If President Barack Obama has another debate like the last one, the election’s over.†Full Story | Top |
| From sidelines, debate moderator Crowley becomes part of story Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 11:19 PM PDT  HEMPSTEAD, New York (Reuters) - As in pro football this season, many of the noisiest complaints after political debates have been directed not at the participants, but at the referees. Tuesday's debate between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney was no exception, as moderator Candy Crowley of CNN came under fire for siding with Obama during one of his sharpest exchanges with Romney. ... Full Story | Top |
| FACT CHECK: Stumbles in latest presidential debate Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 06:24 AM PDT In the rough-and-tumble of a town hall-style debate, not all of the presidential candidates' claims stood up to scrutiny Tuesday night. Full Story | Top |
| Farmer Named World's Oldest New Dad Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 07:40 AM PDT  A 96-year-old farmer in India says that he has set the record for the world’s oldest new dad â€" for the second time. Ramjit Raghav and his 52-year-old wife Shakuntala Devi, who live in Haryana, 31 miles northwest of Delhi, welcomed baby Ranjeet earlier this... Full Story | Top |
| The 'Binder' Everyone Is Talking About Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 08:22 PM PDT Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s most memorable debate moment Tuesday night wasn’t about taxes, oil, or Libya. It was about “binders full of women.†The inadvertently funny comment came in response to a question about pay equity for women from a member of the audience of... 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 |
| About last night: Obama and Romney hate each other. Did we learn anything else? Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 08:10 AM PDT The atmosphere between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney grew so toxic during Tuesday night’s donnybrook of a debate that you half-expected moderator Candy Crowley and the citizen questioners to don Hazmat suits for protection. Full Story | Top |
| Wasteful spending of your tax dollars: Martian menus, the “non-profit” NFL, and a $132 million do-nothing Congress Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 03:59 AM PDT Spinners and Winners Think Congress does not have much to show for itself this year? Think again. A new report from Senator Tom Coburn's office highlights dozens of examples of government waste in 2012. Included for the first time on this list: Congress. The very people looking into government waste find they themselves are wasteful. Coburn's [...] Full Story | Top |
| Taliban Demands Unbiased Coverage of Its Attempted Murder of a 14-Year-Old Girl Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 04:14 AM PDT  You wouldn't the lamestream media's bias. You shoot one 14-year-old girl in the head and you'll never hear the end of it. So goes the lament of Pakistan's Taliban insurgency following a spate of bad press in mainstream Pakistani outlets related to the jihadists' failed assassination attempt of Malala Yousafzai, a young blogger who dared protest the Taliban's ban on educating girls. Now the Taliban are plotting terror strikes on TV stations and other media organizations, but local newspapers refuse to stay silent. Full Story | Top |
| 'Walmart Moms' Say Obama Won, But Not by Much Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 09:22 PM PDT  Undecided “Walmart moms†in Milwaukee, Wis., gave the presidential debate win to President Obama by a narrow margin â€" but they’re not sold yet. In a bipartisan focus group  conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and Momentum Analysis and sponsored by Walmart, a group of undecided... Full Story | Top |
| Romney and the binder blunder Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 03:11 PM PDT Mitt Romney’s already infamous, infelicitous phrase at Tuesday night’s debateâ€"“binders full of womenâ€â€"gave the GOP challenger a true Norma Rae moment. Full Story | Top |
| Ancient 'Predator X' Sea Monster Gets Official Name Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 06:48 AM PDT  It's official: A giant, marine reptile that roamed the seas roughly 150 million years ago is a new species, researchers say. The animal, now named Pliosaurus funkei, spanned about 40 feet (12 meters) and had a massive 6.5-foot-long (2 m) skull with a bite four times as powerful as Tyrannosaurus rex. Full Story | Top |
| Air Canada helps find troubled yacht off Australia Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 06:18 AM PDT An Air Canada passenger flight bound for Sydney helped pinpoint the location of a yacht in trouble off the coast of Australia. Full Story | Top |
| NY brothers wait years to claim $5M lottery prize Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 09:36 AM PDT Two brothers from central New York have claimed a $5 million lottery prize for a scratch-off ticket they bought at their parents' Syracuse store six years ago, state officials said. 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 |
| Drug Lord's Pregnant Daughter Caught Sneaking Into US: Feds Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 12:17 PM PDT  Chapo Guzman's Daughter Had False Papers, Wanted to Give Birth in Los Angeles Full Story | Top |
| Obama takes Romney to task on Libya in smack-down moment Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 10:53 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the defining moment of a testy debate, President Barack Obama lashed into Mitt Romney on Tuesday over the Republican's criticism of his handling of a deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya and sought to cast him as unfit to become commander-in-chief. Moving to regain lost ground after a weak performance in the first presidential debate, Obama fought back against his rival's accusations that he had played down the September 11 assault by Islamist militants in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. ... 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 |
| Armed posse patrols timber land in sheriff's place Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 07:45 AM PDT  There's no room in the county jail for burglars and thieves. And the sheriff's department in a vast, rural corner of southwest Oregon has been reduced by budget cuts to three deputies on patrol eight hours a day, five days a week. Full Story | Top |
| Texas landowners take a rare stand against Big Oil Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 08:42 AM PDT  Oil has long lived in harmony with farmland and cattle across the Texas landscape, a symbiosis nurtured by generations and built on an unspoken honor code that allowed agriculture to thrive while oil was extracted. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-presidential nominee George McGovern no longer responsive: family Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 04:02 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Former Democratic Senator George McGovern, remembered for a devastating defeat by Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election and his efforts to fight world hunger, was near death on Wednesday at a South Dakota hospice center, his family said. McGovern, 90, was admitted to a hospice suffering from a combination of medical conditions due to age that have worsened in recent months, his family said in a statement. "The senator is no longer responsive," the statement said. "He is surrounded by his loving family and close friends. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fake 'Gum Survey' DNA Solves Case Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 07:33 AM PDT  Gary Raub Has Been Arrested For the Stabbing Death of Blanche Kimball 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 |
| 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 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 |
| Release of names in prostitution case stirs debate Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 06:07 AM PDT The first batch of men charged with being clients of a woman accused of turning her Zumba dance studio into a brothel included a former mayor and men from more than a dozen towns in Maine, as well as one each from Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Full Story | Top |
| Crowley's corrections highlight moderator role Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 07:55 AM PDT  Candy Crowley's signature moment as moderator of Tuesday's rough-and-tumble presidential debate came when she was called upon to referee a dispute over President Barack Obama's description of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya as an act of terror. Full Story | Top |
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