2012年4月24日星期二

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Gingrich won’t drop out tonight, spokesman says

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Gingrich North Carolina Stops Called Off, Then On AgainNewt Gingrich hinted this week that his presidential campaign could come to an end soon, but regardless of what happens in Tuesday's five-state primary, Gingrich will not use his election-night speech to drop out of the race, a spokesman for his campaign told Yahoo News. Gingrich told [...]


3 more ousted in Secret Service scandal

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More Secret Service Agents Fall in Sex ScandalThe Secret Service announced that two more agents connected to the embarrassing Cartagena, Colombia prostitution scandal had chosen to resign and that the agency was moving to fire a third.


Does Facebook’s Zuckerberg have too much power?

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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg speaks to Japanese PM Noda at the latter's official residence in TokyoGoogle, LinkedIn, Zynga, and, coming soon, Facebook: four companies among the "new breed," where shareholders have effectively no rights other than the chance to ride along with the founders.


Northeast primary day: What to watch after Santorum's exit

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney smiles during a town hall-style meeting in Aston, Pa., Monday, April 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Five Northeastern states hold their primaries today: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island and Connecticut will each hold contests, with a total of 231 delegates  at stake.


Santorum, Romney to meet, but don't expect immediate endorsement

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Romney Won't Rule Out Romney-Santorum TicketRick Santorum plans to meet with Mitt Romney on Friday, May 4, although an official endorsement is not likely to immediately follow, Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley tells Yahoo News.


Watchdog: Pentagon buys weapons backwards

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Watchdog: Pentagon Buys Weapons BackwardsThe federal agency charged with catching U.S. government waste said in a new report that the Pentagon has squandered millions in taxpayer dollars on expensive and complex weapons systems by spending first and asking questions later.


Apple crushes Street targets, dispels iPhone fears

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FILE - In this April 28, 2011 photo, a customer holds an iPhone at the Apple store on New York's Upper West Side. Apple Inc., the world's most valuable company, on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 trumped skeptics once again by reporting blow-out iPhone sales. Apple says it sold 35 million iPhones in the quarter, almost twice as many as it sold a year ago and above analyst expectations. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Apple Inc's quarterly results beat Wall Street estimates on stronger-than-expected demand for the iPhone, especially in the greater China region where sales jumped five-fold.


Edwards trial: Ex-aide who helped cover up affair takes the stand

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Young, federal government's key witness in criminal campaign finance case against former U.S. Senator Edwards, arrives at federal court house in GreensboroDay two of the John Edwards trial featured testimony from a key witness in the prosecution's conspiracy case: Andrew Young, Edwards' former aide who helped the then presidential candidate cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter, a campaign videographer.


Mad cow case confirmed in California

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Cows eat hay in Escalon, CaliforniaThe USDA says the cow was found in central Calif., but it should not affect the nation's beef exports.


Does asteroid mining violate space law?

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lanetary Resources, Inc. plans to send robotic probes out to prospect near-Earth asteroids, gauging their potential stores of water and platinum-group metals. (Planetary Resources, Inc.)Several well-known billionaires are forming the new company Planetary Resources with plans to send a robotic spacecraft to mine precious metals from an asteroid and bring them back to Earth.


Obama: I only paid off my student loans eight years ago

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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the rising costs of student loans at the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillPresident Barack Obama, courting young voters crucial to his reelection, told a rowdy college-age crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Tuesday that he knows first-hand about the burden of student loans because he only managed to pay his back a scant eight years ago. "Michelle and I, we've been in [...]


Obama on Secret Service scandal: ‘a couple of knuckleheads’ responsible

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FILE - In this April 19, 2012, file photo, people walk past Hotel El Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia. Washington politicians are doing a delicate dance around the Secret Service prostitution scandal. People are loath to criticize agents trained to take a bullet for the president. And illicit sex isn't a topic some members of Congress want to discuss in an election year. Or any year. So all sides are calling for thorough investigations by the Secret Service. Six agents have been fired after allegations that a dozen of them, and as many military enlistees, paid for sex in Colombia. (AP Photo/Pedro Mendoza, File)Click image to see more photos. (AP/Carolyn Kaster) President Barack Obama on Tuesday praised the Secret Service agents who guard him as "incredible" and blamed "a couple of knuckleheads" for the Colombia prostitution scandal engulfing the agency. Obama, taping an appearance on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," also said he had met presumptive Republican presidential [...]


Court mulls dismissing charges against alleged Wikileaker

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Bradley Manning Wikileaks: Court to Weigh DismissalAlleged Wikileaker Army PFC Bradley Manning is back in a Ft. Meade, Md., courtroom today for the third time this year, where a judge is expected to decide whether to dismiss charges against him.


Grassley: Were the Secret Service prostitutes Russian spies?

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Senate Judiciary Cmte Holds Hearing On Constutionality Of Health Care ActChuck Grassley, the Republican senator from Iowa, isn't ruling anything out in the Secret Service prostitution scandal--even the chance that the working girls in Colombia could be Russian spies. "We're looking at something that is very, very serious when national security might not be protected properly," Grassley said during an interview with Radio Iowa on Tuesday, [...]


Feds make 1st arrest in BP oil spill case

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Crews conduct overflights of controlled burns taking place in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010A BP engineer intentionally deleted more than 300 text messages that said the company's efforts to control the Gulf of Mexico oil spill were failing, and that the amount of oil leaking was far more than what the company reported, the Justice Department said Tuesday.


Medicaid's youngest face dental crisis

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Hidden America: Medicaid's Youngest Face Dental CrisisWith more than 16 million low-income U.S. children on Medicaid not receiving dental care -- or even a routine exam -- in 2009, according to the Pew Center on the States, dentists and ERs say they are treating very young patients with teeth blackened from decay and bacteria and multiple cavities.


Photos: America's poorest county pulls together for prom

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Photos: America's poorest county pulls together for prom

How a smile can help you get a job

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Though it's natural to feel down while searching for a job after a layoff, a new study shows just how critical it is to keep your spirits up.

Florida man mistakes girlfriend for hog, shoots her

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A Florida couple was on a weekend camping trip that ended in an airlift to the emergency room. 52-year-old Steven Egan was hunting with his girlfriend Lisa Simmons in the northern part of the state when he mistook her for a hog and shot her. "He saw a hog and thought he shot it and [...]

Russian cyber criminals rake in billions

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ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: MOSCOW – They say crime doesn't pay, but for Russian-speaking cybercriminals it has paid very, very well. According to a new report they raked in over $4 billion in 2011, nearly a third of the $12.5 billion global cybercrime market....

Another customer collapses while eating ‘bypass burger’

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No one can accuse The Heart Attack Grill of false advertising. A woman collapsed into unconsciousness at the Las Vegas restaurant while eating a "double bypass burger," drinking a margarita and smoking a cigarette. The unnamed customer was the second in just over two months to collapse at the restaurant while eating one of the [...]

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