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• How embarrassing is it to be president?
• Christie: Education reform is led by GOP
• Chinese dissident wants 'face-to-face' meeting with Clinton
• W.H. on Syria strategy: May have to ‘admit defeat’
• Edwards’ mistress yet to appear at trial, but her prescence is felt
• When will Romney choose a vice presidential candidate?
• Sen. Mark Kirk home, 3 months after stroke
• Facebook sets $28 to $35 price range for IPO
• New Galaxy S III phone is bigger and smarter
• 13-year-old finds mistake in Metropolitan Museum of Art map
• Y! Big Story: Scandals plague China’s leadership transition
• Romney: U.S. diplomats 'failed' to protect blind dissident
• Obama campaign's online character, 'Julia,' sparks debate
• $100M charity 'scammer' refusing to reveal identity to Feds
• Facebook: A masterpiece and cultural catastrophe
• Who needs a donor? Grow your own organs
• Michelle Obama's expensive wardrobe rivals Ann Romney's
• Vogue bans too-skinny models from its pages
• Going vegetarian poses own set of potential health risks
• 37% of teens are video chatting, and that number's growing: study

How embarrassing is it to be president? Posted: Bottom Line Exactly how embarrassing is it to be President of the United States? That's the question we tackled today on the Bottom Line. And of course it's the recent Vanity Fair article by David Maraniss that raises the topic. Maraniss authored a soon-to-be released biography on the president and it includes stories from two [...]

Christie: Education reform is led by GOP Posted: Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, said Thursday that Republican politicians are leading the way for better educational opportunities for poor and minority children through voucher programs for private schools, while Democrats passively stand by or obstruct their efforts. The partisan framing of his education agenda is a bit of a departure from [...]

Chinese dissident wants 'face-to-face' meeting with Clinton Posted: Chen Guangcheng told Congress today that he wants to meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton face-to-face and he requested to have his "freedom of travel guaranteed" as he looks to leave China with his family and come to the United States. "I want to...

W.H. on Syria strategy: May have to ‘admit defeat’ Posted: The White House on Thursday angrily denounced a bloody overnight raid on Aleppo University by Syrian troops, and warned that it may soon be time for the world to "admit defeat" in its current strategy to drive President Bashar al-Assad's regime to halt a deadly yearlong crackdown on opposition to his regime. "If the regime's [...]

Edwards’ mistress yet to appear at trial, but her prescence is felt Posted: Rielle Hunter, John Edwards' former mistress and mother of his now 4-year-old child, has yet to appear at the candidate's criminal conspiracy trial in Greensboro, N.C., which is nearing the end of its second week. But her presence has nonetheless been felt. Hunter's name—which is on the witness list for both the prosecution and defense—has [...]

When will Romney choose a vice presidential candidate? Posted: Using recent history as an indicator, there's plenty of time left to speculate about who Mitt Romney will choose as his running mate. A trend analysis by Geoffrey Skelley of the University of Virginia Center for Politics shows that in modern politics, nominees almost always wait until the final days before the party convention to [...]

Sen. Mark Kirk home, 3 months after stroke Posted: Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., who suffered a stroke in late January, has recovered enough to leave the rehabilitation center he's been living at for the last three months and will continue his recovery from home, his Senate office announced today. "Mark has progressed to the...

Facebook sets $28 to $35 price range for IPO Posted: Facebook has set a price range of $28 to $35 for its initial public offering of stock. At the high end, this could raise as much as $11.8 billion.

New Galaxy S III phone is bigger and smarter Posted: At a press event in London on Thursday that it described as an "unpacking," Samsung indeed rolled out an impressive array of hardware and software enhancements that the company hopes will help it retain its ranking as the top cell phone maker in the world.

13-year-old finds mistake in Metropolitan Museum of Art map Posted: New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) is one of the world's premier destinations for artistic and historical exhibitions. But this epicenter of worldly culture is not above admitting the occasional mistake. Even when the correction comes from one curious 13-year-old boy. The Hartford Courant reports that 13-year-old Benjamin Lerman Coady found an [...]

Y! Big Story: Scandals plague China’s leadership transition Posted: An escaped dissident (a blind one at that), running from house arrest and straight into the arms of Hillary Clinton—if he can get to her. A political rock star's downfall. A mysterious poisoning. Are these cases of power-mad provincials on the loose? The clash of national economic reform and upstart Maoist loyalists? Just nasty but [...]

Romney: U.S. diplomats 'failed' to protect blind dissident Posted: Mitt Romney has joined critics of the Obama administration's handling of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, suggesting that American diplomats "failed" to protect Chen from his government.

Obama campaign's online character, 'Julia,' sparks debate Posted: She's at the center of the latest round in a partisan, election-year debate about women, health care and the economy. But she – "Julia" – is not real.

$100M charity 'scammer' refusing to reveal identity to Feds Posted: The man accused of using a fake identity to set up a bogus Navy Veterans charity (and then pocket millions in donations) has been captured, but authorities still have no idea who he is.

Facebook: A masterpiece and cultural catastrophe Posted: Yahoo!'s Virginia Heffernan calls the social networking site both a masterpiece and a cultural catastrophe.

Who needs a donor? Grow your own organs Posted: There's an 80% chance that in five months Bill Weir will be the first person ever to see his cardiac tissue beating outside his body. Last week Bill visited Dr. Tim Nelson at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota to report on a revolutionary new stem cell treatment that would have sounded like science fiction [...]

Michelle Obama's expensive wardrobe rivals Ann Romney's Posted: While the political fashionistas had a field day this week with Ann Romney's nearly $1,000 blouse, she is not the only presidential candidate's wife with expensive taste. Despite her penchant for more affordable clothing, First Lady Michelle Obama also has a pricey wardrobe. From Balenciaga...

Vogue bans too-skinny models from its pages Posted: Vogue magazine, perhaps the world's top arbiter of style, is making a statement about its own models: too thin is no longer in.

Going vegetarian poses own set of potential health risks Posted: Thinking of giving up meat from your diet? The potential health benefits of a green diet are well established, but a story by the Mother Nature Network (MNN) says there are also some potential side effects and health risks associated with a vegetarian lifestyle. Could low cholesterol kill you? A study by the Honolulu Heart [...]

37% of teens are video chatting, and that number's growing: study Posted: How do your kids stay in touch with their friends online? Do they use video chat programs? If so, they're in good company — according to a study of American teenagers, nearly 4 our of 10 kids are using video chat. … Continue reading →

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