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• Senate grills Secret Service on ‘pattern of misconduct’
• Romney fires back: Election is about Obama's record
• Nikki Haley capitalizes on pinata bashing
• Colin Powell has 'no problem' with gay marriage
• HP laying off 27,000 workers in restructuring
• FAMU drum major beaten to death with drumsticks, mallets
• Obama: In Libya, U.S. ‘led from the front’
• Romney embraces voucher system
• Egyptians back at the polls to pick president
• Pakistani doctor who helped CIA find bin Laden jailed for treason
• Student activists broadcast debt owed with ball and chains
• Romney's record at Bain Capital: Does it matter?
• Obama aides gave Hollywood team rare access on bin Laden raid info
• Woman mistaken as dead 6 years ago now married; husband to be deployed to Afghanistan
• Most call high school off-limits in evaluating candidate character
• Man survives 2,400-foot helicopter jump without a parachute
• Video: Dog bites into spray can; explosion ignites kitchen fire
• Wealthy Silicon Valley exec arrested for complicated Lego theft
• British designer behind Apple iPhone is knighted
• MIT, Harvard battle to create non-stick ketchup bottles

Senate grills Secret Service on ‘pattern of misconduct’ Posted: 23 May 2012 11:18 AM PDT Mark Sullivan, director of the U.S. Secret Service, defended his agency on Wednesday against accusations it has displayed a "pattern of misconduct" during a Senate hearing prompted by a recent scandal involving agent solicitation of prostitutes in Colombia. This is "not a systemic problem," Sullivan told members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. [...]

Romney fires back: Election is about Obama's record Posted: 23 May 2012 10:58 AM PDT Mitt Romney says he welcomes scrutiny of his business record at Bain Capital, but insists the upcoming election is more about the state of the economy and whether President Obama has made things "better" for the American people. In an interview with Time Magazine's Mark Halperin, Romney defended his assertion that his tenure at Bain [...]

Nikki Haley capitalizes on pinata bashing Posted: 23 May 2012 10:08 AM PDT Republicans are trying to capitalize off a recent video featuring a South Carolina AFL-CIO leader bashing a piñata bearing the face of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Haley sent out a donation request via Twitter, calling on people to stand with her against what she calls...

Colin Powell has 'no problem' with gay marriage Posted: 23 May 2012 01:49 PM PDT Two weeks after President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday that he has "no problem with it." Powell, who is doing a series of television interviews to promote a new book, endorsed Obama in the 2008 election but hasn't said who [...]

HP laying off 27,000 workers in restructuring Posted: 23 May 2012 01:22 PM PDT Hewlett-Packard says it's laying off 27,000 workers, 8 percent of its work force, as it restructures the business.

FAMU drum major beaten to death with drumsticks, mallets Posted: 23 May 2012 10:49 AM PDT Robert Champion Jr., the Florida A&M University band member who died last fall following a hazing ritual on a bus, was beaten to death with drumsticks and bass-drum mallets, according to more than 1,500 pages of evidence released by prosecutors on Wednesday. Eleven band members are facing felony hazing charges in Champion's Nov. 19 death. [...]

Obama: In Libya, U.S. ‘led from the front’ Posted: 23 May 2012 11:39 AM PDT In a wide-ranging, campaign-style rebuttal of Republican attacks on his handling of world affairs, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that "exceptional" America had "led from the front" in the Libyan war. Delivering the commencement speech at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Obama was clearly taking aim at conservative criticisms that [...]

Romney embraces voucher system Posted: 23 May 2012 10:27 AM PDT Mitt Romney said Wednesday that under his new K-12 education plan, federal education funds will follow low-income or disabled American children so that they can attend any school in their state, including private ones. Under Romney's plan, $26 billion in annual federal education money that flows to districts based on the number of low-income and [...]

Egyptians back at the polls to pick president Posted: 23 May 2012 03:35 PM PDT Egyptians relished their first free leadership vote on Wednesday, with Islamists pitted against secular figures in a contest unthinkable before a popular revolt swept President Hosni Mubarak from power 15 months ago. Voting passed off calmly for the most part, but candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was Mubarak's last prime minister, came under attack from protesters who threw stones and shoes at his convoy as he voted at a Cairo polling station late in the day. Shafiq, 70, was not hurt in the melee, witnesses said. ...

Pakistani doctor who helped CIA find bin Laden jailed for treason Posted: 23 May 2012 09:23 AM PDT The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to 33 years in jail for treason. Shakil Afridi, 48, had been accused of running a fake hepatitis B vaccination program, collecting DNA samples reportedly used by U.S. intelligence officers to track bin Laden to Abbottabad, where Navy SEALs killed him [...]

Student activists broadcast debt owed with ball and chains Posted: 23 May 2012 10:54 AM PDT A handful of student activists are expressing their displeasure at the rising cost of college by wearing inflatable ball and chain accessories over their graduation robes. The props state the amount of debt with which they're graduating. The silent commencement protest, dubbed "Occupy Graduation" by its organizers, is taking place at seven universities around the [...]

Romney's record at Bain Capital: Does it matter? Posted: 23 May 2012 09:25 AM PDT Romney is a portrait in business success rather than selfless altruism, Yahoo!'s Walter Shapiro writes.

Obama aides gave Hollywood team rare access on bin Laden raid info Posted: 23 May 2012 09:26 AM PDT Barely one month after Navy SEALs staged the daring raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Hollywood came knocking at the Pentagon. "Hurt Locker" screenwriter Mark Boal's late-night June 5, 2011, email to a Defense Department spokesman led to unlocked doors at the Pentagon, the White House and the CIA—even getting him access to a SEAL [...]

Woman mistaken as dead 6 years ago now married; husband to be deployed to Afghanistan Posted: 23 May 2012 11:21 AM PDT Whitney Cerak lives a pretty normal life nowadays. Which seems just fine with her. Six years after being mistaken for dead, Cerak is now a wife and mother. In fact, she married her soldier boyfriend, Matt Wheeler, in the same church where her family had held her funeral. When Matt Lauer of "Today" asked her [...]

Most call high school off-limits in evaluating candidate character Posted: 23 May 2012 09:00 AM PDT Most Americans by far dismiss the relevance of accusations that Mitt Romney bullied a high-school classmate, calling it off-point in the election debate – and indicating they'd say the same about Barack Obama's behavior as a high-school student, as well. Three-quarters in this ABC News/Washington...

Man survives 2,400-foot helicopter jump without a parachute Posted: 23 May 2012 12:25 PM PDT Stuntman Gary Connery has pulled off a truly amazing feat, jumping 2,400 from a helicopter and landing safely on the ground without the use of a parachute. The 42-year-old Connery made his landing on top of 18,600 cardboard boxes in a stunt captured live on video by the London Telegraph. "I feel absolutely wonderful, I [...]

Video: Dog bites into spray can; explosion ignites kitchen fire Posted: 23 May 2012 10:13 AM PDT In the words of his human mom, 8-year-old Yogi is one "rotten" dog. But after the incorrigible Corgi caused a kitchen fire that was caught on film, she's just happy he's safe and sound. Hali Hudson had agreed to let Yogi appear on an episode of the new animal Web series, "Pet Sense," being produced [...]

Wealthy Silicon Valley exec arrested for complicated Lego theft Posted: 23 May 2012 11:55 AM PDT Was it compulsion, a desire to beat the system, or just pure greed? Authorities — and indeed, the public at large — are struggling to understand the "why" behind a complicated theft scheme where wealthy Silicon Valley executive Thomas Langenbach … Continue reading →

British designer behind Apple iPhone is knighted Posted: 23 May 2012 08:22 AM PDT The Briton credited with designing some of Apple's most revolutionary products -- the iPod, iPhone, iPad and iMac computer -- was knighted by Princess Anne Wednesday.

MIT, Harvard battle to create non-stick ketchup bottles Posted: 23 May 2012 10:01 AM PDT It's the world's biggest non-problemic problem: getting the last bit of ketchup out of the jar. Ketchup is so viscous, and it seems so eager to stick to glass and plastic. But leave it to students at the Massachusetts Institute of … Continue reading →

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