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• Student loan crisis averted?
• Rob Portman: zombie hunter
• Islamic chief in Arab Egypt: Will women's rights change?
• Obama's White Sox comment ruffles feathers
• White House: Syria's Assad 'losing his grip'
• Writer and director Nora Ephron gravely ill with leukemia
• Detective: Zimmerman could have avoided deadly confrontation
• Democrats move convention kick-off event; fundraising rumors swirl
• Claire McCaskill to skip Democratic National Convention
• Gunnar, the U.S. Navy seal, dies at age 38
• Dad charged with assault for tossing McDonald’s fries at stepdaughter
• Trending Now: Obama ‘singing’ Justin Bieber’s ‘Boyfriend’
• ‘Fear The Brow’ athlete Anthony Davis trademarks unibrow
• Google wants to help save the world’s lost languages

Student loan crisis averted? Posted: 26 Jun 2012 01:36 PM PDT Congress is starting to see some light at the end of the student loan impasse tunnel. Both the Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate today announced that a deal is almost complete to avoid student loan rates from doubling on July 1. The deal, which...

Rob Portman: zombie hunter Posted: 26 Jun 2012 02:57 PM PDT In the War on Drugs, it's Rob Portman 1, Flesh-Eating Zombies 0. Following a recent string of attacks around the country involving people who ingested the synthetic drug known as "bath salts" and then attacked victims and ate their flesh, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman introduced an amendment to a Senate FDA bill that would implement [...]

Islamic chief in Arab Egypt: Will women's rights change? Posted: 26 Jun 2012 02:36 PM PDT For the first time in Egypt's existence, Mohammed Morsi has become not only the countries first freely elected President, but also the first Islamic head of state in an Arab Country. It's a joyous moment as Egyptians take to the streets to celebrate, but the work to restore democracy is far from over as a [...]

Obama's White Sox comment ruffles feathers Posted: 26 Jun 2012 02:06 PM PDT President Barack Obama will fly Air Force One to your hometown, he'll praise your local politicians, visit your favorite diner, sample your local fare, kiss your baby, and (ahem) he'll take your donations -- but he isn't going to pretend to like your baseball team, America. Not unless your team is the Chicago White Sox. [...]

White House: Syria's Assad 'losing his grip' Posted: 26 Jun 2012 11:48 AM PDT The White House highlighted news reports of high-level Syrian defections and fighting drawing closer to Damascus on Tuesday as signs that President Bashar Assad is "losing his grip" on his country some 15 months into a bloody crackdown on opposition to his rule. "Recent high-level military defections to Jordan and Turkey are another testament to [...]

Writer and director Nora Ephron gravely ill with leukemia Posted: 26 Jun 2012 03:55 PM PDT The writer and director Nora Ephron is gravely ill in her battle with leukemia, a source close to the family told ABC News.

Detective: Zimmerman could have avoided deadly confrontation Posted: 26 Jun 2012 01:31 PM PDT [Updated at 4:45 p.m. ET] Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman missed two opportunities to try to peacefully approach Trayvon Martin before he fatally shot the unarmed teenager, according to an investigator's report released Tuesday. "The encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was ultimately avoidable by Zimmerman, if Zimmerman had remained in his vehicle and [...]

Democrats move convention kick-off event; fundraising rumors swirl Posted: 26 Jun 2012 03:15 PM PDT By Conor Skelding Fundraising shortfall or right on track? That's the question raised by a Bloomberg story reporting that the Democratic Party is $27 million behind its funding goal to underwrite September's National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Apparently, this budget deficit may have prompted Democrats to cancel a convention kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor [...]

Claire McCaskill to skip Democratic National Convention Posted: 26 Jun 2012 01:20 PM PDT Sen. Claire McCaskill, vulnerable in her re-election bid, reportedly joined a growing faction of Democrats begging off this summer's Democratic National Convention. The Missouri senator made the decision Tuesday to skip the national convention, which takes place Sept. 3-6, Pema Levy first reported for Talking Points Memo. The convention is where President Barack Obama will [...]

Gunnar, the U.S. Navy seal, dies at age 38 Posted: 26 Jun 2012 12:21 PM PDT He was a U.S. Navy seal best known for learning to use a screwdriver. And now Cold War veteran Gunnar has passed away on Monday. He was 38-years-old at the time of his death and enjoying some quiet living in Washington DC's National Zoo. To be clear, Gunnar was not a U.S. Navy SEAL, the [...]

Dad charged with assault for tossing McDonald’s fries at stepdaughter Posted: 26 Jun 2012 02:08 PM PDT James Hackett, 26, is facing a felony assault charge after allegedly throwing an order of "hot and oily" McDonald's french fries at his 11-year-old stepdaughter, according to a Lowell, Massachusetts, police report posted on The Smoking Gun. Interestingly, the report states that the unnamed girl was not harmed in the incident but states the action [...]

Trending Now: Obama ‘singing’ Justin Bieber’s ‘Boyfriend’ Posted: 26 Jun 2012 10:12 AM PDT Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow Trending Now on Twitter: @Knowlesitall and @YahooTrending. YouTube user BaracksDubs has been bringing the world entertaining viral videos of President Barack Obama's speeches edited together to make it sound like he's singing hit pop tunes. So far, the two most popular videos are "Barack Obama Singing Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae [...]

‘Fear The Brow’ athlete Anthony Davis trademarks unibrow Posted: 26 Jun 2012 10:52 AM PDT Kentucky basketball star Anthony Davis is widely expected to be the number one selection in this Thursday's NBA draft. But he's already locked down one unique distinction: filing a trademark over his unibrow. "I don't want anyone to try to grow a unibrow because of me and then try to make money off of it," Davis told [...]

Google wants to help save the world’s lost languages Posted: 26 Jun 2012 10:37 AM PDT In an effort to help preserve some of the world's rarest languages, Google has teamed up with various universities and cultural diversity organizations to form the Endangered Languages Project. The company is providing assistance to these groups to build a vast database … Continue reading →

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