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• Reid slams Romney as most secretive presidential nominee in history
• Passionate Cory Booker slams GOP's 'class warfare' line
• First lady Michelle Obama, from lightning rod to mom-in-chief
• Boehner: Obama lacks ‘courage’ to work with foes as debt passes $16T
• CNN Poll: Obama, Romney tied heading into DNC
• Obama campaign declares 'the country is better off' now
• Photos: In Isaac's aftermath, thousands still in the dark, underwater
• 'Hacktivists' at AntiSec leak 1 million Apple user IDs
• Paul Haggis supports Vanity Fair story on Tom Cruise girlfriend audition
• Photos: Wounded vet works as U.S. Open ballperson
• Hank Williams Jr.: ‘We’ve got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys’
• Man fakes own death, then proposes
• 400 trees to be removed along shuttle Endeavour’s path in South L.A.
• The triumph of @InvisibleObama over @FadedObama: a lesson in spoof Twitter accounts
• Mass murderer Charles Manson releases album
• Photos: The weirdest world records
• Margaret Thatcher power suit sells for $39,670
• 3 ways to keep control of what your kids are doing online
• Apple invites media to event, hints at iPhone 5
• Red Bull heir suspected in fatal hit-and-run

Reid slams Romney as most secretive presidential nominee in history Posted: 04 Sep 2012 04:31 PM PDT Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid jabs at the GOP nominee over his refusal to release several years of tax returns, suggesting no other presidential candidate in history has been as secretive. "Never in modern American history has a presidential candidate tried so hard to hide himself," Reid said in his speech at the Democratic National Convention. The Nevada [...]

Passionate Cory Booker slams GOP's 'class warfare' line Posted: 04 Sep 2012 03:42 PM PDT Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker delivered a passionate defense of Democratic efforts to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, insisting it's about love of country not a war on the rich. "Being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare. It's patriotism," Booker said, disputing an attack line often mentioned by Mitt Romney and [...]

First lady Michelle Obama, from lightning rod to mom-in-chief Posted: 04 Sep 2012 11:55 AM PDT As Michelle Obama chisels out a new model for the office of first lady, she has become a key campaign asset.

Boehner: Obama lacks ‘courage’ to work with foes as debt passes $16T Posted: 04 Sep 2012 01:57 PM PDT As the national debt swelled past $16 trillion, Republican House Speaker John Boehner accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of lacking the "courage" to work with his political foes to rein in entitlement spending and overhaul the tax code. Boehner also called passage of that symbolic threshold "another sad reminder of President Obama's broken promise [...]

CNN Poll: Obama, Romney tied heading into DNC Posted: 04 Sep 2012 01:54 PM PDT President Obama and Mitt Romney are locked in a dead heat, according to a new national poll. Both are locked at 48 percent, according to a CNN poll released Tuesday. That gives Romney a 1-percent bump from a little more than a week ago, when Obama led 49 percent to 47 percent. "The Republican convention had at best a mild effect on the presidential race, and from a statistical viewpoint, no effect at all," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland told CNN.com. ...

Obama campaign declares 'the country is better off' now Posted: 04 Sep 2012 10:18 AM PDT In a live Yahoo! News/ABC "Newsmakers" event, Pres. Obama's campaign declared "the country is better off" than it was four years ago.

Photos: In Isaac's aftermath, thousands still in the dark, underwater Posted: 04 Sep 2012 07:00 AM PDT Melanie Martinez holds the family cat, which they have renamed Isaac, after salvaging items from their flooded home in Plaquemines Parish on September 3, 2012 in Braithwaite, Louisiana. Martinez, along with her husband and her mother, was forced to ride out the storm in the home when their car broke down. The house quickly flooded and they were rescued by a neighbor who was able to break into their attic to save them. They only were able to rescue Isaac today who survived six days without food at the flooded home. This is the fifth home Martinez has had destroyed due to hurricanes in Louisiana. Damage totals from the hurricane could top $2 billion more than 125,000 customers are still without power six days after the storm made landfall. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

'Hacktivists' at AntiSec leak 1 million Apple user IDs Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:13 AM PDT Is your data safe anywhere? Just months after a half-million Yahoo! passwords, 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords, and 55,000 Twitter passwords were leaked, the hacktivists at AntiSec have found their next data goldmine: a stash of 12.4 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers.

Paul Haggis supports Vanity Fair story on Tom Cruise girlfriend audition Posted: 04 Sep 2012 11:56 AM PDT Oscar-winning director and former Scientologist Paul Haggis supports Vanity Fair's story that actress Nazanin Boniadi was auditioned by the Church of Scientology to be Tom Cruise's real-life girlfriend.

Photos: Wounded vet works as U.S. Open ballperson Posted: 04 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT Ryan McIntosh, right, takes the extra balls from Albert Montanes of Spain while working a match in the second round of play at the 2012 US Open tennis tournament, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Hank Williams Jr.: ‘We’ve got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys’ Posted: 04 Sep 2012 06:01 AM PDT Hank Williams Jr., whose "Monday Night Football" theme song was pulled by ESPN last year after he compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, lashed out at the president during a Labor Day weekend concert. "We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays, and we [...]

Man fakes own death, then proposes Posted: 04 Sep 2012 02:32 PM PDT You love your girlfriend. You want to propose. But how can you be sure that she really loves you? One extreme way to find out (that we don't recommend): Fake your own death in front of the girlfriend and then see if she is suitably devastated by your demise. Bold? Yes. Illegal? Maybe. Did it [...]

400 trees to be removed along shuttle Endeavour’s path in South L.A. Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:12 PM PDT After 25 missions to space, the shuttle Endeavor has an issue with trees for its final trek. About 400 trees will be removed to get the retired space vehicle from Los Angeles International Airport to it's final home at the California Science Center, where it will be on display, the Los Angeles Times reports. The [...]

The triumph of @InvisibleObama over @FadedObama: a lesson in spoof Twitter accounts Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:47 PM PDT From the "Timing Is Everything" desk, here's a reminder of how quickly Twitter moves: Two spoof Twitter accounts for President Barack Obama emerged from speeches at the Republican convention last week. The first, @FadedObama, was inspired by this line from Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan: "College graduates should not have to live out their [...]

Mass murderer Charles Manson releases album Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:58 AM PDT A vinyl album with a "raw country" sound and spoken-word poetry has been flying off the shelves at a Hollywood, Calif., boutique, never mind that the artist is  convicted  mass murderer Charles Manson. Manuel Vasquez, 26, co-owner of the Beauty Is Pain boutique,  told ABCNews.com  he has so far sold...

Photos: The weirdest world records Posted: 03 Sep 2012 04:37 PM PDT In this Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012 photo provided by by Black Bear Casino Resort, people examine a bacon cheeseburger measuring 10 feet in diameter and weighing more than a ton at Black Bear Casino Resort near Carlton, Minn. The behemoth burger, served up Sunday at the Black Bear Casino Resort tipped the scales at 2,014 pounds. (AP Photo/

Margaret Thatcher power suit sells for $39,670 Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:09 AM PDT A turquoise wool suit that Margaret Thatcher wore on the day she was confirmed as Conservative Party leader has sold at auction for 25,000 pounds ($39,670).

3 ways to keep control of what your kids are doing online Posted: 04 Sep 2012 02:03 PM PDT Is it impossible to keep tech-savvy teens safe online? A glance at several news headlines lately sure makes it look that way. One in particular caught my eye, a report that says kids are lying about what they're doing online in … Continue reading →

Apple invites media to event, hints at iPhone 5 Posted: 04 Sep 2012 10:26 AM PDT Apple is inviting reporters to a news conference next week in San Francisco with a message that suggests that it will reveal the iPhone 5, as expected.

Red Bull heir suspected in fatal hit-and-run Posted: 04 Sep 2012 05:20 AM PDT An heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune was arrested after he fatally hit a policeman with his Ferrari, dragging the officer's body down a Bangkok street early this morning, police said.

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