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• Democrats reinstate ‘God’ and Jerusalem into their platform
• Accounting firm: ‘No evidence’ Romney’s taxes have been hacked
• Pelosi suggests a vote for Romney is a vote to end Social Security
• Powerful 7.6 magnitude quake hits Costa Rica, at least two dead
• Boston mayor goes after Mitt Romney at DNC
• Fact check: 4.5 million new jobs created under Obama?
• France investigating two suspected cases of deadly Yosemite virus
• Spacewalking astronauts conquer stuck bolt with toothbrush
• Teen volunteers disinvited from Obama speech
• New York club says pole dancing is an art, for tax purposes
• Hundreds of Afghan soldiers detained, fired for insurgent links
• 18 million U.S. households struggling to feed families
• Survey: Harassment of gay students declining
• Photos: National Geographic picks this week's best reader pics
• Lost medieval church found beneath parking lot
• Iconic author Judy Blume battling breast cancer
• ‘Obama Girl’ songwriter: ‘I’ve still got a crush’
• VIDEO: Watch a man age 12 years in 8 minutes
• Middle class vs. the 1%: It’s about to get really ugly

Democrats reinstate ‘God’ and Jerusalem into their platform Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:34 PM PDT Facing unhappy pro-Israel groups amid a Republican-led outcry, Democrats gathered Wednesday at their presidential nominating convention made 11th-hour changes to the party platform to reinstate a reference to God and a declaration that "undivided" Jerusalem is Israel's capital. There was widespread booing on the floor of the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte as [...]

Accounting firm: ‘No evidence’ Romney’s taxes have been hacked Posted: 05 Sep 2012 04:25 PM PDT WOODSTOCK, Vt.—The accounting firm that handled Mitt Romney's tax returns says it has no evidence hackers have gained access to the Republican nominee's financial records. The Nashville City Paper reported late Tuesday that an anonymous user posted a message on the file-sharing website Pastebin claiming to have hacked into the network of a PricewaterhouseCoopers office [...]

Pelosi suggests a vote for Romney is a vote to end Social Security Posted: 05 Sep 2012 04:27 PM PDT House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Democrats here to re-elect President Barack Obama Wednesday, tying a vote for him as a means to preserving the nation's main entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare. "Social Security is on the ballot. Democrats enacted it. Democrats will fight to preserve it," Pelosi said. "Some Republicans want to replace the [...]

Powerful 7.6 magnitude quake hits Costa Rica, at least two dead Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:12 PM PDT SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake rocked Costa Rica on Wednesday, killing at least two people, sparking landslides, knocking down buildings, and briefly triggering a tsunami warning. Striking a tourist region popular with Hollywood stars, Costa Rica's worst quake in over two decades sowed panic in the capital, disrupting power supplies and communications, and caused an entire hospital on the Pacific coast to be evacuated. The Red Cross said two people died in Guanacaste, the northwestern province at the epicenter of the 7. ...

Boston mayor goes after Mitt Romney at DNC Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:47 PM PDT CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Boston Mayor Thomas Menino took on his former governor, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in his speech to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. "Mitt Romney may come from Boston, but his campaign's values aren't Boston values," Menino said. "Because in Boston, we know this country didn't become great by excluding folks and leaving [...]

Fact check: 4.5 million new jobs created under Obama? Posted: 05 Sep 2012 10:56 AM PDT With the Democratic National Convention in full swing, a number of party leaders are attempting to boost President Barack Obama's re-election effort by asserting that 4.5 million new jobs have been created during his term. Obama himself has recently claimed more job growth in the past 27 months than President George W. Bush created "during [...]

France investigating two suspected cases of deadly Yosemite virus Posted: 05 Sep 2012 01:37 PM PDT Health officials in France were investigating two suspected cases of deadly mouse-borne hantavirus in people who may have been exposed at Yosemite National Park this summer.

Spacewalking astronauts conquer stuck bolt with toothbrush Posted: 05 Sep 2012 09:58 AM PDT Astronauts Suni Williams and Akihido Hoshide found a low-tech way to free a stubborn bolt.

Teen volunteers disinvited from Obama speech Posted: 05 Sep 2012 01:58 PM PDT A pair of teenagers volunteered  for 18 hours on the Obama campaign this summer to earn their golden tickets to President Obama's  big speech at the Bank of America stadium Thursday night. Today Madeline Frank, 16, and her brother Koby, 14, were told they've been...

New York club says pole dancing is an art, for tax purposes Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:49 PM PDT (Reuters) - What do the world-renowned Bolshoi Ballet and a New York strip club have in common? According to the owners of Nite Moves, an exotic dance club near Albany, New York, enough to qualify pole dancing and private lap dances as tax-exempt artistic performances. The club on Wednesday posed its argument to the Court of Appeals, the state's high court, in a bid to fend off a $125,000 tax bill on revenue collected through admission fees and private dances. ...

Hundreds of Afghan soldiers detained, fired for insurgent links Posted: 05 Sep 2012 09:28 AM PDT The Afghan army has detained or sacked hundreds of soldiers for having links to insurgents, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday as it tries to stem the rising number of so-called insider attacks.

18 million U.S. households struggling to feed families Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:27 PM PDT Almost 18 million American homes struggled to find enough to eat in 2011, including 3.9 million homes with children, or 10 percent of all families with children, according to numbers released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Even worse off were single moms and black and Latino households, the survey found. As NPR notes, [...]

Survey: Harassment of gay students declining Posted: 05 Sep 2012 01:43 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Harassment of homosexual students is declining at U.S. schools, but the vast majority still report name-calling or threats, according to a survey released on Wednesday. The drop in anti-gay harassment follows the adoption of anti-discrimination measures at more schools, according to the 2011 National School Climate Survey by the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network. ...

Photos: National Geographic picks this week's best reader pics Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Lost medieval church found beneath parking lot Posted: 05 Sep 2012 08:02 AM PDT The hunt for King Richard III's grave is heating up, with archaeologists announcing today (Sept. 5) that they have located the church where the king was buried in 1485.

Iconic author Judy Blume battling breast cancer Posted: 05 Sep 2012 08:29 AM PDT Iconic young adult novelist Judy Blume has been privately battling breast cancer, she wrote in her blog today.

‘Obama Girl’ songwriter: ‘I’ve still got a crush’ Posted: 05 Sep 2012 07:04 AM PDT The singer and songwriter behind "(I Got a) Crush on Obama," the viral video smash hit from the 2008 campaign, has returned with a new one for 2012--this time without its star.

VIDEO: Watch a man age 12 years in 8 minutes Posted: 05 Sep 2012 07:38 AM PDT Photographer Noah Kalina has just updated his self-portrait project with more than six years of new daily snapshots.  The project, titled "Everyday," has existed for more than twelve and a half years and now contains 4,514 photographs in a rapidly moving montage of imagery. The stunning photographs show Kalina maintaining the same expression as viewers [...]

Middle class vs. the 1%: It’s about to get really ugly Posted: 05 Sep 2012 09:16 AM PDT Expectations are high leading up to the President Obama's acceptance speech in Charlotte, NC on Thursday evening, as they were last week in Tampa for Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

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