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• Debate prep advice from a pro: practice those zingers
• Who gets the first question? A Q&A on tonight's debate
• Turkey strikes back at Syria after mortar kills five civilians
• Did they build it? The small-business owners of Colorado’s Colfax Avenue
• Schwarzenegger’s advice for debate: ‘Be as honest as possible’
• Secret Cold War tests in St. Louis raise concerns
• N. Dakota oil boom minting up to 2,000 millionaires a year
• State Dept opens Benghazi consulate attack probe
• Colorado ranchers struggle to survive drought
• Colorado movie theater shooting suspect claims his rights were violated
• Increase in craft beer helps turn industry around
• Video: Handless magician performs card tricks
• Denver braces for ‘debate’ traffic
• Startup gives users control over sale of personal data
• Seinfeld fires off letter to the Times ripping critic
• Jailers accused of sending inmates on unsupervised beer runs
• How do blind people picture reality?
• Ill. police find pot farm with plants as big as trees
• Apple recruiting its retail employees to fix Maps
• Forty-five percent of Americans say Obama failed on jobs
• Bill Clinton accuses GOP of taking away students' rights
• Photos: See the presidential candidates' Cheeto 'face-off'

Debate prep advice from a pro: practice those zingers Posted: 03 Oct 2012 01:07 PM PDT When it comes to debates, punches are good, counterpunches better, questions predictable, and the key to success: practice, practice, practice.

Who gets the first question? A Q&A on tonight's debate Posted: 03 Oct 2012 02:34 PM PDT Tired of being deluged with TV commercials telling you that President Barack Obama or challenger Mitt Romney "approved this message?" The candidates will deliver their message for themselves Wednesday night in the first of three head-to-head presidential debates.

Turkey strikes back at Syria after mortar kills five civilians Posted: 03 Oct 2012 03:30 PM PDT Turkey's military hit targets inside Syria on Wednesday in response to a mortar bomb fired from Syrian territory which killed five Turkish civilians. In the most serious cross-border escalation of the 18-month uprising in Syria, Turkey hit back at what it called "the last straw" when a mortar hit a residential neighborhood of the border town of Akcakale. NATO called an urgent meeting to discuss the matter. ...

Did they build it? The small-business owners of Colorado’s Colfax Avenue Posted: 03 Oct 2012 11:09 AM PDT Yahoo News traveled to Denver in search of small-business owners, the totems of Campaign 2012. What do they think of the who-built-it rhetoric of this campaign?

Schwarzenegger’s advice for debate: ‘Be as honest as possible’ Posted: 03 Oct 2012 01:51 PM PDT Arnold Schwarzenegger is a movie star and a political star. As governor of California,  he has been in two debates. On "Piers Morgan" tonight, the ex-"Governator" has some advice for the candidates for president as they face off in their first debate: "Be as honest as possible." No surprise that honesty is on the A-lister's [...]

Secret Cold War tests in St. Louis raise concerns Posted: 03 Oct 2012 03:19 PM PDT Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer.

N. Dakota oil boom minting up to 2,000 millionaires a year Posted: 03 Oct 2012 12:45 PM PDT STANLEY, North Dakota (Reuters) - The retired men shooting the breeze at Joyce's Cafe in Stanley don't look like oil barons but appearances can be deceptive, especially in North Dakota. Take Robert Western, a farmer who was dressed in rumpled overalls and a baseball cap as he sipped coffee and discussed the oil boom that has transformed this once sleepy town. "Some of the younger people buy a lot more - machinery, vehicles, things like that," said the 75-year-old Western. "The rest of us, I guess it doesn't alter our lifestyle a great deal. I don't have a lot of needs. ...

State Dept opens Benghazi consulate attack probe Posted: 03 Oct 2012 04:42 PM PDT Past investigations into attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions have blamed both the administration and Congress for failing to spend enough money to ensure that the overseas facilities were safe despite a clear rise in terror threats to American interests abroad.

Colorado ranchers struggle to survive drought Posted: 03 Oct 2012 11:27 AM PDT LOMA, Colo.—A group of black-coffee-drinking cowboys wearing ten-gallon hats gathered last week at the Western Slope Cattlemen's Livestock Auction house. Waiting inside a crowded diner for the sale to begin, they watched a light rain wash dust off the pickup trucks outside. The unusual sight raised cautious hopes that a crushing drought, which spread across [...]

Colorado movie theater shooting suspect claims his rights were violated Posted: 03 Oct 2012 12:29 PM PDT Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes' constitutional rights were violated when his jail mug shot was recently released to the media, his defense team claims. In documents released on Wednesday, the court-appointed lawyers argue the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Department violated the judge's order to limit pretrial publicity by providing an updated photo of Holmes [...]

Increase in craft beer helps turn industry around Posted: 03 Oct 2012 01:18 PM PDT Brewers can finally toast to good sales this year, after a mid-year report published by the Brewer's Association cited a 14 percent growth in beer sales. The organization represents 1,400 U.S. breweries, or about 70 percent of the industry. Craft beer also experienced a spike...

Video: Handless magician performs card tricks Posted: 03 Oct 2012 12:09 PM PDT Mahdi Gilbert does not have hands, but he has a seemingly magical ability to perform amazing card tricks that the average person can barely follow, let alone decipher. In this video, Gilbert performs some tricks before a small group at 2010's Magic-Con. The website for Magic-Con describes Gilbert as "a rare gentleman and scoundrel who [...]

Denver braces for ‘debate’ traffic Posted: 03 Oct 2012 12:31 PM PDT Denver residents are bracing for gridlock conditions—or what qualifies as gridlock conditions in Colorado—on Wednesday night as the city hosts the first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney at the University of Denver. A six-mile stretch of Interstate 25 will be closed in both directions between 5 and 10 p.m., the city [...]

Startup gives users control over sale of personal data Posted: 03 Oct 2012 12:47 PM PDT Most sites that you visit on the Web allow you to use their services without charging you money. There is a transaction happening, but you do not sign anything. You and the website have a sort of quasi-agreement: You, the user, do not pay to use the website's service, and in exchange, it shows you [...]

Seinfeld fires off letter to the Times ripping critic Posted: 03 Oct 2012 11:05 AM PDT Jerry Seinfeld really has a lot of free time on his hands. On Tuesday, the New York Times published a column by Neil Genzlinger critical of screenwriters he thinks overuse the word "really" in their scripts. "Civilization crumbles a little bit almost every time I turn on the television," Genzlinger wrote, "and a single word-and-punctuation-mark [...]

Jailers accused of sending inmates on unsupervised beer runs Posted: 03 Oct 2012 01:35 PM PDT Two corrections officers at American Samoa's only jail are accused of letting some inmates leave the jail to go on shopping trips for beer and chips. Officers Fiti Aina and Rocky Tua are being investigated after one of the Territorial Correctional Facility's inmates escaped. According to court documents, one inmate said he was allowed to [...]

How do blind people picture reality? Posted: 03 Oct 2012 09:31 AM PDT Paul Gabias has never seen a table. He was born prematurely and went blind shortly thereafter, most likely because of overexposure to oxygen in his incubator. And yet, Gabias, 60, has no trouble perceiving the table next to him. "My image of the table is exactly the same as a table," he said. "It has height, depth, width, texture; I can picture the whole thing all at once. It just has no color."

Ill. police find pot farm with plants as big as trees Posted: 03 Oct 2012 01:17 PM PDT Urban farming is usually thought of as a niche business for high-end food produce. In Chicago, it has taken on a new meaning.

Apple recruiting its retail employees to fix Maps Posted: 03 Oct 2012 10:44 AM PDT Though many of us like the app and use it regularly, it's hard to argue that there aren't problems with Apple's new Maps application bundled in its latest iOS 6 operating system. Between melted bridges, closed restaurants, and farms being … Continue reading →

Forty-five percent of Americans say Obama failed on jobs Posted: 03 Oct 2012 08:02 AM PDT But a roughly equal number responded that the chief executive did "as well as he could."

Bill Clinton accuses GOP of taking away students' rights Posted: 03 Oct 2012 12:16 PM PDT Clinton criticized the state's disputed new voter registration law while campaigning for President Barack Obama at the University of New Hampshire.

Photos: See the presidential candidates' Cheeto 'face-off' Posted: 03 Oct 2012 04:07 AM PDT IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR CHEETOS - Artist Jason Baalman poses in front of portraits of President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney made entirely of more than 2,000 individual Cheetos snacks Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, in Baalman's Colorado Springs, Colo., studio. Today, the Cheetos brand unveiled a new electoral polling model with the unveiling of 3 feet by 4 feet one-of-a-kind Cheetos portraits of the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees – President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney. Debuting on Facebook today at 11 a.m. CT, fans are encouraged to vote for their candidate's portrait – made entirely of more than 2,000 individual Cheetos cheese snacks – for a chance to win the actual portrait. (Photo by Jack Dempsey/Invision for Cheetos/AP Images)

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