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• Public's response saved lives in rampage
• Flight carrying McAfee arrives in Miami
• Yahoo! News readers, Flickr photographers mark 12/12/12
• Conservative leaders to GOP: Stand firm, this is a test
• Bernanke: Fiscal cliff already hurting economy
• Sen. Menendez pleads ignorance of sex offender intern
• Calif Gov. Brown being treated for prostate cancer
• Suspect in Etan Patz killing pleads ‘not guilty’
• Porcupine quills inspire new type of hypodermic needle
• Argentines shocked by verdicts in sex-slave trial
• Scott Brown seems to hint at return to Senate
• Experimental drug can ease depression in hours
• Shhhh! A new law says TV ads can't blare anymore
• Brothers buy house as teens, now real-estate moguls
• Early morning news anchor unwittingly becomes viral video gold
• Mall Santa improvises with funny photo of sleeping baby
• Pig weighing nearly 300 pounds found in wrecked car
• NASA releases ‘Told Ya So’ apocalypse video early
• Marco Rubio: Esquire’s hair loss claim is true
• Holy cow! First cheesemakers date back 7,500 years
• Photos: National Geographic reader pics
• In final Senate speech, Lieberman urges 'reaching across the aisle'
• 'World's best beer' finally available in the U.S.
• U.S. hesitant in condemning North Korean launch

Public's response saved lives in rampage Posted: 12 Dec 2012 02:50 PM PST Citizens' coolheadedness and individual preparation for coping with gunfire in public settings may have curtailed casualties.

Flight carrying McAfee arrives in Miami Posted: 12 Dec 2012 04:27 PM PST Anti-virus software founder John McAfee has arrived in Miami after being deported from Guatemala.

Yahoo! News readers, Flickr photographers mark 12/12/12 Posted: 12 Dec 2012 01:00 PM PST From photographer Vivid~David: It's my grandpa's birthday today, so happy birthday to him!!! ( Photo by Vivid~David on Flickr .)

Conservative leaders to GOP: Stand firm, this is a test Posted: 12 Dec 2012 03:11 PM PST As Republican House Speaker John Boehner is negotiating with President Barack Obama on a deal to avoid sending the country over the "fiscal cliff" come Jan. 1, conservative leaders are publicly urging Republicans in Congress to resist pressure to compromise. An open letter circulated on Wednesday and signed by more than 100 conservatives never explicitly [...]

Bernanke: Fiscal cliff already hurting economy Posted: 12 Dec 2012 01:02 PM PST The U.S. economy is already being hurt by the "fiscal cliff" standoff in Washington, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday. But Bernanke said the Fed believes the crisis will be resolved without significant long-term damage.

Sen. Menendez pleads ignorance of sex offender intern Posted: 12 Dec 2012 12:42 PM PST He says there was "no way" for him or his staff to know that an unpaid college intern in his office was in this country illegally and had registered as a sex offender.

Calif Gov. Brown being treated for prostate cancer Posted: 12 Dec 2012 04:26 PM PST California Gov. Jerry Brown is being treated with radiation for early stage prostate cancer, his office announced Wednesday.

Suspect in Etan Patz killing pleads ‘not guilty’ Posted: 12 Dec 2012 01:25 PM PST The man charged with killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 pleaded not guilty on Wednesday—despite confessing to police to murdering the boy shortly after he was arrested in the case earlier this year.

Porcupine quills inspire new type of hypodermic needle Posted: 12 Dec 2012 02:18 PM PST The hypodermic needle has been around a while—many believe the concept even dates back centuries. Of course, there have been upgrades throughout the years, and now there might be another: Researchers believe porcupine needles could serve as inspiration for a new and improved version. According to a scientific paper published in Proceedings of the National [...]

Argentines shocked by verdicts in sex-slave trial Posted: 12 Dec 2012 04:37 PM PST The acquittal of 13 people accused in the disappearance of a young woman who was allegedly kidnapped and forced into prostitution for "VIP clients" spread shock and outrage across Argentina.

Scott Brown seems to hint at return to Senate Posted: 12 Dec 2012 10:53 AM PST To Democrats worried that a possible secretary of state nomination for John Kerry would clear a path for Republican Scott Brown to run for his Senate seat: Keep worrying. Brown, beaten by liberal darling Elizabeth Warren on Nov. 6, certainly seemed to hint on Wednesday that he won't be gone long—even as he gave what [...]

Experimental drug can ease depression in hours Posted: 12 Dec 2012 01:07 PM PST An experimental drug is able to rapidly improve the symptoms of depression in people who haven't responded to previous therapies, although the benefits are short-lived, a new study says.

Shhhh! A new law says TV ads can't blare anymore Posted: 12 Dec 2012 04:02 PM PST TV viewing could soon sound a little calmer. The CALM Act, which limits the volume of TV commercials, goes into effect on Thursday.

Brothers buy house as teens, now real-estate moguls Posted: 12 Dec 2012 01:47 PM PST As high school students, Jonathan and Drew Scott bought a $200,000 home with just a $250 down payment—and flipped it for a cool $250,000 after renovating it. Today, they run a million dollar business.

Early morning news anchor unwittingly becomes viral video gold Posted: 12 Dec 2012 11:07 AM PST People who have to work early morning shifts are understandably tired, as almost anyone would be, at 4 o'clock in the morning, but not news anchor Tia Ewing of Fox 40 Sacramento. Ewing decided to make the most of an on-air break, dancing energetically to Beyoncé's hit "Single Ladies," while holding a tablet computer in [...]

Mall Santa improvises with funny photo of sleeping baby Posted: 12 Dec 2012 10:15 AM PST Taking the kiddos to have their pictures taken with Santa is a time-honored tradition during the holiday season. There are the children who enjoy the experience, and others who dread it and have to be dragged kicking and screaming. The photos can certainly make for interesting memories down the road. When Sarah Pasley took her [...]

Pig weighing nearly 300 pounds found in wrecked car Posted: 12 Dec 2012 02:53 PM PST A pig weighing nearly 300 pounds was discovered in the back of a wrecked car in Youngstown, Ohio. The car, a Nissan Cube, was totaled, but Penelope the pig was unscathed. If pigs could talk, Penelope would tell quite a story. The car, which belongs to Wendy Thrasher, Penelope's owner, was apparently stolen while Thrasher [...]

NASA releases ‘Told Ya So’ apocalypse video early Posted: 12 Dec 2012 12:59 PM PST Dec. 21, 2012, has long been rumored to be the day of the Mayan apocalypse, when Earth comes to its inglorious end. The good folks at NASA want you to know that isn't going to happen. In fact, NASA is so confident that it recently published a video that appears as if it were intended [...]

Marco Rubio: Esquire’s hair loss claim is true Posted: 12 Dec 2012 11:19 AM PST The advice? Odds are he'll mullet. Republican Sen. Marco Rubio—one of his party's rising stars and a potential presidential candidate in 2016—took to Twitter on Wednesday to tackle head-on (all in jest) an Esquire Magazine style item that pressed him to do more to conceal his hair loss. "‪#Esquire report on having less hair than [...]

Holy cow! First cheesemakers date back 7,500 years Posted: 12 Dec 2012 10:22 AM PST The first direct signs of cheesemaking now seen in potsherds from Poland may help reveal how animal milk dramatically shaped the genetics of Europe, scientists reported today (Dec. 12).

Photos: National Geographic reader pics Posted: 12 Dec 2012 01:00 PM PST

In final Senate speech, Lieberman urges 'reaching across the aisle' Posted: 12 Dec 2012 12:19 PM PST Retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman on Wednesday used his final Senate floor speech to urge Congress to put partisan rancor aside to break Washington's gridlock.

'World's best beer' finally available in the U.S. Posted: 12 Dec 2012 11:33 AM PST Beer aficionados are pouncing at the rare opportunity to buy one of the world's most elusive and revered beers for the first - and perhaps only - time in the United States.

U.S. hesitant in condemning North Korean launch Posted: 12 Dec 2012 03:46 PM PST Raising the rhetoric can serve as an attention-getting reward for a government that starves its own citizens while attempting to leverage any military advance it makes into much-needed aid.

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