2012年12月12日星期三

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Public's response saved lives in rampage

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 02:50 PM PST

Police identify Oregon mall shooter (PHOTOS)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

Software pioneer John McAfee is escorted by immigration officers to the Guatemalan Airport in Guatemala CityAnti-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

Yahoo! News readers, Flickr photographers mark 12/12/12From 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

Phyllis Schlafly on Obama's treatment of religionAs 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

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The U.S. economy is already being hurt by the "fiscal cliff" standoff in Washington,Bernanke said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)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

FILE In this Oct. 6, 2011 file photo, Senate Banking Committee member, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. listens to testimony by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Menendez employed as an unpaid intern in his Senate office an illegal immigrant and registered sex offender who has now been arrested by immigration authorities, The Associated Press has learned. The Homeland Security Department instructed federal agents to wait weeks and not to arrest him until after Election Day, a U.S. official involved in the case told the AP. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)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

File photo of California Governor Jerry Brown attending a celebration at Tesla's factory in FremontCalifornia 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

FILE- In this Nov. 15, 2012 file photo, Pedro Hernandez appears in Manhattan criminal court in New York. Hernandez, who is charged with killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979, is expected to plead not guilty Wednesday Dec. 12, 2012 to murder despite police saying he confessed to the crime. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, Pool)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

Susana Trimarco, second from right, is comforted by friends and lawyers as they listen to the verdict during the trial of the alleged kidnappers of her daughter Marita Veron in San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. The 13 defendants, who were charged with kidnapping and forcing Veron to be a prostitute in 2002, were found innocent. (AP Photo/Atilio Orellana)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

Holy Cow! First Cheesemakers Date Back 7,500 YearsThe 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

Photos: National Geographic reader pics

In final Senate speech, Lieberman urges 'reaching across the aisle'

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 12:19 PM PST

FILE - This Dec. 10, 2012 file photo, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn. gestures during a news conference at the state capitol in Hartford, Conn. Retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman in his final Senate floor speech is urging Congress to put partisan rancor aside and reach across party lines to break Washington's gridlock. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)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

A screen at the General Satellite Control and Command Center shows the moment North Korea's Unha-3 rocket is launched in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. North Korea successfully fired a long-range rocket on Wednesday, defying international warnings as the regime of Kim Jong Un took a big step forward in its quest to develop a nuclear missile. (AP Photo)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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