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• Romney rejects Obama-Wright attacks, despite doing so in past
• Evidence of marijuana found in Martin's blood
• Did 1991 mistake spark 'birther' issue?
• Facebook prices at top of range in landmark IPO
• Disco queen Donna Summer dead at age 63
• Can John Edwards come back?
• Rubio on Romney’s VP: ‘I’m curious to see who it’s going to be’
• JPMorgan's Dimon says will testify before Congress
• Romney’s 'favorable' rating jumps 11 points since Feb.
• Scott Walker leads new Wisconsin recall poll
• Obama spokesman denounces Super PAC plan as 'divisive'
• John Edwards ‘was a bad husband’ but did not violate law, defense says
• G8 summit sleeping arrangements? That’s classified, White House says
• Fred ‘Demon Sheep’ Davis’: The man behind the Wright ads
• John Edwards a 'bad husband,' not a criminal, lawyer argues
• Y! Big Story: Solar eclipse and other non-doomsday celestial phenomena
• Goodwill sorting through allegedly accidental $14,000 donation
• Kentucky man buys Kmart inventory, gives it all away
• 200 buffalo escape Iowa farm, spotted across two states

Romney rejects Obama-Wright attacks, despite doing so in past Posted: Mitt Romney continued to distance his campaign from a conservative super PAC's proposal to run ads linking President Barack Obama to his controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Speaking to reporters in Jacksonville, Fla., where he campaigned on Thursday, Romney said he rejects any efforts to link Obama with Wright. "I want to make [...]

Evidence of marijuana found in Martin's blood Posted: Medical examiners found evidence of marijuana in Trayvon Martin's system after he was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer, according to an autopsy released Thursday in a massive package of evidence.

Did 1991 mistake spark 'birther' issue? Posted: A possible source of the so-called "birther" issue--or at least a potential cause of the rumors that have dogged President Barack Obama--has been identified. Obama's former literary agency misidentified his birthplace as Kenya while trying to promote the then-Harvard Law grad as an author in 1991. According to a promotional booklet produced by the agency, [...]

Facebook prices at top of range in landmark IPO Posted: Facebook Inc priced its initial public offering at $38 a share, giving the world's No. 1 online social network a $104 billion valuation in the third largest offering in U.S. history.

Disco queen Donna Summer dead at age 63 Posted: Donna Summer, whom millions of fans revered as "the Queen of Disco," has died at the age of 63 in Florida after a battle with cancer, the Associated Press has confirmed with the singer's family Thursday morning.

Can John Edwards come back? Posted: Bottom Line Can John Edwards recover a career from this scandal? That's the question we're answering today on The Bottom Line. First things first.  Tomorrow the jury takes his fate in their hands, deciding whether he broke federal campaign laws with those payments funneled to Rielle Hunter.  A guilty verdict means up to 30 years [...]

Rubio on Romney’s VP: ‘I’m curious to see who it’s going to be’ Posted: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has said for months that he's not going to answer questions related to vice presidential speculation, but he said Thursday that he's at least "curious" to find out who Mitt Romney picks. During a Fox Business Network interview set to air Thursday night, Rubio, a possible contender for the job, told [...]

JPMorgan's Dimon says will testify before Congress Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon has agreed to testify before Congress over the bank's recent trading losses, which have ignited a political debate over whether large U.S. banks need to be reined in by regulators or new laws. U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson said in a statement on Thursday that his panel will invite Dimon to appear before Congress. ...

Romney’s 'favorable' rating jumps 11 points since Feb. Posted: Mitt Romney's public image appears to be rebounding. A new Gallup poll finds 50 percent of Americans polled have a "favorable" view of the presumptive Republican nominee—an 11-point jump since February. According to Gallup, that's the highest favorable rating the poll has recorded since they began tracking opinions about Romney in 2006. Romney's favorable rating [...]

Scott Walker leads new Wisconsin recall poll Posted: A new poll in Wisconsin has Scott Walker holding a growing lead over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in the upcoming recall election. The Republican governor holds a six-point lead over Democrat Barrett, 50 to 44 percent, among likely voters surveyed by Marquette Law School, May 9-12. The poll's margin of error for likely voters was [...]

Obama spokesman denounces Super PAC plan as 'divisive' Posted: President Barack Obama's chief spokesman on Thursday denounced as "divisive" a reported plan by a conservative super PAC to assail President Barack Obama with ads featuring his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Press secretary Jay Carney also stressed that the president's focus remained the struggling economy. "To launch a multi-million-dollar, divisive attack campaign is not what [...]

John Edwards ‘was a bad husband’ but did not violate law, defense says Posted: Closing arguments were delivered in the John Edwards corruption trial on Thursday in Greensboro, N.C., with prosecutors telling the jury that Edwards knew exactly what he was doing in 2008 when in using nearly $1 million in campaign funds to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter, and lawyers for the former presidential candidate arguing [...]

G8 summit sleeping arrangements? That’s classified, White House says Posted: World leaders attending the Group of Eight summit at Camp David this weekend will find a "small and intimate" setting for talks on Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, and the sputtering global economy — but at least they won't have to bunk together, said National Security Advisor Tom Donilon on Thursday. Still, not all of the bungalows [...]

Fred ‘Demon Sheep’ Davis’: The man behind the Wright ads Posted: The veteran Republican political consultant Fred Davis is considering an ad campaign that criticizes President Obama's ties to his former controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the New York Times reported Thursday.

John Edwards a 'bad husband,' not a criminal, lawyer argues Posted: John Edwards was a bad husband who cheated on his wife while she died of cancer, but he never broke the law, his lawyer said in closing arguments today.

Y! Big Story: Solar eclipse and other non-doomsday celestial phenomena Posted: Doomsday, schmoomsday. Why settle for dusty ol' Mayan calendars and 12/12/12 apocalyptic visions, when 2012 has been offering up so many stellar—and planetary—sightings? We Earthlings have already been treated to nice meteor showers as well as a magnificent supermoon, and this weekend brings an annular solar eclipse. That's not even the best treat: Venus will [...]

Goodwill sorting through allegedly accidental $14,000 donation Posted: A Goodwill Industries outlet in St. Louis received a very generous donation this week: $14,505 in cash. The only problem is it appears to have been unintentional rather than a literal act of goodwill. Store manager Tina Wells was sorting through a box of Christmas donations when she discovered the money, which included 266 $50 [...]

Kentucky man buys Kmart inventory, gives it all away Posted: A Kentucky man purchased every last bit of inventory from a Kmart store that was two days away from shutting its doors. But he didn't keep the stuff for himself. Rankin Paynter gave it all way to a local charity. Paynter spent a total of $200,000 to buy the goods, which ranged from clothes to [...]

200 buffalo escape Iowa farm, spotted across two states Posted: "Home on the Range," is the state song of Kansas, but after 200 escaped buffalo made their way across five Iowa counties, the Hawkeye State is singing a similar tune. The Press-Citizen reports that authorities are still attempting to round up some of the escaped buffalo that broke out of pen at the Frick and [...]

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