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• Loughner pleads guilty to Tucson shooting, avoids death penalty
• W.H. blasts Romney’s ‘blatantly dishonest’ welfare charge
• Temple shooter had 'dropped off the face of the earth'
• NYPD battles Twitter over user promising violence 'just like in Aurora'
• Romney: ‘I will put work back in welfare’
• NATO worker accused of espionage at U.S. air base
• Obama never said Romney wants Petraeus for VP: Carney
• Twitter rumor leads to sharp increase in the price of oil
• Romney at odds with key Iowa Republicans over wind energy
• Amazon exec loses $165K in Tom Petty wedding scam
• What Rob Portman would say in a convention speech
• Elephants may be contributing to deforestation
• Twitter handle gets man thousands of Saudi followers in a day
• Toad Suck, Arkansas, voted “most unfortunate” town name
• Mother selling letter from Obama to help son start new life

Loughner pleads guilty to Tucson shooting, avoids death penalty Posted: 07 Aug 2012 01:08 PM PDT Jared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty on Tuesday, as expected, to killing six people and wounding 13 others, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting spree at a grocery store just outside of Tucson, Ariz. Loughner's plea, coming after a federal judge ruled that he was competent to stand trial, means he will [...]

W.H. blasts Romney’s ‘blatantly dishonest’ welfare charge Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:42 PM PDT The White House denounced Mitt Romney's "blatantly dishonest" charge that President Barack Obama is looking to "gut welfare reform" enacted under Bill Clinton by erasing a requirement that recipients actively seek work. "This advertisement is categorically false, and it is blatantly dishonest," press secretary Jay Carney told reporters at his daily briefing. A new Romney [...]

Temple shooter had 'dropped off the face of the earth' Posted: 07 Aug 2012 12:20 PM PDT The gunman who murdered six Sikh worshippers in Milwaukee before being killed by police had "dropped off the face of the earth" weeks before the shooting, said neighbors who had recently spoken to the shooter's former girlfriend.

NYPD battles Twitter over user promising violence 'just like in Aurora' Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:49 PM PDT The New York Police Department has demanded that Twitter release the name of a user who threatened an attack "just like in Aurora" on the Broadway theater where Mike Tyson's one-man show is playing.

Romney: ‘I will put work back in welfare’ Posted: 07 Aug 2012 09:41 AM PDT Mitt Romney went after President Barack Obama in his own backyard on Tuesday, accusing his Democratic opponent of gutting bipartisan welfare reforms signed into law by former President Bill Clinton. Speaking at a manufacturing company in Elk Grove, Ill., just outside Chicago, the presumptive Republican nominee accused Obama of trying to "reverse the accomplishment" of [...]

NATO worker accused of espionage at U.S. air base Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:50 PM PDT German police have arrested a 60-year-old NATO employee who worked at an American air base for allegedly copying classified NATO information and stealing "state secrets," a German prosecutor's office announced today. The suspect, identified only as Manfred K., is accused of having copied classified data...

Obama never said Romney wants Petraeus for VP: Carney Posted: 07 Aug 2012 11:16 AM PDT With the verbal version of an eye-roll, the White House scoffed Tuesday at the Drudge Report's claim that President Barack Obama thinks Mitt Romney may be trying to snag CIA chief David Petraeus as his vice presidential pick. The report, sourced only to an anonymous "insider," said Obama had told a top fundraiser he thought [...]

Twitter rumor leads to sharp increase in the price of oil Posted: 07 Aug 2012 10:30 AM PDT On social networking site Twitter, information can spread almost instantly — news of Whitney Houston's death hit Twitter mere moments after it happened (and nearly an hour before reported by the media). But there's a downside to that speed. When a … Continue reading →

Romney at odds with key Iowa Republicans over wind energy Posted: 07 Aug 2012 12:40 PM PDT DES MOINES—When Mitt Romney arrives  for a fundraiser with local Republicans Tuesday evening, one topic sure to come up could put his efforts to win Iowa this November at serious risk. Last week, as Romney was winding up a rocky overseas tour, his campaign made front-page news when a spokesman for the GOP candidate told [...]

Amazon exec loses $165K in Tom Petty wedding scam Posted: 07 Aug 2012 09:45 AM PDT An Amazon executive who was allegedly swindled out of $165,000 by a con man claiming to be Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers booking agent got a happy ending when the band performed at his wedding last month.

What Rob Portman would say in a convention speech Posted: 07 Aug 2012 12:42 PM PDT SHELBY, Ohio—As a prospective vice presidential short-lister, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman is in the running for one of the most highly visible speaking slots at the Republican National Convention. Based on his response to a question about what he would discuss if granted one of those prime-time positions, it appears he's been thinking about it. [...]

Elephants may be contributing to deforestation Posted: 07 Aug 2012 11:28 AM PDT A new aerial study has found that tree loss is six times higher in areas that are home to elephants. "Previous field studies gave us important clues that elephants are a key driver of tree losses, but our airborne 3-D mapping approach was the only way to fully understand the impacts of elephants across a [...]

Twitter handle gets man thousands of Saudi followers in a day Posted: 07 Aug 2012 09:47 AM PDT A New Jersey man whose Twitter handle—StC—is also the initials of a Saudi Arabian telecommunications company has attracted thousands Saudi followers on the micro messaging service. The man—who goes by his college nickname, St. Chris—has been @StC on Twitter since March 2007.  He started to notice a wave of new followers late last month. He [...]

Toad Suck, Arkansas, voted “most unfortunate” town name Posted: 07 Aug 2012 12:47 PM PDT A new poll across seven English-speaking countries has chosen Toad Suck, Arkansas, as having the "most unfortunate" town name in the U.S. Toad Suck, an unincorporated community in Perry County, took top dishonors, edging out Climax, Georgia, and Boring, Oregon. The poll was conducted by the genealogy site Findmypast.com, and polled respondents in the U.S. [...]

Mother selling letter from Obama to help son start new life Posted: 07 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT A Pennsylvania mother is parting with a prized note penned by the president to help her son start a new life. Cynthia Arnold wrote to Barack Obama in January of 2009 after a call from her son, Matthew, who was then a private in the Army as he was filling out required paperwork, NBCNews.com reported. [...]

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