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• Why Rice took her name off the list
• Obama, Boehner have ‘frank’ talks as fiscal cliff looms
• Year's best meteor shower happens tonight
• NYC teachers’ fund pledges $1B to post-Sandy rebuilding
• Fiscal cliff drives wedge between GOP allies
• Senate takes step toward banning stalking software
• Two-inch feather emerges from baby's neck
• Mysteries swirl around North Korea's satellite launch
• Whoa: Physicists testing to see if universe is a computer simulation
• GOP losing public-opinion war over stalled debt talks
• A 'tiny Christmas’ for cash-strapped families this year
• Lawmaker: Syria ready to use chemical weapons
• Former Sen. Chuck Hagel 'likely' to be named Defense Secretary
• Nearly four in 10 Americans blame weather on 'end times'
• Just Explain It: Retirement vs. college savings
• Photographer snaps stunning Northern Lights pics
• Puzzling path from big dreamer to mall shooter
• Former Fla. Republican Governor Crist joins Democratic Party
• ‘Build a Death Star’ petition clears threshold for Obama response
• ‘Best Funeral Ever’ TV show in the works
• Kim Jong Un voted Time’s Person of the Year by readers
• Photos: Ukraine parliament erupts in all-out brawl
• Woman tasered after trying to buy too many iPhones
• The year in review: Top tweets of 2012
• Flickr photos: Epic 'postcards' from the edge
• Google Maps finds its way back to iPhone
• Salmon fishing where? Golden Globes snubs, surprises
• Photos: A roundup of the day's best images

Why Rice took her name off the list Posted: 13 Dec 2012 02:47 PM PST The U.N. ambassador stunned Washington by withdrawing her name for consideration as secretary of state.

Obama, Boehner have ‘frank’ talks as fiscal cliff looms Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:52 PM PST With talks on avoiding the "fiscal cliff" locked in a pattern of public battling and private negotiating, President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner met behind closed doors for 50 minutes at the White House on Thursday. Both sides agreed the discussion in the Oval Office was "frank" and insisted that the "lines [...]

Year's best meteor shower happens tonight Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:14 AM PST Earth is passing through the orbit of an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon, and astronomers think we're seeing its debris -- shooting stars, more than 50 per hour, many of them no larger than grains of sand, burning up as they plow into the atmosphere.

NYC teachers’ fund pledges $1B to post-Sandy rebuilding Posted: 13 Dec 2012 02:19 PM PST NEW YORK—A pension fund for New York City teachers will contribute $1 billion to rebuild infrastructure damaged by Superstorm Sandy. The money will come from the $46 billion New York City Teachers' Retirement System, which handles the investments of roughly 190,000 current and retired educators. It's going to an infrastructure redevelopment project started last year [...]

Fiscal cliff drives wedge between GOP allies Posted: 13 Dec 2012 03:53 PM PST Corporate leaders are helping strengthen Obama's bargaining position while small business advocates are bristling over the prospect of higher taxes.

Senate takes step toward banning stalking software Posted: 13 Dec 2012 04:54 PM PST A loophole that permits software companies to sell cyberstalking apps that operate secretly on cellphones could soon be closed by Congress.

Two-inch feather emerges from baby's neck Posted: 13 Dec 2012 01:27 PM PST No one knew what was bothering 7-month-old Mya Whittington. Her discomfort stumped her parents and doctors.

Mysteries swirl around North Korea's satellite launch Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:30 AM PST US and South Korean officials appear to disagree on one detail of the North Korean satellite that has nothing to do with any difference over what to do about it.

Whoa: Physicists testing to see if universe is a computer simulation Posted: 13 Dec 2012 02:45 PM PST Will you take the red pill or the blue pill? Some physicists and university researchers say it's possible to test the theory that our entire universe exists inside a computer simulation, like in the 1999 film "The Matrix." In 2003, University of Oxford philosophy professor Nick Bostrom published a paper, "The Simulation Argument," which argued [...]

GOP losing public-opinion war over stalled debt talks Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:12 AM PST Polling shows strong support for Obama and three-quarters of Americans say they would accept raising taxes on the wealthy.

A 'tiny Christmas’ for cash-strapped families this year Posted: 13 Dec 2012 01:34 PM PST In s still-down economy, several families share with Yahoo News how they plan on celebrating Christmas with creativity and togetherness.

Lawmaker: Syria ready to use chemical weapons Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:28 AM PST House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers says the international community should not accept any assurances from Syrian officials that they will not use them.

Former Sen. Chuck Hagel 'likely' to be named Defense Secretary Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:13 AM PST The two-term Republican is known for criticizing his own party during the Iraq war. Hagel served as an infantryman in Vietnam, where among other awards, he got two Purple Hearts.

Nearly four in 10 Americans blame weather on 'end times' Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:06 PM PST A poll also found that 15 percent believe that the end of the world, as predicted by the Book of Revelation, will occur in their lifetime.

Just Explain It: Retirement vs. college savings Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:43 PM PST With the cost of education rising, many parents have to decide how to pay for college. Earlier this year, a report found that the average tuition at four-year public universities increased by 15% between 2008 and 2010. Significant price increases were also found at private universities.

Photographer snaps stunning Northern Lights pics Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:04 AM PST National Geographic's Mike Theiss always wanted to see the northern lights. So when an assignment took him to Canada's Yukon Territory, he rented a car and drove to the Arctic Circle.

Puzzling path from big dreamer to mall shooter Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:20 AM PST Something happened to Jacob Tyler Roberts, a big-dreaming 22-year-old, before he pulled a semiautomatic rifle out and opened fire inside a Portland mall – but what?

Former Fla. Republican Governor Crist joins Democratic Party Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:45 AM PST ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist made his latest political party switch official on Thursday: He's now a registered Democrat. Crist filed his party paperwork in his hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida, where in 2010 he announced he was leaving the Republican Party after polls showed he likely would lose its nomination for U.S. Senate to Marco Rubio. Crist, who was governor from 2007 to 2011, ran as an independent, and Rubio won a three-way race handily. ...

‘Build a Death Star’ petition clears threshold for Obama response Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:53 AM PST It is a period of civil war. Rebel pranksters, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the forces of Taking White House Petitions Too Seriously. Specifically: They have secured the 25,000 signatures necessary to get a formal response from the White House to their call for America to build a DEATH [...]

‘Best Funeral Ever’ TV show in the works Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:58 PM PST "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" may be about to lose its crown as most-ridiculed show on television. That's because The Learning Channel (TLC), the same network behind Honey Boo Boo and other cultural landmarks such as "Cake Boss" and "Extreme Couponing," is launching a new show based on a funeral home. EW reports that "Best [...]

Kim Jong Un voted Time’s Person of the Year by readers Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:10 AM PST Kim Jong Un is Time's 2012 Person of the Year. That is, according to the magazine's online readers, who chose the North Korean leader over the likes of President Barack Obama, Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart in an online vote. It doesn't mean Kim [...]

Photos: Ukraine parliament erupts in all-out brawl Posted: 13 Dec 2012 03:30 AM PST Ukrainian lawmakers fight around the rostrum during the first session of Ukraine's newly elected parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Woman tasered after trying to buy too many iPhones Posted: 13 Dec 2012 09:43 AM PST The iPhone is a hot commodity this holiday season. But is it worth the risk of being stunned with a Taser? As surfaced by CNET, a 44-year-old Chinese woman from Newton, Mass., experienced just such an action after she tried to buy more iPhones than the Apple Store limit of two at the Pheasant Lane [...]

The year in review: Top tweets of 2012 Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:00 AM PST

Flickr photos: Epic 'postcards' from the edge Posted: 12 Dec 2012 08:00 PM PST s

Google Maps finds its way back to iPhone Posted: 13 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST Our long international nightmare is over. Three months after Apple launched a new operating system that stripped the popular Google Maps app from the iPhone in favor of one of its own—a move it has since apologized for—Apple formally approved the search giant's app. Frustrated Apple Maps users can now download Google Maps from the [...]

Salmon fishing where? Golden Globes snubs, surprises Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:15 PM PST The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is known for what you could call a certain quirkiness in its selection process.

Photos: A roundup of the day's best images Posted: 13 Dec 2012 08:39 AM PST A large cloud of gas that has spawned dense internal knots which gravitationally collapsed to form stars is seen in this NASA handout image from the Hubble Space Telescope released December 13, 2012. Many young stars are visible in this image, along with what is left of the initial gas cloud. Some stars were so massive they have already evolved and exploded in a supernova. REUTERS/NASA/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

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