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Colorado movie gunman gets life sentence
Kasich’s reception on gay marriage important benchmark for Rob Portman
A year after Michael Brown's death, Ferguson has changed
Report: Lawmaker hoped to distract from affair with smear
Trump pushes his 'stupid' rivals around
In night of introductions to national audience, Jeb Bush underperforms
Jon Stewart's final 'Daily Show': A funny long goodbye
Facing epidemic, Cincinnati hospitals test mothers, newborns for drugs
U.S. Congress inquiry into Planned Parenthood widens
The first GOP debate: The night in tweets
Trump jolts first GOP debate, rivals scramble for attention
Fiorina debate notes left behind in hotel printer
Low-polling GOP hopefuls direct fire at Trump
GOP debate top 6 moments: Trump not involved in night's biggest spat

Colorado movie gunman gets life sentence

Posted: 07 Aug 2015 04:27 PM PDT

James Holmes was found guilty last month of killing 12 moviegoers and injuring 70 others.

Kasich’s reception on gay marriage important benchmark for Rob Portman

Posted: 07 Aug 2015 12:41 PM PDT

When Ohio Gov. John Kasich fielded a hypothetical question at Thursday night's Republican presidential debate in Cleveland about how he would explain his position on gay marriage to his children if one of them came out as gay, it hit close to home.

A year after Michael Brown's death, Ferguson has changed

Posted: 07 Aug 2015 07:10 AM PDT

A year ago, Ferguson, Missouri, was a mostly quiet working-class suburban town. The uneasy relationship between its growing black population and its mostly white police force barely registered in local headlines.

Report: Lawmaker hoped to distract from affair with smear

Posted: 07 Aug 2015 10:34 AM PDT

A Michigan lawmaker had an email sent to his Republican supporters falsely claiming he had been caught having sex with a male prostitute, apparently believing such a smear campaign would help distract attention from an alleged extramarital affair between him and another lawmaker, a newspaper reported Friday.

Trump pushes his 'stupid' rivals around

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In night of introductions to national audience, Jeb Bush underperforms

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Bush was uneven and tepid in his first debate as a presidential candidate.

Jon Stewart's final 'Daily Show': A funny long goodbye

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The expanded farewell includes appearances by everyone from Stephen Colbert to Bruce Springsteen.

Facing epidemic, Cincinnati hospitals test mothers, newborns for drugs

Posted: 07 Aug 2015 08:52 AM PDT

By Mary Wisniewski CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Bubbly and athletic, Heather Padgett, raised in a loving family in the Cincinnati suburbs, would not fit the stereotype of a heroin addict. Until she got clean last August, she was part of what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called a heroin epidemic - a 100 percent rise in heroin addiction among Americans between 2002 and 2013. The sharp rise in heroin addiction, coupled with the risks of newborns developing withdrawal symptoms after they are sent home, has led a group of Cincinnati hospitals to try what they say is the first program of its kind in the United States: testing all mothers, or their infants, for opiates regardless of background, not just those who seem high-risk.

U.S. Congress inquiry into Planned Parenthood widens

Posted: 07 Aug 2015 03:43 PM PDT

By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several Planned Parenthood officials and three private bio-medical firms were targeted on Friday by a U.S. congressional panel as lawmakers dig deeper into a controversy swirling around the women's health organization. A U.S. House of Representatives committee made public a letter requesting interviews with personnel from the organization who appeared in surreptitiously recorded videos in discussions about providing fetal tissue for research. House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans also said they had written to three companies identified as human fetal tissue suppliers to request information and briefings.

The first GOP debate: The night in tweets

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Yahoo News experts Matt Bai and Jon Ward will break down the winners and losers after tonight's event.

Trump jolts first GOP debate, rivals scramble for attention

Posted: 06 Aug 2015 10:31 PM PDT

CLEVELAND (AP) — A combative Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman-turned-presidential candidate, jolted the first Republican debate of the 2016 campaign by warning he might run as an independent if denied the GOP nomination. His startling declaration left his onstage rivals scrambling to compete for attention the rest of the night.