Reports: Romney picks Paul Ryan as VP running mate
NORFOLK, Va.--Mitt Romney will name his vice presidential running mate on Saturday. According to a statement the campaign released late Friday, the presumptive Republican nominee will announce his running mate at an 8:45am rally here on the USS Wisconsin--the first stop of his four-day bus tour of key battleground states. The campaign offered no further [...]Read More ...
Who is Rep. Paul Ryan?
Gov. Mitt Romney is expected to announce Saturday morning that he's chosen 42-year-old Paul Ryan to be his running mate. Since 2008, the well-spoken Republican Congressman from Janesville, Wisconsin has emerged as a leading figure on the right and a champion of reduced government spending. Ryan has earned the admiration of conservatives for the tough, [...]Read More ...
'Dreading November': Undecideds share unease
Lyn Vaccaro admits it: "I'm officially an undecided voter."Read More ...
How Paul Ryan will help Mitt Romney change the conversation
From the moment Mitt Romney endorsed and embraced the House Republican budget, authored by his presumed running mate Paul Ryan, Democrats pounced, ensuring it would be known forevermore as the "Romney-Ryan" budget. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee clearly doesn't seem to mind. As with all of the big moments in a presidential campaign, context matters [...]Read More ...
Farmers expect poorest corn crop in a decade
A deepening drought in the nation's farm states has cut further into this fall's harvest, with farmers now expected to pull from their fields the lowest corn yield in more than a decade.Read More ...
After long fight, opening day for Tenn. mosque
Muslims in the Tennessee city of Murfreesboro said Friday they hope the opening of their new mosque after more than two years of controversy will be a new beginning for relations with the community, particularly their opponents.Read More ...
Obama spokesman declines to repudiate cancer ad
White House spokesman Jay Carney declined Friday to repudiate an independent ad that ties Mitt Romney to the cancer death of a laid-off steelworker's wife, as the controversy over that misleading commercial dragged into another day. "We do not control third-party ads," Carney told reporters at his daily briefing. He had been asked whether President [...]Read More ...
Fareed Zakaria suspended
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Colo. suspect said to have 'intellectual and emotional maturity'
DENVER - The Colorado theatre shooting suspect left a good impression on people he met in his pursuit of a neuroscience career, with a reference describing him as having a "great amount of intellectual and emotional maturity."Read More ...
Feds: Miss. authorities violated rights of black children
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has released investigative findings determining that children in predominantly black Meridian, Miss. have had their constitutional rights violated by the Lauderdale County Youth Court, the Meridian Police Department, and the Mississippi Division of Youth Services in what civil rights...
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Dallas suffering from nation's deadliest outbreak of West Nile
DALLAS - Suffering from the nation's deadliest outbreak of West Nile virus this year, Dallas County authorized aerial spraying of insecticide on Friday for the first time in nearly five decades to help fight the mosquito-born illness.
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Watching the Perseid meteor shower this weekend? Share your photos
Photographer Jeff Berkes caught this Perseid meteor over Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah, on July 30, 2011. (Jeff Berkes/Space.com) Will you be watching the skies for meteors this weekend? If so, you're in luck. NASA says the Perseid meteor shower, which peaks Saturday and Sunday nights, will be the best show of the year. [...]
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David Cameron tells schools to revive competitive sport
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday he would make competitive sport the core of a new national curriculum, seeking to counter fears that faltering schools sports provision will wreck the legacy of Britain's record Olympics medals haul. The British team have surpassed expectations at the 2012 Games with a winning performance that has won 25 gold medals and put the hosts third in the medals table going into the final weekend. ...Read More ...
Beastie Boys rapper's will bars ad use of his work
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Photos: Even Olympians sucuumb to gravity sometimes
Germany's Markus Steuerwald falls during a play during their men's Group B volleyball match against the U.S. at the London 2012 Olympic Games at Earls Court July 31, 2012.Read More ...
Former border agents convicted in smuggling ring
Two former Border Patrol agents were found guilty Friday of smuggling hundreds of people into the U.S. in Border Patrol vehicles.
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Wife was 'terrified' of Peterson, sister testifies
The sister of former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson's wife, whose body was discovered in a bathtub in 2004, initially suspected that Peterson was involved in her death, according to testimony on Friday in Peterson's high-profile murder case. Peterson is accused of killing Kathleen Savio, his third wife, while they were engaged in a contentious divorce in 2004 and staging her death to look like an accidental drowning. ...Read More ...
Friends suspected of trying to free accused Lamborghini thief
SAN RAFAEL, California (Reuters) - Friends of a teenager accused of stealing a $200,000 sports car in a spectacular escapade last year tried but failed on Friday to bust him out of a juvenile detention facility on his birthday, investigators said on Friday. Max Wade turned 18 on Friday while being held in a juvenile hall in San Rafael on charges he stole a celebrity chef's Lamborghini in a Hollywood-like acrobatic heist. He also faces a possible life sentence for allegedly shooting into a truck carrying a girl who had spurned his romantic overtures. ...
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David Rakoff, acclaimed humorist, dies at 47
David Rakoff, an award-winning humorist whose cynical outlook on life and culture developed a loyal following of readers and radio listeners, has died after a long illness. He was 47.Read More ...
Flickr user discovers new species of insect
Hock Ping Guek recently posted some photographs of an interesting looking insect to the online photo-sharing site Flickr. What Guek didn't realize was that he had unintentionally discovered a new species. Guek (known on Flickr as Kurt) had posted a request along with his photo uploads asking for help in identifying the species of green [...]
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U.S., Israel at odds over Iran nuke program intelligence
The White House expressed confidence Friday that American intelligence will know if Iran escalates its nuclear program in a sprint to build an atomic bomb—a day after Israel's defense minister warned that the allies might not know "in time" to prevent it. "We have eyes, we have visibility into the program," press secretary Jay Carney [...]
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3D printer could build a house in 20 hours
An engineering professor, Behrokh Khoshnevis, at the University of Southern California, is really thinking big: He has figured out a way to build housing with a giant 3D printer. Here's how it would work, according to the blog Pop Sci. The apparatus, instead of being the size of your typical laser printer, would actually be [...]
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