February 2012
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What Rick Santorum meant to say when speaking...
The GOP presidential candidate raised some eyebrows by saying women should not be in combat because of the “the types of emotions involved.” He followed up afterward: “I was talking about men’s emotional issues; not women,” Santorum said. “I mean, there’s a lot of issues. That’s just one of them.” He’s also concerned about...
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WatchSouth Florida is battling an invasion of giant African snails that eat everything in sight, leaving only a slimy trail behind. The giant gastropods could become a major threat to the state’s agriculture and pose a health risk to humans.
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WatchThe $26 billion long-awaited foreclosure settlement between states, the federal government and banks that was announced today is being hailed as the biggest multi-state settlement since 1998, but is it better for banks or homeowners?
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Washington state lawmakers pass gay marriage bill... →
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Why we believe incorrect information, even after...
Fifty students participated in a study in which they were asked 120 basic science questions. They also ranked their level of confidence in their answers. Their answers were often wrong, so they were given the right answers. Then half of the participants took the same test again immediately. The other half waited a week to take the test a second time. The researchers concluded that the difference...
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WatchIn politics, it’s what you said — not what you meant to say — that matters. Context can really change the meaning, but when it comes to attack ads, there’s no such thing as context. Here are the top 5 quotes Democrats could use against Mitt Romney: 1. “I like being able to fire people.” 2. “Rick, I’ll tell you what, 10,000 bucks? A $10,000 dollar bet?” 3....
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BREAKING NEWS: A federal appeals court has...
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American kids denied food stamps in Alabama under... →
Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen tells us that people have called into the group’s Alabama hotline to say they’ve been denied food stamps even when seeking them for their American children because they couldn’t prove that they themselves were legal residents.
Apparently Alabama’s strict immigration law has a provision that makes it a felony for a...
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Would you buy raspberry-scented "scratch-n-sniff"...
Yes, they actually exist…and there are more flavors coming. Perhaps apple, banana, eucalyptus, grapefruit or mint is more your style?
(Photo courtesy of nakedandfamousdenim.com)
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9th Circuit's ruling on the constitutionality of...
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BREAKING: Mitt Romney wins Nevada Republican...
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Behind the scenes of the Puppy Bowl
Animal Planet’s furry fit of Super Bowl counterprogramming returns for its 8th year of tail-wagging and terrier touchdowns on Sunday afternoon.
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@AP: BREAKING: Susan G. Komen for the Cure...
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"We're a library, so we facilitate access to...
A Seattle library is making news after refusing to remove a man who was watching pornographic videos on a library computer.
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Moms to JC Penney: Immediately replace Ellen...
One Million Moms, a project of the American Family Association, is upset over the department store’s hiring of DeGeneres, who the group says “is not a true representation of the type of families that shop at their store” since she’s an “open homosexual.” The group also thinks JC Penney is offending the majority of its shoppers, who will subsequently stop shopping...
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“I like to think wherever I am, whatever room I’m in is ‘The...”
– Our reporter sat down with CNN political anchor Wolf Blitzer and got the scoop on the intensity of political debates, the 2012 race, and how he paces himself for the long haul on treadmills and venti skim lattes.
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Pfizer is recalling 1 million packets of birth... →
Because a packaging error leaves open the possibility that they *won’t* prevent pregnancy.
The recall is of: 14 lots of Lo/Ovral-28 tablets and 14 lots of generic Norgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol tablets.
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January 2012
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WatchA woman dumps her boyfriend after finding out he has cancer — then she asks for their $8,000 Super Bowl tickets. Instead, he’s holding a Twitter contest to give them away.
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Harming the movement?
Images of a burning American flag that went viral this weekend after Occupy Oakland demonstrations have sparked a debate over whether the act is justified or if it’s too unpatriotic and harms the movement. What do you think?
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Your mother's love might have physically altered...
Previous studies have told us that kids who are raised in nurturing environments tend to do better in school and are more emotionally developed. But now, brain images show us that a mother’s love physically alters the volume of her child’s hippocampus, the region of the brain that’s important for learning, memory and stress responses.
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“I started to carry chalk around with me. I ride my bike a lot, so, I’d...”
– Jake Reilly, a 24-year-old college student who gave up his cellphone, email and social media for 90 days. He says that, among other things, the experiment taught him that some people he thought were close friends really weren’t that close after all, and he thinks it helped him get back...
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How Ron Paul's race for delegates could shake up...
As Paul marches along to Republican primaries and caucuses, he could wind up picking up delegates in nearly every state. That could result in some deal-making if no candidate has a majority of delegates heading into the Republican Party convention in August. “It’s a real concern,” Jack Burkman, a Republican consultant unaffiliated in the 2012 race, told us.
Read the whole...
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Politics is not a game exactly, but there are...
Topping the list was when Obama tried to crack a joke during his State of the Union address — remember that comment about spilled milk? See what else topped the list of Politically Foul plays this week.
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WatchIn an interview with Diane Sawyer, Obama answers a question from our readers and says he second guesses himself “constantly.”
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“Is the public aware that I am a gentleman of leisure, watching color TV in the...”
– A convicted murderer on death row in North Carolina wrote a taunting letter to his hometown newspaper about his life of “leisure” in prison and making a mockery of the legal system.
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In 1968, Newt Gingrich led protests against nude... →
Alas, he wasn’t successful in getting Tulane University to allow publication of sexually explicit photos. But, the next year, he did succeed in persuading the university to let him teach a course in futurology called “When You are 49; The Year 2000.”
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Mr. President, I have a question...
What do you want to ask President Obama? We’re interviewing him this week with ABC News. Submit your questions here and we’ll pick some to ask the president.