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Obama blasts ‘dishonest’ Romney-Ryan Medicare attacks
Drama escalates over WikiLeaks founder
Dallas mayor declares emergency over West Nile virus
Paul Ryan expected to address Medicare at Ohio rally
Young illegal immigrants flood church for deferred action applications
Gunfire audible in Sikh temple shooting 911 tapes
Only the right kind of rain can cure U.S. drought
Guard shot at Family Research Council offices
U.N.: Both Syrian forces, rebels committing war crimes
Special ops group attacks Obama over bin Laden raid
Hillary Clinton dresses down interviewer over fashion question
'Big storms' predicted in Northeast this winter
Girl builds lemonade stand to combat human slavery
Panera Bread gets social media love for helping dying woman
Prince Philip hospitalized as a 'precautionary measure'
The mirror-free bride: Woman avoids mirrors for a year
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Obama blasts ‘dishonest’ Romney-Ryan Medicare attacks

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 12:29 PM PDT

President Barack Obama charged Wednesday that Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan are looking to slash Medicare benefits while leveling "dishonest" attacks accusing him of doing the same thing. "They are just throwing everything at the wall to see if it sticks," Obama told a rowdy crowd of supporters in Dubuque on the third and [...]

Drama escalates over WikiLeaks founder

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 03:06 PM PDT

Ecuadorean officials said today that they would announce their final decision on whether to grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tomorrow, but also claimed that the British government had threatened to raid the country's London embassy to get Assange back.

Dallas mayor declares emergency over West Nile virus

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 04:11 PM PDT

DALLAS (Reuters) - The mayor of Dallas declared a state of emergency in the ninth largest U.S. city on Wednesday to combat the spread of West Nile virus infections, which have been more prevalent than usual in Texas and other states this year. There have been more cases of West Nile virus reported so far this year than any year since the disease was first detected in the United States in 1999, the Centers for Disease Control said on its website. ...

Paul Ryan expected to address Medicare at Ohio rally

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 01:19 PM PDT

DAYTON, Ohio—Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is expected to discuss the brewing debate over his plan to overhaul the nation's Medicare system on Wednesday at a rally in Oxford, Ohio, a campaign aide said. Ryan's public remarks during his first days on the campaign trail as Mitt Romney's running mate have focused mostly on [...]

Young illegal immigrants flood church for deferred action applications

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 01:15 PM PDT

Hundreds of young illegal immigrants crowded a Roman Catholic Church basement on Manhattan's Lower East Side Wednesday to apply for President Barack Obama's deferred action program, which will shield them from deportation and provide a two-year work permit. Today is the first day applications are being accepted. Some showed up at 6 a.m. to make [...]

Gunfire audible in Sikh temple shooting 911 tapes

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 03:06 PM PDT

The woman's voice is hushed, but even in her whisper her terror is evident. In a barely audible voice she gives the 911 dispatcher the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin's address and pleads, "Hurry up, please."

Only the right kind of rain can cure U.S. drought

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 11:13 AM PDT

Weather experts know exactly what would officially end this year's killing drought: nine to 15 inches of rain falling in one month over the hardest-hit parts of the country. Numbers don't tell the whole story, though.

Guard shot at Family Research Council offices

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 09:49 AM PDT

A security guard at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Family Research Council was shot on Wednesday. Police and agents from the FBI and ATF are investigating the shooting.

U.N.: Both Syrian forces, rebels committing war crimes

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 08:39 AM PDT

GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and allied shabbiha militia have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder and torture in what appears to be state-directed policy, U.N. human rights investigators said on Wednesday. Syrian rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad have also committed war crimes but these "did not reach the gravity, frequency and scale" of those carried out by the army and security forces, they said. ...

Special ops group attacks Obama over bin Laden raid

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 01:08 PM PDT

A group of former U.S. intelligence and Special Forces operatives is set to launch a media campaign, including TV ads, that scolds President Barack Obama for taking credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Hillary Clinton dresses down interviewer over fashion question

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 09:34 AM PDT

An excerpt of a 2010 interview with Hillary Clinton in Kyrgyzstan is getting a second look online over her sharp response to a moderator's question about the U.S. Secretary of State's fashion sense.

'Big storms' predicted in Northeast this winter

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 10:31 AM PDT

Last winter, big cities like New York and Philadelphia saved a lot of money because the Northeast had a snow drought. Not so this winter.

Girl builds lemonade stand to combat human slavery

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 11:59 AM PDT

Vivienne Harr says she is making a stand, both literally and figuratively, to end human trafficking. The 8-year-old California girl is using a homemade lemonade stand to raise $150,000 for the nonprofit group Not For Sale, which works to end slavery around the world. "I will sit at my lemonade stand every day--rain or shine--until [...]

Panera Bread gets social media love for helping dying woman

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 12:32 PM PDT

Like us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow Trending Now on Twitter: @Knowlesitall and @YahooTrending. A Panera Bread location in Nashua, New Hampshire, is receiving kudos for going above and beyond to help an ailing woman. On Aug. 7, Brandon Cook, whose grandmother has terminal cancer, wrote a post on Facebook about how his local Panera went out of its [...]

Prince Philip hospitalized as a 'precautionary measure'

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 11:22 AM PDT

Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was hospitalized today for a recurrence of the bladder infection he suffered from earlier this summer, Buckingham Palace sources said.

The mirror-free bride: Woman avoids mirrors for a year

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 10:11 AM PDT

Kjerstin Gruys Has Mastered the Art of Avoiding Her Own Reflection, Even at Her Own Wedding