2012年8月20日星期一

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Will Rep. Todd Akin drop out of Senate race?

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:57 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 10, 2012 file photo shows Todd Akin, Republican, candidate for U.S. Senator from Missouri, speaks at the Missouri Farm Bureau candidate interview and endorsement meeting in Jefferson City, Mo. Akin, Missouri's GOP Senate candidate, has questioned whether women can become pregnant when they're raped, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/St. Louis Pos-Dispatch, Christian Gooden)Rumors were flying Monday afternoon that Rep. Todd Akin would resign his candidacy after causing a firestorm of controversy with his "legitimate rape" comments on Sunday. A senior Republican official told Buzzfeed's Ben Smith that Akin is planning to withdraw his Senate candidacy at 5:00 pm tomorrow. The source said Akin may still change his [...]


U.S.: Assange trying to distract from sex case

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:32 PM PDT

Ecuador granted asylum to the Australian national but Britain has refused to grant him safe passage out of the countryThe Obama administration on Monday accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of making "wild assertions" about U.S. persecution to deflect attention from sex allegations he faces questioning for in Sweden.


Comedienne Phyllis Diller dies at age 95

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:39 PM PDT

FILE-In this Oct. 9, 1985, file photo, Comedian Phyllis Diller gets a lift from emcee Buddy Hackett prior to the celebrity stag luncheon roast at the New York Friars Club in New York City. Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, died Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, at age 95 in Los Angeles.(AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark cackle, died Monday morning in Los Angeles at age 95.


11-mile stretch of Mississippi River closed

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:40 PM PDT

Drought challenges Mississippi Delta regionNearly 100 boats and barges were waiting for passage Monday along an 11-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that has been closed due to low water levels, the U.S. Coast Guard said.


Facebook director sells 20 million shares after lock-up

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:34 PM PDT

Peter Thiel, entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal, speaks during a news conference in WashingtonFacebook Inc director Peter Thiel sold roughly 20 million shares in the Internet social networking company last week, cashing out the majority of his stake, according to a regulatory filing. Thiel sold his shares on Thursday and Friday, at prices ranging between $19.27 and $20.69 per share, as the first "lock-up" barring early investors and insiders from selling shares after the initial public offering was lifted. Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard University dorm room, became the only U.S. ...


Pakistan girl jailed, accused of blasphemy

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:14 PM PDT

People gathered outside the locked house of a Christian girl in suburbs of Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. Pakistani authorities arrested a Christian girl and are investigating whether she violated the country's strict blasphemy laws after furious neighbors surrounded her house and demanded police take action, a police officer said Monday. The arrest of the girl and outrage among the local community demonstrates the deep emotion that suspected blasphemy cases can evoke in this conservative Muslim country, where rising extremism often means religious minorities live in fear of persecution.(AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)A Christian girl was sent to a Pakistani prison after being accused by her furious Muslim neighbors of burning pages of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, in violation of the country's strict blasphemy laws.


Obama warns Syria of military ‘red line’ on chemical weapons

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:59 PM PDT

Obama: 'soft landing' for Assad unlikelyPresident Barack Obama warned Monday that he would consider military force if Syria's Bashar Assad either tries to relocate his regime's arsenal of chemical and biological weapons or attempts to use them on his own people in a bid to crush an uprising that could topple him from power. "I have, at this point, not [...]


Syria airstrikes, shelling kill 100 during holiday

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:05 PM PDT

Syrians Bassem Kharfani, left, and Mahmoud Jikar sit at the door of Jikar's house, one of more than a dozen homes destroyed in a Syrian government bombing last week that killed more than 40 people, in Azaz, Syria, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)Government forces pummeled the battered city of Aleppo with airstrikes and tanks and shelled parts of Damascus and southern Syria Monday, killing at least 100 people during a major Muslim holiday, rights groups and activists said.


Obama: Romney not ‘responsible’ for death of woman in political ad

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:24 PM PDT

US President Barack ObamaPresident Barack Obama on Monday effectively repudiated a controversial and misleading ad, crafted by a super PAC fighting for his re-election, that essentially blamed Mitt Romney for the cancer death of the wife of a laid-off steelworker. The White House had previously resisted calls to denounce the commercial, which has run only once as a [...]


Photos: Diana Nyad continues historic Cuba to Florida swim

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 06:04 PM PDT

Photos: Diana Nyad continues historic Cuba to Florida swimVeteran US endurance swimmer Diana Nyad braves the treacherous waters of the Florida Straits on August 18 in her fourth attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. (AFP Photo/Christi Barli)

Lack of exercise is U.S. kids' biggest health problem: poll

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:23 PM PDT

Lack of exercise tops the list of the biggest concerns about kids' health, according to a new survey of American adults. The plight of young couch potatoes outranked teen pregnancy and drug abuse as problems that adults are concerned about, according to the survey.

Photos: First lady hosts first-ever kids 'state dinner'

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:13 AM PDT

Photos: First lady hosts first-ever kids 'state dinner'President Barack Obama, accompanied by first lady Michelle Obama, speaks during Kids' "State Dinner," hosted by Mrs. Obama, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Fisker issues second recall of electric car

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:51 PM PDT

Fisker Issues Second Recall of Electric CarFed-Backed Carmaker Blames Cooling Fan for Karma Car Fire


Restaurant offers discount for surrendering phone before meal

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Like us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow Trending Now on Twitter: @Knowlesitall and @YahooTrending. Many of us carry our smartphone everywhere -- even when we eat out at restaurants. Some people consider smartphones a necessity, much like their eating utensils, at mealtime -- whether it's to use Instagram to take enhanced pictures of meals or to check in on [...]

PETA angry over program pairing homelss people, homeless puppies

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:53 PM PDT

A new community program that pairs homeless puppies with formerly homeless people is being tested in San Francisco and has drawn the ire of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which calls the plan "puppy Russian roulette." Organizers of the pilot program, which launched Aug. 1, say the pound pups—who are matched with [...]

Does bacon-flavored Coke really exist?

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:22 PM PDT

Is bacon-flavored Coke on the way? That's what some Twitter users are wondering, after an image of a Diet Coke can emblazoned with the words "with Bacon" below the logo appeared online. "Timeout," the user @coolmaterial wrote. "This actually exists?" Turns out, it doesn't. At least, not yet. "To answer your question," Scott Williamson, vice [...]

Scientists developing nasal spray to treat depression, suicide

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:39 PM PDT

The U.S. Army gave $3 million to the University of Indiana to develop an antidepressant that can be taken as a nasal spray. The grant could speed the development of a portable and easy-to-use device for preventing mental health problems. … Continue reading →

Survery: And the No. 1 party school in America is ...

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday May 2, 2011 file photo West Virginia University students celebrate the death of Osama Bin Laden around a burning couch in Morgantown, W.Va. West Virginia University is the nation's top party school, displacing Ohio University in an annual survey by Princeton Review. (AP Photo/Daily Athenaeum, Matt Sunday)West Virginia University is back on top for the first time in five years, bumping off Ohio University to reclaim its title as the nation's No. 1 party school.


New hover vehicle recalls 'Star Wars' speeders

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:14 AM PDT

New Hover Vehicle Recalls 'Star Wars' BikeA resurrected hover vehicle won't fly through dense forests as effortlessly as the "Star Wars" speeder bikes from "Return of the Jedi," but its intuitive controls could someday allow anyone to fly it without pilot training.


Binge-drinking students happier, more accepted, study finds

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:44 PM PDT

Researchers completing a new study on alcohol consumption have discovered that college-age students who binge drink are happier than those who don't. Those who engaged in binge drinking tend to belong to so-called high-status groups: wealthy, white, male and active in fraternity life. And those who did not belong to the high-status groups could achieve [...]

Midwest drought reveals Indiana ‘ghost towns’

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:52 AM PDT

Corn plants struggle to survive in drought-stricken farm fields in Ferdinand, IndianaThe severe drought scorching much of the nation's Midwest has lowered water levels so drastically that towns that were intentionally submerged decades ago are starting to surface. The historic drought has dried the Salamonie River in northeast Indiana so much that its receding banks are now revealing the remnants, bricks and foundations of Monument City, [...]


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