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• Blitzer blasts Trump for 'ridiculous' birther comments
• Will 2012 be the year of the Duck?
• Taliban blamed for 'poison attack' on Afghan schoolgirls
• Obama honors Medal of Freedom recipients for 'incredible impact'
• Wildfires burning in at least 3 states
• Romney lands in Vegas with Trump over his shoulder
• Romney: Obama's economic record ‘a twig to hang onto’
• Workers among 16 dead in latest big Italian quake
• Yale grad’s final essay gets new life after writer’s death
• Report: Rob Portman to meet with Israeli Prime Minister
• Sun turns NYC into 'Manhattanhenge' tonight
• U.S., allies expel top Syrian diplomats
• Arkansas escaped inmates spur manhunt
• Top weather forecaster retires amid controversy
• MSNBC’s Chris Hayes apologizes for fallen soldiers comment
• Stray dog follows cyclists for 1,139 miles
• Nebraska couple wear matching outfits every day for 35 years
• Reporter cooks and eats Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Cherokee’ recipes
• Skydiver planning world record 120,000-foot jump from space
• How to prevent Homeland Security from spying on your social networks
• 6-year-old is youngest National Spelling Bee contestant ever

Blitzer blasts Trump for 'ridiculous' birther comments Posted: 29 May 2012 02:52 PM PDT Donald Trump, de facto leader of the so-called "birther" movement, called into "The Situation Room" on Tuesday for what quickly became a testy interview with Wolf Blitzer about Trump's continued skepticism over the authenticity of President Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate. Trump, in Las Vegas to host a fundraiser for Mitt Romney on Tuesday, took issue [...]

Will 2012 be the year of the Duck? Posted: 29 May 2012 09:01 AM PDT Yahoo's Jeff Greenfield says Romney's Daffy Duck rigidness may trump Obama's laid-back Bugs Bunny.

Taliban blamed for 'poison attack' on Afghan schoolgirls Posted: 29 May 2012 12:01 PM PDT Police in northern Afghanistan say 160 schoolgirls were admitted to a local hospital after they were thought to be poisoned by the Taliban. It's the third such poisoning of Afghan schoolgirls in less than two weeks. The girls "complained of headaches, dizziness and vomiting before being taken to the hospital," Hafizullah Safi, director of the [...]

Obama honors Medal of Freedom recipients for 'incredible impact' Posted: 29 May 2012 04:41 PM PDT President Barack Obama gave the United States' top civilian honor on Tuesday to musician Bob Dylan, novelist Toni Morrison and 11 other people he said have had an "incredible impact" on society through their words and actions. "What sets these men and women apart is the incredible impact they have had on so many people," Obama said, presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom awards at the White House. "They have enriched our lives and they have changed our lives for the better. ...

Wildfires burning in at least 3 states Posted: 29 May 2012 12:58 PM PDT Wildfires burning in at least three states have thousands of firefighters scrambling to contain them. In New Mexico, a pair of fires sparked by lightning merged and are close to becoming the largest wildfire in state history, fire officials told the Associated Press. More than 1,100 firefighters and nine [...]

Romney lands in Vegas with Trump over his shoulder Posted: 29 May 2012 12:59 PM PDT Donald Trump wasn't here to greet Mitt Romney as he touched down in Nevada ahead of a major fundraiser here tonight. But he might as well have been. As Romney exited his campaign plane at McCarran Airport, the presumptive Republican nominee was cast against the backdrop of Trump's Boeing 757, which was parked a [...]

Romney: Obama's economic record ‘a twig to hang onto’ Posted: 29 May 2012 11:08 AM PDT Mitt Romney insisted Tuesday that President Barack Obama's policies "have made it harder for America to get back on its feet" and said the president's efforts to tout improvements in the economy are like finding "a twig to hang onto." Speaking just miles from one of the nation's largest coal-powered energy plants, Romney accused [...]

Workers among 16 dead in latest big Italian quake Posted: 29 May 2012 04:27 PM PDT Workers at the small machinery company had just returned for their first shift following Italy's powerful and deadly quake earlier this month when another one struck, collapsing the roof.

Yale grad’s final essay gets new life after writer’s death Posted: 29 May 2012 02:51 PM PDT A 22-year-old Yale graduate, Marina Keegan, who penned her life's lessons in a final column for the Yale Daily News, died just days after commencement. But the words of her work, "The Opposite of Loneliness," have lived on. The Massachusetts resident died in a car crash on her way to a vacation house on Cape [...]

Report: Rob Portman to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Posted: 29 May 2012 02:32 PM PDT ABC News scoops that Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, rumored to be on Mitt Romney's vice presidential shortlist, is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Thursday: Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday in Israel. An Israeli official confirmed the meeting to ABC News Tuesday. This high-profile [...]

Sun turns NYC into 'Manhattanhenge' tonight Posted: 29 May 2012 01:14 PM PDT New Yorkers will be treated to a special sight tonight: Today is one of two days a year when the setting sun aligns perfectly with Manhattan's street grid. As the sun sets on the Big Apple, it will light up both the north and south sides of every cross street.

U.S., allies expel top Syrian diplomats Posted: 29 May 2012 09:09 AM PDT The United States, along with allies Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Canada, announced the expulsion of top Syrian diplomats on Tuesday to protest the May 25 massacre of some 100 people in the town of Houla.

Arkansas escaped inmates spur manhunt Posted: 29 May 2012 07:27 AM PDT Two alleged killers who broke out of an Arkansas jail early Monday morning are the subject of a manhunt today.

Top weather forecaster retires amid controversy Posted: 29 May 2012 11:18 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the National Weather Service has retired unexpectedly after an internal investigation found that agency employees improperly shifted millions of dollars in budget resources to weather service offices around the country. As a result of the investigation, agency officials have now asked Congress permission to redirect some $36 million in spending in the 2012 budget to local weather forecasting and equipment upgrades, Scott Smullen, a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said on Tuesday. ...

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes apologizes for fallen soldiers comment Posted: 29 May 2012 07:08 AM PDT Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's weekend morning talk show "Up," has apologized for comments he made on Sunday about use of the word "hero" to describe fallen U.S. soldiers. After an interview with Lt. Col. Steve Beck, a former Marine whose job was to notify military families of the death of a loved one, Hayes [...]

Stray dog follows cyclists for 1,139 miles Posted: 29 May 2012 09:16 AM PDT A stray dog in China has finally found a new home after following a team of cyclists for more than 1,100 miles. "She was lying, tired, on the street around Yajiang, Sichuan province," cyclist Zhang Heng, 22, told China Daily. "So we fed her, and then she followed our team. The small white dog, named [...]

Nebraska couple wear matching outfits every day for 35 years Posted: 29 May 2012 11:48 AM PDT Mel and Joey Schwanke have been married for nearly 65 years. And for more than half that time, they have been wearing matching outfits every single day. "We don't dare go somewhere without having matching outfits," Mel told Fremont, Neb., affiliate KETV. The couple reportedly have 146 custom-made matching outfits, which they've been rotating over [...]

Reporter cooks and eats Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Cherokee’ recipes Posted: 29 May 2012 01:12 PM PDT Charles C.W. Cooke, writer at the National Review magazine, lived up to his name by taking his reporting to an extra culinary level. Cooke actually prepared the recipes that Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren submitted and published in the 1984 cookbook "Pow Wow Chow." While Warren's five recipes aren't all that authentically Cherokee, they [...]

Skydiver planning world record 120,000-foot jump from space Posted: 29 May 2012 01:03 PM PDT This summer, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner will attempt to break the world record for the longest jump, plummeting more than 23 miles from the Earth's stratosphere. "I've done a lot of test jumps, so I'm good," Baumgartner confidently told Fox News before adding that he would "probably say a little prayer" before making the jump [...]

How to prevent Homeland Security from spying on your social networks Posted: 29 May 2012 02:19 PM PDT With the FBI reportedly forming a new internet surveillance unit and the National Security Agency building a data center in Utah that will be able to sift through communications between private citizens, you can assume that the government can readily spy on you … Continue reading →

6-year-old is youngest National Spelling Bee contestant ever Posted: 29 May 2012 02:34 PM PDT Lori Anne Madison is already in the record books, and this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee hasn't even begun. That's because the 6-year-old from Virginia is the youngest person ever to qualify for the competition. "She's like a teenager in a 6-year-old body," says her mother, Sorina Madison. "Her brain, she understands things way ahead [...]

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