2012年11月6日星期二

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Race for the White House: Join us live

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 04:09 PM PST

liveCRAs votes are being counted, watch our livestream and chat with our columnists and reporters.


If Obama wins, will he finally tell us his second-term agenda?

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 09:56 AM PST

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk off Air Force One after arriving at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)Walter Shapiro asks if anyone outside Obama's inner sanctum knows what he would do with a second term.


Daredevils illegally snap photos of ballots

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 12:59 PM PST

ballotLike they do with their breakfasts, pets and children on any other day, thousands of voters took to Instagram on Election Day to post photos of their ballots. But unlike your filtered pet pictures, photographing your ballot and sharing it with others is likely illegal. According to the Citizen Media Law Project, which has been [...]


Romney happy, confident on Election Day

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 01:15 PM PST

Republican presidential nominee Romney talks to reporters on his campaign plane enroute to Boston, Massachusetts to await result of U.S. presidential electionMOON TOWNSHIP, Pa.—Mitt Romney was supposed to get off his campaign plane and board his motorcade for a last-minute get-out-the-vote effort. But when the plane landed at the Pittsburgh International Airport, he found some 1,000 people waiting across the street from the tarmac, lined up on a three-story parking garage where they screamed and waved [...]


Yay for democracy! Really.

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 12:05 PM PST

Poll worker assists voter with voting booth curtain before voting during U.S. presidential election at Penrose recreation center in PhiladelphiaToday I voted in the United States, in an actual polling station, for the first time since 2000. I'd voted in 2004 and 2008, but during both elections I was living outside the U.S., so I had to vote via absentee ballot, which feels about as politically satisfying as taking the S.A.T.


More women than men posting about voting on Facebook

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 12:47 PM PST

FB mapFacebook is keeping track of more than just the things you like and the games you play. For Election Day, the social media giant is watching how many people are posting about going to the polls.


Michigan man dies, is revived at poll—and makes sure he voted

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 02:57 PM PST

By Lylah M. Alphonse During early voting in Southfield Township in Michigan on Monday, even a near-death experience couldn't keep one elderly voter away from the polls. Ty Houston was filling out his absentee ballot at the township offices when an elderly woman near him started screaming. "I was filling out the form as were [...]

Fresno workplace shooting leaves three dead, two injured

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 02:39 PM PST

Police search an area where a workplace shooting occurred that killed one person and wounded several others at Valley Protein, formally known as Apple Valley Farms Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Fresno, Calif. Police say a parolee who worked at the Fresno chicken processing plant opened fire at the business on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding three others, before shooting himself. Police Chief Jerry Dyer said they didn't know what prompted the attack by 42-year-old Lawrence Jones midway through his shift at Apple Valley Farms. Other workers told police he did not appear to be himself when he arrived at the plant for work. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)The death toll now stands at three from this morning's workplace shooting at a Fresno, Calif., meat processing plant.


Brother of Syrian parliament speaker assassinated

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 11:20 AM PST

A Syrian baby cries as he lays on a swing attached to a tree at a displaced camp, in the Syrian village of Atma, near the Turkish border with Syria, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)Gunmen killed the brother of Syria's parliament speaker in a hail of bullets as he drove to work in Damascus on Tuesday, the state news agency said.


Briton murdered in China fed tips to British intelligence

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 11:55 AM PST

Combination photo shows British businessman Neil Heywood and Gu Kailai, wife of China's former Chongqing Municipality Communist Party Secretary Bo XilaiA British businessman murdered in China in a high-profile case of political intrigue was an informal source of information for MI6.


Woman in labor votes on way to hospital

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 09:07 AM PST

Woman in Labor Votes on Way to HospitalWith contractions five minutes apart, Galicia Malone stopped at Precinct 88 in Chicago to cast her vote on her way to the hospital, according to the Cook County Clerk's Office.


Linda McMahon gives master class in false flag GOTV

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 11:39 AM PST

Reports out of Connecticut on Election Day tell a tale of Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon sure to go down in the annals of GOTV false flag operations. McMahon's campaign is closing out the cycle with an appeal to urban and minority voters that looks and feels much like a Democratic campaign effort. Doorhangers call on voters to cast their ballots for President Obama as well as McMahon, promising the pair "will fight for us. ...

Romney, Ryan and Biden cross paths in Cleveland

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 09:55 AM PST

CLEVELAND—Mitt Romney and Joe Biden can't stop running into each other. For the third straight day, planes carrying the Republican presidential contender and the vice president crossed paths as the two flew around battleground states on the campaigns' last day. Around 11:30 a.m., the Romney plane landed at the Cleveland airport, followed minutes later by [...]

Intrigue swirls around Russia defense chief's firing

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 10:26 AM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 9, 2012 file photo, Russia's Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, bottom right, watch the Victory Day Parade, in Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired the country's defense minister two weeks after a criminal probe was opened into alleged fraud in the sell-off of military assets. Putin made the announcement of Anatoly Serdyukov's dismissal on Tuesday Nov. 6, 2012 in a meeting with Moscow regional governor Sergei Shoigu, whom he appointed as the new minister. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Vladimir Putin fired his powerful defense chief over a corruption scandal Tuesday, leaving many to wonder what the real reason was for his dismissal.


Watch: As voters head to polls, reports of problems pour in

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 12:57 PM PST

An unexpected glitch almost caused one central Pennsylvania voter to cast his ballot for the wrong candidate, highlighting concerns about voter fraud on an already tense election day.

Bombings rock Damascus, brother of parliament speaker killed

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 03:35 PM PST

Residents remove the body of a man lying on the ground after a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad fired missiles at Houla"Anything, anything, to get that man out of the country and to have a safe transition in Syria," British Prime Minister David Cameron told Al Arabiya news.


N.Y. Post publishes photo of empty Oval Office: ‘America must elect Romney’

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 10:22 AM PST

If Mitt Romney loses the 2012 presidential election, he certainly can't blame the New York Post. The News Corp.-owned tabloid published a photo of an empty Oval Office on its Election Day cover, declaring "All This Office Needs Is a Leader" and "America must elect Romney today." "Americans today make a fateful choice," the Post [...]

Woman who drove past school bus must wear ‘idiot’ sign

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 09:35 AM PST

A woman who was caught on video driving along a sidewalk to avoid a stopped school bus has been ordered to wear an 'idiot' sign at the intersection where it happened.

Judge orders Obama mural covered in Philadelphia polling station

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 09:47 AM PST

Yahoo! NewsRepublican National Committee official Tim Miller complained on Twitter that a Philadelphia polling place has put up voting booths right next to a mural of President Barack Obama.


Mixed results on multivitamin benefits

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 10:11 AM PST

New findings from a long-term study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, for example, suggest that multivitamins do not protect against heart disease in men.
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