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Today's Most Popular News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Stingray photobomb goes viral Romney Camp Lowers Bar for Debates Netanyahu says world must draw "red line" for Iran Suitors bombard Hong Kong tycoon's gay daughter after dowry Candidate's wife throws water on reporter U.S. responded to Benghazi attack as terrorism on 'Day One': Source Romney: Bain Builds up, Then Harvests Companies Afghan Baby 'Happiness,' Found Beside Road, Gets a Family Four ways Mitt Romney can still win the election Conn. man kills masked teen, learns it's his son Calif. man behind anti-Muslim film ordered jailed Thieves take $10,000 in wedding presents when couple leaves gifts outside overnight ABC News Tracks Missing iPad To Florida Home of TSA Officer Romney slams Obama on defense cuts Hackers, Possibly From Middle East, Block U.S. Banks' Websites NJ woman accused of cancer scam for wedding, cash Viral photo helps 19-year-old arthritic dog recover 'Britishisms' Creeping into American English Police: Minn. Office Shooter Kills 4, Then Self Netanyahu's 'red line' mocked on Twitter One certain forecast in U.S. poll dispute: more acrimony ahead GOP fires vendor after questionable registrations Teen bitten by 'world's most venomous snake' Mars rover Curiosity finds signs of ancient stream Mitt Romney tells voters: If I'm elected, don't expect huge tax cuts What do Ohio's white working-class voters want? US Postal Service to default on second $5B payment Renoir artwork from flea market now thought stolen MS-13 and the Threat of Transnational Gangs Tycoon Offers $65M to Man Who Woos Gay Daughter Actor Johnny Lewis found dead in LA, linked to killing Obama: NFL refs' return is 'great day for America' Team Obama: Romney's 'Pinocchio' nose reaches from VA to OH AP IMPACT: Air Force insiders foresaw F-22 woes France unveils a budget heavy on taxes Tea party hero changes tune to woo Ind. moderates Cops Use Traffic Tix to Force Woman Into Drug Buys, Lawyer Claims Man behind anti-Islam film arrested Police: Minn. office shooter among 'several' dead Slammed for Using Food Stamps: Ga. Woman Seeks Apology Stingray photobomb goes viral Thu,27 Sep 2012 06:57 AM PDT A photo of three seemingly terrified women being greeted by a giant stingray is making the rounds online. The "photobomb," posted to Reddit.com on Wednesday, appears to show a man in the water behind the women lift the stingray onto their backs just as the photo was taken. Several commenters pointed out that the undated [...] Full Story Top Romney Camp Lowers Bar for Debates Thu,27 Sep 2012 06:23 PM PDT ABC OTUS News - In a memo sent to surrogates today, Romney senior adviser Beth Myers sets the expectations for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney low — very low — compared to the "ample rhetorical gifts" of his opponent. The memo says President Obama has a "significant advantage" heading... Full Story Top Netanyahu says world must draw "red line" for Iran Thu,27 Sep 2012 12:59 PM PDT Associated Press - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Thursday that Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb by next summer and urged the world to draw a clear "red line" to stop it in its tracks. Full Story Top Suitors bombard Hong Kong tycoon's gay daughter after dowry Thu,27 Sep 2012 08:57 AM PDT Reuters - HONG KONG (Reuters) - The newly married lesbian daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon who offered a $65 million "marriage bounty" to any man able to win her love, on Thursday said she'd been flooded by marriage proposals but harbored no animosity towards her father. ... Full Story Top Candidate's wife throws water on reporter Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:45 PM PDT One way to get rid of a pesky reporter: Throw a bucket of water on him. That's what the wife of a failed candidate embroiled in a campaign scandal did to Miami Local 10 senior political reporter Michael Putney. The TV journalist came away drenched but not any more enlightened than when he knocked on [...] Full Story Top U.S. responded to Benghazi attack as terrorism on 'Day One': Source Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:56 PM PDT When gunmen struck the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year, the response from American officials was almost simultaneous: They immediately set about collecting information about the attackers, some of whom were quickly identified as foreigners, and tracing links from them to known extremist groups, a knowledgeable source has told Yahoo [...] Full Story Top Romney: Bain Builds up, Then Harvests Companies Thu,27 Sep 2012 10:16 AM PDT ABC OTUS News - In a video made public today, but recorded sometime in the summer of 1985, Mitt Romney explains in frank terms how his then newly-minted private equity firm planned on making money. "Bain Capital is an investment partnership which was formed to invest in startup companies... Full Story Top Afghan Baby 'Happiness,' Found Beside Road, Gets a Family Thu,27 Sep 2012 06:03 AM PDT ABC News' Aleem Agha reports: KABUL, Afghanistan – A newborn girl left abandoned on the side of the road in southern Afghanistan has been adopted by a childless Afghan couple. "We have named her Arya [which means happiness], and we will take care of her... Full Story Top Four ways Mitt Romney can still win the election Thu,27 Sep 2012 11:46 AM PDT National Constitution Center - Despite recent trends in public opinion polls, Mitt Romney is far from out of the presidential race, if several historic trends break his way. Full Story Top Conn. man kills masked teen, learns it's his son Fri,28 Sep 2012 09:43 AM PDT Associated Press - A popular fifth-grade teacher fatally shot a masked teenager in self-defense outside his neighbor's house during what appeared to be an attempted late-night burglary, then discovered the teen was his son, state police said. Full Story Top Calif. man behind anti-Muslim film ordered jailed Fri,28 Sep 2012 07:07 AM PDT Associated Press - The mystery surrounding the man behind the crudely produced anti-Islamic video that sparked violence in the Middle East deepened when he appeared in court and identified himself by yet another name. Full Story Top Thieves take $10,000 in wedding presents when couple leaves gifts outside overnight Thu,27 Sep 2012 04:20 PM PDT A newlywed couple's marriage is off to a rough start after thieves took more than $10,000 worth of gifts that the couple left unprotected outdoors overnight. "Somebody had come and taken all of the wedding gifts," Amy Wright, the bride, told local Pennsylvania affiliate WFMZ. "Every last card was gone, the boxes, the gift bags." [...] Full Story Top ABC News Tracks Missing iPad To Florida Home of TSA Officer Thu,27 Sep 2012 09:24 AM PDT Good Morning America - Investigation Reveals 381 TSA Officers Fired for Theft from Passengers; Agency Cites 'Zero Tolerance' Full Story Top Romney slams Obama on defense cuts Thu,27 Sep 2012 10:08 AM PDT SPRINGFIELD, Va.—For the third straight day, Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama campaigned in the same state, with Romney arguing before an audience of military veterans that potential cuts to the defense budget are "unthinkable and devastating." Speaking in the battleground state at an American Legion post outside Washington, D.C., Romney blamed Obama for planned [...] Full Story Top Hackers, Possibly From Middle East, Block U.S. Banks' Websites Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT ABC News - Group Warned Attack Was in Retaliation for Controversial Anti-Islam Film, 'The Innocence of Muslims' Full Story Top NJ woman accused of cancer scam for wedding, cash Thu,27 Sep 2012 01:27 PM PDT Associated Press - Authorities say a New Jersey woman scammed relatives and others out of cash, meals and even a wedding by falsely claiming she had bladder cancer. Full Story Top Viral photo helps 19-year-old arthritic dog recover Wed,26 Sep 2012 11:09 AM PDT A photograph of a man wading in Lake Superior with his 19-year-old arthritic dog captured the hearts of millions when it was posted online last month--an outpouring that inspired the dog's owner to launch a foundation to help low-income families care for their aging canines. John Unger says Schoep's Legacy Foundation has raised more than [...] Full Story Top 'Britishisms' Creeping into American English Thu,27 Sep 2012 11:36 AM PDT LiveScience.com - British people have long bemoaned the gradual encroachment of Americanisms into everyday speech, via Hollywood films and sitcoms. Now, "Britishisms" are crossing the pond the other way, thanks to the growing online popularity of British media such as Harry Potter, Downton Abbey and The Daily Mail. Full Story Top Police: Minn. Office Shooter Kills 4, Then Self Thu,27 Sep 2012 05:34 PM PDT Good Morning America - Three Others Are in Critical Condition With Gunshot Wounds Full Story Top Netanyahu's 'red line' mocked on Twitter Thu,27 Sep 2012 01:24 PM PDT During his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the completion of Iran's nuclear enrichment program threatens the stability of the Middle East, Europe and the United States—and urged world leaders to draw a "red line" to prevent Iran from continuing on. In a highly unusual [...] Full Story Top One certain forecast in U.S. poll dispute: more acrimony ahead Thu,27 Sep 2012 10:16 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It has become the new battle cry for Republicans: All the polls showing Mitt Romney trailing by big margins are just wrong because pollsters are interviewing too many Democrats. Surveys showing President Barack Obama leading nationally by 5 to 7 points, and even more in swing states, have come under fire from the Romney campaign and conservatives who accuse polling companies of misjudging their data at best, and deliberately skewing it against Romney at worst. ... Full Story Top GOP fires vendor after questionable registrations Fri,28 Sep 2012 05:17 AM PDT Associated Press - Republicans on Thursday fired a vendor suspected of submitting 108 questionable new voter registrations in Florida's Palm Beach County, ground zero for disputed ballots in 2000's presidential race. Full Story Top Teen bitten by 'world's most venomous snake' Thu,27 Sep 2012 08:16 AM PDT A 17-year-old Australian boy is in serious condition after being bitten by what most reptile experts believe is the world's most venomous snake. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the boy was admitted to a hospital in the town of Kurri Kurri with a snakebite on his left hand. He was later transferred to Calvary [...] Full Story Top Mars rover Curiosity finds signs of ancient stream Thu,27 Sep 2012 04:09 PM PDT Associated Press - Scientists say NASA's newest Mars rover has found signs that a stream once flowed across the surface near the site where it landed. Full Story Top Mitt Romney tells voters: If I'm elected, don't expect huge tax cuts Thu,27 Sep 2012 08:20 AM PDT Christian Science Monitor - Mitt Romney says Americans shouldn't expect a big tax cut from him if he's elected president, because the nation also has to think about how to tame out-of-control federal deficits. Full Story Top What do Ohio's white working-class voters want? Thu,27 Sep 2012 11:01 AM PDT Associated Press - To look at Ohio is to glimpse America in a nutshell — a state full of places where laborers, truck drivers, cooks, store clerks and business owners form the backbone of small-town life. Places where the deli cashes checks, cars and trucks are "vehicles" and the NFL takes a back seat to high-school football. Full Story Top US Postal Service to default on second $5B payment Fri,28 Sep 2012 04:10 AM PDT Associated Press - The U.S. Postal Service, on the brink of default on a second multibillion-dollar payment it can't afford to pay, is sounding a new cautionary note that having squeezed out all the cost savings within its power, the mail agency's viability now lies almost entirely with Congress. Full Story Top Renoir artwork from flea market now thought stolen Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:34 PM PDT Associated Press - The Renoir painting that caused a sensation when it was bought at a flea market for $7 may have been stolen from a museum six decades ago, and an auction house has put its sale on hold. Full Story Top MS-13 and the Threat of Transnational Gangs Wed,26 Sep 2012 07:58 PM PDT El Salvador is a small country in Central America with the unfortunate distinction of a big number. It has one of the highest murder rates in the world, an average of 18 killings every day. That's in large part because of the country's ruthless street gangs. So when the two biggest rivals called a truce [...] Full Story Top Tycoon Offers $65M to Man Who Woos Gay Daughter Thu,27 Sep 2012 06:15 AM PDT Cecil Chao Sze-tung is Hong Kong's perennial playboy. Call him the city's Hugh Hefner, minus the pajamas and add a pair of shades. Never married, real estate and shipping tycoon Chao, 76, has been a staple of the Hong Kong tabloid and social rags since... Full Story Top Actor Johnny Lewis found dead in LA, linked to killing Thu,27 Sep 2012 03:03 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Johnny Lewis, who had a supporting role in the TV show "Sons of Anarchy," was found dead on Wednesday in a Los Angeles neighborhood where he was suspected of killing an 81-year-old woman from whom he may have been renting a room, police said on Thursday. Police responded to a call on Wednesday morning about a screaming woman in the affluent Los Feliz section and found Catherine Davis dead in her home, Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Officer Cleon Joseph said. ... Full Story Top Obama: NFL refs' return is 'great day for America' Thu,27 Sep 2012 09:14 AM PDT President Barack Obama warmly welcomed the breakthrough deal that will see the NFL's regular refs return to work. Their temporary replacements angered and baffled football fans coast-to-coast with controversial calls. Obama thinks "it's a great day for America," White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One, as the president headed to [...] Full Story Top Team Obama: Romney's 'Pinocchio' nose reaches from VA to OH Thu,27 Sep 2012 08:59 AM PDT President Barack Obama's re-election campaign mockingly suggested Thursday that Mitt Romney's campaign has been so dishonest that if the Republican were Pinocchio, "his nose would be reaching from Virginia to Ohio." Romney's campaign immediately shot back, using the Democrat's own observation that sometimes his ads go "overboard." Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki's comments came when [...] Full Story Top AP IMPACT: Air Force insiders foresaw F-22 woes Thu,27 Sep 2012 05:40 PM PDT Associated Press - Years before F-22 pilots began getting dizzy in the cockpit, before one struggled to breathe as he tried to pull out of a fatal crash, before two more went on television to say the plane was so unsafe they refused to fly it, a small circle of U.S. Air Force experts knew something was wrong with the prized stealth fighter jet. Full Story Top France unveils a budget heavy on taxes Fri,28 Sep 2012 08:49 AM PDT Associated Press - The French government presented a budget Friday that was heavy on taxes — including a controversial 75 percent income rate on high earners — but which critics said lacked fundamental reforms that could jumpstart economic growth. Full Story Top Tea party hero changes tune to woo Ind. moderates Fri,28 Sep 2012 05:10 AM PDT Associated Press - Richard Mourdock became one of the tea party's biggest winners of the 2012 primary season when he knocked off veteran Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar in a brutal campaign built on his contention that Lugar was too old, too out of touch and too friendly with Democrats — a RINO, Republican in name only. Full Story Top Cops Use Traffic Tix to Force Woman Into Drug Buys, Lawyer Claims Thu,27 Sep 2012 11:03 AM PDT ABC News - Police Allegedly Threaten to Reveal Her Identity When She Backed Out Full Story Top Man behind anti-Islam film arrested Thu,27 Sep 2012 03:38 PM PDT Associated Press - The California man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video that has inflamed parts of the Middle East was arrested Thursday for violating terms of his probation, authorities said. Full Story Top Police: Minn. office shooter among 'several' dead Thu,27 Sep 2012 09:34 PM PDT Associated Press - The shooter who opened fire inside a Minneapolis sign company Thursday was among "several" people found dead inside the building, according to police officials who won't specify how many people were killed. Full Story Top Slammed for Using Food Stamps: Ga. Woman Seeks Apology Wed,26 Sep 2012 05:10 AM PDT ABC News - Is a $15 gift card enough to compensate for public humiliation at your local grocery store? According to one Georgia woman, the answer is absolutely not. Cindy Nerger, 28, who relies on food stamps to feed her family, said she was brought to tears after... Full Story Top

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