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- DISH Network offers broadband internet for rural customers
- The asteroid mining industry is hiring, needs YOU!
- Hack attack on White House did not reach classified data: Official
- Colorado's pro-pot initiative could threaten medical marijuana paradise
- High school food fight ends with felony charge
- Burglars busted after getaway car gets stuck in mud
- Helium shortage forces changes to balloon race
- America could be 'taken over,' warns Ross Perot
- Retired locksmith sells 'firemen's key ring' on eBay, alarming FDNY
- Even before debates, electoral map appears largely written in stone
- Romney shifts focus back to Obama's foreign policy
- What would Romney's Supreme Court look like?
- Monday in politics: Romney campaigns, Obama preps for debate, and more
- Obama: Romney 'a good debater,' 'I'm just ok'
- Vermont man recreates Willie Mays' catch with lawn art
- Obama camp: No 'zingers' at debate with Romney
- D.C. sniper 10 years later: 'I was a monster'
- Paul Ryan on tax plan: 'It would take me too long to go through all the math'
- Chris Christie: Wednesday night's debate is 'the restart of this campaign'
- Jack White abruptly ends Radio City Music Hall show, drawing wrath of New York crowd
- Former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger dies
- Robot police drones could put disabled cops back on the beat
- California governor signs bills to make textbooks lighter on wallets and backpacks
- Romney talks about longtime friend Netanyahu, jokes about bomb graphic
- Rare albino whale spotted off coast of Australia (VIDEO)
- Accidental text message lands a swimming coach behind bars
- Check out the coolest new place to have a cocktail: underwater
- U.S. intelligence takes blame for mixed Libya attack messages
- Romney distributes beef jerky to reporters, one of whom gets 'jerky envy'
- The world's first faked photo
- Sticker Shock: How much it costs to charge your favorite electronics
- Apple CEO apologizes for Maps, recommends you use Google instead
- Iranian news agency duped by Onion story on Obama poll
- Obama, Netanyahu discuss Iran nuclear program
- Mug shots and old tax liens: House campaign ad war escalates in South Florida
- Romney: 'I'm going to win Pennsylvania'
- Freshly showered home intruder nabbed trying to make clean getaway
- Woman got loaded gun past TSA: report
- Weekend in politics: Obama in Nev., Romney in Pa., debate prep, and more
- New art-house app lets you take just one picture, ever
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DISH Network offers broadband internet for rural customers
Mon,1 Oct 2012 11:04 AM PDT
DISH Network has announced its new nationwide broadband service launching today for rural communities. Named dishNET, the service starts at $39.99 a month for those customers with a qualifying DISH TV package. Non-bundled packages are $10 more per month. The … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
The asteroid mining industry is hiring, needs YOU!
Mon,1 Oct 2012 10:59 AM PDT
Tired of that mundane desk job? Want a more exciting internship experience than ferrying around coffee at a downtown law firm? Then we may have just the thing: Out-of-this-world asteroid-mining startup Planetary Resources is seeking college juniors and seniors eager … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Hack attack on White House did not reach classified data: Official
Mon,1 Oct 2012 10:49 AM PDT
The White House on Monday played down a report that hackers tied to China's government penetrated a U.S. government system, saying the attack hit an unclassified network and that there is no sign that any secrets were stolen. The conservative Washington Free Beacon reported on Sunday that the hackers broke into a system used by [...] Full Story | Top |
Colorado's pro-pot initiative could threaten medical marijuana paradise
Mon,1 Oct 2012 10:25 AM PDT
DENVER—A ballot initiative in Colorado that could make the state the first to effectively legalize marijuana has an unlikely bunch of people very nervous: owners of the state's medical marijuana dispensaries. Despite an expected surge in demand, some fear passage of the initiative, called Amendment 64—which legalizes the buying and selling of up to one [...] Full Story | Top |
High school food fight ends with felony charge
Mon,1 Oct 2012 09:22 AM PDT
A Phoenix-area high school student faces a felony charge after a senior prank food fight got out of hand. The messy food fight in May happened during the lunch hour at Horizon High School in Scottsdale, Ariz. Prosecutors have charged Conner Floyd-Elsesser with aggravated assault on a teacher, according to azfamily.com. Aggravated assault is a [...] Full Story | Top |
Burglars busted after getaway car gets stuck in mud
Mon,1 Oct 2012 09:12 AM PDT
A pair of alleged robbers bungled a burglary in Florida after their car got stuck in the mud. Matthew Swaggerty, 21, and Timothy Marrison, 20, are accused of stealing camera gear, phones and laptops from homes and cars in a Debary, Fla., neighborhood, say local police from Volusia County. Deputies used a victim's stolen iPhone [...] Full Story | Top |
Helium shortage forces changes to balloon race
Mon,1 Oct 2012 09:11 AM PDT
The global helium shortage is having a real-world effect. For the first time since the race began in 1995, participants in the America's Challenge Gas Balloon Race in Albuquerque, N.M., are having to use hydrogen instead of helium. The switch, according to KOAT.com, is largely due to economics. Even if the racers could get their [...] Full Story | Top |
America could be 'taken over,' warns Ross Perot
Mon,1 Oct 2012 08:24 AM PDT
Former presidential contender and billionaire Ross Perot is worried that America is a sitting duck for an unnamed foreign invader. In an interview for his new autobiography, Perot said the nation's weak economy has left us open for a hostile takeover—and neither presidential candidate is the man to save the country. Citing an impending fiscal [...] Full Story | Top |
Retired locksmith sells 'firemen's key ring' on eBay, alarming FDNY
Mon,1 Oct 2012 07:17 AM PDT
A retired New Jersey locksmith sold a "firemen's key ring" on eBay to a New York Post reporter, alarming some city officials who fear the keys—at least those that apparently still work—could be used for evil. Daniel Ferraris, the 69-year-old retired locksmith from Union City, N.J., sold the set of five keys to the "undercover" [...] Full Story | Top |
Even before debates, electoral map appears largely written in stone
Mon,1 Oct 2012 07:10 AM PDT
Many see potential for Wednesday's presidential debate to be a deciding moment in the 2012 election. From the Signal's perch here on Forecasting Mountain, we don't see a whole lot left to be decided. Since we posted our first forecast of the state-by-state presidential election on Feb. 16, 2012, six months before the Republican Party [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney shifts focus back to Obama's foreign policy
Mon,1 Oct 2012 05:15 AM PDT
BOSTON—Sensing a potential opening, Mitt Romney is shifting his focus back to foreign policy amid controversy over the Obama administration's response to a terrorist attack in Libya that left four Americans dead. The Republican presidential nominee published an op-ed in Monday's Wall Street Journal criticizing President Barack Obama's suggestion that the developments overseas are "bumps [...] Full Story | Top |
What would Romney's Supreme Court look like?
Mon,1 Oct 2012 03:55 AM PDT
Should Mitt Romney win the presidential election this November, one institution stands to receive a substantial makeover: the Supreme Court. The venerable justices begin a new term Monday, and it could be one of the last of its kind. During his four year term, the Republican pick for president would very likely get to nominate [...] Full Story | Top |
Monday in politics: Romney campaigns, Obama preps for debate, and more
Mon,1 Oct 2012 03:24 AM PDT
The big story this week in politics is the first presidential debate, which is Wednesday. The Obama campaign and the Romney campaign have both tried to manage expectations for the first of three face-to-face encounters. Obama, for example, told a Las Vegas crowd Sunday, "Governor Romney, he's a good debater. I'm just ok." And Romney [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama: Romney 'a good debater,' 'I'm just ok'
Sun,30 Sep 2012 07:08 PM PDT
Looking to his first face-to-face clash with Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd of supporters in Las Vegas on Sunday that his Republican foe was "a good debater" while he himself was "just ok." The Democrat, addressing a crowd of 11,200 packed onto the soccer field of Desert Pines High School, said [...] Full Story | Top |
Vermont man recreates Willie Mays' catch with lawn art
Sun,30 Sep 2012 03:52 PM PDT
Every September for the last few years, drivers along a stretch of road in northern Vermont are greeted with some unusual lawn art commemorating what many consider to be one of the greatest defensive plays in baseball history: Willie Mays' over-the-shoulder catch in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series. Large wooden cutouts featuring paintings [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama camp: No 'zingers' at debate with Romney
Sun,30 Sep 2012 03:47 PM PDT
LAS VEGAS - President Barack Obama won't be using 'zingers' against Mitt Romney when they clash Wednesday in their first face-to-face debate, a campaign spokeswoman said Sunday. And while beer has featured prominently in recent campaign swings, Obama will be sure to reach out to soda-drinkers, too. "This will be a very large audience," Jen [...] Full Story | Top |
D.C. sniper 10 years later: 'I was a monster'
Sun,30 Sep 2012 12:23 PM PDT
Lee Boyd Malvo, who was convicted along with John Allen Muhammad in the 2002 D.C. sniper shootings that left 10 dead and three wounded, says he remembers the killings vividly but can't explain why he did what he did. "I was a monster," Malvo told the Washington Post in a recent interview from a Virginia [...] Full Story | Top |
Paul Ryan on tax plan: 'It would take me too long to go through all the math'
Sun,30 Sep 2012 11:15 AM PDT
Paul Ryan says "it would take me too long to go through all the math" involved in the tax plan he and Mitt Romney are proposing. The Republican vice presidential nominee said on "Fox News Sunday" that their plan--a 20 percent across-the-board income tax cut--would focus on deductions and closing tax loopholes for the rich, [...] Full Story | Top |
Chris Christie: Wednesday night's debate is 'the restart of this campaign'
Sun,30 Sep 2012 08:41 AM PDT
While both Democrats and Republicans have downplayed the importance of the first presidential debate in recent days, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie raised the stakes on Sunday, predicting this week's duel in Denver will be a game changer for Mitt Romney. "Wednesday night's the restart of this campaign," Christie told David Gregory on NBC's "Meet [...] Full Story | Top |
Former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger dies
Sat,29 Sep 2012 04:32 PM PDT
Former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who guided the newspaper to unprecedented influence and profit during his three-decade tenure, died Saturday at his home in Southampton, N.Y., at the age of 86. During his 34-year run as publisher, Sulzberger helped the Times navigate some of the most influential events in 20th-century journalism — [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney talks about longtime friend Netanyahu, jokes about bomb graphic
Fri,28 Sep 2012 02:49 PM PDT
ON THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN PLANE--Flying from Philadelphia to Boston, Mitt Romney gave reporters in the press cabin some quality candidate time. After joking with a reporter who had been accidentally left behind by the press bus and later passing out beef jerky, the GOP candidate was back again—this time to give reporters a read-out about [...] Full Story | Top |
Rare albino whale spotted off coast of Australia (VIDEO)
Fri,28 Sep 2012 02:48 PM PDT
A rare albino humpback whale has been spotted off the coast of Australia. And unlike the terrifying creature in "Moby Dick," this white whale has been drawing the enthusiastic attention of maritime tourists. CNN reports that the whale, nicknamed "Migaloo" by researchers, is the only known all-white humpback adult in the world today. Whale watchers [...] Full Story | Top |
Accidental text message lands a swimming coach behind bars
Fri,28 Sep 2012 02:45 PM PDT
We've all sent a text message to the wrong person at some point in our lives. Sometimes, it can be very embarrassing. But when 24-year-old swimming coach Craig Evans accidentally sent a sexually explicit message to his entire BlackBerry address book … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
U.S. intelligence takes blame for mixed Libya attack messages
Fri,28 Sep 2012 02:39 PM PDT
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's office on Friday tried to explain the shifting public explanations for who was behind the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya. DNI public affairs director Shawn Turner said U.S. intelligence concluded "in the immediate aftermath" of the assault that it had begun "spontaneously" in the [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney distributes beef jerky to reporters, one of whom gets 'jerky envy'
Fri,28 Sep 2012 02:04 PM PDT
ON THE ROMNEY PLANE EN ROUTE TO BOSTON—It's no secret that Mitt Romney's campaign aides have strongly discouraged the candidate from doing too much talking to his traveling press corps, concerned that even the tiniest of gaffes could set off major waves in his bid for the presidency. But sometimes Romney just can't help himself. [...] Full Story | Top |
The world's first faked photo
Fri,28 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris may have uncovered the world's oldest staged photograph, a wartime image taken in 1855. Radiolab spoke with Morris, who unleashed his legendary attention to detail upon Roger Fenton's renowned photo, "The Valley of the Shadow of Death," considered to be one of the oldest known photographic images of warfare. The photo [...] Full Story | Top |
Iranian news agency duped by Onion story on Obama poll
Fri,28 Sep 2012 11:01 AM PDT
Iran's leading news agency published a mock poll that claimed rural whites in the U.S. favored Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over president Barack Obama. The mock poll was originally published on a popular U.S. media site, The Onion. The FARS news agency—which touts itself as Iran's leading independent news agency while others note its ties [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama, Netanyahu discuss Iran nuclear program
Fri,28 Sep 2012 10:34 AM PDT
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn't meet this week but spoke by telephone on Friday. Their conversation focused on efforts to curb Iran's suspect nuclear program, according to a rather dry White House statement. Obama's press operation also released the above photo of the call. The two leaders don't have a [...] Full Story | Top |
Mug shots and old tax liens: House campaign ad war escalates in South Florida
Fri,28 Sep 2012 09:40 AM PDT
Florida Republican Rep. Allen West's campaign unveiled an ad on Friday criticizing Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy and displaying a mug shot taken when he was 19 years old after an arrest outside a Miami bar, a part of Murphy's past the candidate has called "the biggest mistake of my life." The ad contrasts West's time [...] Full Story | Top |
Romney: 'I'm going to win Pennsylvania'
Fri,28 Sep 2012 08:42 AM PDT
PHILADELPHIA—Mitt Romney insisted he'll win Pennsylvania in November, despite recent polls showing President Barack Obama building a major lead in the state. Speaking at a morning fundraiser at the city's tony Union League Club, Romney repeatedly insisted he still has a shot at taking Pennsylvania—and ultimately the White House. "You know, we really would shock [...] Full Story | Top |
Freshly showered home intruder nabbed trying to make clean getaway
Fri,28 Sep 2012 07:54 AM PDT
Jennifer Burgess couldn't get away clean with this one. The 24-year-old homeless woman allegedly broke into a Sacramento, Calif., home and took a shower before she was caught by the homeowner. Randy Kizer says a stranger answered the door at his house when he came home after running morning errands, CBS Sacramento reports. "She had [...] Full Story | Top |
Woman got loaded gun past TSA: report
Fri,28 Sep 2012 07:17 AM PDT
At less than six inches and just under 10 ounces, the Ruger .380 is considered by gun owners to be a great little pocket pistol. So small, in fact, that you can sometimes get one onto an airplane. D'oh! Yep, the New York Daily News reports that a woman flew 938 miles from Orlando, Fla., [...] Full Story | Top |
Weekend in politics: Obama in Nev., Romney in Pa., debate prep, and more
Fri,28 Sep 2012 03:20 AM PDT
Mitt Romney plans to campaign Friday in Pennsylvania, a state where President Barack Obama is leading in the polls with 40 days left before the election. It will be Romney's first visit to the state in more than two months. Obama will attend two fundraisers Friday in Washington, D.C., and then head to Nevada on [...] Full Story | Top |
New art-house app lets you take just one picture, ever
Thu,27 Sep 2012 05:29 PM PDT
There are a lot of terrific camera apps out there. Most people prefer Instagram for its filters and ability to share your photos with others, while some prefer the more powerful set of tools Snapseed offers. One of the newest … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
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