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| What we search about when we search about politics: An interactive exploration Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 11:30 AM PDT As we've mentioned a few times before, examining which links people click on when they search for topics in the news tells us a lot about what people of different political stripes find interesting. By filtering down to search queries that reliably lead to publications with a documented political slant, we can quickly expose the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Salmon cross flooded road much to dog’s delight Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:45 AM PDT In Mason County, Wash., the salmon aren't just swimming upstreamâ€"they're also swimming across the street. Due to heavy rains, local rivers are flooding and the confused fish are winding up in some strange places. And that's just fine with at least one local dog. The pooch, who must be thinking that Christmas came early, wanders [...] Full Story | Top |
| In final push, Obama casts election as Bush vs. Clinton Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:23 AM PDT Do voters in 2012 face a choice between Bill Clinton and George W. Bush? That's how President Barack Obama, returning to the campaign trail with gusto after a break to respond to Sandy, cast the election during a final push in the battleground state of Wisconsin. He also looked to harness the bipartisan truce fostered [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama reveals ‘secrets’ to US Weekly Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 08:41 AM PDT President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama shared their first kiss outside a Baskin-Robbins in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Does this make you more likely to re-elect the president? His campaign apparently hopes so. The first couple's first smooch leads off a list of Obama's "25 Things You Don't Know About Me" in US [...] Full Story | Top |
| All eyes on—where else?—Ohio Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 08:33 AM PDT Since the final presidential debate, 15 polls have surveyed voter opinion in Ohio, the state that is more likely than any other to determine the election. President Barack Obama leads former Gov. Mitt Romney in 13 of them. The candidates tied in one, and Romney leads in one. Those last two polls were both conducted [...] Full Story | Top |
| Geraldo slams ‘GOP bloodlust’ over Benghazi Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 08:32 AM PDT Geraldo Rivera slammed the politicization of the attack in Benghazi, firing off a series of tweets while hunkered down at home in Edgewater, N.J., during Hurricane Sandy. Rivera, the Fox News contributor and "Geraldo at Large" host, criticized the controversy being pushed by some conservatives. It's "clear no C130 gunships were available," Rivera tweeted. "Criticize [...] Full Story | Top |
| Police use Taser on 10-year-old at school career day, lawsuit alleges Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 08:25 AM PDT A lawsuit claims an Albuquerque, N.M., police officer stunned a 10-year-old boy with a Taser after he refused to wash the officer's car. Officer Christopher Webb was visiting the boy's elementary school for a career day on May 4 when the incident occurred, according to Courthouse News. During the presentation, Webb apparently asked a group [...] Full Story | Top |
| NYPD officer dies after helping save seven family members Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 08:01 AM PDT NYPD officer Artur Kasprzak, 28. (NYPD) An off-duty New York City police officer died in his own basement after saving seven members of his family from rising floodwaters. Officer Artur Kasprzak, who died on Monday, was 28 and had been on the NYPD for six years. Now, more details of Kasprzak's heroic actions are coming [...] Full Story | Top |
| NYC elections board still assessing damage to polling sites Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 07:45 AM PDT The government agency in charge of elections in New York City has closed two of its five offices due to Monday night's storm, and its administrators do not yet know whether any polling stations are too damaged to use on Election Day. Board of Elections Commissioner Maria Guastella said in a statement that the agency's Manhattan [...] Full Story | Top |
| NPR apologizes to Abigael Evans, 4-year-old girl ‘tired of Bronco Bama and Mitt Romney’ Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 07:29 AM PDT NPR has issued a formal apology to Abigael Evans, the 4-year-old Colorado girl who burst into tearsâ€"and Americans' heartsâ€"while listening to a public radio report about the seemingly endless 2012 presidential election. "On behalf of NPR and all other news outlets, we apologize to Abigael and all the many others who probably feel like her," [...] Full Story | Top |
| Reddit co-founder defends site and Internet freedom of speech Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 06:40 AM PDT Reddit has had quite a few months of attention-grabbing news - both positive and negative. Full Story | Top |
| Thursday in politics: Obama, Romney begin post-Sandy push, and more Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 03:57 AM PDT Now begins the stage of the presidential campaign that really is the homestretch, the final push, the closing arguments â€" whatever term you want to use. President Barack Obama will be back on the campaign trail Thursday after taking three days off to monitor the response to Superstorm Sandy, including a tour Wednesday of hard-hit [...] Full Story | Top |
| Time-lapse video captures superstorm Sandy’s wrath on New York City Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 09:29 PM PDT A video on YouTube condenses superstorm Sandy's strike on New York City into about two minutes. The video was created by SMvideoChan, who confirmed to Yahoo News on email that it is taken from the Northside Piers Towers in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The bridge you can see is the Williamsburg Bridge. The time-lapse video covers two [...] Full Story | Top |
| Extreme Global Weather: ‘the Unprecedented Is the New Normal’ Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 07:22 PM PDT A rising death toll, the catastrophic flooding and destruction of entire neighborhoods, and billions of dollars in property damage. The impact of Hurricane Sandy, which hit the East Coast earlier this week, will be felt for years, both in the United States and in the Caribbean region where it had earlier killed more than 70 [...] Full Story | Top |
| Adios to Buckyballs Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 03:53 PM PDT Buckyballs, the popular magnetic desktop toy (for grown-ups!), are being discontinued. Maxfield & Oberton, the company behind the minimagnets, released a snarky statement explaining why. "Due to baseless and relentless legal badgering by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Maxfield and Oberton is discontinuing production of the world's most popular adult desk toys this [...] Full Story | Top |
| With Christie, Obama vows, ‘We will not quit until this is done’ Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 02:44 PM PDT Just six days before the election, President Barack Obama toured storm-ravaged areas with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. He told Garden State residents struggling in the superstorm's aftermath that all of America shares their painâ€"and their government is there to help. "The main message I wanted to send is the entire country has been watching [...] Full Story | Top |
| Reporters getting too close to superstorm Sandy Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 02:19 PM PDT Journalists by definition are a curious bunch. Weather reporters may take that to the extreme, especially when extreme weather is at hand. This video covers a montage of intrepid reporters taking some ill-advised moves into superstorm Sandyâ€"all in the service of giving television viewers a sense of how bad it is during the worst of [...] Full Story | Top |
| Romney camp stands by Christie for working with Obama during storm Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 02:03 PM PDT President Barack Obama spent part of the day Wednesday touring sections of New Jersey hit by superstorm Sandy with GOP Gov. Chris Christie, a move officials from Mitt Romney's campaign stood by after grumblings from some Republicans. "Gov. Christie's doing his job," Romney senior adviser Russ Schriefer told reporters on a conference call when asked [...] Full Story | Top |
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