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| 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 |
| Nate Silver to Joe Scarborough: Wanna Bet? Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 04:36 AM PDT  Political polling guru Nate Silver is so confident in his statistical models that he just offered to bet MSNBC's Joe Scarborough $1,000 that Barack Obama will win re-election. Scarborough, you may recall, criticized Silver's math earlier this week, saying that "Anybody that thinks that this race is anything but a tossup right now is such an ideologue ... they're jokes." He was specifically talking about Silver's FiveThirtyEight website, which shows Mitt Romney with just a 1-in-4 chance of becoming president. 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 |
| 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 |
| Romney faces scrutiny on aid in storm's wake Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 06:46 AM PDT  There's nothing like a natural disaster to test the depth of politicians' preference for small government. Full Story | Top |
| Storm of anti-Obama text messages linked to Virginia firm Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 06:00 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A controversial Virginia marketing and polling firm appears to have used a legal loophole to bombard scores of Americans with unsolicited text messages berating President Barack Obama less than a week before Election Day. More than a dozen different messages landed on the screens of phone users late on Tuesday, originating from mysterious websites instead of phone numbers. They attacked Obama and Democrats on a variety of issues such as abortion, foreign policy, same-sex marriage and taxation. The domain names of those websites had been registered with GoDaddy. ... Full Story | Top |
| As blackouts linger, Northeasterners try to adjust Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 04:56 PM PDT  Homes grew chilly without heat. Food spoiled in refrigerators. Televisions remained silent. And people everywhere scurried for a spot to charge their cellphones. Full Story | Top |
| Obama to use "affirmative" message in closing pitch Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 01:45 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After three days of focusing on superstorm Sandy, President Barack Obama will return to the campaign trail on Thursday with a more "affirmative" message to win over undecided voters in the final days of the race for the White House. With polls showing a tight contest between the Democratic incumbent and Republican challenger Mitt Romney before Tuesday's election, Obama will use trips to political battleground states to make a closing appeal for a second term. ... Full Story | Top |
| Who can fix political gridlock? Poll favors Romney Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 09:35 PM PDT  Just about everybody agrees Washington is a gridlocked mess. But who's the man to fix it? After two years of brawling and brinkmanship between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans, more voters trust Mitt Romney to break the stalemate. 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 |
| 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 |
| Storm washes away much of 'Jersey Shore' town Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 06:33 AM PDT  The waterfront rides on Casino Pier are gone, swallowed by the sea. A roller coaster bobs lazily in the waves. Sand, leaves and debris choke roads lined with houses that rest on their sides. 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 |
| Hoboken, N.J., Residents Spend Another Night Out in the Cold Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 02:29 AM PDT  Frightened Residents Endure Agonizing Wait for the National Guard Full Story | Top |
| Obama tours storm damage, Romney mutes rhetoric Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 02:39 PM PDT  President Barack Obama got an up-close look at the devastation wrought by superstorm Sandy on Wednesday, forsaking partisan campaigning days before the close election in favor of a disaster tour guided by the Republican governor of New Jersey. Rival Mitt Romney muted criticism of his foe as he barnstormed battleground Florida. Full Story | Top |
| East Coast staggers to recover from monster storm Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:49 AM PDT (Reuters) - Rescuers searched flooded streets and swamped houses for survivors, drivers lined up for hours to get scarce gasoline and millions remained without power on Thursday as New York City and nearby coastal towns struggled to recover from one of the biggest storms ever to hit the United States. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rocky Mountain tie: In Colorado, will it be Obama or Romney who reaches the summit? Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 02:29 AM PDT COMMERCE CITY, Colorado â€" Bill Clinton was doing what he does best: making the passionate case for Barack Obama that the president oddly enough seems incapable of making for himself. Full Story | Top |
| ROMNEY IS WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS NOW Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 04:34 PM PDT The single most important issue in this election is ending the national nightmare of Obamacare.If Obamacare if not stopped, it will permanently change the political culture of this country. There will be no going back. America will become a less productive, less wealthy nation. What wealth remains will have to be plowed into Obamacare -- to the delight only of the tens of thousands of government bureaucrats administering it.There won't be one moment marking the end of America. ... Full Story | Top |
| Nearly 30 Air Force Academy cadets injured in annual ritual Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 02:57 AM PDT  DENVER (Reuters) - Nearly 30 Air Force Academy cadets required medical care, with six of them hospitalized, after an annual tradition to mark the first snowfall of the season turned into an out-of-control melee, school officials said on Wednesday. An unauthorized ritual last week called "First Shirt/First Snow," in which freshman cadets try to throw their cadet sergeant into a snowbank, grew violent and resulted in injuries, the academy said in a statement. "A relatively small number of cadets chose to take part in this unsafe activity," said Brigadier General Gregory Lengyel. ... Full Story | Top |
| Storm invigorates proponents of NYC sea barrier Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 01:59 AM PDT  The vast destruction wreaked by the storm surge in New York could have been prevented with a sea barrier of the type that protects major cities in Europe, some scientists and engineers say. The multibillion price tag of such a project has been a hindrance, but may appear more palatable after the damage from Superstorm Sandy has been tallied. 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 |
| In final push, Obama casts election as Bush vs. Clinton Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 10:23 AM PDT President Obama waves after a campaign event in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Reuters/Larry Downing) 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 [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama, Romney get back to campaigning following storm hiatus, race remains tight Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 01:40 AM PDT  WASHINGTON - Barack Obama put politics aside and Republican challenger Mitt Romney tempered his criticism of the president for three days as superstorm Sandy battered the U.S. East Coast, but both will dive back into the presidential campaign with gusto on Thursday, with just five days left until Election Day. Full Story | Top |
| Obama vs. Romney: 6 signs the momentum is shifting Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 12:05 AM PDT  Both presidential campaigns say they have the Big Mo heading into the home stretch. Who's got the stronger case? Full Story | Top |
| 4 wounded in shooting on USC campus Thursday, Nov 01, 2012 03:05 AM PDT Authorities say four people have been shot and wounded during a Halloween party on the University of Southern California campus. Full Story | Top |
| An uneasy economy, and those living through it Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 03:41 PM PDT  Here was Chas Kaufmann's life before the Great Recession: $28,000 in restaurant tabs in a year, cruises, house parties with fireworks. His Mr. Gutter business was booming in the Pennsylvania Poconos. Full Story | Top |
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