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| 'I will break you in half': Congressman threatens to throw reporter off balcony during interview Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 08:38 AM PST It started out like dozens of other interviews after Tuesday night's State of the Union address. But when a reporter decided to press Rep. Michael Grimm on his personal campaign finances, the Republican congressman abruptly ended the interview with a violent threat. Full Story | Top |
| This is why you shouldn’t mess with 'the rock star of meteorologists' during his broadcast Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 04:51 PM PST A rebellious teen tried to interrupt weatherman Jim Cantore's live broadcast. This is what happened next. Full Story | Top |
| Obama's remarks on minimum wage, wealth imbalance strike nerves, stir hopes Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 06:58 PM PST Yahoo News invited voters to react and respond to President Obama's 2014 State of the Union address. Here are lightly edited excerpts we received shortly after his speech ended. Full Story | Top |
| Obama vows to flex presidential powers in speech Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 10:10 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to energize his sluggish second term, President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday night in his State of the Union address to sidestep Congress "whenever and wherever" necessary to narrow economic disparities between America's rich and poor. Full Story | Top |
| Obama’s State of the Union shift: From ‘Social Darwinism’ to ‘opportunity’ Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 04:34 PM PST  Tune in to President Obama's State of the Union speech Tuesday night, and you won't hear him recycle his denunciation of Republican economic policies as heartless "Social Darwinism." Full Story | Top |
| Fact check: Less than meets eye in Obama speech Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 07:25 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama promised to clear red tape away from highway projects that actually are stalled because there's no money for them, not because rules are in the way. He's ordering a higher minimum wage for a sliver of the workforce, which affects no one now and not many later. Full Story | Top |
| Bush speechwriter accuses Obama of plagiarism in State of the Union Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 06:38 AM PST A former speechwriter for President George W. Bush accused President Barack Obama of plagiarizing one of Bush's speeches during Tuesday evening's State of the Union. Full Story | Top |
| Ted Cruz is sick and tired of being asked about the government shutdown Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 02:21 PM PST Four months after the shutdown, Ted Cruz says dwelling on it is "distracting" from other issues. Full Story | Top |
| President Obama’s State of the Union: Chat and watch live Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 05:38 PM PST Watch President Barack Obama's State of the Union address and discuss the speech in a live chat with Yahoo News' Holly Bailey and Yahoo Finance's Rick Newman. Coverage also includes reaction from around the Web and analysis via Twitter from Yahoo News editors Megan Liberman and Daniel Klaidman, Washington editor Garance Franke-Ruta and chief Washington correspondent Olivier Knox. Full Story | Top |
| Petition puts Justin Bieber into Obama's in-basket Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 09:39 AM PST  As if Barack Obama didn't have enough problems to deal with already, his administration now is being asked to weigh in on the grave matter of Justin Bieber. "We the people of the United States feel that we are being wrongly represented in the world of pop culture," says the petition, created by one "J.A." in Detroit last Thursday, the day Bieber was busted in Miami Beach for impaired driving and illegal drag racing in a flashy Italian sports car. "We would like to see the dangerous, reckless, destructive, and drug abusing, Justin Bieber deported and his green card revoked. We the people would like to remove Justin Bieber from our society." Full Story | Top |
| Duck Dynasty Selfies Are A Thing at the SOTU Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 07:00 PM PST  Congress couldn't get enough of "Duck Dynasty" star Willie Robertson at the State of the Union. Politicians were quick to pose for a selfie with the outdoorsman. The son of controversial star Phil Robertson was invited to the address by Rep. Vance McAllister from Louisiana,... Full Story | Top |
| Pending execution 'terrifies' inmate, lawyer says Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 02:06 PM PST  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lawyers for a convicted murderer were making final pleas for his life on Tuesday, just hours before his scheduled execution in Missouri. Full Story | Top |
| Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a new GOP face for the State of the Union response Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 01:28 PM PST The top-ranking GOP woman in the House will talk about her life and the economy after Obama speaks. Full Story | Top |
| Husband's Plumbing Help Results In Leaky Marriage Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 09:01 PM PST DEAR ABBY: I have been with my husband for 19 years. I offered his plumbing services to a married couple I work with. While he was fixing the problem, he became friendly with their adult daughter. She was lonely and I knew the family, so I wasn't concerned. Their relationship developed into something more and we separated. He ended their friendship and we reconciled. Things were going great, but she continued to contact him. He has suddenly decided he can't live without her friendship and has decided to divorce me in order to continue it with her. ... Full Story | Top |
| Republicans respond and respond to Obama State of Union Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 08:46 PM PST  By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress responded in competing voices on Tuesday to President Barack Obama's annual State of the Union address as various wings of the party vied to advance their prescriptions for the country's best way forward. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who delivered the sanctioned Republican response to Obama, queued up long-standing party doctrine that "champions free markets and trusts people to make their own decisions, not a government that decides for you." McMorris Rodgers, a five-term congresswoman from Washington state, took a broad swipe at Obamacare, the 2010 landmark healthcare law that Republicans have tried to repeal, delay or significantly alter nearly 50 times since its enactment. "We've all talked to too many people who have received cancellation notices they didn't expect or who can no longer see the doctors they always have," McMorris Rodgers said of the Affordable Care Act, which got off to a troubled start. Full Story | Top |
| Can crowdfunding save this family's home from foreclosure? Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 02:03 PM PST A struggling New Jersey family has turned to a crowdfunding website to save their home from pending foreclosure. Full Story | Top |
| Cory Remsburg, John Boehner and 'Mad Men': Buzzy moments from the State of the Union Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 08:43 PM PST What do Americans think were the buzziest moments from Tuesday's State of the Union address? A military hero, "Mad Men" and House Speaker John Boehner's other title: "son of a barkeep." Full Story | Top |
| McCain: Arizona GOP censure may spur sixth run Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 01:36 PM PST  PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. Sen. John McCain hasn't decided whether he'll run for a sixth term, but the former GOP presidential nominee said Tuesday that the Arizona Republican Party's censure of him over the weekend may just have provided the motivation to seek office again. Full Story | Top |
| Pingpong Match Almost Immediately Devolves Into Nothing But Amazing Tricks Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 12:31 PM PST Usually I associate professional pingpong with the famous scene from "Forrest Gump." But that changed when a video of China's Chuang Chih-Yuan and Belgium's Jean-Michel Saive hit the Internet. The players take part in a pingpong showdown for the ages — theatrics, sound effects, and trick shots included. A video of the match is on YouTube and has almost 4.5 million views in less than a week. The match commences in a relatively normal fashion: The two players exchange volleys back and forth from an immediate proximity to the table's ends. But after only 40 seconds, you begin to see where things start to take a turn for the absurd. Rallies between Chih-Yuan and Saive begin to increase in both distance and time. Then the players act out — with Saive pretending to faint after one rally and Chih-Yuan rushing to "resuscitate" him. Full Story | Top |
| Friends at last? Obama and John Boehner share warm moment at State of the Union Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 07:38 PM PST There's been no shortage of animosity between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner over the past five years. But the relationship between the two men appeared to thaw somewhat during the State of the Union address on Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Obama warns divided Congress that he will act alone Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 09:49 PM PST  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to bypass a divided Congress and take action on his own to bolster America's middle class in a State of the Union address that he used to try to breathe new life into his second term after a troubled year. Standing in the House of Representatives chamber before lawmakers, Supreme Court justices and VIP guests, Obama declared his independence from Congress by unveiling a series of executive orders and decisions - moves likely to inflame already tense relations between the Democratic president and Republicans. While his rhetoric was high flying, Obama's actions were relatively modest, collectively amounting to an outpouring of frustration at the pace of legislative action with Republicans in control of the House of Representatives and able to slow the president's agenda. "I'm eager to work with all of you," Obama told the lawmakers gathered for the annual speech. Full Story | Top |
| Winter storm causes wrecks, gridlock in the South Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 10:59 PM PST ATLANTA (AP) — The mad rush began at the first sight of snow: Across the Atlanta area, schools let out early and commuters left for home after lunch, instantly creating gridlock so severe that security guards and doormen took to the streets to direct cars amid a cacophony of blaring horns. Full Story | Top |
| Southern-style snowstorm: Gridlock, kind neighbors Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 06:31 AM PST  ATLANTA (AP) — Students camped out with teachers in school gyms or on buses and commuters abandoned cars along the highway to seek shelter in churches, fire stations — even grocery stores — after a rare snowstorm left thousands of unaccustomed Southerners frozen in their tracks. Full Story | Top |
| Indiana vote on constitutional ban on gay marriage faces hurdle Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 03:23 PM PST  By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The Indiana House on Tuesday approved a proposed state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, bucking a national trend where legislatures in other states have been making same-sex marriages legal. State representatives voted 57-40 to advance the proposed amendment, which removed language that would have also banned civil unions. The proposed amendment has been on lawmakers plates in the majority-Republican state legislature since 2004. Indiana representatives cut a sentence that said: "A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized." The proposal next goes to the state Senate, which could approve it as presented or restore the original language, which, if the House concurred, could allow the constitutional amendment to be put to voters this year. Full Story | Top |
| 'Boss Hog' of 'Duck Dynasty' TV show to attend big Obama speech Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 02:29 PM PST  "Duck Dynasty" reality television star Willie "Boss Hog" Robertson is on the invitation list to attend President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech Tuesday night, compliments of a congressman from his home state of Louisiana. Newly elected Representative Vance McAllister, a Republican, said on Twitter that Robertson would be in the U.S. House of Representatives chamber, where Obama was to lay out his policy agenda for the year. "I'm happy to announce that my friend, constituent & small business owner @williebosshog will be attending tonight's #SOTU as my guest," McAllister tweeted - including the younger Robertson's Twitter handle and the "#SOTU" hashtag, or search term, for the State of the Union address. Robertson, 41, is a son of "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson, who was temporarily suspended from the hit show by cable television network A&E last month for making anti-gay remarks in a magazine interview. Full Story | Top |
| Hero the calf gets two prosthetic legs Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 12:52 PM PST Hero is a rescued calf who was found in Virginia in April 2013 with a frostbitten tail and back legs. Kitty Martin's Selah Ranch All Animal Rescue from Greenville took Hero in. Full Story | Top |
| Snowden gets Nobel Peace Prize nomination from Norwegian MP Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 03:40 AM PST  A Norwegian member of parliament nominated former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday, arguing that his release of classified documents made the world a safer place. Baard Vegar Solhjell, a former education and environment minister for the Socialist Left party, said Snowden's revelations deepened the public's understanding of the extent to which states spy on their own citizens. "There is no doubt that the actions of Edward Snowden may have damaged the security interests of several nations in the short term," Solhjell and fellow MP Snorre Valen said in a joint statement. "We are, however, convinced that the public debate and changes in policy that have followed in the wake of Snowden's whistle blowing has contributed to a more peaceful, stable and peaceful world order," they said. Full Story | Top |
| China threatens US military superiority: official Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 04:48 PM PST  China poses an increasing challenge to the US military's technological edge while budget pressures are hampering Washington's effort to stay ahead, a senior defense official warned on Tuesday. Frank Kendall, the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, told lawmakers that when it comes to "technological superiority, the Department of Defense is being challenged in ways that I have not seen for decades, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region." Citing China's major investments in anti-ship missiles, stealth fighter jets, hypersonic vehicles and other hi-tech weaponry, Kendall said the United States could lose its dominant position if it failed to respond to the altered strategic landscape. "Technological superiority is not assured and we cannot be complacent about our posture," he told the House Armed Services Committee. Full Story | Top |
| Stradivarius violin plucked from musician in Wisconsin robbery Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 05:14 PM PST  By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A 300-year-old Stradivarius worth millions of dollars was stolen from a concert violinist by thieves who shot the musician with an electric stun gun just after he had performed with the instrument in suburban Milwaukee, police said on Tuesday. "It appears the violin was the primary target of this robbery," Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn told reporters, adding that the two thieves were seen fleeing the scene of the crime in a minivan. The so-called Lipinski Stradivarius, an instrument made in 1715 and distinguished by unique striations on its back, was stolen on Monday night at a college campus in Wauwatosa, immediately west of Milwaukee, Flynn said. The instrument was on loan to violinist Frank Almond of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra when it was taken from him following a performance, Flyn said. Full Story | Top |
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