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The dumb report on congressional dumbness
Thu, 24 May 2012 13:43:33 -0400  
Are conservatives stupider than liberals?

Beginning of the end for internet anonymity?
Thu, 24 May 2012 12:25:49 -0400  
Anonymity is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the United States was founded, in part, thanks to Thomas Paine's anonymously written, pro-revolution pamphlet Common Sense. On the other hand, 12-year-olds who post anonymously on the internet can be rather unpleasant … Continue reading →

Obama is ahead in swing states, but his lead narrows
Thu, 24 May 2012 09:25:19 -0400  
President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney in Florida, Ohio and Virginia, according to new polls of the key 2012 swing states, although Obama's advantage has narrowed in recent months.

Zimmerman changed his view of Sanford police, files show
Thu, 24 May 2012 14:35:27 -0400  
George Zimmerman's view of the Sanford, Fla., Police Department shifted during an eight-month period in 2011, CNN is reporting. Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of teenager Trayvon Martin, called what he saw on ride-alongs with police"disgusting" at a public community forum in January 2011. However Zimmerman changed his tune [...]

Man confesses to strangling Etan Patz
Thu, 24 May 2012 08:14:25 -0400  
The New York City police commissioner says a man in custody has implicated himself in the death of Etan Patz, the boy whose disappearance 33 years ago sparked the movement to put the faces of missing children on milk cartons.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/katie-29084964/katie-s-take-mist..
Mon, 21 May 2012 03:00:00 -0400  
Katie Couric talks to a clinical psychologist about some of the mistakes recent college grads make…and how to avoid them.

Harvard alumni association apologizes for Unabomber entry in directory
Thu, 24 May 2012 15:25:47 -0400  
Harvard University's alumni association has issued an apology for including Ted Kaczynski, a graduate of Harvard's Class of 1962, in the school's latest directory. A spokesman for Harvard told Boston.com that Kaczynski, the so-called"Unabomber," submitted the update for the directory himself."While all members of the class who submit entries are included, we regret [...]

Cell phone users prefer Obama, landline users like Romney
Thu, 24 May 2012 11:39:34 -0400  
Political pollsters have been under pressure to make sure their samples include Americans who rely solely on cell phones—and the latest NBC News/Marist polls of Florida, Ohio and Virginia exhibit why.

Can Meg Whitman save Hewlett Packard?
Thu, 24 May 2012 12:25:52 -0400  
The former eBay executive who was hired as H-P chief last September announced the company would lay off about eight percent of its 300,000 workforce over the next two years, one of many changes that are coming to the troubled personal computer maker.

Biography paints Cronkite’s darker side
Thu, 24 May 2012 13:51:58 -0400  

Fleet Week kicks off in NYC
Thu, 24 May 2012 12:26:45 -0400  
In this May 23, 2012 photo released by Starpix, singer Katy Perry wears a patriotic dress as she performs at a Pepsi-sponsored event at Brooklyn Pier 9A, kicking off Fleet Week in New York. (AP Photo/Starpix, Amanda Schwab)

The boy who touched the president’s hair
Thu, 24 May 2012 10:06:41 -0400  
The story behind a photograph showing a 5-year-old black boy touching President Obama's hair--which has been hanging in the West Wing of the White House for more than three years--may be coming to your inbox soon.

Santorum endorsesTed Cruz in Texas Senate race
Thu, 24 May 2012 10:30:06 -0400  
"Ted Cruz is spellbinding, a tremendous orator and principled," Santorum said on Glenn Beck's radio show Thursday morning, according to Santorum's staff.

Alleged Lego scammer sold 2,100 boxes through website, cops say
Thu, 24 May 2012 04:35:30 -0400  
The California software exec arrested for allegedly switching bar codes on high priced Lego sets resold them online through"TomsBrickyard."

Photos: Rare photos from an A-Bomb test in 1955
Thu, 24 May 2012 10:00:08 -0400  

Hillary Clinton: U.S. hacked al-Qaida sites
Wed, 23 May 2012 22:05:00 -0400  
In a rare glimpse into cyber warfare tactics, a top U.S. official has explicitly acknowledged that the U.S. government hacked into websites run by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, changing advertisements that boasted about killing Americans into advertisements that underscored the deaths of Muslim civilians...

Presidential vote polarizes Egyptians
Thu, 24 May 2012 14:26:55 -0400  
Egyptians, choosing their leader freely for the first time in history, voted for a second day on Thursday in an election that is a fruit of last year's popular revolt against Hosni Mubarak.

A look inside the‘world’s nicest prison’
Thu, 24 May 2012 14:05:24 -0400  

Photos: Another bear falls from tree in Colorado
Thu, 24 May 2012 15:08:59 -0400  
&Today reports that another black bear has been tranquilized and immortalized in photos as it fell from a tree to safety. The Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife tranquilized the bear after [...]

New Orleans to lose its daily newspaper
Thu, 24 May 2012 11:37:40 -0400  
The Times-Picayune, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, announced on Thursday a plan to slash its print publication to three days a week—effectively leaving New Orleans without a daily newspaper. As part of the move, the New York Times reports that there will be "massive" layoffs at 175-year-old Times-Picayune as [...]

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