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Join the conversation: Live analysis of the Republican National Convention
La. official: Levee will be breached amid flooding
President Obama participates in surprise Reddit chat
Louisiana father-son team rescues 120 from flooding
8 hurt when car crashes into crowd near LA school
Rudy Giuliani: Election between ‘Mr. Cool’ and ‘Mr. Competent’
Court: Zimmerman judge should disqualify himself
NYC man gets 40 years to life for dismembering boy
Ann Romney urges Hispanic voters to get past 'their biases'
'Worst year ever': Number of West Nile cases sets record
Romance at the RNC: Man proposes to girlfriend onstage
Can a speech by a woman, for women, draft female voters?
Photos: Hurricane Katrina anniversary
EXCLUSIVE: 500-year-old Da Vinci sculpture unveiled
How major storms get their names
NYC tops list of cities with ‘most spoiled kids’
Photos: Spanish town's annual 'Tomatina' tomato fight
SEAL book raises questions about bin Laden's death
Death toll from Typhoon Bolaven rises to 18
Loss of radio contact prompts Amsterdam plane hijack scare
Neuroscience in court: My brain made me do it
Unusual earthquake swarm shakes Southern California
French gov't offering to pick up tab for young hires
What role should First Spouses play in the White House?

Join the conversation: Live analysis of the Republican National Convention

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:02 PM PDT

Yahoo! News brings you live commentary of the speeches at the third session of the RNC.

La. official: Levee will be breached amid flooding

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:44 PM PDT

A state official says the levee in southeast Louisiana's Isaac-flooded Plaquemines Parish will be breached to relieve pressure on it.

President Obama participates in surprise Reddit chat

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 01:41 PM PDT

President Obama made a surprise appearance online on Wednesday, participating in a live chat on Reddit.com. "Hi, I'm Barack Obama, President of the United States," Obama wrote in a message on the site. "Ask me anything." The post prompted immediate skepticism about its authenticity, so the commander in tweet offered some proof, posting a message [...]

Louisiana father-son team rescues 120 from flooding

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:30 PM PDT

Jesse Shaffer and His Father Rescue Victims Stranded by Hurricane Isaac

8 hurt when car crashes into crowd near LA school

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:29 PM PDT

A car sped onto a sidewalk and plowed into a group of parents and children outside a South Los Angeles elementary school Wednesday afternoon, and eight people were hurt, six of them seriously, authorities said.

Rudy Giuliani: Election between ‘Mr. Cool’ and ‘Mr. Competent’

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 12:10 PM PDT

TAMPA—Voters should consider "competence" over "cool" when deciding who to support for president in November, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday. Giuliani stopped by the media filing center near the Republican National Convention site, where he told reporters that voters "made a big mistake" by electing President Barack Obama in 2008. "If I [...]

Court: Zimmerman judge should disqualify himself

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 02:57 PM PDT

A three-judge panel in Florida has ruled that a former neighborhood watch leader charged in the fatal shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin should be granted a new judge in his case.

NYC man gets 40 years to life for dismembering boy

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:19 PM PDT

A hardware store clerk was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping, killing and dismembering a lost little boy, bringing an end to a gruesome crime that horrified a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn.

Ann Romney urges Hispanic voters to get past 'their biases'

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 11:38 AM PDT

Tampa, Fla. -- Ann Romney's convention speech was directly aimed at wooing female voters, but at a lunch event Wednesday she changed her focus and pitched her husband to Hispanic voters.

'Worst year ever': Number of West Nile cases sets record

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 09:47 AM PDT

A total of 1,590 U.S. cases of West Nilevirus, including 66 deaths, have been reported through late August this year, the highest human toll reported, according to the CDC.

Romance at the RNC: Man proposes to girlfriend onstage

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 12:18 PM PDT

It looks as if Ann Romney's message from Tuesday night — that this is about love — struck a chord.

Can a speech by a woman, for women, draft female voters?

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 07:58 AM PDT

Ann Romney took the stage at the Republican National Convention in Tampa Tuesday night, talking of nasty weather, and the clouds parted. She seemed to be sunshine itself. In a bespoke, belted, Oscar de la Renta shirtdress of fire-engine red—with a glorious blonde coif that will no doubt inspire salon requests—Romney looked like a pinup girl on a USO tour. A bombshell. At 63. She was fantastic.

Photos: Hurricane Katrina anniversary

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 07:00 AM PDT

EXCLUSIVE: 500-year-old Da Vinci sculpture unveiled

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 01:14 PM PDT

A metal casting of a 504-year-old Leonardo Da Vinci beeswax sculpture was unveiled to the world in a special ceremony in Los Angeles. "Horse and Rider" is the only known three-dimensional piece of art created by Leonardo to still exist in the world and one of only about two-dozen authenticated Leonardo works in the world [...]

How major storms get their names

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 09:28 AM PDT

In the best case scenario, a storm is never named. It putters out well before it reaches land, or if on land, it's just a lot of rain, a regular annoying damp day but nothing dangerous, definitely not a hurricane, and no one is any the wiser. That storm hasn't hurt even a flea, that we know of. Other times storms start small and rise to an occasion of terror, becoming quite powerful and doing dreadful things. Sometimes they do a little damage, and sometimes it's so much it takes many years of recovery. ...

NYC tops list of cities with ‘most spoiled kids’

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 11:51 AM PDT

New York City's borough of Manhattan tops a new list measuring which cities spend the most on their children. The data was compiled by Bundle, which compared spending habits on young children against the national average. Another New York City borough is also home to the second "most spoiled" location on the list, Brooklyn. Miami [...]

Photos: Spanish town's annual 'Tomatina' tomato fight

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 01:45 PM PDT

Tens of thousands of people have splatted each other with 120 tons of tomatoes during the annual `Tomatina' battle, leaving the eastern Spanish town of Bunol in a sea of red mush. (Aug. 29)

SEAL book raises questions about bin Laden's death

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 11:21 AM PDT

A firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first fired upon him.

Death toll from Typhoon Bolaven rises to 18

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 08:24 AM PDT

South Korean rescuers Wednesday recovered two more bodies near two wrecked Chinese fishing boats, bringing the confirmed death toll from a powerful typhoon to 18.

Loss of radio contact prompts Amsterdam plane hijack scare

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 09:11 AM PDT

Spain's Vueling denied reports on Wednesday of a hijack of one of its flights from Malaga to Amsterdam, saying the incident was due to a mis-communication between the pilot and the control tower.

Neuroscience in court: My brain made me do it

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 06:08 AM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - He was once a respected pediatrician, loved by patients and their parents for over 30 years. Now Domenico Mattiello faces trial for pedophilia, accused of making sexual advances towards little girls in his care. Scientific experts will argue in court that his damaged brain made him do it, and his lawyers will ask for leniency. It's the latest example of how neuroscience - the science of the brain and how it works - is taking the stand and beginning to challenge society's notions of crime and punishment. ...

Unusual earthquake swarm shakes Southern California

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 06:31 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An unusual swarm of hundreds of mostly small earthquakes has struck Southern California over the last three days and shaken the nerves of quake-hardy residents, but scientists say the cluster is not a sign a larger temblor is imminent. The earthquakes, the largest of which measured magnitude 5.5, began on Saturday evening and have been centered near the town of Brawley close to the state's inland Salton Sea, said Jeanne Hardebeck, research seismologist for the U.S. Geological Survey. ...

French gov't offering to pick up tab for young hires

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 08:38 AM PDT

The French government wants companies to hire young people so much that it's offering to pick up the tab.