Out West, GOP Candidates Mine For Caucus Votes
Saturday is caucus day in Nevada, the first state in the West to vote as Republicans go about choosing their presidential candidate. Mitt Romney is counting on another win here to keep him on the path to the nomination. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul have also been campaigning across the state, while Rick Santorum is [...]
Job Market Could Help Obama’s Election Stock
It turns out January was a surprisingly good month in the job market. U.S. employers added 243,000 jobs in January, and the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent. That better-than-expected news from the Labor Department triggered a rally in the stock market Friday, with the Dow climbing more than 150 points. The news could also [...]
Nevada A Safe Bet For Romney And Start Of Likely Bad Month For Rivals
Nevada is Mitt Romney’s world. The other Republican presidential candidates are just campaigning there. At least, that’s how it looks heading into Saturday’s presidential preference caucuses in the Silver State, the first contest in the West. With the most recent polls putting the former Massachusetts governor up by at least 20 percentage points in the [...]
Army To Try Bradley Manning In WikiLeaks Data Case
An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history. Military District of Washington commander Maj. Gen. Michael Linnington referred all charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning to a general court-martial, the Army said in a statement. The referral means Manning will stand [...]
Voting Heads West: A Nevada Republican Presidential Caucus Primer
While hotels along the Vegas Strip are full of Super Bowl fans and convention attendees this weekend, another event will be playing out Saturday at more than 100 locations across the state. Nevada’s Republican presidential caucuses will be taking place, not in expensive hotels, but mostly in low-key places like schools and firehouses. David Gallagher [...]
Fairway To Heaven: Trump Eyes A Golf Course Burial
You might think Donald Trump can buy anything he wants. But at least one purchase has eluded him: Trump wants to be buried on his golf course in Bedminster, N.J. Even though Trump owns the 500-acre spread, it’s taking an eternity for him to get a cemetery built there. That’s because the decision-makers in the [...]
How Did That Ad Make You Feel? Ask A Computer
If you have ever called your bank, your phone company or even your own office and slammed head-on into a voicemail system that has made you want to scream, this story is for you. That’s because several researchers at MIT’s Media Lab have decided the time has come to create computers that understand our emotions. [...]
Can Komen Recover From Controversy?
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation has had one of the worst weeks in terms of public relations of any organization in recent memory. On Friday, Komen announced it would reverse its decision to block most of its grants to Planned Parenthood, which had created a widely discussed controversy. Komen initially said it [...]
3 Hidden Themes Of This Year’s Super Bowl Ads
Come Sunday millions of Americans will be watching Super Bowl XLVI. This year’s NFL championship football game features New versus New — England and York. There will be dens of thousands swilling and spilling beer and pontificating about play action passes, blind-side sacks and franchise quarterbacks scrambling in and out of pockets. But for many [...]
If Romney Misspoke About ‘Poor’ Why Did He Later Repeat Statement?
(Revised at 2:19 pm ET) In an interview Thursday, Mitt Romney said he “misspoke” when he infamously said earlier in the week that he was not concerned about the very poor because they had a safety net, and the very rich but, instead, was focused on the middle class. Speaking of the CNN interview that [...]
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