Ann Romney's Convention Speech May Not Air On Broadcast Networks

The Mitt Romney campaign has a new challenge on its hands: Ann Romney's speech to the Republican National Convention, currently scheduled for Monday, may not air on broadcast television. The New York Times confirmed Wednesday what anybody who has glanced through the schedules of the broadcast networks could have guessed. ABC, CBS and NBC are only airing three hours of convention coverage during both the Republican ...

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Middle Class Exit 'Lost Decade' With Little Hope: Pew Report

Things aren't looking great for America's middle class, and they know it. A significant share of the middle class say it will be a long time before they recover from the severe shocks of the past 10 years, dubbed "The Lost Decade" in a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday. "There's not a lot of good news for the middle class," Rich Morin, senior editor at the Pew Research Center and a co-author of the report, ...

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Paul Ryan Responds To Todd Akin, Clarifies Abortion Position: 'Rape Is Rape'

Rep. Paul Ryan addressed his stance on abortion Wednesday for the first time since Rep. Todd Akin's controversial comments about "legitimate rape," seeking to distance himself from the embattled congressman with whom he co-sponsored a bill to redefine rape with respect to abortions. The Republican vice presidential nomineetold local CBS affiliate KDKA he is "proud" of his anti-abortion record when asked if abortion should ...

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Bin Laden Raid Book: First-Hand Account Of Navy SEAL Mission Will Be Released On Sept. 11

Undated photo of Osama bin Laden (AP Photo) WASHINGTON — A member of the U.S. Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden has written a firsthand account of the operation, triggering more questions about the possible public release of classified information involving the historic assault of the terror leader's compound in Pakistan. U.S. military officials say they do not believe the book has been read or cleared by the Defense Department, ...

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U.S. Will Enter Recession If 'Fiscal Cliff' Not Avoided: CBO

 The U.S. economy will sink into a deep recession and unemployment will jump back above 9 percent if Congress does not avoid a "fiscal cliff" waiting at the end of the year, according to a Congressional Budget Office study published Wednesday. The report is the latest, possibly most dire, warning of the consequences of congressional inaction on more than $600 billion in spending cuts and tax increases currently mandated to take effect at ...

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DNA Storage Advance: Entire Genetics Textbook Encoded In Less Than One Trillionth Of A Gram

Scientists have found a way to store an entire textbook in the code of DNA. By John Bohannon When it comes to storing information, hard drives don't hold a candle to DNA. Our genetic code packs billions of gigabytes into a single gram. A mere milligram of the molecule could encode the complete text of every book in the Library of Congress and have plenty of room to spare. All of this has been mostly theoretical—until now. In a new study, ...

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Global Arms Trade From 1992-2010 Visualized By Google

Google recently launched a project tomap out the flow of small arms, light weapons and ammunition transfers in and out of countries around the world. The result: An interactive visualization that lets the user examine the history of arms trading between 1992 and 2010. The Peace Research Institute Oslo(PRIO), a Norwegian initiative focused on the dealing of small arms, provided information for the undertaking, including "[m]ore ...

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Talk Of UFOs On Mars Sparked By Curious Photos From Curiosity Rover

NASA's Curiosity rover had hardly touched down on the surface of Mars on Aug. 5 when its cameras started transmitting images back to Earth of some odd things -- what some were calling UFOs. In one instance of Martian weirdness, YouTube poster StephenHannardADGUK put a curious Curiosity image through a series of filters, revealing a number of UFO-type objects, or specks or blotches, in the sky above. Here's an enhanced version ...

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In this Sept. 1, 2004, file photo, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks at the Republican National Convention in New York. Throughout the rapid political ascent of the 42-year-old congressman and vice presidential candidate to Mitt Romney, many of Ryan's Democratic adversaries have coupled criticism of his ideology with praise for his cordiality, diligence and thoughtfulness. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta, File) WASHINGTON - When Congressman Paul ...

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The race for president in Wisconsin has narrowed, with 49 percent supporting Barack Obama and 46 percent Mitt Romney, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Marquette Law School. “The two-point shift in Romney’s direction is within the margin of error for the poll but suggests Ryan’s addition to the ticket may have slightly increased Romney’s chances in Wisconsin,” Charles Franklin, the Marquette Law School poll's director, ...

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Wisconsin Presidential Poll: Obama's Lead Over Romney Narrowing

The race for president in Wisconsin has narrowed, with 49 percent supporting Barack Obama and 46 percent Mitt Romney, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Marquette Law School. “The two-point shift in Romney’s direction is within the margin of error for the poll but suggests Ryan’s addition to the ticket may have slightly increased Romney’s chances in Wisconsin,” Charles Franklin, the Marquette Law School poll's director, ...

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Paul Ryan Defended Stimulus -- When George W. Bush Wanted It In 2002 (VIDEO)

In this Sept. 1, 2004, file photo, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks at the Republican National Convention in New York. Throughout the rapid political ascent of the 42-year-old congressman and vice presidential candidate to Mitt Romney, many of Ryan's Democratic adversaries have coupled criticism of his ideology with praise for his cordiality, diligence and thoughtfulness. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta, File) WASHINGTON - When Congressman Paul ...

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