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White House condemns ‘disproportionate’ prison term for Russian punk band

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 11:47 AM PDT

Feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Yekaterina Samutsevich, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia on Friday, Aug 17, 2012. The women, two of whom have young children, are charged with hooliganism connected to religious hatred but the case is widely seen as a warning that authorities will only tolerate opposition under tightly controlled conditions. T-shirt on right worn by Tolokonnikova is Spanish and translates to The White House on Friday condemned the "disproportionate" two-year prison sentence a Russian judge imposed on members of the punk band "Pussy Riot," found guilty of "hooliganism" for an event mocking Russian President Vladimir Putin. "The United States is disappointed by the verdict, including the disproportionate sentences that were granted," spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters. [...]

Slideshow: Ballet school offers hope for Brazil's underprivileged

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 11:14 AM PDT

Slideshow: Ballet school offers hope for Brazil's underprivilegedGirls perform during their ballet class at the 'Ballet Santa Teresa' academy in Rio de Janeiro August 13, 2012. 'Ballet Santa Teresa', a non-governmental organization (NGO) gives children who live in areas with social risk, some suffering domestic violence, free ballet classes and other activities as a part of socio-cultural integration project. Picture taken Auhust 13, 2012. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares (BRAZIL - Tags: SOCIETY)

Fake followers newest ploy, accusation in politics

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 10:42 AM PDT

Forget ballot box irregularities. There's a virtual dust-up under way over how Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney amassed more than 100,000 new Twitter followers in just one weekend.

Vote now on the dumbest political quotes of the week

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 10:25 AM PDT

This combo made from file photos shows Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan. In some ways, these presidential ticket No. 2s could not be more different. But in other ways, the 42-year-old Republican congressman and 69-year-old Democratic vice president are very much alike. (AP Photo)Each week, the Daily Caller picks the dumbest political statements and ranks them (just for Yahoo! readers) on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being the worst). Who do you think said the dumbest thing? Vote in our poll below!

Slideshow: See the week's best photos

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 10:09 AM PDT

Slideshow: See the week's best photosA long exposure shows stars behind a tree during the annual Perseid meteor shower near the southern town of Mitzpe Ramon August 13, 2012. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Assange living in 'small room' at Ecuador embassy

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 09:53 AM PDT

Police officers arrive outside Ecuador's embassy where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is residing in LondonJulian Assange lives in a pricey building in one of London's toniest districts. But he is not staying in the lap of luxury.

The 10 craziest items you can't sell on eBay

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 09:36 AM PDT

Think you can sell absolutely anything on eBay? Think again.

For Miss., an angst-filled Civil War anniversary

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 09:04 AM PDT

This nine-foot tall sculpture photographed at the Vicksburg National Military Park in Vicksburg, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, honors black soldiers and civilians that fought for their freedom and in support of the Union. The statue depicts three figures - two Union soldiers representing the 1st and 3d Mississippi Infantry, African Descent, and participated in the Vicksburg campaign, and the third figure, right, is a civilian laborer. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War can be an angst-filled task in Mississippi, with its long history of racial strife and a state flag that still bears the Confederate battle emblem.

Rage Against the Machine guitarist no fan of Paul Ryan

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 08:31 AM PDT

RICHMOND, Virginia—Paul Ryan says he's a big fan of the band Rage Against the Machine, but not surprisingly, it's an unrequited love. Rage guitarist Tom Morello penned a 467-word rant in Rolling Stone against the Republican vice presidential candidate Thursday night: Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the [...]

Lawyer ordered to pay $4.5M to gay U-M student

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 08:14 AM PDT

FILE - This 2010 file photo shows Chris Armstrong in Ann Arbor, Mich. A jury has awarded Armstrong, a gay University of Michigan student body president, $4.5 million in his lawsuit against a former Michigan assistant attorney general who posted about him in an anti-gay blog. (AP Photo/The Michigan Daily, Sam Wolson, File) MANDATORY CREDIT. LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUTA jury on Thursday awarded a gay University of Michigan student body president $4.5 million in his lawsuit against a former Michigan assistant attorney general who posted about him in an anti-gay blog.

World execs pick Obama for economy: Poll

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 07:58 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama points after he addresses a campaign event at Rollins College in OrlandoTwice as many business executives around the world say the global economy will prosper better if incumbent President Barack Obama wins the next election than if his Republican challenger Mitt Romney does, a poll showed on Friday.

West Nile aerial attack creates controversy in virus-stricken Dallas

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 07:42 AM PDT

Dead mosquitos are lined up waiting to be sorted at the Dallas County mosquito lab in Dallas, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. The last time Dallas used aerial spraying to curb the mosquito population, Texas' Lyndon Johnson was in the White House, Mission Control in Houston was launching Gemini missions and encephalitis was blamed for more than a dozen deaths. But for the first time in more than 45 years, the city and county planned Thursday to resume dropping insecticide from the air to combat the nation's worst outbreak of West Nile virus, which has killed 10 people and caused at least 200 others to fall ill. (AP Photo/LM Otero)Dallas is suffering from the nation's deadliest outbreak of West Nile virus this year. Ten people have died and more than 200 others have fallen ill in less than two months.

City Pride: Tampa, tell us why your city is the best

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 06:20 AM PDT

Calling proud residents of Tampa! Delegates from around the nation will be coming to your city at the end of the month to formally name Mitt Romney the Republican presidential nominee. What are your favorite spots to eat lunch in the city? How about the best place to grab a beer after a long day [...]

Mine 'bloodbath' shocks post-apartheid South Africa

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 05:48 AM PDT

A protester licks his spear outside a South African mine in RustenburgThe killing by police of more than 30 striking platinum miners in the bloodiest security operation since the end of white rule cut to the quick of South Africa's psyche on Friday, with people and the media questioning its post-apartheid soul.

Russian punk band found guilty of hooliganism

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 05:31 AM PDT

Feminist Russian punk group Pussy Riot members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, center, Maria Alekhina, right, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, are escorted to a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. The three women in the band have been in jail for more than five months because of a prank they carried out in Moscow's main cathedral in a demonstration against Russia's Vladimir Putin, and they now face a maximum seven years in jail. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)Three members of Pussy Riot -- a Russian punk band and feminist collective that mocked Russian president Vladamir Putin during a "punk prayer" in a Moscow cathedral--have been found guilty of  hooliganism driven by religious hatred and offending religious believers a judge ruled. Sentencing is expected later today. Judge Marina Syrova announced the verdict from [...]

Seamus in chains: Campaign rhetoric goes “ruff”

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 05:15 AM PDT

Mitt's Medicare Trap for ObamaA campaign about ideological choices, the size of government, the direction of the country, big priorities ... Right? Not so much.

Real-life Walter White sought on meth charge

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:42 AM PDT

A man who shares the same name with television's most noted meth dealer is wanted by authorities in Alabama for allegedly violating his probation for a past meth conviction.

'Millionaire Matchmaker' client, fraudster, sentenced to federal prison

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:09 AM PDT

Michael Prozer III, who once appeared on the reality TV show "The Millionaire Matchmaker" and later pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges, has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison.

Christine O'Donnell to stage tea party vs. occupy debate

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 03:52 AM PDT

Christine O'Donnell is looking to make some trouble in Tampa, Fla. The former Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware will host a five-day event dubbed Troublemaker Fest at an IMAX theater two blocks from the Tampa Bay Times Forum, where the Republican National Convention will...

Iraq officials: Over 90 dead in Thursday's attacks

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 02:31 AM PDT

People and security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug 16, 2012. Five separate bombings in central and northern Iraq, killed and wounded scores of people early Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)Police and hospital officials say the death toll from a blistering string of all-day attacks across Iraq on Thursday has risen to more than 90.

Another Afghan police attack kills 2 US troops

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 01:43 AM PDT

Three American soldiers were killed when a man in an Afghan uniform turned his weapon against themA NATO official says another Afghan policeman has turned his weapon on American allies in Afghanistan, killing two U.S. service members.

Zuckerberg fortune drops $600 million as Facebook flops

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 12:22 AM PDT

Facebook Stock Falls to New LowThe fortune of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Inc.'s co-founder and CEO, dropped to a new low Thursday. The 28-year-old's net worth fell to $10.2 billion, its lowest point since the company's May 17th initial public offering.

Police: More than 30 killed in S. Africa shooting

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 12:05 AM PDT

Striking mineworkers are caught in teargas as police open fire on striking miners at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. An unknown number of people have been killed and injured. Police moved in on workers who gathered on a rocky outcropping near the Lonmin late afternoon, firing unknown ammunition and teargas. (AP Photo) SOUTH AFRICA OUTSouth African police officers killed more than 30 striking workers at a Lonmin PLC platinum mine who charged a line of officers trying to disperse them, authorities said Friday.

To fight West Nile, Dallas launches aerial defense

Posted: 16 Aug 2012 11:01 PM PDT

Mike Stuart of Dynamic Aviation describes the plane that will be used for aerial spraying and it's difference from crop dusting during a news conference in Dallas, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. The last time Dallas used aerial spraying to curb the mosquito population, Texas' Lyndon Johnson was in the White House, Mission Control in Houston was launching Gemini missions and encephalitis was blamed for more than a dozen deaths. But for the first time in more than 45 years, the city and county planned Thursday to resume dropping insecticide from the air to combat the nation's worst outbreak of West Nile virus, which has killed 10 people and caused at least 200 others to fall ill. (AP Photo/LM Otero)Dallas-area officials have launched an aerial assault on the mosquito population in the hope of ending a West Nile virus epidemic.

MLB fan suffers heart attack, dies

Posted: 16 Aug 2012 10:12 PM PDT

Injured Blue Jays fanA fan sitting down the third base line was pronounced dead at a Toronto hospital after suffering a heart attack in the seventh inning of the Blue Jays-White Sox game.
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