Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/3001 us U.S. - Time en-us Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:20:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/3001 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091104/us_time/08599193439900 time/20091104/08599193439900 Time.com us Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:20:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091104/us_time/08599193439900"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.2a83a363484c400ea962c60a0af01fd4.us_elections_christie_nyha112.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=PWSBOxjWeSx6rDSbG5jxMQ--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Republican Chris Christie, right,with his wife, Mary Pat, at his side addresses his supporters after beating incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine to become the next governor of New Jersey, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 in Parsippany, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)" border="0" /></a>Time.com - The GOP gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia may not have been a referendum on Obama, but they did show that the President's popularity cannot so easily be transferred</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091104/us_time/08599193439900"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.2a83a363484c400ea962c60a0af01fd4.us_elections_christie_nyha112.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=PWSBOxjWeSx6rDSbG5jxMQ--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="Republican Chris Christie, right,with his wife, Mary Pat, at his side addresses his supporters after beating incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine to become the next governor of New Jersey, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 in Parsippany, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Time.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091104/us_time/08599193408100 time/20091104/08599193408100 Time.com us Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:20:00 GMT Time.com - New book The Curse of the Mogul excoriates the leaders of America's big media companies for shortsighted, self-indulgent grandiosity. And that's just for starters http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091103/us_time/08599193404100 time/20091103/08599193404100 Time.com us Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT Time.com - Former Bear Stearns exec Steven Begleiter aims to make cool $7.2 million with his poker skills, but one poker pro calls him "a loose cannon" http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091103/us_time/08599193410900 time/20091103/08599193410900 Time.com us Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT Time.com - Welcome to America's 2009 off-off year elections, in which partisans and analysts hope to turn the usual dictum on its head: today, they'll try to convince you, all politics is national http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091103/us_time/08599193411100 time/20091103/08599193411100 Time.com us Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT Time.com - For all the talk of Republican chaos and infighting in this off-year election, the GOP in Virginia seems to have found the formula for unifying its party and delivering a winning message http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091102/us_time/08599193380000 time/20091102/08599193380000 Time.com us Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT Time.com - It's hard to tell whether any merchandise at these auctions was owned by Madoff or those he ruined or if the ads are just a dubious way to drum up traffic for run-of-the-mill estate sales http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091102/us_time/08599193383800 time/20091102/08599193383800 Time.com us Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT Time.com - Charles Pugh has a great personal story and lots of charm, but some wonder whether the former TV news reporter has enough substance to match his style http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091030/us_time/08599193328800 time/20091030/08599193328800 Time.com us Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:30:00 GMT Time.com - For all the bluster about cracking down on Americans who hide money overseas, the U.S. turns a virtual blind eye to foreign tax cheats parking money in the U.S. banking system http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091030/us_time/08599193335700 time/20091030/08599193335700 Time.com us Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:30:00 GMT Time.com - In meetings with top bankers, key Capitol Hill players and others, the Treasury Secretary is upping the intensity to push through reform http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091030/us_time/08599193334500 time/20091030/08599193334500 Time.com us Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:25:00 GMT Time.com - One of the key combat-medicine innovations of the Iraq war was the use of platelet transfusions to stop bleeding. And as Afghanistan supplants Iraq in U.S. casualties, the military has begun diverting platelets there http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091030/us_time/08599193335500 time/20091030/08599193335500 Time.com us Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:25:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091030/us_time/08599193335500"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20091030/capt.2cefd104f3391f8ce4ad784680566dca.jpeg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=Tgn3LXcevCeT2y5fRTpjiQ--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="Dede Scozzafava, the Republican Congressional candidate in New York's 23rd district, debates an opponent in Plattsburgh, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Todd Bissonette)" border="0" /></a>Time.com - The race in the 23rd is no longer about local issues. It's about a Republican Party with little current power inside the Beltway searching for a way out of the wilderness</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091030/us_time/08599193335500"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20091030/capt.2cefd104f3391f8ce4ad784680566dca.jpeg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=Tgn3LXcevCeT2y5fRTpjiQ--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="Dede Scozzafava, the Republican Congressional candidate in New York's 23rd district, debates an opponent in Plattsburgh, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Todd Bissonette)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Time.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091030/us_time/08599193296300 time/20091030/08599193296300 Time.com us Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:00:00 GMT Time.com - In a new memoir, The Audacity to Win, David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama's 2008 race for the White House, provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse inside the campaign http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091029/us_time/08599193307000 time/20091029/08599193307000 Time.com us Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:55:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091029/us_time/08599193307000"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091029/capt.photo_1256845361841-1-0.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=sKEA79kTxU.q42efv.LAtA--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia speaks on Capitol Hill in June 2009. The Republican leadership in the US House of Representatives unveiled a free application for the Blackberry on Thursday to keep users up to date on the latest in Congress through their cellphones.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Robert Giroux)" border="0" /></a>Time.com - To overcome criticism that the Republican Party doesn't stand for anything, Eric Cantor has a plan</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091029/us_time/08599193307000"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091029/capt.photo_1256845361841-1-0.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=sKEA79kTxU.q42efv.LAtA--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="photo" title="House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia speaks on Capitol Hill in June 2009. The Republican leadership in the US House of Representatives unveiled a free application for the Blackberry on Thursday to keep users up to date on the latest in Congress through their cellphones.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Robert Giroux)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Time.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091029/us_time/08599193309300 time/20091029/08599193309300 Time.com us Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:55:00 GMT Time.com - The giant financial institutions that make up Wall Street have been bailed out, thanks to trillions of dollars of our money, and are on track to hand out record-breaking multibillion-dollar bonuses while millions of regular folks are hurting http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091029/us_time/08599193298100 time/20091029/08599193298100 Time.com us Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:10:00 GMT Time.com - To pay for health-care reform, both parties need to get serious about a topic neither one mentions: taxes http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091028/us_time/08599193286000 time/20091028/08599193286000 Time.com us Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:30:00 GMT Time.com - As Michael Jackson's This Is It premieres around the world, the star comes back to life as the one-of-a-kind entertainer that he was http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091028/us_time/08599193280300 time/20091028/08599193280300 Time.com health Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:30:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091028/us_time/08599193280300"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091027/capt.photo_1256606747818-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=8sPDgox7omNUauWXD1KqUA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Legions of Facebook users united in protest, demanding that the world's most popular social-networking service undo recent changes to its home page. A "Change Facebook Back to Normal" group at the website claimed slightly more than a million members as once again, Facebook's penchant for change triggered ire among users that prefer things remain the same.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)" border="0" /></a>Time.com - Facebook is quietly offering a fix to one of the social-networking service's most awkward loose ends -- what happens to user profiles after those people die</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091028/us_time/08599193280300"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091027/capt.photo_1256606747818-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=8sPDgox7omNUauWXD1KqUA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Legions of Facebook users united in protest, demanding that the world's most popular social-networking service undo recent changes to its home page. A "Change Facebook Back to Normal" group at the website claimed slightly more than a million members as once again, Facebook's penchant for change triggered ire among users that prefer things remain the same.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Time.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091028/us_time/08599193278900 time/20091028/08599193278900 Time.com us Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:50:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091028/us_time/08599193278900"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091026/capt.photo_1256596300282-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VDnfGmSFaOrzqyTXew65sg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid holds a news conference to announce the inclusion of the "public option" in the Senate's version of the health care reform legislation in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama's top Senate ally announced plans Monday to start debate on historic legislation to remake US health care, including a controversial government-backed insurance plan.(AFP/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)" border="0" /></a>Time.com - States can opt out of Harry Reid's public option. But how many of them really will?</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091028/us_time/08599193278900"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091026/capt.photo_1256596300282-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VDnfGmSFaOrzqyTXew65sg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid holds a news conference to announce the inclusion of the "public option" in the Senate's version of the health care reform legislation in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama's top Senate ally announced plans Monday to start debate on historic legislation to remake US health care, including a controversial government-backed insurance plan.(AFP/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Time.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091027/us_time/08599193189500 time/20091027/08599193189500 Time.com us Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:55:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091027/us_time/08599193189500"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091019/capt.d7980c0e1ba2482d9ba8d567c2702d92.blagojevich_indictment_ny126.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=NYZrKtQ3avog3OxOIqW2OA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 photo provided by ABC, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks with co-host Joy Behar, on the set of 'The View' in New York. It was Blagojevich's second visit to the show. Prosecutors said Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 they are worried about what the ousted governor might say on Donald Trump's 'Celebrity Apprentice' TV show that could taint the jury pool for his federal corruption trial. (AP Photo/ABC, Steve Fenn)" border="0" /></a>Time.com - Disgraced by scandal, Rod Blagojevich, the impeached former governor of Illinois, is fighting federal corruption charges with an unusual defense: sheer ubiquity</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091027/us_time/08599193189500"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091019/capt.d7980c0e1ba2482d9ba8d567c2702d92.blagojevich_indictment_ny126.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=NYZrKtQ3avog3OxOIqW2OA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 photo provided by ABC, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks with co-host Joy Behar, on the set of 'The View' in New York. It was Blagojevich's second visit to the show. Prosecutors said Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 they are worried about what the ousted governor might say on Donald Trump's 'Celebrity Apprentice' TV show that could taint the jury pool for his federal corruption trial. (AP Photo/ABC, Steve Fenn)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Time.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091027/us_time/08599193211300 time/20091027/08599193211300 Time.com us Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:55:00 GMT Time.com - Obama declares the swine flu epidemic a major federal priority but that's only to get more resources to it. The situation, while imperfect, seems manageable, so far.