- In a frank interview, Mitt Romney's son Tagg says his dad didn't really want to be president.
"If he could have found someone else to take his place ... he would have been ecstatic to step aside," the younger Romney said.
What do you think of his son's remarks? - LikesSee All
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- Happy Festivus! "Seinfeld" made the "holiday for the rest of us" famous, but another man was really responsible.
At one point his kids decided to quit the made-up holiday, but that didn't stop their dad from stealthily recording them and then asking them to sing.
Do you celebrate Festivus? - The movie "Zero Dark Thirty" may be a hit with critics, but acting CIA director Michael Morell has a far different opinion, saying it "takes significant artistic license" and is "historically inaccurate", among other things: http://yhoo.it/104XCd0
Have you seen the film? How much of what's on screen do you believe? - PHOTOS: Check out pictures of kids with Santa that went wrong: http://yhoo.it/WFng7g
Do you have a favorite?
- PHOTOS: The biggest scandals of 2012
Kate Middleton was involved in one of the biggest controversies of the year: http://yhoo.it/11p0qAw
What is your pick?
- Photo slideshow of the biggest Twitter Twits of 2012:
http://yhoo.it/R9Xipt
Social media mishaps from Kim Kardashian, Chris Brown, Lindsay Lohan, Spike Lee ...
Which is your favorite?
Yahoo! shared Yahoo! Careers's photo.
A peek behind the curtain at Yahoo!:
Our fearless leader, Marissa Mayer, in head-to-toe purple.
So what's the backstory? Yahoos provided a 92% completion rate in a worldwide employee survey.
Have a great weekend. Especially those of you celebrating the holiday in a purple wig. : )
- A new highway in Texas boasts the nation’s fastest speed limit: 85 mph. In the US, only Utah comes close. But for fastest legal driving in the world, Germany’s famed autobahn network is still tops...
http://yhoo.it/Yvjw8O
What is the fastest you've ever driven?
- Check out this video of a crocodile leaping at man who gets too close.
Felix Andersson is swimming at an Australian park when he sees if he can get a rise out of the reptile and ...
http://bit.ly/VWLjIZ
Brave, crazy or both?
Yahoo! updated their cover photo.
Happy Holidays from Yahoo! Share your photos of the brightest, astonishing, and creative holiday lights displays in your neighborhood or your travels this holiday season!
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/flickr-best-holiday-displays-slideshow/
The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is lit during the 80th annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree (Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic)
- Pizza delivery boy turns surrealist photographer.
Check out Yahoo! Studios' show The Weekly Flickr http://bit.ly/U1P5Ri This week go behind the lens with Kyle Thompson who did not know much about photography just over a year ago.
- VIDEO: Farewell to those we lost
A final goodbye to the television and film stars, music legends, sports figures, and national heroes who touched us all, and who passed away in 2012: http://yhoo.it/12u5uUO
- 'It's a Wonderful Life' named top Christmas film
The 1946 redemption story starring Jimmy Stewart edged out the 1942 Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire musical "Holiday Inn" and Tim Burton's 1993 fantasy "The Nightmare Before Christmas." http://yhoo.it/UdjtdU
What's your favorite holiday film?
- We are observing a National Moment of Silence for the victims of the Sandy Hook tragedy.
#momentforsandyhook
- Live updates on "The End of the World"
According to an ancient Mayan prophesy, the world is slated to end today, Dec. 21. Correspondents from around the world are reporting in as midnight passes and they cross into what's supposed to be Doomsday: http://yhoo.it/T4xih9
How are you holding up?
- Massive Christmas light display draws crowds, annoys neighbors.
This isn't the first time Jan Stewart has gone all-out to light up her house. In this year's display you can see the flashing face of her husband, Larry, who died last year, on the roof.
http://yhoo.it/UchZ3u
Awesome or an eyesore?
- State Department officials admit that leadership failures led to the deadly Benghazi attack.
http://yhoo.it/12D2vbL
Whom do you blame, if anyone?
- The most famous hair in baseball is apparently no more. Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum discards his iconic locks in favor of a clean-cut look ahead of the 2013 season.
http://yhoo.it/Ug8HEJ
Do you like his free-spirit style, or is long hair out of place in baseball?
- How cold is it in Siberia?
Watch this guy toss a potful of boiling water off a balcony, and see it turn to snow before it hits the ground.
VIDEO: http://yhoo.it/RGzmeI
- The year's top news stories
The 2012 election was the most searched news topic on Yahoo!, and Hurricane Sandy and the Connecticut school shootings made the list. But No. 2 happened a year ago, and many probably have forgotten by now. http://yhoo.it/UI66D4
What do you think was an overlooked story this year?
- Tony Hawk photo stirs controversy
The legendary skateboarder posts a photo of him performing a 'frontside fling' with his daughter – but critics call him out because neither are wearing protective gear: http://bit.ly/TCeyBX
He responded to the critics with a bit of sarcasm: "It's more likely that you will fall while walking on the sidewalk than I will while skating with my daughter."
- Olivia Culpo, a 20-year-old beauty queen from Rhode Island, is crowned the new Miss Universe at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. Do you agree with the choice? http://yhoo.it/T8KoYz
- Barack Obama knows how to have some fun in front of the camera, and this picture of the president pretending to be nabbed by a pint-sized Spider-Man quickly goes viral.
Is this the cutest Obama photo you've ever seen? http://yhoo.it/UEokD0
- The actor who played the bully in "A Christmas Story" is suing the hit holiday franchise over royalties he says he's owed. Does he have a good case? http://yhoo.it/VQfMb8
- Sales soar for kid-themed body armor backpacks
Their maker says in the past week, volumes shot up to three times what they typically do in a month. But one critic said, "do we want to live in a society where we send our kids to school in Kevlar backpacks and arm our teachers? I think we create more chaos by responding that way.” http://yhoo.it/T7APrr
What do you think?
- Biggest weather moments
Sandy's bitter wallop topped the year's natural disasters, but the superstorm had plenty of company, including extended droughts and Hurricane Irene: http://yhoo.it/VRjv8G
A study suggests nearly 20 percent more Americans believe in climate change now than did two years ago. The year's biggest lesson? Be prepared for extremes.
- Time's 2012 person of the year revealed
A teen who survived a Taliban attack was a finalist, along with President Obama and Apple's CEO: http://yhoo.it/TyxD8l
What do you think about their choice?
- Report harshly criticizes U.S. State Department over Benghazi attack
The report's harsh assessment seemed likely to tarnish the four-year tenure of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said in a letter accompanying the review that she would adopt all of its recommendations.
http://yhoo.it/XHnBBu
Do you agree with the official inquiry?
- Families get their Griswold on this year
Superdecorators use video screens, conveyor belts, lasers, animatronics, and a partridge in a pear tree. MORE PHOTOS:
http://yhoo.it/U7w2HG
What's the best display in your area?
- Shaun White chops off famous locks
The Olympian donates his hair to Locks of Love, but it's not easy: http://bit.ly/V5pdqT
what do you think of his new look?
- Dog swallows Christmas lights, but then is saved by surgery
The owner calls Charlie the "light of her life," but he took that too far this season: http://abcn.ws/UAzuss
What's the weirdest thing your pet has eaten?
- Connecticut gunman's moves show he "didn't just snap"
Adam Lanza planned his rampage to achieve "maximum lethality," an ex-FBI profiler says: http://yhoo.it/V5mMEJ
Yahoo! updated their cover photo.
Candles are lit at a memorial for victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Funerals for victims of the shooting started on Monday as the nation continues to mourn the tragedy in Newtown last week. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Click on the link to look at the lives lost in the Newtown, CT shooting.
http://news.yahoo.com/conn-victims-lively-youngsters-devoted-adults-190832900.html
- Simple test could predict longevity
Researchers looking at 51 to 80-year-olds say they found a link between a person’s ability to sit on the floor and rise unsupported, and their risk of dying. The more they did things like touch a hand or knee to the ground, or push off with a hand on a knee to stand up, the more they were at risk. http://bit.ly/RC4V9z
How hard it is for you to get up and sit down without support?
- Large, small, adorable and some even in odd colors, they're the most impressive animals of the year: http://yhoo.it/XEBOzh
Fat cats, cute dogs, a gorilla playing with a todder, our shareable list has them all. Do you have a favorite? Do your friends agree?
- Obama holds the most of the cards in the fiscal cliff talks
More Americans are approving of his handling of the talks and are prepared to blame the GOP if the brinksmanship fails, a poll finds: http://yhoo.it/ZJcjlQ
Do you think he should push for as much as possible, or does the fiscal cliff need to be dealt with now?
- NBC journalist kidnapped in Syria freed
Richard Engel and his crew had been kidnapped and held for five days inside Syria by an unknown group before they were freed in a firefight. "We are pleased to report they are safely out of the country," NBC said in a statement. http://abcn.ws/U9NUCB
- Gene Rosen, a neighbor who took in six students who had fled the shooting says they were sweet kids and very, very brave: http://yhoo.it/VMyrom
A grandfather and a retired psychologist, Rosen did his best to comfort them.
- BREAKING Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii has died of respiratory complications at 88: http://yhoo.it/XBbTs3
- Sandy Hook school principal Dawn Hochsprung is hailed as a hero for confronting the shooter head-on to protect her students and save countless lives: http://abcn.ws/UMKSlg
- Sandy Hook classroom survivor played dead
The lone survivor of one of the two Sandy Hook Elementary School first-grade classrooms where Adam Lanza allegedly shot and killed 20 children tricked the gunman by playing dead, the girl's pastor said: http://yhoo.it/T49XKl
"The first thing she said to her mom was, 'Mommy, I'm OK but all my friends are dead,'" Pastor Jim Solomon said.
- John Kerry, Obama's good soldier
He's flown to Afghanistan and Pakistan numerous times to tamp down diplomatic disputes, pushed the White House's national security agenda in the Senate and was a vocal booster for the president's re-election. Now Obama seems likely to nominate him to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state: http://yhoo.it/TW8Zgx
Do you think he's a good choice to be the nation's top diplomat?
- Teachers across the nation are bracing for an onslaught of painful, often unanswerable questions as students return to class for the first time since the Connecticut school shooting: http://yhoo.it/UCB6RR
- Friends say Nancy Lanza's family life, especially its trials and setbacks, was off limits: http://yhoo.it/UANdih
- Glimpses of the lives lost in the Newtown, CT shooting: http://yhoo.it/ZBy9Yb
"This little girl could light up the room for anyone."
- WATCH LIVE: Barack Obama speaks at a prayer service in Newtown, Conn.: http://yhoo.it/PHng2S
- NFL star Victor Cruz is moved by the story of 6-year-old Sandy Hook school victim Jack Pinto, and vows to help the family: http://yhoo.it/WhwOBn
For others who'd like to help, here's how: http://yhoo.it/T19jvF
- Supreme Court fight looms over right to be armed in public
A provocative ruling by a panel of federal appeals court judges in Chicago early last week struck down the only statewide ban on carrying concealed weapons, in Illinois. The ruling came just a few days before the mass shooting in Connecticut: http://yhoo.it/VJBSMT
Legal scholars say the day is drawing near for a new high court case on gun rights.
- Boehner reportedly offers tax increase for entitlement cuts
The House speaker has offered President Obama a deal including letting tax rates expire for those who make over $1 million a year, contingent upon significant entitlement spending cuts and reforms, sources familiar with negotiations say: http://yhoo.it/T2wHdy
- If not for these acts of bravery and selflessness, the death toll in Connecticut could have been worse: http://yhoo.it/XsZR3S
- An unknown person in the principal's office who turned on the school's loudspeaker
- The 6-year-old who led his... friends out of class after his teacher got shot
- The teacher who told her students they would get to go home for Christmas, and barricaded them in the bathroom
- The custodian who went from classroom-to-classroom warning of a gunmanSee More
- President Obama will travel to Newtown, Conn. to meet with families of those killed in the elementary school shooting rampage, and thank emergency workers who responded to the tragedy: http://yhoo.it/SwmbNL
- Experts say that the children who saw events first-hand could have lasting psychological scars, but those whose home lives are stable and supportive will fare much better: http://abcn.ws/ZvG2hL
- Connecticut police have found "very good evidence" on the gunman in the tragic killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School: http://yhoo.it/SutG7L. They say he forced his way into the school.
- Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut this morning, was "obviously not well," a relative told ABC News. http://abcn.ws/TSQYiX
Family friends also described the young man as troubled and described his mother Nancy as very rigid.
- Choked with emotion, President Barack Obama vowed on Friday to "take meaningful action, regardless of the politics," to prevent future tragedies like the shooting massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. http://yhoo.it/UMHc0S
"Our hearts are broken today," he said in a brief statement.
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