COUNTRY FIRST?

Cain: ‘Not wrong’ to hope gas prices rise to hurt Obama

Herman Cain announcing his withdrawal from the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. Screenshot via MSNBC.

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Tuesday that there was nothing wrong with hoping gas prices increase because it would hurt Barack Obama’s reelection chances.

TWISTED LOGIC

Fox News analyst: Sikh temple massacre ‘not domestic terrorism’

Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano

Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano is insisting that it was “not domestic terrorism” for a white supremacist to shoot seven people dead at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.

CAN'T TAKE A JOKE

Koch spox slams Zach Galifianakis for making ‘obscene gestures with a monkey’

Actors Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell in "The Campaign." Photo: Screenshot via YouTube.

Billionaire Republican donors Charles and David Koch want their fans and unwitting followers to know that it’s unwise to take “political guidance” from “a guy who makes obscene gestures with a monkey on a bus in Bangkok.”

VOTERS TURNED AWAY

Michigan Democrats decry ‘mass confusion’ during primary elections

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Michigan Democrats on Tuesday blasted Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, claiming she neglected her duties in administering Michigan’s primary elections.

WELFARE REFORM

Obama team slams Romney for ‘untrue and hypocritical’ welfare claims

Mitt Romney via AFP

President Barack Obama’s campaign lashed out at his Republican contender, Mitt Romney, on Tuesday for claiming that welfare was being “gutted” by the current administration.

GUILTY PLEA

Jared Lee Loughner pleads guilty to Arizona shooting

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The man accused of the 2011 shooting that killed six and wounded 13 others in Tucson pleaded guilty on Tuesday.

Science

Physicists on ‘Armageddon’: A nuke would have been a ‘cheap firecracker’ on an asteroid

When Bruce Willis used a nuclear bomb to save Earth from a giant asteroid in the movie Armageddon, the…

Study: Chance that extreme weather isn’t cause by climate change is ‘negligible’

Unusually hot summers, and the destructive droughts and wildfires that follow, are the product of climate change, according…

Pfizer, Johnson drop tests for new Alzheimer drug

Waitresses who wear red earn bigger tips from men, study finds

Tech News

Megaupload boss says New Zealand police beat him

Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom on Tuesday accused New Zealand police of kicking and punching him…

Samsung launches its new super-size Galaxy Note

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics said it had launched a super-size version of its Galaxy Note…

Media

DreamWorks plans $3.2 billion China tourist attraction

DreamWorks Animation on Tuesday said it plans to build a $3.2 billion “entertainment zone” in…

Arthur Conan Doyle and the mystery of the medical student’s Arctic adventure

Sherlock Holmes author’s journal of his runaway year away as a ship’s doctor on a…

World

Greek authorities conducting mass arrests of undocumented immigrants

Greek authorities have begun one of the country’s biggest crackdowns yet on suspected illegal immigrants, deploying 4,500 police around Athens…

French mafia figure gunned down in broad daylight at butcher shop

BASTIA, France — An alleged key figure in one of Corsica’s most powerful crime families, Maurice Costa of the “Brise…

Pharma giant Pfizer fined for bribing officials in Eastern Europe and China

The US charged Pfizer and its subsidiary Wyeth on Tuesday with paying millions of dollars in bribes to build their…

Protesters greet Madonna in Russia over her support of Pussy Riot

US pop icon Madonna found herself in hot water in Moscow on Tuesday after she waded intoRussia’s fiercest controversy by calling for the release…

U.S. News

U.S. stocks score 3-day rally on stimulus hopes

NEW YORK — US stocks rallied for a third straight day Tuesday, buoyed by hopes…

New York cops probe massacre threats on Twitter: ‘People are gonna die like Aurora’

NEW YORK — New York police said Tuesday they want to force Twitter to reveal…

Report: U.S. military covered up ‘Auschwitz-like’ hospital conditions

A set of shocking images released by Buzzfeed Tuesday (Warning: graphic pictures) detail in horrifying…

Woman refuses to stop for police because she was ‘topless’

A woman from Marion County, Florida refused to stop for police who tried to pull…

WATCH LIVE: NASA discusses Mars Curiosity rover’s exploration

NASA officials held a press conference on the latest data received from the Curiosity rover’s…