Y! Big Story: Tax day rallies, tea party and Occupy style
An extra two days for filing taxes? Why, more time to protest. In 2009, the Tax Day rallies crystallized a tea party moment. Three years later, the rallies continue, if not quite with the riled-up, pent-up outrage from the Bush-era bailouts and the Obama-sponsored health-care reform bill. If a Tax…
Popocatepetl Volcano, Vanessa Williams, Star Trek Captains: What’s Spiking (Tuesday)
The weekday report for the topics and people that are trending on Yahoo! and across the Web for Tuesday April 17, 2012. Research by Search editor Liz Streng Mother Nature blows some volcanic steam in Mexico. Meanwhile, a celebrity and her mother team up for a tell-all book that…
Watergate Figure Death, John Edwards Trial, Doughnut Vault: What’s Spiking (Monday)
The weekday report for the topics and people that are trending on Yahoo! and across the Web for Monday April 23, 2012. Research by Search editor Liz Streng The so-called “hatchet man” for President Richard Nixon died over the weekend, less than two months before the 40th anniversary of the…
Y! Big Story: After Zimmerman arrest, questions about ‘stand your ground’
Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman The fatal encounter between a 17-year-old black teenager and a mixed-race neighborhood watch volunteer has created a furor over “stand your ground” laws, which have been enacted in more than 20 states; legislation is pending in others. That Florida, the epicenter of the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman…
Y! Big Story: Contraception controversies
041112_birth_control_pills The report that teen pregnancy is an all-time low in America comes out at a time when birth control has re-emerged as a political issue. Since January alone, the Susan G. Komen flap, Rush Limbaugh’s “slut” controversy, a birth control pill recall, and health care reform have all kept…
Rick Santorum Quits, Teen Pregnancy, Guayabera: What’s Spiking (Tuesday)
The weekday report for the topics and people that are trending on Yahoo! and across the Web for Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Research by Search editor Mahlon Chute A presidential hopeful dropped out of the race, narrowing the GOP field to just three. Teen pregnancy rates drop, according to the…
‘X-Files’ Star Gillian Anderson Is Latest Celeb to Come Out as Bisexual
What’s the bigger revelation for a certain geek generation of Gillian Anderson fans — that “The X-Files” was a career “aberration” or that she swings both ways? Either way, Anderson has always been about broadening her horizons. The bisexual revelation comes in the latest issue of Out magazine and adds…
Y! Big Story: Titanic 100th anniversary
040912 Titanic The 100th anniversary of the Titanic expedition is under way. You can choose which moment you want to commemorate: The luxury liner left Belfast on April 2, 1912, sailed on its maiden — and final — voyage April 10, and hit the iceberg on April 15. The centenarian…
Y! Big Story: Pink slime and other food fights
As if dirty chicken coops, salmonella-tainted peanut butter and melamine in pet food weren’t enough, along comes “pink slime.” LFTB ground beef Pink slime—as some call it, but known in the meat industry as lean finely textured beef—isn’t illegal or even new. What the ruckus about it reveals is the…
Y! Big Story: Election race budget-busters
As Wisconsin marked a defining moment in Mitt Romney’s quest for the Republican presidential nomination, the Badger State might well be noted for another hot-button issue: record campaign spending. Just two years ago, in a season that cost about $3.65 billion, the most expensive votes belonged to a California gubernatorial…