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…
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…
Y! Big Story: Oakland shootings
The story has been updated with victims’ names and latest reports. In recent months, Oakland, Calif., had been the center of national attention as a flash point in the Occupy Movement. Now, a horrific spree shooting at a religious vocational school has once more focused on the city’s persistent homicide…
Y! Big Story: ‘Fifty Shades’ frenzy
Everything you need to know to get up to speed on the big story of the day Fifty Shades of Grey What started as “Twilight”-inspired fan-fiction bondage erotica became an underground reading obsession and erupted into two separate bidding wars. The story of the “Fifty Shades” trilogy might be the…
Y! Big Story: Mega Millions long odds and unreasoned dreams
One in 176 million. Let me spell that out: 1 in 176,000,000. But it’s another number—$640,000,000—that’s creating a feeding frenzy among ticket buyers hoping for a shot at that historic Mega Millions jackpot. (Heck, even a gorilla is playing.) The bounty crushes the previous record of $390 million. Then again,…
Y! Big Story: Supreme Court and health care reform
Everything you need to know to get up to speed on the big story of the day Defending the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—“Obamacare” to detractors—may rank as the most high-profile case on the Supreme Court docket this year. The hearing lasted just three days, long enough to combust…