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From voters, a wish list for Obama's second term

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 03:24 PM PST

With the election behind us, Yahoo! News asked voters from across the political spectrum to look ahead and share what they want the president to tackle in his second term. In their own words, here are suggestions voters offered on Wednesday.

Police: 6 men abduct girl at gunpoint, sexually assault her

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 03:33 PM PST

The 14-year-old girl was attacked while walking to school Monday morning in the Lawndale neighborhood.

Latino groups to Obama: You owe us

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 11:41 AM PST

polling placeThe president said that if he won re-election, he would owe it to Latinos -- and now they're looking for immigration reform.

Nor'easter brings new misery to Northeast

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 03:49 PM PST

Cars are seen covered by snow during the arrival of Nor'easter, also known as a northeaster storm, in Jersey City, New JerseyA wintry storm dropped heavy rain and snow on the Northeast, bringing dangerous winds and knocking out power.

Man behind anti-Islam film to return to jail for a year

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 03:35 PM PST

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is escorted out of his home by Los Angeles County Sheriff's officers in Cerritos, CaliforniaThe convicted California scam artist behind a crude anti-Islam film was sent back to jail for a year on over probation violations.

With another storm, airlines take no chances

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 03:36 PM PST

In this Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, photo, travelers on Delta Airlines look at a departure screen, in Detroit. Major airlines scrapped flights in and out of the New York area Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, as the region gets socked with the second significant storm in little more than a week. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Major airlines scrapped flights in and out of the New York area Wednesday as the region was socked with the second significant storm in little more than a week.

Young voters come through for Obama again

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 02:18 PM PST

Young Voters Come Through For Obama AgainObama's prospects this year were supposed to be jeopardized by the specter of a steep dip in support among key components of his 2008 base.

Puerto Rico vote endorses statehood with asterisk

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 03:26 PM PST

Supporters of the pro-commonwealth Popular Democratic Party cheer while waiting for the arrival of their candidate for governor of Puerto Rico Alejandro Garcia Padilla as the first tallied votes mark a tendency in his favor early Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Incumbent Gov. Luis Fortuno conceded defeat to Garcia Padilla in a close election with a margin less than 1 percent. (AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo)Puerto Ricans support U.S. statehood in a vote that members of the pro-statehood party say is the strongest sign yet it might lose its second-class status.

Man uses IDs from dead people to collect millions from IRS

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 03:17 PM PST

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Barbados national who stole the identities of hundreds of dead people in a scheme to collect more than $120 million in bogus tax refunds from the U.S. government was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday to 9-1/2 years in prison. Andrew Watts, 35, pleaded guilty in July to one count of mail fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. Prosecutors said Watts, a Barbados national who was in the United States legally, used the stolen identities to file 645 false federal tax returns between 2007 and 2011 and to claim more than $120 million in tax refunds. ...

Obama wins 2012 election: Why your taxes are going up

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 03:34 PM PST

When President Obama and the new Congress begin to tackle important legislation and federal policy in January, one of the key issues will be how to reform America's byzantine tax code.

Fireworks mishap causes fireball at Scotland show

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 12:01 PM PST

Who doesn't love a fireworks show full of awe-inspiring pyrotechnics? Folks looking forward to the annual Bonfire Night display in Edinburgh, Scotland, were hoping for one, but they didn't exactly get the visual treat they came for. Instead they got a show reminiscent of San Diego's Fourth of July spectacular last summer, in which an entire [...]

Mass. pharmacy board director fired

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 03:40 PM PST

The director of the Massachusetts pharmacy board has been fired for ignoring a complaint that a company linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak was violating its license by shipping drugs in bulk.

Video: Students send first burger into space

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 12:13 PM PST

One burger has gone where no burger has gone before: the edge of space. Five Harvard students, sponsored by a local burger restaurant, spent about 30 hours total over two weekends sending the first burger toward the upper reaches of the atmosphere. The students, juniors...

Boehner, Reid pledge to work together on 'fiscal cliff'

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 04:20 PM PST

Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid softened their partisan tones today as President Barack Obama called for cooperation after his re-election.

116 flights canceled at O'Hare as new storm hits Northeast

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 02:00 PM PST

United Airlines has canceled 269 flights as a result of a Nor'easter poised to hit the East Coast. The storm also canceled more than 100 flights at O'Hare.

Racial slurs reported at Ole Miss election protests

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 01:08 PM PST

At the University of Mississippi on Tuesday night, hundreds gathered at the student union to protest the re-election of President Barack Obama. Though the protest didn't turn violent (despite being referred to as "riots" by some), reports that some students used racial slurs were apparently accurate.  An Obama-Biden sign was also burned, though it was [...]

Dead candidates win elections in Florida, Alabama

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 12:39 PM PST

A woman inserts her ballot into an intake machine at a polling station during the U.S. presidential election in Los AngelesFlorida Democrat Earl K. Wood and Alabama Republican Charles Beasley won their respective elections but they will not take office.

Microchip lung 'catches' fatal disease

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 01:03 PM PST

Microchip Lung Catches Fatal DiseaseThis fingertip-size device can't exactly cough, but it can get a lung disease. For the first time, researchers have reproduced some of the effects of a disease in a microchip. The scientists' "organ-on-a-chip" technology is still under development, but they hope it someday will help test therapeutic drugs more quickly and reliably than current methods allow. 

Boehner: House GOP will work with Obama

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 12:37 PM PST

FILE - This March 20, 2012 file photo shows House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and President Barack Obama walk down the steps of the Capitol in Washington. The people of an intensely divided nation just created a government that looks the same way as the one before. The only hope for progress on creating jobs and everything else would be if Obama and Republicans in Congress could find some incentive to compromise. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)Acknowledging Obama's re-election victory, Boehner said House Republicans were willing to work with the White House.

Johnson runs most successful Libertarian campaign in history

Posted: 07 Nov 2012 11:35 AM PST

He may have received only about 1 percent of the national vote, but Gary Johnson is already the most successful White House candidate in the Libertarian Party's nearly 41-year history. "Ours is a mission accomplished," Johnson told FoxNews.com. "We put a true small-government, individual-freedom option on the ballot in virtually every state and have assembled [...]