Hill, who won the starting job over freshman Kyle Allen two weeks ago, was 27 for 35 in the first half for 299 yards and two touchdowns. He finished with a school-record 511 yards and 44 completions in the 52-28 upset.
The Aggies snapped South Carolina’s 18-game home winning streak, which was the longest in the nation. And Hill, who declined to speak to the media before the game, quickly became one of the most talked about quarterbacks in America.
“You’ve got to keep an eye on Kenny Hill,” said ESPN analyst Jesse Palmer after the game. “He’s for real and this Aggies team is for real.”
Terror analysts say those fighters pose the greatest threat to the United States because of their ability to travel freely and blend in. Many are recruited through apowerful online media campaign, CBS News' Julianna Goldman reports.
"I am your brother in Islam here in Syria. We have safety here for your family and children," said a Western jihadist on video, urging potential ISIS recruits to come join the fight in Syria.
It's all part of a high-tech propaganda machine ISIS has developed to reach out to militants in Europe, Canada and the United States.
The terror group now has its own multilingual media arm, Al Hayat, which is behind the creation and distribution of glossy magazines and highly produced slick videos. ISIS even uses drones and GoPros to appeal to the Western eye.
A "mujatweet," a short promotional video, shows a softer side of jihad. In one such video, a Belgian hands out ice cream to excited Syrian children.
Elliot Zweig is deputy director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, which has been tracking ISIS on the Web.
"You see messages of camaraderie," Zweig said. "The focus of these are much more on 'come and join us', it is not all difficulty and gore and suffering. It is 'come and join us, join me and we'll fight the good fight together.'"
A celebrity culture has even emerged around some of these ISIS fighters, like the French militant who goes by Guitone and a German rapper who goes by Deso Dogg.
"The message is very much, here we are at the beach, here we are eating pizza, the guys, it's pizza night, almost as an aside it says 'death to Jews,'" Zweig said.
Rita Katz is the co-founder of SITE, an intelligence group pushing for social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to crack down on jihadi postings.
"They are serving here terrorist material," Katz said. "There are very inspiring images, very inspiring individuals, individuals that were followed that were celebrities in the West, now they are celebrities of jihadist. They are all over Twitter, inciting for killing others."
Twitter had no comment but has shut down official ISIS accounts. Even so, tweets show how easy it is for Jihasits to skirt the system and get their message out.
"At the end of the day, they don't need big numbers," said Frank Cilluffo, director of the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute. "They're trying to appeal to small numbers, which unfortunately in the terrorism business is all it takes."
When it comes to policing these social media sites, sources say the intelligence community is divided. On the one hand, jihadists use them as recruitment tools, but ISIS postings also help track these militants and teach us about their activities when intelligence on the ground is limited.
Hollywood has been enthusiastic in taking on the Ice Bucket Challenge -- Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Aniston are just four of the many who have participated -- and now the cause has made its way to Springfield, too.
"The Simpsons" got in on the viral movement raising awareness and funds for ALS by having Homer Simpson take on the challenge.
In a clip posted by Fox, Homer pours a small glass of water over his head. And it wasn't even coldwater, based on his faux shivering.
Nice try, Simpson. Bart makes sure he doesn't get off that easy. With the help of a helicopter, he dumps a massive dose of water and lots of other cold-weather things on his old man
MTV VMAs: Winners, highlights and memorable moments
Jay-Z and daughter Blue Ivy Carter present the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award to honoree Beyonce onstage during the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on Aug. 24, 2014, in Inglewood, California. MICHAEL BUCKNER/GETTY IMAGES
Miley Cyrus won the top honor Sunday at the MTV Video Music Awards, but it was Beyonce's finale performance -- and on-stage cameos from her husband and daughter -- that became the night's biggest moment.
An emotional Beyonce embraced Jay Z and 2-year-old Blue Ivy (who, wearing a gold dress, could be seen clapping her hands and appearing to say "Yay, Mommy") after they watched from the audience as she performed a medley of her hits at the close of the show.
Beyonce, teary-eyed, thanked her fans and looked at her daughter and husband, telling them she loved them.
Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" won the award for video of the year. Unlike last year's VMAs, when Cyrus twerked and danced shockingly onstage, she took a back seat Sunday night and let a young man accept her award to raise awareness for runaways and homeless youth.
Nicki Minaj helped open the VMAs with a "Bang" as she brought her "Anaconda" video to life with a rump-shaking performance and had a wardrobe malfunction when she performed with Ariana Grande and Jessie J.
The rapper first wore a green top and shorts, rapping, dancing and exciting the crowd -- except Rita Ora, who stared blankly when the camera panned by. But when Minaj performed "Bang Bang," the rapper was far more subdued as she held the front of her outfit together after a long split appeared.
Snakes, though, were not part of the Sunday night's performance -- days before the VMAs, a 6-foot-long boa constrictor reportedly bit a background dancer during a rehearsal for Minaj's performance.
Grande kicked off the show with a rendition of her EDM hit, "Break Free" in a Beyonce-inspired leotard. The 21-year-old singer returned to the stage later in the show when she won best pop video for her smash single "Problem."
Katy Perry, wearing an all-denim dress that paid homage to Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake's ensembles from the 2001 American Music Awards, took home the first moonman trophy of the evening, winning best female video for "Dark Horse" with Juicy J.
Taylor Swift, who is fully venturing out into the world of pop music, performed her new song "Shake It Off" for the first time live on TV during the telecast. Other performances came from Maroon 5, Sam Smith, Usher and Azeala, who performed her single "Black Widow" with Rita Ora.
The night featured a serious social message along with the performances. Rapper-actor Common held a moment of silence for Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a police officer on Aug. 9, before he presented the award for best hip-hop video.
"Hip-hop has always been about truth and has been a powerful instrument of social change, from Melle Mel to Public Enemy to Kendrick Lamar," Common said. "Hip-hop has always been presented a voice for the revolution."
Later, a 15-second spot aired alluding to the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, urging viewers to take action to eliminate bias.
There was also a brief tribute to the late Robin Williams with a photo montage set to Coldplay's song "A Sky Full of Stars."
This year, there was VMAs drama before the ceremony even began -- days before the big show, Azalea slipped offstage while performing "Fancy" at a MTV benefit concert. At a rehearsal, a show worker fell from one of the winding, sloping platforms on the stage at the Forum in Inglewood, California, which reopened in January after a $100 million makeover. And rap mogul Suge Knight was injured in a shooting early Sunday at a West Hollywood nightclub for an unofficial pre-VMA party hosted by Chris Brown.
The incidents helped make the popular awards trend on social media even before an award was handed out, though trophies often take a back seat at the VMAs, which are all about the moments -- like Cyrus' twerking during last year's show.
CANBERRA, Australia -- Just weeks before the hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner is set to resume, an Australian official said Thursday that the sprawling search area in the southern Indian Ocean may be extended farther south based on a new analysis of a failed attempt to call the plane by satellite phone.
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said the analysis of the call, attempted by Malaysia Airlines officials on the ground soon after Flight 370 disappeared from radar, "suggests to us that the aircraft might have turned south a little earlier than we had previously expected."
The Boeing 777 disappeared after veering off its northerly course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, and has become one of aviation history's most stunning mysteries. It is thought to have crashed 1,100 miles off Australia's west coast, but no trace of the plane or the 239 people aboard has been found.
The overall search area remains unchanged, Truss said. However, Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief commissioner Martin Dolan said he would meet with international experts next week to decide whether the 23,000-square mile targeted search area should be extended or shifted south based on the new analysis.
"We think we may extend that area farther south; that's the thing we're currently considering," Dolan told The Associated Press.
The new analysis applies to satellite data from the first of two satellite phone calls Malaysia Airlines ground staff attempted to make to Flight 370's crew.
Investigators have long been aware of the phone calls, but it has taken until recently for them to develop methods to analyze the phone data to glean clues about the plane's direction. It was through a similar analysis of satellite data from the plane's jet engine transmitter that investigators were able to define the current search area.
By the time the calls were attempted, the plane had become invisible to civilian radar. It had flown west without communications past Sumatra and beyond the range of Malaysian military radar.
Dolan said the new analysis suggested the jet was already flying south when the first phone call was attempted, less than 20 minutes after the plane dropped off military radar.
"Previously, there was the possibility that it could have been quite a bit later, so we had to do our modeling based on a range of possibilities as to where the aircraft turned," Dolan said.
"We're now more confident that it turned comparatively early. That does make a difference to how we prioritize the search along the seventh arc," he added, referring to the broad area where investigators believe the flight ran out of fuel and crashed, based on the last ping from the jet engine transmitter.
Investigators are attempting to calculate which parts of the search area should be examined first. The analysis adds weight to an Australian Transport Safety Bureau crash investigation report in June in which most of the modeling of the plane's potential flight paths factored in a relatively early switch to a southerly course.
The current search area covers a swath of ocean 435 miles long and 50 miles wide. An initial search of 330 square miles of seabed to the north ended with officials concluding that they were focusing their efforts in the wrong place.
Truss and Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai signed an agreement Thursday in Canberra on sharing the ongoing costs between the two countries as the search progresses to the expensive next phase, which could take up to a year and cost 52 million Australian dollars ($48 million).
Until now, each country involved in the search has been bearing its own costs.
Liow said investigators had advised that success in the undersea search for wreckage and the aircraft's black boxes with cockpit voice recordings and flight data is crucial to solving the mystery of the disaster.
"The investigation cannot continue without the search result," Liow said.
"We need to find the plane, we need to find the black box in the plane so that we can have a conclusion in the investigation," he added.
Malaysia, as the country where the Boeing 777 was flagged, has overall responsibility for the crash investigation. But Australia has search and rescue responsibility.
Chinese Vice Minister of Transport He Jianzhong, who also attended the Canberra meeting, said the ministers agreed that the search will not be interrupted or given up. Most of the passengers - 153 - were Chinese.
For the second year in a row, the White Clam Pizza at Frank Pepe's in New Haven, Connecticut, was named the nation's best. DIANA DELUCIA/THE DAILY MEAL
Hey, pizza fans! Who makes the best pie in America?
The Daily Meal, a national food and drink website, has compiled a list of the 101 best pizzas in the country.
The site's executive editor, Arthur Bovino, and a panel of 77 experts tasted a total of 700 pizza places from around the country.
For the second straight year, New York scored the most pizzas on the list, 35 - up from last year. Brooklyn, with 13 pizzas, had the most of the city's five boroughs. Manhattan was next with 11.
The Margherita pizza from Totonno's in the New York City borough of Brooklyn was No. 8.
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Deep-dish lovers who prefer Chicago-style pizza to the New York kind will be disappointed. Fewer spots from Illinois made the list than ever.
California had nine pizzas on the list, and there were some notable additions from the South - five from Texas, four from Georgia and three from Washington, D.C.
But the nation's top pizza came from New England. For the second year in a row , Frank Pepe's of New Haven, Connecticut, was given the top slot for its White Clam Pizza, topped with clams, grated Parmesan cheese, olive oil, garlic and oregano.
The No. 2 pizza came was the Classic Round Pie from Di Fara of Brooklyn, New York. That pie is made with mozzarella, parmesan, plum tomato sauce, basil, olive oil, sausage, peppers, mushroom and onion.
A lot of care goes into making the Classic Round Pie at Di Fara in Brooklyn, New York. It was named the nation's No. 2 pizza.
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You can see the complete list of 101 pizzas on The Daily Meal's website. Meanwhile, here are the rest of the top 20, with some photos to get your mouth watering.
The No. 3 pizza was the Margherita from Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix.
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4. Roberta's, Brooklyn, New York (Margherita)
5. Sally's Apizza, New Haven, Conn. (Tomato Pie: Tomato sauce, no cheese)
6. Pizzeria Mozza, Los Angeles (Squash blossoms, tomato, burrata mozzarella,tomato sauce)
The No. 6 pizza, from Pizzeria Mozza in Los Angeles, features squash blossoms.
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7. Flour + Water, San Francisco (Margherita)
8. Totonno's, Brooklyn, New York (Margherita)
9. Paulie Gee's, Brooklyn, New York (Regina: Mozzarella, tomatoes, Pecorino Romano, olive oil, fresh basil)
10. Tony's Pizza Napoletana, San Francisco (Margherita: Dough mixed by hand using San Felice flour then proofed in Napoletana wood boxes, San Marzano tomatoes D.O.P., sea salt, mozzarella fior di latte, fresh basil, extra virgin olive oil)
No. 10 was the Margherita from Tony's Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco.
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11. Una Pizza Napoletana, San Francisco (Margherita)
12. Modern Apizza, New Haven, Conn. (Italian Bomb: Bacon, sausage, pepperoni, garlic, mushroom, onion, pepper, tomato, mozzarella)
13. Joe's, New York, (Cheese)
14. Motorino, New York (Brussels Sprout: Fior di latte, garlic, Pecorino, smoked pancetta, olive oil)
15. Santarpio's, Boston (Mozzarella, sausage, garlic)
16. Rubirosa Ristorante, New York (Vodka: Vodka sauce and mozzarella)
17. New Park Pizza, Howard Beach, Queens, New York (Cheese)
From the far reaches of space, astronomers brought two colliding galaxies into sharp focus by patching together images from several powerful telescopes. That, and the luck of a rare "galactic lens."
"While astronomers are often limited by the power of their telescopes, in some cases our ability to see detail is hugely boosted by natural lenses created by the Universe," the lead researcher, Hugo Messias, explained in a press release.
A giant, heavy object bends light from objects behind it due to its strong gravity - an effect called gravitational lensing. Astronomers can study objects through such a cosmic magnifying glass that would otherwise be invisible. But for a gravitational lens to work, the foreground lensing object - in this case a galaxy - and the one beyond it need to be precisely aligned.
That's what happened in this rare instance.
Using gravitational lensing, ALMA, the VLA, and many other telescopes obtained the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the Universe was only half its current age. The foreground galaxy is doing the lensing and around it is an almost complete ring -- the smeared out image of a star-forming galaxy merger far beyond. This picture combines the views from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck-II telescope on Hawaii (using adaptive optics).
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"These chance alignments are quite rare and tend to be hard to identify," said Messias, of the Universidad de Concepción in Chile and the Universidade de Lisboa in Portugal. But by combining the images of telescopes that use different wavelengths of light "we can find these cases much more efficiently."
The colliding galaxies, officially designated HATLAS J142935.3-002836 (or H1429-0028 for short) are among the brightest gravitationally lensed objects ever observed, the researchers say.
The foreground galaxy is doing the lensing and around it is an almost complete ring -- the smeared out image of a star-forming galaxy merger far beyond. This picture combines the views from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck-II telescope on Hawaii (using adaptive optics) along with the ALMA images shown in red. The ALMA data also give information about the motions of the material in the distant merging galaxies and were vital in unravelling the complex object.
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The astronomers released videos illustrating their findings (seen above). First the viewer zooms through space to locate the colliding and merging galaxies, and then we see how gravitational lensing magnifies and brightens distant objects.
President Obama said Thursday that "we don't have a strategy yet" when it comes to removing the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Middle East.
"I don't want to put the cart before the horse. We don't have a strategy yet," the president said Thursday.
"We need to make sure that we've got clear plans so we're developing them. At that point I will consult with Congress and make sure that their voices are heard," the president said.
For now, Mr. Obama says he remains chiefly concerned about making sure that the militant group does not overrun northern Iraq, where it made significant territorial gains before the U.S.began conducting airstrikes to stop the advance in an effort to protect U.S. personnel and assets and prevent a humanitarian disaster.
"In order for us to degrade [ISIS] over the long term we're going to have to build a regional strategy," the president said, which begins with the formation of a more inclusive Iraqi government that can strengthen the country's security forces.
He acknowledged that the Iraqi Security Forces will need "help" in the form of more training and equipment, which the U.S. is prepared to offer. Mr. Obama also said there "may be a role for an international coalition providing additional air support for their operations."
Defeating ISIS will ultimately also involve stabilizing Syria in the long run, he said, and added that the U.S. would continue to support the moderate opposition there.
"Clearly [ISIS] has come to represent the very worst elements in the region that we have to deal with collectively and that's going to be a long-term project," the president said.
He said he has asked Secretary of State John Kerry to travel to the region to help coordinate the response.
White House officials sought to clarify Mr. Obama's "strategy" remark, saying it referred to a specific military strategy, not a broader approach to combating the militant group. Members of Congress, however, had already pounced.
"The President needs to develop a regional strategy, working with our allies, to defeat ISIL and to use the full extent of his authorities to attack this enemy force," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky. "The President needs to present this plan to the Congress, and the American people, and where the President believes he lacks authority to execute such a strategy, he needs to explain to the Congress how additional authority for the use of force will protect America."
"[T]he threat from [ISIS] is real and it's growing--and it is time for President Obama to exercise some leadership in launching a response."
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, told CNN that the president's statement was "shocking."
Meanwhile in Ukraine, tensions are running high after officials from both the Ukranian government and NATO reported that at least 1,000 Russian troops have poured into the eastern part of the country, which has been destabilized in recent months by pro-Russian separatists.
Mr. Obama again pointed to Russia as the source of training and support for the violent separatists, and threatened that the incursion will bring further costs to the country. A military confrontation, however, "is not in the cards."
"We are not taking military action to solve the Ukrainian problem. What we're doing is to mobilize the international community to apply pressure on Russia," the president said.
"We will continue to stand firm with our allies and partners that what is happening is wrong, that there is a solution that allows Ukraine and Russia to live peacefully. But it is not in the cards for us to see a military confrontation between Russia and the United States in this region."
He said the recent Russian incursion is an extension of months of interference in Eastern Ukraine, and while a military response is out of the question, he said there may be "additional steps" taken by the U.S. and its European allies "primarily because ewe have not seen any meaningful action on the part of Russia to try to resolve this in a diplomatic fashion."
The sanctions imposed on Russia have hurt the country in ways "that are going to be very difficult to recover from," Mr. Obama said.
The president is set to attend a NATO conference in Wales next week, which he said would "refocus the attention" on the role that the international security organization has in protecting security in the region. Though Ukraine is not a NATO member, many other states in the region are.
He was also asked about forthcoming executive actions on immigration. Mr. Obama is awaiting formal recommendations from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on a change of enforcement priorities that could result in relief from the possibility of deportation for millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
"I've been very clear about the fact that our immigration system is broken and needs to be fixed. And my preference continues to be that Congress act. I don't think anybody thinks that Congress is going to act in the short term, but hope springs eternal that after the midterm elections they may act," he said.
The president acknowledged that the rush of Central American children seeking refuge in the U.S. this year might have "changed the perception of the American people about what's happening at the borders," but that the number of apprehensions has decreased in recent weeks. While that crisis has kept him busy, "it has not stopped the process of looking more broadly about how do we get a smart immigration system in place while we're waiting for Congress to act," he said.
"And it continues to be my belief that, if I can't see the congressional action, that I need to do at least what I can in order to make the system work better."
