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| Big winners share lessons, risks of Powerball win Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 09:40 AM PST So you just won the $500 million Powerball jackpot, the second highest in lottery history. Now what? Full Story | Top |
| Parents say they learned of daughter’s death on Facebook Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 07:15 AM PST The parents of a college freshman who was found dead on campus say they found out about her death on Facebook. Jasmine Benjamin, a 17-year-old nursing student at Valdosta State University from Lawrenceville, Ga., was found dead in a study area in her dorm on Nov. 18. According to CBS Atlanta, police are treating the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Ex-NYPD Cop Reveals How Not to Get a Ticket Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 04:01 AM PST  By Glenn Ruppel Every driver hates getting a ticket. So when you are pulled over, how do you minimize the damage to your wallet? First, realize the risk of serious danger to the officer is quite real. “Cops get killed on car stops,†said Jerry... Full Story | Top |
| Obama on tax cuts: Don’t ‘screw this up,’ Washington Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 06:19 AM PST President Barack Obama urged Americans on Wednesday to help him pressure Congress to prevent a Jan. 1 tax hike on the middle class, saying it was up to the public to make sure Washington doesn't "screw this up." "When the American people speak loudly enough, lo and behold Congress listens," Obama said, flanked by Americans [...] Full Story | Top |
| Romney in Obama’s Cabinet? ‘No,’ says White House Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 07:12 AM PST President Barack Obama is welcoming Mitt Romney to the White House on Thursday for a private lunch, their first meeting since the election. But welcome him onto his Cabinet? "No," White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday. Still, "it will be a substantial lunch, if not on the plate, then in the discussion," Carney [...] Full Story | Top |
| NYU student replies-all to 40,000 classmates, sparking ‘Replyallcalypse’ Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 06:13 AM PST We've all been there. Max Wiseltier, a sophomore at New York University, was simply trying to forward an email from the Bursar's Office to his mother on Monday. Instead, Wiseltier accidentally hit "reply to all," cc'ing 39,979 of his fellow NYU students in the process. Wiseltier, realizing what he had done, fired off a quick [...] Full Story | Top |
| Grover Norquist: The tax pledge is forever Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 03:57 AM PST Spinners and Winners This week, Spinners and Winners went to Americans for Tax Reform to talk to the man behind the pledge. 'The Taxpayer Protection Pledge'Â has been signed by virtually every Republican office holder over the last 20 years, binding congressman, senators, and governors to promise no tax increases of any kind, ever. There's talk [...] Full Story | Top |
| 'Two and a Half Men' actor apologizes Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 07:30 AM PST  Teenage actor Angus T. Jones of the comedy "Two and a Half Men" apologized Tuesday for a series of interviews denouncing his own show, an episode that has rivaled former colleague Charlie Sheen's meltdown as an off-screen oddity. Full Story | Top |
| Top Romney Adviser Brags About Losing Poor, Minority Voters To Obama Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 11:26 AM PST  Mitt Romney can take some solace in his devastating loss on Nov. 6: at least he won the voters who really count. That's the thesis anyway of top adviser Stuart Stevens, who penned an op-ed in the Washington Post on Wednesday arguing that by winning wealthier and whiter voters, Romney secured the moral victory over Obama. "On Nov. 6, Mitt Romney carried the majority of every economic group except those with less than $50,000 a year in household income," Stevens wrote. "That means he carried the majority of middle-class voters. ... Full Story | Top |
| Romney chief strategist lauds white, wealthy and middle-class support Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 11:43 AM PST Mitt Romney's former chief strategist Stuart Stevens in an op-ed published on Wednesday touted wealthy, middle-class and white voter support as several of the silver linings to Romney's loss on Nov. 6. In a Washington Post editorial titled, "Mitt Romney: A good man. The right fight," Stevens wrote: On Nov. 6, Romney carried the majority [...] Full Story | Top |
| Behind the curtain of the Great and Powerful Grover Norquist Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 01:06 PM PST WASHINGTONâ€"If aliens landed in Washington, D.C. right now, they might assume in their search for a terrestrial leader that a bespectacled man called "Grover Norquist" controlled the planet's most powerful nation. They might also conclude that this person had magical powers. The misunderstanding wouldn't necessarily be their fault. Grover Fever has swept the nation's capital [...] Full Story | Top |
| Senate Dems divided over cuts to benefit programs Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 05:48 AM PST  Deep divisions among Senate Democrats over whether cuts to popular benefit programs like Medicare and Medicaid should be part of a plan to slow the government's mushrooming debt pose a big obstacle to a deal for avoiding a potentially economy-crushing "fiscal cliff," even if Republicans agree to raise taxes. Full Story | Top |
| Egypt court sentences 8 to death over prophet film Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 01:15 PM PST  An Egyptian court convicted in absentia Wednesday seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor, sentencing them to death on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that had sparked riots in parts of the Muslim world. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: ‘Couldn’t be prouder’ of Susan Rice Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 01:26 PM PST President Barack Obama praised embattled U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice as "extraordinary" on Thursday as she looked on during a Cabinet meeting at the White House. "Susan Rice is extraordinary. Couldn't be prouder of the job that she's done," Obama said in response to a question from a reporter. The president and the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Elderly man scammed for thousands, kids’ lives threatened Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 06:49 AM PST A whizbang in the insurance and financial worlds for decades, a spry retiree in Chicago was the last guy his children imagined they'd see snared in a money scam. But in a mere month earlier this year the 80-year-old grandfather was conned out of an estimated $25,000. "It might even be more," his oldest son [...] Full Story | Top |
| Man says prayer group leader told him to kill wife Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 05:27 AM PST  Less than three months after he stood as a groomsman in the wedding of two friends he had known since college in Texas, Micah Moore walked into a suburban Kansas City police department and unloaded a dark secret: He had taken the woman's life at the request of her new husband, a charismatic prayer group leader. Full Story | Top |
| Why the fiscal cliff is like getting a huge paycheck cut Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 01:27 PM PST  As rival lawmakers struggle to avoid the dreaded fiscal cliff in Washington, research shows that Americans will get a huge cut in their tax-home pay, if Congress can't reach a deal on tax hikes and spending cuts. Full Story | Top |
| Rice Gains Little Ground With Senators Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 12:08 PM PST  ABC News’ Sunlen Miller and Rosalyn Oshmyansky report: Day two of Susan Rice’s charm offensive on Capitol Hill brought little support for the U.N. ambassador to become the next secretary of state if nominated by President Obama. After meeting privately with Rice this morning, moderate... Full Story | Top |
| Russian mafia whistleblower, 44, found dead in UK Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 08:56 AM PST  WEYBRIDGE, England/LONDON (Reuters) - A Russian businessman helping Swiss prosecutors uncover a powerful fraud syndicate has died in unexplained circumstances near his mansion in Britain, in a chilling twist to a Russian mafia scandal that has strained Moscow's ties with the West. Alexander Perepilichny, 44, sought refuge in Britain three years ago and had been helping a Swiss investigation into a Russian money-laundering scheme by providing evidence against corrupt officials, his colleagues and media reports said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Powerball Fever Sweeps the Nation Tuesday, Nov 27, 2012 11:57 PM PST  Powerball Officials Expect to Sell More Than 105K Tickets Every Minute Today Full Story | Top |
| House GOP recommends new committee chairmen Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 06:11 AM PST  Top House Republicans announced their recommendations Tuesday for the new Congress' committee chairmanships, an all-male list that includes returning Paul Ryan to the Budget panel and seven new faces to head other committees. Full Story | Top |
| Senate Dems rally for Rice against GOP opposition Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 07:53 AM PST  Senate Democrats rallied to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice's defense as Republicans said they were even more troubled by her account of the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and signaled they would try to scuttle her nomination if President Barack Obama tapped her as the next secretary of state. Full Story | Top |
| Peanut butter plant closure angers New Mexico town Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 02:53 PM PST  Farmers in a revered peanut-growing region along the New Mexico-Texas border should be celebrating one of the best harvests in recent memory. Full Story | Top |
| Woman Grows Beard for 'Movember' Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 10:36 AM PST  A northern England woman has turned a medical condition that causes her to grow excessive facial hair into a positive fundraising effort during “Movember,†with the aim of creating awareness and support for prostate cancer. Siobhain Fletcher, 36, of Leek, Staffordshire, was diagnosed as a... Full Story | Top |
| Young Boys Meet Through Friends and Discover They are Brothers Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 10:50 AM PST Two boys in Washington, Mo., received the surprise of a lifetime while visiting their neighborhood swimming pool in June. Twelve-year-old Isaac Nolting was introduced to 13-year-old Dakotah Zimmer by a friend of a friend. They quickly noticed similarities in their appearance. They had the same hair, feet, nose and hands. People even started asking if [...] Full Story | Top |
| U.S. bans BP from new government contracts after oil spill deal Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 03:21 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government banned BP Plc on Wednesday from new federal contracts over its "lack of business integrity" in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, possibly imperiling the company's role as a top U.S. offshore oil and gas producer and the No. 1 military fuel supplier. The suspension, announced by the Environmental Protection Agency, comes on the heels of BP's November 15 agreement with the U.S. government to plead guilty to criminal misconduct in the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The British energy giant agreed to pay $4. ... Full Story | Top |
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