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| Powerful gas explosion levels Mass. buildings; at least 18 hurt Friday, Nov 23, 2012 06:20 PM PST  A natural gas explosion in one of New England's biggest cities on Friday destroyed two buildings, including one housing a strip club, and damaged others beyond repair but didn't kill anyone, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Protests greet shoppers at Walmarts nationwide Friday, Nov 23, 2012 04:16 PM PST  Wal-Mart workers and supporters marched in protest at a number of stores nationwide Thursday and Friday, blasting the wages, benefits and treatment of employees of the world's largest retailer. Full Story | Top |
| Camacho's mother says life support will end Friday, Nov 23, 2012 07:25 PM PST  Hector "Macho" Camacho will be taken off life support, his mother said Friday night, indicating she would have doctors do that Saturday. It was a decision the former championship boxer's eldest son opposed. Full Story | Top |
| Wreck victims on family's first Thanksgiving apart Friday, Nov 23, 2012 05:36 PM PST  The children of a Houston-area couple killed during Thursday's massive interstate wreck in Texas say this year was the family's first Thanksgiving apart. Full Story | Top |
| D.C. on pace for fewer than 100 homicides in 2012 Friday, Nov 23, 2012 05:09 PM PST  The crack epidemic that began in the 1980s ushered in a wave of bloodletting in the nation's capital and a death toll that ticked upward daily. Dead bodies, sometimes several a night, had homicide detectives hustling between crime scenes and earned Washington unwelcome monikers such as the nation's "murder capital." At the time, some feared the murder rate might ascend to more frightening heights. Full Story | Top |
| Chambliss latest Republican to break with anti-tax lobbyist Friday, Nov 23, 2012 05:46 PM PST  Senator Saxby Chambliss this week became the latest Republican lawmaker to loosen his ties to Grover Norquist, the anti-tax lobbyist famous for getting elected officials to sign a "taxpayer protection pledge." The rebellion, albeit a modest one, comes as Republicans prepare to negotiate with Democrats and President Barack Obama on a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff - some $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts set to start jolting the economy at the beginning of 2013. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. trucker nabbed with ammo in Mexico is freed Friday, Nov 23, 2012 06:20 PM PST  A Dallas trucker imprisoned for seven months in Mexico on accusations that he tried to smuggle assault rifle ammunition into the country broke down in tears Friday when he returned to the U.S., saying he had at times given up hope. Full Story | Top |
| Iraq, Afghan war veterans joining Congress Friday, Nov 23, 2012 07:49 PM PST  As Tammy Duckworth sees it, her path to Congress began when she awoke in the fall of 2004 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She was missing both of her legs and faced the prospect of losing her right arm. Full Story | Top |
| Middle East nuclear talks will not occur next month Friday, Nov 23, 2012 07:07 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Talks planned for next month on banning nuclear weapons in the Middle East will not take place, the United States said on Friday, a development likely to anger Arab states but please Israel. The State Department announced that the mid-December conference on creating a zone free of weapons of mass destruction, or WMD, would not occur and did not make clear when, or whether, it would take place. Earlier this month, diplomats told Reuters that the talks were likely to be postponed, rather than canceled outright. "As a co-sponsor of the proposed conference ... ... Full Story | Top |
| Superstorm moves film from theoretical to concrete Friday, Nov 23, 2012 06:04 PM PST  In the documentary "Shored Up," scientists warn that with a rising sea level, a major storm could put New Jersey's barrier islands underwater and create devastating storm surges. In other words, what happened last month when Superstorm Sandy slammed into New Jersey and New York. Full Story | Top |
| Congressman-elect writing Elizabeth Smart's memoir Friday, Nov 23, 2012 02:57 PM PST  Ten years after her kidnapping, Elizabeth Smart is preparing her story of being held captive by a homeless street preacher, her improbable rescue after nine months, and how she advocated for children after the ordeal. Full Story | Top |
| U.N. criticizes Russia over torture allegations Friday, Nov 23, 2012 06:53 PM PST The U.N. Committee Against Torture strongly criticized Russia in a report for failing to investigate widespread allegations of torture and stepping up intimidation and reprisals against human rights advocates and journalists. Full Story | Top |
| Thai police fire tear gas to disperse protesters Friday, Nov 23, 2012 07:10 PM PST  Police in Bangkok fired tear gas to disperse swarms of anti-government protesters who began gathering Saturday for a rally that was expected to be the biggest since Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra took office last year. Full Story | Top |
| Deadly La. oil rig fire claims second victim Friday, Nov 23, 2012 01:21 PM PST  One of the men burned last week in an explosion and fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico died on Friday of his injuries, an official said, bringing the confirmed death toll from the accident to two. Avelino Tajonera, 49, a welder from the Philippines working on the Black Elk Energy rig, died in a New Orleans hospital on Friday morning, according to a statement from the Philippine Ambassador to the United States. He died shortly after his wife and three children arrived from Manila. ... Full Story | Top |
| Norway mass killer criticizes prison conditions Friday, Nov 23, 2012 09:41 AM PST  Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik accused prison officers of trying to drive him to suicide in conditions he describes as "a mini Abu Ghraib." Full Story | Top |
| Why are Qatar and Iran courting Palestine's rebels? Friday, Nov 23, 2012 10:00 AM PST  The courtship of Hamas between rivals Iran and Qatar has been one of the Middle East's intriguing subplots of the Arab Spring. The bloodshed in Gaza has now sharpened their competition for influence with the Palestinian militant group and the direction it takes in the future. Full Story | Top |
| Scuba diver, drowned in Fla., was research star Friday, Nov 23, 2012 01:53 PM PST  A diver from New Mexico who died in a Thanksgiving Day boating accident was a manager at one of the nation's leading research laboratories who was in Florida for a holiday dive trip with her nephew, authorities said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Shopping like a Democrat, or Republican Friday, Nov 23, 2012 09:37 AM PST  Though this may be the last Black Friday, as the consumption-fest bleeds into Thanksgiving itself, at least through the weekend you can partisan-shop with this guide. Full Story | Top |
| Powerball jackpot builds to $325M for Saturday Friday, Nov 23, 2012 02:49 PM PST  Black Friday shoppers in many cities briefly detoured into lottery retailers, drawn off task by the prospects of winning a $325 million Powerball jackpot â€" the fourth-largest in the game's history. Full Story | Top |
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