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| Christmas Day storms blamed for 3 deaths Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 08:21 PM PST  Twisters hopscotched across the Deep South, and, along with brutal, straight-line winds, knocked down countless trees, blew the roofs off homes and left many Christmas celebrations in the dark. Holiday ... Full Story | Top |
| Newtown celebrates Christmas amid signs of mourning Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 02:30 PM PST  Residents celebrated Christmas amid piles of snow-covered teddy bears and heaps of flowers as volunteers manned a 24-hour candlelight vigil in memory of the 20 children and six adults shot to death in the second-largest school shooting in U.S. history. Full Story | Top |
| White House: Obama likely to curtail holiday trip Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 07:20 PM PST  KAILUA, Hawaii (AP) â€" President Barack Obama is likely to cut short his traditional Christmas holiday in Hawaii to return to Washington as lawmakers consider how to prevent the economy from going over the so-called fiscal cliff, the White House said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Firemen's killer left chilling note, deaths at 3 Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 03:01 PM PST  WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) â€" An ex-con killed two firefighters with the same caliber and make military-style rifle used in the Connecticut school massacre after typing a note pledging to burn down his neighborhood and "do what I like doing best, killing people," police said Tuesday as another body, believed to be the gunman's missing sister, was found. Full Story | Top |
| Egypt constitution passes with 63.8 percent Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 11:16 AM PST  The head of Egypt's election commission says the new constitution has passed with a 63.8 percent "yes" vote in a referendum. Full Story | Top |
| Pope's Christmas message focuses on Mideast, China Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 06:40 PM PST  VATICAN CITY (AP) â€" In his Christmas message to the world Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI called for an end to the slaughter in Syria and for more meaningful negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, while encouraging more religious freedom under China's new leaders. Full Story | Top |
| Affleck won't be running for Senate Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 10:54 AM PST  Those hoping the United States Senate may get a little less gray and a bit more celebrity-studded won’t be getting their Christmas miracle today. Despite speculation, Ben Affleck announced late Monday he would not go after John Kerry’s Senate seat. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-President Bush spends Christmas in hospital Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 01:38 PM PST  Former President George H.W. Bush spent Christmas in a Houston hospital with his wife, Barbara, and other relatives who planned to treat him to a special holiday meal. Full Story | Top |
| Former Braves player arrested on battery charge Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 06:07 PM PST  undefined Full Story | Top |
| Whither the birthplace of Jesus? Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 10:40 AM PST  For centuries, Christians have been making the pilgrimage to Bethlehem to pay their respects to Jesus â€" except they may have been making a wrong turn. Full Story | Top |
| Lost, blind dog finds way back to Alaska owners Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 01:52 PM PST FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) â€" Blind and alone in Alaska winter temperatures that dipped 40 degrees below zero, a lost 8-year-old Fairbanks dog wasn't given much of a chance to make it home. Full Story | Top |
| One in 12 in military has clogged heart arteries Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 01:59 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Just over one in 12 U.S. service members who died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars had plaque buildup in the arteries around their hearts - an early sign of heart disease, according to a new study. None of them had been diagnosed with heart disease before deployment, researchers said. "This is a young, healthy, fit group," said the study's lead author, Dr. Bryant Webber, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. "These are people who are asymptomatic, they feel fine, they're deployed into combat," he told Reuters Health. ... Full Story | Top |
| Philadelphia high schools to welcome students back with free condom dispensers Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 03:07 PM PST The Philadelphia Health Department will install clear plastic dispensers brimming with free condoms at 22 of Philadelphia’s public high schools over winter break. Full Story | Top |
| Sierra Nevada ski resort avalanche victim dies Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 04:13 PM PST TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) â€" A member of a Sierra ski resort's patrol team who was injured after being caught in an avalanche has died â€" the second death connected to avalanches that occurred in the area on Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Syrian rebels capture town, attack air base in new gains in north Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 02:30 PM PST  BEIRUT - Syrian rebels fully captured a northern town near the Turkish border on Tuesday after weeks of heavy fighting and attacked a regime air base in a neighbouring province, activists said. Full Story | Top |
| Netflix says video streaming service hit by outage Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 05:58 AM PST  Families across the United States will have to rely on other sources of entertainment after Netflix's video streaming service was hit by a Christmas Eve outage. Full Story | Top |
| Pope decries slaughter of 'defenseless' Syrians Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 08:30 AM PST Pope Benedict XVI wished Christmas peace to the world, decrying the slaughter of the "defenseless" in Syria and urging Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. gun support runs far deeper than politics Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 10:21 AM PST  Adam Lanza's mother was among the tens of millions of U.S. gun owners. She legally had a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle and a pair of handguns, which her 20-year-old son used to kill 20 children and six adults in 10 efficient minutes inside a Connecticut school. Full Story | Top |
| Afghanistan: Woman who killed American is Iranian Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 06:41 AM PST  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) â€" The policewoman who killed an American contractor in Kabul is a native Iranian who came to Afghanistan and displayed "unstable behavior" but no known links to militants, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Many share Newtown's mourning during holidays Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 05:58 AM PST  NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) â€" As residents prepared to observe Christmas less than two weeks after a gunman killed 20 children and six educators at an elementary school, people sharing in the town's mourning brought offerings of cards, handmade snowflakes and sympathy. Full Story | Top |
| West Coast girds for more tsunami debris in winter Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 08:47 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) â€" Volunteers who patrol California beaches for plastic, cigarette butts and other litter will be on the lookout this winter for flotsam from last year's monstrous tsunami off Japan's coast. Full Story | Top |
| NORAD says record number of calls to track Santa Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 12:40 AM PST  PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) â€" Most of the thousands of children who call the annual Santa-tracking operation at a Colorado Air Force Base on Christmas Eve ask the usual questions: "Where's Santa, and when will he get here?" Full Story | Top |
| Over the fiscal cliff: How hard a landing? Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 05:55 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Efforts to save the nation from going over a year-end "fiscal cliff" were in disarray as lawmakers fled the Capitol for their Christmas break. "God only knows" how a deal can be reached now, House Speaker John Boehner declared. Full Story | Top |
| Health care tax hikes for 2013 may be just a start Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 08:59 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" New taxes are coming Jan. 1 to help finance President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Most people may not notice. But they will pay attention if Congress decides to start taxing employer-sponsored health insurance, one option in play if lawmakers can ever agree on a budget deal to reduce federal deficits. Full Story | Top |
| Gulf Arabs decry Iran "interference" in region Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 07:39 AM PST  MANAMA (Reuters) - Six U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states demanded on Tuesday that Iran end what they called interference in the region, reiterating a long-held mistrust of their main rival. The Islamic Republic denies trying to subvert Saudi Arabia and its wealthy Gulf neighbors. A communique issued at the end of a two-day summit of the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) also urged action to halt mass killings and violations of international law in Syria. ... Full Story | Top |
| Israel to build 942 more homes in east Jerusalem Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 11:17 AM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) â€" Israel has advanced the process of building 942 more settler homes in east Jerusalem under a new fast-track plan to tighten its grip on the territory, which the Palestinians claim as the capital of a future state. Full Story | Top |
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