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| Clinton admitted to hospital with blood clot Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 05:55 PM PST  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital for treatment of a blood clot, her spokesman said Sunday. State Department Spokesman Philippe Reines said Clinton had entered the hospital following a medical examination for a concussion she sustained earlier this month. "In the course of a follow-up exam today, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fiscal cliff negotiations stall; Senate to resume talks New Year's Eve Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 03:51 PM PST  Bottom line: Still no "fiscal cliff" deal. And none seems imminent. The U.S. Senate on Sunday ended the day still sharply divided over how to avoid the automatic income-tax hikes and deep government spending cuts set to kick in Jan. 1 that could plunge the economy into a new recession. Despite pleas from President Barack [...] Full Story | Top |
| 9 killed, more than 20 hurt in tour bus crash along Oregon highway Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:05 PM PST  A tour bus careened through a guardrail along an icy Oregon highway and several hundred feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing nine people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Psychiatric test for suspect in NYC subway death Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:36 PM PST  A 31-year-old woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train because she believed he was Muslim laughed and smiled during a court hearing where she was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Full Story | Top |
| Stock futures edge higher as cliff talks continue Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 04:57 PM PST  Equity futures were slightly higher on Sunday night as talks continued in Washington over resolving the "fiscal cliff." While the Senate will not vote Sunday night on any bill to avoid a series of $600 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts, as many had hoped, negotiations continued between lawmakers and the White House. The Senate will reconvene on Monday after the open of equity trading. In order for a deal to take effect, it would also have to be passed by the House of Representatives. ... Full Story | Top |
| Deal reached for stopping spike in milk prices Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:14 PM PST  The top leaders in both parties on the House and Senate Agriculture committees have agreed to a one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill that expired in October, a move that could head off a possible doubling of milk prices next month. Full Story | Top |
| Venezuela's Chavez suffers new post-surgery complications Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 07:13 PM PST  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is suffering further complications linked to a respiratory infection that hit him after his fourth cancer operation in Cuba, his vice president said in a somber broadcast on Sunday. Vice President Nicolas Maduro flew to Cuba to visit Chavez in the hospital as supporters' fears grow for the ailing 58-year-old socialist leader, who has not been seen in public nor heard from in three weeks. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama wants gun violence measures passed in 2013 Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 01:58 PM PST  Recalling the shooting rampage that killed 20 first graders as the worst day of his presidency, President Barack Obama pledged to put his "full weight" behind legislation aimed at preventing gun violence. Full Story | Top |
| Gang-rape victim's body cremated privately in India Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:22 PM PST  A young woman who died after being gang-raped and beaten on a bus in India's capital was cremated privately as millions of grieving, angry residents demanded greater protection for women from sexual violence. Full Story | Top |
| Republican Senate leader urges Biden to break impasse Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 11:47 AM PST  Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday to jump into “fiscal cliff†talks in hopes of breaking an impasse that threatens Americans with sharply higher income taxes come January 1. In a brief speech on the Senate floor, McConnell complained that Democrats had not yet placed a counter-offer to [...] Full Story | Top |
| If cut, fiscal deal will pale against expectations Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 11:50 AM PST  The top Senate negotiators on the effort to prevent the government from going over the "fiscal cliff" offered a pessimistic assessment Sunday barely 24 hours before a deadline to avert tax hikes ... Full Story | Top |
| Graham: No debt ceiling increase without entitlement reform Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:57 PM PST  Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said today that he would vote no to raise the debt ceiling, if concessions to reform Social Security and Medicare were not made, despite a previous statement by Graham to suggest that most Republicans were never willing to stomach a U.S. default... Full Story | Top |
| Obama endorses gay marriage proposal in Illinois Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 03:43 PM PST  (Reuters) - President Obama is endorsing a proposal by the Illinois legislature to legalize gay marriage, a White House spokesman told Reuters on Sunday. It's an unusual move by a president - most of whom rarely weigh in on state legislative matters. Obama served in the Illinois state senate. Obama, who said earlier this year that he supports same-sex marriage, believes "it's wrong to prevent couples who are in loving, committed relationships and want to marry, from doing so," said White House spokesman Shin Inouye. ... Full Story | Top |
| Missing Georgia boys found, father in custody Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 10:12 AM PST  Two missing Georgia boys have been found safe in Texas and their father has been taken into police custody. Moments after pleading for her boys' return on television, the boys' mother Theresa Nash received a phone call from a citizen in Texas who said he was with her sons. Full Story | Top |
| Comedian Katt Williams arrested in L.A. Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:04 PM PST  Katt Williams, the comedian who has repeatedly found himself on the wrong side of the law, is out on bail after being arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of child endangerment and possession of a stolen gun. Full Story | Top |
| A new Somalia? Envoy warns of failed state in Syria Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 11:29 AM PST  BEIRUT (AP) â€" The international envoy seeking to end Syria's civil war warned Sunday that the failure of the government and the rebels to pursue a political solution could lead to the "full collapse of the Syrian state" and threaten the world's security. Full Story | Top |
| Nobel scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini dies in Rome at 103 Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 09:05 AM PST  ROME (AP) â€" Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in Rome on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years. Full Story | Top |
| Maine man, 74, held in deaths of teenage tenants Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:19 PM PST PORTLAND, Maine (AP) â€" A 74-year-old Maine man was charged in the shooting deaths of two tenants inside an apartment he rented out at his home, possibly over a dispute about where they parked their cars during a snowstorm, state police said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
| Faulty brakes may be to blame in Russian plane crash Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 07:17 AM PST  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Faulty brakes may be to blame for a Russian airliner sliding off the runway and smashing onto a highway near Moscow, killing five people, a member of the crash investigation team said on Sunday. Investigators said they were examining the black boxes to try to determine the cause of Saturday's crash, which cracked the wings off the Tupolev-204 plane and split the fuselage clean into three pieces. ... Full Story | Top |
| German magazine mistakenly publishes Bush obituary Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:35 AM PST BERLIN (AP) â€" Germany's respected news weekly Der Spiegel mistakenly published an obituary Sunday for former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, hours after a family spokesman said the 88-year-old was recovering from illness. Full Story | Top |
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