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| Marine special operations team members honored Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:11 PM PST  Navy Secretary Ray Mabus on Monday honored four members of a Marine special operations team in a rare public ceremony for those who have served in the covert forces. Full Story | Top |
| GOP moves on fiscal cliff, White House turns it down Monday, Dec 03, 2012 02:01 PM PST  Republicans offer a new proposal to avoid the automatic tax hikes and spending cuts, but the White House turns it down. Full Story | Top |
| A roundup of the best photos of the day Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:00 PM PST  A multi-family building, with a supermarket on the ground floor, burned late this afternoon and into the evening as firefighters from North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue and the Jersey City Fire Department fought the flames, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 in Union City, N.J. Smoke from the fire, located at the corner of Fifth Street and Bergenline Avenue, could be seen for miles. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein) Full Story | Top |
| U.S. mulling military options if Syria uses WMD Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:34 PM PST  The White House and its allies are weighing military options to secure Syria's chemical and biological weapons, after U.S. intelligence reports show the Syrian regime may be readying those weapons and may be desperate enough to use them, U.S. officials said Monday. Full Story | Top |
| California sea smuggling claims Coast Guard life Monday, Dec 03, 2012 05:51 PM PST  The killing of a U.S. Coast Guardsman appears to be the latest example of how smugglers are venturing farther north in a game of cat-and-mouse. Full Story | Top |
| Police raid highway tunnel operator's offices after collapse Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:26 PM PST  Police are searching the offices of the operator of a tunnel where hundreds of concrete ceiling slabs collapsed onto moving vehicles below. Full Story | Top |
| Zimmerman defense reveals new photo Monday, Dec 03, 2012 12:08 PM PST  As the photo began to be circulated widely by the news media, lawyers on both sides disagreed about its significance to the case against Zimmerman. Full Story | Top |
| Costas gun control commentary gets notice Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:40 PM PST  Bob Costas' "Sunday Night Football" halftime commentary supporting gun control sparked a Fox News Channel debate Monday on whether NBC should fire him and a Twitter storm involving Ted Nugent, Rosie O'Donnell, Herman Cain and many more. Full Story | Top |
| Wyo. campus killer 'near genius' at odds with dad Monday, Dec 03, 2012 05:58 PM PST  A man who killed his father in front of a computer science class was a "borderline genius" upset by the belief he had inherited Asperger's Syndrome from his dad. Full Story | Top |
| Judge removed in Fort Hood shooting rampage case Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:16 PM PST  The military's highest court ousted the judge in the Fort Hood shooting case Monday and threw out his order to have the suspect's beard forcibly shaved before his court-martial. Full Story | Top |
| Magnitude 5.8 quake rattles Anchorage, Alaska Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:38 PM PST ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska on Monday, close to the city of Anchorage, rattling buildings and knocking bric-a-brac from shelves, but no serious damage or injuries were reported. The tremor, initially reported as a magnitude 5.7, struck at 4:42 p.m. (8:42 p.m. EST) 25 miles west of Anchorage, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake, relatively shallow at a depth of 33.1 miles, was widely felt in Anchorage, according to Guy Urban, a geophysicist for the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska. ... Full Story | Top |
| SEC charges China affiliates of top accounting firms Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:03 PM PST  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Monday charged the Chinese arms of five top accounting firms with securities violations over their refusal to produce certain audit papers for U.S.-listed Chinese companies. The Securities and Exchange Commission began proceedings against the Chinese affiliates of Deloitte, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, BDO and Ernst & Young. The agency on Monday also moved to pursue a case they had put on hold against Deloitte. It was the SEC's widest enforcement effort yet to procure documents in connection with probes of possible accounting fraud of U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| McAfee says he's left Belize, is still on run Monday, Dec 03, 2012 05:19 PM PST  Software company founder John McAfee said Monday he has fled from Belize using a bizarre ruse, adding yet another chapter in what threatens to become one of the biggest media fugitive frenzies since O.J. Simpson led police on a low-speed chase in 1994. Full Story | Top |
| Photos: The upside down man Monday, Dec 03, 2012 12:00 PM PST  Full Story | Top |
| Cuomo makes first foray to D.C. as New York governor Monday, Dec 03, 2012 04:05 PM PST  In a whirlwind trip to the nation's capital he takes a bipartisan tour across the city, seeking to finalize a deal that will provide federal relief to victims of Superstorm Sandy. Full Story | Top |
| Fed officials laud stimulus, quibble over future plans Monday, Dec 03, 2012 01:48 PM PST  NEW YORK/LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - Central bankers appear satisfied with the impact of their latest monetary stimulus, though there is some disagreement over how forcefully to continue purchasing bonds, remarks by two top policymakers on Monday showed. Boston Federal Reserve Bank President Eric Rosengren, one of the most vocal proponents of Fed asset purchases, said there was a "strong case" for the Fed to stay the course on accommodative policies next year and continue buying a total of $85 billion in bonds each month. ... Full Story | Top |
| Store employee fired after ‘booting’ ambulance Monday, Dec 03, 2012 03:08 PM PST One generally assumes that an ambulance with its lights flashing can park wherever it pleases. This past weekend in New Orleans, a parked ambulance was "booted" by a convenience store employee, who was apparently annoyed that the ambulance had parked in his store's lot. Never mind that the paramedics were treating a man inside the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Heffernan: Microsoft is back — Why the dorky Apple rival is suddenly cool Monday, Dec 03, 2012 12:51 PM PST  Oh man that new commercial for Internet Explorer 10 has me dorkily cackling at every pixel in it, and then replaying the ad to laugh again, and harder. OK, maybe you’re too cool for it. But I am not. Full Story | Top |
| College offering puppy room for stressed out students Monday, Dec 03, 2012 02:50 PM PST University students are well versed in coming up with ways to cope with the stress of college life. But some students at a college in Canada have started a new trend that is family-friendly, opening a puppy room for students during finals week. The National Post reports that for three days during finals week (Dec. [...] Full Story | Top |
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