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| Paul Ryan: ‘I don’t think that the president actually thinks we have a fiscal crisis’ Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 09:09 AM PST Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan lashed out at President Barack Obama on Sunday, saying the commander in chief does not have a full grasp of the budget problems facing the U.S. economy. "I don't think that the president actually thinks we have a fiscal crisis," Ryan said on NBC's "Meet The Press" in his first live [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Tough call on letting a son play football Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 01:04 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President Barack Obama is a big football fan with two daughters, but if he had a son, he says he'd "have to think long and hard" before letting him play because of the physical toll the game takes. Full Story | Top |
| North Korean leader vows strong action Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 02:24 AM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) â€" North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened top security and foreign affairs officials and ordered them to take "substantial and high-profile important state measures," state media said Sunday, fueling speculation that he plans to push forward with a threat to explode a nuclear device in defiance of the United Nations. Full Story | Top |
| Senate Immigration Proposal to Include Pathway to Citizenship Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 07:26 AM PST  Two senators at the center of negotiations over comprehensive immigration reform, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said on Sunday that a pathway to citizenship is an essential component of a comprehensive reform bill. “That has to be also part of it,â€... Full Story | Top |
| Consumer alert: new health care markets on the way Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 10:11 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Buying your own health insurance will never be the same. Full Story | Top |
| Fraud concerns linger over new Ill. license law Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 04:58 PM PST  CHICAGO (AP) â€" As Illinois becomes the fourth and most populous state to give illegal immigrants permission to drive, nagging concerns remain about whether there are enough safeguards to avoid the identity fraud and other pitfalls other states faced. Full Story | Top |
| Israel warns of attack on Syrian chemical weapons Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 11:24 AM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) â€" Israel could launch a pre-emptive strike to stop Syria's chemical weapons from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah or al-Qaida inspired groups, officials said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
| Casey Anthony files for bankruptcy in Florida Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 10:03 PM PST  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) â€" Casey Anthony filed for bankruptcy in Florida on Friday, claiming about $1,100 in assets and $792,000 in liabilities. Full Story | Top |
| Sgt. Reunited With Baby Given Up for Adoption Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 10:14 AM PST  Sgt. Terry Achane Has Spent Nearly Two Years Working to Get Baby Daughter Back Full Story | Top |
| Teen Chef Makes Debut at Beverly Hills Restaurant Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 03:01 AM PST  He has cooked for more than 120 people at a time, worked in top restaurants across the country, and entertains 12 people at his home monthly for an 18-course meal. These accomplishments may seem like the work of a veteran chef, but this cook is... Full Story | Top |
| 'No budget, no pay' advances despite reservations Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 05:10 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" In an earlier era, a move like the one engineered by House GOP leaders to pass a "no budget, no pay" measure probably would have been stopped in its tracks. Full Story | Top |
| Sarah Palin vows to fight on without Fox News gig Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 10:37 AM PST The “lamestream media,†as Sarah Palin calls it, may have written her off now that the former vice presidential candidate and tea party favorite has lost her principal media voice as a well-paid commentator on Fox News. Full Story | Top |
| Ghost of MLK pays visit to Obama on ‘SNL’ (VIDEO) Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 10:36 AM PST As you might expect, the inaugural lip-syncing scandal that's enveloped Beyoncé this week provided plenty of fodder for "Saturday Night Live." During the cold-opening sketch, President Obama--played by Jay Pharoah--was paid a visit by the ghost of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for a fireside chat on inauguration night. "Tell me Dr. King, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Barge with 80,000 gallons oil hits bridge, leaks Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 06:40 PM PST  A barge carrying 80,000 gallons of oil hit a railroad bridge in Vicksburg, Miss., on Sunday, spilling light crude into the Mississippi River and closing the waterway for eight miles in each direction, the Coast Guard said. A second barge was damaged. Full Story | Top |
| Obama not sure he'd allow a son to play football Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 10:21 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Football's first fan isn't sure he'd let his son play the game, in light of the impact it takes on its players. Full Story | Top |
| Holocaust victims mourned at Auschwitz and beyond Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 08:07 AM PST WARSAW, Poland (AP) â€" Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious leaders and others marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday with solemn prayers and the now oft-repeated warnings to never let such horrors happen again. Full Story | Top |
| Harry's Afghan downtime: movies, candy trades Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 06:00 AM PST  LONDON (AP) â€" Prince Harry's off-duty time in Afghanistan appeared to be full of war movies, board games and elaborate candy trades. Full Story | Top |
| Pay Dirt! Antarctic Drilling Reaches Lake Surface Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 01:34 PM PST  U.S. scientists successfully drilled into Lake Whillans, a subglacial expanse of water hidden deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, they reported on Sunday (Jan. 27). Full Story | Top |
| Wall Street executives fret about talent drain Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 09:28 AM PST  DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - As the titans of Wall Street banks gathered to network, gossip and consider the future of their beleaguered industry in Davos over the past week, one common worry emerged: who is going to take over when we leave? Some of the most ambitious minds in finance are leaving the industry after years of losses, scandals, bad press - and perhaps most importantly new regulations that have curbed some previously free-wheeling ways. ... Full Story | Top |
| Feinstein has assurance assault weapon ban will get a vote Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 10:09 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The senator leading the charge to revive a assault weapons ban conceded on Sunday, just days before hearings on gun control open, that winning Senate passage will be tough but said she has been assured she will have the chance to bring it up for a vote. President Barack Obama, who has made gun control a top priority after 20 children and six adults were killed by a gunman on December 14 at a Connecticut school, said in remarks published on Sunday that gun control advocates should take into account the views of rural Americans who use guns for hunting. ... Full Story | Top |
| Family heading to Turkey to seek missing NY woman Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 11:46 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) â€" Relatives of a missing New York City woman who disappeared during a vacation to Turkey, her first trip outside the U.S., are heading to Istanbul to look for her, her brother said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
| Obama says football needs to become less violent: report Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 02:17 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said he loves football but thinks the sport should "probably change gradually" so that there are fewer concussions, particularly at the college level. "I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football," Obama said in a wide-ranging interview with The New Republic magazine published early on Sunday on its website. Football is America's most popular televised sport, an industry worth $9 billion a year. ... Full Story | Top |
| Canada denies Randy Quaid's request to stay Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 10:47 PM PST  TORONTO (AP) â€" Canadian immigration officials have denied U.S. actor Randy Quaid's request for permanent resident status in Canada. Full Story | Top |
| Obama lauds Clinton as she prepares to leave Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 04:32 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President Barack Obama lauded Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as one of his closest advisers and said their shared vision for America's role in the world persuaded his one-time rival â€" and potential successor â€" to be his top diplomat while he dealt with the shattered economy at home. Full Story | Top |
| Illinois to allow immigrants to get licenses Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 02:23 PM PST SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) â€" Illinois is the fourth state to allow illegal immigrants to obtain a driver's license with a new law signed by the governor. Full Story | Top |
| Ryan says deep budget cuts likely unavoidable Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 11:44 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The chairman of the House Budget Committee says Republicans will oppose tax increases and, as a result, deep, unpopular budget cuts will likely take effect. Full Story | Top |
| Djokovic pounces to claim Melbourne three-peat Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 07:30 AM PST  MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic came up with his best tennis when it mattered most to reassert his grand slam dominance over Andy Murray on Sunday and become the first man to win three successive Australian Open titles in the professional era. The Serbian world number one played 171 minutes of cat and mouse with his British rival before pouncing when the U.S. Open champion blinked and racing away to a 6-7 7-6 6-3 6-2 victory. ... Full Story | Top |
| Malians celebrate, French-led forces clear Timbuktu Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 03:10 PM PST  GAO/SEVARE, Mali (Reuters) - Residents of Mali's northern town of Gao, captured from sharia-observing Islamist rebels by French and Malian troops, danced in the streets to drums and music on Sunday as the French-led offensive also drove the rebels from Timbuktu. The weekend gains made at Gao and Timbuktu by the French and Malian troops capped a two-week whirlwind intervention by France in its former Sahel colony, which has driven al Qaeda-allied militant fighters northwards into the desert and mountains. ... Full Story | Top |
| Feinstein encourages Hillary Clinton to run for president Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 12:05 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the most prominent women in the Democratic Party on Sunday encouraged outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to mount a White House run in 2016 to try to become the first woman president. "I am a fan," California Senator Dianne Feinstein said on CNN's "State of the Union" program. "I would love it if she would run." Feinstein was asked whether President Barack Obama's decision to have a joint interview on the CBS show "60 Minutes" - airing on Sunday - indicated the president's preference for his successor. ... Full Story | Top |
| Comprehensive immigration plan coming this week: McCain Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 12:12 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading Democratic and Republican senators said on Sunday there were encouraging signs in the push to overhaul U.S. immigration laws - a top priority for President Obama's second term - and they would introduce their plan this week. With Obama set to begin his push for immigration reform with a speech in Las Vegas on Tuesday, a group of three Democratic and three Republican senators have been working for weeks on a plan. ... Full Story | Top |
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