Saturday, February 2, 2013

Daily News: Most Popular News Headlines - Obama Clings to Shotgun in WH Photo

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Obama Clings to Shotgun in WH Photo 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 09:37 AM PST
 Obama Clings to Shotgun in WH PhotoAfter a week of speculation over the authenticity of claims by President Obama that he regularly participated in skeet shooting at Camp David, the White House released a photograph today showing him firing a shotgun. The photo shows Obama targeting clay pigeons at the presidential...
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Ahmadinejad unveils Iran's newest fighter jet 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 07:51 AM PST
 Iran unveils 'domestically-built fighter jet'TEHRAN, Iran (AP) â€" Iran on Saturday unveiled its newest combat jet, a domestically manufactured fighter-bomber that military officials claim can evade radar.
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Sheriff thanks suspect for taking care of boy 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 10:08 AM PST
 Police and emergency personnel remain on site at the property of Jimmy Lee Sykes, a suspect accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker on Saturday Feb. 2, 2013 in Midland City, Ala. Negotiators were still trying to persuade Jimmy Lee Dykes to surrender. Police have said they believe the Lee Dykes, a Vietnam-era veteran, fatally shot a school bus driver Tuesday, and then abducted the boy from the bus and disappeared into the home-made bunker. (AP Photo/al.com, Joe Songer)MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) â€" Authorities said Saturday that they still have an open line of communication with an Alabama man accused of abducting a 5-year-old boy and holding him hostage in a bunker, and they thanked the suspect for taking care of the child as the standoff marked its fifth day.
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Immigration bill splits GOP on national-local line 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 10:21 AM PST
 In this Jan. 29, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about immigration reform Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. The immigration debate is threatening to split the Republican Party, pitting those who focus mainly on presidential elections against those who care mostly about congressional races. Granting illegal residents a path to citizenship, which critics call "amnesty," is deeply unpopular in many House Republicans' districts. However, Obama wants such a pathway. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The immigration debate is threatening to split the Republican Party, pitting those who focus mainly on presidential elections against those who care mostly about congressional races.
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Obama a skeet shooter? See new White House photo 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 01:58 PM PST
 In this photo released by the White House, President Barack Obama shoots clay targets on the range at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012. The White House released a photo of Obama firing a gun, two days before he heads to Minnesota to discuss gun control. In a recent interview with The New Republic magazine, Obama said yes when asked if he has ever fired a gun. He said "we do skeet shooting all the time," except for his daughters, at Camp David. (AP Photo/The White House, Pete Souza)WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Two days before President Barack Obama's first trip outside Washington to promote his gun-control proposals, the White House tried Saturday to settle a brewing mystery by releasing a photo to back his claim to be a skeet shooter.
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Pa.'s Punxsutawney Phil predicts early spring 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 06:59 AM PST
 Groundhog Club co-handler Ron Ploucha holds the weather predicting groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, after the club said Phil did not see his shadow and there will be an early spring, on Groundhog Day, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, in Punxsutawney, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) â€" An end to winter's bitter cold will come soon, according to Pennsylvania's famous groundhog.
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Biden raises possibility of direct U.S.-Iran talks 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 12:01 PM PST
 US Vice-President Biden gives a speech at the 49th Conference on Security Policy in MunichMUNICH (Reuters) - The United States is ready for direct talks with Iran if it is serious about negotiations, Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday, backing bilateral contact many see as crucial to easing a dispute over Tehran's nuclear program. Speaking at a security conference in Munich, Biden said Iran - which says it is enriching uranium for peaceful energy only - now faced "the most robust sanctions in history" meant to ensure it does not develop nuclear weapons. ...
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Nebraska Lt. Gov. Sheehy resigns from office 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 03:44 PM PST
 Neb. Lt. Governor Rick Sheehy is seen in a file photo from March 29, 2012 in South Sioux City, Neb. Sheehy resigned on Saturday Feb. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) â€" Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigned abruptly Saturday in a scandal involving thousands of calls to four women on his state-issued cellphone, including one woman who said she had a romantic relationship with the politician.
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Gay, Latino groups forge immigration alliance 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 11:38 AM PST
 FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2011 file photo, Frances Herbert, right, and her wife, Takako Ueda, of Japan, pose for photos with their dog, Little Bear, at their home in Dummerston, Vt. Latino and gay rights groups that have spent the last several years working to forge a mutually beneficial alliance face a crucial test in the months ahead as immigration reform returns to the top of Washington's agenda. Gay rights advocates are fighting to ensure that the comprehensive immigration legislation high-ranking U.S. senators and President Barack Obama have pledged to pursue includes legal residency options for foreigners in same-sex marriages. (AP Photo/Matthew Cavanaugh)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) â€" As a gay Mexican immigrant living in the United States illegally, Alex Aldana acutely understands his double-minority status. Not only does he fear deportation, he can't seek citizenship by marrying a partner because the federal government doesn't recognize same-sex marriages.
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Angelou celebrates black history with Oprah, Keys 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 02:40 AM PST
 FILE - In this May 20, 2010 file photo, poet Maya Angelou smiles as she greets guests at a garden party at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C. In the midst of talking black history with Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys, Angelou breaks out singing a hymn a cappella. She wants to show Keys, a New Yorker, what "lining out," call-and-response singing that is popular in Southern black churches, sounds like. That teaching moment is one of many during Angelou's third annual Black History Month program, "Telling Our Stories," airing on more than 175 public radio stations nationwide throughout the month. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, file)WASHINGTON (AP) â€" In the midst of talking black history with Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys, Maya Angelou breaks out singing a hymn a cappella.
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The Untold Story: Columbia Shuttle Disaster and Mysterious 'Day 2 Object' 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 05:53 AM PST
 The Untold Story: Columbia Shuttle Disaster and Mysterious 'Day 2 Object'A decade has passed since the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle orbiter and its seven-person crew ended their journey in catastrophe. During its Feb. 1, 2003 plunge back to Earth, the vehicle broke apart, with wreckage strewn across east Texas and western Louisiana.
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Turkey says tests confirm leftist bombed U.S. embassy 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 02:34 PM PST
 A security officer runs after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. embassy in AnkaraISTANBUL (Reuters) - A member of a Turkish leftist group that accuses Washington of using Turkey as its "slave" carried out a suicide bomb attack on the U.S. embassy, the Ankara governor's office cited DNA tests as showing on Saturday. Ecevit Sanli, a member of the leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), blew himself up in a perimeter gatehouse on Friday as he tried to enter the embassy, also killing a Turkish security guard. ...
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Iran space official: Photo shows wrong monkey 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 03:55 AM PST
 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) â€" A senior Iranian space official says one of two official photos of its famed simian space traveler depicted the wrong monkey, but that the primate really did fly up into orbit and return safely.
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Obama: 2013 can be year of economic growth 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 03:06 AM PST
 A screen on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, shows the Dow Jones industrial average above 14,000 for the first time since October 2007. Evidence that the U.S. economic recovery is firmly on track drove markets higher on Friday, adding to the cheer from good economic indicators out of Europe.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President Barack Obama says 2013 can be a year of solid economic growth, but only if Washington gets out of the way.
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Iran threat is paramount for new Israeli government: Netanyahu 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 02:36 PM PST
 Israeli PM Netanyahu and Israeli President Peres shake hands at the conclusion of a brief ceremony at the president's residence in JerusalemJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday took on the job of forming a new government and said its most important task would be to ensure that Iran does not gain nuclear arms. President Shimon Peres formally called on Netanyahu to assemble a new coalition following the January 22 general election in which Netanyahu's rightist Likud-Beitenu emerged as the biggest party. It controls 31 seats in the 120-seat parliament. ...
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Strong earthquake hits Japan's northern island of Hokkaido; no injuries or danger of tsunami 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 07:47 AM PST
 TOKYO - A strong earthquake has struck Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, but authorities say there is no danger of a tsunami and there are no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
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Authorities mum about talks with alleged abductor 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 12:18 AM PST
 This photograph released by the Alabama Department of Public Safety shows Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old retired truck driver officials identify as the suspect in a fatal shooting and hostage standoff in Midland City, Ala. (AP Photo/Alabama Department of Public Safety)MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) â€" As a police standoff with an Alabama man accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker entered its fifth day, authorities were saying little except that their talks with the 65-year-old loner were continuing through a ventilation pipe.
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Gov. Perry: Boy Scouts should keep no-gay policy 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 01:11 PM PST
 Gov. Rick Perry, left, bows his head for the invocation during the annual Boy Scouts Parade and Report to State in the House Chambers at the Texas State Capitol, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, in Austin, Texas. Perry says he hopes the Boy Scouts of America doesn't move soften its mandatory no-gays membership policy. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AUSTIN, Texas (AP) â€" Texas Gov. Rick Perry said emphatically Saturday that the Boy Scouts of America shouldn't soften its strict no-gays membership policy, and dismissed the idea of bending the organization to the whims of "popular culture."
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Russia marks 70th anniversary of Stalingrad battle 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 08:23 AM PST
 FILE - In this early 1943 photo, captured German soldiers, their uniforms tattered from the battle, make their way in the bitter cold through the ruins of Stalingrad, Russia. On Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, Russia marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, considered a turning point in World War II. (AP Photo/hpr, File)VOLGOGRAD, Russia (AP) â€" An aged T-34 tank clattered into the center of the southern Russian city once known as Stalingrad and soldiers dressed in World War II-era uniforms marched solemnly as Russia marked the 70th anniversary of the end of one of modern warfare's bloodiest battles.
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Another GOP senator backs Hagel for defense post 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 03:40 PM PST
 WASHINGTON (AP) â€" A second Republican senator says he will back former Sen. Chuck Hagel as the next Pentagon chief.
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Had your winter Phil? Check Groundhog Day forecast 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 04:58 AM PST
 FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2012 file photo, Groundhog Club handler Ron Ploucha holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during the 126th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa. Groundhog Day is Saturday, and the community is holding its welcome-back bash for the famous winter-weather prognosticator _ the so-called seer of seers and sage of sages. Legend has it that if the groundhog sees his shadow on Feb. 2, winter will last six more weeks. No shadow means an early spring. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) â€" Punxsutawney's famous groundhog predicts spring will come early this year.
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Israeli forces dismantle Palestinian encampment 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 07:27 AM PST
 BURIN, West Bank (AP) â€" Israeli troops fired tear gas and stun grenades at rock-throwing Palestinian protesters Saturday as soldiers tried to dismantle an encampment that activists set up in the West Bank to protest Israeli building restrictions.
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White House photo shows Obama skeet shooting 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 07:11 PM PST
 In this photo released by the White House, President Barack Obama shoots clay targets on the range at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012. The White House released a photo of Obama firing a gun, two days before he heads to Minnesota to discuss gun control. In a recent interview with The New Republic magazine, Obama said yes when asked if he has ever fired a gun. He said "we do skeet shooting all the time," except for his daughters, at Camp David. (AP Photo/The White House, Pete Souza)WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Two days before President Barack Obama's first trip outside Washington to promote his gun-control proposals, the White House tried Saturday to settle a brewing mystery by releasing a photo to back his claim to be a skeet shooter.
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Turkey: US Embassy bomber had terror conviction 
Saturday, Feb 02, 2013 04:06 PM PST
 Satellite map locates Ankara, Turkey site of a U.S. embassy explosion.ANKARA, Turkey (AP) â€" The suicide bomber who struck the U.S. Embassy in Ankara spent several years in prison on terrorism charges but was released on probation after being diagnosed with a hunger strike-related brain disorder, officials said Saturday.
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