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| Argument against gay marriage in California hinges on accidental pregnancies Monday, Mar 04, 2013 01:51 AM PST In a brief filed with the Supreme Court last week, the Obama administration slammed the unusual legal argument now key in the movement against gay marriage: that gay couples cannot become accidentally pregnant and thus do not need access to marriage. The argument has become the centerpiece of two major cases addressing gay marriage that [...] Full Story | Top |
| Spending cuts unpopular yet not set to go away Monday, Mar 04, 2013 09:52 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The White House said Monday the automatic spending cuts starting to take place across the federal government, with no end in sight, represent an "empty victory" for Republicans at odds with the party's priorities. Full Story | Top |
| Underworld saint becoming more popular in US Monday, Mar 04, 2013 04:28 PM PST  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) â€" A follower in New Orleans built a public shrine in her honor. An actor in Albuquerque credits her with helping him land a role on the TV show "Breaking Bad." She turns up routinely along the U.S.-Mexico border at safe houses, and is sighted on dashboards of cars used to smuggle methamphetamine through the southwest desert. Full Story | Top |
| Ann Romney blames media for Mitt's loss. Is that right? Monday, Mar 04, 2013 08:53 AM PST Did Ann Romney really blame the media for her husband’s loss in the 2012 presidential election? That’s the buzz making the D.C. rounds Monday morning in the wake of Ann and Mitt Romney’s interview Sunday with Chris Wallace on Fox News. Full Story | Top |
| Gluten Sensitivity: What Does It Really Mean? Monday, Mar 04, 2013 04:30 AM PST  Gluten Sensitivity: What Does It Really Mean? Full Story | Top |
| Napolitano: Airports feel impact from spending cuts Monday, Mar 04, 2013 12:42 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on Monday cautioned airline passengers to get to the airport extra early because U.S. spending cuts have already led to long lines at some security checkpoints, and said the coming furloughs will only make the situation worse. Napolitano said mandatory spending cuts ordered on Friday by President Barack Obama have led to the elimination of overtime for Transportation Security Administration officers and customs agents. ... Full Story | Top |
| Janet Napolitano: The border is less secure because of budget cuts Monday, Mar 04, 2013 04:03 AM PST Power Players Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says that, although safety is her top priority, there is no way around cutting back on border patrol agents monitoring the country's borders because of the across-the-board spending cuts, known as "the sequester," that went into effect over the weekend. "The number of border patrol hours that will [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama ‘not bluffing’ on Iran nukes, Biden tells AIPAC Monday, Mar 04, 2013 09:28 AM PST President Barack Obama “is not bluffing†when he says the U.S. will go to war if necessary to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, Vice President Joe Biden told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in a speech on Monday. “The president of the United States cannot, and does not, bluff,†Biden told the [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Harlem Shake’ gets miners fired Monday, Mar 04, 2013 08:14 AM PST The "Harlem Shake" has not been welcome everywhere. Up to 15 miners in Australia were fired after they put a video on the Web of eight men performing the dance craze deep underground, according to the Australian newspaper The West. What got the miners in trouble? Some had removed their protective gear for the video. [...] Full Story | Top |
| NY high school raises $489K with marathon dance Monday, Mar 04, 2013 12:11 PM PST SOUTH GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) â€" The 710 students from South Glens Falls High School danced for more than a day: Conga lines, "Gangnam Style," giddy-ups, hand jives and the Harlem Shake. Then, flushed and weary, the teens showed why this is a dance marathon with a difference. Full Story | Top |
| Holy smokes! "Batman" nabs suspect for British police Monday, Mar 04, 2013 04:24 AM PST  LONDON (Reuters) - A mystery man dressed as Batman demonstrated the same crime-fighting skills as the caped crusader when he handed over a suspect wanted for burglary in Britain. Closed-circuit television footage showed a portly figure wearing an ill-fitting costume including gloves, cape and mask, bringing a 27-year-old man to a police station in Bradford in northern England. The suspect was arrested and charged with handling stolen goods and fraud-related offences, said the force. But the costumed crime-fighter disappeared into the night without leaving his name. ... Full Story | Top |
| Jeb Bush reverses course: No path to citizenship necessary in immigration reform Monday, Mar 04, 2013 09:36 AM PST Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said in a TV interview Monday that he no longer supports a path to citizenship in an immigration reform bill, a reversal that puts him to the right of the current bipartisan immigration proposal forming in the Senate. "If we want to create an immigration policy that's going to work, [...] Full Story | Top |
| House, debris over Fla. sinkhole to be removed Monday, Mar 04, 2013 10:26 AM PST SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) â€" Authorities hope to get a better look at a sinkhole that swallowed a man in his Florida home once demolition crews knock down the remaining walls of the house Monday and begin clearing away the debris. Full Story | Top |
| Scientists say baby born with HIV apparently cured Monday, Mar 04, 2013 11:31 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection. Full Story | Top |
| Italian priest burns photo of Benedict during Mass Monday, Mar 04, 2013 08:53 AM PST VATICAN CITY (Reuters)- - An Italian priest set fire to a photo of Pope Benedict during Sunday Mass in protest against his abdication, telling a shocked congregation that the former pontiff had abandoned his flock. "It was wonderful," the Rev. Andrea Maggi from Santo Stefano Protomartire church in the small northern village of Castel Vittorio, told La Repubblica daily, defending his act. ... Full Story | Top |
| San Francisco's 'other' bridge prepares to shine Monday, Mar 04, 2013 06:25 AM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) â€" After more than 75 years in the shadow of its glamorous cousin, San Francisco's "other" bridge is getting a chance to shine. Full Story | Top |
| Casey Anthony speaks at bankruptcy hearing Monday, Mar 04, 2013 06:08 PM PST TAMPA, Fla. (AP) â€" Appearing in public for the first time since she was acquitted of murder, Casey Anthony revealed that she doesn't have a job or a car, lives with friends and relies on unsolicited gift cards and cash to get by. Full Story | Top |
| How legal marijuana will affect troubled families Monday, Mar 04, 2013 09:20 AM PST Last fall, voters for the first time approved the legalization of marijuana for recreational use at the state level â€" in Colorado and Washington. Since then, much attention has focused on the conflict between state and federal law, which still classifies the drug as illegal. But state legalization also raises important questions at the personal level. Many of them center around the family. Full Story | Top |
| Obama Outside Groups Forming Influence Network Monday, Mar 04, 2013 05:50 AM PST Post-campaign, Obama aides fan out, form groups to promote president's agenda Full Story | Top |
| Israel on alert as locusts cross in from Egypt Monday, Mar 04, 2013 10:34 AM PST JERUSALEM (AP) â€" A swarm of locusts crossed into Israel from neighboring Egypt Monday, raising fears that Israel could be hit with a biblical plague ahead of the Passover holiday. Full Story | Top |
| Can Obama help Democrats retake the House in 2014? Monday, Mar 04, 2013 02:45 AM PST  With GOP opposition threatening his agenda, the president is going all out to help his party win control of Congress for the second half of his final term Full Story | Top |
| Biden on Iran threat: Obama is not bluffing Monday, Mar 04, 2013 12:04 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Seeking to reassure anxious Israelis and their American supporters, Vice President Joe Biden vowed Monday that the United States won't back down from its pledge to use military action to thwart Iran's nuclear program should all other options fail. Full Story | Top |
| Republicans move to avoid government shutdown Monday, Mar 04, 2013 03:52 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Republicans announced a plan on Monday to avoid a government shutdown later this month, seeking to calm the waters after months of budget fights that ended in a failure last week to halt damaging spending cuts. Just three days into the $85 billion of automatic "sequester" cuts, Republicans in the House of Representatives turned their attention to the next fiscal deadline: the March 27 expiration of funding for government agencies and programs. ... Full Story | Top |
| Jeb Bush won’t rule out 2016 run Monday, Mar 04, 2013 05:12 AM PST Jeb Bush isn't ruling out a run for the White House in 2016. "That's way off into the future," Bush, a Republican and former Florida governor, responded on Monday's "Today" show when asked about a possible presidential bid. "I won't [rule it out], but I won't declare today either." Bush was on the NBC show [...] Full Story | Top |
| Mystery of Hindenburg air catastrophe solved Monday, Mar 04, 2013 11:21 AM PST Researchers say they know how the Hindenburg airship came to its fiery end: static electricity. Seventy-six years ago, the German dirigible was promoted as the future of trans-Atlantic flight, but instead it became the notorious poster child of air disasters. As the hydrogen-filled blimp was landing in Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937, it suddenly [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama names Wal-Mart’s Burwell to OMB; new energy secretary, EPA head Monday, Mar 04, 2013 08:20 AM PST  President Barack Obama on Monday announced three Cabinet nominations, including Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the Wal-Mart Foundation, as the next director of the Office of Management and Budget. Obama, speaking from the White House East Room, said Burwell will help America find a "way forward" as the country begins to face sequestrationâ€"$85 billion in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Are smartphones and tablets turning us into sissies? Monday, Mar 04, 2013 09:53 AM PST Google’s Sergey Brin might be right that technology is “emasculating,†but don’t let that scare you. Full Story | Top |
| ‘Red coat girl’ in ‘Schindler’s List’ was traumatized by role in Holocaust film Monday, Mar 04, 2013 08:57 AM PST Oliwia Dabrowska, the Polish actress better known as the girl in the red coat in Steven Spielberg's otherwise monochromatic Holocaust film "Schindler's List," says she was so traumatized when she first saw it at age 11 that she kept her role a secret for years. Dabrowskaâ€"who was 3 when "Schindler's List" was released in 1993â€"admitted [...] Full Story | Top |
| US cardinals seek answers on Vatican dysfunction Monday, Mar 04, 2013 12:54 PM PST  VATICAN CITY (AP) â€" Cardinals said Monday they want to talk to Vatican managers about allegations of corruption and cronyism within the top levels of the Catholic Church before they elect the next pope, evidence that a scandal over leaked papal documents is casting a shadow over the conclave and setting up one of the most unpredictable papal elections in recent times. Full Story | Top |
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