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| 007-Esque Police Cars Aim to Stop High Speed Chases Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 09:08 AM PST We have all seen high-speed police chases on TV. And statistics show that they're as dangerous as they appear. 360 people are killed each year because of chases, according to a 2010 study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Now, StarChase, a Virginia-based law enforcement technology company, wants to halt those risky pursuits with Full Story | Top |
| Customers claim they did leave tip, did not leave note for server Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 06:47 AM PST Earlier this month, Dayna Morales, a restaurant server in 'New Jersey and former U.S. Marine, claimed that a family wrote her a hateful note on a receipt saying they had chose not to tip her because they did not agree with her gay lifestyle. Full Story | Top |
| Snowman scares the sugarplums out of shoppers in Boston, delighting cops Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 06:00 AM PST It's become something of a holiday tradition: A man, dressed as a snowman, stands motionless until unsuspecting shoppers approach, then suddenly scares the sugarplums out of them. Full Story | Top |
| Pope issues mission statement for papacy Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 01:09 PM PST  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis denounced the global financial system that excludes the poor as he issued the mission statement for his papacy on Tuesday, saying he wants the Catholic Church to get its hands dirty as it seeks to bring solace and mercy to society's outcasts. Full Story | Top |
| CBS: Lara Logan, producer ordered to take leave Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 06:50 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — CBS ordered "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan and her producer to take a leave of absence Tuesday following a critical internal review of their handling of the show's October story on the Benghazi raid, based on a report on a supposed witness whose story can't be verified. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. says may pull out all troops as Afghan leader holds up deal Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 04:06 AM PST  By Jessica Donati and Mark Felsenthal KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has refused to sign a security deal with the United States, the White House said, opening up the prospect of a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from the strife-torn nation next year. Karzai told U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice in Kabul on Monday that the United States must put an immediate end to military raids on Afghan homes and demonstrate its commitment to peace talks before he would sign a bilateral security pact, Karzai's spokesman said. The White House said Karzai had outlined new conditions in the meeting with Rice and "indicated he is not prepared to sign the promptly". "Without a prompt signature, the U.S. would have no choice but to initiate planning for a post-2014 future in which there would be no U.S. or NATO troop presence in Afghanistan," a White House statement quoted Rice as saying. Full Story | Top |
| Obama heckler has history of civil disobedience Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 08:16 AM PST A heckler who interrupted President Barack Obama's speech on immigration in San Francisco says he spoke out because his family has been torn apart by U.S. immigration policy — and the administration has done nothing to help them. Full Story | Top |
| Obama Shakes Money Tree for Dems Ahead of Tough 2014 Cycle Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 07:17 AM PST  Obama Shakes Money Tree for Dems Ahead of Tough 2014 Cycle Full Story | Top |
| US defies China's fly zone with B-52 flight Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 06:52 PM PST  Two American B-52 bombers flew over a disputed area of the East China Sea without informing Beijing, challenging China's claims to an expanded air defense zone, officials said. The flight of the giant, long-range Stratofortress planes sent a clear warning that Washington would push back against what it considers an aggressive stance by Beijing in the region. Japanese airlines also said Wednesday they had stopped submitting flight plans to Chinese authorities for any plane that was due to pass through the area. Japan's two major airlines had previously said they had been submitting flight plans to Chinese authorities. Full Story | Top |
| Supreme Court will take up new health law dispute Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 01:01 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law: whether businesses may use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. Full Story | Top |
| Penny Lane: Gitmo's other secret CIA facility Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 12:42 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — A few hundred yards from the administrative offices of the Guantanamo Bay prison, hidden behind a ridge covered in thick scrub and cactus, sits a closely held secret. Full Story | Top |
| Congress wary, but unlikely to blow up Obama's Iran deal Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 02:34 AM PST Congress didn't exactly sound the trumpets and roll out the red carpet for President Barack Obama's fragile interim deal with Iran — but it's increasingly clear that lawmakers don't want to blow it up with new sanctions, either. Full Story | Top |
| Poll numbers down, Obama tells donors to buck up Monday, Nov 25, 2013 09:04 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stung by plunging approval numbers at a low point in his presidency, President Barack Obama is urging donors to buck up while making a thread-the-needle appeal for bipartisanship with Republicans even as he calls for replacing the House GOP majority and holding his Democratic edge in the Senate. Full Story | Top |
| Controversy over Bashir punishment doesn't go away Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 05:28 AM PST  Martin Bashir's apology for graphic comments about Sarah Palin on MSNBC hasn't ended questions about whether the remarks deserve punishment from his bosses, giving unwanted attention to a cable network ... Full Story | Top |
| Storm to threaten holiday travel, moving east Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 05:56 AM PST A sloppy storm system carrying heavy rainfall, ice and snow is slogging its way eastward, bringing the potential of headaches for travelers heading home for the Thanksgiving holiday. National Weather Service ... Full Story | Top |
| Republicans bash Obamacare but can't repeal it. What do they want? Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 12:10 PM PST The Republican playbook against Obamacare calls for Republicans to take every conceivable opportunity to talk about cancelled policies, higher costs, and other problems with the law – and to barrel ahead with coordinated oversight hearings. Republicans cannot repeal the Affordable Care Act, because they do not control the Senate, much less have the two-thirds majority needed to overcome a presidential veto. So what is the Republicans' endgame? Republicans "want to preserve the power they have and gain more" by taking the Senate next year, says John Pitney Jr., a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College in California. Full Story | Top |
| Prosecutors: Conn. gunman's motive still unknown Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 03:34 AM PST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A yearlong investigation into the Newtown school shooting has provided disturbing insights into the gunman who killed his mother and then massacred 26 other people, but it still has not provided a motive. Full Story | Top |
| Newtown report renews focus on role of Lanza's mom Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 03:17 PM PST  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As Adam Lanza withdrew from the world into his bedroom, the only person he appeared to be close to was his mother, who cooked his favorite meals, did his laundry daily — and bonded with him over shooting and guns. Full Story | Top |
| In California, a vision of Republicans' challenge on immigration Monday, Nov 25, 2013 10:02 PM PST  By John Whitesides CERES, California (Reuters) - For most Republicans in the U.S. Congress, a large gathering of Hispanic voters to discuss immigration would be politically perilous - an invitation to complaints about the party's longtime resistance to measures aimed at helping undocumented immigrants. But when Republican Rep. Jeff Denham walked into a meeting with hundreds of his Hispanic constituents at a church in California's Central Valley this month, he was met with applause, praise and a hand-lettered "Thank You" sign. Denham, 46, is a rarity in the U.S. House of Representatives: one of only three Republicans in the chamber's 231-member majority who support a Democrat-sponsored bill that would give millions of undocumented immigrants a legal pathway to U.S. citizenship. So far, Denham is a voice in the wilderness of the Republican Party, nationally. Full Story | Top |
| Pope attacks 'tyranny' of markets in manifesto for papacy Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 08:46 AM PST  By Naomi O'Leary VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis attacked unfettered capitalism as "a new tyranny" and beseeched global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality, in a document on Tuesday setting out a platform for his papacy and calling for a renewal of the Catholic Church. The 84-page document, known as an apostolic exhortation, was the first major work he has authored alone as pope and makes official many views he has aired in sermons and remarks since he became the first non-European pontiff in 1,300 years in March. In it, Francis went further than previous comments criticizing the global economic system, attacking the "idolatry of money", and urged politicians to "attack the structural causes of inequality" and strive to provide work, healthcare and education to all citizens. "How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses 2 points?" The pope said renewal of the Church could not be put off and said the Vatican and its entrenched hierarchy "also need to hear the call to pastoral conversion". Full Story | Top |
| Democrats Fear Obamacare Will Cost Them The Senate Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 12:12 AM PST Last week, President Obama's pollster Joel Benenson sent a memo to congressional Democrats encouraging them to refocus attention on the economy and ignore the health care chaos that has consumed the administration for the last two months. The three-page set of talking points argued that the media's relentless focus on the Obamacare website is a "distraction" from more important work on the minds of voters. But for Senate Democrats who backed the unpopular legislation, avoiding the subject isn't so easy. Republicans are armed with reams of polling data showing how the health care law could overturn the Democrats' majority, and are already hitting vulnerable Democrats on the subject. Full Story | Top |
| Pope Francis urges reform of papal powers Tuesday, Nov 26, 2013 07:58 AM PST  Pope Francis called for reform to take powers from the Vatican and said Catholics should be more engaged in helping the needy, but ruled out allowing women priests in a key document released by the Vatican on Tuesday. The Catholic leader said he was seeking advice on how his role should change -- using an informal style for his first "apostolic exhortation", in which he outlined his vision for the future of the Roman Catholic Church. Francis said it was time for "a conversion of the papacy", adding that "excessive centralisation, rather than proving helpful, complicates the Church's life". The 84-page document did not address many of the hot-button ethical reforms called for by progressives but Francis did say that the issue of the priesthood being reserved for men was "not a question open to discussion". Full Story | Top |
| Climate change will cause 'serious economic losses' in Pacific Monday, Nov 25, 2013 09:01 PM PST  The Pacific region faces serious economic losses due to climate change and it is critical that nations causing the problem step in to help, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday. A new report by the bank released in Sydney, "Economics of Climate Change in the Pacific", showed that losses would range between 2.9 percent and 15.2 percent of annual gross domestic product by 2100. The Pacific contains some of the smallest nations on Earth and there are growing fears that global warming and rising seas threaten their very existence, with some of them atolls barely a metre (three feet) above sea level. The report assessed the potential impacts of climate change on agriculture, fisheries, tourism, coral reefs, and human health, with the ADB's Pacific director general Xianbin Yao warning of dire consequences. Full Story | Top |
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