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| Dog stays by missing boy’s side Friday, Nov 30, 2012 03:10 PM PST The spirit of Lassie is alive and well in a dog named Ashapoo. The trusty canine was always at the side of his owner's two-year-old grandson, Peyton. And that was a good thing when Peyton's grandfather turned his back for a minute as he was planning to take the boy on a trip on the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Pelosi will try to force House vote to extend middle-class tax rates Friday, Nov 30, 2012 01:28 PM PST WASHINGTONâ€"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will try to force a vote on the House floor to extend current tax rates for the middle class next week if Republicans do not act, the California Democrat announced on Friday. During a press conference on Capitol Hill, Pelosi called on House Republicans, who control the chamber, to hold [...] Full Story | Top |
| Iran unveils unusually colored blue submarine Friday, Nov 30, 2012 01:17 PM PST It looks like the Iranian Navy really wanted people to see its new submarine. In a live broadcast on state TV on Wednesday, the Islamic Republic showed off a new Sina 7 submarine that is painted in an unusually bright turquoise blue hue. So, why exactly would any military want to design its ship in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Candice Miller to chair GOP House committee after outcry Friday, Nov 30, 2012 01:07 PM PST Speaker John Boehner announced on Friday afternoon that a woman will chair a House Republican committee after all. Michigan Rep. Candice Miller set to lead the House Administration Committee. That news follows coverage and criticism regarding the absence of female committee chairs in the House GOP. From Boehner's announcement: In her new post, Candice will [...] Full Story | Top |
| Rep. Tim Griffin won’t seek higher Arkansas office in 2014 Friday, Nov 30, 2012 12:34 PM PST Republican Rep. Tim Griffin of Arkansas told local news outlet Talk Business on Friday that he will not be challenging Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor, nor does he plan to run as a gubernatorial candidate in 2014. "I'm not going to run for Senate, and I'm not going to run for governor. I'd like to put [...] Full Story | Top |
| UN Twitter typo calls for ’1-state solution’ to Mideast conflict Friday, Nov 30, 2012 11:37 AM PST Social media's greatest asset is also its greatest liability: the ability to reach millions of people around the world with the click of a button. Such was the case on Thursday, when the United Nations accidentally published a tweet calling for a "1-state solution" to the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. At 2 [...] Full Story | Top |
| Afghan girl beheaded after refusing man’s marriage proposal Friday, Nov 30, 2012 10:52 AM PST A 14-year-old Afghan girl was beheaded and killed in an attack by two men, one of whom apparently asked her to marry him. The attack happened Tuesday, a day before new legislation was introduced in Congress calling on the U.S. government to take steps to help protect Afghan women and girls as the U.S. military [...] Full Story | Top |
| Gold coins pop up in Salvation Army kettles Friday, Nov 30, 2012 10:41 AM PST The holiday season means those ever-present Salvation Army red kettles are out in force. That also means the tradition of anonymously slipping gold coins into the kettle has started up again. At a Sam's Club in southwest Houston, a 1-ounce gold coin that was dropped into a kettle is worth about $2,000. Talk about a [...] Full Story | Top |
| Boehner on ‘fiscal cliff’ talks: ‘There’s a stalemate’ Friday, Nov 30, 2012 10:39 AM PST WASHINGTONâ€"House Speaker John Boehner on Friday said that despite receiving a counterproposal from the White House as part of a deal to avoid a series of automatic tax increases and spending cuts, no progress had been made between Republicans and Democrats. "There's a stalemate, let's not kid ourselves," Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, told reporters [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama: No K’NEX for naughty lawmakers Friday, Nov 30, 2012 09:30 AM PST You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry? Pushing his tax plan at a factory that makes K'NEX building toys, President Barack Obama warned lawmakers on Friday that he was keeping his own "naughty and nice list." "Santa delivers everywhere. I've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for Washington," the president told K'NEX [...] Full Story | Top |
| Internal polling reveals why Romney believed he would win Friday, Nov 30, 2012 08:03 AM PST Internal polling showing leads over Barack Obama in New Hampshire and Colorado helped instill confidence in the Mitt Romney campaign on Election Day, according to final polling data revealed by Noam Scheiber of the New Republic. It had previously been revealed that the campaign believed its candidate would carry North Carolina, Florida and Virginia. But data [...] Full Story | Top |
| Supreme Court considers gay marriage in wake of ballot box breakthroughs Friday, Nov 30, 2012 06:58 AM PST When the U.S. Supreme Court met on Friday to consider whether to wade into the issue of gay marriage, the justices faced a reality not even a month old: For the first time, voters have chosen to legalize same-sex nuptials. The shift that took place on Election Day has energized proponents of gay marriage, who [...] Full Story | Top |
| Weekend in politics: Obama takes ‘fiscal cliff’ plan on the road, and more Friday, Nov 30, 2012 03:51 AM PST President Barack Obama takes his plan for avoiding the "fiscal cliff" on the road Friday with a tour and remarks at The Rodon Group Manufacturing Facility in Hatfield, Pa. The White House is looking to drum up public support with the campaign-style event for a plan that includes $1.6 trillion in new tax revenues plus [...] Full Story | Top |
| Republicans scoff at White House’s first offer Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 09:21 PM PST Bolstered by his reelection, President Barack Obama on Thursday made a detailed opening bid to Congressional Republicans for averting the so-called fiscal cliff -- the mix of tax hikes and deep spending cuts that risk plunging the economy into a new recession come 2013. Republicans flatly rejected the offer, which mostly repackaged Obama's previous budget [...] Full Story | Top |
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