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| Health care tax hikes for 2013 may be just a start Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 08:59 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" New taxes are coming Jan. 1 to help finance President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Most people may not notice. But they will pay attention if Congress decides to start taxing employer-sponsored health insurance, one option in play if lawmakers can ever agree on a budget deal to reduce federal deficits. Full Story | Top |
| Durning, king of character actors, dies in NYC Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 02:45 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) â€" Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge. Full Story | Top |
| Gunman Killed Firemen With Bushmaster, Left Note Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 09:32 AM PST  William Spengler pledged to 'burn neighborhood to ground,' shot 4 firefighters Full Story | Top |
| US gun support runs far deeper than politics Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 10:21 AM PST  BRYAN, Texas (AP) â€" Adam Lanza's mother was among the tens of millions of U.S. gun owners. She legally had a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle and a pair of handguns, which her 20-year-old son used to kill 20 children and six adults in 10 minutes inside a Connecticut school. Full Story | Top |
| A look at tough issues awaiting Obama's final term Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 12:19 AM PST  As President Barack Obama approaches his second and final term, he will have to decide where to be ambitious, where to be cautious and where to buy time. A look at some of the big issues Obama will have to tackle when he returns to Washington after a Hawaiian vacation: Full Story | Top |
| Man who killed 2 firemen left note on killing plan Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 01:37 PM PST  WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) â€" The ex-con who lured two firefighters to their deaths in a blaze of gunfire left a rambling typewritten note saying he wanted to burn down the neighborhood and "do what I like doing best, killing people," police said Tuesday as they recovered burned human remains believed to be the gunman's missing sister. Full Story | Top |
| Israel to build 942 more homes in east Jerusalem Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 11:17 AM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) â€" Israel has advanced the process of building 942 more settler homes in east Jerusalem under a new fast-track plan to tighten its grip on the territory, which the Palestinians claim as the capital of a future state. Full Story | Top |
| Firemen's killer left chilling note, deaths at 3 Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 03:01 PM PST WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) â€" An ex-con killed two firefighters with the same caliber and make military-style rifle used in the Connecticut school massacre after typing a note pledging to burn down his neighborhood and "do what I like doing best, killing people," police said Tuesday as another body, believed to be the gunman's missing sister, was found. Full Story | Top |
| Whither the birthplace of Jesus? O little town of Bethlehem vs. the littler village of Bethlehem of the Galilee Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 10:40 AM PST For centuries, Christians have been making the pilgrimage to Bethlehem to pay their respects to Jesus â€" except they may have been making a wrong turn. According to NPR and the London Times, the son of Mary wasn't born in the little town of Bethlehem in Palestine's West Bank area. Instead, archaeologists think it's the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Afghanistan: Woman who killed American is Iranian Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 06:41 AM PST  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) â€" The policewoman who killed an American contractor in Kabul is a native Iranian who came to Afghanistan and displayed "unstable behavior" but no known links to militants, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Officials: NY gunman led quiet life before killing 2 firefighters, injuring 2 others in ambush Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 05:42 AM PST WEBSTER, N.Y. - A man who set his house on fire then lured firefighters to their deaths in a blaze of flames and bullets had attracted little attention since he got out of prison in the 1990s for killing his grandmother, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Over the fiscal cliff: How hard a landing? Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 05:55 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Efforts to save the nation from going over a year-end "fiscal cliff" were in disarray as lawmakers fled the Capitol for their Christmas break. "God only knows" how a deal can be reached now, House Speaker John Boehner declared. Full Story | Top |
| New York gunman left note declaring plan to kill people Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 01:26 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gunman who killed two volunteer firefighters and wounded two others in a Christmas Eve ambush in upstate New York left a typewritten note saying he planned to burn down his neighborhood and start "killing people," authorities said on Tuesday. The gunman, William Spengler, 62, opened fire on volunteer firefighters who responded to a house fire he deliberately set early on Monday morning in Webster, New York, a suburb of Rochester, authorities said. Spengler shot and killed himself in an ensuing gunfight with police. ... Full Story | Top |
| Netflix suffers Christmas Eve outage, points to Amazon Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 11:12 AM PST  NEW YORK (Reuters) - An outage at one of Amazon's web service centers hit users of Netflix Inc.'s streaming video service on Christmas Eve and was not fully resolved until Christmas day, a spokesman for the movie rental company said on Tuesday. The outage impacted Netflix subscribers across Canada, Latin America and the United States, and affected various devices that enable users to stream movies and television shows from home, Netflix spokesman Joris Evers said. Such devices range from gaming consoles such as Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3 to Blu-ray players. ... Full Story | Top |
| Pope decries slaughter of 'defenseless' Syrians Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 08:30 AM PST  VATICAN CITY (AP) â€" Pope Benedict XVI wished Christmas peace to the world Tuesday, decrying the slaughter of the "defenseless" in Syria, urging Israelis and Palestinians to find the courage to negotiate and encouraging China's new leaders to allow more religious freedom. Full Story | Top |
| Affleck Won't Be Running for Senate Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 10:54 AM PST  Those hoping the United States Senate may get a little less gray and a bit more celebrity-studded won’t be getting their Christmas miracle today. Despite speculation, Ben Affleck announced late Monday he would not go after John Kerry’s Senate seat in his native Massachusetts if... Full Story | Top |
| Some urge Boehner: let Dems pass fiscal cliff bill Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 08:05 AM PST  In case the public weren't frustrated enough over Congress' failure to resolve the "fiscal cliff," consider this: lawmakers probably could enact a compromise quickly and easily if Republican leaders let Democrats provide most of the votes. Full Story | Top |
| Netflix says video streaming service hit by outage Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 05:58 AM PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) â€" Families across the United States will have to rely on other sources of entertainment after Netflix's video streaming service was hit by a Christmas Eve outage. Full Story | Top |
| Gulf Arabs decry Iran "interference" in region Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 07:39 AM PST  MANAMA (Reuters) - Six U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states demanded on Tuesday that Iran end what they called interference in the region, reiterating a long-held mistrust of their main rival. The Islamic Republic denies trying to subvert Saudi Arabia and its wealthy Gulf neighbors. A communique issued at the end of a two-day summit of the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) also urged action to halt mass killings and violations of international law in Syria. ... Full Story | Top |
| Winter storms, tornado threats for Christmas in US Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 06:19 AM PST  NEW ORLEANS (AP) â€" Forecasts of blinding snow, sleet and freezing rain threatened to complicate Christmas Day travel around the nation's midsection Tuesday as several Gulf Coast states braced for a chance of twisters, high winds and powerful thunderstorms. Full Story | Top |
| Dakota Indians mark hangings of 1862 with trek on horseback Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 06:52 AM PST  ST. PAUL, Minn (Reuters) - The day after Christmas will be somber for Dakota Indians marking what they consider a travesty of justice 150 years ago, when 38 of their ancestors were executed in the biggest mass hanging in U.S. history. Overshadowed by the Civil War raging in the East, the hangings in Mankato, Minnesota, on December 26, 1862, followed the often overlooked six-week U.S.-Dakota war earlier that year -- a war that marked the start of three decades of fighting between Native Americans and the U.S. government across the Plains. ... Full Story | Top |
| New poll shows Israel's leader losing altitude Monday, Dec 24, 2012 10:22 PM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) â€" A new poll shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu poised for an election victory but losing support to a rival who opposes Palestinian statehood. Full Story | Top |
| Christmas in an Anti-Christian Age Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 12:00 AM PST For two millennia, the birth of Christ has been seen as the greatest event in world history. The moment Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem, God became man, and eternal salvation became possible. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-President Bush spends Christmas in hospital Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 01:38 PM PST  HOUSTON (AP) â€" Former President George H.W. Bush spent Christmas in a Houston hospital with his wife, Barbara, and other relatives who planned to treat him to a special holiday meal. Full Story | Top |
| One in 12 in military has clogged heart arteries Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 01:59 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Just over one in 12 U.S. service members who died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars had plaque buildup in the arteries around their hearts - an early sign of heart disease, according to a new study. None of them had been diagnosed with heart disease before deployment, researchers said. "This is a young, healthy, fit group," said the study's lead author, Dr. Bryant Webber, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. "These are people who are asymptomatic, they feel fine, they're deployed into combat," he told Reuters Health. ... Full Story | Top |
| Philadelphia high schools to welcome students back with free condom dispensers Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 03:07 PM PST The Philadelphia Health Department will install clear plastic dispensers brimming with free condoms at 22 of Philadelphia’s public high schools over winter break. Full Story | Top |
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