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| Obama boasts support of American people in ‘fiscal cliff’ fight Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:16 AM PST As Congress races to pass legislation before the Jan. 1 "fiscal cliff" deadline, President Barack Obama in an interview which aired Sunday publicly touted the support of the American people for the plan he offered to Republicans. "We have put forward not only a sensible deal, but one that has the support of the majority [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama wants gun violence measures passed in 2013 Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 01:58 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Recalling the shooting rampage that killed 20 first graders as the worst day of his presidency, President Barack Obama pledged to put his "full weight" behind legislation aimed at preventing gun violence. Full Story | Top |
| GOP Senate leader urges Biden to break ‘fiscal cliff’ impasse Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 11:47 AM PST Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday to jump into “fiscal cliff†talks in hopes of breaking an impasse that threatens Americans with sharply higher income taxes come January 1. In a brief speech on the Senate floor, McConnell complained that Democrats had not yet placed a counter-offer to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Clinton admitted to hospital with blood clot Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 05:55 PM PST Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital for treatment of a blood clot, her spokesman said Sunday. State Department Spokesman Philippe Reines said Clinton had entered the hospital following a medical examination for a concussion she sustained earlier this month. "In the course of a follow-up exam today, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Senate adjourns to Monday, eve of ‘fiscal cliff’ Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 03:51 PM PST Bottom line: Still no "fiscal cliff" deal. And none seems imminent. The U.S. Senate on Sunday ended the day still sharply divided over how to avoid the automatic income-tax hikes and deep government spending cuts set to kick in Jan. 1 that could plunge the economy into a new recession. Despite pleas from President Barack [...] Full Story | Top |
| Graham Says No Debt Ceiling Increase Without Entitlement Reform Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:57 PM PST Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said today that he would vote no to raise the debt ceiling, if concessions to reform Social Security and Medicare were not made, despite a previous statement by Graham to suggest that most Republicans were never willing to stomach a U.S. default... Full Story | Top |
| Last-minute fiscal cliff talks in Senate Saturday, Dec 29, 2012 09:51 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Senate leaders groped for a last-minute compromise Saturday to avoid middle-class tax increases and possibly prevent deep spending cuts at the dawn of the new year as President Barack Obama warned that failure could mean a "self-inflicted wound to the economy." Full Story | Top |
| Storms on U.S. Plains stir memories of the "Dust Bowl" Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:16 AM PST  LIBERAL, Kansas (Reuters) - Real estate agent Mark Faulkner recalls a day in early November when he was putting up a sign near Ulysses, Kansas, in 60-miles-per-hour winds that blew up blinding dust clouds. "There were places you could not see, it was blowing so hard," Faulkner said. Residents of the Great Plains over the last year or so have experienced storms reminiscent of the 1930s Dust Bowl. Experts say the new storms have been brought on by a combination of historic drought, a dwindling Ogallala Aquifer underground water supply, climate change and government farm programs. ... Full Story | Top |
| Maine man, 74, held in deaths of teenage tenants Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:19 PM PST PORTLAND, Maine (AP) â€" A 74-year-old Maine man was charged in the shooting deaths of two tenants inside an apartment he rented out at his home, possibly over a dispute about where they parked their cars during a snowstorm, state police said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
| Obama skeptical of NRA proposal to put more guns in schools Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:57 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Sunday he hopes to get new U.S. gun control measures passed during the first year of his second term and is skeptical of a proposal by the National Rifle Association (NRA) gun lobby to put armed guards in schools. Obama assigned Vice President Joe Biden to lead a task force to come up with proposals on guns at the beginning of 2013 after the massacre of 20 children and six adults by a gunman at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, this month. "I'd like to get it done in the first year. ... Full Story | Top |
| Yemen: Al-Qaida offers bounty for US ambassador Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 01:08 PM PST SANAA, Yemen (AP) â€" Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen has offered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to anyone who kills the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa or an American soldier in the country. Full Story | Top |
| Fiscal cliff deal would pale against expectations Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 01:31 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Whether negotiated in a rush before the new year or left for early January, the fiscal deal President Barack Obama and Congress cobble together will be far smaller than what they initially envisioned as an alternative to purposefully distasteful tax increases and spending cuts. Full Story | Top |
| Secretary of State Clinton hospitalized with blood clot Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:04 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital on Sunday with a blood clot linked to a concussion she suffered earlier this month, the State Department said in an announcement that looked sure to fuel speculation over the health of one of America's best-known political figures. Clinton, 65, has been out of the public spotlight since mid-December, when officials said she suffered a concussion after fainting due to a stomach virus contracted during a trip to Europe. ... Full Story | Top |
| Comedian Katt Williams arrested in LA Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:04 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) â€" Katt Williams, the comedian who has repeatedly found himself on the wrong side of the law, is out on bail after being arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of child endangerment and possession of a stolen gun. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: U.S. has good leads on who carried out Benghazi attacks Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:06 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has some "very good leads" about who carried out the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans including the U.S. ambassador in September, President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Obama told NBC's "Meet the Press" that the United States would carry out all of the recommendations put forward in an independent review of the September 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi in which Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed. "We're not going to pretend that this was not a problem. This was a huge problem. ... Full Story | Top |
| NY plaintiff: Gay benefits 'bigger than marriage' Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:58 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) â€" At age 83, Edith Windsor gets plenty of compliments for her courage to take on the federal government in a landmark case that has put attitudes about gay America squarely before the Supreme Court. Full Story | Top |
| 5 killed in Oregon tour bus crash on I-84 Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 03:59 PM PST PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) â€" A tour bus careened through a guardrail on an icy Oregon highway and several hundred feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing five people and injuring about 20 others, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| German magazine mistakenly publishes Bush obituary Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:35 AM PST BERLIN (AP) â€" Germany's respected news weekly Der Spiegel mistakenly published an obituary Sunday for former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, hours after a family spokesman said the 88-year-old was recovering from illness. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. plane stuck in Iran for repairs after emergency landing Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:46 AM PST DUBAI (Reuters) - A small U.S. commercial plane has been stuck in Iran for nearly three weeks after making an emergency landing near the city of Ahvaz, the country's airports director said on Sunday. The plane was forced to land because of technical problems, Mahmoud Rasoulinejad said, quoted by the Mehr news agency. "After landing, the crew traveled on to countries around the Persian Gulf and the plane is currently being repaired," he said. Rasoulinejad did not specify who owned the aircraft, where it was headed or the nationality of the crew members. ... Full Story | Top |
| Liberal arts colleges forced to evolve with market Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 11:22 AM PST  ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) â€" They're the places you think of when you think of "college" â€" leafy campuses, small classes, small towns. Liberal arts colleges are where students ponder life's big questions, and learn to think en route to successful careers and richer lives, if not always to the best-paying first jobs. Full Story | Top |
| Missing Ga. Boys Found, Dad in Custody Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:48 AM PST  The Boys Were Spotted at a Texas Motel by Someon Who Had Seen Them on TV Full Story | Top |
| 5 children, 1 adult die in Mississippi wreck Saturday, Dec 29, 2012 09:58 PM PST JACKSON, Miss. (AP) â€" Five young siblings and one adult died early Saturday when a sport utility vehicle went off an eastern Mississippi road and plunged into a rain-swollen creek, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| GOP governors walk balance beam on health law Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 10:25 AM PST  ATLANTA (AP) â€" Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who made a fortune as a health care executive, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After the Democratic president won re-election, the Republican governor softened his tone. He said he wanted to "have a conversation" with the administration about implementing the 2010 law. With a federal deadline approaching, he also said while Florida won't set up the exchange for individuals to buy private insurance policies, the feds can do it. Full Story | Top |
| Obama says failure to reach fiscal deal would hurt markets Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:05 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Financial markets would be affected adversely if U.S. lawmakers fail to agree on a "fiscal cliff" deal before Tuesday, President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Sunday, while urging Congress to act quickly to extend tax cuts for middle-class Americans. Lawmakers are seeking a last-minute deal that would set aside $600 billion in tax increases and across-the-board government spending cuts that are set to start within days. ... Full Story | Top |
| Pakistan militants kill 41 in mass execution, attack on Shi'ites Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:36 AM PST  PESHWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani militants, who have escalated attacks in recent weeks, killed at least 41 people in two separate incidents, officials said on Sunday, challenging assertions that military offensives have broken the back of hardline Islamist groups. The United States has long pressured nuclear-armed ally Pakistan to crack down harder on both homegrown militants groups such as the Taliban and others which are based on its soil and attack Western forces in Afghanistan. ... Full Story | Top |
| Choctaw family devastated in Miss. SUV wreck Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 04:23 PM PST PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) â€" Funerals will be held this week for five young siblings and an adult who died when a sport utility vehicle driven by the children's father careened off an eastern Mississippi road and into a creek. Full Story | Top |
| Israeli leader's party criticizes president Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 09:35 AM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) â€" Israel's president and prime minister are trading charges over making peace with the Palestinians. Full Story | Top |
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