Sunday, December 30, 2012

Daily News: Most Popular News Headlines - Obama boasts support of American people in ‘fiscal cliff’ fight

Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:16 AM PST
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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 [...]
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Obama wants gun violence measures passed in 2013 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 01:58 PM PST
Obama: Failure to reach fiscal deal would hurt marketsWASHINGTON (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.
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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...
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Last-minute fiscal cliff talks in Senate 
Saturday, Dec 29, 2012 09:51 PM PST
President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington after meeting with Congressional leaders regarding the fiscal cliff, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)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."
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Storms on U.S. Plains stir memories of the "Dust Bowl" 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:16 AM PST
Farmer Gail Wright is pictured next to a water pump which he says he is likely to shut down because the Ogallala Aquifer no longer provides adequate water near Sublette KansasLIBERAL, 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. ...
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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.
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Obama skeptical of NRA proposal to put more guns in schools 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:57 AM PST
U.S. President Obama salutes as he returns via Marine One from a Christmas visit with his family in Hawaii, to the White House in WashingtonWASHINGTON (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. ...
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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.
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Fiscal cliff deal would pale against expectations 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 01:31 AM PST
President Barack Obama gestures during a statement on the fiscal cliff negotiations with congressional leaders in the briefing room of the White House on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012 in Washington. The negotiations are a last ditch effort to avoid across-the-board first of the year tax increases and deep spending cuts. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)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.
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Secretary of State Clinton hospitalized with blood clot 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:04 PM PST
File photo of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answering questions from the audience at the 2012 Saban Forum on U.S.-Israel relations gala dinner in WashingtonWASHINGTON (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. ...
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Comedian Katt Williams arrested in LA 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:04 PM PST
In this Sunday, July 22, 2007 photo, Katt Williams performs onstage during the "Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav," in Burbank, Calif. Williams found himself on the wrong side of the law after being arrested in Los Angeles, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, on suspicion of child endangerment and possession of a stolen gun. Police Officer Norma Eisenman says Williams was taken into custody Friday after the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services did a welfare check at his home. Authorities found more than one firearm, one of which had been reported stolen. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)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.
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Obama: U.S. has good leads on who carried out Benghazi attacks 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:06 AM PST
U.S. President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton participate in a transfer ceremony of the remains of U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens and three other Americans killed this week in Benghazi, at Andrews Air Force Base near WashingtonWASHINGTON (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. ...
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NY plaintiff: Gay benefits 'bigger than marriage' 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:58 PM PST
In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 photo, Edith Windsor speaks during an interview in her New York City apartment. Windsor has found some notoriety at age 83, as her challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act will be heard by the United States Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ...
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Liberal arts colleges forced to evolve with market 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 11:22 AM PST
In this 2012 photo provided by Adrian College, members of the school's Bulldog football team warm up before homecoming in Adrian, Mich. Adrian's president, Jeffrey Docking, has added seven sports and two pre-professional degree programs to the liberal arts college since arriving in 2005 _ and nearly doubled enrollment to about 1,750. (AP Photo/Adrian College, Matt Gaidica Photography)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.
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Missing Ga. Boys Found, Dad in Custody 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:48 AM PST
Missing Ga. Boys Found, Dad in CustodyThe Boys Were Spotted at a Texas Motel by Someon Who Had Seen Them on TV
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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.
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GOP governors walk balance beam on health law 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 10:25 AM PST
FILE - In this May 16, 2012 file photo, Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks in Fort Lauderdale. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After President Obama 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. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)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.
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Obama says failure to reach fiscal deal would hurt markets 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:05 AM PST
U.S. President Obama delivers remarks at the White House in WashingtonWASHINGTON (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. ...
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Pakistan militants kill 41 in mass execution, attack on Shi'ites 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:36 AM PST
Tribesmen attend a funeral of a paramilitary soldier who was kidnapped and executed by Taliban militants at Darra Adam KhelPESHWAR, 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. ...
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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.
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Israeli leader's party criticizes president 
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 09:35 AM PST
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Abir Sultan, Pool)JERUSALEM (AP) â€" Israel's president and prime minister are trading charges over making peace with the Palestinians.
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