| |
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 | 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 âfiscal cliffâ 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 | Top |
Storms on U.S. Plains stir memories of the "Dust Bowl" Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:16 AM PST | 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 | 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 | Top |
Secretary of State Clinton hospitalized with blood clot Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:04 PM PST | Top |
Comedian Katt Williams arrested in LA Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:04 PM PST | Top |
Obama: U.S. has good leads on who carried out Benghazi attacks Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:06 AM PST | Top |
NY plaintiff: Gay benefits 'bigger than marriage' Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:58 PM PST | 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 | Top |
Missing Ga. Boys Found, Dad in Custody Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:48 AM PST | 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 | Top |
Obama says failure to reach fiscal deal would hurt markets Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:05 AM PST | Top |
Pakistan militants kill 41 in mass execution, attack on Shi'ites Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:36 AM PST | 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 | Top |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment