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India gang rape victim dies in Singapore hospital Friday, Dec 28, 2012 08:02 PM PST | Top |
U.S. industry presses for duties on shrimp from seven countries Friday, Dec 28, 2012 06:34 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. shrimp producers filed a petition on Friday asking the Commerce Department to impose punitive duties on billions of dollars of shrimp from China, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Ecuador to offset what they said were unfair foreign government subsidies. "Today's filing is about the survival of the entire U.S. shrimp industry," C. David Veal, executive director of the Coalition of Gulf Shrimp Industries, said in a statement. The group represents shrimp fisherman in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas who say they have lost ... Full Story | Top |
Senate approves $60.4 billion Superstorm Sandy aid bill Friday, Dec 28, 2012 06:19 PM PST | Top |
India PM pledges action after rape victim's death Friday, Dec 28, 2012 06:00 PM PST NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday he was deeply saddened by the death of a woman who had been gang-raped in New Delhi and he pledged to channel emotions surrounding the case into concrete action. The case had generated "emotions and energies" among young Indians seeking changes in society, he said in a statement after the announcement of the 23-year-old woman's death in a Singapore hospital. "It would be a true homage to her memory if we are able to channelize these emotions and energies into a constructive course of action. ... Full Story | Top |
Senate leaders to make last-ditch "fiscal cliff" effort Friday, Dec 28, 2012 05:21 PM PST | Top |
Factbox: Timeline for the last days before "fiscal cliff" Friday, Dec 28, 2012 04:47 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Midnight Monday is the deadline for the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama to avert the "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and across-the board budget cuts mandated under a law enacted in August 2011. With no agreement emerging from a White House meeting on Friday, congressional leaders have now roughly outlined the steps for trying to reach a deal in coming days. ... Full Story | Top |
Lockheed wins $1.9 billion contract for two U.S. satellites: Pentagon Friday, Dec 28, 2012 04:43 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp has won a contract valued at $1.9 billion to build two additional advanced military communications satellites for the U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon said on Friday. The contract, which runs through January 2022, covers production of the fifth and sixth satellites in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite program. Lockheed welcomed the contract, saying it underscored the government's confidence in the company's work on the program. ... Full Story | Top |
Analysis: U.N. confronts failure of diplomacy in Syria Friday, Dec 28, 2012 04:42 PM PST | Top |
Governor signs new law for abortion clinics in Michigan Friday, Dec 28, 2012 04:39 PM PST | Top |
Lawmakers rush to finish farm bill extension Friday, Dec 28, 2012 04:39 PM PST | Top |
Claim seeks $100 million for child survivor of Connecticut school shooting Friday, Dec 28, 2012 04:36 PM PST | Top |
Lockheed gets up to $4.9 billion in further F-35 funding Friday, Dec 28, 2012 04:18 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp on Friday was awarded up to $4.9 billion in additional funding for its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the Pentagon announced on Friday, providing a significant end-of-year boost in orders for the largest U.S. defense contractor. The U.S. Defense Department said it had reached agreement with Lockheed on a preliminary contract valued at up to $3.68 billion for 31 F-35s in a sixth batch of planes to be built for the U.S. military, with details to be finalized the coming year. It also awarded Lockheed additional separate contracts valued at up to $1. ... Full Story | Top |
Senate's Reid prepares bill with $250,000 tax-hike threshold Friday, Dec 28, 2012 03:59 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Friday he was preparing legislation to prevent middle-class tax hikes for a possible vote by Monday even as he negotiates with top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell for a larger deal to avert the looming "fiscal cliff." "At President Obama's request, I am readying a bill for a vote by Monday that will prevent a tax hike on middle-class families making up to $250,000, and that will include the additional, critical provisions outlined by President Obama," Reid said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
Wall Street Week Ahead: Cliff may be a fear, but debt ceiling much scarier Friday, Dec 28, 2012 03:45 PM PST | Top |
Lawmakers working on last-minute farm bill extension Friday, Dec 28, 2012 03:44 PM PST | Top |
Obama: "modestly optimistic" fiscal cliff deal can be reached Friday, Dec 28, 2012 03:42 PM PST | Top |
Senate rejects bid to trim Superstorm Sandy bill Friday, Dec 28, 2012 03:41 PM PST | Top |
Shock, heartbreak for U.S. families adopting Russian children Friday, Dec 28, 2012 03:33 PM PST | Top |
Obama to discuss "fiscal cliff" on NBC's "Meet the Press" Friday, Dec 28, 2012 03:31 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will discuss the last-minute negotiations to avert the "fiscal cliff" during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, the network said in a statement. (Reporting By Karey Wutkowski; editing by Todd Eastham) Full Story | Top |
U.S. Senate leaders aim to craft "fiscal cliff" bill by Sunday Friday, Dec 28, 2012 03:16 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate leaders are working to craft legislation by Sunday that averts the year-end "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts, but many details needed to be worked out after a crucial meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday. U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and his Republican counterpart Mitch McConnell, termed the meeting "constructive" and "positive" and said they would keep working on trying to find a solution over the weekend. After adjourning on Friday, Reid he would probably not call the Senate back into session until about 1 p.m. ... Full Story | Top |
Deal reached to avert U.S. port strike for now Friday, Dec 28, 2012 03:14 PM PST | Top |
Tale of two cities: Chicago murder rate spikes, New York falls Friday, Dec 28, 2012 03:10 PM PST | Top |
Lawmakers working on farm bill extension: source Friday, Dec 28, 2012 03:07 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate agriculture committees are working on a short-term extension to the expired U.S. farm bill, and hope to vote on the extension by Monday, the final day of 2012, a Congressional source said on Friday. The proposed extension to legislation that expired in September would be for "some months" but less than a year, the source said. If an extension is passed the United States would avoid reverting to 1949 "permanent law" and with it a potential spike in the retail price of milk. (Reporting by Charles Abbott, writing by Ros Krasny) Full Story | Top |
Alleged militants detained in Djibouti charged by U.S. court Friday, Dec 28, 2012 03:00 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sign of evolving U.S. legal tactics in counter-terrorism operations, two Swedish citizens and a former British citizen detained in Africa in August have been charged in a U.S. court with supporting Somali-based Islamist militants. The charges were filed in Federal Court in Brooklyn, New York, even though court papers and a press release from the U.S. Attorney's office make no specific allegation that the three - all of whom are of Somali extraction - posed threats to Americans or U.S.-related targets. ... Full Story | Top |
White House talks don't include NRA: gun group president Friday, Dec 28, 2012 02:45 PM PST | Top |
South Sudan says president ready to meet Sudan's Bashir Friday, Dec 28, 2012 02:41 PM PST | Top |
Congress to "keep working" on fiscal cliff deal Friday, Dec 28, 2012 02:38 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional leaders pledged to keep working on solutions to avert the year-end tax hikes and spending cuts that would come into force if the so-called fiscal cliff is not averted, but details were yet to be decided after a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House on Friday. "We have a lot of paths forward, (we) just have to find out which one we can take," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters after the meeting. Senate leaders will try to craft legislation for a "fiscal cliff" deal, said an aide to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. ... Full Story | Top |
Boehner: Senate must act on House bill to avoid fiscal cliff Friday, Dec 28, 2012 02:37 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Friday that congressional leaders agreed at a meeting on avoiding year-end "fiscal cliff" spending cuts and tax increases that the next step should be for the Senate to take action, a Boehner aide said. "The Speaker told the President that if the Senate amends the House-passed legislation and sends back a plan, the House will consider it - either by accepting or amending," the aide said. (Reporting By Mark Felsenthal) Full Story | Top |
Obama to make statement at 5:45 p.m.: White House Friday, Dec 28, 2012 02:13 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a statement to the media at 5:45 p.m. ET, the White House said on Friday. The statement follows a meeting with congressional leaders on avoiding fiscal cliff tax increases and spending cuts. The president and lawmakers are working ahead of a January 1 deadline to come up with a compromise to prevent a fiscal shock that economists warn could slow fragile economic growth. (Reporting By Mark Felsenthal) Full Story | Top |
U.N. to convene pledging conference for Syria aid Friday, Dec 28, 2012 02:12 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations will convene a pledging conference in Kuwait next month to try to secure more than $1.5 billion to help save the lives of millions of Syrians facing a "rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation," the world body said on Friday. The conference will take place on January 30 in Kuwait City and will be chaired by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. press office said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
Illinois could be next state to legalize gay marriage Friday, Dec 28, 2012 02:08 PM PST CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois could become the next U.S. state to legalize gay marriage with a bill set to be introduced in the state Senate in early January, even before a new legislature takes office with a super-majority of Democrats in both houses. Buoyed by November election referendum victories for gay marriage in Maryland, Maine and Washington state, gay marriage supporters in Illinois said they plan to press for approval in the Democrat-majority legislature. If it passes, that would make Illinois the tenth state to approve same sex nuptials. ... Full Story | Top |
Lockheed, U.S. agree funding deal for more F-35s: sources Friday, Dec 28, 2012 01:57 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp and the U.S. Defense Department have reached an agreement freeing up preliminary funding for production of a sixth batch of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations. Details of the agreement, which covers 31 of the advanced, radar-evading fighter planes to be built for the U.S. military, will be worked out between the two sides in coming months, said the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly. ... Full Story | Top |
Wall Street ends sour week with 5th straight decline Friday, Dec 28, 2012 01:46 PM PST | Top |
After Jackson, EPA faces decisions on U.S. fracking boom Friday, Dec 28, 2012 01:27 PM PST | Top |
"Fiscal cliff" impasse doesn't affect U.S. sovereign rating: S&P Friday, Dec 28, 2012 01:19 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said on Friday it does not expect U.S. lawmakers' negotiations over the "fiscal cliff" to have an impact on the sovereign credit ratings of the U.S. federal government. The credit ratings agency said it believes the same general conditions under which it downgraded the U.S. credit rating to AA-plus/A-1-plus from AAA in August 2011 continue to exist. S&P said the additional tax revenues and lower government spending that will come into force if no deal is reached to avert the fiscal cliff "would likely result in the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Obama not making new "fiscal cliff" offer to Congress: source Friday, Dec 28, 2012 01:06 PM PST | Top |
U.S. clears way for wider in-flight Internet deployment Friday, Dec 28, 2012 01:01 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has cleared the way for wider adoption of in-flight Internet services, aiming to cut by as much as 50 percent the time needed for regulatory approval. Newly adopted rules should boost competition in this part of the U.S. mobile telecommunications market and promote "the widespread availability of Internet access to aircraft passengers," the FCC said in a statement Friday. ... Full Story | Top |
Monti says will lead centrists in Italian vote Friday, Dec 28, 2012 12:55 PM PST | Top |
Life returns to shell-shocked Syrian town Friday, Dec 28, 2012 12:43 PM PST ALEPPO PROVINCE, Syria (Reuters) - After months of air raids and artillery shelling, some inhabitants of northern Syria are returning to their stricken homes to clear the rubble and rebuild, despite fear that President Bashar al-Assad's forces will strike again. One town visited by a Reuters correspondent near the Turkish border was largely abandoned two months ago after relentless bombardment reduced buildings to piles of masonry. A local activist said around 200 people were killed there. Residents trickling back after the violence abated remain deeply fearful. ... Full Story | Top |
In Syria, "father of martyrs" speaks of revenge Friday, Dec 28, 2012 12:43 PM PST AZAZ, Syria (Reuters) - After losing three sons and two grandsons, 70-year-old Abdelhalim Haj Omar has no doubt about the fate he wants for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "I hope Bashar, God willing, doesn't die until they slaughter his whole family in front of him and they bring him here so that all of Syria can get their revenge from him," he says in the Syrian town of Azaz, on the border with Turkey. "He destroyed the country and killed its people," he adds, speaking in his carpentry workshop where stacks of wood are piled up next to finished wooden door frames. ... Full Story | Top |
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