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| Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 07:03 PM PST  H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the retired general credited with leading U.S.-allied forces to a victory in the first Gulf War, has died at age 78, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News. Full Story | Top |
| Obama invites congressional leaders to 11th-hour ‘cliff’ talks Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 06:32 PM PST  President Barack Obama will meet Friday at the White House with Republican House Speaker John Boehner and other congressional leaders in what could be a last-ditch effort to avoid the “fiscal cliff†that will see Americans' take-home pay plummet come Jan. 1. The meeting, confirmed by the White House in a statement late Thursday, will [...] Full Story | Top |
| Newtown trying to give kids a sense of normalcy Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 03:57 PM PST  Newtown officials and local agencies are doing their best to keep children occupied following a massacre at their school two weeks ago. Full Story | Top |
| Former President George H.W. Bush remains in intensive care Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 07:34 PM PST  Former President George H.W. Bush remained in the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital on Thursday, but his longtime chief of staff issued a reassuring message, urging the media and the public to "put the harps back in the closet." Full Story | Top |
| Hillary Clinton to return to work next week Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 03:47 PM PST  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to return to work next week, almost three weeks after being sidelined by a concussion, a spokesman said. Full Story | Top |
| House back Sunday night, will have 29.5 hours to strike deal on fiscal cliff Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 12:32 PM PST  GOP House leaders informed their rank-and-file on a conference call that they have to be back at work at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Full Story | Top |
| Democratic Congressman Markey to run for Kerry's Senate seat Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 04:33 PM PST  Longtime Democratic Congressman Edward Markey said on Thursday he would pursue John Kerry's seat if the Massachusetts senator is confirmed as secretary of state. "I have decided to run for the U.S. Senate because this fight is too important," Markey said in a statement. Full Story | Top |
| Woman set on fire in L.A. as she sleeps on bench Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 07:28 PM PST  For more than 10 years, the homeless woman slept on the same plastic bus stop bench at a busy intersection in the San Fernando Valley, no matter how cold it was or if it was raining. Full Story | Top |
| Man pushed to death in front of NYC subway train Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 07:42 PM PST A mumbling woman pushed a man to his death in front of a subway train on Thursday night, the second time this month someone has been killed in such nightmarish fashion, police said. Full Story | Top |
| Secret files lift lid on Thatcher-Reagan Falklands contacts Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 05:06 PM PST  Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wrote an emotional letter to U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1982 Falklands War calling him the "only person" who could understand her position, formerly secret documents showed on Friday. Newly declassified files from 1982 lift the lid on contacts between the two leaders over the crisis and reveal the extent of the pressure Thatcher felt she was under when Argentina invaded the remote South Atlantic archipelago to reclaim what it said was its sovereign territory, triggering a 10-week war. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fla. man pleads guilty in N.Y. in dinosaur dispute Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 03:15 PM PST  A Florida fossils dealer pleaded guilty to smuggling charges Thursday and agreed to give up a celebrated $1 million dinosaur skeleton seized by the U.S. government earlier this year for its eventual return to Mongolia. Full Story | Top |
| Chicago sued for alleged discrimination against black teachers Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 03:56 PM PST  The Chicago Teachers Union has sued the nation's third largest school district, saying Mayor Rahm Emanuel's campaign to reform or close underperforming public schools discriminates against African-American teachers and staff. The federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday and announced on Thursday is the latest battle with the city since teachers staged a week-long strike in September. It alleges that more than half of the tenured teachers fired in the most recent round of school closings and turnarounds were African American. ... Full Story | Top |
| Apple CEO's pay takes big hit vs. record 2011 package Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 02:50 PM PST  Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook's 2012 compensation package of $4.17 million is a huge cut on paper for the top executive of the most valuable U.S. corporation after a 2011 package fattened by more than $376 million in long-term stock awards. Full Story | Top |
| Dragonfly shows human-like power of concentration Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 04:03 PM PST  Dragonflies lack humans' big brains, but they still get the job done, according to new research that suggests that these insects have brain cells capable of feats previously seen only in primates. Full Story | Top |
| Terry Glover, Ebony managing editor, dies at 57 Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 07:30 PM PST Terry Glover, the managing editor of Ebony magazine, has died of colon cancer at her Chicago home. She was 57. Full Story | Top |
| Egypt's Mubarak moved to army hospital on health concerns Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 12:44 PM PST  Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian strongman ousted last year, was moved to an army hospital from a prison hospital following a fall that raised fresh concerns about his health. Full Story | Top |
| Autopsy: N.Y. gunman shot self, not hit by police Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 01:52 PM PST  The gunman who lured two firefighters to their deaths died of a self-inflicted shot to the head and wasn't hit by return fire from a police officer, New York State Police said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| 10 facts about 10 new members of Congress Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 10:00 AM PST  Which new member of the House is a former reindeer farmer? Who is the biggest new Tea Party name in the Senate? Here’s a look at 10 new members of Congress with unique backgrounds. Full Story | Top |
| Police offer 'virtual ridealongs' via Twitter Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 12:31 PM PST  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) â€" Riding side by side as a police officer answers a call for help or investigates a brutal crime during a ridealong gives citizens an up close look at the gritty and sometimes dangerous situations officers can experience on the job. Full Story | Top |
| Jackson to step down as Obama's environmental chief Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 03:54 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson, who spearheaded the Obama administration's crackdown on carbon emissions, said on Thursday she will step down after almost four years of battles with Republican lawmakers and industry over proposed regulations. Under her leadership, the agency declared for the first time that carbon dioxide was a danger to human health and could be regulated under the Clean Air Act, leading the EPA to develop a new regulatory regime to limit carbon emissions. ... Full Story | Top |
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