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| Journalist Bob Woodward Clashes With White House Over Sequester Report Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 07:33 AM PST  Veteran journalist Bob Woodward is embroiled in an extraordinary public clash with the White House over his reporting on the sequester. Woodward has been making the rounds to cable TV and print outlets accusing a “very senior person†in the administration of threatening him last... Full Story | Top |
| Bloomberg Businessweek editor regrets publishing controversial housing cover Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 09:34 AM PST Bloomberg Businessweek is taking a beating from critics who say the magazine's recent coverâ€"featuring a cartoon illustration of what appears to be a black family rolling in cash from a housing reboundâ€"is racist. "Our cover illustration got strong reactions, which we regret," Josh Tyrangiel, Bloomberg Businessweek's editor in chief, said in a statement to Yahoo [...] Full Story | Top |
| Vegas shooting suspect arrested in Los Angeles Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 07:23 PM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) â€" A self-described pimp was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles, ending a weeklong manhunt that began after a shooting and spectacular, fiery crash that killed three people on the Las Vegas Strip, police said. Full Story | Top |
| Civil rights leaders outraged over Scalia’s ‘racial entitlement’ argument Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 09:23 AM PST Civil rights leaders are up in arms over Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's skeptical questions about a key portion of the Voting Rights Act, a cornerstone of the civil rights movement that brought an end to Jim Crow-era racial discrimination at the polls in the South. In oral arguments over the law on Wednesday, Scalia, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Spending cuts fact or fiction: The “half-truths” about tomorrow’s budget cuts Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 04:29 AM PST Top Line With looming across-the-board budget cuts set to take effect tomorrow if Congress and the White House fail to reach a deal, there have been a lot of “apocalyptic†warnings coming from Washington. While the significance of the cuts should not be "belittled," fact-checker Bill Adair tells Top Line the truth has been twisted [...] Full Story | Top |
| Michelle Obama: Obesity fight is ‘generational’ campaign Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 04:39 PM PST What dishes would first lady Michelle Obama like to magically turn into guilt-free health foods? What’s her personal fitness regimen? What does she think of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s controversial restrictions on big sodas? And why are the Obamas “a broccoli householdâ€? The first lady answered those questions and more about fitness in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sequestration is coming. Now what? Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 12:39 PM PST The Senate on Thursday voted to reject all proposals for an alternative deficit-reduction plan that would avoid sequestration, a process that will trim $85 billion in across-the-board spending from the federal budget this year. Barring a sudden and unexpected outbreak of bipartisan cooperation (LOL) over the next 12 hours, most federal departments on Friday will [...] Full Story | Top |
| Benedict promises obedience to successor Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 07:10 AM PST  VATICAN CITY (AP) â€" Pope Benedict XVI promised his "unconditional reverence and obedience" to his successor on Thursday in a poignant and powerful farewell speech to cardinals delivered hours before he becomes the first pontiff in 600 years to resign. Full Story | Top |
| ‘Marijuana cannon’ fires pot across border fence Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 06:10 AM PST Mexican police have confiscated an improvised cannon that they say was used to fire packages of marijuana across a border fence into California. The makeshift cannon was made of plastic pipe and powered by compressed air sourced from an old car engine, police in the border city of Mexicali said. The device was able to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Clint Eastwood Joins Republicans for Gay Marriage, Highlighting Growing GOP Rift Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 05:10 PM PST  Moderate Republicans Fighting for a Stake in the GOP Full Story | Top |
| Rodman tells Kim Jong Un he has 'friend for life' Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 05:20 PM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) â€" Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman hung out with North Korea's Kim Jong Un during his improbable journey to Pyongyang, watching the Harlem Globetrotters with the leader and later drinking and dining on sushi with him. Full Story | Top |
| Pope, in final message, says he's a simple pilgrim Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 10:16 AM PST  CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) â€" Benedict XVI greeted the faithful for the last time as pope on Thursday, telling tearful well-wishers that he is beginning the final stage of his life as "simply a pilgrim," hours before he becomes the first pontiff in 600 years to resign. Full Story | Top |
| All The President's 'Threats' Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 06:52 AM PST  By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) NOTABLES CLASH OF THE TITANS: Veteran journalist Bob Woodward is embroiled in an extraordinary public clash with the White House over his reporting on the sequester, reports ABC’s Devin Dwyer. Woodward has been making the rounds accusing a “very senior personâ€... Full Story | Top |
| Diabetes drugs tied to pancreatitis: study Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 01:05 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who take a certain type of diabetes drug to lower blood sugar levels may be at an increased risk of developing an inflamed pancreas, according to a new study. Glucagonlike peptide 1(GLP-1) therapies that include exenatide - marketed as Byetta by an alliance between Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca - and sitagliptin - marketed as Januvia by Merck - have been linked to pancreatitis before in studies on animals and small groups of patients, said the study's lead author. "New therapies and risks are only evaluated when studies are done. ... Full Story | Top |
| Man Begins To Regret Giving His Ex-Wife A Place To Stay Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 09:00 PM PST DEAR ABBY: My ex-wife cheated on me five years ago. She ran off with a nonworking criminal type and has been bouncing from place to place with this bozo ever since.When they and their 3-year-old became homeless two weeks ago, all of a sudden she showed up at my door shoeless and with their son in a diaper. She said her boyfriend was abusive and asked to stay with me until she finds a place. I agreed under the provision that she not see this guy.I am a hard-working single father of two. I know my heart is two sizes too big for my own good sometimes, and I don't want to be taken advantage of. ... Full Story | Top |
| Police: All 3 women in SUV in Vegas attack found Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 10:36 AM PST LAS VEGAS (AP) â€" A week after a shooting and spectacular fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip, police said Thursday they have found and talked with all three women who were in an SUV with driver and accused shooter Ammar Harris. Full Story | Top |
| Obama urges court to overturn gay marriage ban Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 04:51 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" In a historic argument for gay rights, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban and turn a skeptical eye on similar prohibitions across the country. Full Story | Top |
| Obama administration files brief supporting gay marriage in California Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 03:32 PM PST The Obama administration has waded into the legal battle over California's gay marriage ban, filing a brief with the Supreme Court Thursday evening that argues the state's voters did not have the right to decide gay couples cannot wed. In the brief, the Justice Department--which is not involved in the case--argues that the gay marriage [...] Full Story | Top |
| US: $60 million in new aid to Syria opposition Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 04:57 AM PST  ROME (AP) â€" The Obama administration said Thursday that it will provide the Syrian opposition with an additional $60 million in assistance and â€" in a significant policy shift â€" will for the first time provide nonlethal aid like food and medical supplies to rebels battling to oust President Bashar Assad. Full Story | Top |
| Bradley Manning pleads guilty to misusing classified data in WikiLeaks case Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 03:50 PM PST  FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The U.S. Army private accused of providing secret documents to the WikiLeaks website pleaded guilty on Thursday to misusing classified material he felt "should become public," but denied the top charge of aiding the enemy. Private First Class Bradley Manning, 25, entered the pleas prior to his court martial, which is set to begin on June 3, in a case that centers on the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history. Military judge Colonel Denise Lind accepted the guilty pleas late in the afternoon. ... Full Story | Top |
| Benedict's reign ends with a promise to obey next pope Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 11:21 AM PST VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict ended his difficult reign on Thursday pledging unconditional obedience to whoever succeeds him to guide the Roman Catholic Church at one of the most crisis-ridden periods in its 2,000-year history. The papacy became vacant at 8 p.m. (1900 GMT/2PM ET), marking the first time in six centuries a pope has resigned instead of ruling for life. ... Full Story | Top |
| 106-year-old woman to get high-school diploma Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 08:13 AM PST Reba Williams, a 106-year-old Pennsylvania woman, is finally getting her high-school diploma. The Mansfield News Journal explains that Williams completed her 12 years of education when she was a teen in the 1920s. However, Williams refused to read a book (unnamed, but we'd love to know what it was) assigned by her teacher senior yearâ€"and [...] Full Story | Top |
| White House issues veto threat on GOP fiscal plan Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 10:05 AM PST The White House is threatening a presidential veto of a Senate Republican measure that would give President Barack Obama more authority and flexibility to find $85 billion in spending cuts this year. The ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama nears deadline on gay marriage decision Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 10:43 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The next phase of President Barack Obama's evolving position on gay marriage may come Thursday, the deadline for his administration to weigh in on a landmark Supreme Court case that could determine whether same-sex couples have a constitutional right to wed. Full Story | Top |
| Pope flies in helicopter to papal retreat Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 08:31 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) â€" Pope Benedict XVI left the Vatican for the last time as pontiff on Thursday, flying by helicopter to the Vatican's vacation retreat hours before becoming the first pontiff in 600 years to resign. Full Story | Top |
| Pope Benedict quits Vatican with promise to obey successor Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 09:20 AM PST VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict left the Vatican on Thursday after pledging unconditional obedience to whoever succeeds him to guide the Roman Catholic Church at one of the most crisis-ridden periods in its 2,000-year history. The first pope in six centuries to step down, Benedict flew off in a white Italian air force helicopter for the papal summer villa south of the capital where he took up temporary residence. ... Full Story | Top |
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