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| Carney: Obamacare Worth It, No Matter Political Consequences Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 10:29 AM PST  Days before President Obama is set to deliver the annual State of the Union during, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told ABC News that passing and implementing the president's signature health care law is worth any political consequences, including losing the Democratically-controlled Senate to... Full Story | Top |
| Pregnant Texas Woman Taken Off Life Support Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 11:54 AM PST  Marlise Munoz Had Been on Life Support Since November Full Story | Top |
| German newspaper publishes top Nazi's letters Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 07:15 AM PST  BERLIN (AP) — One black-and white photo shows Heinrich Himmler on an idyllic family outing, holding his wife's hand while his blond, pigtailed daughter is picking flowers. Others show the SS Nazi leader feeding a little fawn or taking a bath at Lake Tegernsee near his home in Bavaria. Full Story | Top |
| Family promise gave life to man in 31-year coma Saturday, Jan 25, 2014 08:32 PM PST  MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Paul Cortez can remember the night 31 years ago as clearly as if it was last week. He had walked into the pediatric intensive care unit of Riverside County Regional Medical Center to find his 7-year-old son, Mikey, barely clinging to life. Full Story | Top |
| Rand Paul: Bill Clinton's 'predatory' affair with Monica Lewinsky predates 'war on women' Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 09:52 AM PST  The Kentucky senator lashed out at Democrats and the media for giving "a pass" to the former president's affair with a White House intern while pushing "war on women" rhetoric. Full Story | Top |
| Is Barack Obama an imperial president? Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 10:23 AM PST Waving away security guards, Mr. Obama turned and addressed Mr. Hong, himself undocumented. "We've got this Constitution, we've got this whole thing about separation of powers," Obama continued. Obama, a former constitutional law professor, was once skeptical of the aggressive use of presidential power. During the 2008 campaign, he accused President George W. Bush of regularly circumventing Congress. Full Story | Top |
| Robots to Replace Troops on the Battlefield Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 03:15 AM PST  The Pentagon is considering replacing thousands of troops with robots, a military commander said recently, marking the first time a DOD official has publicly acknowledged that humans would be replaced with robots on the battlefield. Gen. Robert Cone, head of the Army Training and Doctrine Command, made the comment at the Army Aviation symposium on Jan. 15, according to a report in Defense News, a trade publication covering the military. Cone also said that one-quarter of a 4,000 troop Brigade Combat Team could be replaced by robots or drones. His announcement comes as the entire Pentagon is shrinking, including troop reductions. Full Story | Top |
| Republicans struggle in Georgia's Senate primary Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 12:35 PM PST  WATKINSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Seeking promotion to the U.S. Senate, Republican Rep. Jack Kingston avoids an explicit yes-or-no answer when asked by a voter if he considers himself a tea party candidate. Full Story | Top |
| ACLU alleges comically unconstitutional religious harassment in rural Louisiana school Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 06:12 AM PST The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana filed a lawsuit this week against a public school district in rural western Louisiana contending that school officials and at least one teacher harassed a Buddhist sixth-grade student for not adhering to Christianity. The ACLU filed the suit against the Sabine Parish school board in U.S. District Court in Shreveport on behalf of parents Scott and Sharon Lane, reports local CBS affiliate KSLA. "This particular child he had to leave that school because he was subject to repeated harassment," said the ACLU of Louisiana's executive director, Marjorie Esman, according to the station. The ACLU lawsuit alleges comically unconstitutional actions on the part of teachers and administrators. Full Story | Top |
| The new face of food stamps: working-age Americans Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 02:16 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a first, working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. households that rely on food stamps — a switch from a few years ago, when children and the elderly were the main recipients. Full Story | Top |
| White House warns Obama could go around Congress Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 07:40 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will work with Congress where he can and circumvent lawmakers where he must, his top advisers warned Sunday in previewing Tuesday's State of the Union speech. Full Story | Top |
| Police identify shooter in Maryland mall shooting Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 07:07 AM PST COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) — Police have identified the gunman in the Maryland mall shooting as a 19 year old from suburban Washington. Full Story | Top |
| 7,000-Year-Old Human Bones Suggest New Date for Light-Skin Gene Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 11:04 AM PST  An ancient European hunter-gatherer man had dark skin and blue eyes, a new genetic analysis has revealed. The analysis of the man, who lived in modern-day Spain only about 7,000 years ago, shows light-skin genes in Europeans evolved much more recently than previously thought. The findings, which were detailed today (Jan. 26) in the journal Nature, also hint that light skin evolved not to adjust to the lower-light conditions in Europe compared with Africa, but instead to the new diet that emerged after the agricultural revolution, said study co-author Carles Lalueza-Fox, a paleogenomics researcher at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. The hunter-gatherer's dark skin pushes this date forward to only 7,000 years ago, suggesting that at least some humans lived considerably longer than thought in Europe before losing the dark pigmentation that evolved under Africa's sun. Full Story | Top |
| Md. mall gunman was avid skater, no criminal past Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 07:41 PM PST  COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) — The gunman who killed two people at a Maryland mall was a teenage skateboarding enthusiast who had no criminal record before he showed up at the shopping center armed with a shotgun, plenty of ammunition and a backpack filled with crude homemade explosives, authorities said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
| Couple Is Short On Hospitality When Parents Are The Guests Saturday, Jan 25, 2014 09:00 PM PST DEAR ABBY: When parents who live many miles away from their adult children visit their homes, to what extent should they be treated as "guests"? When we visit our son, our daughter-in-law gets herself a snack and then sits down to eat it and watch TV, and there we sit. She never offers us a thing. Are we expecting too much or doesn't she have any manners? Also, when we have a meal in their home, they get their own beverages and never mention anything about what is available to us. We're not used to this kind of treatment. ... Full Story | Top |
| Public School Crams Christianity Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 03:45 AM PST  A Buddhist family sued Sabine Parish School Board for violating their right to religious freedom. The lawsuit contains a shocking list of religious indoctrination. Full Story | Top |
| Birds attack peace doves freed from pope's window Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 05:55 AM PST  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Two white doves that were released by children standing alongside Pope Francis as a peace gesture have been attacked by other birds. Full Story | Top |
| Why is Rand Paul going after Bill Clinton? Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 12:30 PM PST On Sunday, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate once again tried to to turn the tables on the Democrats' contention that the Republicans are waging a "war on women." And once again, he showed just how hard it is for Republicans to fight back against the claim without hurting themselves. Senator Paul, meanwhile, merely insinuated (heavily) that there is no small hypocrisy in accusing Republicans of waging a war on women when a leading Democratic figure (Bill Clinton) once seduced a young intern. There is no excuse for that, and that is predatory behavior," Paul said. "Then they [Democrats] have the gall to stand up and say, 'Republicans are having a war on women.' " Full Story | Top |
| 'Jewish state' demand bares clashing Mideast narratives Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 02:31 AM PST  Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - The controversy over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinians recognise Israel as a Jewish state is rooted in the clashing historical narratives of the decades-old conflict. Palestinians have dismissed the demand, pointing to the fact that they recognised Israel in 1993 at the start of the peace process and insisting it's not for other nations to define a state's national or religious character. Israeli President Shimon Peres, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for the 1993 Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, reportedly agrees, and this week was said to have called the request "unnecessary." For Israel, the Zionist dream was realised in 1948, but for the Palestinians that year brought the "Nakba," or catastrophe, when 760,000 fled or were forced out of their homeland. Full Story | Top |
| Obama to use speech to offer election-year agenda for Democrats Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 08:54 AM PST  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama may not say it in his State of the Union speech this week, but part of his underlying message will be: Please vote for Democrats in the November elections. Obama's big speech on Tuesday will be his sixth foray into the House of Representatives chamber to lay out his policy priorities for the year. This year's address is critical to forming a narrative on which Democrats can campaign this year. And Obama wants to bolster his standing after a rocky end-of-the-year controversy over the botched rollout of his signature healthcare law, and the tumult surrounding a government shutdown. Full Story | Top |
| Republicans decry Obama plans to bypass Congress to advance agenda Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 12:29 PM PST  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's strategy to bypass Congress this year with executive orders to advance his policy agenda received a cold reaction on Sunday from Republican leaders, who accused the White House of arrogance and sidestepping the political process. Obama and his advisers have signaled for weeks that the president would take a more active role in using his pen and phone to sign orders that do not require lawmaker approval and cajole others to back his priorities. Senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Obama needed Congress to pass immigration reform and extend unemployment insurance but that the president would telegraph in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that he would not be patient with lawmakers in areas where he did not need them. "The president ... is not going to tell the American people that he's going to wait for Congress," Pfeiffer told CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley" program. Full Story | Top |
| Paul: Dems should recall Clinton's intern scandal Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 02:10 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats should remember President Bill Clinton's sexual affair with a White House intern before turning their criticism to Republicans' attitudes toward women, Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. carries out air strike in Somalia targeting militant suspect Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 04:27 PM PST The U.S. military carried out a missile strike in Somalia on Sunday targeting a suspected militant leader with ties to al Qaeda and al Shabaab, a U.S. military official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. The strike took place in southern Somalia, the official said, without offering further information, including the identity of the suspect or whether the strike was believed to have been successful. Another U.S. official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said the operation took place in a remote area near Barawe, Somalia. Barawe, a militant stronghold on Somalia's southern coast, was the site of a failed raid by American commandos in October targeting a militant known as Ikrima. Full Story | Top |
| Attorneys promote gay marriage doc at Sundance Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 10:46 AM PST  PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies once argued the Bush v. Gore case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, but they say fighting California's law prohibiting same-sex marriage is the most significant thing they've done. Full Story | Top |
| Israel PM under fire over son's Norwegian girlfriend Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 12:22 PM PST  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was under fire Sunday from religious lawmakers following a report that his son was dating a non-Jewish woman, media said. Norwegian newspaper Dagen reported that Yair Netanyahu, 23, was dating 25-year-old Norwegian Sandra Leikanger, currently studying in Israel. Dagen said that at a meeting in Davos, Netanyahu had told his Norwegian counterpart Erna Solberg the two had recently holidayed in Norway. Nissim Zeev, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, told the Jerusalem Post on Sunday Netanyahu must "display national responsibility" as prime minister. Full Story | Top |
| Sochi Olympic scene: Busy workers, glitzy venues Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 04:27 AM PST SOCHI, Russia (AP) — If you are flying to Sochi for the Winter Games, book a window seat on the right side of the plane. That way you'll get a bird's-eye view of how Russia spent $51 billion on gleaming new sports arenas and a cobweb of highways for this southern city on the Black Sea. Full Story | Top |
| Big Boy locomotive begins California farewell tour Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 07:42 PM PST  POMONA, Calif. (AP) — An enormous steam locomotive that has been entertaining train enthusiasts at a California museum for years began a trek of more than 1,200 miles on Sunday with the ultimate goal of putting the engine back on the nation's rails. Full Story | Top |
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