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| Snakebite victim charged $89,000 for 18-hour hospital stay Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 08:25 AM PST  A snakebite victim treated at a North Carolina hospital came away with more than just fang marks when he received an $89,227 bill for an 18-hour stay. Full Story | Top |
| Obama ups minimum wage for some government contractors Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 02:59 AM PST  Power of the pen? President Barack Obama will announce Tuesday that he is ordering an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 for workers on new federal government contracts for services, like janitors and construction workers, according to the White House. Full Story | Top |
| Obama’s State of the Union shift: From ‘Social Darwinism’ to ‘opportunity’ Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 04:34 PM PST  Tune in to President Obama's State of the Union speech Tuesday night, and you won't hear him recycle his denunciation of Republican economic policies as heartless "Social Darwinism." Full Story | Top |
| President Obama’s State of the Union: Chat and watch live Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 05:38 PM PST Watch President Barack Obama's State of the Union address and discuss the speech in a live chat with Yahoo News' Holly Bailey and Yahoo Finance's Rick Newman. Coverage also includes reaction from around the Web and analysis via Twitter from Yahoo News editors Megan Liberman and Daniel Klaidman, Washington editor Garance Franke-Ruta and chief Washington correspondent Olivier Knox. Full Story | Top |
| Jodi Arias defense costs top $2 million Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 05:47 AM PST  Jodi Arias' legal bills have topped $2 million, a tab being footed by Arizona taxpayers that will only continue to climb with a new penalty phase set for March, officials said Monday. Arias, 33, was convicted ... Full Story | Top |
| The GOP's State of the Union strategy: Drown out the president's message Monday, Jan 27, 2014 09:04 PM PST  Republicans have many ways to respond to the State of the Union — before, during and after the speech. Full Story | Top |
| Southerners warned of icy mess in days ahead Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 08:46 AM PST ATLANTA (AP) — Across the Deep South, residents stocked up on fuel and groceries, schools and offices closed, and road crews were at the ready as a storm moved in Tuesday from the central U.S., threatening to bring snow, ice and subzero temperatures to a region more accustomed to air conditioners and sunscreen than parkas and shovels. Full Story | Top |
| Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a new GOP face for the State of the Union response Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 01:28 PM PST The top-ranking GOP woman in the House will talk about her life and the economy after Obama speaks. Full Story | Top |
| 300,000-Year-Old Caveman 'Campfire' Found in Israel Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 07:26 AM PST  A newly discovered hearth full of ash and charred bone in a cave in modern-day Israel hints that early humans sat around fires as early as 300,000 years ago — before Homo sapiens arose in Africa. The finds could shed light on a turning point in the development of culture "in which humans first began to regularly use fire both for cooking meat and as a focal point — a sort of campfire — for social gatherings," said archaeologist Ruth Shahack-Gross of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. "They also tell us something about the impressive levels of social and cognitive development of humans living some 300,000 years ago," Shahack-Gross added in a statement. The centrally located fire pit is about 6.5 feet (2 meters) in diameter at its widest point, and its ash layers suggest the hearth was used repeatedly over time, according to the study, which was detailed in the Journal of Archaeological Science on Jan. 25. Full Story | Top |
| Obama vows to flex presidential powers in speech Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 08:01 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to energize his sluggish second term, President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday night in his State of the Union address to sidestep Congress "whenever and wherever" necessary to narrow economic disparities between America's rich and poor. Full Story | Top |
| How Rick Santorum is laying the groundwork for another presidential run Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 02:48 AM PST  Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum wants to be the social conservative standard-bearer for the GOP. Full Story | Top |
| Obama to lay out go-it-alone approach in State of Union speech Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 03:31 PM PST  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will lay out his strategy for getting around a divided Congress starting with a wage hike for federal contract workers in a State of the Union speech on Tuesday that reflects scaled-back legislative ambitions after a tough year. Obama will make clear in his 9 p.m. EST (0200 GMT Wednesday) address that he is willing to bypass U.S. lawmakers and go it alone in some areas by announcing a series of executive actions aimed at boosting the middle class, many that do not require congressional approval. Obama will tell Congress he is eager to work with lawmakers, "but America does not stand still - and neither will I." "So wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that's what I'm going to do," Obama will say, according to speech excerpts released by the White House. The White House said Obama would announce that he is issuing an executive order to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for federal contract workers with new contracts. Full Story | Top |
| UK lawmakers tell queen to cut costs, boost income Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 07:46 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — Britain's royal household needs to get a little more entrepreneurial, eye possible staff cuts and replace an ancient palace boiler, lawmakers say in a new report. Full Story | Top |
| 'Long-term unemployment' _ one mom's story Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 04:30 AM PST  AURORA, Ill. (AP) — Down the road from an emergency food pantry where a small crowd waits for the chance to gather free groceries, there is a church sign that reads: "If you need help, ask God. If you don't, thank God." Full Story | Top |
| Ted Cruz is sick and tired of being asked about the government shutdown Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 02:21 PM PST Four months after the shutdown, Ted Cruz says dwelling on it is "distracting" from other issues. Full Story | Top |
| US Republicans to mull immigration path this week Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 02:51 PM PST  US Republicans will lay out principles on immigration policy this week at a party retreat, as they debate whether to address the lightning-rod issue ahead of November's congressional elections. On the day after President Barack Obama's Tuesday night State of the Union speech, the 232 Republicans in the House of Representatives will seclude themselves at a resort on Maryland's Eastern Shore to thrash out policy guidelines for 2014. "On Thursday... we're going to outline our standards, principles of immigration reform and have a conversation with our members," House Speaker John Boehner told reporters Tuesday. The debate comes as congressional aides acknowledge that some Republicans will push for an overhaul of the country's outdated immigration laws that includes a pathway to legal status for many of the 11 million people living in the shadows. Full Story | Top |
| House, Senate leaders see swift passage of US farm bill Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 03:27 PM PST  By Eric Beech WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees are optimistic that the long-overdue U.S. farm bill will pass, although the House of Representatives vote set for Wednesday could be the more difficult hurdle. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas said on a conference call with reporters on Tuesday that there are a number of House members - both liberal and conservative - who are opposed to sprawling legislation unveiled on Monday by congressional negotiators. "It's the coalition of the folks in the middle who want to get things done ... who will pass this bill." "If it was easy, it wouldn't be the farm bill," he added. Lucas said liberal members objected to cuts of about 1 percent a year in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, which provides assistance for low-income Americans to buy food. Full Story | Top |
| States consider reviving old-fashioned executions Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 02:06 PM PST  ST. LOUIS (AP) — With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas chambers. Full Story | Top |
| Dad Looking To Relocate Hates To Leave Needy Parents Behind Monday, Jan 27, 2014 09:00 PM PST DEAR ABBY: My two children and I have lived with my parents for a few years because I had some health problems. Now that I am healthy again, I'm ready to return to work and move to a new home, but I am encountering severe resistance from my parents. As I have recovered, our situation has gone from my parents helping me to my assuming the majority of the household responsibilities. My parents say they know I want to go back to work and know it will be good for me to be independent, but because of their own health concerns they need me to stay. ... Full Story | Top |
| New DHS chief endorses 'earned' citizenship idea Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 06:54 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Homeland Security secretary says an earned path to citizenship for the roughly 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally is a matter of national security. Full Story | Top |
| Pending execution 'terrifies' inmate, lawyer says Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 02:06 PM PST  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lawyers for a convicted murderer were making final pleas for his life on Tuesday, just hours before his scheduled execution in Missouri. Full Story | Top |
| Black Holes Get Even Weirder with New Stephen Hawking Theory Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 03:44 AM PST  Black holes may be even weirder than scientists had thought, according to a new paper by famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. In the article, Hawking contends that the notion that even light cannot escape a black hole's gravitational pull once it passes a certain point — known as the event horizon — may not be true. Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts the existence of black holes — objects so incredibly massive and dense they pull everything nearby into themselves, and past a point known as the event horizon, not even light cannot escape them. But two years ago, theoretical physicist Joseph Polchinski of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and colleagues discovered a wrinkle in the theory, dubbed the Firewall Paradox. Full Story | Top |
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