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| Senate passes 'fiscal cliff' deal, House up next Tuesday, Jan 01, 2013 12:28 AM PST  With 2013 just over two hours old, the Senate voted 89-8 on Tuesday to approve a last-minute deal to avert income tax hikes on all but the richest Americans and stall painful spending cuts as part of a hard-fought compromise to avoid the economically toxic “fiscal cliff.†Full Story | Top |
| Doctors: Clinton making ‘excellent progress’ in treatment for blood clot Monday, Dec 31, 2012 02:00 PM PST Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is "making excellent progress" recovering from a blood clot in her head that was discovered during a medical examination, her doctors said Monday. But Clinton remains hospitalized until a proper medication level is established, they said. A day after announcing that Clinton had been admitted to a New York [...] Full Story | Top |
| AP Sources: 'Fiscal cliff' deal emerging Monday, Dec 31, 2012 12:06 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Working with Congress against a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama said Monday that a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" was in sight but not yet finalized. The emerging deal would raise tax rates on family income over $450,000 and individual income over $400,000 a year, increase the estate tax rate and extend unemployment benefits for one year. Full Story | Top |
| House won't vote before midnight on 'cliff' deal Monday, Dec 31, 2012 01:20 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The House will miss the midnight Monday deadline lawmakers set for voting to avoid the "fiscal cliff." Full Story | Top |
| "Fiscal cliff" tumble looms despite Senate efforts Monday, Dec 31, 2012 03:36 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States was on track to tumble over the "fiscal cliff" at midnight on Monday, at least for a day, as lawmakers held back from supporting an eleventh-hour plan from Senate leaders to avert severe tax increases and spending cuts. The U.S. House of Representatives looked unlikely to vote on a Senate "fiscal cliff" plan before midnight, possibly pushing a legislative decision into New Year's Day, when financial markets will be closed. The plan was heavy on tax increases and light on spending cuts, which was unlikely to appeal to Republicans in the House. ... Full Story | Top |
| Suspect in NYC subway death arrested before Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:42 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) â€" The family of a woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train called police several times in the past five years because she had not been taking prescribed medication and was difficult to deal with, authorities said Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Same-sex marriage ceremonies begin in Maryland Monday, Dec 31, 2012 10:34 PM PST  BALTIMORE (AP) â€" Same-sex couples in Maryland were greeted with cheers and noisemakers held over from New Year's Eve parties, as gay marriage became legal in the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line on New Year's Day. Full Story | Top |
| Congress won’t make midnight ‘fiscal cliff’ deadline Monday, Dec 31, 2012 02:08 PM PST America is going over the “fiscal cliff†â€" for a few minutes, or hours, at the very least. Don't panic. There's no need to move the family into the Doomsday bunker in the backyard. Yet. While President Barack Obama and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have said they are close to a broad agreement [...] Full Story | Top |
| AP IMPACT: Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali Monday, Dec 31, 2012 12:59 PM PST  MOPTI, Mali (AP) â€" Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic fighters are burrowing into the earth, erecting a formidable set of defenses to protect what has essentially become al-Qaida's new country. Full Story | Top |
| Gunmen kill 5 female teachers in Pakistan Tuesday, Jan 01, 2013 09:37 AM PST  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) â€" Gunmen in northwest Pakistan killed five teachers and two aid workers from a non-governmental organization Tuesday as they were driving home from work. The group's director said they may have been targeted for their anti-polio work. Full Story | Top |
| North Korean leader seeks end to confrontation with South Tuesday, Jan 01, 2013 03:31 AM PST  SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for an end to confrontation between the two Koreas, technically still at war in the absence of a peace treaty to end their 1950-53 conflict, in a surprise New Year speech broadcast on state media. The address by Kim, who took over power in the reclusive state after his father, Kim Jong-il, died in 2011, appeared to take the place of the policy-setting New Year editorial published in leading state newspapers. ... Full Story | Top |
| Colorado gets members-only clubs for legal pot use Tuesday, Jan 01, 2013 02:42 AM PST  DENVER (AP) â€" With reggae music pumping in the background and flashing disco-style lights, members of the recreational pot club lit up in celebration of the new year â€" and a new place to smoke legally among friends. Full Story | Top |
| How Gratitude Can Improve Your Life Tuesday, Jan 01, 2013 07:49 AM PST  As the new year begins, good things, however small, are happening. Full Story | Top |
| Rachel Maddow's Surge Is Fox News' Worst Ratings Nightmare Monday, Dec 31, 2012 01:29 PM PST  After prophesying a landslide win for Mitt Romney, Fox News has seen its ratings decline a lot more than usual since the election â€" and Sean Hannity's viewers in particular keep disappearing, while Rachel Maddow's continue to tune in over at rival MSNBC. Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Fiscal Cliff Breach Makes Sense for Pols Monday, Dec 31, 2012 02:37 PM PST Analysis: Fiscal cliff breach bewilders many, but local politics make it logical for lawmakers Full Story | Top |
| Chavez suffers new complications in cancer fight Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:41 PM PST  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) â€" President Hugo Chavez's new complications after cancer surgery prompted his closest allies to call for Venezuelans to pray for him on Monday, presenting an increasingly bleak outlook and prompting growing speculation about whether the ailing leader has much longer to live. Full Story | Top |
| Senate clear fiscal cliff measure Monday, Dec 31, 2012 11:09 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The Senate has passed legislation to block the impact of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that make up the fiscal cliff. Full Story | Top |
| 1 Indian gang-rape suspect may be juvenile Tuesday, Jan 01, 2013 01:53 AM PST  NEW DELHI (AP) â€" A bone test is being conducted to confirm the age of a juvenile suspect in custody for the fatal assault and gang-rape of a young woman, while prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the other five men arrested with him, police said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Economy would dodge bullet for now under fiscal deal Tuesday, Jan 01, 2013 04:26 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deal worked out by Senate leaders to avoid the "fiscal cliff" was far from any "grand bargain" of deficit reduction measures. But if approved by the House of Representatives, it could help the country steer clear of recession, although enough austerity would remain in place to likely keep the economy growing at a lackluster pace. The Senate approved a last-minute deal early Tuesday morning to scale back $600 billion in scheduled tax hikes and government spending cuts that economists widely agree would tip the economy into recession. ... Full Story | Top |
| Boehner: No decision on accepting 'cliff' pact Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:38 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) and his leadership team say they need to review a Senate pact that would increase taxes on incomes exceeding $400,000 before deciding to schedule a vote on the measure or try to change it. Full Story | Top |
| Members-only marijuana clubs open in Colorado Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:14 PM PST DENVER (AP) â€" Recreational marijuana clubs opened Monday in Colorado, less than a month after the state governor signed into law a constitutional amendment allowing recreational pot use. Full Story | Top |
| ESPN's Hannah Storm returns 3 weeks after accident Tuesday, Jan 01, 2013 07:01 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) â€" ESPN anchor Hannah Storm returns to the air New Year's Day, exactly three weeks after she was seriously burned in a propane gas grill accident at her home. Full Story | Top |
| Sour end to 2012 masks positive trends in America Monday, Dec 31, 2012 05:53 PM PST  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Many Americans seem to be in a sour mood as 2013 begins, after Hurricane Sandy ravaged parts of the East Coast, a gunman massacred 20 school children in Connecticut and a long, contentious election campaign was followed by failure to resolve the "fiscal cliff" issue by year-end. Americans have not been very optimistic since the Great Recession of 2008-2009, but the gloom had begun to lift this year until the blast of bad news as 2012 ended, IPSOS pollster Cliff Young said on Monday. IPSOS polling showed that some angst set in as the year ended. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Senate fiscal cliff bill 'the right thing' Monday, Dec 31, 2012 11:48 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President Barack Obama says the "fiscal cliff" agreement reached by the Senate is "the right thing to do for our country" and is encouraging the House to "pass it without delay." Full Story | Top |
| Senate approves fiscal cliff legislation 89-8 Tuesday, Jan 01, 2013 12:02 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Hours past a self-imposed deadline for action, the Senate passed legislation early New Year's Day to neutralize a fiscal cliff combination of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that kicked in at midnight. The pre-dawn vote was a lopsided 89-8. Full Story | Top |
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