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| Long-lost wallet returned, complete with cash Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 11:03 AM PST Three years ago, trash collector Harold Walls lost his wallet, which held $800. It turns out, though, the wallet wasn't really lostâ€"it was on vacation. And thanks to a good Samaritan, Walls finally has it back. DelawareOnline.com has the full story. Walls had assumed he dropped his wallet while collecting trash one morning. He and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Lady Antebellum on New Record, Foundation, Ping Pong Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 10:57 AM PST Country music's superstar trio, Lady Antebellum, are no strangers to gold and other precious metals. After seven Grammy awards, a self-titled double platinum debut album and a triple platinum second record, the title of their latest album, 'Golden' is entirely appropriate. In a Newsmakers interview with Linsey Davis for ABC News and Yahoo News, Charles [...] Full Story | Top |
| A year after high school mass shooting, Ohio town still grieves Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 10:21 AM PST A few red ribbons, tattered by the elements, still hang on trees along the streets of Chardon, Ohio. To some people in town, the ribbons are a necessary reminder of a shooting spree at Chardon High School a year ago that left three students dead and three others injured. On Tuesday, just a day shy [...] Full Story | Top |
| English requirement in immigration reform will test underfunded ESL system Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 09:15 AM PST The thorny topic of immigration reform has catapulted to the top of the to-do lists of both Republicans and Democrats, even as both sides continue to bicker over details. President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group of senators are eager to pass an immigration bill this year, with their main points of disagreement, deliberated in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Biden to address AIPAC conference Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 07:58 AM PST Vice President Joe Biden will make a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful lobbying group that advocates close relations between the U.S. and Israel, at its conference in Washington, D.C. next month. Biden will address the group on March 4, an aide told Yahoo News, confirming a report in JTA. It [...] Full Story | Top |
| Chinese official flips out at airport after missing flight Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 07:47 AM PST A high-ranking official in the Chinese government lost his cool (and then some) when he and his family missed their flight at the Kunming Wujiaba International Airport in Yunnan Province, China. A video shows the man, identified as Yan Linkun, standing near a boarding gate. There is no sound, but reports from Beijing Cream suggest [...] Full Story | Top |
| Boehner on sequestration: The Senate needs to get ‘off their ass’ Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 07:44 AM PST With across-the-board federal spending cuts set to kick in on Friday, House Speaker John Boehner reiterated his plea for the Senate to pass an alternative to the sequester, calling on senators to get "off their ass." "We should not have to move a third bill before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama brings sequester fight to Newport News, Va. Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 07:15 AM PST As the country inched closer to the March 1 sequester deadline, President Barack Obama on Tuesday traveled to Newport News, Va., to make a local case for what he and the administration believe will be the devastating economic impacts of the budget cuts. Obama spoke at Newport News Shipbuilding, which supplies materials to all 50 [...] Full Story | Top |
| UNC sexual assault victim faces possible expulsion for speaking out Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 06:29 AM PST A University of North Carolina sexual assault victim has been charged with violating the school's honor code and creating a hostile environment for her attacker by speaking out about her ordeal. Landen Gambillâ€"a sophomore who last spring reported being raped by a student she says is still on the school's Chapel Hill campusâ€"was notified of [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Stand your ground’ laws survive debate one year after Trayvon Martin’s death Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 04:00 AM PST One year after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by an armed neighborhood watchman, setting off a national debate about race and gun laws, the campaign to change state self-defense laws in Martin's name has petered out. George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer facing second-degree murder charges, said he shot Martin in self-defense last [...] Full Story | Top |
| Two in three Americans say sequester will hurt economy Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 03:48 AM PST Roughly two out of three Americans say that automatic spending cuts set to trigger Friday will have a major negative effect on the economy, according to a new public opinion poll. And more would blame congressional Republicans (45 percent) than President Barack Obama (32 percent), the non-partisan Pew Research Center found in its survey. But [...] Full Story | Top |
| Senate agrees to end debate on Hagel, nomination moves to final vote Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 03:47 AM PST The Senate on Tuesday agreed to end debate over Chuck Hagel's nomination to lead the Defense Department, clearing the way for a final vote on the Republican former Nebraska senator. He is expected to be confirmed. The measure to halt debate, which required at least 60 votes, was approved with bipartisan support by a vote [...] Full Story | Top |
| Tuesday in politics: Obama takes sequester campaign on the road, and more Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 03:37 AM PST President Barack Obama will speak Tuesday at Virginia's largest industrial employer, Newport News Shipbuilding, to highlight how it would be affected by the sequester â€" $85 billion in automatic, across-the-board spending cuts scheduled to begin taking effect Friday. Obama said Monday that if the cuts are not averted, the company's workers will sit idle and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Gun trusts provide legal loophole: Report Monday, Feb 25, 2013 04:28 PM PST The concern among gun enthusiasts that certain types of guns could be outlawed or further restricted in the future has led some to seek out gun trusts. The New York Times reports that gun trusts are intended to allow the owner of a firearm to pass down his or her weapons to family members in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Group aims to drive up turnout among faith voters Monday, Feb 25, 2013 03:17 PM PST A group of top evangelical leaders is launching a new voter initiative in hopes of increasing turnout among Christian voters in next year’s midterm elections. The American Renewal Project, an arm of the conservative American Family Association, is launching “Pastors and Pews,†which will offer policy briefings to church leaders and their congregations in hopes [...] Full Story | Top |
| Nikki Haley slams Washington after meeting with Obama Monday, Feb 25, 2013 01:52 PM PST During President Barack Obama's meeting with U.S. governors at the White House Monday, the president dismissed members of the press to hold a private, hourlong discussion with the visiting state executives. Whatever was said after the cameras left the room especially incensed South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley. Haley went across the street to the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Administration faces question: Are donors paying for Obama access? Monday, Feb 25, 2013 12:42 PM PST White House spokesman Jay Carney on Monday answered growing questions about whether big donors to President Barack Obama's nonprofit Organizing for America (OFA) are being promised access to the president. His answer? Well, kind of. While Carney had responded "no" when Fox News' Ed Henry asked if a recent report "suggests that access to the [...] Full Story | Top |
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