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| On sequestration, lawmakers wail while some conservatives hail Monday, Feb 25, 2013 10:13 AM PST Washington is in panic mode over the so-called sequesterâ€"automatic, across-the-board spending cuts set to be triggered March 1 if Congress and the White House can't reach a deficit reduction deal. Just days before the federal budget will be forced to shave less than 3 percent from its annual budget, politicos from President Barack Obama to [...] Full Story | Top |
| The Onion apologizes for offensive Oscar tweet about Quvenzhané Wallis Monday, Feb 25, 2013 09:58 AM PST The Onion issued a lengthy apology on Monday for publishing an offensive tweet during Sunday's Oscars telecast about Quvenzhané Wallis, the 9-year-old actress nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in “Beasts of the Southern Wild.†“On behalf of The Onion, I offer my personal apology to Quvenzhané Wallis and the Academy of Motion [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sotomayor, Breyer reprimand Texas prosecutor for race comment Monday, Feb 25, 2013 09:41 AM PST Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer sternly admonished a federal prosecutor in Texas for a racially charged comment he made while cross examining a black defendant in a drug trial two years ago. The justices released the statement as part of the court's decision to decline to hear the defendant's appeal. The prosecutor, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Lost continent found at the bottom of the sea Monday, Feb 25, 2013 09:34 AM PST Maybe Atlantis -- or at least the cousin to Atlantis -- does exist after all. Researchers have announced a discovery of a continent hidden deep beneath the Indian Ocean. The finding was reported in the journal Nature Geoscience. The scientists, led by Trond Torsvik from the University of Oslo, say that a micro-continent may have [...] Full Story | Top |
| Iranians attack! Target: Michelle Obama’s Oscars gown Monday, Feb 25, 2013 09:04 AM PST Apparently missile launches and stealth fighters aren’t the only things keeping Iranian Photoshoppers busy these days: First lady Michelle Obama’s shoulder-baring Oscars dress got some digital tailoring to meet Tehran’s standards, as well. First lady Michelle Obama, appearing on screen at the Oscars. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Obama wore the shiny Naeem Khan number at the White [...] Full Story | Top |
| How will spending cuts affect you?: A Yahoo! News/ABC News chat Monday, Feb 25, 2013 08:11 AM PST Join Yahoo! News' Olivier Knox and ABC News' Zach Wolf as we discuss federal budget cutsâ€"from state parks to airportsâ€"that Americans may face under the sequester in the coming weeks. Yahoo! News reporter Chris Moody will also join us to discuss activists who are lobbying in favor of the sequester. How will [...] Full Story | Top |
| Lawyer visiting client forgotten for hours inside jail Monday, Feb 25, 2013 07:56 AM PST A California lawyer said guards in a San Diego jail forget about himâ€"and that he was trapped for hours inside a locked waiting room. Erubey Lopez, the attorney, told NBC's San Diego affiliate that he was visiting a client at the downtown jail last week, arriving at 8:20 p.m. local time. “I know it takes [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama urges nation’s governors to pressure Congress on sequester Monday, Feb 25, 2013 06:35 AM PST President Barack Obama on Monday, addressing members of the National Governors Association gathered at the White House, implored the nation's governors to put pressure on Congress to avoid the sequester. "While you're in town, I hope that you speak with your congressional delegation and remind them in no uncertain terms exactly what's at stake, exactly [...] Full Story | Top |
| Billboard converts desert air into drinking water Monday, Feb 25, 2013 06:21 AM PST An advertising agency has created what it's calling the world's first billboard that converts air into drinking water. The billboardâ€"a collaboration between agency Mayo DraftFCB and Peru's University of Engineering and Technologyâ€"was placed in Peru's rain-starved desert capital, Lima. Lima gets less than an inch of rain per year on average, but since the city's [...] Full Story | Top |
| Progressives attack Mitch McConnell again on guns Monday, Feb 25, 2013 03:58 AM PST Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is on the wrong side of an assault weapons ban, a progressive group argues Monday in a new attack ad released in the congressman’s home state of Kentucky. Gary Nutt, a Vietnam veteran and hunter from Cub Run, Ky., says in the commercial, paid for by the Progressive Change Campaign [...] Full Story | Top |
| Monday in politics: Obama meets with governors on sequester, and more Monday, Feb 25, 2013 03:34 AM PST The House and Senate are back in session on Monday, and the governors are still in Washington for the National Governors Association winter meeting and the top topic for the day â€" and this week â€" is the sequester. The sequester is the $85 billion in automatic, across-the-board spending cuts set to kick in Friday [...] Full Story | Top |
| House Republicans hit back on sequestration with Academy Award-themed video Sunday, Feb 24, 2013 04:59 PM PST In the final week before "the sequester" takes effectâ€"automatic, across-the-board spending reductions triggered if the White House and Congress fail to reach a budget deal by March 1 â€"Republicans and Democrats are doing what they can to ensure the other side takes the blame when the hammer falls. The National Republican Congressional Committee will release [...] Full Story | Top |
| Governors coming to terms with sequester, but demand more flexibility from Washington Sunday, Feb 24, 2013 03:38 PM PST WASHINGTONâ€"Governors frustrated by the prospect of $85 billion in across-the-board federal spending cuts set to kick in March 1 have made the "F-word" their term of choice at the annual winter meeting of the National Governors Association. That word, of course, is "flexibility." "We believe in what we call 'flexible federalism,'" said Delaware Gov. Jack [...] Full Story | Top |
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