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Clinton admitted to hospital with blood clot
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 05:55 PM PST
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital for treatment of a blood clot, her spokesman said Sunday. State Department Spokesman Philippe Reines said Clinton had entered the hospital following a medical examination for a concussion she sustained earlier this month. "In the course of a follow-up exam today, [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama wants gun violence measures passed in 2013
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 01:58 PM PST
 WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Recalling the shooting rampage that killed 20 first graders as the worst day of his presidency, President Barack Obama pledged to put his "full weight" behind legislation aimed at preventing gun violence. Full Story | Top |
Senate adjourns to Monday, eve of ‘fiscal cliff’
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 03:51 PM PST
Bottom line: Still no "fiscal cliff" deal. And none seems imminent. The U.S. Senate on Sunday ended the day still sharply divided over how to avoid the automatic income-tax hikes and deep government spending cuts set to kick in Jan. 1 that could plunge the economy into a new recession. Despite pleas from President Barack [...] Full Story | Top |
Analysis: Deal or No Deal, 'Cliff' Debate Will Linger Into 2013
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 03:00 AM PST
 Analysis The fiscal cliff is just the beginning. Regardless of whether Democrats and Republicans reach some kind of last-minute bargain to avoid the worst effects of tax hikes and spending cuts, the disaster that has been the fiscal cliff negotiations has broad implications for the... Full Story | Top |
Graham Says No Debt Ceiling Increase Without Entitlement Reform
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:57 PM PST
Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said today that he would vote no to raise the debt ceiling, if concessions to reform Social Security and Medicare were not made, despite a previous statement by Graham to suggest that most Republicans were never willing to stomach a U.S. default... Full Story | Top |
AP IMPACT: Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 09:44 AM 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 |
Comedian Katt Williams arrested in LA
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:04 PM PST
 LOS ANGELES (AP) â€" Katt Williams, the comedian who has repeatedly found himself on the wrong side of the law, is out on bail after being arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of child endangerment and possession of a stolen gun. Full Story | Top |
Secretary of State Clinton hospitalized with blood clot
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:04 PM PST
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital on Sunday with a blood clot linked to a concussion she suffered earlier this month, the State Department said in an announcement that looked sure to fuel speculation over the health of one of America's best-known political figures. Clinton, 65, has been out of the public spotlight since mid-December, when officials said she suffered a concussion after fainting due to a stomach virus contracted during a trip to Europe. ... Full Story | Top |
Somebody Finally Claimed Adam Lanza's Body
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:10 PM PST
 Over two weeks after he opened fire on a school full of children, killing 26 people as well as himself, Adam Lanza is heading to his final resting place. On Sunday, in a bulletin bereft of detail, the Connecticut chief medical examiner's office announced that the 20-year-old's body had been claimed for burial. They didn't say who claimed him, where he would be buried, if he would receive a funeral or really anything else about what will happen to the young mass murderer. ... Full Story | Top |
Maine man, 74, held in deaths of teenage tenants
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:19 PM PST
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) â€" A 74-year-old Maine man was charged in the shooting deaths of two tenants inside an apartment he rented out at his home, possibly over a dispute about where they parked their cars during a snowstorm, state police said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
Obama endorses gay marriage proposal in Illinois
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 03:43 PM PST
 (Reuters) - President Obama is endorsing a proposal by the Illinois legislature to legalize gay marriage, a White House spokesman told Reuters on Sunday. It's an unusual move by a president - most of whom rarely weigh in on state legislative matters. Obama served in the Illinois state senate. Obama, who said earlier this year that he supports same-sex marriage, believes "it's wrong to prevent couples who are in loving, committed relationships and want to marry, from doing so," said White House spokesman Shin Inouye. ... Full Story | Top |
NY plaintiff: Gay benefits 'bigger than marriage'
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:58 PM PST
 NEW YORK (AP) â€" At age 83, Edith Windsor gets plenty of compliments for her courage to take on the federal government in a landmark case that has put attitudes about gay America squarely before the Supreme Court. Full Story | Top |
List: No love for 'fiscal cliff,' 'spoiler alert'
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 05:32 AM PST
DETROIT (AP) â€" Spoiler alert: This story contains words and phrases that some people want to ban from the English language. "Spoiler alert" is among them. So are "kick the can down the road," ''trending" and "bucket list." Full Story | Top |
Progress seen in last-minute 'fiscal cliff' talks
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:47 AM PST
 WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Working against a midnight deadline, negotiators for the White House and congressional Republicans narrowed their differences Monday on legislation to avert across-the-board tax increases. Full Story | Top |
Yemen: Al-Qaida offers bounty for US ambassador
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 01:08 PM PST
SANAA, Yemen (AP) â€" Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen has offered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to anyone who kills the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa or an American soldier in the country. Full Story | Top |
Biden, McConnell pursue deal just hours before ‘fiscal cliff’
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 07:01 AM PST
Merry Cliffmas Eve? Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday pursued behind-closed-doors efforts to avoid the “fiscal cliff†with just hours to halt painful automatic income tax hikes from biting into American paychecks. McConnell announced on Sunday that he had reached out to Biden to help “jump-start†stalled negotiations [...] Full Story | Top |
5 killed in Oregon tour bus crash on I-84
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 03:59 PM PST
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) â€" A tour bus careened through a guardrail on an icy Oregon highway and several hundred feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing five people and injuring about 20 others, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
New Year Welcomes Oddball State Laws
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:28 AM PST
Many new, unusual state laws will take effect when the ball drops at midnight and millions of Americans ring in the New Year, including one that will limit the number of cats in a household. Turns out 2013 will be unlucky for cat lovers in... Full Story | Top |
Hangover Cures and Myths
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 03:00 AM PST
 After the Times Square ball drops on New Year’s Eve and copious amounts of Champagne get  toasted and drunk, many might find themselves  forgetting more â€auld acquaintances†than they intended and waking up to  2013 with a vicious hangover. A hangover is essentially a build-up of acetaldehyde, a toxin in... Full Story | Top |
Psychiatric test for suspect in NYC subway death
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 10:42 PM PST
 NEW YORK (AP) â€" A woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train because she believed he was Muslim laughed and smiled during a court hearing where she was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Full Story | Top |
Deal reached for stopping spike in milk prices
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:14 PM PST
 The top leaders in both parties on the House and Senate Agriculture committees have agreed to a one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill that expired in October, a move that could head off a possible doubling of milk prices next month. Full Story | Top |
Teenagers Who Set Puppy on Fire Face Minimal Prison Time
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 01:26 PM PST
New York State Assemblyman Sean M. Ryan announced this week that he’s proposing tougher animal abuse penalties. The legislation, which is being called, “Phoenix’s Law,†is named for a Jack Russell Terrier who was burned alive by two teenagers in October. “Phoenix†lived through the ordeal, but is still in a Buffalo animal hospital recovering from burns and broken bones. Full Story | Top |
'Auld Lang Syne': What Does it Mean Again?
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 07:10 AM PST
Here it is. The answer to a perennial question of what on earth does “Auld Lang Syne†mean? The confusion over the song is arguably almost as much of a tradition as the song itself. As revelers stumble and mumble through the versesâ€"singing the “auld... Full Story | Top |
9 killed in tour bus crash along Oregon highway
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:22 AM PST
 PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) â€" A tour bus careened through a guardrail along an icy Oregon highway and 100 feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing nine people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
9 killed, more than 2 dozen hurt when charter tour bus veers off icy highway in eastern Oregon
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:50 AM PST
PENDLETON, Ore. - A tour bus careened through a guardrail along an icy Oregon highway and 100 feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing nine people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
NYC couple arrested; explosive substance found
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 09:06 AM PST
NEW YORK (AP) â€" A Manhattan couple was facing weapons charges Monday after authorities said they found a substance used to make bombs and papers titled "The Terrorist Encyclopedia" in their Greenwich Village apartment. Full Story | Top |
Chavez suffers new complications in cancer fight
Monday, Dec 31, 2012 10:26 AM 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 |
Nine killed, more than 25 hurt in Oregon bus crash: state police
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 07:54 PM PST
 PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Nine people were killed and at least 26 others injured on Sunday when a charter bus headed to Canada from Las Vegas skidded off an icy mountain highway and crashed down an embankment in northeastern Oregon. The Oregon State Police said a preliminary investigation showed the charter bus, carrying about 40 people through the Blue Mountains en route to Vancouver, British Columbia, "lost control on the snow/ice covered westbound lanes of Interstate 84" near Pendleton. The bus crashed through a guardrail alongside the road and went down an embankment of around 200 feet. ... Full Story | Top |
China academics warn of "violent revolution" if no political reform
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:14 PM PST
BEIJING (Reuters) - A prominent group of Chinese academics has warned in a bold open letter that the country risks "violent revolution" if the government does not respond to public pressure and allow long-stalled political reforms. The 73 scholars, including well-known current and retired legal experts at top universities and lawyers, said political reform had not matched the quick pace of economic expansion. ... Full Story | Top |
