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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 |
| Fiscal cliff negotiations stall; Senate to resume talks New Year's Eve 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 |
| Asian nations giving enthusiastic welcome to 2013 Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 11:45 PM PST  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) â€" Fiscal cliff? Recession? Not in Asia, where the first countries to see 2013 dawn will enthusiastically welcome the new year. Full Story | Top |
| 9 killed, more than 20 hurt in tour bus crash along Oregon highway Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 11:49 PM PST  A tour bus careened through a guardrail along an icy Oregon highway and several hundred feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing nine people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities said. 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 |
| Strong Asian gains overshadowed by U.S. fiscal cliff Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 10:06 PM PST  SYDNEY (Reuters) - Several major Asian stock indexes closed on Monday with the strongest annual gains in years, but these were overshadowed by the lack of progress in talks to avert the looming U.S. "fiscal cliff". Australian shares ended up 14.6 percent in 2012, the best yearly gain since the recovery of 2009. On Monday the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index fell 22.4 points to 4,648.9, according to the latest data. It rose 0.5 percent to 4,671.3 on Friday, its highest close since June 2, 2011. Hong Kong shares ended their best year since 2009 hovering near 18-month closing highs on Monday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Chavez suffers new complications in cancer fight Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 10:50 PM PST  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) â€" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is confronting "new complications" due to a respiratory infection nearly three weeks after undergoing cancer surgery, his vice president said in Cuba as he visited the ailing leader for the first time since his operation. Full Story | Top |
| Remains of Connecticut gunman claimed for burial 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 |
| 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 |
| Obama wants gun violence measures passed in 2013 Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 01:58 PM PST  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 |
| 3 found dead in Calif. apartment blaze; 3 injured Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:24 PM PST A couple and their granddaughter were killed and three others were injured â€" including a police officer credited with saving at least one person â€" in a late-night fire at a Northern California apartment complex, authorities said Sunday. Full Story | Top |
| Senate, House agriculture committees in deal to avert milk price spike Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 07:19 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Farm-state lawmakers have agreed to a one-year extension of the expiring U.S. farm law that, if enacted, would head off a possible doubling of retail milk prices to $7 or more a gallon in early 2013. The extension would end a 32-month attempt to update farm subsidies dating from the Depression era, when farmers were crushed by low prices and huge crop surpluses, to meet today's high-wire challenges of tight food supplies, high operating costs and volatile markets. ... Full Story | Top |
| Kim Kardashian pregnant: Her family reacts Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 11:21 PM PST  Get ready for yet another Kardashian to keep up with! On Sunday night, Kanye West “announced†that he and Kim Kardashian are expecting a child together when he told the crowd at his Atlantic City concert to “Stop the music … Continue reading â†' 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 |
| 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 |
| Gang-rape victim's body cremated privately in India Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:22 PM PST  A young woman who died after being gang-raped and beaten on a bus in India's capital was cremated privately as millions of grieving, angry residents demanded greater protection for women from sexual violence. Full Story | Top |
| South Korea to restart one of two troubled reactors Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:14 PM PST South Korea will restart one of two nuclear reactors this week after being shut for nearly two months to replace parts which were found to have forged documents, easing power supply concerns as winter bites, the nuclear regulator and operator said. The State-run Nuclear Safety & Security Commission said in a statement on Monday that it had approved the restart of a 1,000-megawatt (MW) reactor in Yeonggwang county, 300 km (186 miles) southwest of the capital Seoul. ... Full Story | Top |
| Republican Senate leader urges Biden to break impasse Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 11:47 AM PST  Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday to jump into “fiscal cliff†talks in hopes of breaking an impasse that threatens Americans with sharply higher income taxes come January 1. In a brief speech on the Senate floor, McConnell complained that Democrats had not yet placed a counter-offer to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Graham: 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 |
| Faulty brakes may be to blame in Russian plane crash Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 07:17 AM PST  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Faulty brakes may be to blame for a Russian airliner sliding off the runway and smashing onto a highway near Moscow, killing five people, a member of the crash investigation team said on Sunday. Investigators said they were examining the black boxes to try to determine the cause of Saturday's crash, which cracked the wings off the Tupolev-204 plane and split the fuselage clean into three pieces. ... Full Story | Top |
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