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| White House: Obama not backing down from assault weapons ban Friday, Jan 11, 2013 11:07 AM PST The White House says President Barack Obama is still committed to persuading Congress to ban some semi-automatic weapons, despite comments from the vice president that suggested he and Obama would instead embrace more politically popular gun reforms. "The president has been clear that Congress should reinstate the assault weapons ban and that avoiding this issue [...] Full Story | Top |
| Indiana boy abducted in '94 found in Minnesota Friday, Jan 11, 2013 08:39 AM PST  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) â€" Authorities on Friday identified a 24-year-old man discovered living in Minnesota under an assumed name, nearly two decades after his grandparents abducted him from Indiana. Full Story | Top |
| Smile or grimace? Royal Kate portrait splits opinion Friday, Jan 11, 2013 04:53 AM PST  LONDON (Reuters) - The first official portrait of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, popularly known by her former name Kate Middleton, was unveiled in London on Friday, and opinion was sharply divided over an image many deemed unflattering. The 31-year-old, who as a glamorous future queen is one of the world's most photographed women, is portrayed in the large canvas with a faint smile, long, copper-tinted hair and shadow under her eyes. ... Full Story | Top |
| Student tells teacher: 'I don't want to shoot you' Friday, Jan 11, 2013 08:23 AM PST TAFT, Calif. (AP) â€" The 16-year-old boy had just wounded a classmate he claimed had bullied him, fired two more rounds at students fleeing their first-period science class, then faced teacher Ryan Heber. Full Story | Top |
| Official: Abducted Ind. boy's mother lived in car Friday, Jan 11, 2013 07:50 PM PST CLARISSA, Minn. (AP) â€" In 2006, an 18-year-old Minnesota man legally changed his name to Michael Jeff Landers. Six years later, authorities determined Landers was really the Indiana child who had been abducted by his paternal grandparents in 1994. Full Story | Top |
| Some of 14 hostages in Los Angeles were assaulted Friday, Jan 11, 2013 07:06 AM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) â€" Robbers stabbed a clothing store employee and sexually assaulted another during an hours-long hostage drama that ended early Friday with a police SWAT team surging into the shop and rescuing 14 workers. Full Story | Top |
| Rangel: White House’s lack of diversity ‘embarrassing as hell’ Friday, Jan 11, 2013 05:26 AM PST Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York piled on Thursday as the White House faced criticism for a lack of diversity. "It's as embarrassing as hell," Rangel, a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said on MSNBC's "Jansing & Co.," after noting his concern for President Barack Obama's "record" on whom he chooses as [...] Full Story | Top |
| Largest Structure in Universe Discovered Friday, Jan 11, 2013 01:34 AM PST  Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a clump of active galactic cores that stretches 4 billion light-years from end to end. Full Story | Top |
| Emotions boil in Colorado as accused theater shooter’s arraignment is delayed Friday, Jan 11, 2013 09:12 AM PST  [Updated at 11:45 a.m. MT] CENTENNIAL, Colo. â€" The father of a woman killed in the Aurora movie theater shooting blurted out "Rot in hell, Holmes" moments after the judge put off arraigning the suspected gunman, James Holmes. Steve Hernandez, father of Rebecca Wingo, was sitting among other victims and family members in the packed [...] Full Story | Top |
| Texas court asks: Is man's best friend priceless? Friday, Jan 11, 2013 12:13 AM PST  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) â€" They say all dogs go to heaven. But if they get there before their time, should someone pay up? Full Story | Top |
| Dad charged with making terroristic threats after testing school’s safety system Friday, Jan 11, 2013 08:02 AM PST A North Texas father’s attempt to test the safety response of his child’s school had an unintended consequenceâ€"for the father. After walking into the school saying he was a gunman, the unarmed Ron Miller has been charged with making "terroristic threats" at Celina Elementary School. According to Celina school district superintendent Donny O'Dell, Miller approached [...] Full Story | Top |
| DREAM Activist's Family Arrested After Home Raided By ICE Friday, Jan 11, 2013 11:43 AM PST  Erika Andiola, a young undocumented immigrant and activist, may be free from the threat of raids and deportation, but her family is another story. On Thursday night, Andiola's home in Arizona was raided by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents, who knocked on her door then arrested her mother, Maria Arreola, after she opened to check on her visitors. When her older brother refused to provide documentation of his own legal status, he was brought in as well. ... Full Story | Top |
| Clock ticks down for decision on Detroit finances Friday, Jan 11, 2013 12:09 AM PST  DETROIT (AP) â€" Detroit's fiscal future could soon be out of its hands if a team of state officials determines that the nation's former auto and manufacturing giant is so firmly entrenched in a financial emergency that it cannot climb out on its own. Full Story | Top |
| Boehner invites Obama to give State of the Union on Feb. 12 Friday, Jan 11, 2013 08:21 AM PST Republican House Speaker John Boehner on Friday formally invited President Barack Obama to deliver his State of the Union address on Feb. 12. “Our nation continues to face immense challenges, and the American people expect us to work together in the new year to find meaningful solutions,†Boehner said in a letter to Obama released [...] Full Story | Top |
| Feared Somali pirate retiring from pirate business Friday, Jan 11, 2013 10:15 AM PST A masked Somali pirate stands near a Taiwanese fishing vessel. (AP/Farah Abdi Warsameh) The pirating business apparently isn’t what it used to be. In fact, one dreaded Somali pirate has decided to put an end to his kidnappings and ransacking. At a press conferenceâ€"possibly the first to be held by a retiring pirateâ€"Mohamed Abdi Hassan, [...] Full Story | Top |
| CDC: ‘Spot shortages’ of flu vaccine reported as disease spreads to 47 states Friday, Jan 11, 2013 09:37 AM PST It's not too late to get vaccinated against this season's particularly nasty flu outbreak, but you may have some trouble finding a flu shot. On a call Friday to update reporters on the status of the outbreak, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden said that a high demand for the flu vaccine [...] Full Story | Top |
| Standardized test backlash: Some Seattle teachers just say 'no' Friday, Jan 11, 2013 03:04 PM PST Forty-five minutes after school let out Thursday afternoon, 19 teachers here at Seattle's Garfield High School worked their way to the front of an already-crowded classroom, then turned, leaned their backs against the wall of whiteboards, and fired the first salvo of open defiance against high-stakes standardized testing in America's public schools. Full Story | Top |
| Top talent lined up for Obama's inaugural events Friday, Jan 11, 2013 08:47 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President Barack Obama is drawing an A-list of performers for his inaugural festivities, including a massive ball expected to draw more than 35,000 revelers. Full Story | Top |
| Air Force memo outlines sweeping budget cuts Friday, Jan 11, 2013 04:31 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Air Force leaders will cut flying hours by nearly 20 percent and prepare for a possible end to all noncombat or noncritical flights from late July through September if Congress can't agree on a budget and billions of dollars in automatic cuts are triggered. Full Story | Top |
| Land ho: New island emerges off German coast Friday, Jan 11, 2013 12:26 PM PST Germany has sprouted an island. The hook-shaped land is 16 miles off the coast of Germany, and it is 34 acres long. Dubbed Norderoogsand, the island, which lies in the German North Sea coast, has already become the home to more than 50 plant species and a variety of sea birds. Amazingly, 10 years ago, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Paul Ryan has ‘decided not to decide’ if he will run for president Friday, Jan 11, 2013 05:36 AM PST The next presidential election is years away, but reporters are already nipping at lawmakers' heels for a glimpse of their future ambitions. When former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan was asked this week if he plans to run for the White House in 2016, he said, "I've decided not to decide." From the Wisconsin State [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama, Karzai: Afghans taking charge sooner than planned Friday, Jan 11, 2013 12:17 PM PST President Barack Obama and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan agreed after talks at the White House on Friday to slightly speed up the process that calls for American and other NATO forces to leave that war-torn country by late 2014. But Obama hedged on the much-discussed possibility of a U.S. military presence after that benchmark [...] Full Story | Top |
| How a Rare Snowfall Hit Jerusalem, Middle East Friday, Jan 11, 2013 07:21 AM PST An unusual storm brought snow and chaos to the Middle East yesterday (Jan. 10). Full Story | Top |
| Missing 13-year-old Utah girl found unharmed Friday, Jan 11, 2013 02:48 PM PST  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) â€" A 13-year-old girl who disappeared this week without shoes or a coat in chilly weather has been found unharmed, but questions abound about where she was and what she was doing while 1,000 volunteers searched for her for two days. Full Story | Top |
| Miss America contestant pursuing double mastectomy Friday, Jan 11, 2013 05:54 PM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) â€" Win or lose Saturday, Miss America contestant Allyn Rose will have conveyed a message about breast cancer prevention using her primary tool as a beauty queen: her body. Full Story | Top |
| Mom convicted of exploitation in graphic NH trial Friday, Jan 11, 2013 12:00 AM PST CONCORD, N.H. (AP) â€" The allegations were almost too heinous and far-fetched to be believed. A New Hampshire lawyer who graduated at the top of her class and credited her success to Christianity was accused of using her 14-year-old daughter as a sexual pawn, at one point even engaging in a sexual act with the girl on camera. Full Story | Top |
| Club for Growth president: Government shutdown may be better than alternative Friday, Jan 11, 2013 04:05 AM PST Top Line It's been a tumultuous New Year for Speaker of the House John Boehner, and Chris Chocola hasn't been making it any easier. As president of the conservative group Club for Growth, Chocola works to elect anti-establishment Republicans to Congress, such as freshman Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who recently voted against Hurricane Sandy aid [...] Full Story | Top |
| U.S. warns on Java software as security concerns escalate Friday, Jan 11, 2013 01:53 PM PST  (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users to disable Oracle Corp's Java software, amplifying security experts' prior warnings to hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses that use it to surf the Web. Hackers have figured out how to exploit Java to install malicious software enabling them to commit crimes ranging from identity theft to making an infected computer part of an ad-hoc network of computers that can be used to attack websites. ... Full Story | Top |
| Democrats urge Obama to be ready to bypass Congress on debt cap Friday, Jan 11, 2013 02:27 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Democratic senators urged President Barack Obama on Friday to be ready to raise the debt ceiling without congressional approval in order to avert a damaging debt default. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his leadership team said Obama should use "any lawful steps" under his authority to "ensure that America does not break its promises and trigger a global economic crisis." They urged Obama to act on his own if Republicans insist on a debt limit extension that is coupled with "unbalanced or unreasonable" spending cuts. ... Full Story | Top |
| ANALYSIS: "Zero Dark Thirty" opens wide ... to controversy Friday, Jan 11, 2013 10:53 AM PST Kathryn Bigelow may have been denied a chance to repeat Academy Award history, but her film "Zero Dark Thirty"â€"which expanded to wide release on Fridayâ€"has made the best picture list for the Oscars, Golden Globes and multiple others. The story about the 11-year hunt for Osama bin Laden also made hit lists of a different sort: Politicians and protesters believe the film implied support of brutal CIA interrogation methods. Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Israel left wing sees Jewish state's end Friday, Jan 11, 2013 02:56 PM PST  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) â€" An apocalyptic tone has crept into Israel's hitherto muted election season, with opposition leaders and others sounding increasingly desperate warnings that a few more years of rule by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's heavily favored right wing might well destroy the Jewish state. Full Story | Top |
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