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| Mitt Romney Got… 47 Percent Friday, Jan 04, 2013 10:12 AM PST  On the same day lawmakers count the electoral votes on Capitol Hill, officially certifying President Obama’s victory in the Electoral College, the AP released a tabulation of official presidential votes from all 50 states. As tabulated by the AP, Romney got 47.2 percent of the... Full Story | Top |
| Photo Shows Obama Hearing of Sandy Hook Shooting Friday, Jan 04, 2013 07:36 AM PST  A new collection of White House photos includes an image of the moment on Dec. 14 when President Obama heard about details of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. A grim-looking Obama leans on a couch as his Homeland Security adviser tells... Full Story | Top |
| Nancy Pelosi defends doctored photo of women in the new Congress Friday, Jan 04, 2013 09:40 AM PST  As part of the festivities marking the first day of the 113th Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi organized a photo op on Thursday with female Democratic lawmakers on the Capitol steps to mark the historic number of women in the new Congress. Temperatures that morning were below freezing, and after several minutes of waiting [...] Full Story | Top |
| Inmates Sue Beer, Wine Cos. for $1B Friday, Jan 04, 2013 11:46 AM PST  Five Idaho inmates are blaming alcohol for the crimes that put them in prison and are suing some of the nation’s top liquor and wine companies for $1 billion. Keith Allen Brown, Steven Thompson, Woodrow Grant, Cory Baugh and Jeremy Brown all claim that alcohol... Full Story | Top |
| Detroit reports highest homicide rate in 20 years Friday, Jan 04, 2013 03:38 PM PST  The city had 386 criminal homicides in 2012. Full Story | Top |
| Inmate ordered retried in '80 'waiting ever since' Friday, Jan 04, 2013 06:31 AM PST  GATESVILLE, Texas (AP) â€" Jerry Hartfield was still a young man when an uncle visited him in prison to tell him that his murder conviction had been overturned and he would get a new trial. Full Story | Top |
| ‘Musician’s worst nightmare’: Vintage Gibson guitar mangled by airline baggage handlers Friday, Jan 04, 2013 01:46 PM PST It was a musician's worst nightmare. At least that's how Dave Schneider, guitarist and singer for Hanukkah-themed rock band The LeeVees, described it when his guitarâ€"a 1965 Gibson ES-335â€"got jammed in an elevator by baggage handlers at a Detroit airport. Schneider was traveling with fellow LeeVees guitarist Adam Gardner from Portland, Maine, to St. Petersburg, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Storm-ravaged Staten Islanders angry over stalled Sandy aid Friday, Jan 04, 2013 01:58 AM PST Congress isn't exactly winning popularity contests anywhere in America, but in New York's storm-ravaged borough of Staten Island, its name is mud. Republican House Speaker John Boehner declined to bring a $60.4 billion aid package for people hit by Superstorm Sandy to a vote on Tuesday night, sparking a backlash from both Republican and Democratic [...] Full Story | Top |
| Chris Christie’s new attitude: Can angriest man in America be president? Friday, Jan 04, 2013 04:30 AM PST Top Line New Jersey Governor Chris Christie rang in the New Year in classic Christie style -- by ranting and doling out tough straight talk. But there was something different in Christie's tone at a Wednesday press conference. Rather than railing against President Obama and runaway spending, Christie took direct aim at his fellow Republicans, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Kimmel Says Leno 'Sold Out' Friday, Jan 04, 2013 07:30 AM PST  It seems that Jimmy Kimmel has much more respect for David Letterman than his other late-night rival, Jay Leno. The ABC host is the cover boy of the new issue of Rolling Stone. The New York Daily News, which obtained an advance copy of the... Full Story | Top |
| Philippines shootings illustrate worldwide gun violence problem Friday, Jan 04, 2013 11:00 AM PST  While firearms laws are stricter than those of the U.S., gun-related homicides occur at a higher rate in the Philippines Full Story | Top |
| Bloomberg: Media need to rethink gun violence coverage Friday, Jan 04, 2013 07:15 AM PST NEW YORKâ€"New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the media need to improve their coverage of gun violence, arguing the press pays attention to gun-related deaths only after mass shootings. In an interview with NBC’s Jimmy Fallon, Bloomberg called the Dec. 14 shooting that killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., [...] Full Story | Top |
| Jobs report finds little overall progress. Why is recovery so slow? Friday, Jan 04, 2013 12:03 PM PST The US unemployment rate held steady at 7.8 percent in December, with the good news being that the job market didn't stumble because of high-stakes brinkmanship in Washington over taxes. Full Story | Top |
| Love letters from World War II unearthed in home Friday, Jan 04, 2013 12:27 PM PST Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy A couple remodeling their Detroit home discovered a past resident’s secret history: A treasure trove of love letters from a World War II veteran long before he had married. Hubert Sawyers III and Eliza Sorise-Sawyers came across the stash lodged in a heating [...] Full Story | Top |
| Barney Frank: ‘Coach, put me in’ as Kerry’s successor Friday, Jan 04, 2013 06:14 AM PST Maybe we haven't seen the last of Barney Frank in the halls of Congress. Frank, who retired this week after 32 years in the House, revealed on Friday that he told Gov. Deval Patrick he would be interested in serving temporarily as Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry's successor. "I've told the governor that I would [...] Full Story | Top |
| Can Trillion Dollar Coins Save Economy? Friday, Jan 04, 2013 03:00 AM PST  With President Obama having kicked off debt ceiling negotiations by vowing not to negotiate over the debt ceiling, a new option for paying off the nation’s considerable tab is gaining momentum with cheeky fiscal and monetary wonks. It goes like this: Should Congress fail to... Full Story | Top |
| Pelosi defends altered photo of congresswomen Friday, Jan 04, 2013 03:31 PM PST  House minority leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday defended an altered picture of Democratic congresswomen that was posted on her Flickr photo-sharing site. Full Story | Top |
| India rape victim's friend recounts ordeal Friday, Jan 04, 2013 11:08 AM PST NEW DELHI (AP) â€" The companion of a woman who was gang-raped aboard a bus in New Delhi recounted in a television interview for the first time Friday how the pair was attacked for 2 1/2 hours before being thrown on the side of the road, where passersby ignored them and police debated jurisdiction issues before helping them. Full Story | Top |
| Actor Dempsey: Coffee chain bid appears successful Friday, Jan 04, 2013 04:41 AM PST  Actor Patrick Dempsey said it appears his bid to buy a small coffee chain has prevailed in a bankruptcy auction that included Starbucks Corp.Late Thursday night, Dempsey announced that his company, Global ... Full Story | Top |
| Alleged Ohio rapists may not get fair trial: defendant's lawyer Friday, Jan 04, 2013 09:27 AM PST (Reuters) - Two Ohio high-school football players accused of raping a teenage girl may not get a fair trial after a photo and video allegedly associated with the case were posted on the Internet by the computer hacking group Anonymous, a lawyer for one of the accused said on Friday. Ma'lik Richmond and Trenton Mays, both 16 and members of the Steubenville High School football team, are charged with raping a 16-year-old fellow student last August, according to statements from their attorneys to local and national media. ... Full Story | Top |
| Pakistani girl shot by Taliban leaves UK hospital Friday, Jan 04, 2013 09:11 AM PST LONDON (AP) â€" Three months after she was shot in the head for daring to say girls should be able to get an education, a 15-year-old Pakistani hugged her nurses and smiled as she walked out of a Birmingham hospital. Full Story | Top |
| Soldiers marry at airport, then depart for separate deployments Friday, Jan 04, 2013 09:31 AM PST The bride and groom wore matching Army fatigues, short haircuts and huge grins. The couple, Army Pvts. Caitlin Murray and Sean Whitney, wed at the Albany International Airport in New York on Thursday, before catching flights to separate military assignments. The wedding ceremony, reported by the Albany Times Union, was short and sweet, and pulled [...] Full Story | Top |
| Diana Photo Mystery Man Revealed Friday, Jan 04, 2013 12:30 PM PST  The mystery of the young man sitting beside the late Diana Spencer in a photo apparently prohibited from being published has been solved. The photo of Lady Diana before she married into the royal family will be up for auction later this month. Besides the identity... Full Story | Top |
| 'The Big Bang Theory' Is the New 'Friends' Friday, Jan 04, 2013 03:51 PM PST  So The Big Bang Theory, CBS's sitcom about how smart people are silly, has broken its second ratings record in as many months, with Thursday night's episode "The Egg Salad Equivalency" attracting a mind-walloping 19 million viewers, with a 6.0 rating in the key 18- to 49-year-old demographic. So that is about as big as a sitcom gets. Toward the end of its run, Friends was topping out around 20 million viewers, meaning Big Bang is now standing shoulder-to-shoulder with one of network TV's biggest and longest comedy successes. ... Full Story | Top |
| Sgt. in Saudi military accused of Vegas child rape Friday, Jan 04, 2013 06:19 PM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) â€" A sergeant in Saudi Arabia's air force was jailed in Las Vegas on charges that he pulled a boy into a hotel room and sexually assaulted him the morning of Sin City's big New Year's Eve fireworks extravaganza. Full Story | Top |
| War is over: Imaginary ‘Bicholim Conflict’ page removed from Wikipedia after five years Friday, Jan 04, 2013 09:28 AM PST A 17th Century international conflict has finally been laid to rest, nearly 400 years after it never happened. Wait a second. Are you feeling confused? A fascinating new story in the Daily Dot chronicles how for more than five years, rogue editors on Wikipedia perpetuated a hoax about the “Bicholim Conflict,†a purely fictional historical [...] Full Story | Top |
| Body of missing Calif. woman found at Lake Tahoe Friday, Jan 04, 2013 05:52 PM PST  RENO, Nev. (AP) â€" The search for a missing 19-year-old California woman who disappeared on New Year's Eve at Lake Tahoe ended Friday when her body was found behind a snow bank about a mile from the site of a music festival she attended that night, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
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