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| Senate clears fiscal cliff measure Monday, Dec 31, 2012 11:09 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The Senate has passed legislation to block the impact of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that make up the fiscal cliff. Full Story | Top |
| U.S., Europe hope the new year brings better times Monday, Dec 31, 2012 11:16 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) â€" From the glittering New Year's ball dropping in Times Square to joyous fireworks in London and cheers in a once-isolated Asian country, the world did its best to ring in 2013 with hope for renewal after a year of economic uncertainty, searing violence and natural disasters. Full Story | Top |
| Clinton's blood clot located in her head; full recovery expected Monday, Dec 31, 2012 02:00 PM PST  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is "making excellent progress" recovering from a blood clot in her head that was discovered during a medical examination, her doctors said Monday. But Clinton remains hospitalized until a proper medication level is established, they said. A day after announcing that Clinton had been admitted to a New York [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sour end to 2012 masks positive trends in America Monday, Dec 31, 2012 05:53 PM PST  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Many Americans seem to be in a sour mood as 2013 begins, after Hurricane Sandy ravaged parts of the East Coast, a gunman massacred 20 school children in Connecticut and a long, contentious election campaign was followed by failure to resolve the "fiscal cliff" issue by year-end. Americans have not been very optimistic since the Great Recession of 2008-2009, but the gloom had begun to lift this year until the blast of bad news as 2012 ended, IPSOS pollster Cliff Young said on Monday. IPSOS polling showed that some angst set in as the year ended. ... Full Story | Top |
| Report details changes in Benghazi explanations Monday, Dec 31, 2012 03:55 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies â€" but not the White House â€" made major changes in talking points that led to the Obama administration's confusing explanations of the attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, a Senate report concluded Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Same-sex marriage ceremonies begin in Maryland Monday, Dec 31, 2012 10:34 PM PST  BALTIMORE (AP) â€" Same-sex couples in Maryland were greeted with cheers and noisemakers held over from New Year's Eve parties, as gay marriage became legal in the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line on New Year's Day. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. House aims to split Sandy aid bill into two parts Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:54 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to split a $60.4 billion Superstorm Sandy disaster aid bill into two parts, staging votes on $27 billion to fund immediate recovery needs and $33 billion for long-term and other projects, Republican lawmakers and aides said on Monday. The plan for votes on Tuesday or Wednesday would meet the demands of many Republican lawmakers to vote on a smaller initial package of aid for victims of the October 29 storm that devastated New York and New Jersey coastlines. ... Full Story | Top |
| Boehner: No decision on accepting 'cliff' pact Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:38 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) and his leadership team say they need to review a Senate pact that would increase taxes on incomes exceeding $400,000 before deciding to schedule a vote on the measure or try to change it. Full Story | Top |
| 'Fiscal cliff' deal to block pay hike for Congress Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:18 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Legislation to prevent the government from going over the so-called fiscal cliff will also block a $900 automatic pay hike for members of Congress. Full Story | Top |
| Suspect in NYC subway death arrested before Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:42 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) â€" The family of a woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train called police several times in the past five years because she had not been taking prescribed medication and was difficult to deal with, authorities said Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Survivors of fatal Ore. bus crash say some ejected Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:07 PM PST  PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) â€" Survivors of a bus crash that killed nine people on a partly icy section of interstate in rural Eastern Oregon said Monday some passengers were thrown from the vehicle through broken windows after it skidded out of control, smashed through a guardrail and plummeted 200 feet down an embankment. Full Story | Top |
| Venezuela's Chavez in stable condition, says son-in-law Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:34 PM PST  CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in stable condition and spent Monday with his daughters, the cancer-stricken leader's son in law said in an appeal for supporters to ignore rumors about his condition. Chavez has not been seen in public nor heard from in more than three weeks. The vice president said on Sunday that the 58-year-old was suffering a third set of complications after surgery in Cuba on December 11, his fourth operation in 18 months. ... Full Story | Top |
| NYC bomb suspects had 'terrorist encyclopedia' Monday, Dec 31, 2012 10:06 AM PST Police arrested a couple on Saturday after authorities investigating a credit card theft found a highly explosive compound, bomb-making manuals, a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition. Full Story | Top |
| 'Rings' trilogy sound editor Hopkins dies in NZ Monday, Dec 31, 2012 10:18 PM PST  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) â€" Oscar-winning sound editor Mike Hopkins, who worked on the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and other Peter Jackson films, has died in a rafting accident in New Zealand. He was 53. Full Story | Top |
| 13 new space missions to watch in 2013 Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:25 AM PST  This year has been a busy one for space missions, and it looks like next year will ramp things up even more. Full Story | Top |
| New, oddball state laws to take effect on Jan. 1 Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:19 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. Full Story | Top |
| Members-only marijuana clubs open in Colorado Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:14 PM PST DENVER (AP) â€" Recreational marijuana clubs opened Monday in Colorado, less than a month after the state governor signed into law a constitutional amendment allowing recreational pot use. Full Story | Top |
| FDA approves 1st new tuberculosis drug in 40 years Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:05 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a Johnson & Johnson tuberculosis drug that is the first new medicine to fight the deadly infection in more than four decades. Full Story | Top |
| Top Afghan negotiator optimistic over peace prospects Monday, Dec 31, 2012 09:32 PM PST  KABUL (Reuters) - A top Afghan peace negotiator said he was cautiously optimistic about prospects for reconciliation with the Taliban and that all sides now realized a military solution to the war was not possible. Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai also told Reuters that the Kabul government hoped to transform the Afghan Taliban, who have proved resilient after more than a decade of war against U.S.-led NATO and Afghan troops, into a political movement. ... Full Story | Top |
| Beer, liquor never sicker? Hangover cures, myths Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:26 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 "auld acquaintances" than they intended and waking up to 2013 with a vicious hangover. Full Story | Top |
| Pop quiz: What does 'Auld Lang Syne' mean? Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:40 AM PST Here it is. The answer to a perennial question of what on earth does "Auld Lang Syne" mean? Full Story | Top |
| A portrait of the procrastivoters of 2012 election Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:45 AM PST New research has turned up a curious subspecies of the electorate: Those who felt it was worth deciding whom to vote for, but not until the last 24 of the 5,040 hours of the campaign. Full Story | Top |
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