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| Stranger’s Generosity Changes Teen’s Life and Employment Status Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 10:08 AM PST Jhaqueil Reagan of Indianapolis, Indiana, was walking down the street on his way to interview for a minimum wage job. He happened to cross paths with Art Bouvier, who was laying rock salt on the ground outside his restaurant, Papa Roux, after an ice storm had hit the area earlier in the morning. Bouvier said [...] Full Story | Top |
| Kerry defends liberties, says Americans have "right to be stupid" Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 08:47 AM PST  BERLIN (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry offered a defense of freedom of speech, religion and thought in the United States on Tuesday telling German students that in America "you have a right to be stupid if you want to be." "As a country, as a society, we live and breathe the idea of religious freedom and religious tolerance, whatever the religion, and political freedom and political tolerance, whatever the point of view," Kerry told the students in Berlin, the second stop on his inaugural trip as secretary of state. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bobby Jindal: President Obama “trying to scare the American public” on spending cuts Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 04:15 AM PST Politics Confidential Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R - La.) accused President Obama of playing "political theater" by warning that looming across-the-board spending cuts set to go into effect on Friday will have a devastating impact on the government's ability to function and provide for the nation's most vulnerable, saying the cuts can be made in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Two in three Americans say sequester will hurt economy Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 03:48 AM PST Roughly two out of three Americans say that automatic spending cuts set to trigger Friday will have a major negative effect on the economy, according to a new public opinion poll. And more would blame congressional Republicans (45 percent) than President Barack Obama (32 percent), the non-partisan Pew Research Center found in its survey. But [...] Full Story | Top |
| English requirement in immigration reform will test underfunded ESL system Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 09:15 AM PST The thorny topic of immigration reform has catapulted to the top of the to-do lists of both Republicans and Democrats, even as both sides continue to bicker over details. President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group of senators are eager to pass an immigration bill this year, with their main points of disagreement, deliberated in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Chinese official flips out at airport after missing flight Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 07:47 AM PST A high-ranking official in the Chinese government lost his cool (and then some) when he and his family missed their flight at the Kunming Wujiaba International Airport in Yunnan Province, China. A video shows the man, identified as Yan Linkun, standing near a boarding gate. There is no sound, but reports from Beijing Cream suggest [...] Full Story | Top |
| Pope to be called 'emeritus pope,' will wear white Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 07:59 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) â€" Pope Benedict XVI will be known as "emeritus pope" in his retirement and will continue to wear a white cassock, the Vatican announced Tuesday, again fueling concerns about potential conflicts arising from having both a reigning and a retired pope. Full Story | Top |
| Reid: No tax increase? Then bring on the sequester. Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 12:30 PM PST Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would support letting the $85 billion in across-the-board sequestration cuts take effect on Friday if Republicans don't agree to increasing taxes as part of an alternative plan, the Nevada Democrat said on Tuesday "Until there's some agreement on revenue, I think we should just go ahead with the sequester," Reid [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama brings sequester fight to Newport News, Va. Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 07:15 AM PST As the country inched closer to the March 1 sequester deadline, President Barack Obama on Tuesday traveled to Newport News, Va., to make a local case for what he and the administration believe will be the devastating economic impacts of the budget cuts. Obama spoke at Newport News Shipbuilding, which supplies materials to all 50 [...] Full Story | Top |
| Senate confirms Chuck Hagel as defense secretary Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 02:24 PM PST The Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense, overcoming a fierce campaign by some GOP lawmakers to block President Barack Obama's nominee. Hagel's nomination, which required support from just a majority of the chamber, passed 58-41. Four Republicans voted to approve Hagel's nomination: Sen. Rand Paul [...] Full Story | Top |
| DHS releasing illegal immigrants before sequester Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 02:10 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" A week before mandatory budget cuts go into effect across the government, the Department of Homeland Security has started releasing illegal immigrants being held in immigration jails across the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| First Gaza rocket in 3 months rattles cease-fire Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 12:49 PM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) â€" Gaza militants on Tuesday fired a rocket into Israel for the first time in three months, rattling a cross-border truce that has held since Israel's military offensive against the Hamas-run territory. Full Story | Top |
| Dreams of gas riches fading for NY landowners Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 08:32 AM PST  When word spread about the potential natural gas riches of the Marcellus Shale, Kimberly More saw it as the hope for saving her horse farm.She figured that leasing her 170 acres to a drilling company could ... Full Story | Top |
| Police say woman, 22, is "person of interest" in Vegas shooting Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 05:25 PM PST  (Reuters) - Police identified a 22-year-old woman on Tuesday as a "person of interest" in the slaying of an aspiring rapper who was shot and killed while driving his Maserati on the Las Vegas strip and for the deaths of two more people in a fiery crash that ensued. Las Vegas police said Tineesha Lashun Howard was riding in a black Range Rover with prime suspect Ammar Harris when he opened fire on the Maserati being driven by 27-year-old Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr. before dawn on Thursday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Mars May Be Habitable Today, Scientists Say Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 04:10 AM PST LOS ANGELES â€" While Mars was likely a more hospitable place in its wetter, warmer past, the Red Planet may still be capable of supporting microbial life today, some scientists say. Full Story | Top |
| Recluse's gold fortune to be auctioned for taxes Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 06:47 AM PST  Even though he lived in the same quiet neighborhood for decades, no one seemed to know Walter Samaszko Jr. He was so unknown that weeks passed before authorities discovered he had died in his modest Carson ... Full Story | Top |
| Laid-back beach, lost in time, in Zipolite, Mexico Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 02:27 PM PST  ZIPOLITE, Mexico (AP) â€" "You're going to like it here in Zipolite," Daniel Weiner, the owner of Brisa Marina hotel said with a wry smile as he handed me the keys to my quarters. "You're not going to want to leave in five days." Full Story | Top |
| 2nd winter storm in days blasts central US Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 09:25 AM PST KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) â€" The second major snowstorm in a week battered the nation's midsection Tuesday, dropping up to a foot or more of heavy, wet snow that strained power lines and cut electricity to more than 100,000 Midwesterners. At least three deaths were blamed on the blizzard. Gusting winds blew drifts more than 2 feet high and made driving treacherous for those who dared the morning commute. Full Story | Top |
| Senate confirms Hagel for defense secretary Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 03:21 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" A deeply divided Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Republican Chuck Hagel to be the nation's next defense secretary, handing President Barack Obama's pick the top Pentagon job just days before billions of dollars in automatic, across-the-board budget cuts hit the military. Full Story | Top |
| Long-lost wallet returned, complete with cash Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 11:03 AM PST Three years ago, trash collector Harold Walls lost his wallet, which held $800. It turns out, though, the wallet wasn't really lostâ€"it was on vacation. And thanks to a good Samaritan, Walls finally has it back. DelawareOnline.com has the full story. Walls had assumed he dropped his wallet while collecting trash one morning. He and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Why Rand Paul voted to confirm Chuck Hagel as defense secretary Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 03:21 PM PST Only four Republicans crossed party lines on Tuesday to approve President Barack Obama's defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, but no senator sparked more confusion than Kentucky's Rand Paul, a vocal critic of Hagel who nonetheless cast his vote in favor of the former Nebraska senator. Just hours after he had voted against a procedural measure [...] Full Story | Top |
| McConnell camp denounces ‘race-baiting’ attack on his wife Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 01:37 PM PST Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign on Tuesday accused a liberal group of “race-baiting,†after the organization, Progress Kentucky, charged that his Taiwan-born wife, Elaine Chao, had helped send American jobs to China during two terms as labor secretary. Progress Kentucky, which is advocating for McConnell's defeat in 2014, denied its comments were racially [...] Full Story | Top |
| The ‘Unsinkable’ Titanic II Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 03:36 PM PST Let’s hope the Titanic II ocean liner doesn't end up like the original. The Australian billionaire Clive Palmer, who is financing plans for the replica luxury liner, unveiled blueprints for the ship that will be built in China and have its maiden voyage in 2016 to chart the course of the original Titanic from Southampton, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Drop in Taliban attacks incorrect Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 11:35 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan incorrectly reported a decline in Taliban attacks last year, and officials said Tuesday that there was actually no change in the number of attacks on international troops from 2011 to 2012. Full Story | Top |
| Obama warns spending cuts could idle shipbuilder Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 09:28 AM PST  President Barack Obama is arguing that looming government-wide spending cuts could idle military resources like naval aircraft carriers, while Republicans are criticizing the president for taking his arguments ... Full Story | Top |
| Israel quietly sends migrants to Sudan Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 12:29 PM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) â€" Israel has quietly repatriated hundreds of Sudanese migrants in recent months, drawing accusations from rights groups that it has coerced the Africans into potentially life-threatening situations and possibly violated international norms for treating refugees. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: ‘Flexibility’ in applying deep spending cuts won’t work Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 02:01 PM PST President Barack Obama declared on Tuesday that “there’s no smart way†to make the deep across-the-board spending cuts set to kick in at week’s end. His remarks effectively rejected efforts by Republicans to give him more power over where and when to apply the cuts, known in Washington as sequestration. In a campaign-style speech in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Singer Morrissey says no to Kimmel, 'Duck Dynasty' Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 06:11 AM PST  The TV series "Duck Dynasty" is coming between Morrissey and Jimmy Kimmel.The singer and animal rights activist says he canceled his appearance Tuesday on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Gigantic Jet' Lightning Spotted Over China Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 08:31 AM PST  A rare glimpse of a "gigantic jet" â€" a huge and mysterious burst of lightning that connects a thunderstorm with the upper atmosphere â€" was made over China in 2010 and was recently described by scientists. Full Story | Top |
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