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| Democratic Rep. Ellison launches into tirade on Fox News (VIDEO) Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 06:58 AM PST Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison exploded during a live interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday, calling the Fox News host the "worst excuse for a journalist I've ever seen" and a "shill for the Republican Party." The Minnesota congressman was on the program to discuss President Barack Obama's remarks on the sequester when he launched into [...] Full Story | Top |
| On the Brink of the Budget Sequester, More Damage for the GOP than Obama Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 04:10 AM PST Most Americans think both Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress are mishandling government spending â€" but, on the brink of across-the-board budget cuts, it’s the GOP that receives disproportionately more flak, including from its own partisan and ideological base. While 52 percent of adults... Full Story | Top |
| Father asks school to rethink dress code after son was told to remove Marines T-shirt Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 10:07 AM PST A father wants an Illinois school district to rethink its dress code after his 14-year-old son was threatened with suspension if he did not remove his U.S. Marines T-shirt. According to FoxNews.com, Daniel McIntyre, 44, said his son was told by teacher Karen Deverell during reading class at Genoa-Kingston Middle School on Monday that his [...] Full Story | Top |
| Pope speaks of "rough seas" of papacy at emotional farewell Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 06:51 AM PST VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict bid an emotional farewell at his last general audience on Wednesday, acknowledging the "rough seas" that marked his papacy "when it seemed that the Lord was sleeping." In an unusually public outpouring for such a private man, he alluded to some of the most difficult times of his papacy, which was dogged by sex abuse scandals, leaks of his private papers and reports of infighting among his closest aides. ... Full Story | Top |
| White House says ICE acted on its own in releasing detainees ahead of sequester Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 01:17 PM PST (Photo: FOX News videos) On Wednesday, a day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced its decision to release several hundred illegal immigrants from detention centers facing budget cuts, the White House stressed it had no hand in the decision. Jay Carney, White House press secretary, told reporters at Wednesday's White House press briefing that "this [...] Full Story | Top |
| Newtown Dad's Tearful Senate Plea for Assault Weapons Ban Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 12:56 PM PST  Neil Heslin Sobs While Testifying About Son Jesse's Death at Sandy Hook Full Story | Top |
| The most dangerous places in the world Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 04:14 AM PST On the Radar While John Kerry is making Syria the focus of his first international trip, the newly-minted secretary of state has likely already discovered that Syria is only one among many volatile situations around the world. From the “genocidal type†war in Syria to the growing presence of al Qaeda affiliates in Northern Africa, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Father of Newtown victim: Ban assault weapons Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 02:45 PM PST  After weeks of arguing constitutional fine points and citing rival statistics, senators wrangling over gun control saw and heard the anguish of a bereft father.Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son, Jesse, ... Full Story | Top |
| 9/11 victim's mom upset film used son's last words Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 06:54 AM PST NEW CANAAN, Conn. (AP) â€" A Connecticut woman whose son died in the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center says she's upset the Oscar-winning movie "Zero Dark Thirty" used a recording of his last words without her permission. Full Story | Top |
| Lions, bears removed from gangster's property Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 09:41 AM PST BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) â€" BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) â€" A man known as Nutzu the Pawnbroker has been indicted for leading a fearsome criminal gang, but the public seems to be more interested in his pets: four lions and two bears. Full Story | Top |
| Corporations urge Supreme Court to embrace gay marriage Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 01:16 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 200 businesses on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a federal law that restricts the definition of marriage to heterosexual unions, in one of corporate America's most prominent efforts to support same-sex marriage. The companies signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief in Windsor v. United States, a high-profile case challenging the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). ... Full Story | Top |
| Junior high teacher tells kid to remove Marines t-shirt or get suspended Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 04:33 AM PST The latest bit of anti-gun hysteria erupted in a school setting on Monday when an eighth-grade teacher threatened a 14-year-old boy with suspension if he did not remove his t-shirt supporting the United States Marines. Full Story | Top |
| Republicans ask: What would you do with your $52,000 share of national debt? Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 07:20 AM PST Fifty-two thousand dollars could, among other things, buy you NFL season tickets for nearly 67 years and groceries for seven years, and make for a hefty down payment on a house. So Republicans argue in a new infographic released by Speaker John Boehner's office on Wednesday morning, part of their effort to highlight Democratic spending [...] Full Story | Top |
| 500-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature With Limbs Under Its Head Unearthed Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 10:07 AM PST  Scientists have unearthed extraordinarily preserved fossils of a 520-million-year-old sea creature, one of the earliest animal fossils ever found, according to a new study. Full Story | Top |
| Senators clash over need to ban assault weapons Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 08:54 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Recent mass shootings like the massacre of first-graders and staffers at a Connecticut elementary school and the increasing deadliness of assault weapons makes a ban on those firearms more urgent than ever, the Senate author of a proposal to prohibit them said Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
| Calif. female lawmakers condemn Oscar host Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 07:34 AM PST  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) â€" Two female California state lawmakers have condemned Oscar host Seth MacFarlane's comments during Sunday's awards presentation as degrading toward women and asked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to use better judgment in the future. Full Story | Top |
| Obama's divide-and-conquer strategy: Is it really about destroying GOP? Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 02:57 PM PST There’s no doubt about it, things aren’t going well for the Republicans. Full Story | Top |
| How is John Kerry’s French? Pas mauvais. (Not bad) Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 11:07 AM PST Pas mal du tout, Monsieur Kerry. Not bad at all. The Democratic former senator from Massachusetts learned French while attending a boarding school in Switzerland starting when he was 11. And he spent many childhood summers in the Atlantic coast region of Brittany with French relatives. Those days are long goneâ€"but while Kerry seemed a [...] Full Story | Top |
| U.S. gay couples report poorer health than straight married counterparts Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 01:07 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gay and lesbian couples living together report poorer health than straight married couples, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday, speculating that legalizing same-sex marriage could reduce the disparities. Studies have shown that married couples enjoy better health than people who are single, divorced or separated. When Dr Hui Liu, an assistant professor of sociology at Michigan State University, and her team studied the health of gay and straight couples, they found marriage made a difference. ... Full Story | Top |
| Florida teenager's shooter wears disguise: lawyer Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 12:09 PM PST  (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, the man whose fatal shooting of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin a year ago captured the nation's attention, wears a disguise or body armor in public as he feels threatened, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Zimmerman remains in hiding and "can't go out in public without wearing a disguise or body armor," defense attorney Mark O'Mara told CNN. Zimmerman said he mistook Martin, who was 17, for a burglar and shot him in self defense after a confrontation on February 26, 2012. ... Full Story | Top |
| As budget cuts loom, is government shutdown next? Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 08:25 PM PST  With big, automatic budget cuts about to kick in, House Republicans are turning to mapping strategy for the next showdown just a month away, when a government shutdown instead of just a slowdown will be ... Full Story | Top |
| Colo. transgender girl can't use school bathroom Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 02:30 PM PST FOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) â€" At first, Jeremy and Kathryn Mathis didn't think much of their son's behavior. Coy took his sister's pink blanket, and shunned the car they gave him for Christmas. Full Story | Top |
| Who needs friends like these? Dog shoots owner in the leg Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 09:41 AM PST A dog may be man's best friend, but we're guessing that Gregory Dale Lanier might take issue with that sentiment after his pooch shot him with a loaded gun. According to Highlands Today, Lanier was driving around Sebring, Fla., with his dog riding shotgun (pun not intended). The dogâ€"unnamed, but we'll call him Clintâ€"accidentally kicked [...] Full Story | Top |
| Eric Holder Sounds the Sequester Alarm Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 03:30 PM PST  Attorney General says automatic cuts will make Americans less safe Full Story | Top |
| Rosa Parks statue unveiled at Capitol Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 03:38 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The nation's most powerful politicians honored Rosa Parks on Wednesday by unveiling her statue in a permanent place in the U.S. Capitol. President Barack Obama praised Parks as an enduring reminder of what true leadership requires, "no matter how humble or lofty our positions." Full Story | Top |
| Weary of crises, Americans tune out budget cut talk Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 12:08 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President Barack Obama is pulling out all the stops to warn just what could happen if automatic budget cuts kick in. Americans are reacting with a collective yawn. Full Story | Top |
| Sequester Fallout - The Risk For Republicans (The Note) Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 06:58 AM PST By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) NOTABLES EXCLUSIVE â€" A RARE SEQUESTER MEETING AT THE WHITE HOUSE. A Congressional source tells ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl that the top four Congressional leaders â€" Boehner, Reid, Pelosi and McConnell â€" will meet with President Obama... Full Story | Top |
| Journalist Bob Woodward blasts Obama "madness" in handling cuts Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 10:37 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Journalist Bob Woodward on Wednesday criticized Barack Obama's handling of the automatic U.S. budget cuts set to take effect this week, calling the president's decision to hold back on military deployments "madness." His comments continued what has become a running dispute between Woodward, perhaps the country's best-known print journalist, and the Democratic White House over who is responsible for the across-the-board cuts scheduled to begin on Friday. ... Full Story | Top |
| DHS releasing illegal immigrants before sequester Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 05:54 AM PST 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, ... Full Story | Top |
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