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| AP Sources: 'Fiscal cliff' deal emerging Monday, Dec 31, 2012 12:06 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Working with Congress against a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama said Monday that a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" was in sight but not yet finalized. The emerging deal would raise tax rates on family income over $450,000 and individual income over $400,000 a year, increase the estate tax rate and extend unemployment benefits for one year. Full Story | Top |
| Tentative ‘fiscal cliff’ deal reached in Senate Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:53 PM PST With 2013 just over 2 hours old, the Senate voted 89-8 on Tuesday to approve a last-minute deal to avert income tax hikes on all but the richest Americans and stall painful spending cuts as part of a hard-fought compromise to avoid the economically toxic “fiscal cliff.†The country had already technically tumbled over the [...] Full Story | Top |
| House won't vote before midnight on 'cliff' deal Monday, Dec 31, 2012 01:20 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The House will miss the midnight Monday deadline lawmakers set for voting to avoid the "fiscal cliff." Full Story | Top |
| "Fiscal cliff" tumble looms despite Senate efforts Monday, Dec 31, 2012 03:36 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States was on track to tumble over the "fiscal cliff" at midnight on Monday, at least for a day, as lawmakers held back from supporting an eleventh-hour plan from Senate leaders to avert severe tax increases and spending cuts. The U.S. House of Representatives looked unlikely to vote on a Senate "fiscal cliff" plan before midnight, possibly pushing a legislative decision into New Year's Day, when financial markets will be closed. The plan was heavy on tax increases and light on spending cuts, which was unlikely to appeal to Republicans in the House. ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Deal or No Deal, 'Cliff' Debate Will Linger Into 2013 Monday, Dec 31, 2012 03:00 AM PST  Analysis The fiscal cliff is just the beginning. Regardless of whether Democrats and Republicans reach some kind of last-minute bargain to avoid the worst effects of tax hikes and spending cuts, the disaster that has been the fiscal cliff negotiations has broad implications for the... Full Story | Top |
| AP IMPACT: Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali Monday, Dec 31, 2012 12:59 PM PST  MOPTI, Mali (AP) â€" Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic fighters are burrowing into the earth, erecting a formidable set of defenses to protect what has essentially become al-Qaida's new country. Full Story | Top |
| List: No love for 'fiscal cliff,' 'spoiler alert' Monday, Dec 31, 2012 05:32 AM PST DETROIT (AP) â€" Spoiler alert: This story contains words and phrases that some people want to ban from the English language. "Spoiler alert" is among them. So are "kick the can down the road," ''trending" and "bucket list." Full Story | Top |
| What Does 'Auld Lang Syne' Mean? Monday, Dec 31, 2012 07:10 AM PST Here it is. The answer to a perennial question of what on earth does “Auld Lang Syne†mean? The confusion over the song is arguably almost as much of a tradition as the song itself. As revelers stumble and mumble through the versesâ€"singing the “auld... Full Story | Top |
| Doctors: Clinton making ‘excellent progress’ in treatment for blood clot 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 |
| Hangover Cures and Myths Monday, Dec 31, 2012 03:00 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 â€auld acquaintances†than they intended and waking up to  2013 with a vicious hangover. A hangover is essentially a build-up of acetaldehyde, a toxin in... Full Story | Top |
| State Department made "grievous mistake" over Benghazi: Senate report Monday, Dec 31, 2012 10:23 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department made a "grievous mistake" in keeping the U.S. mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly alarming threat assessments in the weeks before a deadly attack by militants, a Senate committee said on Monday. A report from the Senate Homeland Security Committee on the September 11 attacks on the U.S. mission and a nearby CIA annex, in which the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans died, faulted intelligence agencies for not focusing tightly enough on Libyan extremists. ... Full Story | Top |
| New Year Welcomes Oddball State Laws Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:28 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. Turns out 2013 will be unlucky for cat lovers in... Full Story | Top |
| Congress won’t make midnight ‘fiscal cliff’ deadline Monday, Dec 31, 2012 02:08 PM PST America is going over the “fiscal cliff†â€" for a few minutes, or hours, at the very least. Don't panic. There's no need to move the family into the Doomsday bunker in the backyard. Yet. While President Barack Obama and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have said they are close to a broad agreement [...] Full Story | Top |
| Chavez suffers new complications in cancer fight Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:41 PM PST  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) â€" President Hugo Chavez's new complications after cancer surgery prompted his closest allies to call for Venezuelans to pray for him on Monday, presenting an increasingly bleak outlook and prompting growing speculation about whether the ailing leader has much longer to live. Full Story | Top |
| In Indian student's gang rape, murder, two worlds collide Monday, Dec 31, 2012 09:32 AM PST  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - One of hundreds of attacks reported in New Delhi each year, the gang rape and murder of a medical student caught Indian authorities and political parties flat-footed, slow to see that the assault on a private bus had come to symbolize an epidemic of crime against women. ... 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 |
| Progress seen in last-minute 'fiscal cliff' talks Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:47 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Working against a midnight deadline, negotiators for the White House and congressional Republicans narrowed their differences Monday on legislation to avert across-the-board tax increases. Full Story | Top |
| Colleges help students scrub online footprints Monday, Dec 31, 2012 07:08 AM PST BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) â€" Samantha Grossman wasn't always thrilled with the impression that emerged when people Googled her name. Full Story | Top |
| 9 killed, more than 2 dozen hurt when charter tour bus veers off icy highway in eastern Oregon Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:50 AM PST PENDLETON, Ore. - A tour bus careened through a guardrail along an icy Oregon highway and 100 feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing nine people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Fiscal Cliff Breach Makes Sense for Pols Monday, Dec 31, 2012 02:37 PM PST Analysis: Fiscal cliff breach bewilders many, but local politics make it logical for lawmakers Full Story | Top |
| Desperate for weapons, Syrian rebels make their own, fix tanks Monday, Dec 31, 2012 07:35 AM PST ALEPPO PROVINCE, Syria (Reuters) - At a converted warehouse in the midst of a block of residential homes in a northern Syrian town, men are hard at work at giant lathes, shavings of metal gathering around them. Sacks of potassium nitrate and sugar lie nearby. In a neat row against the wall is the finished product, homemade mortars. Syrian rebels say they have been forced to make them because their calls for heavy weapons and ammunition to fight President Bashar al-Assad have gone unanswered. "No one's giving us any support. ... Full Story | Top |
| NYC couple arrested; explosive substance found Monday, Dec 31, 2012 09:06 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) â€" A Manhattan couple was facing weapons charges Monday after authorities said they found a substance used to make bombs and papers titled "The Terrorist Encyclopedia" in their Greenwich Village apartment. Full Story | Top |
| New York bomb suspects had "terrorist encyclopedia" Monday, Dec 31, 2012 10:06 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police arrested a New York City couple in their apartment on Saturday after authorities investigating a credit card theft found a highly explosive compound, bomb-making manuals, a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition, officials said on Monday. Morgan Gliedman, 27, and Aaron Greene, 31, are being charged with two counts of suspicion of criminal possession of a weapon, for the shotgun, court documents show. One sheaf of papers found in the apartment had a cover page that read "The Terrorist Encyclopedia," according to court documents. ... Full Story | Top |
| Kanye West, Kim Kardashian expecting 1st child Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:23 AM PST  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) â€" A kid for Kimye: Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are expecting their first child. Full Story | Top |
| Did Obama Just Make an Assassination Reference? Monday, Dec 31, 2012 11:38 AM PST  During an oddly jokey statement at the White House as the fiscal deadline bore down Monday afternoon, President Obama said, "I'm going to be president for the next four years. I hope." He was warning Republicans that, yes, they'd have to deal with him for a while. But it was, to be sure, a strange moment. Could he actually have been joking about assassination? About impeachment? The apocalypse? Or has everyone just had enough of these negotiations? Full Story | Top |
| 9 die as tour bus crashes on icy Oregon highway Monday, Dec 31, 2012 09:39 AM PST PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) â€" The stretch of rural Oregon interstate where a tour bus crashed through a guardrail and plummeted 100 feet down a steep embankment is so notorious that state transportation officials have published a specific advisory warning of its dangers. Full Story | Top |
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