| Tornado strikes beachfront neighborhood in New York City Posted: 08 Sep 2012 03:13 PM PDT  A tornado swept out of the sea and hit a beachfront neighborhood in New York City on Saturday, hurling debris in the air, knocking out power and startling residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon.
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| Romney praises Clinton for elevating the Democratic convention Posted: 08 Sep 2012 02:53 PM PDT  Mitt Romney says Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention "really did elevate" that gathering and that the former two-term president might even be able to win another four years in the White House "if the Constitution weren't in his way." Romney's comments, in an excerpt of an interview with Meet the Press, came [...]
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| 'Secretary of Explaining Stuff' to campaign with Obama in Florida Posted: 08 Sep 2012 12:32 PM PDT  Bill "Secretary of Explaining Stuff" Clinton will campaign for President Barack Obama's reelection next week in Florida, a swing state vital to Mitt Romney's hopes of capturing the White House in November. Clinton will headline rallies on Tuesday in the Miami area and Wednesday in the Orlando area, the incumbent's campaign announced in a terse [...]
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| McCain: The U.S. approach to Iran is a 'train wreck' Posted: 08 Sep 2012 12:26 PM PDT  U.S. Sen. John McCain says he is disappointed with his party's presidential candidate for sidestepping world affairs in his campaign for the White House but reserves his most scathing words for the current dweller, blaming Barack Obama for inaction while the situation in Syria and elsewhere "cries out for American leadership."
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| Poll: Obama widens lead over Romney despite jobs data Posted: 08 Sep 2012 02:08 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, picking up support following the Democratic National Convention, widened his narrow lead over Republican U.S. presidential challenger Mitt Romney in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Saturday. The latest daily tracking poll showed Obama, a Democrat, with a lead of 4 percentage points over Romney. Forty-seven percent of 1,457 likely voters surveyed online over the previous four days said they would vote for Obama if the November 6 elections were held today, compared with 43 percent for Romney. "The bump is actually happening. ...
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| Joe Biden challenges press to 'fact check me' Posted: 08 Sep 2012 11:58 AM PDT  ZANESVILLE, Ohio — Vice President Joe Biden extended an invitation to the media to check the veracity of his claims on Medicare, telling the press to "fact check me." "What they're proposing, and this is a fact. I say to the press, 'Fact check me,'"...
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| Mitt Romney vows God will stay in GOP platform Posted: 08 Sep 2012 01:49 PM PDT  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Making reference for the first time to the Democrats' about-face on having the word "God" in their party's platform, Mitt Romney said here today that if he is elected, God will not be removed from the Republican platform. "I will not...
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| Nicaragua evacuates 3,000 as volcano spews ash Posted: 08 Sep 2012 02:38 PM PDT  The San Cristobal volcano spewed out a column of ash and gas 2½ miles high Saturday, leading Nicaraguan authorities to evacuate about 3,000 people from nine communities around the country's tallest mountain.
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| Captive U.S. soldier safe, Haqqani commander says Posted: 08 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT  A U.S. soldier held by Afghan militants will not be harmed despite the Obama administration's decision to declare his alleged captors a terrorist group, a senior member of the Pakistan-based Haqqani network told The Associated Press on Saturday. However, the United States and NATO can expect stepped up attacks, he said.
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| Police search U.K. home of family slain in France Posted: 08 Sep 2012 08:35 AM PDT  French and British police on Saturday searched the U.K. home of a British-Iraqi couple brutally slain while vacationing in the French Alps, while investigators looked into a possible family dispute as a potential motive for the attack.
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| Two bodies recovered on Mount Rainier glacier Posted: 08 Sep 2012 12:01 PM PDT  Park rangers returned to a glacier on Mount Rainier Saturday to search for a fourth victim of a series of winter storms, a day after recovering what they presume to be the second and third bodies.
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| Tropical storm approaches Bermuda, likely missing direct hit Posted: 08 Sep 2012 12:25 PM PDT  HAMILTON, Bermuda (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Leslie swirled over the Atlantic on a track likely to pass east of Bermuda on Sunday as the outer wind and rain bands approached the island, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported on Saturday. A wealthy British overseas territory and global reinsurance center, Bermuda is not expected to take a direct hit from Leslie, which could re-strengthen by late Sunday to a Category 1 hurricane, the lowest on the Saffir-Simpson scale of wind intensity. ...
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| Chicago teachers resume negotiations to avoid major strike Posted: 08 Sep 2012 03:05 PM PDT  CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Teachers Union resumed "intense" negotiations on Saturday with the nation's third-largest school district to avert what would be the biggest U.S. labor strike in a year over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's demand for sweeping school reforms. Some 29,000 teachers and support staff have threatened to strike on Monday, setting up an awkward confrontation between Emanuel, President Barack Obama's former top White House aide, and organized labor in the president's home city. ...
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| Man held in abduction of children, stealing boat Posted: 08 Sep 2012 04:07 PM PDT  A Northern California man arrested after allegedly abducting his two children and trying to evade authorities by stealing a sailboat and sailing along the Northern California coast was being held on $200,000 bail, authorities said.
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| Pakistan frees Christian girl accused of blasphemy Posted: 08 Sep 2012 07:16 AM PDT  A young Christian girl accused of burning pages of Islam's holy book was freed Saturday from a jail near the capital where she had been held for three weeks, a Pakistani jail official said.
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| Teen bomber kills six near NATO headquarters in Kabul Posted: 08 Sep 2012 06:19 AM PDT  A 14-year-old suicide bomber detonated explosives near the heavily barricaded NATO headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, killing six civilians including children, NATO and local officials said. The bomber wore a vest packed with explosives and rode right up to the NATO gates on a bicycle, underscoring the insurgents' ability to strike deep inside the Afghan capital, ahead of the withdrawal of most foreign combat forces by the end of 2014. Pieces of flesh and splattered blood lay on the street near the base, where the small bodies of children were lifted into ambulances. ...
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| Syrian troops storm Damascus refugee area, chase rebels Posted: 08 Sep 2012 10:29 AM PDT  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government troops stormed an area of Damascus populated by Palestinian refugees on Saturday after a four-day artillery assault on the southern suburb where rebels have been sheltering, opposition activists said. President Bashar al-Assad's forces have largely preferred to use air power and artillery to hit areas where rebels are dug in, deploying infantry only once many have fled. Activists said the new ground onslaught put civilians at risk. ...
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| Shark bites surfer in waters off northeast Florida Posted: 08 Sep 2012 11:48 AM PDT A surfer is recovering from surgery on his foot after being bitten by a shark in the waters off a northeast Florida beach. |
| Infant, 3 others killed in northeast Oklahoma storms Posted: 08 Sep 2012 10:07 AM PDT Authorities say a couple and their grandchild had no time to reach a shelter before winds from a severe thunderstorm flung their mobile home into a creek in northeast Oklahoma, killing them. |
| S.C. Marine drowns after graduating from boot camp Posted: 08 Sep 2012 10:22 AM PDT Beaufort County officials say a 19-year-old Marine drowned just a few hours after he graduated from boot camp. |
