| Final day of funerals for Newtown shooting victims Posted: 22 Dec 2012 08:23 AM PST  The final three victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School will be laid to rest today, ending a somber week. A mass will take place today at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church for Josephine Gay, who had celebrated her 7th birthday...
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| Netanyahu lauds Kerry nomination for U.S. secretary of state job Posted: 22 Dec 2012 11:18 AM PST  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday welcomed the appointment of his personal friend John Kerry as U.S. secretary of state and described him as "a known supporter of Israel's security". President Barack Obama nominated Kerry on Friday, calling the veteran U.S. senator the "perfect choice" as America's top diplomat. Netanyahu said in a statement: "I congratulate John Kerry on being chosen for the position of U.S. Secretary of State. Kerry is very experienced and is a known supporter of Israel's security. ...
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| India police use water cannon, tear gas as gang-rape protests intensify Posted: 22 Dec 2012 07:39 AM PST  Indian police used batons, tear gas and water cannon to turn back thousands of people marching on the presidential palace on Saturday in intensifying protests against the gang-rape of a woman on the streets and on social media. The 23-year-old victim is battling for her life in hospital after she was beaten, raped for almost an hour and thrown out of a moving bus on a busy New Delhi street last Sunday. Five people have been arrested. The protesters, largely college students, are demanding the death penalty for the accused and safety assurances for women. ...
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| Wintry weather could mean white Christmas in Northeast Posted: 22 Dec 2012 01:56 PM PST  Powerful winds and snow whipped parts of the eastern United States on Saturday, carrying the promise of a white Christmas while threatening to cause problems for the many Americans traveling for the holidays, meteorologists said. The storm moving in from the Midwest was sending strong winds into the mid-Atlantic states and southern New England. It buried parts of Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin in more than a foot of snow earlier this week. The high winds threatened to delay flights at busy airports in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, meteorologists said. ...
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| FBI questions Benghazi consulate attack suspect Posted: 22 Dec 2012 07:45 AM PST  Ali Harzi, a Tunisian, was detained in Turkey and extradited to Tunisia in October where authorities have said he is "strongly suspected" of being involved in the attack.
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| Fiscal cliff spooks shoppers in last lap of holiday race Posted: 22 Dec 2012 01:30 PM PST  Retailers may not see a sales surge this weekend as ho-hum discounts and fears about imminent tax hikes and cuts in government spending give Americans fewer reasons to open their wallets in the last few ...
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| Police probe why man fatally shot 3 in rural Pa. Posted: 22 Dec 2012 03:52 PM PST  Authorities say the shooting of the gunman in a rampage in central Pennsylvania that left three people dead was a justifiable homicide.
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| Rolling Stones guitarist Wood reportedly ties knot Posted: 22 Dec 2012 10:33 AM PST  Two British newspapers say Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has married his fiancee Sally Humphreys at a ceremony at London's Dorchester Hotel.
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| Leagues poised to challenge NJ over sports betting Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:14 PM PST  Four major professional sports leagues and the NCAA are poised to move forward with their legal fight over New Jersey's plans to allow sports gambling.That comes after a judge on Friday rejected arguments ...
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| Conn. town in mourning inundated with gifts, money Posted: 22 Dec 2012 03:21 PM PST  NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Newtown's children were showered with gifts Saturday — tens of thousands of teddy bears, Barbie dolls, soccer balls and board games — and those are only some of the tokens of support from around the world for the town in mourning.
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| Russia welcomes any offer to give refuge to Syria's Assad Posted: 22 Dec 2012 01:04 PM PST  Russia would welcome any country's offer of safe haven for Syrian President Bashar Assad, but has no plans to make one of its own, Moscow's foreign minister said in the latest comments to suggest a growing distance between the two allies.
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| Analysis: GOP policies led to fiscal cliff blowup Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:11 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans seem shocked by their party's meltdown on the so-called fiscal cliff. They shouldn't be.
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| Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues Posted: 22 Dec 2012 11:41 AM PST  MAD ISLAND, Texas (AP) — Armed with flashlights, recordings of bird calls, a small notebook and a stash of candy bars, scientist Rich Kostecke embarked on an annual 24-hour Christmastime count of birds along the Texas Gulf Coast. Yellow rail. Barn owl. Bittern. Crested Cara-Cara. Kostecke rattled off the names and scribbled them in his notebook.
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| Predicting who's at risk for violence isn't easy Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:34 AM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — It happened after Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Colo., and now Sandy Hook: People figure there surely were signs of impending violence. But experts say predicting who will be the next mass shooter is virtually impossible — partly because as commonplace as these calamities seem, they are relatively rare crimes.
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| Parents hesitant about NRA armed schools proposal Posted: 21 Dec 2012 07:43 PM PST  MIAMI (AP) — The nation's largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for the placement of an armed police officer in every school, but parents and educators questioned how safe such a move would keep kids, whether it would be economically feasible and how it would alter student life. Their reactions ranged from supportive to disgusted.
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| Bionic suit helps paralyzed patients walk again Posted: 22 Dec 2012 09:44 AM PST Patients paralyzed by spinal cord injuries are taking their precious first steps at a Southern California hospital with the help of a battery-powered bionic suit that was first designed to help soldiers carry heavy loads. "Mentally it's a wonderful feeling to be upright and moving,"... |
| Judge OKs $7.8 billion settlement for BP oil spill Posted: 21 Dec 2012 05:38 PM PST  BP has estimated it will pay $7.8 billion to resolve more than 100,000 claims by businesses and individuals from the nation's worst offshore oil spill. The settlement has no cap.
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| John Kerry a familiar face on the world stage Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:09 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John Kerry, President Barack Obama's pick for secretary of state, is a familiar face to the world leaders vital to American interests.
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| Pope pardons ex-butler who stole, leaked documents Posted: 22 Dec 2012 07:49 AM PST  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI granted his former butler a Christmas pardon Saturday, forgiving him in person during a jailhouse meeting for stealing and leaking his private papers in one of the gravest Vatican security breaches in recent times.
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| Authorities: 3 set deadly Ind. blast for insurance Posted: 21 Dec 2012 05:28 PM PST  Three people charged in a gas explosion that devastated an Indianapolis neighborhood deliberately set up the deadly blast to collect a big insurance payout, authorities said Friday.
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| Iron Butterfly bassist Lee Dorman dies at age 70 Posted: 21 Dec 2012 10:17 PM PST  Lee Dorman, the bassist for psychedelic rock band Iron Butterfly, has died at age 70.
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