| NRA’s LaPierre: New gun laws won't work Posted: 23 Dec 2012 08:50 AM PST  Two days after suggesting a "good guy with a gun" be stationed at every school in the country in response to the deadly shootings in Newtown, Conn., National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre criticized critics of his plan. In an interview broadcast on Sunday's "Meet The Press," LaPierre reiterated the statements he made [...]
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| Mitt Romney ‘had no desire to run,’ son says Posted: 23 Dec 2012 11:12 AM PST  Mitt Romney didn't want to be president, anyway. That's what Tagg Romney, Mitt's oldest son, told the Boston Globe for its big post-mortem on his father's failed presidential bid published on Sunday. "He wanted to be president less than anyone I've met in my life," Tagg Romney told the paper. "He had no desire to [...]
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| Memorial service for Sen. Inouye held in Hawaii Posted: 23 Dec 2012 03:43 PM PST  The late Sen. Daniel Inouye was remembered Sunday as an American hero whose legacy as a war veteran and longtime senator would be felt across Hawaii for years to come.
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| Official: Navy SEAL commander died of apparent suicide Posted: 23 Dec 2012 02:47 PM PST  U.S. military officials are investigating the apparent suicide of a Navy SEAL commander in Afghanistan.
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| Air strike kills dozens of Syrians waiting to buy bread Posted: 23 Dec 2012 12:31 PM PST  Dozens of people were killed and many more wounded in a Syrian government air strike that hit a bakery where a crowd was queuing for bread on Sunday, activists said. If confirmed, the attack on Halfaya in central Syria, which was seized by rebels last week, would be one of the deadliest air strikes of Syria's civil war. Videos uploaded by activists showed dozens of bloodstained corpses lying amid rubble and shrapnel. An adolescent boy with both his feet blown off lay flailing in the middle of a road. "When I got there, I could see piles of bodies all over the ground. ...
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| Former President Bush still hospitalized Posted: 23 Dec 2012 08:16 AM PST  President George H.W. Bush, who has been in a Houston hospital with a lingering cough since November, needs to "build up his energy" before he can be released, doctors said Sunday.
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| Lieberman fears country may go over 'fiscal cliff' Posted: 23 Dec 2012 10:15 AM PST  Senators bickered Sunday over who's to blame for lurching the country toward a year-end "fiscal cliff," bemoaning the lack of a deal days before the deadline but bridging no differences in the debate.
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| Dental assistant fired for being 'irresistible' is 'devastated' Posted: 23 Dec 2012 07:58 AM PST  After working as a dental assistant for ten years, Melissa Nelson was fired for being too "irresistible" and a "threat" to her employer's marriage. "I think it is completely wrong," Nelson said. "I think it is sending a message that men can do whatever they want in the work force."
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| Norquist: Obama, Dems using Newtown for 'political purposes' Posted: 23 Dec 2012 08:23 AM PST  National Rifle Association board member and president of Americans for Tax Reform Grover Norquist said on Sunday that President Obama and Democrats are politicizing the Newtown tragedy by pushing for gun control. "We ought to calm down and not take tragedies like this, crimes like...
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| Santa tracker race: Google against NORAD Posted: 23 Dec 2012 09:39 AM PST  Only on the Internet could you find two tech companies competing to track Santa. Last week NORAD, which has tracked Santa since 1955, announced its new Internet Santa service. While it still tracks Santa and his reindeer on Christmas, it replaced Google Maps with Microsoft's Bing Maps.
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| Senators: Hagel would face tough confirmation Posted: 23 Dec 2012 10:15 AM PST  Two senators predicted Sunday that former Sen. Chuck Hagel would face a difficult confirmation if nominated by President Barack Obama to be defense secretary.
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| Anti-tax conservatives say no to tax-increase deal Posted: 23 Dec 2012 06:04 AM PST  BOSTON (AP) — In the city where a protest over tax policy sparked a revolution, modern day tea party activists are cheering the recent Republican revolt in Washington that embarrassed House Speaker John Boehner and pushed the country closer to a "fiscal cliff" that forces tax increases and massive spending cuts on virtually every American.
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| Telepresence robots let employees 'beam' into work Posted: 23 Dec 2012 12:58 PM PST  PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Engineer Dallas Goecker attends meetings, jokes with colleagues and roams the office building just like other employees at his company in Silicon Valley.
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| Audits of U.S. businesses for illegal immigrants rising Posted: 23 Dec 2012 11:29 AM PST  SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached its highest number yet of companies audited for illegal immigrants on their payrolls this past fiscal year.
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| Republicans aren't the only gun-control obstacle Posted: 23 Dec 2012 01:34 AM PST  resident Obama's call for Congress to show the "courage" to consider new gun-control laws was aimed at Republicans, but he faces challenges with members of his own party who have a history of cowering from the gun debate.
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| NKorea could have U.S. within missile range Posted: 22 Dec 2012 10:05 PM PST  SEOUL (Reuters) - This month's rocket launch by reclusive North Korea shows it has likely developed the technology, long suspected in the West, to fire a warhead more than 10,000 km (6,200 miles), South Korean officials said on Sunday, putting the U.S. West Coast in range. North Korea said the December 12 launch put a weather satellite in orbit but critics say it was aimed at nurturing the kind of technology needed to mount a nuclear warhead on a long-range missile. North Korea is banned from testing missile or nuclear technology under U.N. ...
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| Egypt opposition alleges vote fraud in referendum Posted: 23 Dec 2012 08:44 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's opposition said Sunday it will keep fighting the Islamist-backed constitution after the Muslim Brotherhood, the main group backing the charter, claimed it passed with a 64 percent "yes" vote in a referendum.
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| Ohio holiday travel collision of minivans kills four Posted: 23 Dec 2012 12:29 PM PST CINCINNATI (AP) — Four people were killed when a minivan carrying a family leaving a Christmas party went the wrong way on a southwestern Ohio highway and hit another minivan whose driver and family were going to see grandparents for the holidays, police said. |
