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• Live Updates: 12 killed in shooting at satirical newspaper office in Paris
• Cartoonists pay tribute to Charlie Hebdo attack victims
• Obama touts auto bailout success, Michigan worries about trade
• U.S. appeals court hears arguments on restrictive Texas abortion law
• U.S. senator urges tighter screening for all airport workers
• New York City due to end ban on cellphones in schools: reports
• House GOP tries to regroup after divisive speaker vote
• Young mother let terrorists into Charlie Hebdo building after threat against daughter
• White House threatens veto on Republican bill to weaken Obamacare
• Arab League and top Muslim body condemn Paris attack
• Obama calls Paris violence 'terrorist attack'
• Paris shooting: Gunmen attack satirical French magazine
• Tail of missing AirAsia jet located
• Bitterly cold air stretches from Dakotas to Alabama
• 12 dead in shooting at French satirical weekly
• 12 dead in 'terrorist' attack at Paris paper
• FBI to question 100s of patients after Texas clinic shooting
• House reauthorizes special committee probing Benghazi attack

Live Updates: 12 killed in shooting at satirical newspaper office in Paris Posted: 07 Jan 2015 04:22 PM PST The manhunt for the terrorists responsible is underway.

Cartoonists pay tribute to Charlie Hebdo attack victims Posted: 07 Jan 2015 10:36 AM PST Cartoonists from around the world create powerful images to honor those killed in Wednesday's attack on the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper known for its inflammatory caricatures.

Obama touts auto bailout success, Michigan worries about trade Posted: 07 Jan 2015 02:45 PM PST By Jeff Mason WAYNE, Mich. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, on a trip to unveil elements of his State of the Union address, took a victory lap in Michigan on Wednesday to tout his support of the auto industry, but concerns about trade policies hung in the background of his tour. "America's resurgence is real," Obama said at a Ford Motor Co plant near Detroit after walking around the factory and sitting in a Mustang. Obama noted that his government-backed bailout of the auto industry was not popular, even in Michigan, but had been a success. ...

U.S. appeals court hears arguments on restrictive Texas abortion law Posted: 07 Jan 2015 10:57 AM PST By Jonathan Kaminsky NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Federal appeals court judges, hearing arguments on a restrictive Texas abortion law that critics say would shutter more than half the state's remaining abortion clinics, on Wednesday asked pointed questions of attorneys for both sides. In a closely watched case, the three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is weighing a requirement struck down by a lower court that the state's abortion clinics must have certain hospital-like settings for surgeries. ...

U.S. senator urges tighter screening for all airport workers Posted: 07 Jan 2015 01:26 PM PST By David Lawder and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employees at U.S. airports should face tighter security screening, a U.S. senator and a New York prosecutor said on Wednesday, two weeks after a baggage handler was charged with helping to smuggle 153 guns onto flights from Atlanta to New York City. Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said he asked the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to require that all airline and airport employees be physically screened every day before work, his office said in a statement. ...

New York City due to end ban on cellphones in schools: reports Posted: 07 Jan 2015 07:07 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City is expected to announce on Wednesday the end of its ban on students bringing their cellphones into the city's public schools, newspapers reported. Under the new rules, principals in the largest school system in the United States will be allowed to devise their own cellphone policy, or use a default policy of allowing students to bring their phones to school as long as they remain out of sight, the reports said. ...

House GOP tries to regroup after divisive speaker vote Posted: 07 Jan 2015 04:38 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans began the new Congress with old divisions on display Wednesday, bitter fallout from a failed rebellion against Speaker John Boehner.

Young mother let terrorists into Charlie Hebdo building after threat against daughter Posted: 07 Jan 2015 11:13 AM PST A young mother says she let gunmen into the Paris office building housing the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo because they threatened her and her daughter with violence.

White House threatens veto on Republican bill to weaken Obamacare Posted: 07 Jan 2015 10:12 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama would veto a Republican-backed bill that would reduce the number of people who qualify for employer-based health insurance under his signature Affordable Care Act. The bill, introduced on Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives, aims to require companies to offer healthcare coverage to employees who work 40 hours per week, instead of the 30-hour threshold under the reforms known as Obamacare. ...

Arab League and top Muslim body condemn Paris attack Posted: 07 Jan 2015 07:02 AM PST Cairo (AFP) - The Arab League and Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious centre of learning, both condemned a deadly attack Wednesday on a Paris satirical newspaper.

Obama calls Paris violence 'terrorist attack' Posted: 07 Jan 2015 01:35 PM PST US President Barack Obama condemned the "cowardly, evil" assault on a French satirical newspaper that left 12 dead Wednesday, pledging US assistance to Paris to bring the attackers to justice. The US leader, speaking from the Oval Office, expressed solidarity with France and pledged that the attack on Charlie Hebdo would not squelch the right to free speech held dear by both nations. "France is one of our oldest allies, our strongest allies," Obama said.

Paris shooting: Gunmen attack satirical French magazine Posted: 07 Jan 2015 06:25 AM PST Footage taken from nearby rooftops captures dramatic scene.

Tail of missing AirAsia jet located Posted: 07 Jan 2015 12:15 AM PST It's the first confirmed sighting of any major wreckage from Flight 8501.

Bitterly cold air stretches from Dakotas to Alabama Posted: 07 Jan 2015 06:12 AM PST Frigid air is blowing across the United States, dropping temperatures in many areas into the single digits and leading weather monitors to issue wind chill advisories and politicians to plead with residents to check on their neighbors.

12 dead in shooting at French satirical weekly Posted: Gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs and a rocket-launcher opened fire.

12 dead in 'terrorist' attack at Paris paper Posted: 07 Jan 2015 06:06 AM PST Heavily armed gunmen shouting Islamist slogans stormed a Paris satirical newspaper office Wednesday and shot dead at least 12 people in the deadliest attack in France in four decades. The capital was placed under the highest alert status after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly that has sparked anger in the past among Muslims for publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohamed. The attack took place at a time of heightened fears in France and other European capitals over fallout from the wars in Iraq and Syria where hundreds of European citizens have gone to fight alongside the radical Islamic State group. President Francois Hollande, who immediately rushed to the scene of the shooting, described it as a barbaric terrorist attack.

FBI to question 100s of patients after Texas clinic shooting Posted: 07 Jan 2015 05:24 AM PST EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The FBI plans to question hundreds of patients who may have witnessed a shooting at a West Texas veterans' clinic that left two people dead, including the suspected gunman, the agency said.

House reauthorizes special committee probing Benghazi attack Posted: 06 Jan 2015 05:22 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP-led House voted Tuesday to extend a special committee's investigation into the deadly 2012 attacks on an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador.

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