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• Lawsuits begin in wake of shooting
• Senate passes Democratic tax plan, likely to fail in House
• Protest over Calif. police shooting turns violent, 24 arrested
• Romney: Gun laws won’t ‘make all bad things go away’
• Boston mayor’s letter to Chick-fil-A: Stay out of Boston!
• Mom condemns violence in wake of police shooting
• Ron Paul’s ‘Audit the Fed’ bill passes the House
• Kim Jong Un’s wedding: No Americans invited, State Department says
• Oprah Winfrey criticized over show about India
• Obama camp: ‘You didn’t build that’ attacks don't worry us
• Did shooting suspect send plans to doctor?
• End of print for Newsweek is on the horizon
• Romney spokesman blasts ‘false quote’ about ‘Anglo-Saxon heritage’
• Video: Shelter dog who fell onto I-95 found alive 11 days later
• $140 sewer bill turns into foreclosure notice and $50,000 tab
• 1 Ohio bridge bomb plot suspect pleads guilty

Lawsuits begin in wake of shooting Posted: 25 Jul 2012 10:24 AM PDT Torrence Brown Jr., one of the Aurora movie shooting survivors, is planning on suing the theater, confirmed his family's publicist on Wednesday. "We're going to make sure whoever is accountable is going to take responsibility for this tragedy," Cassandra Williams of Wet PR said. She said that Brown, who was friends with 18-year-old AJ Boik, one [...]

Senate passes Democratic tax plan, likely to fail in House Posted: 25 Jul 2012 02:25 PM PDT Democrats and Republicans conducted an exercise in political theater Wednesday by holding Senate votes on their competing tax proposals, even though both appeared destined for failure. The Democratic bill--which extends tax cuts through 2013 for all individuals except those who jointly earn over $250,000, passed in the Democratic-controlled Senate by a vote of 51 to [...]

Protest over Calif. police shooting turns violent, 24 arrested Posted: 25 Jul 2012 04:52 PM PDT Police in the Southern California city of Anaheim arrested 24 people overnight after protesters smashed store windows and started fires in anger over the police shooting of an apparently unarmed man. It was the second major clash between police and protesters since Saturday when an officer shot dead a man police said was a gang member in Anaheim, which is home to Disneyland. "I'm here to say that vandalism, arson and other forms of violent protest will simply not be tolerated in our city," Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait told reporters on Wednesday. ...

Romney: Gun laws won’t ‘make all bad things go away’ Posted: 25 Jul 2012 12:34 PM PDT LONDON—Mitt Romney suggested new gun control legislation likely wouldn't stop a massacre like last week's movie theater shooting in Colorado, but "changing the heart of the American people" possibly would. Romney made the comment during an interview with NBC's Brian Williams in London, the first stop of the presumptive Republican nominee's seven-day overseas tour. NBC [...]

Boston mayor’s letter to Chick-fil-A: Stay out of Boston! Posted: 25 Jul 2012 01:19 PM PDT On the heels of Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy's controversial public comments against same-sex marriage, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino fired off a letter to Cathy, urging him to abandon plans to expand the fast food chain to his city. "In recent days you said Chick-fil-A opposes same-sex marriage and said the generation that supports it has [...]

Mom condemns violence in wake of police shooting Posted: 25 Jul 2012 04:04 PM PDT The mother of an unarmed man who was shot by Anaheim police officers has condemned violent protests against the killing, saying Wednesday she did not want them to become her son's legacy.

Ron Paul’s ‘Audit the Fed’ bill passes the House Posted: 25 Jul 2012 11:59 AM PDT At long last, Ron Paul has his day. The House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved the Texas Republican's bill to increase the transparency of the Federal Reserve. With bipartisan support, the measure passed 327-98. One Republican, Rep. Bob Turner of New York, joined 97 Democrats in voting against it. For Paul, the journey to [...]

Kim Jong Un’s wedding: No Americans invited, State Department says Posted: 25 Jul 2012 12:37 PM PDT "Un" is no longer the loneliest number that you'll ever do since Stalinist North Korea's supremo Kim Jong Un has tied the knot. What do you send the leader of the world's most secretive regime? If you're the State Department, you send concerns about the people living under his rule. "We would always wish any [...]

Oprah Winfrey criticized over show about India Posted: 25 Jul 2012 11:36 AM PDT Sometimes controversy is good publicity, and sometimes it isn't. When an episode of "Oprah's Next Chapter," a show on Oprah Winfrey's troubled OWN network, highlighting her travels in India aired in the Asian subcontinent, many viewers took offense. The intention of the piece was to "explore the beautiful culture and spirit of the country," according [...]

Obama camp: ‘You didn’t build that’ attacks don't worry us Posted: 25 Jul 2012 09:24 AM PDT President Barack Obama is personally leading an all-out counterattack against the Republican assault over his "you didn't build that" remark, hitting back in his stump speech and in a new television ad as the Democratic National Committee launches a state-by-state response.

Did shooting suspect send plans to doctor? Posted: 25 Jul 2012 01:28 PM PDT The man accused of Friday's movie theater massacre in Colorado mailed a notebook "full of details about how he was going to kill people" to a University of Colorado psychiatrist before the attack, FoxNews.com reported on Wednesday.

End of print for Newsweek is on the horizon Posted: 25 Jul 2012 09:53 AM PDT Barry Diller, the chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp which recently acquired sole control of Newsweek, said that a plan to end its print edition is coming as soon as this fall. His comments came in IAC's quarterly earnings call and were first reported in a two-sentence story by Bloomberg News's Sarah Frier ("Newsweek, the 79-year-old magazine, will eventually transition to an online-only publication") and then in a tweet from her colleague Edmund Lee ("Barry Diller says by September-October, plan for digital only Newsweek will be announced"). ...

Romney spokesman blasts ‘false quote’ about ‘Anglo-Saxon heritage’ Posted: 25 Jul 2012 11:45 AM PDT Mitt Romney's campaign forcefully repudiated a quotation, ascribed to one of his foreign policy advisers and published by a leading British newspaper, suggesting that President Barack Obama does not understand America's "Anglo-Saxon heritage." Spokesman Ryan Williams angrily denounced the comment on Wednesday as "an anonymous and false quote from a foreign newspaper." And Williams assailed [...]

Video: Shelter dog who fell onto I-95 found alive 11 days later Posted: 25 Jul 2012 12:51 PM PDT A dog who was thrown onto I-95 in Florida after his crate fell off an animal control truck nearly two weeks ago has been found alive. "Tails and tongues are wagging in Flagler County today," anchorman Jim Payne said at the top of a report on Orlando's WESH-TV. Rondo, a Labrador mix, and another dog [...]

$140 sewer bill turns into foreclosure notice and $50,000 tab Posted: 25 Jul 2012 11:51 AM PDT Dominick Vulpis admits he had an outstanding $140 sewage bill. But when that bill went unpaid for four years, the $140 bill turned into a home foreclosure notice and $50,000 in debt. MSNBC reports that Middletown, N.J., turned over the utility bill to Approved Realty Group, an investment company. The practice is far from unheard [...]

1 Ohio bridge bomb plot suspect pleads guilty Posted: 25 Jul 2012 10:16 AM PDT One of five men charged with plotting to bomb an Ohio highway bridge pleaded guilty Wednesday and agreed to testify against his co-defendants.

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