2012年12月19日星期三

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Scam artists creep in as families grieve

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 03:27 PM PST

This Nov. 13, 2012 photo provided by the family via The Washington Post shows Noah Pozner. The six-year-old was one of the victims in the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Family Photo)Someone the Pozners didn't know was soliciting donations in memory of their 6-year-old son killed in the Newtown shooting.


Obama: 'Words need to lead to action' on gun control

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 09:37 AM PST

President Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden as he makes a statement Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, about policies he will pursue following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Ct. Obama is tasking Vice President Joe Biden, a longtime gun control advocate, with spearheading the effort. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)The president also pressed Congress to reinstate an assault weapons ban and called for stricter background checks.


Rush to buy armored backpacks, guns after shooting

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 12:49 PM PST

Rick Brand, Chief Operating Officer of Amendment II, holds a children's backpack, left, and anti-ballistic insert at the company's manufacturing facility in Salt Lake City, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. Anxious parents reeling in the wake the Connecticut school shooting are fueling sales of armored backpacks for children emblazoned with Disney and Avengers logos, as firearms enthusiasts stock up on assault rifles nationwide amid fears of imminent gun control measures. At Amendment II, sales of childrenís backpacks and armored inserts are up 300 percent. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)The reaction to the Connecticut school shooting can be seen in gun stores and self-defense retailers across the nation: Anxious parents are fueling sales of armored backpacks for children while firearms enthusiasts are stocking up on assault rifles in anticipation of tighter gun control measures.


Trade bill retaliation: Americans to lose right to adopt in Russia

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 09:54 AM PST

Orphan children play music at an orphanage in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-DonA bill to ban Americans from adopting Russian children won preliminary parliamentary approval on Wednesday in a retaliatory gesture for a U.S. law punishing alleged Russian human rights violators. Despite criticism of the measure by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, pro-Kremlin lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill, and another that would bar Russian non-profit groups which receive funds from the United States. Only four of 450 deputies in the lower house, the State Duma, opposed the proposals. ...


And the world's happiest people are...

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 02:45 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2012 file photo, children play in the water in Asuncion Bay, Paraguay. A poll released Wednesday of nearly 150,000 people around the world says seven of the world's 10 countries with the most upbeat attitudes are in Latin America. Gallup Inc. asked about 1,000 people in each of 148 countries last year if they were well-rested, had been treated with respect, smiled or laughed a lot, learned or did something interesting and felt feelings of enjoyment. In Panama and Paraguay, 85 percent of those polled said yes to all five, putting those countries at the top of the list. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)The world's happiest people aren't in Qatar, the richest country by most measures. They aren't in Japan, the nation with the highest life expectancy.


1 dead, at least 30 hurt in NY traffic pileup

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 04:38 PM PST

This image taken from video on the News 12 Long Island website shows an aerial view of a multi-vehicle accident on the Long Island Expressway, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Shirley, N.Y. Police have closed the Expressway between exits 65 and 69 so first responders can work the scene. Over 20 vehicles are believed to be involved. (AP Photo/News 12 Long Island) MANDATORY CREDIT: NEWS 12 LONG ISLANDA massive traffic pileup on a major road left one person dead and 32 people injured on New York's Long Island.


State Dept officials resign under pressure over Benghazi killings

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 03:16 PM PST

File of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivering remarks at the State Department in WashingtonThree senior officials were asked to resign after an official inquiry harshly criticized their offices for failing to provide adequate security in Benghazi.


Boehner to Obama: ‘Get serious’ about ‘fiscal cliff’

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 12:25 PM PST

U.S. House Speaker Boehner speaks during a media briefing about Republican plans on the pending "fiscal cliff" in WashingtonHe warned that the president can either accept a GOP alternative to a comprehensive "fiscal cliff" compromise or "be responsible for the largest tax increase in American history."


Bloomberg finds new platform with gun crusade

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 12:53 PM PST

Mayor Bloomberg Calls for Tougher Gun LawsThe NYC mayor has become one of the public faces of the Newtown tragedy as he bluntly urged gov't leaders to offer more than just "talk" in the aftermath.


Authorities cracking down on copycat threats against schools

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 01:07 PM PST

Police search a building after a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in NewtownAuthorities are cracking down on a spate of threats against schools following Friday's attack at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.


Norquist blesses Boehner's tax plan, conservative groups reject it

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 02:52 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. anti-tax activist Grover Norquist gave his blessing on Wednesday to House Speaker John Boehner's plan to avert the "fiscal cliff," concluding that despite complaints to the contrary, it would adhere to Republican lawmakers' pledges not to raise taxes. But more than a dozen other conservative figures and groups, including the Tea Party Express and the Heritage Foundation, disagreed. They urged lawmakers to oppose the plan when it comes up for a vote on Thursday in the House of Representatives. ...

State Dept. responds to claims that Clinton faked illness

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 11:10 AM PST

File of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivering remarks at the State Department in WashingtonThe latest assertion came from former diplomat John Bolton, who insinuated that Clinton's "diplomatic illness"--in diplomatic circles, this is the feigning of an illness to avoid an engagement--kept her from testifying.


U.N. polio drive halted in Pakistan after workers killed

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 11:28 AM PST

A Pakistani injured polio worker is treated at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. Gunmen shot dead a woman working on U.N.-backed polio vaccination efforts and her driver in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, just a day after similar attacks across the country killed several female polio workers. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)The suspension was a grave blow to the drive to bring an end to the scourge of polio in Pakistan, one of only three countries where the crippling disease still survives.


Egypt's ousted leader Mubarak hospitalized after fall

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 11:58 AM PST

Egypt's President Mubarak attends meeting with UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan at presidential palace in CairoHosni Mubarak has been transferred to a Cairo military hospital, after slipping and injuring his head and chest in prison.


Photos: Fans bid farewell to singer Jenni Rivera

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 12:10 PM PST

Photos: Fans bid farewell to singer Jenni RiveraCarina Carrilo and her daughter Eva Carrilo (L), both from Delano, California, weep as they watch a live broadcast of the memorial service for Mexican-American singer and Spanish language television personality Jenni Rivera at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, California, December 19, 2012. The 43-year-old Long Beach, California native and six other people died on December 9 when her rented Learjet crashed shortly after takeoff from Monterrey, Mexico. A new compilation album of songs from her albums over the last seven years, "La Misma Gran Senora" or "The Same Great Lady", was to be released two days later. REUTERS/David McNew (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT DISASTER TRANSPORT OBITUARY)

Sea otters win decades-long battle with U.S. gov't

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 12:51 PM PST

The long war between otters and the U.S. federal government is finally over, and the otters have won. The Los Angeles Times reports that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has abandoned its plan to relocate otters from coastal waters reserved for commercial fisherman. For the past 25 years, the government agency had been working [...]

Teacher inherits $7M in gold coins from recluse cousin

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 12:19 PM PST

A California substitute teacher will inherit over $7 million in gold coins found in her recluse cousin's home after his death. A Carson City, Nev., judge ruled Tuesday that Arlene Magdanz was Walter Samasko, Jr.'s only cousin and therefore entitled to his fortune, according to the Associated Press.

The 10 weirdest animal discoveries of 2012

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 09:47 AM PST

The 10 Weirdest Animal Discoveries of 2012As the year comes to an end, it's time to look back at the grossest, oddest and simply most fascinating animals to make the headlines in 2012. There were zombie worms and penis fish, not to mention turtles with a strange way of getting rid of urine. Read on for 2012's most bizarre.


Interview: Obama chokes up about daughters growing up

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 11:30 AM PST

A new People magazine interview with President Barack Obama shows him choking up over his daughters getting older as he considers "the finite amount of time you have with your children." "There's something about your daughters that just breaks your heart," he said in the exclusive question-and-answer session. "And that's not really even an issue [...]

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