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NRA’s LaPierre: New gun laws won't work

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 08:50 AM PST

'Our Support Is Always the American People'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 [...]


Mitt Romney ‘had no desire to run,’ son says

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 11:12 AM PST

Former Republican U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney waits for the start of a welterweight bout between Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines and Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las VegasMitt 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 [...]


Memorial service for Sen. Inouye held in Hawaii

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 03:43 PM PST

Pallbearers carry the casket of U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye into the courtyard of the Hawaii state Capitol during a visitation ceremony in Honolulu on, Saturday Dec. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Oskar Garcia)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.


Official: Navy SEAL commander died of apparent suicide

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 02:47 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows Navy SEAL Cdr. Job W. Price. U.S. military officials are investigating the apparent suicide of Price, 42, of Pottstown, Pa., who died Saturday of a non-combat-related injury while supporting stability operations in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)U.S. military officials are investigating the apparent suicide of a Navy SEAL commander in Afghanistan.


Air strike kills dozens of Syrians waiting to buy bread

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 12:31 PM PST

Free Syrian Army fighters take their positions as one of them fires during clashes with forces loyal to Syria's President Assad in Qastal Harami area in AleppoDozens 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. ...


Former President Bush still hospitalized

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 08:16 AM PST

FILE - In a Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush, and his wife former first lady Barbara Bush, arrive for the premiere of HBO's new documentary on his life near the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. The 41st president's month-long stay in a Houston hospital for treatment of a bronchitis-related cough appears to be nearing an end. A spokesman said Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 that Bush possibly will be released from Methodist Hospital over the weekend and be home for Christmas. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)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.


Lieberman fears country may go over 'fiscal cliff'

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 10:15 AM PST

Homeland Security Chief Napolitano Discusses Newtown ShootingsSenators 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.


Dental assistant fired for being 'irresistible' is 'devastated'

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 07:58 AM PST

Dental Assistant Fired For Being 'Irresistible' Is 'Devastated'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."


Norquist: Obama, Dems using Newtown for 'political purposes'

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 08:23 AM PST

Norquist: Obama and Dems Using Newtown for 'Political Purposes'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...


Santa tracker race: Google against NORAD

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 09:39 AM PST

NORAD Santa Tracker: A Christmas Eve TraditionOnly 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.


Senators: Hagel would face tough confirmation

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 10:15 AM PST

FILE - This Nov. 1, 2012, file photo shows former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel speaking in Omaha, Neb. President Barack Obama's possible pick of Republican Chuck Hagel to run the Pentagon raises serious concerns among some of his former Senate colleagues, who question his pronouncements on Iraq, Israel and the Middle East. The reservations publicly expressed by a few Republicans and even a Democrat hardly rival the unyielding GOP objections to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who withdrew from consideration last week for secretary of state in the face of relentless attacks mostly over her public statements about the Sept. 11 assault on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)Two senators predicted Sunday that former Sen. Chuck Hagel would face a difficult confirmation if nominated by President Barack Obama to be defense secretary.


Anti-tax conservatives say no to tax-increase deal

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 06:04 AM PST

U.S. House Speaker Boehner speaks to media on a "fiscal cliff" on Capitol Hill in WashingtonBOSTON (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.


Telepresence robots let employees 'beam' into work

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 12:58 PM PST

Bo Preising, Suitable Technologies' vice president of engineering, at left, talks with fellow engineers, Josh Faust, center on screen, and Josh Tyler, on screen at right, both using a Beam remote presence system in Palo Alto, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. More employees are working from home, but there's still no substitute for actually being at the office. Enter the Beam. It's a roving computer screen _ with video cameras, microphones and speakers _ that stands five feet and rides on motorized wheels. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)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.


Audits of U.S. businesses for illegal immigrants rising

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 11:29 AM PST

In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 photo, workers, from left, Aaron Roaf, Levi Wilson, and Jason Ray stack pieces of milled wood trim at Belco Forest Products in Shelton, Wash. The workers were hired after an audit by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Department resulted in the layoff of more than 20 workers for having suspect documents authorizing them to work in the United States. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)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.


Republicans aren't the only gun-control obstacle

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 01:34 AM PST

President Barack Obama speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)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.


NKorea could have U.S. within missile range

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 10:05 PM PST

An undated image released by South Korea's defence ministry in SeoulSEOUL (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. ...


Egypt opposition alleges vote fraud in referendum

Posted: 23 Dec 2012 08:44 AM PST

Egyptian election workers count ballots at the end of the second round of a referendum on a disputed constitution drafted by Islamist supporters of president Mohammed Morsi at a polling station in Giza, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. Egypt's Islamist-backed constitution headed toward likely approval in a final round of voting on Saturday, but the deep divisions it has opened up threaten to fuel continued turmoil. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)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.

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