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Fiscal cliff negotiations stall; Senate to resume talks New Year's Eve

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 03:51 PM PST

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., walks to a closed-door meeting with fellow Democrats as he and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., work to negotiate a legislative path to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," at the Capitol in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. Senate and House leaders rushed to assemble a last-ditch agreement to stave off middle-class tax increases and possibly delay steep spending cuts in an urgent attempt to find common ground after weeks of gridlock. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Bottom line: Still no "fiscal cliff" deal. And none seems imminent. The U.S. Senate on Sunday ended the day still sharply divided over how to avoid the automatic  income-tax hikes and deep government spending cuts set to kick in Jan. 1 that could plunge the economy into a new recession. Despite pleas from President Barack [...]

Obama boasts support of American people in fiscal cliff fight

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 08:16 AM PST

Obama: Failure to reach fiscal deal would hurt marketsAs Congress races to pass legislation before the Jan. 1 "fiscal cliff" deadline, President Barack Obama in an interview which aired Sunday publicly touted the support of the American people for the plan he offered to Republicans. "We have put forward not only a sensible deal, but one that has the support of the majority [...]

Republican Senate leader urges Biden to break impasse

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 11:47 AM PST

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell addresses the Senate during an unusual session in WashingtonRepublican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday to jump into "fiscal cliff" talks in hopes of breaking an impasse that threatens Americans with sharply higher income taxes come January 1. In a brief speech on the Senate floor, McConnell complained that Democrats had not yet placed a counter-offer to [...]

Obama wants gun violence measures passed in 2013

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 01:58 PM PST

General manager Steve Alcairo holds a Winchester 1200 shotgun while being interviewed at High Bridge Arms Inc. in San Francisco, 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 children's backpacks and armored inserts are up 300 percent. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)WASHINGTON (AP) — Recalling the shooting rampage that killed 20 first graders as the worst day of his presidency, President Barack Obama pledged to put his "full weight" behind legislation aimed at preventing gun violence.

If cut, fiscal deal will pale against expectations

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 11:50 AM PST

Senate leaders offer dour take on 'cliff' talksThe top Senate negotiators on the effort to prevent the government from going over the "fiscal cliff" offered a pessimistic assessment Sunday barely 24 hours before a deadline to avert tax hikes ...

Graham: No debt ceiling increase without entitlement reform

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 12:57 PM PST

U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham, R-SC, speaks with other U.S. Senators John McCain, R-Ariz, and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn, unseen, during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, July 3, 2011. Three U.S. Senators visiting Kabul on Sunday say they worry that President Barack Obama's planned withdrawal of 33,000 American troops by September 2012 could undermine Afghan morale, embolden the insurgency, and hamper efforts to defeat Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said today that he would vote no to raise the debt ceiling, if concessions to reform Social Security and Medicare were not made, despite a previous statement by Graham to suggest that most Republicans were never willing to stomach a U.S. default...

Missing Georgia boys found, father in custody

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 10:12 AM PST

Missing Ga. Boys Found, Dad in CustodyTwo missing Georgia boys have been found safe in Texas and their father has been taken into police custody. Moments after pleading for her boys' return on television, the boys' mother Theresa Nash received a phone call from a citizen in Texas who said he was with her sons.

GOP governors walk balance beam on health care law

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 10:25 AM PST

FILE - In this May 16, 2012 file photo, Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks in Fort Lauderdale. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After President Obama won re-election, the Republican governor softened his tone. He said he wanted to "have a conversation" with the administration about implementing the 2010 law. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)ATLANTA (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who made a fortune as a health care executive, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After the Democratic president won re-election, the Republican governor softened his tone. He said he wanted to "have a conversation" with the administration about implementing the 2010 law. With a federal deadline approaching, he also said while Florida won't set up the exchange for individuals to buy private insurance policies, the feds can do it.

Police: Five dead, about 20 wounded in Oregon tour bus crash

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 03:59 PM PST

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — A tour bus careened through a guardrail on an icy Oregon highway and several hundred feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing five people and injuring about 20 others, authorities said.

Obama touts Hagel, says no decision on defense secretary job

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 09:11 AM PST

US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Obama (D-IL) shares laugh with Senator Hagel (R-NE) at Amman Citadel in AmmanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama offered strong support for former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as the potential next U.S. defense secretary but said in remarks aired on Sunday that he had not yet decided on a nominee for the Pentagon post. Hagel is considered a leading candidate to replace outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, but the former Nebraska lawmaker has come under criticism for his record on Israel and for a comment that being gay was an inhibiting factor for being an ambassador. "I've served with Chuck Hagel. I know him. He is a patriot. ...

Comedian Katt Williams arrested in LA

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 12:04 PM PST

In this Sunday, July 22, 2007 photo, Katt Williams performs onstage during the "Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav," in Burbank, Calif. Williams found himself on the wrong side of the law after being arrested in Los Angeles, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, on suspicion of child endangerment and possession of a stolen gun. Police Officer Norma Eisenman says Williams was taken into custody Friday after the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services did a welfare check at his home. Authorities found more than one firearm, one of which had been reported stolen. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Katt Williams, the comedian who has repeatedly found himself on the wrong side of the law, is out on bail after being arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of child endangerment and possession of a stolen gun.

A new Somalia? Envoy warns of failed state in Syria

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 11:29 AM PST

U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, left, shakes hands with Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby following a joint press conference at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. The international envoy to Syria warned Sunday that as many as 100,000 could die in the next year if a solution is not reached quickly to end the country's civil war. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)BEIRUT (AP) — The international envoy seeking to end Syria's civil war warned Sunday that the failure of the government and the rebels to pursue a political solution could lead to the "full collapse of the Syrian state" and threaten the world's security.

Nobel scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini dies in Rome at 103

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 09:05 AM PST

FILE -- Undated file photo of Italian neurologist and senator for life Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize winner for Medicine in 1986. Rome's mayor says biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution, and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, has died at her home in the city. She was 103. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)ROME (AP) — Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in Rome on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years.

NY plaintiff: Gay benefits 'bigger than marriage'

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 12:58 PM PST

In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 photo, Edith Windsor speaks during an interview in her New York City apartment. Windsor has found some notoriety at age 83, as her challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act will be heard by the United States Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — At age 83, Edith Windsor gets plenty of compliments for her courage to take on the federal government in a landmark case that has put attitudes about gay America squarely before the Supreme Court.

Afghan violence falls in 2012, but insider attacks rise

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 12:21 PM PST

Internally displaced Afghans wait in line to receive firewood donated by Welt Hunger Hilfe 'German Agro Action' in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. Around 240 internally displaced families received firewood. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Violence in Afghanistan fell in 2012, but more Afghan troops and police who now shoulder most of the combat were killed, according to statistics compiled by The Associated Press.

Seacrest, McCarthy prepare for Rockin' New Year's Eve

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 11:12 AM PST

Entertainers Ryan Seacrest, left, and Jenny McCarthy, hosts of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on ABC, pose for a portrait Friday, Dec. 28, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Dan Hallman/Invision/AP Images)As the ball goes through final preparations for the big day, the hosts of "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve," Ryan Seacrest and Jenny McCarthy, are also preparing for a bittersweet celebration - one that will be missing a very important person. For the first time in almost 40 years of "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve," there will be no Dick Clark.

Maine man, 74, held in deaths of teenage tenants

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 12:19 PM PST

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A 74-year-old Maine man was charged in the shooting deaths of two tenants inside an apartment he rented out at his home, possibly over a dispute about where they parked their cars during a snowstorm, state police said Sunday.

Faulty brakes may be to blame in Russian plane crash

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 07:17 AM PST

An aircraft wreckage lies next to a highway near Moscow's Vnukovo AirportMOSCOW (Reuters) - Faulty brakes may be to blame for a Russian airliner sliding off the runway and smashing onto a highway near Moscow, killing five people, a member of the crash investigation team said on Sunday. Investigators said they were examining the black boxes to try to determine the cause of Saturday's crash, which cracked the wings off the Tupolev-204 plane and split the fuselage clean into three pieces. ...

German magazine mistakenly publishes Bush obituary

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 06:35 AM PST

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's respected news weekly Der Spiegel mistakenly published an obituary Sunday for former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, hours after a family spokesman said the 88-year-old was recovering from illness.

Yemen: Al-Qaida offers bounty for U.S. ambassador

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 01:08 PM PST

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen has offered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to anyone who kills the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa or an American soldier in the country.

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