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• One officer dead after shootout with ex-cop
• Chuck Hagel clears a crucial hurdle
• Music! Pie charts! State of the Union address won't be like the past
• Rubio to counter Obama's call for higher taxes
• Dow closes at highest level of year, nears record
• Reid will reject GOP efforts to stall Obama nominees
• Senate votes to renew Violence Against Women Act
• Magnitude 5.2 quake hits western Nevada: USGS
• Face of Obama’s immigration reform effort gets State of Union invite
• Hacker creates fake zombie attack alert
• House Republicans launch Spanish-language Twitter handle
• Mexican 'ape woman' buried after 150 years
• Top Senate Republican doesn’t see a way to avoid the sequester
• U.N. Security Council vows to take action over nuke test
• Curiosity rover finds weird 'hood ornament' on Mars
• 102-year-old voter among State of the Union guests
• Photos: Chocolatier pumps out edible heels for Valentine's Day
• Photos: Highlights from the Westminster Dog Show

One officer dead after shootout with ex-cop Posted: 12 Feb 2013 04:01 PM PST Police say Christopher Dorner is barricaded in a cabin near Big Bear, Calif.

Chuck Hagel clears a crucial hurdle Posted: 12 Feb 2013 02:07 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate panel has voted to approve the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary.

Music! Pie charts! State of the Union address won't be like the past Posted: 12 Feb 2013 02:52 PM PST The state of the union is ... rockin'. A video from the White House to promote President Barack Obama's State of the Union address is set to a bass-driven dubstep soundtrack—and promises viewers who visit the website whitehouse.gov a "special enhanced presentation." What exactly those enhancements are, aren't specified. President Obama as a hologram in [...]

Rubio to counter Obama's call for higher taxes Posted: 12 Feb 2013 03:51 PM PST He will deliver the official Republican response to Obama's State of the Union Address.

Dow closes at highest level of year, nears record Posted: 12 Feb 2013 02:19 PM PST Before February, the index had closed above 14,000 just nine times in its history.

Reid will reject GOP efforts to stall Obama nominees Posted: 12 Feb 2013 12:58 PM PST The Senate Majority Leader says he will not honor any "holds" by Senate Republicans.

Senate votes to renew Violence Against Women Act Posted: 12 Feb 2013 12:46 PM PST The 20-year-old act has shielded millions of women from abuse.

Magnitude 5.2 quake hits western Nevada: USGS Posted: 12 Feb 2013 04:23 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.2 quake struck western Nevada on Tuesday, close to the Californian border, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It said the earthquake had a very shallow depth of 4.4 miles and was centered 16 miles south of Tonopah Junction, Nevada, between Reno and Las Vegas. (Reporting by Sandra Maler; Editing by Stacey Joyce)

Face of Obama’s immigration reform effort gets State of Union invite Posted: 12 Feb 2013 11:27 AM PST Late last month he told Aleman's life story in his speech urging Congress to pass a reform bill.

Hacker creates fake zombie attack alert Posted: 12 Feb 2013 04:20 PM PST MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — No, zombies aren't attacking northern Michigan.

House Republicans launch Spanish-language Twitter handle Posted: 12 Feb 2013 11:00 AM PST The House Republican Conference on Tuesday announced the launch of a Spanish-language Twitter account, @GOPespanol, as part of the party's nationwide outreach program to minority voters. The act is a small one, of course, but it's in line with a broader effort to bring Hispanic voters into the party after it lost a bruising national [...]

Mexican 'ape woman' buried after 150 years Posted: 12 Feb 2013 04:27 PM PST SINALOA DE LEYVA, Mexico (AP) — An indigenous Mexican woman put on display in Victorian-era Europe because of a rare genetic condition that covered her face in thick hair has been buried in her home state in a ceremony that ends one of the best-known episodes from an era when live human beings were treated as collectible specimens.

Top Senate Republican doesn’t see a way to avoid the sequester Posted: 12 Feb 2013 02:07 PM PST Vice President Joe Biden is known as "The McConnell whisperer" for his ability to broker compromises between Democrats and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, but his charms may not work on the Kentucky lawmaker when it comes to the impending sequester. The federal government will face the sequester—massive automatic budget cuts—should Congress not vote [...]

U.N. Security Council vows to take action over nuke test Posted: 12 Feb 2013 01:40 PM PST Diplomats say the U.S. and and its allies may push for tough sanctions against N. Korea.

Curiosity rover finds weird 'hood ornament' on Mars Posted: 12 Feb 2013 11:13 AM PST NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has photographed a shiny, metallic-looking object that bears a passing resemblance to a door handle or a hood ornament.

102-year-old voter among State of the Union guests Posted: 12 Feb 2013 09:51 AM PST Desiline Victor, a 102-year-old Miami, Fla., voter who made an above-and-beyond effort to vote last fall, will be among those seated in first lady Michelle Obama's box Tuesday night to watch the president's State of the Union address. Victor, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti and a retired farmworker, arrived at her polling location at [...]

Photos: Chocolatier pumps out edible heels for Valentine's Day Posted: 12 Feb 2013 05:20 AM PST In this Feb. 7, 2013 photo, chocolate high heals made by master chocolatier Andrea Pedraza are lined up at her shop in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. Florists and chocolate makers are working around the clock for the busy season - Valentine's Day. Pedraza's most well known creations are chocolate pumps done in the style of Christian Louboutin shoes. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Photos: Highlights from the Westminster Dog Show Posted: 11 Feb 2013 07:00 PM PST Jewel, an American Foxhound and winner of the hound group, leaves the competition area during the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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