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A shutdown-free future is in the cards

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 01:38 PM PST

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, joined by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes reporters' questions, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, as House Republicans signaled support for a budget deal worked out yesterday between Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chair Rep. Patty Murray, D-Wash. The budget deal was one of a few major measures left on Congress' to-do list near the end of a bruising year that has produced a partial government shutdown, a flirtation with a first-ever federal default and gridlock on President Obama's agenda. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)House passes non-historic budget agreement.


American missing in Iran worked for CIA

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An Associated Press investigation reveals botched espionage.


N. Korea executes leader's uncle

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 04:19 PM PST

Jang, Chief of Central Administrative Department of Workers' Party of Korea, arrives at Ziguangge building in BeijingJang Song Thaek was accused of leading a "dissolute and depraved life."


Get it while you can: Ted Cruz coloring book is selling fast

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 01:06 PM PST

In this photo provided by Really Big Coloring Books Inc. is the front of a coloring book featuring Texas tea party darling U. S. Sen. Ted Cruz. The publisher said Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013 that the book's in its third printing in six days. The first run of around 10,000 sold out in barely 24 hours, and the second went nearly as fast. Cruz didn't cooperate in the publishing of the book. (AP Photo/Really Big Coloring Books Inc.)AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — He's known for coloring outside the lines in the staid U.S. Senate. Now children large and small can color in U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.


When school lockdowns may not be enough

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 09:14 AM PST

In this photo provided by the Newtown Bee, Connecticut State Police lead children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., following a reported shooting there Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks) MANDATORY CREDITStudents and teachers learn how to stop a 'bad guy' in their buildings after Newtown.


Boehner: Tea party lost credibility

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 10:29 AM PST

Boehner Takes on the Tea PartyThe House Speaker lashes out at conservative critics of a bipartisan budget bill.


Officials: Drone attack mistakenly kills wedding party in Yemen

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 10:42 AM PST

DRONE HUNTING VOTE IN 2014Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al Qaeda convoy, local security officials said on Thursday. "An air strike missed its target and hit a wedding car convoy, ten people were killed immediately and another five who were injured died after being admitted to the hospital," one security official said. The United States has stepped up drone strikes as part of a campaign against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), regarded by Washington as the most active wing of the militant network. Yemen, AQAP's main stronghold, is among a handful of countries where the United States acknowledges using drones, although it does not comment on the practice.


Live: Vigil remembers Newtown

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:09 PM PST

A memorial honoring the victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is seen outside a home in Sandy Hook, ConnecticutHundreds were expected at Washington's National Cathedral on to mark the Newtown anniversary.


Health website woes force extension for sickest

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 10:32 AM PST

FILE - This photo of part of the HealthCare.gov website is photographed in Washington, in this Nov. 29, 2013 file photo. Newly released federal figures, as of Nov. 30, 2013, show more people are picking private insurance plans or being routed to Medicaid programs in states with Democratic leaders who have fully embraced the federal health care law than in states where Republican elected officials have derisively rejected what they call "Obamacare." (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Technology problems with President Barack Obama's health care website are forcing the administration to extend a federal insurance plan for some of the sickest patients by a month.


North Korea executes Kim Jong Un's uncle

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 01:45 PM PST

Jang, Chief of Central Administrative Department of Workers' Party of Korea, arrives at Ziguangge building in BeijingJang Song Thaek was accused of leading a "dissolute and depraved life."


Ozone hole won't fully heal until 2070, NASA finds

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:34 AM PST

Ozone Hole Won't Heal Until 2070, NASA FindsSAN FRANCISCO — The banning of ozone-depleting chemicals hasn't yet caused detectable improvements in the Antarctic ozone hole, new research suggests. "Ozone is produced in the tropics, but it's transported by the winds from the tropics to the polar region," said Anne Douglass, a scientist with the Aura project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. That transport "varies a little bit from year to year." The findings suggest that measuring the total size of the ozone hole says little about ozone depletion, and that it's misleading to use the hole's extent alone to measure environmental progress. Ozone is a molecule made up of three oxygen atoms, and the ozone layer, which stretches from heights of 12 to 19 miles (20 to 30 kilometers) above the Earth's surface, protects life on Earth by shielding it from ultraviolet (UV) radiation.


Michigan puts restrictions on abortion insurance

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 04:03 AM PST

Michigan puts restrictions on abortion insuranceMichigan will join more conservative states in requiring residents who want health insurance coverage for abortions to buy an extra policy, after Republican legislators passed the law Wednesday over the ...


General who opened Guantanamo: shut it down

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:19 AM PST

TASK FORCE COMMANDER GENERAL LEHNERT DURING PRESS CONFERENCE IN GUANTANAMO.Marine Major Gen. Michael Lehnert says detention camp was a mistake.


School drops sexual harassment claim against 6-year-old who kissed girl

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 06:41 AM PST

Boy, 6, Suspended for Kissing Girl on HandA Colorado school that had been widely criticized for suspending a 6-year-old boy for kissing a girl on the hand has dropped its sexual harassment claim against the first grader, and allowed him to return to school.


NASA scrambles to figure out International Space Station malfunction

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 09:53 AM PST

In this frame grab from video provided by NASA, two Russian flight engineers perform maintenance on the International Space Station, Monday, June 24, 2013. NASA said Dec. 11, 2013, it is looking into a problem with a malfunctioning cooling pump on the International Space Station, but there is no immediate danger to the six crewmen on board. Agency spokesman Kelly Humphries says the problem may eventually be serious, but is not an emergency at the moment. (AP Photo/NASA)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts aboard the International Space Station dimmed the lights, turned off unnecessary equipment and put off science work Thursday as NASA scrambled to figure out what's wrong with a key cooling unit.


Snowstorm brings new misery for Syria refugees

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:16 AM PST

Syrian refugees play with snow at the makeshift refugee camp of Terbol, near the Bekaa Valley town of Zahleh in eastern Lebanon, on December 11, 2013"I'd rather die a million times than live through this humiliation," a refugee said.


Oprah Winfrey reveals why she never had children

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Pope attacks mega-salaries and wealth gap in peace message

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 04:49 AM PST

Pope Francis waves as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Pope Francis has been selected by Time magazine as the Person of the Year. In only his first year, the Pope was selected by the magazine's editors as the person who had the greatest impact on the world, for good or bad, during 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said in the first peace message of his pontificate that huge salaries and bonuses are symptoms of an economy based on greed and inequality and called again for nations to narrow the wealth gap. In his message for the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Peace, marked around the world on January 1, he also called for sharing of wealth and for nations to shrink the gap between rich and poor, more of whom are getting only "crumbs". "The succession of economic crises should lead to a timely rethinking of our models of economic development and to a change in lifestyles," he said. Anger at multi-million payouts for executives has swept across the globe as the economic crisis has deepened and the gap between the super-rich and the poor has widened.


Complete list of 2014 Golden Globe nominees

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"12 Years A Slave" and "American Hustle" were the big winners while "Lee Daniels' The Butler" was surprisingly shutout.


Cancer deaths spike, breast cancer sharply up

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 02:52 AM PST

To match Insight INDIA-DRUGS/CANCERDriven by Western lifestyles, 8.2 million people died of the disease in 2012.


Snowden fuels fear of 'Big Brother USA'

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:52 AM PST

An avalanche of intelligence leaks from former CIA contractor Edward Snowden sent shockwaves around the world in 2013, lifting the lid on a vast global spying network and raising fears of a surveillance state. As the year drew to a close, the 30-year-old Snowden remains exiled in Russia, his final port of call following a worldwide game of cat-and-mouse that appeared to come straight from the pages of a spy novel. A traitor to some, a heroic whistleblower to others: Snowden's disclosures have shed light on intelligence-gathering methods which shocked many through their sheer scale. Tens of thousands of documents leaked by Snowden to The Guardian newspaper and other media outlets have detailed the nature of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) hitherto shadowy activities.

Interpreter at Mandela event claims illness

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 10:17 AM PST

Alleged fake sign language interpreter at Mandela's memorialThe signer accused of gesticulating gibberish says he had a schizophrenic episode.


Senate pulls all-nighter over Obama nominees

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 10:32 PM PST

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., center, is pursued by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, following a closed-door briefing on the recent agreement reached between Iran and western powers on Iran's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate began an around-the-clock talkathon Wednesday over some of President Barack Obama's nominees as embittered and outnumbered Republicans refused to let the Senate take a break given new, Democratic-driven curbs on the GOP's power.


Cooling pump on space station shuts down

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 06:57 PM PST

In this frame grab from video provided by NASA, two Russian flight engineers perform maintenance on the International Space Station, Monday, June 24, 2013. NASA said Dec. 11, 2013, it is looking into a problem with a malfunctioning cooling pump on the International Space Station, but there is no immediate danger to the six crewmen on board. Agency spokesman Kelly Humphries says the problem may eventually be serious, but is not an emergency at the moment. (AP Photo/NASA)NASA says there is no immediate danger to the six crewmen on board.


Fake signer at Mandela event says he hallucinated

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 02:47 PM PST

Thamsanqa Jantjie gesticulates at his home during an interview with the Associated Press in Johannesburg, South Africa,Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013. Jantjie, the man accused of faking sign interpretation next to world leaders at Nelson Mandela's memorial, told a local newspaper that he was hallucinating and hearing voices. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial says he suffers from schizophrenia and hallucinated and saw angels while gesturing incoherently just 3 feet away from President Barack Obama and other world leaders, outraging deaf people worldwide who said his signs amounted to gibberish.


Mysterious 'white widow' eludes police in Africa

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 12:12 PM PST

FILE - This undated file image provided by Interpol shows fugitive Briton Samantha Lewthwaite, dubbed the "white widow" by some news media, whom Interpol has issued an arrest notice for. She is called the most wanted woman in the world, a suspected terrorist charged with plotting to blow up resort hotels in Kenya packed with Christmas tourists, a westerner who wrote an ode praising Osama bin Laden, a jihadist who has eluded the law even as she has traveled through Africa with four young children in tow. The saga of Samantha Lewthwaite is one of betrayal and revenge in a murky world where, somehow, a white woman born to a British soldier becomes a Muslim convert and then an international fugitive accused of conspiracy. (AP Photo/Interpol, File)AYLESBURY, England (AP) — She is called the most wanted woman in the world, a suspected terrorist charged with plotting to blow up resort hotels in Kenya packed with Christmas tourists, a Westerner who wrote an ode praising Osama bin Laden, a jihadist who has eluded the law even as she has traveled through Africa with four young children in tow.


Federal data show health disparities among states

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 11:19 AM PST

FILE - This photo of part of the HealthCare.gov website is photographed in Washington, in this Nov. 29, 2013 file photo. Newly released federal figures, as of Nov. 30, 2013, show more people are picking private insurance plans or being routed to Medicaid programs in states with Democratic leaders who have fully embraced the federal health care law than in states where Republican elected officials have derisively rejected what they call "Obamacare." (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Residents in some parts of the U.S. are signing up for health care coverage at a significantly greater rate than others through the new online insurance marketplaces now operating in every state.


Officials: US drone strike kills 13 in Yemen

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 12:52 PM PST

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Missiles fired by a U.S. drone slammed into a convoy of vehicles traveling to a wedding party in central Yemen on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, Yemeni security officials said.

Holiday shopping spree not for everyone

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 02:34 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 29, 2013, file photo, Shoppers rest on chairs in the Fashion Show mall in Las Vegas. The National Retail Federation estimates that sales over the four-day 2013 holiday weekend including Thanksgiving declined 2.9 percent from last year, marking the first drop since the group began tracking the figure in 2006. Overall spending for November and December is still expected to increase 3.9, but whether that plays out remains to be seen. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Many Americans are watching the annual holiday spending ritual from the sidelines this year.


Sentence in Texas teen's fatal DWI wreck stirs ire

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 04:13 PM PST

HOUSTON (AP) — "Affluenza," the affliction cited by a psychologist to argue that a North Texas teenager from a wealthy family should not be sent to prison for killing four pedestrians while driving drunk, is not a recognized diagnosis and should not be used to justify bad behavior, experts said Thursday.

Sudden budget peace after Boehner raps GOP right

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:47 PM PST

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, joined by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes reporters' questions, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, as House Republicans signaled support for a budget deal worked out yesterday between Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chair Rep. Patty Murray, D-Wash. The budget deal was one of a few major measures left on Congress' to-do list near the end of a bruising year that has produced a partial government shutdown, a flirtation with a first-ever federal default and gridlock on President Obama's agenda. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Battle-fatigued and suddenly bipartisan, the House voted Thursday night to ease across-the-board federal spending cuts and prevent future government shutdowns, acting after Speaker John Boehner unleashed a stinging attack on tea party-aligned conservative groups campaigning for the measure's defeat.


Budget approved but no peace: Boehner raps right

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:29 PM PST

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, joined by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes reporters' questions, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, as House Republicans signaled support for a budget deal worked out yesterday between Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chair Rep. Patty Murray, D-Wash. The budget deal was one of a few major measures left on Congress' to-do list near the end of a bruising year that has produced a partial government shutdown, a flirtation with a first-ever federal default and gridlock on President Obama's agenda. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has given sweeping bipartisan approval to a budget bill backed by both President Barack Obama, his Democratic allies and a big majority of the chamber's Republicans.


Jang Song Thaek had been North Korea's No. 2

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:12 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2012 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks past his uncle Jang Song Thaek, left, after reviewing a parade of thousands of soldiers and commemorating the 70th birthday of the late Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korean state media say Kim Jong Un's uncle has been executed, calling the leader's former mentor "worse than a dog." The announcement on Thursday evening, Dec. 12, 2013, comes days after Pyongyang announced that Jang Song Thaek had been removed from all his posts because of allegations of corruption, drug use, gambling, womanizing and generally leading a "dissolute and depraved life." (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORYSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — While hereditary leader Kim Jong Un is the unquestioned ruler of North Korea, until last weekend his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was thought to be the country's second-most-powerful figure, widely considered Kim's mentor and regent.


Gridlock in the Senate, progress in the House

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:18 PM PST

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., announce a tentative agreement between Republican and Democratic negotiators on a government spending plan, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. A budget agreement, between Republicans and Democrats. No threats to repeal this or shut down that. Gridlock, it appeared, had taken a holiday in the bitterly polarized, Republican-run House. But across the Capitol, the high-minded Senate remains in the grip of partisan warfare as Republicans launch an around-the-clock talkathon in response to Democratic curbs on the GOP's power to block presidential nominations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — A budget agreement between key Republicans and Democrats. Even President Barack Obama was on board. All without anyone threatening to repeal this or shut down that.


Boehner hits tea party groups as budget vote nears

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:00 PM PST

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, joined by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes reporters' questions, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, as House Republicans signaled support for a budget deal worked out yesterday between Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chair Rep. Patty Murray, D-Wash. The budget deal was one of a few major measures left on Congress' to-do list near the end of a bruising year that has produced a partial government shutdown, a flirtation with a first-ever federal default and gridlock on President Obama's agenda. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — The battle-fatigued U.S. House moved Thursday evening toward passage of legislation to ease across-the-board spending cuts and prevent future government shutdowns after Speaker John Boehner unleashed a stinging attack on tea party-aligned conservative groups campaigning for the measure's defeat.


AP PHOTOS: Argentine slum honors 'Blue Virgin'

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 02:53 PM PST

In this Dec. 8, 2013 photo, Paraguayan immigrants walk in a procession celebrating Paraguay's patroness, BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Thousands of Paraguayan immigrants living along the polluted Riachuelo river in Argentina's capital celebrate their "Blue Virgin" every year with a grueling but joyful 10-hour procession that winds through every corner of their slum. Last year, their feast day's Mass was led by none other than Buenos Aires Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has since become their beloved "slum pope."


Crash probe renews debate over culture in aviation

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:35 PM PST

FILE - This Saturday, July 6, 2013, file photo provided by passenger Benjamin Levy, shows fellow passengers from Asiana Airlines flight 214, many with their luggage, on the tarmac just moments after the plane crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. According to an investigative report released Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 the Asiana Airlines captain who crashed the airplane in July told investigators he was "very concerned" about attempting a visual approach because the runway's automatic landing aids were out of service due to construction. The jet crash landed after approaching low and slow in an accident that left three dead and more than 200 injured, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The investigative report was released at the start of a daylong NTSB hearing into the accident. (AP Photo/Benjamin Levy, File)New details about the crash of an Asiana Airlines jet have renewed questions about whether a culture of strict deference to more-senior pilots can compromise air safety.


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