Sen. McCain claims ‘massive cover-up’ on Benghazi
While discussing the contentious confirmation hearings for defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, things got a bit heated on Sunday's "Meet The Press" when Sen. John McCain referred to the lack of information from the White House surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi as a "massive cover-up." "There are so many answers we don't [...]
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Ecuador's Correa breezes to second re-election
President Rafael Correa, a dynamic leftist who has championed Ecuador's lower classes with generous social spending but faced wide rebuke as intolerant of dissent, coasted to a second re-election on Sunday.
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Mourdock not ruling out another run for office
Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock says he hasn't ruled out another run for political office — something he said he considered after his loss for a U.S. Senate seat.
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Photos: Thousands wed in South Korea mass ceremony
A newlywed couple celebrates during a mass wedding ceremony of the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Centre in Gapyeong, about 60 km (37 miles) northeast of Seoul February 17, 2013. The Unification Church founded by evangelist reverend Moon Sun-myung in Seoul in 1954, performed its first mass wedding in 1961 with 33 couples. Approximately 3,500 couples attended the mass wedding on Sunday. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION)
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Hutchinson exits race for Jackson's U.S. House seat
A well-known Illinois state senator dropped her bid Sunday for the U.S. House seat vacated by Jesse Jackson Jr., narrowing the field and consolidating key support behind another Democrat in a race where gun control has emerged as a central issue.
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Pope blesses huge crowd in St. Peter's Square
His arms outstretched in a symbolic embrace, Pope Benedict XVI blessed tens of thousands of cheering people on Sunday in one of his last appearances as pontiff from his window overlooking St. Peter's Square.
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Agent cancels all future races for Pistorius
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius' track career was put on hold indefinitely Sunday because of his murder charge, reinforcing the possibility that the double-amputee Olympian and disabled sports icon might never run again competitively on his famous carbon fiber blades.
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Hitchcock heroine inspires Temperley London show
LONDON (AP) — Alfred Hitchcock seems to be in fashion these days: There's the movie starring Anthony Hopkins, a BBC drama about the filmmaker, and now designer Alice Temperley has based her latest womenswear collection on the style of "The Birds" actress Tippi Hedren.
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JFK items auctioned 50 years after his assassination CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President John F. Kennedy's Air Force One bomber jacket sold for $570,000 at an auction on Sunday of items that belonged to a longtime aide, nearly 50 years after the president's assassination. The jacket was among thousands of items, including letters, photographs and books, that had been tucked away in drawers and file cabinets at the home of David Powers, who died in 1998, said Dan Meader, auction appraiser at John McInnis Auctioneers. ... Read More ...
Man charged with slapping toddler now out of a job MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man charged with slapping a toddler on a Minneapolis-to-Atlanta flight is out of a job, his former employer said Sunday. Read More ...
Libya's struggle to deliver justice fuels violence
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Col. Faraj el-Dersi, who defected to the rebel side from Moammar Gadhafi's police force, was gunned down late last year on the streets of Benghazi, and he bled to death in the arms of his teenage daughter.
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Police: Man arrested at N.J. airport with loaded gun NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Officials say a Pennsylvania man was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport after screeners noticed a loaded gun in his carry-on bag. Read More ...
2 Texas firefighters stable after deadly blaze
BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Doctors are optimistic that two Texas firefighters hospitalized Sunday will recover from serious burns suffered in a blaze that killed two colleagues, their chief said.
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Lawmakers chide Obama for not protecting Iranian dissidents WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers complained on Sunday that President Barack Obama had failed to protect Iranian dissidents from persecution by Tehran following a deadly attack on their camp near Baghdad, and urged they be allowed back to their long-time base in Iraq. A congressional delegation led by Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the Republican-controlled House subcommittee on Europe, said that the Obama administration should not have backed the movement of members of Iranian dissident group Mujahadin-e-Khalq, or MEK, to a place where they would not be safe. ... Read More ...
Ryan: 'No leadership' from Dems on avoiding automatic budget cuts
House Budget Committee Chair Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., blamed the White House and Senate Democrats for failing to avert automatic spending cuts scheduled to take place next month, saying, “there’s no leadership on the other side of the aisle and therefore no agreement.” “The Senate...
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Video blog: ‘SNL’ skewers cruise ship, Rubio’s dry mouth
Between Triumph--the Carnival cruise ship that lost power for four days in the Gulf of Mexico and had to be tugged to shore--and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's dry-mouthed rebuttal to President Barack Obama's "State of the Union" address, "Saturday Night Live" was handed a pair of news events perfect for skewering this week. "SNL" dedicated [...]
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