Bye, sequestration! (For now. Maybe.)
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China: Smog is good for you
Chinese government says smog also makes you funnier, assists in national defense.Read More ...
On eve of Newtown anniversary, $100 million in mental health aid
By
Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President
Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a new push to increase access to mental
health services with $100 million in new government funding nearly a
year after a school shooting rampage in Newtown, Connecticut. Biden, who
spearheaded a failed Obama administration campaign for stronger gun
control measures following the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre,
met with families of the victims and mental health advocates. "The fact
that less than half of children and adults with diagnosable mental
health problems receive the treatment they need is unacceptable," he
said in a statement. President Barack Obama has said the worst day of
his presidency was December 14, 2012, the day a gunman killed 20
children and six adults at the school before turning a gun on himself.Read More ...
Obama-Castro handshake draws criticism
Sen. John McCain likens the greeting with the Cuban leader to shaking hands with Hitler.Read More ...
Mystery 'Tips for Jesus' tipper identified in NYC
The
generous mystery tipper who has been leaving waiters and waitresses
across the country thousands of dollars in "Tips for Jesus" was
identified by a New York City waiter as Jack Selby, former PayPal vice
president.Read More ...
Bipartisan budget deal reached
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Shedding gridlock, key members of Congress reached a modest
budget agreement Tuesday to restore about $63 billion in automatic
spending cuts from programs ranging from parks to the Pentagon and
eliminate the threat of another partial government shutdown early next
year.Read More ...
Obama scrutinized at memorial
An unexpected handshake. A selfie. A seat change. Obama was under the microscope Tuesday.Read More ...
Study: Good looks mean good grades
If
you have a symmetrical face. If you have nice teeth. If you can be
accurately described as "pretty darn good looking, all things
considered" then good news — you have yet another advantage you might
not have known about. You're more likely to get good grades.Read More ...
Will anyone care if Congress fails to pass a budget resolution?
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Six, including four kids, found alive in northern Nevada
RENO,
Nev. (AP) — A member of a search team on Tuesday found two adults and
four children who had been missing in the frigid mountains of northern
Nevada for the past two days.Read More ...
Snowstorm cripples travel, closes schools and government
PROVIDENCE,
R.I. (AP) — A snowstorm pushed into New England on Tuesday, making for
messy travel conditions after causing widespread school and government
closures in the nation's capital and elsewhere along the Eastern
seaboard.Read More ...
Regulators seek to curb risky Wall Street trades with new rule
By
Emily Stephenson and Douwe Miedema WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. banks
will no longer be able to make big trading bets with their own money
after regulators on Tuesday finalized the Volcker rule and shut down
what was a hugely profitable business for Wall Street before the credit
crisis. After struggling for more than two years to craft the complex
rule, five regulatory agencies signed off on the nearly 900-page reform
that included new tough sections narrowing carve-outs for legitimate
trades. The rule is expected to eat into revenues at large investment
banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, even if many have
already wound down some of their trading desks in anticipation of the
rule's release, and may spark legal challenges. That's going to be a
really important document," said Bradley Sabel, a lawyer at Shearman and
Sterling in New York.Read More ...
Obama: Make Mandela's life work your own
The U.S. president urged the world to carry on his legacy.Read More ...
Nobel Peace laureate urges holdouts to join chemical weapons pact
The
head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,
accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today, appealed to the remaining
six countries outside the Chemical Weapons Convention to join the
organization's quest to rid the world of chemical weapons. OPCW
director general Ahmet Üzümcü said that there was no longer any
“reasonable defense” for Angola, Egypt, Israel, Myanmar, North Korea,
and South Sudan not to ratify the convention after the recent
international reaction to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. “It is
my fervent hope that this award will spur on efforts to make the
Chemical Weapons Convention a truly universal norm,” Mr. Üzümcü told the
hundreds of Nobel Lecture attendees at Oslo City Hall. “We cannot allow
the tragedy that befell the people of Ghouta [site of the Aug. 21
chemical attack in Syria] to be repeated.”Read More ...
Pay gains for young women; inequality still seen
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Young American women are increasingly likely to receive pay
nearly equal to their male counterparts, with earnings at 93 percent of
men, a new study finds. Still, those women remain as pessimistic as
their mothers and grandmothers regarding gender equality.Read More ...
Obama hails Mandela as "last great liberator"
JOHANNESBURG
(AP) — Amid cheers and song for the prisoner who became peacemaker,
President Barack Obama energized tens of thousands of spectators and
nearly 100 visiting heads of state Tuesday with a plea for the world to
emulate Nelson Mandela, "the last great liberator of the 20th century."Read More ...
GM CEO known for approachability, effectiveness
DETROIT
(AP) — Kettering University President Robert McMahan was traveling in
China a few months ago when he bumped into one of the university's board
members at an airport in Shanghai.Read More ...
Thai democracy enters dangerous new crossroads
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6 missing adults, children found alive in Nevada
RENO,
Nev. (AP) — A desperate search for a couple and four children missing
for two days in the below-zero cold of Nevada's rugged mountains turned
jubilant Tuesday when rescuers guided in part by cellphone signals and
footprints in the snow found them alive and well near their overturned
Jeep.Read More ...
Bryan, FGL clean up at American Country Awards
The
fans of country music love Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line and they
proved it again Tuesday during the American Country Awards.Read More ...
Pacers rally in 2nd half to beat Heat, 90-84
INDIANAPOLIS
(AP) — Roy Hibbert threw all the inside body jabs Tuesday night. Paul
George finished it off with the knockout blow.Read More ...
Suit: Marine's body sent home to Pa. without heart
PHILADELPHIA
(AP) — The parents of a Marine sergeant who died while stationed in
Greece say that they discovered weeks after his funeral that his body
had been sent home without a heart — and that the Department of Defense
later gave them somebody else's heart in its place.Read More ...
GM executive to be 1st woman to head major car co.
DETROIT
(AP) — Mary Barra has spent the past three years as General Motors'
product chief, making cars that drive better, last longer and look good
in showrooms.Read More ...
AP Interview: Egypt's Moussa defends draft charter
CAIRO
(AP) — The chairman of a panel that wrote Egypt's draft constitution
defended the document Tuesday as guaranteeing democracy and freedoms,
but he offered cautious criticism of a recent law restricting street
protests.Read More ...
Figure skating champ Lysacek out of Sochi Games
Evan
Lysacek woke up every morning praying this would be the day the
excruciating pain in his left hip — "like you're being electrocuted" —
would subside. And every day when he stepped on the ice, the searing
throb of pain reminded him that passion alone can't fuel a dream.Read More ...
Police move on protest camp in Ukrainian capital
KIEV,
Ukraine (AP) — Police clashed with protesters and tore down their tents
in the main square of the Ukrainian capital early Wednesday, in an
escalation of a weeks-long standoff threatening the leadership of
President Viktor Yanukovych.Read More ...
Notebook: Obamas, Bushes in close quarters
ABOARD
AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — A joint wave from the Air Force One, a shared
dinner, and a long flight home. President Barack Obama and former
President George W. Bush shared quality time Tuesday as they returned
from Nelson Mandela's memorial service in South Africa.Read More ...
Weapons watchdog receives Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO,
Norway (AP) — Recalling the "burning, blinding and suffocating" horrors
of chemical weapons, the head of a watchdog trying to consign them to
history accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, as prize winners in
medicine, physics and other categories also took bows for their awards.Read More ...
Snow blankets U.S. East; Washington offices, many schools closed
The
East Coast's first significant snowfall of the season dumped as much as
6 inches on northern Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and
southern New England, according to the National Weather Service. By
midday the storm had blown through Washington, D.C., where federal
government offices were shut for the day, the Office of Personnel
Management said. In neighboring Delaware, Governor Jack Markell
announced state offices were shut and urged residents to stay off
dangerously slick roads. "People were just sliding into one another." In
Oklahoma, the medical examiner said winter weather was responsible for
11 deaths ranging from traffic accidents on icy roads to falling into
icy waters.Read More ...
Oregon football player suspended for snowball fight
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Obama, Cuba's Raul Castro shake hands
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World leaders, South Africans honor Mandela
Obama received a warm welcome from the crowd as addressed Mandela's legacy.Read More ...
World leaders gather to honor Mandela
WATCH LIVE: Some 100 heads of state join tens of thousands of South Africans.Read More ...
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