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• Steep price for National Sept. 11 Memorial
• President gets a lift from pizza shop owner
• Wave of attacks leave 92 dead in Iraq
• Romney claims he won’t cut taxes on America's wealthy
• Obama: I’ll work with Republicans if they agree to raise taxes
• Early laptop designer Moggridge dies at 69
• Car bomb kills at least 17 in Syria
• Nobel Prize-winning writer says Ryan 'never a man of substance'
• Former MMA fighter pleads guilty to killing his sparring partner
• NYC area cleans up after two tornadoes strike
• Obama aides mock Romney talk of taking ‘God’ off currency
• Romney says he would keep parts of Obama healthcare law
• Parents planning for kids if Chicago teachers strike
• Bicyclist dies in Utah-to-Wyoming race
• Tropical Storm Leslie slowly moves past Bermuda
• Joe Biden calls GOP a 'different breed of cat'
• Pakistan ends weeks of fighting; over 100 dead
• Congress returns for short pre-election session
• Ryan fires back at Obama over foreign policy criticism
• Dorothy McGuire of McGuire Sisters dies at 84

Steep price for National Sept. 11 Memorial Posted: 09 Sep 2012 10:43 AM PDT With its huge reflecting pools, ringed by waterfalls and skyscrapers, and a cavernous underground museum still under construction, the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center is an awesome spectacle that moved and inspired some 4.5 million visitors in its first year.

President gets a lift from pizza shop owner Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:59 PM PDT Florida pizza shop owner Scott Van Duzer lifted President Barack Obama a solid foot off the ground in a bear hug during an unscripted stop at his Fort Pierce, Fla., store. Literally. So what did the Secret Service think about Van Duzer — a registered Republican who says he'll vote for Obama in November — [...]

Wave of attacks leave 92 dead in Iraq Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:10 PM PDT Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president was sentenced Sunday to death by hanging on charges he masterminded death squads against rivals in a terror trial that has fueled sectarian tensions in the country. Underscoring the instability, insurgents unleashed an onslaught of bombings and shootings across Iraq, killing at least 92 people in one of the deadliest days this year.

Romney claims he won’t cut taxes on America's wealthy Posted: 09 Sep 2012 07:44 AM PDT Mitt Romney rejected claims by President Barack Obama that he would sign off on more tax breaks for the wealthy if elected president, but again declined to offer specifics on how exactly he would accomplish his goal of lowering taxes for other Americans while also balancing the budget. In an interview with NBC's "Meet the [...]

Obama: I’ll work with Republicans if they agree to raise taxes Posted: 09 Sep 2012 08:14 AM PDT President Barack Obama said in an interview partly broadcast Sunday that he would be "more than happy to work with the Republicans" to trim the swelling national debt — as long as they drop their opposition to raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans. "You can't reduce the deficit unless you take a [...]

Early laptop designer Moggridge dies at 69 Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:50 PM PDT Bill Moggridge, a British industrial designer who designed an early portable computer with the flip-open shape that is common today, has died. He was 69.The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design ...

Car bomb kills at least 17 in Syria Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:42 PM PDT A car bomb ripped through Syria's largest city of Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 40 in one of the main battlegrounds of the country's civil war, state-run media said.

Nobel Prize-winning writer says Ryan 'never a man of substance' Posted: 09 Sep 2012 09:25 AM PDT Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said that GOP presidential nominee Paul Ryan was "never a man of substance" during our "This Week" roundtable discussion about the Romney-Ryan tax plan that I questioned Ryan about earlier on the program. You can read the full exchange...

Former MMA fighter pleads guilty to killing his sparring partner Posted: 09 Sep 2012 07:45 AM PDT Men had Taken Drugs and Thought They Were in a Struggle Between God and Satan

NYC area cleans up after two tornadoes strike Posted: 09 Sep 2012 04:32 AM PDT Damaging storms that spawned tornadoes in New York City, darkened tens of thousands of homes in the Washington, D.C., area and flooded New England streets turned a normal day of rest into a day of cleaning up for many East Coast residents on Sunday.

Obama aides mock Romney talk of taking ‘God’ off currency Posted: 09 Sep 2012 09:35 AM PDT "The president believes as much that God should be taken off a coin as he does that aliens will attack Florida." That's the response from Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki to Mitt Romney's apparent suggestion at a Virginia Beach, Va., rally on Saturday that Democrats hope to take "In God We Trust" off American money. [...]

Romney says he would keep parts of Obama healthcare law Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:21 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has called for scrapping President Barack Obama's 2010 U.S. healthcare law, said in remarks aired on Sunday that he likes key parts of "Obamacare" despite his party's loathing of it and wants to retain them. Romney, who faces Obama in the November 6 election, has vowed throughout the campaign to repeal and replace the Obama healthcare law. But asked about the Obama healthcare law on NBC's "Meet the Press" program, Romney said, "Well, I'm not getting rid of all of healthcare reform. ...

Parents planning for kids if Chicago teachers strike Posted: 09 Sep 2012 03:57 PM PDT With Chicago teachers poised to go on strike for the first time in a quarter century, parents spent Sunday worrying about how much their children's education might suffer and where their kids will go while they're at work.

Bicyclist dies in Utah-to-Wyoming race Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:14 PM PDT A bicyclist competing in a race from Logan, Utah, to Jackson Hole, Wyo., crashed on a bridge in Wyoming and fell about 35 feet to his death into the Snake River.

Tropical Storm Leslie slowly moves past Bermuda Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:58 PM PDT Tropical Storm Leslie's outer bands buffeted Bermuda with gusty winds and rain Sunday as it slowly edged past the wary British enclave on a path that was expected to take it to Canada's Newfoundland later in the week.

Joe Biden calls GOP a 'different breed of cat' Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:56 AM PDT PORTSMOUTH, Ohio – Vice President Joe Biden often proclaims how different the Republican Party is from generations ago, but in Portsmouth, Ohio, today, he had a new way to describe them – a "different breed of cat." "They're not bad guys. It's just a different,...

Pakistan ends weeks of fighting; over 100 dead Posted: 09 Sep 2012 10:40 AM PDT Pakistani security forces pushed Taliban militants who came from Afghanistan back across the border after more than two weeks of fighting in a mountainous tribal region, spokesmen for both sides said Sunday. The government says over 100 people were killed in the offensive.

Congress returns for short pre-election session Posted: 09 Sep 2012 06:32 AM PDT Fresh off a five-week vacation, lawmakers return to Washington on Monday for a truncated pre-election session in which Congress will do what it often does best: punt problems to the future.

Ryan fires back at Obama over foreign policy criticism Posted: 09 Sep 2012 06:07 AM PDT GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan says he has more foreign policy experience than Barack Obama did before he entered the White House.

Dorothy McGuire of McGuire Sisters dies at 84 Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:57 AM PDT Dorothy McGuire Williamson, who teamed with sisters Christine and Phyllis for a string of hits in the 50s and 60s as the popular McGuire Sisters singing group, has died. She was 84.

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