2012年12月31日星期一

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Fiscal cliff tumble looms despite Senate efforts

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 03:36 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about negotiations with Capitol Hill while in WashingtonThe United States was on track to tumble over the "fiscal cliff" at midnight on Monday, at least for a day, as lawmakers held back from supporting an eleventh-hour plan from Senate leaders to avert severe tax increases and spending cuts.


Suspect in NYC subway death arrested before

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 04:42 PM PST

In this image provided by the New York City Police Department, a composite sketch showing the woman believed to have pushed a man to his death in front of a subway train on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 is shown. Police arrested Erika Menendez on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, after a passer-by on a street noticed she resembled the woman seen in a surveillance video. The attack was the second time this month that a man was pushed to his death in a city subway station. (AP Photo/New York City Police Department)NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train called police several times in the past five years because she had not been taking prescribed medication and was difficult to deal with, authorities said Monday.


Clinton's blood clot located in her head; full recovery expected

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 02:00 PM PST

Hillary Clinton hospitalized for blood clotSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is "making excellent progress" recovering from a blood clot in her head that was discovered during a medical examination, her doctors said Monday. But Clinton remains hospitalized until a proper medication level is established, they said. A day after announcing that Clinton had been admitted to a New York [...]


World giving enthusiastic welcome to 2013

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 01:11 PM PST

Katy Saunders, left, Alex Mueller, center left, Rebekka Frank and Arina Motamedi, right, play with sparklers ahead of welcoming in the new year during the 2013 Edinburgh Hogmanay celebrations, Scotland, Monday December 31, 2012. See PA story SOCIAL NewYear. (AP Photo/PA,Danny Lawson)UNITED KINGDOM OUTLONDON (AP) — Lavish fireworks displays ushered in 2013 across the Asia-Pacific region on Tuesday, and Europe was holding scaled-back festivities and street parties in the hope of beginning a new year that will be kinder to its battered economies.


Worlds collide in Indian girl's rape and death

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 09:32 AM PST

Policemen stand guard outside the cremation ground during the funeral of a rape victim after her body arrived from Singapore, in New DelhiThe December 16 attack on a private bus has come to symbolize an epidemic of crime against women.


Report: State Dept. made 'grievous mistake' over Benghazi

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:23 AM PST

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protestA Senate report faulted the State Department for waiting for specific warnings instead of improving security at the U.S. mission.


Desperate for weapons, Syrian rebels make their own

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 07:35 AM PST

A Free Syrian Army fighter makes homemade missiles at a workshop in north Aleppo"No one's giving us any support. So we're working on our own to strike Bashar," says a rebel. Using the Internet, men work together to try and perfect crude weapons.


NYC bomb suspects had 'terrorist encyclopedia'

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:06 AM PST

Police arrested a couple on Saturday after authorities investigating a credit card theft found a highly explosive compound, bomb-making manuals, a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition.

13 new space missions to watch in 2013

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:25 AM PST

13 New Space Missions to Watch In 2013This year has been a busy one for space missions, and it looks like next year will ramp things up even more.


New, oddball state laws to take effect on Jan. 1

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 06:19 AM PST

Many new, unusual state laws will take effect when the ball drops at midnight and millions of Americans ring in the New Year, including one that will limit the number of cats in a household.

Heads roll on Black Monday as NFL coaches fired

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:24 AM PST

Cleveland Browns head coach Pat Shurmur calls in a play during a pre-season exhibition football game with the Philadelphia Eagles in Philadelphia(Reuters) - Heads continued to roll for under-achieving head coaches across the National Football League as the Philadelphia Eagles' Andy Reid, Buffalo Bills' Chan Gailey and Cleveland Browns' Pat Shurmur were all fired on what has become known as Black Monday. The unemployment ranks swelled even further later on Monday with the Chicago Bears' Lovie Smith, Kansas City Chiefs' Romeo Crennel, San Diego Chargers' Norv Turner and Arizona Cardinals' Ken Whisenhunt also getting the axe to bring the total to seven teams with head coaching vacancies. ...


Colleges helping students scrub online footprints

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 07:08 AM PST

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Samantha Grossman wasn't always thrilled with the impression that emerged when people Googled her name.

Beer, liquor never sicker? Hangover cures, myths

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 06:26 AM PST

After the Times Square ball drops on New Year's Eve and copious amounts of Champagne get toasted and drunk, many might find themselves forgetting more "auld acquaintances" than they intended and waking up to 2013 with a vicious hangover.

Teen gets iPhone for Christmas ... with a catch

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:52 AM PST

Thirteen-year-old Greg Hoffman had been begging his parents for an iPhone all year. So on Christmas morning he was thrilled to find the object of his desire under the tree, but there was a catch.

Remains of Connecticut gunman claimed for burial

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 08:10 PM PST

Somebody Finally Claimed Adam Lanza's BodyOver two weeks after he opened fire on a school full of children, killing 26 people as well as himself, Adam Lanza is heading to his final resting place. On Sunday, in a bulletin bereft of detail, the Connecticut chief medical examiner's office announced that the 20-year-old's body had been claimed for burial. They didn't say who claimed him, where he would be buried, if he would receive a funeral or really anything else about what will happen to the young mass murderer. ...


Pop quiz: What does 'Auld Lang Syne' mean?

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:40 AM PST

Here it is. The answer to a perennial question of what on earth does "Auld Lang Syne" mean?

Chavez suffers new complications in cancer fight

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 04:41 PM PST

A mural represents the eyes of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Chavez is confronting "new complications" due to a respiratory infection nearly three weeks after undergoing cancer surgery, his Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Sunday evening in Cuba as he visited the ailing leader for the first time since his operation. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez's new complications after cancer surgery prompted his closest allies to call for Venezuelans to pray for him on Monday, presenting an increasingly bleak outlook and prompting growing speculation about whether the ailing leader has much longer to live.


Big Pharma cashes in on HGH abuse

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 03:20 PM PST

Dr. Mark Molitch of Northwestern University, who helped write medical standards meant to limit HGH treatment to legitimate patients, holds an injector pen that contains approximately a weeks worth of doses for a patient in need of the drug at his clinic Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, in Chicago. An Associated Press investigation shows that a federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, an Associated Press investigation shows.


Al-Qaida carving out own country in Mali

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 12:59 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2012 file photo, fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine leave after performing a public amputation, severing the hand of a young man found guilty of stealing rice, in Timbuktu, Mali. In recent months, al-Qaida and its allies have taken advantage of political instability within Mali to push out of their hiding place and into the towns, taking over an enormous territory which they are using to stock arms, train forces and prepare for global jihad. And as 2012 draws to a close and the world hesitates, delaying a military intervention, the extremists who seized control of the area earlier this year are preparing for a war they boast will be worse than the decade-old struggle in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/File)Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, Islamic fighters are burrowing into the earth, erecting a formidable set of defenses to protect what has essentially become al-Qaida's new country.


Kim Kardashian pregnant: Her family reacts

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 11:21 PM PST

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are seen leaving Prime 112 Steakhouse in Miami on October 14, 2012 -- Getty PremiumGet ready for yet another Kardashian to keep up with! On Sunday night, Kanye West "announced" that he and Kim Kardashian are expecting a child together when he told the crowd at his Atlantic City concert to "Stop the music … Continue reading →


A portrait of the procrastivoters of 2012 election

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 06:45 AM PST

New research has turned up a curious subspecies of the electorate: Those who felt it was worth deciding whom to vote for, but not until the last 24 of the 5,040 hours of the campaign.
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