| White House, Congress settle in for sequestration long haul Posted: 03 Mar 2013 11:36 AM PST  The White House and congressional leaders are giving no indication that the $85 billion in mandatory across-the-board federal spending cuts known as the sequester will be lifted any time soon. Two days have passed since President Obama signed the order to reduce the budget of...
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| Romney: ‘It kills me’ not to be in White House Posted: 03 Mar 2013 08:33 AM PST  Mitt Romney says it "kills" him that he's not president. But he doesn't blame Superstorm Sandy, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie or anything else on his loss to President Barack Obama--except his campaign's failure to connect with minority voters. "I lost my election because of my campaign," Romney said on "Fox News Sunday" in his [...]
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| Queen hospitalized over stomach illness Posted: 03 Mar 2013 02:09 PM PST  Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was hospitalized Sunday over an apparent stomach infection that has ailed her for days, a rare instance of ill health sidelining the long-reigning monarch. Elizabeth will have to cancel a visit to Rome and other engagements as she recovers, and outside experts said she may have to be rehydrated intravenously.
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| Scientists say baby born with HIV apparently cured Posted: 03 Mar 2013 04:29 PM PST  A baby born with the AIDS virus appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.
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| Obama renews budget offer to cut social safety nets Posted: 03 Mar 2013 03:03 PM PST  President Barack Obama raised anew the issue of cutting entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security as a way out of damaging budget cuts, a White House official said on Sunday, as both sides in Washington tried to limit a fiscal crisis that may soon hit millions of Americans. Signaling he might be ready to explore a compromise to end automatic spending cuts that began late Friday, Obama mentioned reforming these entitlement programs in calls with lawmakers from both parties on Saturday afternoon. ...
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| Rodman: Kim Jong Un wants President Obama to 'call him' Posted: 03 Mar 2013 09:26 AM PST  In his first interview since returning to the U.S. from an unprecedented visit to the North Korea last week, former NBA star Dennis Rodman said he bears a message for President Obama from the country's oppressive leader, Kim Jong Un. "He wants Obama to do...
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| Elderly Woman Dies After Nurse Refuses to Give Her CPR Posted: 03 Mar 2013 10:28 AM PST  A 911 dispatcher pleaded with a nurse at a Bakersfield, Calif., senior living facility to save the life of an elderly woman by giving her CPR, but the nurse said policy did not allow her to, according to a newly released audiotape of the call....
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| Car bomb kills 37, wounds 141 in southern Pakistan Posted: 03 Mar 2013 01:34 PM PST  KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A car bomb exploded outside a mosque on Sunday, killing 37 people and wounding another 141 in a Shiite Muslim dominated neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this year.
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| Supply ship meets space station after shaky start Posted: 03 Mar 2013 03:22 PM PST  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private Earth-to-orbit delivery service made good on its latest shipment to the International Space Station on Sunday, overcoming mechanical difficulty and delivering a ton of supplies with high-flying finesse.
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| Papal vote preparations start in earnest at Vatican Posted: 03 Mar 2013 03:28 PM PST  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Preparations for electing Roman Catholicism's new leader begin in earnest on Monday as the College of Cardinals opens daily talks to sketch an identikit for the next pope and ponder who among them might fit it. The idea is to have the new pope elected during next week and officially installed several days later so he can preside over the Holy Week ceremonies starting with Palm Sunday on March 24 and culminating in Easter the following Sunday. ...
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| Bobby Rogers, founder of Motown group The Miracles, dies Posted: 03 Mar 2013 04:21 PM PST  SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Bobby Rogers, a founding member of Motown group The Miracles and a songwriting collaborator with Smokey Robinson, died Sunday at his suburban Detroit home. He was 73.
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| Accused Scottish cardinal admits sexual failings Posted: 03 Mar 2013 12:58 PM PST  LONDON (AP) — A Scottish cardinal on Sunday acknowledged having engaged in unspecified sexual misbehavior, apologized for his actions, and promised to stay out of the church's public life in a statement that comes at an awkward time for the Vatican.
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| Power failure blamed in New Orleans water issues Posted: 03 Mar 2013 01:30 PM PST  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Taps in New Orleans briefly went dry Sunday after a boiler's heating flame went out of control in the immense steam generator that powers pumps for the city's water treatment plant.
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| Biden: Selma beatings shaped him, nation Posted: 03 Mar 2013 12:35 PM PST  SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Black leaders commemorating a famous civil rights march on Sunday said efforts to diminish the impact of African-Americans' votes haven't stopped in the years since the 1965 Voting Rights Act added millions to Southern voter rolls.
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| Most of Fla. house over sinkhole demolished Posted: 03 Mar 2013 12:33 PM PST  SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) — Crews on Sunday razed more than half of the Tampa-area home perched over a huge sinkhole that swallowed a man three days ago, managing to salvage some keepsakes for family members who lived there.
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| Kerry says U.S. releasing millions in aid to Egypt Posted: 03 Mar 2013 11:32 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for President Mohammed Morsi's pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250 million in American aid to support the country's "future as a democracy."
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| Russian police delay play about female punk rockers Posted: 03 Mar 2013 07:56 AM PST  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow police interrupted a play featuring the trial of punk rockers Pussy Riot on Sunday and warned its Swiss director for violating visa rules, in what a government critic said was part of an anti-Western campaign.
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| Lech Walesa shocks Poland with anti-gay words Posted: 03 Mar 2013 04:09 AM PST  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Lech Walesa, the Polish democracy icon and Nobel peace prize winner, has sparked outrage in Poland by saying that gays have no right to a prominent role in politics and that as a minority they need to "adjust to smaller things."
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