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White House, Congress settle in for sequestration long haul

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 11:36 AM PST

Politicians Settle in for Sequestration Long HaulThe 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...


Romney: ‘It kills me’ not to be in White House

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 08:33 AM PST

Romney on sequester showdown: Obama 'berating Republicans'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 [...]


Queen hospitalized over stomach illness

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 02:09 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II looks up and waves to members of staff of The Foreign and Commonwealth Office as she ends an official visit which is part of her Jubilee celebrations in London. Queen Elizabeth has been taken to the King Edward VII hospital in central London suffering from gastroenteritis, Sunday, March 3, 2013. A palace spokesman said she was expected to stay in hospital for two days and all engagements for this week will be either postponed or cancelled.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant Pool, file)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.


Scientists say baby born with HIV apparently cured

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 04:29 PM PST

This image provided by Johns Hopkins Medicine shows Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins' Children's Center in Baltimore. A baby, born with the AIDS virus, appears to have been cured scientists announced Sunday, March 3, 2013, 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. If the child remains free of HIV, it would mark only the world's second known cure. Specialists say the finding offers exciting clues for how to eliminate HIV infection in children. "Maybe we'll be able to block this reservoir seeding," Persaud said. (AP Photo/Johns Hopkins Medicine)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.


Obama renews budget offer to cut social safety nets

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 03:03 PM PST

Obama speaks about the sequester in WashingtonPresident 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. ...


Rodman: Kim Jong Un wants President Obama to 'call him'

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 09:26 AM PST

Dennis Rodman: Kim Jong Un Wants President Obama to 'Call Him'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...


Elderly Woman Dies After Nurse Refuses to Give Her CPR

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 10:28 AM PST

Elderly Woman Dies After Nurse Refuses to Give Her CPRA 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....


Car bomb kills 37, wounds 141 in southern Pakistan

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 01:34 PM PST

A Pakistani man, who was injured in a bomb blast, is brought to a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2013. Pakistani officials say a bomb blast has killed dozens of people in a neighborhood dominated by Shiite Muslims in the southern city of Karachi. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)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.


Supply ship meets space station after shaky start

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 03:22 PM PST

This frame grab made available by NASA TV shows a view of the SpaceX Dragon capsule on the end of the International Space Station's robotic arm, Sunday, March 3, 2013. SpaceX, the California-based company founded by billionaire Elon Musk, had to struggle with the Dragon following its launch Friday from Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft is delivering more than 1 ton of supplies to the the International Space Station. (AP Photo/NASA TV)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.


Papal vote preparations start in earnest at Vatican

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 03:28 PM PST

A statue is silhouetted in Saint Peter's Square at the VaticanVATICAN 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. ...


Bobby Rogers, founder of Motown group The Miracles, dies

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 04:21 PM PST

FILE - In this March 20, 2009 file photo, members of the Motown group The Miracles, from left: William "Smokey" Robinson, Warren "Pete" Moore, Claudette Robinson, and Robert "Bobby" Rogers, are honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Rogers, a founding member of the group and a collaborator with Smokey, has died. Motown Museum board member Allen Rawls said Rogers died Sunday, March 3, 2013, at his home. He was 73. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)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.


Accused Scottish cardinal admits sexual failings

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 12:58 PM PST

FILE - A Thursday Sept. 16, 2010 photo from files showing Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien speaking to the media in Edinburgh, Scotland. Cardinal O'Brien resigned Monday Feb 25, 2013 due to allegations of misconduct. (AP Photo/Scott Campbell, File)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.


Power failure blamed in New Orleans water issues

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 01:30 PM PST

New Orleans resident Isabel Medina stocks up on bottled water at the Winn Dixie Supermarket on Tchoupitoulas Street due to a boil water advisory after water pressure dipped below 15 PSI on the east bank of Orleans Parish at the Orleans Parish Sewerage & Water Board in New Orleans , La., Sunday, March 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Hinton)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.


Biden: Selma beatings shaped him, nation

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 12:35 PM PST

Thousands of residents await the arrival of Vice President Joe Biden for the annual Bridge Crossing Ceremony in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 3, 2013. Biden is traveling to Selma on Sunday to participate in the Bridge Crossing Jubilee. The event commemorates the 1965 march, which prompted Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act and add millions of African-Americans to Southern voter rolls. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)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.


Most of Fla. house over sinkhole demolished

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 12:33 PM PST

Demolition experts watch as the home of Jeff Bush, 37, is destroyed Sunday, March 3, 2013, after a sinkhole opened up underneath it late Thursday evening swallowing Bush, 37, in Seffner, Fla. The 20-foot-wide opening of the sinkhole was almost covered by the house, and rescuers said there were no signs of life since the hole opened Thursday night. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)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.


Kerry says U.S. releasing millions in aid to Egypt

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 11:32 AM PST

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt on Sunday, March 3, 2013. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Egypt's president Sunday, wrapping up a visit to the deeply divided country with an appeal for unity and reform. The U.S. is deeply concerned that continued instability in Egypt will have broader consequences in a region already rocked by unrest. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)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."


Russian police delay play about female punk rockers

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 07:56 AM PST

Members of the female punk band "Pussy Riot" sit in a glass-walled cage during a court hearing in MoscowMOSCOW (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.


Lech Walesa shocks Poland with anti-gay words

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 04:09 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2003 file photo Lech Walesa, Poland's Solidarity leader and former president, gets a kiss from his wife Danuta, during a birthday party in Gdansk, Poland. Walesa, the democracy icon and Nobel peace prize winner, has sparked controversy and outrage in Poland by saying in a TV interview Friday, March 1, 2013, homosexuals have no right to a prominent role in politics and that as a minority they need to "adjust to smaller things" in society. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)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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