| Breaking down the Obama budget Posted: 02 Feb 2015 01:21 PM PST  Obama's $4 trillion budget, like every president's, is a wish list, but it also serves as a key mission statement.
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| US weighs arms deliveries to Ukraine Posted: 02 Feb 2015 01:17 PM PST  President Barack Obama's aides and top commanders are seriously considering providing arms and more military equipment to Ukraine as its army struggles against pro-Russian separatists, officials said Monday. The Obama administration had previously ruled out sending weapons to Ukraine's government but the failure of economic sanctions to persuade Russia to halt military assistance for the separatists has prompted a second look at the option, officials told AFP. Some senior figures in the administration now backed the move despite earlier concerns about triggering a dangerous escalation with Russia, officials said. Washington so far has provided non-lethal assistance to Ukraine, including flak jackets, medical supplies, radios and night-vision goggles.
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| Chris Christie: Parents should have choice in vaccinations Posted: 02 Feb 2015 03:49 PM PST  The GOP governor of New Jersey takes a controversial stance on vaccines.
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| Rebels pound Ukrainian troops after peace talks fail Posted: 02 Feb 2015 12:03 PM PST  Separatist rockets streaked across hills in eastern Ukraine.
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| New Yemen drone strike kills four Qaeda suspects Posted: 02 Feb 2015 08:36 AM PST  A drone strike killed at least four Al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen Monday, tribal sources said, the third attack in a week after Washington vowed to pursue its anti-jihadist campaign there. The unmanned aircraft, which only the United States operates in the region, targeted a car carrying "at least four" suspects in Baida province, the sources said. This was the third such strike since US President Barack Obama on January 25 vowed no let-up in Washington's campaign against jihadists in Yemen.
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| NFL great Warren Sapp arrested for soliciting escort, assault in Phoenix Posted: 02 Feb 2015 02:29 PM PST  By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - National Football League Hall of Fame defensive tackle Warren Sapp was arrested at a Phoenix hotel on Monday on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute and assault, authorities said. Sapp, who had been covering the Super Bowl as an analyst for the NFL Network, was booked into Maricopa County jail after an incident involving two escorts in an apparent dispute over money, said Phoenix police spokesman Sergeant Trent Crump.
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| Boston delays Super Bowl parade until Wednesday due to storm Posted: 02 Feb 2015 02:57 PM PST  By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston will delay until Wednesday its parade to celebrate the New England Patriots' Super Bowl victory, after Mayor Marty Walsh decided on Monday to push the event back a day because of a snowstorm pounding the city. "Due to today's bad weather and the worsening forecast tonight, the New England Patriots and the city of Boston have made the mutual decision to postpone the victory parade until Wednesday," Walsh said in a statement.
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| Strauss-Kahn goes on trial for 'pimping' Posted: 02 Feb 2015 01:08 PM PST  The ex-IMF chief finds himself back in the dock, this time accused of being at the center of a vice ring.
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| Obama proposes $3.99 trillion budget Posted: 02 Feb 2015 10:44 AM PST  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a $3.99 trillion budget that drew scorn from Republicans and set up battles over tax reform, infrastructure spending, and the quest to prove which party best represents the middle class. In his fiscal year 2016 budget blueprint, a political document that must be approved by Congress to take effect, Obama proposed a series of programs to help middle-income Americans that he would pay for with higher taxes on corporations and wealthy individuals. Obama's budget fleshes out proposals from his State of the Union address last month and helps highlight Democratic priorities for the last two years of his presidency and the beginning of the 2016 presidential campaign. "I know there are Republicans who disagree with my approach.
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| California’s next big political wave Posted: 02 Feb 2015 02:40 AM PST  When California Sen. Barbara Boxer announced on Jan. 8 that she would be retiring after her current term ends in 2016, Golden State politicos reacted with the sort of panting excitement usually reserved for a regime change at, say, Buckingham Palace. A new generation of California Democrats has a rare chance for major office. But aside from age, how do they differ from the previous generation? This is an important question not just for California but for the entire Democratic Party — and possibly the entire country.
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| Report: U.S. taking new look at giving arms to Ukraine forces Posted: 01 Feb 2015 04:14 PM PST  Secretary of State John Kerry and Gen. Martin Dempsey are reportedly open to the idea.
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