Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Mass protests in Syrian city as monitors arrive (AP)

Mass protests in Syrian city as monitors arrive (AP)

Mass protests in Syrian city as monitors arrive (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 01:55 PM PST

This image made from amateur video and released by Shaam News Network Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, purports to show the blood of men killed from shells in Homs, Syria, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via APTN) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL. TV OUTAP - Tens of thousands of defiant Syrian protesters thronged the streets of Homs Tuesday, calling for the execution of President Bashar Assad shortly after his army pulled its tanks back and allowed Arab League monitors in for the first time to the city at the heart of the anti-government uprising.

Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson announces retirement (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 01:07 PM PST

FILE - In this file Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb. talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sources say Nelson will retire. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska said Tuesday he will retire rather than seek a third term next year, dealing a significant setback to Democratic efforts to maintain control of the chamber.

In pursuit, GOP contenders rumble through Iowa (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:30 AM PST

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, accompanied by Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., right, campaigns during breakfast at a Londonderry, N.H. restaurant, Tuesday Dec. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney carried himself Tuesday like a man with the party nomination in hand, even before the first votes have been cast, while a newly unearthed memo showed chief rival Newt Gingrich once offered glowing praise for what Romney did for health care in Massachusetts as governor.

Consumer confidence index surges in December (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:51 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2011 file photo, a shopper rests herself and her bags in Herald Square during the busiest shopping day of the year, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)AP - Americans are gaining faith that the economy is on the upswing.

Deadly Conn. fire caused by old fireplace embers (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 01:27 PM PST

Rubble lies on the ground, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011, after the demolition of a house where a fire left five people dead on Christmas Day, in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - A Christmas morning fire that killed a couple and three of their grandchildren was accidentally started by old fireplace embers that had been discarded near a first-floor entryway, officials said Tuesday.

New fee coming for medical effectiveness research (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:30 AM PST

AP - Starting in 2012, the government will charge a new fee to your health insurance plan for research to find out which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments work best. But what will Americans do with the answers?

Police: Neighbor chopped up Ind. girl with hacksaw (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:01 PM PST

An undated Allen County (Ind.) Sheriff's Department photo shows Mike Plumadore. Authorities said Monday night, Dec. 26, 2011 that Aliahna Lemmon had been found dead and Plumadore, 39, who was watching Aliahna and her two sisters when she went missing Friday, was being held on a murder charge. He and Aliahna's family lived in the same mobile home park in Fort Wayne. He will be formally charged with murder Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Allen County (IN) Sheriff's Department)AP - A babysitter and trusted neighbor has confessed that he bludgeoned a 9-year-old Indiana girl to death with a brick then dismembered her, hiding her head, hands and feet at a home where he was staying and dumping the rest of her remains nearby, police said Tuesday.

As Iraq War ends, no parade for troops is imminent (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:43 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2011 file photo, Sgt. Howard Acoff hugs his family as U.S. Army 1st Cavalry 3rd Brigade soldiers return home from deployment in Iraq at Fort Hood, Texas. These 3rd Brigade troops were in the last convoy to leave Iraq, as U.S. soldiers withdrew from the country. For now, there are no plans to hold a huge ticker-tape parade for troops returning from Iraq, no arrangements for a grand, flag-waving, red-white-and-blue homecoming of the sort America’s fighting men and women received after World War II and the Gulf War. Instead, most welcomes have been smaller-scale: hugs from families at military posts across the country, a somber commemoration by President Barack Obama at Fort Bragg. (AP Photo/Erich Schlegel, File)AP - Americans probably won't be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade anytime soon for troops returning from Iraq, and it's not clear if veterans of the nine-year campaign will ever enjoy the grand, flag-waving, red-white-and-blue homecoming that the nation's fighting men and women received after World War II and the Gulf War.

Idaho teen loses cancer fight after delivering son (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:36 AM PST

In this Dec. 6, 2011 photo, Diana Phillips, Jenni Lake's mother, cries while holding Jenni's son, Chad Michael Lake Wittman, in Pocatello, Idaho. Jenni Lake, who decided against treatment for tumors on her brain and spine so she could carry the baby, died of cancer on Nov. 21, 2011, 12 days after giving birth to Chad. (AP Photo/James B. Hale)AP - Jenni Lake gave birth to a baby boy the month before her 18th birthday, though she was not destined to become just another teenage mother.

LA coroner says Heavy D died of natural causes (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:55 AM PST

AP - The Los Angeles coroner's office says Jamaican-born rapper Heavy D died of natural causes.

Consumer confidence perks up, house prices sag (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 01:54 PM PST

Reuters - Improving labor market conditions lifted U.S. consumer confidence to an eight month high in December, but persistently weak house prices remain an obstacle to faster economic growth.

Sears to close more stores as holiday sales slump (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:45 AM PST

Reuters - Sears Holdings Corp will close as many as 120 of its Kmart and namesake big-box stores after sales during the peak holiday period fell sharply, and the retailer also forecast that fourth quarter earnings would fall by more than half, sending its shares plunging some 25 percent.

Obama to nominate economist, banker, as Fed governors (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 01:26 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama will nominate Harvard economist Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell, an investment banker and former Treasury official, to the two empty seats on the Federal Reserve's policy-setting board of governors.

Democrat Nelson to retire from Senate (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:54 PM PST

U.S. Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) talks to reporters about his views on voting on healthcare legislation at the U.S. Capitol in Washington December 19, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - Democratic Senator Ben Nelson will retire next year, news reports said on Tuesday, dealing a significant blow to his party's hopes of keeping control of the Senate after the November 2012 elections.

Mass anti-Assad protest in Homs as monitors visit (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:29 AM PST

Reuters - Tens of thousands of Syrians in Homs rallied on Tuesday against President Bashar al-Assad, emboldened by Arab peace monitors' first tour of the flashpoint city, after the army withdrew some tanks following days of unrest.

More trouble for Gingrich as Iowa campaign quickens (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:50 AM PST

Reuters - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's campaign struggled to fend off more bad news on Tuesday after he was quoted supporting main rival Mitt Romney's healthcare reform in Massachusetts.

Iran threatens to stop Gulf oil if sanctions widened (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:56 AM PST

Reuters - Iran threatened on Tuesday to stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz if foreign sanctions were imposed on its crude exports over its nuclear ambitions, a move that could trigger military conflict with economies dependent on Gulf oil.

Putin ejects Kremlin "puppet master" after protests (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 01:29 PM PST

Reuters - The architect of Vladimir Putin's tightly controlled political system became one of its most senior victims on Tuesday when he was shunted out of the Kremlin in the wake of the biggest opposition protests of Putin's 12-year rule.

Intelligence firm Stratfor reels after data breach. What did hackers get? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 03:14 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The risks of cyber break-ins were exposed again over the holiday weekend as the firm Strategic Forecasting, known as Stratfor, faced an intrusion by hackers that compromised client data and credit card numbers.

Fuller picture emerges of fatal, chaotic US-Pakistan firefight (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 02:58 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - As US-Pakistan relations continue to deteriorate after the US military mistakenly killed two dozen Pakistani military troops in late November, a new Pentagon report about the incident paints a picture of chaos on both sides and of US ground forces in Afghanistan pinned down by surprisingly accurate fire from what turned out to be Pakistani forces.
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