News 1st Look: Congress cuts break short as debt ceiling deadline looms

Monday, July 4, 2011

Congress cuts break short as debt ceiling deadline looms

Congress cuts break short as debt ceiling deadline looms
Casey Anthony's fate in jury's hands
Opinion: Behind the Anthony obsession
Writer to file sex complaint against DSK
Founding Zetas cartel member arrested
Tour boat capsizes; at least 5 missing
Missing British soldier found dead
Afghanistan: Suicide bomber was sold
Motorcyclist dies in helmet protest
Top teachers union endorses Obama

Congress cuts break short as debt ceiling deadline looms

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 08:42 AM PDT

Politicians crammed in their Fourth of July festivities before Congress resumes talks over raising the government's debt ceiling. The two parties remain at sharp odds.

Casey Anthony's fate in jury's hands

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 03:24 PM PDT

Jurors are expected to begin deliberations Monday on whether Casey Anthony killed her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

Opinion: Behind the Anthony obsession

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 02:17 PM PDT

Casey Anthony is on the couch, and everyone is analyzing her. It's a crowded couch that includes her family and a band of witnesses, alleged experts, one or two lawyers in need of charisma and possibly additional training, and investigators who seem to need investigation.

Writer to file sex complaint against DSK

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 04:29 PM PDT

French writer Tristane Banon will file a criminal complaint against Dominique Strauss-Kahn for an alleged 2002 rape attempt. The former IMF head plans to file countercharges.

Founding Zetas cartel member arrested

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 04:27 PM PDT

Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar is connected to an attack that killed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata in February, Mexican authorities say.

Tour boat capsizes; at least 5 missing

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 04:15 PM PDT

The U.S. Coast Guard is sending helicopters Monday to assist the Mexican Navy in its search for the occupants of a tourist boat that capsized off Mexico's Baja California peninsula.

Missing British soldier found dead

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 03:55 PM PDT

NATO forces are looking for a service member who is missing in southern Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: Suicide bomber was sold

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 08:30 AM PDT

The Pakistani Taliban recruited and trained a suicide bomber, then sold him to the Haqqani network to carry out an attack in Afghanistan, but he was arrested before pulling off the plan, an official with Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) said Monday.

Motorcyclist dies in helmet protest

Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:20 PM PDT

A bareheaded motorcyclist participating in a ride to protest mandatory helmet laws was killed when he was thrown over the handlebars in Onandaga, New York.