Sunday, January 1, 2012

CNN.com Recently Published/Updated

CNN.com Recently Published/Updated

CNN Iowa Insiders Survey: Will Iowa's evangelicals pick the GOP nominee?

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 11:23 PM PST

We all know about the power of born-again and evangelical voters in the Iowa Republican presidential caucuses. Four years ago, three out of every five Iowans who attended a GOP precinct caucus described themselves that way, and they handed Baptist minister and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee an upset victory over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

CNN Iowa Insiders Survey: Some Iowa Republicans want more options

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 11:20 PM PST

Is it buyer's remorse time already?

CNN Iowa Insiders Survey: Two out of three think Romney will win

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 11:15 PM PST

Almost two-thirds of Iowa's Republican political pros predict that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will win the state's caucuses on Tuesday, but his campaign's margin for error over Texas Rep. Ron Paul is slim.

Man sought in Southern California arson investigation

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 11:12 PM PST

Los Angeles authorities released surveillance video showing a man they want to speak to in connection to a spate of wildfires in and around the city.

GOP candidates reveal late strategies on eve of Iowa caucuses

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 11:11 PM PST

Several storylines emerged Monday on the last full day of campaigning before Tuesday's Iowa caucuses.

Two more states allow same-sex civil unions

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 11:07 PM PST

Several same-sex couples came together in the first minutes of New Year's Day in Honolulu to become the first in the state's history to enter into civil unions.

Manhunt launched at Mount Rainier after park ranger killed

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 11:04 PM PST

Authorities scoured the national park around Washington's Mount Rainier on Sunday for a man they say fatally shot a park ranger and fled into the woods, a park spokeswoman said.

Singer Etta James off respirator, breathing on her own

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 10:37 PM PST

Singer Etta James is off the respirator and breathing on her own, but remains in a Southern California hospital, her son said early Monday.

Fiji to lift state of emergency, map out new constitution

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 09:23 PM PST

Fiji's prime minister announced Sunday that the Pacific island nation would soon lift its longtime state of emergency and begin drawing up a new constitution.

Official: Soldier charged with trying to board plane with explosives

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 09:16 PM PST

Authorities charged an Army soldier with attempting to board an airplane with a military-grade explosive at a Texas airport in an incident officials downplayed as "nothing nefarious."

South Korea ready for 'new era' of relations with North, president says

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 07:19 PM PST

The South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, offered Monday to cooperate with North Korea to begin a "new era" of relations between the two countries, a day after Pyongyang had said it would defend its new leader, Kim Jong Un, to the death.

Police: West Florida boy critically wounded by celebratory gunfire

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 07:14 PM PST

A west Florida boy is in critical condition after a bullet apparently fired skyward during a New Year's celebration went into his head, authorities said Sunday.

Egypt's generals move up next round of elections

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 06:24 PM PST

Egypt's ruling military council has moved up the scheduled elections for the upper house of parliament by nearly three weeks, with voting now scheduled to start in late January, the state news agency MENA reported Sunday.

Europe's leaders warn of tough 2012

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 06:23 PM PST

Europe's leaders warned 2012 was likely to be tougher than 2011, when spiralling borrowing costs forced political change in Italy and Spain and threatened the survival of the euro.

Report: Fighters attack South Sudan town despite presence of U.N. peacekeepers

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 06:20 PM PST

Thousands of fighters attacked a remote town in South Sudan despite the presence of United Nations peacekeepers in the area, a military official said Sunday.

About 200 birds found dead in Arkansas city for second straight New Year's Eve

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 06:16 PM PST

Someone went into a large roost of blackbirds in Beebe, Arkansas, as the clock struck midnight Saturday and set off fireworks, contributing to the deaths of scores of blackbirds, a state wildlife spokeswoman said.

North Korea editorial: 2012 will be important year

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 06:06 PM PST

North Korea's new supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, appears to have carried out his first public inspection with the country's military since the death last month of his father, Kim Jong Il.

India's president expresses condolences for cyclone victims

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 05:29 PM PST

India's president expressed her condolences Sunday for those killed by a devastating cyclone that has forced thousands to seek refuge in emergency shelters.

Iowa is a horse race with no clear leader

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 05:16 PM PST

It has become a great American tradition, an act of small-town civics, an example of direct democracy in action where citizens get to meet presidential candidates multiple times.

Official: 4 Ohio fluid-injection wells cannot open in wake of quake

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 04:37 PM PST

State leaders have ordered that four fluid-injection wells in eastern Ohio will be "indefinitely" prohibited from opening in the aftermath of heightened seismic activity in the area, an official said.
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