Obama budget sets up election-year tax fight (Reuters)

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• Obama budget sets up election-year tax fight (Reuters)
• Washington governor signs gay marriage law (Reuters)
• New Jersey Senate approves gay marriage; veto looms (Reuters)
• Fashion Week: Five Questions with Model Liu Wen (Time.com)
• Fashion Week: Five Questions With Erin Fetherston (Time.com)
• Obama seeks tax credit for NY's World Trade Center (Reuters)
• House GOP have backup on payroll tax (AP)
• Magnitude-5.6 quake strikes rural Northern Calif. (AP)
• Obama promotes job training at community college (AP)
• Washington gov signs gay marriage bill into law (AP)
• Panetta defends military budget plan (AP)
• Authorities: Houston was underwater in tub (AP)
• Obama's budget: Government still getting bigger (AP)
• Ga. man claims he was insane in preschool shooting (AP)
• Actions before Columbine attack being investigated (AP)
• Slain lacrosse player showed signs of suffocation (AP)
• US sees 'challenges' for peacekeepers in Syria (AP)
• Judge: Sandusky gets local jury, can see grandkids (AP)
• Grammy embrace of Chris Brown draws criticism (AP)

Obama budget sets up election-year tax fight (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:56 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama called on Monday for new spending to boost growth and higher taxes on the rich, laying out an election-year vision for America in a budget that drew heavy fire from Republicans for failing to curb huge deficits.

Washington governor signs gay marriage law (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 07:20 PM PST Reuters - Washington state became the seventh in the nation to put a law on its books recognizing same-sex marriage on Monday, as opponents of the measure signed by Governor Christine Gregoire vowed to try to prevent it from ever taking effect.

New Jersey Senate approves gay marriage; veto looms (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 11:39 AM PST Reuters - New Jersey's Democratic-controlled state Senate approved a same-sex marriage bill on Monday but New Jersey was unlikely to become the eighth state in the country to approve gay marriage as Republican Gov. Chris Christie has promised to veto it.

Fashion Week: Five Questions with Model Liu Wen (Time.com) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 02:10 AM PST Time.com - TIME talks to the Chinese model about her favorite part of Fashion Week, how she celebrated Chinese New Year and why she's obsessed with Facebook as much as everyone else.

Fashion Week: Five Questions With Erin Fetherston (Time.com) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 02:10 AM PST Time.com - TIME talks to Erin Fetherston as she celebrates the one-year anniversary of her contemporary collection

Obama seeks tax credit for NY's World Trade Center (Reuters) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 12:05 PM PST Reuters - Transportation upgrades for New York's World Trade Center rebuilding would get a $200 million tax credit under President Barack Obama's budget plan proposed on Monday, providing support to finish this aspect of the long-delayed project.

House GOP have backup on payroll tax (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:43 PM PST AP - In an abrupt about-face, House GOP leaders announced Monday that they are willing to extend the two percentage point cut in the payroll tax through the end of the year and add the approximately $100 billion cost to the nation's $15 trillion-plus debt.

Magnitude-5.6 quake strikes rural Northern Calif. (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:32 PM PST AP - A moderate earthquake struck Northern California's coast Monday afternoon, rattling nerves around the Oregon border but yielding no immediate reports of major injuries or damage, officials said.

Obama promotes job training at community college (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 01:56 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama called on Congress Monday to create an $8 billion fund to train community college students for high-growth industries, giving a financial incentive to schools whose graduates are getting jobs.

Washington gov signs gay marriage bill into law (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:18 PM PST AP - Gov. Chris Gregoire handed gay rights advocates a major victory Monday, signing into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state, making it the seventh in the nation to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed.

Panetta defends military budget plan (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:42 PM PST AP - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is defending his department's slimmed-down, $614 billion budget plan, telling senators that it's time to step up and show they are serious about reducing the deficit.

Authorities: Houston was underwater in tub (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:42 PM PST AP - Whitney Houston was underwater and apparently unconscious when she was pulled from a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub, and she had prescription drugs in her room, authorities said Monday.

Obama's budget: Government still getting bigger (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:52 PM PST AP - Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Barack Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs. The ideas landed with a thud on Capitol Hill.

Ga. man claims he was insane in preschool shooting (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 07:44 AM PST AP - The victim was a Harvard-educated businessman who was shot to death minutes after he dropped his son off at a suburban Atlanta day care center. The alleged killer was a successful engineer and father of three who lived in an affluent subdivision.

Actions before Columbine attack being investigated (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 06:08 PM PST AP - Authorities were investigating a 14-year-old girl's actions before they say she attacked two students with a hammer at Columbine High School in the first assault with a weapon since the deadly shootings there in 1999.

Slain lacrosse player showed signs of suffocation (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:54 PM PST AP - A University of Virginia lacrosse player found dead in her bedroom in May 2010 showed signs of suffocation and had a potentially lethal neck injury, the coroner who performed her autopsy testified Monday at her ex-boyfriend's murder trial.

US sees 'challenges' for peacekeepers in Syria (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:44 PM PST AP - The Obama administration said Monday it backs Arab League plans to end ongoing violence in Syria but noted several obstacles to deploying a proposed international peacekeeping force to the country and stopped short of a full endorsement of the idea.

Judge: Sandusky gets local jury, can see grandkids (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 01:03 PM PST AP - A judge ruled Monday that former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky can have supervised contact with most of his grandchildren, saying there was no evidence that the children's parents wouldn't be able to keep them safe.

Grammy embrace of Chris Brown draws criticism (AP) Posted: 13 Feb 2012 03:13 PM PST AP - The Grammy Awards' warm embrace of Chris Brown three years after his assault of Rihanna has drawn the ire of viewers who claim the controversial R&B star shouldn't have been rewarded with such attention.

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