OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – A fierce Christmas storm dumped more snow and ice across the nation’s midsection Friday, stranding travelers as highways and airports closed and leaving many to celebrate the holiday just where they were. Meteorologists predicted the slow-moving storm would glaze highways in the East with ice through Christmas night and that gusty [...]
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The Vatican’s top cleric in the heart of Muslim Arabia tends to a flock of 2 million Christians spread around six desert nations. But he has to do it quietly: Most of them must still pray in secret and are forbidden to display crosses and other symbols of [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A couple who said they were assaulted by Gene Simmons sued the KISS bassist for unspecified damages Thursday, court records show. Nathan Marlowe and his wife Cynthia Manzo said Simmons attacked them, threatened them and took their video camera at the upscale The Grove mall on Saturday after they started filming [...]
KABUL (AP) – The Taliban released a video Friday purporting to show a U.S. soldier who was captured more than five months ago in eastern Afghanistan. A caption in the video identifies the man as “War prisoner: Bowe Robert Bergdahl.” Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl is the only known captured American serviceman. The U.S. airborne infantryman was [...]
Orlando (AP) – – A father and son played with toys and puzzles and rested on a quiet nine-hour flight from Brazil to Florida, a peaceful conclusion Thursday after a tumultuous reunion that brought a five-year custody battle spanning two continents to an end. David Goldman and 9-year-old Sean Goldman landed in Orlando on a [...]
Time: The Senate vote on final passage of health reform almost scuttled their plans, but it looks like the First Family will still make it to Hawaii for Christmas. They’ve had a whirlwind holiday season so far, starting with the lighting of the National Christmas Tree, through hosting more than 50,000 people for 27 parties [...]
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Benedict XVI’s Chistmas Eve Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica got off to a tumultuous start Thursday after an apparently deranged woman jumped the barriers and knocked him down on his way to the altar. In his homily, delivered unflappably after the incident, Benedict urged the world to “wake up” from [...]
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Politico: Republicans are stepping up their efforts to persuade more House Democrats to switch parties and are zeroing in on a second-term Pennsylvanian who acknowledged the efforts but said he has “no plans” to do so. Democratic Rep. Chris Carney received a phone call Wednesday from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) asking him to consider becoming [...]
Fox News: WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a health insurance overhaul on Thursday morning, 60-39, as both Democrats and Republicans held unified in their positions on the massive bill that mandates coverage for about 9 percent of the U.S. population. All 58 Democrats and two independents supported the $871 billion, 10-year package that aims to [...]
A PhotoChop by Jamie Read Snarky and his gang daily at FeedYourADHD While We F-ing Slept While we slept this morning, the real mobsters, the ones dishing out and accepting bribes in the District of Criminals, completely f-ed our country along straight party lines (60-39) … with the first vote on Christmas Eve in more [...]
Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) — California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wants President Barack Obama to help ease large- scale cuts to the most populous U.S. state’s already diminished social programs amid a $21 billion anticipated deficit. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, plans to ask for relief totaling as much as $8 billion, according to a California official who asked [...]
