Pat Dollard

PHOENIX (AP) – By a narrow margin, Arizona voters have given their OK to legalized medical marijuana for people with chronic or debilitating diseases. The decision makes Arizona the 15th state to approve a medical marijuana law. California was the first in 1996, and 13 other states and Washington, D.C., have followed suit. Proposition 203 [...]

The Hill: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) suggested a compromise Sunday for extending the Bush-era tax cuts: raise the ceiling from families making more than $250,000 a year to earners making over a million. The Finance Committee member said that those making more than $1 million were the only group that had seen incomes go up [...]

Fox News: A Justice Department report offers new evidence that the United States created a “safe haven” in America for Nazis and their collaborators following the end of World War II, The New York Times reports. The 600-page report, which the Justice Department has reportedly tried to keep secret, describes the roles of the lawyers, [...]

Don’t Press One For English: In September, Oscar Anibal Rivera-Lobo, age 31, coerced a 12-year-old Greenville, South Carolina, girl into leaving her home without her parents’ permission and had sex with her. On November 4th, Rivera-Lobo walked into a store owned by the girl’s family to confront her father, who was not in the store [...]

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) warned Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) of “disloyalty” to President Obama if she should seek to distance herself from the White House in her re-election campaign. Cleaver, who’s seen as the likely next leader of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), cautioned the centrist senator of distancing herself from Obama, the way many [...]

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CNBC: There might not have been a second round of quantitative easing, if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke shopped at Walmart. A new pricing survey of products sold at the world’s largest retailer [WMT 54.13 -0.21 (-0.39%) ] showed a 0.6 percent price increase in just the last two months, according to MKM Partners. At [...]

(CNN) — They’re arriving at airports across the country. Some complain they are invasive and an assault on our privacy. But are body scanners at security checkpoints dangerous? Some scientists and two major airline pilots unions contend not enough is known about the effects of the small doses of X-ray radiation emitted by one of [...]

SF Gate: Latinos now make up a majority of California’s public school students, cracking the 50 percent barrier for the first time in the state’s history, according to data released Friday by the state Department of Education. Almost 50.4 percent of the state’s students in the 2009-10 school year identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino, [...]

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — President Barack Obama, capping a far-flung Asian trip of mixed results, assured Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday that getting the Senate to ratify the START nuclear weapons treaty is a “top priority” of his administration . “I reiterated my commitment to getting the START treaty done during the lame-duck session,” [...]

Washington Times: The White House and Republicans in Congress edged ever closer to a deal Sunday on at least a temporary extension of all of the George W. Bush-era tax breaks that are due to expire at the end of the year. White House senior political adviser David Axelrod and Sen. Jim DeMint, the South [...]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A woman accused of slashing Leonardo DiCaprio’s face with glass during a party five years ago has pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon. Aretha Wilson entered the plea as part of a plea deal Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. She is expected to be sentenced to [...]

(Reuters) – France’s government resigned on Saturday in a move designed to allow President Nicolas Sarkozy to inject some fresh blood into his cabinet and boost his re-election chances in 2012. Prime Minister Francois Fillon handed in his government’s resignation ahead of a long-awaited ministerial reshuffle expected in the coming days. “The president has accepted [...]