ABC News: Berlin, N.H. — Mitt Romney said today’s endorsement from former president George H.W. Bush was a welcome, if unexpected, boost to his campaign. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player “I had no idea that was coming,” he said, when asked by ABC News if he was surprised by the endorsement. Romney received a call [...]
The Hill: President Obama’s approval rating among Hispanics is on a long slide, according to an Ipsos-Telemundo poll released on Thursday. While a majority of Hispanics — 56 percent — still approve of the president, that’s down 6 percent from the same poll in June, when 62 percent approved, and down 30 percent from April [...]
“It is a slap in my face as a professional African American member of Congress and a career military officer, that this gentleman who is the head of the Department of Justice is going to resort to that very nefarious theme of the race card”
Washington Post: After a year-long effort to account for every single grave at Arlington National Cemetery, Army officials said Thursday that there might be problems, some as minor as errors in paper records, with nearly 65,000 sites–or one-quarter of all graves at the nation’s most prominent military burial ground. In a highly anticipated report, mandated [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — Best Buy has alerted many customers that it will not be able to fill their online orders, just days before Christmas. The largest U.S. specialty electronics retailer said late Wednesday that “overwhelming demand for some products from Bestbuy.com has led to a problem redeeming online orders made in November and December. The [...]
The Hill: House Republican leaders have agreed to pass a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits, bowing to demands from President Obama, Democratic leaders and senior members of their own party. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced the agreement with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Thursday evening after briefing rank-and-file House [...]
“Okay and one last thing why won’t you come out about the truth about 9/11?” Paul: “Because I can’t handle the controversy”
At least one person died and three people were injured after a massive fire destroyed an abandoned building and ripped through a neighboring shantytown Thursday. Firefighters used helicopters to save eleven people from the flames. (Dec. 22)
SWAT unit aims at sniper Fox News: Gunshots ring out in the dead of night, and not a single person reports it. Yet police know exactly where the shots came from, even before they arrive on the scene. It sounds like a scene from The Minority Report, but it’s real. A new technology called ShotSpotter [...]
NBC News: UPDATE: Curry held on $100,000 bond; Attorney says incident was a “joke” A 21-year-old Chicago man was charged Tuesday with aggravated domestic battery after he posted a photo of his 1-year-old daughter bound in duct tape on Facebook. Andre Curry, 21, of the 6100 block of South Racine Avenue, was charged with aggravated [...]
Daily Mail: Michelle Obama insisted on a pricey holiday to Hawaii when her husband would have rather gone to a presidential retreat, according to reports. She allegedly wanted the taxpayer-funded $4million trip when Barack Obama sought instead to make the short trip to Camp David in Maryland. Political sources told the National Enquirer that the [...]
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ABC News: With just nine days before a payroll tax break for 160 million Americans expires, President Obama assailed House Republicans for a “ridiculous Washington standoff” and stepped up pressure on them to pass a two-month extension bill that sailed through the Senate by a bipartisan vote. “This isn’t a typical Democrat versus Republican issue. [...]
