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• President gets a lift from pizza shop owner
• Car bomb kills at least 17 in Syria
• Wave of attacks leaves 82 dead in Iraq
• Wave of attacks leaves 75 dead in Iraq
• California toddlers rescued from sailboat, father arrested
• Romney slams GOP leaders, including his VP pick, for 2011 budget deal
• Larry Flynt offering $1 million for Romney financial records
• Obama cracks a joke at the expense of birthers
• Obama cracks a joke at the expense of birthers
• Two tornadoes strike NYC within minutes of each other
• Two tornadoes strike NYC within minutes of each other
• Nicaragua evacuates 3,000 as volcano spews ash
• McCain: The U.S. approach to Iran is a 'train wreck'
• Mitt Romney vows God will stay in GOP platform
• Chicago teachers resume negotiations to avoid major strike
• Romney praises Clinton for elevating the Democratic convention
• Obama on campaign trail in Florida with Charlie Crist
• French hostages kidnapped in Niger by al Qaeda appear in video
• Romney woos voters in tightly contested Virginia

President gets a lift from pizza shop owner Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:34 PM PDT Florida pizza shop owner Scott Van Duzer lifted President Barack Obama a solid foot off the ground in a bear hug during an unscripted stop at his Fort Pierce, Fla., store. Literally. So what did the Secret Service think about Van Duzer — a registered Republican who says he'll vote for Obama in November — [...]

Car bomb kills at least 17 in Syria Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:18 PM PDT A car bomb ripped through Syria's largest city of Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 40 in one of the main battlegrounds of the country's civil war, state-run media said.

Wave of attacks leaves 82 dead in Iraq Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:02 PM PDT Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president was sentenced Sunday to death by hanging on charges he masterminded death squads against rivals in a terror trial that has fueled sectarian tensions in the country. Underscoring the instability, insurgents unleashed an onslaught of bombings and shootings across Iraq, killing at least 82 people in one of the deadliest days this year.

Wave of attacks leaves 75 dead in Iraq Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:30 PM PDT Iraqi officials say a late-night car bomb has killed 11 people in a Shiite stronghold in Baghdad in an attack that has brought the day's death toll to 75.

California toddlers rescued from sailboat, father arrested Posted: 08 Sep 2012 08:11 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A man suspected of kidnapping his two young children and fleeing with them aboard a stolen yacht along the Northern California coast has been arrested, and the youngsters safely returned to their mother, police and the U.S. Coast Guard said on Saturday. Christopher Maffei, 43, who was taken into custody on Friday evening off Monterey, California, is accused of abducting his son and daughter on Tuesday from their mother's home in South San Francisco, according to police. ...

Romney slams GOP leaders, including his VP pick, for 2011 budget deal Posted: 08 Sep 2012 07:38 PM PDT Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., as chair of the House Budget Committee, was part of the team that signed off on the budget deal with the White House, mandating immediate spending cuts, creating a "Super-committee" tasked to finding $1.5 trillion in further deficit rediction, and raising...

Larry Flynt offering $1 million for Romney financial records Posted: 08 Sep 2012 07:06 PM PDT Hustler magazine publisher, and self-described free speech activist, Larry Flynt is offering $1 million for anyone who will provide him with Mitt Romney's financial records. Flynt, 69, has purchased full-page ads in Sunday's Washington Post and Tuesday's, September 11 issue of USA Today. "What is he hiding?" the ad text reads, "Maybe, now, we'll find [...]

Obama cracks a joke at the expense of birthers Posted: 08 Sep 2012 06:27 PM PDT Not every kid gets asked for his birth certificate by the President of the United States. But that's what happened to a Florida lad, Andre Wupperman, when he met Barack Obama at a Florida sports bar and family joint on Saturday. Obama made an unannounced stop at Gators Dockside -- one of many surprise visits [...]

Obama cracks a joke at the expense of birthers Posted: 08 Sep 2012 05:45 PM PDT It's that birther thing again. In joking with a young fellow Hawaiian, President Obama takes a swipe at discredited claims about his birthplace.

Two tornadoes strike NYC within minutes of each other Posted: 08 Sep 2012 05:28 PM PDT Two tornadoes struck New York City on Saturday. One swept out of the sea and hit a beachfront neighborhood, and the second, stronger twister hit moments later, hurling debris in the air, knocking out power and startling residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon.

Two tornadoes strike NYC within minutes of each other Posted: 08 Sep 2012 05:12 PM PDT The National Weather Service says a second, stronger tornado touched down in Brooklyn moments after the first hit a beachside area in Queens.

Nicaragua evacuates 3,000 as volcano spews ash Posted: 08 Sep 2012 04:56 PM PDT The San Cristobal volcano spewed out a column of ash and gas 2½ miles high Saturday, leading Nicaraguan authorities to evacuate about 3,000 people from nine communities around the country's tallest mountain.

McCain: The U.S. approach to Iran is a 'train wreck' Posted: 08 Sep 2012 04:34 PM PDT U.S. Sen. John McCain says he is disappointed with his party's presidential candidate for sidestepping world affairs in his campaign for the White House but reserves his most scathing words for the current dweller, blaming Barack Obama for inaction while the situation in Syria and elsewhere "cries out for American leadership."

Mitt Romney vows God will stay in GOP platform Posted: 08 Sep 2012 04:08 PM PDT VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Making reference for the first time to the Democrats' about-face on having the word "God" in their party's platform, Mitt Romney said here today that if he is elected, God will not be removed from the Republican platform. "I will not...

Chicago teachers resume negotiations to avoid major strike Posted: 08 Sep 2012 03:51 PM PDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Teachers Union resumed "intense" negotiations on Saturday with the nation's third-largest school district to avert what would be the biggest U.S. labor strike in a year over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's demand for sweeping school reforms. Some 29,000 teachers and support staff have threatened to strike on Monday, setting up an awkward confrontation between Emanuel, President Barack Obama's former top White House aide, and organized labor in the president's home city. ...

Romney praises Clinton for elevating the Democratic convention Posted: 08 Sep 2012 03:35 PM PDT Mitt Romney says Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention "really did elevate" that gathering and that the former two-term president might even be able to win another four years in the White House "if the Constitution weren't in his way." Romney's comments, in an excerpt of an interview with Meet the Press, came [...]

Obama on campaign trail in Florida with Charlie Crist Posted: 08 Sep 2012 01:41 PM PDT SEMINOLE, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama kicked off a two-day bus tour of the key election battleground state of Florida on Saturday with former Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who endorsed Obama's 2008 rival John McCain but has since left the Republican Party. Trying to build on the momentum of this week's Democratic National Convention and overcome another tough jobs report, Obama is spending the weekend canvassing a state that he and his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, both want to win in order to achieve victory in the November 6 U.S. election. ...

French hostages kidnapped in Niger by al Qaeda appear in video Posted: 08 Sep 2012 01:25 PM PDT Four French men kidnapped by al Qaeda militants in northern Niger almost two years ago appeared in a video on Saturday appealing to French President Francois Hollande and their employers to continue negotiations to secure their release. The seven-minute video, posted on a Mauritanian news website, shows the four men - Pierre Legrand, Daniel Larribe, Thierry Dole and Marc Ferret - looking healthy and kneeling in a desert setting with armed men in traditional Bedouin clothing and turbans standing over them carrying kalashnikov rifles. ...

Romney woos voters in tightly contested Virginia Posted: 08 Sep 2012 12:53 PM PDT Mitt Romney is back in tightly contested Virginia, where he's trying to deny President Barack Obama another victory in a state that typically goes for Republican presidential nominees.

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