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• Leagues poised to challenge NJ over sports betting
• Bionic suit helps paralyzed patients walk again
• Final day of funerals for Newtown shooting victims
• Egypt's vice president resigns: presidential source
• Mandela responding to treatment in hospital
• Russia says it won't host Assad but others welcome
• Pope pardons ex-butler who stole, leaked documents
• Feds, shuttered NM peanut butter plant reach deal
• Predicting who's at risk for violence isn't easy
• Mob in Pakistan kills man accused of burning Quran
• Analysis: GOP policies led to fiscal cliff blowup
• Police probe why man fatally shot 3 in rural Pa.
• Egyptians vote on disputed constitution
• 'Fiscal cliff' spooks U.S. shoppers in last lap of holiday race
• Man accused of desecrating Koran burned alive by Pakistan mob
• Obama's pick for secretary of state a familiar face on world stage
• Iron Butterfly bassist Lee Dorman dies at age 70
• Bears played role in test flights of first supersonic jets
• 3 set deadly Indiana gas explosion for insurance
• Mexico frees ex-Marine jailed for bringing in gun
• U.S. businesses hold out hope for fiscal cliff deal
• Celebrations in Mexico as world survives 'end of days'
• Deal reached to reopen NM peanut butter plant
• Pharmacy linked to U.S. meningitis outbreak files for bankruptcy
• Gunman kills woman at Pa. church, 2 men elsewhere

Leagues poised to challenge NJ over sports betting Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:58 PM PST Four major professional sports leagues and the NCAA are poised to move forward with their legal fight over New Jersey's plans to allow sports gambling.That comes after a judge on Friday rejected arguments ...

Bionic suit helps paralyzed patients walk again Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:41 PM PST Patients paralyzed by spinal cord injuries are taking their precious first steps at a Southern California hospital with the help of a battery-powered bionic suit that was first designed to help soldiers carry heavy loads. "Mentally it's a wonderful feeling to be upright and moving,"...

Final day of funerals for Newtown shooting victims Posted: 22 Dec 2012 09:48 AM PST The final three victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School will be laid to rest today, ending a somber week funerals. A mass will take place today at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church for Josephine Gay, who had celebrated her 7th birthday...

Egypt's vice president resigns: presidential source Posted: 22 Dec 2012 08:09 AM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's vice president, Mahmoud Mekky, has resigned from his post, a presidential source said on Saturday, without giving any reason. The source said the presidential spokesman would issue a statement shortly. Mekky took a leading role in hosting "national unity" talks called by President Mohamed Mursi, although the main opposition politicians stayed away. (Reporting by Yasmine Saleh; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

Mandela responding to treatment in hospital Posted: 22 Dec 2012 06:23 AM PST JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, who is 94, continues to respond to treatment two weeks after being taken to hospital, the government said on Saturday. The Nobel Peace laureate, who has been treated for a lung infection and gallstones after being hospitalised on December 8, was visited by South African President Jacob Zuma, presidency spokesman Mac Maharaj said in a statement. "Madiba has been in hospital since the 8th of December and continues to respond to treatment," Maharaj said, referring to Mandela by his clan name. ...

Russia says it won't host Assad but others welcome Posted: 22 Dec 2012 05:53 AM PST MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's foreign minister says Moscow would welcome any country's offer of a safe haven to Syrian President Bashar Assad, but underlined that Moscow itself has no intention of giving him shelter if he steps down.

Pope pardons ex-butler who stole, leaked documents Posted: 22 Dec 2012 05:45 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI granted his former butler a Christmas pardon Saturday, forgiving him in person during a jailhouse meeting for stealing and leaking private papers in one of the gravest Vatican security breaches in recent times.

Feds, shuttered NM peanut butter plant reach deal Posted: 22 Dec 2012 03:35 AM PST ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A peanut butter plant shuttered by a widespread salmonella outbreak has been given the go ahead to start harvesting a bumper crop of prized eastern New Mexico Valencia peanuts next week under an agreement that ends a tense, monthslong standoff with federal regulators.

Predicting who's at risk for violence isn't easy Posted: 22 Dec 2012 02:17 AM PST CHICAGO (AP) — It happened after Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Colo., and now Sandy Hook: People figure there surely were signs of impending violence. But experts say predicting who will be the next mass shooter is virtually impossible — partly because as commonplace as these calamities seem, they are relatively rare crimes.

Mob in Pakistan kills man accused of burning Quran Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:55 AM PST KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a mob in southern Pakistan has beaten to death a Muslim man accused of burning a copy of Islam's holy book, and then set his body afire.

Analysis: GOP policies led to fiscal cliff blowup Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:39 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans seem shocked by their party's meltdown on the so-called fiscal cliff. They shouldn't be.

Police probe why man fatally shot 3 in rural Pa. Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:22 AM PST HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Authorities in central Pennsylvania are trying to determine why a man fatally shot three people along a rural road before being killed in a gunfight with police.

Egyptians vote on disputed constitution Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:05 AM PST CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians were voting on Saturday in the second and final phase of a referendum on an Islamist-backed constitution, but there was little indication that the result of the vote will end the political crisis in which the country is mired.

'Fiscal cliff' spooks U.S. shoppers in last lap of holiday race Posted: 21 Dec 2012 11:48 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fears about imminent tax hikes and cuts to government spending are taking a toll on U.S. shoppers and could deprive retailers of a strong finish to the 2012 holiday shopping season. The acrimonious debate in Washington over how to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff has cast a pall over shopper sentiment, retail experts say, as consumers head to the malls on the last Saturday before Christmas - typically one of the busiest shopping days of the year. ...

Man accused of desecrating Koran burned alive by Pakistan mob Posted: 21 Dec 2012 11:32 PM PST HYDERABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - A mob broke into a Pakistani police station and burned alive a man accused of desecrating the Koran, police said Saturday, in the latest violence focusing attention on the country's blasphemy laws. The man was a traveler and had spent Thursday night at the mosque, said Maulvi Memon, the imam in the southern village of Seeta in Sindh province. The charred remains of the Koran were found the next morning. "He was alone in the mosque during the night," Memon said. "There was no one else there to do this terrible thing. ...

Obama's pick for secretary of state a familiar face on world stage Posted: 21 Dec 2012 09:53 PM PST Sen. John Kerry, President Barack Obama's pick for secretary of state, is a familiar face to the world leaders vital to American interests.

Iron Butterfly bassist Lee Dorman dies at age 70 Posted: 21 Dec 2012 08:15 PM PST Lee Dorman, the bassist for psychedelic rock band Iron Butterfly, has died at age 70.

Bears played role in test flights of first supersonic jets Posted: 21 Dec 2012 07:42 PM PST When the U.S. Air Force was designing its first supersonic jet bomber in the 1950s, it turns out bears were an essential part of the process, helping to test the plane's new ejection seats during the Cold War, according to i09.com. The website has put together a summary of the role bears played in testing [...]

3 set deadly Indiana gas explosion for insurance Posted: 21 Dec 2012 07:15 PM PST Three people charged in a gas explosion that devastated an Indianapolis neighborhood deliberately set up the deadly blast to collect a big insurance payout, authorities said Friday.

Mexico frees ex-Marine jailed for bringing in gun Posted: 21 Dec 2012 06:53 PM PST MIAMI (AP) — A Marine veteran jailed for months in Mexico after trying to carry a family heirloom shotgun across the border has been freed, officials and his lawyer said late Friday.

U.S. businesses hold out hope for fiscal cliff deal Posted: 21 Dec 2012 06:37 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. business executives are holding out hope for an eventual deal to avert the impending "fiscal cliff" despite negotiations having stalled ahead of the Christmas holiday. Corporate America, still reeling from the effects of the recent recession, is on edge as it watches from the sidelines the tense talks between President Barack Obama and Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner. If there is no agreement, roughly $600 billion of tax increases and federal spending cuts would kick in next month -- actions that could plunge the U.S. ...

Celebrations in Mexico as world survives 'end of days' Posted: 21 Dec 2012 06:05 PM PST CHICHEN ITZA, Mexico (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of mystics, hippies and tourists celebrated in the shadow of ancient Maya pyramids in southeastern Mexico on Friday as the Earth survived a day billed by doomsday theorists as the end of the world. New Age dreamers, alternative lifestyle gurus and curious onlookers from around the world descended on the ruins of Maya cities to mark the close of the 13th bak'tun - a period of around 400 years - in the Maya Long Calendar. ...

Deal reached to reopen NM peanut butter plant Posted: 21 Dec 2012 05:49 PM PST A troubled New Mexico peanut butter plant that had its licensed yanked after being linked to a widespread salmonella outbreak reached a deal to resume some operations.

Pharmacy linked to U.S. meningitis outbreak files for bankruptcy Posted: 21 Dec 2012 05:32 PM PST The Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak filed for bankruptcy and said it would establish a fund to compensate victims.

Gunman kills woman at Pa. church, 2 men elsewhere Posted: 21 Dec 2012 05:16 PM PST A man fatally shot a woman decorating for a children's Christmas party at a tiny church hall and killed two men elsewhere in rural central Pennsylvania.

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