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• Paralyzing L.A. port strike to go to federal mediation
• Obama: Republicans must raise rates to create revenue
• DNA from 'In Cold Blood' killers may help solve '59 murder
• Conservative Republicans booted from House budget panel
• Ashley Judd for Senate: Could she win?
• Greenfield: Use Lotto fever to fix the federal budget
• Barefoot NYC homeless man not actually homeless
• Mortar attack on Syrian school kills 29 children
• Conservatives make Boehner's life difficult
• Trust cost two soldiers' lives in Afghanistan
• Egyptian protesters breach presidential palace cordon
• Egypt protesters, riot police clash near presidential palace
• Like Pinocchio, your nose may show when you lie
• Criticism of Dutch "Black Pete" tradition grows
• India's maids-to-order trafficking boom
• GOP senator: Boehner’s budget proposal ‘will destroy American jobs’
• Fox News exec urged Petraeus to run for president
• Bloomberg urged Hillary Clinton to run for New York City mayor
• Study: Lion ranges, populations dropping in Africa
• Turkey's request for missiles expected to get NATO approval
• AARP introduces dating site for the over-50 crowd
• Typhoon death toll climbs in the Phillippines
• Swiss spy agency warns U.S. about huge data leak
• Tuesday in politics: Obama discusses ‘fiscal cliff’ with governors
• Typhoon pounds the Philippines, killing at least 7

Paralyzing L.A. port strike to go to federal mediation Posted: 04 Dec 2012 12:50 PM PST The ports handle more than 40 percent of the cargo arriving in the U.S. by water. The clerical workers' strike is now in its 8th day.

Obama: Republicans must raise rates to create revenue Posted: 04 Dec 2012 12:34 PM PST President Barack Obama and the White House on Tuesday continued to pressure Republicans to agree to raise tax rates on the nation's highest earners, saying a "fiscal cliff" deal is impossible without it. Their "math doesn't work," the president, in his first post-election interview, told Julianna Goldman of Bloomberg TV. "We're going to have to have [...]

DNA from 'In Cold Blood' killers may help solve '59 murder Posted: 04 Dec 2012 12:17 PM PST ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida detective trying to crack a 53-year-old unsolved murder case will ask a Kansas judge for permission to exhume and extract DNA from the bodies of two notorious killers made famous in Truman Capote's 1966 true-crime novel, "In Cold Blood." Sarasota County Sheriff Detective Kim McGath told Reuters she believes the two men convicted for the 1959 murder of Herbert Clutter, his wife and two children in Holcomb, Kansas, might be responsible for a similar killing one month later of a family in Osprey, Florida. ...

Conservative Republicans booted from House budget panel Posted: 04 Dec 2012 12:06 PM PST Reps. Tim Huelskamp and Justin Amash are among those Republicans voting most often against Speaker Boehner.

Ashley Judd for Senate: Could she win? Posted: 04 Dec 2012 11:11 AM PST It's true: Kentucky Democrats are talking up actress/activist Ashley Judd as a possible candidate for Senate in 2014. So far, Judd isn't saying "yes" to a run, but she isn't saying "no," either.

Greenfield: Use Lotto fever to fix the federal budget Posted: 04 Dec 2012 10:44 AM PST So another mega-lottery has come and gone, another spate of news reports and long lines at convenience stores, the same inane question by reporters ("What are you going do with all the money?"), the same closing shots of reporters with their own tickets, promising the chuckling anchors that "with any luck, you won't be seeing me Monday."

Barefoot NYC homeless man not actually homeless Posted: 04 Dec 2012 10:21 AM PST The homeless man who was given a pair of boots by a kindhearted New York City police officer apparently isn't homeless. According to New York Daily News, Jeffrey Hillman, 54, has an apartment in the Bronx that is paid for via a combination of rent vouchers, Social Security, and military veteran benefits. Hillman and Officer [...]

Mortar attack on Syrian school kills 29 children Posted: 04 Dec 2012 10:04 AM PST A mortar slammed into a ninth-grade classroom in the Damascus suburbs on Tuesday, killing 29 students and a teacher, according to state media, as the civil war closed in on President Bashar Assad's seat of power.

Conservatives make Boehner's life difficult Posted: 04 Dec 2012 09:48 AM PST House Republicans are being warned that they won't receive support in the future if they "cave" during debt talks.

Trust cost two soldiers' lives in Afghanistan Posted: 04 Dec 2012 09:22 AM PST It was a sneak attack, but not by the enemy they feared. U.S. Army Capts. Joshua Lawrence and Drew Russell were killed in a 'calculated' attack by Afghan soldiers.

Egyptian protesters breach presidential palace cordon Posted: 04 Dec 2012 09:05 AM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating against President Mohamed Mursi's drive to hold a snap referendum on a new constitution and some broke through police lines around his palace, live television footage showed. Several thousand protesters had gathered nearby in what they dubbed "last warning" protests against Mursi, who has angered opponents with a November 22 decree that expanded his powers. "The people want the downfall of the regime," chanted the protesters. ...

Egypt protesters, riot police clash near presidential palace Posted: 04 Dec 2012 08:48 AM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian riot police fired teargas at protesters demonstrating against President Mohamed Mursi near the presidential palace in Cairo on Tuesday and demonstrators broke through police lines, live television footage showed. Several thousand protesters had gathered near the palace in what they called "last warning" protests against Mursi, who angered opponents with a November 22 decree that expanded his powers. "The people want the downfall of the regime," chanted the demonstrators. (Cairo Bureau; Editing by Pravin Char)

Like Pinocchio, your nose may show when you lie Posted: 04 Dec 2012 08:26 AM PST Much like Pinocchio, your nose could reveal that you're lying, though unlike the beloved character, your nose will heat up instead of growing longer when you tell a fib, new research claims.

Criticism of Dutch "Black Pete" tradition grows Posted: 04 Dec 2012 08:09 AM PST Foreigners visiting the Netherlands in winter are often surprised to see that the Dutch version of St. Nicholas' helpers have their faces painted black, wear Afro wigs and have thick red lips — in short, a racist caricature of a black person.

India's maids-to-order trafficking boom Posted: 04 Dec 2012 07:52 AM PST Inside the crumbling housing estates of Shivaji Enclave, amid the boys playing cricket and housewives chatting from their balconies, winding staircases lead to places where lies a darker side to India's economic boom. Three months ago, police rescued Theresa Kerketa from one of these tiny two-roomed flats. For four years, she was kept here by a placement agency for domestic maids, in between stints as a virtual slave to Delhi's middle-class homes. ...

GOP senator: Boehner’s budget proposal ‘will destroy American jobs’ Posted: 04 Dec 2012 07:35 AM PST South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint gives Democrats a shiny new talking point when he blast the House speaker's $800 billion tax hike proposal.

Fox News exec urged Petraeus to run for president Posted: 04 Dec 2012 07:17 AM PST Roger Ailes send a correspondent to Afghanistan in the spring of 2011 to recruit the now-disgraced head of the CIA to run for president in 2012.

Bloomberg urged Hillary Clinton to run for New York City mayor Posted: 04 Dec 2012 07:01 AM PST The New York City mayor apparently has his own ideas on the future of the U.S. secretary of state and former senator.

Study: Lion ranges, populations dropping in Africa Posted: 04 Dec 2012 06:33 AM PST The lions that roam Africa's savannahs have lost as much as 75 percent of their habitat in the last 50 years as humans overtake their land and the lion population dwindles.

Turkey's request for missiles expected to get NATO approval Posted: 04 Dec 2012 06:12 AM PST The nation wants the Patriot missiles to defend against possible retaliatory attacks by neighboring Syrian missiles with chemical warheads.

AARP introduces dating site for the over-50 crowd Posted: 04 Dec 2012 05:38 AM PST Most people think of Social Security, Medicare and senior discounts when talking about the organization.

Typhoon death toll climbs in the Phillippines Posted: 04 Dec 2012 05:22 AM PST A governor says at least 33 villagers and soldiers have drowned when torrents of water dumped by a powerful typhoon rushed down a mountain, engulfing the victims and bringing the death toll from the storm to about 40.

Swiss spy agency warns U.S. about huge data leak Posted: 04 Dec 2012 05:06 AM PST Secret information on counter-terrorism shared by foreign governments may have been compromised by a massive data theft by a senior IT technician for Switzerland's intelligence service.

Tuesday in politics: Obama discusses ‘fiscal cliff’ with governors Posted: 04 Dec 2012 04:32 AM PST President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner meet with governors at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the economy — especially the "fiscal cliff." Governors attending include Democrats Jack Markell of Delaware, Mike Beebe of Arkansas and Mark Dayton of Minnesota,  and Republicans Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, [...]

Typhoon pounds the Philippines, killing at least 7 Posted: 04 Dec 2012 04:15 AM PST One of the strongest typhoons to hit the Philippines this year barreled across the country's south on Tuesday, killing at least seven people and forcing more than 50,000 to flee from inundated villages.

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