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• Five shot dead in Albuquerque, teen charged
• SWAT standoff in Ga. uncovers dismembered body
• Death toll at Algerian gas plant continues to grow
• Blast, drones kill 16 al Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen
• ‘SNL’ skewers Lance Armstrong
• Obama first two-term president to take oath of office four times
• President Obama sworn in for 4 more years in office
• Former Secretary of State Rice joins CBS News
• Thousands rally against stricter gun control in US
• Algeria terror leader once preferred money to death
• Obama, Biden being sworn in for second term
• Obama backers aim to outflank NRA on gun control
• ''Holy windfall': Batmobile sells for $4.2M
• Obama to be sworn in for 2nd term at White House
• World's best big wave surfers compete at Mavericks
• Official: 'Numerous' other bodies at Algeria plant
• Indicted Megaupload founder launches new site
• UN clinches global deal on cutting mercury emissions
• Miss America unsure about attending Inauguration
• Algeria ends desert siege with 23 hostages dead
• Envoy says Venezuela open to better ties with U.S.
• Los Angeles teachers agree to student test scores in evaluations
• Japan talk of warning shots heats up China dispute
• One injured in shooting during King parade in Mississippi
• Fiscal crisis, budget battle mark Panetta’s tenure

Five shot dead in Albuquerque, teen charged Posted: 20 Jan 2013 12:23 PM PST A teenage boy with several weapons including an assault rifle shot and killed five people, three of them children, at a house in Albuquerque, New Mexico, authorities said on Sunday.

SWAT standoff in Ga. uncovers dismembered body Posted: 20 Jan 2013 11:34 AM PST SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Police went to Chad Moretz's home to ask him about a friend who had gone missing and quickly found themselves in a tense standoff when a relative answered the door and whispered: "He's got a rifle. He's going to kill y'all."

Death toll at Algerian gas plant continues to grow Posted: 20 Jan 2013 11:18 AM PST The death toll from the bloody terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed to at least 81 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the complex for explosives found dozens more bodies, many so badly disfigured they could not immediately be identified, a security official said.

Blast, drones kill 16 al Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen Posted: 20 Jan 2013 11:01 AM PST SANAA (Reuters) - More than 10 suspected al Qaeda operatives were killed by an explosion in a house in south Yemen where they were making bombs, and at least six others died in two strikes from U.S. drones, tribal and official sources said on Sunday. A bomb ripped through a house in the province of al-Bayda on Saturday night, the state news agency Saba and a local official said. Strikes by suspected U.S. drone aircraft killed three people on Saturday and another three on Sunday in two parts of central Maarib province, tribal and government sources said. ...

‘SNL’ skewers Lance Armstrong Posted: 20 Jan 2013 10:28 AM PST "Saturday Night Live" wasted no time in tackling the pair of scandals that transcended the sports world last week, using its cold-opening sketch to skewer both Lance Armstrong's doping confession and the hoax involving Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o and his fake dead girlfriend, Lennay Kekua. Armstrong, played by Jason Sudeikis, sat down for [...]

Obama first two-term president to take oath of office four times Posted: 20 Jan 2013 09:56 AM PST Barack Obama was officially sworn in for a second term on Sunday, taking the oath of office in a short ceremony in the Blue Room of the White House.

President Obama sworn in for 4 more years in office Posted: 20 Jan 2013 09:24 AM PST Stepping into his second term, President Barack Obama took the oath of office Sunday in an intimate swearing-in ceremony at the White House.

Former Secretary of State Rice joins CBS News Posted: 20 Jan 2013 08:50 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined CBS News as a contributor.

Thousands rally against stricter gun control in US Posted: 20 Jan 2013 08:17 AM PST Gun advocates — some with rifles slung across shoulders or pistols holstered at the hip — have rallied peacefully in state capitals nationwide against President Barack Obama's sweeping federal gun-control proposals.

Algeria terror leader once preferred money to death Posted: 20 Jan 2013 08:00 AM PST BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Moktar Belmoktar is known abroad as the man who orchestrated the abduction of scores of foreigners last week at a BP-operated plant in the remote, eastern corner of Algeria, in a raid that led to many of their deaths.

Obama, Biden being sworn in for second term Posted: 20 Jan 2013 06:55 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — On the cusp of his second term, President Barack Obama solemnly honored the nation's fallen soldiers Sunday before taking the oath of office in an intimate White House ceremony, a swearing-in ritual he will repeat 24 hours later before a massive crowd at the Capitol.

Obama backers aim to outflank NRA on gun control Posted: 20 Jan 2013 06:22 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of President Barack Obama's gun-control proposals are planning a methodical, state-by-state campaign to try to persuade key lawmakers that it's in their political interest to back his sweeping effort to crack down on firearms and ammunition sales and expand criminal background checks.

''Holy windfall': Batmobile sells for $4.2M Posted: 20 Jan 2013 06:05 AM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Holy windfall, Batman!" The Batmobile just sold for $4.2 million.

Obama to be sworn in for 2nd term at White House Posted: 20 Jan 2013 05:33 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Formally embarking on his second term, President Barack Obama was set to take the oath of office Sunday surrounded by family in an intimate inauguration at the White House, 24 hours before re-enacting the ceremony in front of hundreds of thousands outside the Capitol.

World's best big wave surfers compete at Mavericks Posted: 20 Jan 2013 05:06 AM PST HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — As massive swells lumber across the Pacific toward Northern California, nearly two dozen of the world's best big wave surfers will be waiting to meet them Sunday a half-mile offshore at the infamous surfing break Mavericks.

Official: 'Numerous' other bodies at Algeria plant Posted: 20 Jan 2013 04:44 AM PST ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian security official says de-mining squads searching for explosives found "numerous" bodies Sunday at a gas refinery where Islamic militants took dozens of foreign workers hostage.

Indicted Megaupload founder launches new site Posted: 20 Jan 2013 02:35 AM PST SYDNEY (AP) — Indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom launched a new file-sharing website on Sunday, promising users amped-up privacy levels in a defiant move against the U.S. prosecutors who accuse him of facilitating massive online piracy.

UN clinches global deal on cutting mercury emissions Posted: 20 Jan 2013 02:02 AM PST GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 140 countries have agreed on the first global treaty to cut mercury pollution through a blacklist of household items and new controls on power plants and small-scale mines, the United Nations said on Saturday. The legally-binding agreement aims to phase out many products that use the toxic liquid metal such as batteries, thermometers and some fluorescent lamps, through banning global import and exports by 2020. ...

Miss America unsure about attending Inauguration Posted: 20 Jan 2013 01:30 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Mallory Hagan says her first week as Miss America has been amazing, but she's not sure she's going to Inauguration Day because of the weather.

Algeria ends desert siege with 23 hostages dead Posted: 20 Jan 2013 12:57 AM PST ALGIERS/IN AMENAS, Algeria (Reuters) - Algerian troops ended a siege by Islamist militants at a gas plant in the Sahara desert where 23 hostages died, with a final assault which killed all the remaining hostage-takers. Believed to be among the 32 dead militants was their leader, Abdul Rahman al-Nigeri, a Nigerien close to al Qaeda-linked commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar, presumed mastermind of the raid. An Algerian interior ministry statement on the death toll gave no breakdown of the number of foreigners among hostages killed since the plant was seized before dawn on Wednesday. ...

Envoy says Venezuela open to better ties with U.S. Posted: 20 Jan 2013 12:08 AM PST CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's government is open to improving troubled ties with Washington and is considering a U.S. proposal for the return of anti-drug agents kicked out of the country eight years ago by President Hugo Chavez, a senior official said. There has been no word from Chavez since he had cancer surgery in Cuba five weeks ago, so every move the government makes in his absence is being picked over for clues to what the OPEC nation might look like in a post-Chavez era. ...

Los Angeles teachers agree to student test scores in evaluations Posted: 19 Jan 2013 11:18 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Teachers in Los Angeles have agreed to have test scores factored into performance evaluations in the nation's second-largest school district, their union said on Saturday in a concession to a growing national movement to revamp teacher appraisals. United Teachers Los Angeles said in a statement that 66 percent of the nearly 17,000 members who cast ballots had voted in favor of the new agreement on evaluations. The union has more than 30,000 members in a district second in size only to New York. ...

Japan talk of warning shots heats up China dispute Posted: 19 Jan 2013 10:13 PM PST TOKYO (AP) — Japan says it may fire warning shots and take other measures to keep foreign aircraft from violating its airspace in the latest verbal blast between Tokyo and Beijing that raises concerns that a dispute over hotly contested islands could spin out of control.

One injured in shooting during King parade in Mississippi Posted: 19 Jan 2013 09:57 PM PST 1 injured in shooting during King parade in Jackson, Miss.; suspect sought

Fiscal crisis, budget battle mark Panetta’s tenure Posted: 19 Jan 2013 09:40 PM PST Defense secretary's time in the Pentagon came at a critical moment — dominated by the fiscal crisis and a struggle to protect defense budget

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