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TSA change enrages 9/11 victims' families

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 01:31 PM PST

New TSA rules on knives draw fire from 9/11 kinAir travelers soon will be able to carry small pocket knives.


Photos: How the spending cuts could affect you

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 12:58 PM PST

Photos: How the spending cuts could affect you

Ark. House overrides veto of nation's most restrictive abortion law

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 12:41 PM PST

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas House on Wednesday voted to override Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of a bill that would ban most abortions from the 12th week of pregnancy onward, giving the state the country's most restrictive abortion laws and setting the stage for a certain court challenge.

Dinner plans? Obama and Senators meet for swanky eats

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 12:08 PM PST

FILE - In this March 4, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Enveloped by political gridlock, President Barack Obama is reaching out to rank-and-file Republicans, hosting GOP senators for dinner at the White House Wednesday night and then visiting Capitol Hill next week for separate meetings with Senate and House Republicans. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)The president and GOP leaders will dine in style tonight despite spending cuts.


U.S. sees no ‘unusual threat’ to Americans after Chavez dies

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 11:52 AM PST

Supporters of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez stretch out a national flag as they gather to see his coffin driven through the streets of CaracasThe State Department is considering expelling Venezuelan officials.


West Va. interstate closed — not by snow, but by LEGOs

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 11:35 AM PST

It's "Bricks on the Asphalt!" An epic Lego spill on Interstate 79 in West Virginia on Sunday resulted in an hour's worth of badly mucked-up traffic and one sad little kid. CNET reported that firefighter Eric McClain took a photo while helping with the cleanup, which he then posted on Facebook. The photo shows thousands [...]

Rand Paul filibusters John Brennan nomination

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 11:18 AM PST

Sen. Rand Paul cuts government a check for $600KIt's the latest chapter in the senator's opposition to the use of drone strikes.


Syrian rebels seize U.N. peacekeepers

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 11:02 AM PST

A visitor walks near metal sculptures on Mount Bental overlooking Syria in the Golan Heights, near the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) located on the Israeli side of the 1973 Golan Heights ceasefire line with Syria March 21, 2012.The captives will be held until Assad's forces pull back, the captors say.


About the pope's red shoes? It's an old story

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 10:45 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVIA Yahoo! News Q&A on choosing a new pontiff


Bat becomes roadblock in $31M highway project

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 10:29 AM PST

Endangered batThe creature weighs a mere quarter-ounce, but is causing a giant problem.


'Every nuclear weapon is a catastrophe waiting to happen'

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 09:22 AM PST

Yahoo! exclusive: Queen Noor presses U.S. to reduce nuclear stockpile

How Cancer Treatment Centers of America gets its survival rate

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 09:05 AM PST

Keith Hilborn holds a photo of his wife at his daughter's home in SummervilleThe for-profit cancer is very selective of its patients.


Half of Africa's lion populations may vanish

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 08:49 AM PST

Half of Africa's Lions May Go Extinct in 40 YearsNearly half of all of Africa's lion populations could face extinction in the next 40 years if conservation measures aren't changed, according to a new study.


Court suspends Egypt's parliament election

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 08:32 AM PST

Egyptian protesters clash with riot police near the state security building in Port Said, Egypt, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Clashes between protesters and police have broken out in this restive Egyptian port city despite efforts by the military to separate the two sides. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)The verdict followed complaints over the legality of the law organizing the vote.


Bill to avert government shutdown fast-tracked in the House

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 08:16 AM PST

The move incorporates the lower funding amounts mandated by sequestration.

Organized crime killing Africa's elephants

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 07:59 AM PST

To match Feature AFRICA-POACHING/More animals are being slaughtered for ivory than are being born each year.


Attorney General urges Senators to confront gun violence

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 07:43 AM PST

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder arrives in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 3, 2013. Holder and Vice President Joe Biden addressed thousands who gathered for the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee on the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when Alabama State Troopers beat back marchers when they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)Eric Holder plead for universal background checks and a ban on high-capacity magazines.


Hope for ‘new chapter’ after Chavez

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 06:53 AM PST

Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez react to the announcement of his death in CaracasThe death of the dictator could be an opening for the U.S.


Remembering Dred Scott, the decision that enraged Lincoln

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 06:20 AM PST

The Supreme Court case made the Republican Party a national force, and divided of the Democratic Party.

Book on Fox News’ Ailes reveals thoughts on Biden, Rubio

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 05:15 AM PST

The Fox News chief reportedly called Newt Gingrich a "sore loser."

Remembering Dred Scott, the decision that enraged Lincoln

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:25 AM PST

The Supreme Court case made the Republican Party a national force, and divided of the Democratic Party.

Chavez death could be opening for U.S.

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 04:09 AM PST

Supporters of Venezuela's President Chavez show pictures of him as they react to the announcement of his death in Buenos AiresThe Obama administration is reacting cautiously so far.


Dancer admits being behind Bolshoi chief attack

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 01:56 AM PST

FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 file photo, Russian dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko, as Ivan the Terrible, right, and ballerina Anna Nikulina as Anastasia, wife of Ivan the Terrible perform at a dress rehearsal of Ivan the Terrible (Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible) in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia. The Russian Interior Ministry says police are searching the home of a star of the Bolshoi Ballet, Pavel Dmitrichenko, known for his role as tsar Ivan the Terrible, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday March 5, 2013, in connection with the acid attack on the company's artistic director, and have detained another man on suspicion of carrying out the attack. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)A star Russian ballet dancer has confessed to the attack on the theater's ballet chief.


TSA to allow small knives, bats, clubs on planes

Posted: 05 Mar 2013 09:50 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2006, file photo, knives of all sizes and types are piled in a box at the State of Georgia Surplus Property Division store in Tucker, Ga., and are just a few of the hundreds of items discarded at the security checkpoints of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport that will be for sale at the store. Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning in April 2013 under a policy change announced Tuesday, March 5, 2013, by the head of the Transportation Security Administration administrator John Pistole. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe, File)Passengers will soon be able to carry small knives, baseball bats, and golf clubs onto planes.


Much has changed since last Dow record

Posted: 05 Mar 2013 09:33 PM PST

The last Dow record: My, how things have changedRemember the world on Oct. 9, 2007? That was when the Dow Jones industrial average last set a record high.


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