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Senators strike bipartisan gun deal

Senators strike bipartisan gun deal


Senators strike bipartisan gun deal

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 07:51 AM PDT

Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. speak to reporters as they walk from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's, D-Nev., office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 9, 2013, after a meeting on gun control. Reid's determination to stage a vote came despite continued inconclusive talks between Manchin, Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., aimed at finding compromise on expanding background checks to more gun purchasers. But Manchin left a meeting in Reid's office late Tuesday and said he hoped a deal could be completed on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)But is there a catch in the compromise by two pro-gun rights lawmakers?


South Korean island in North's crosshairs

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 07:57 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 11, 2013 file photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, third left, looks at South's western border island of Baengnyeong during his visit to the Wolnae Islet Defense Detachment, North Korea. For the outside world, North Korea's message is largely doom and gloom: bombastic threats of nuclear war, amateur-looking videos showing U.S. cities in flames, digitally altered photos of military drills. But a domestic audience gets a parallel and decidedly softer dose of propaganda - and one with potentially higher stakes for the country's young leader. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS, File)For six decades, the residents of South Korea's Baengnyeong Island have practically stared down the barrels of North Korea's artillery. Located just 10 miles off the North's Yellow Sea coast, this South Korean island is at the forefront of what some observers say could be the next military flashpoint.


Jury reaches verdict in Rockefeller imposter case

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:44 AM PDT

Prosecutor Habib Balian makes his final arguments in the murder trial of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Gerhartsreiter has pleaded not guilty to the killing of John Sohus, 27, who disappeared with his wife, Linda, in 1985 while Gerhartsreiter was a guest cottage tenant at the home of Sohus' mother, where the couple lived. (AP Photo/San Gabriel Valley Tribune,Walter Mancini, Pool )A German immigrant is charged with the murder of a man who disappeared in 1985.


Obama calls on GOP to help ‘finish the job’ on budget

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 02:58 AM PDT

President Barack Obama, accompanied by acting Budget Director Jeffrey Zients, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday April 10, 2013, to discuss his proposes fiscal 2014 federal budget. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)Americans deserve better than "crisis-driven decision-making," the president says.


Gloria Steinem backs Christine Quinn for NYC mayor

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 08:27 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2011 photo, Gloria Steinem attends the PBS Winter TCA Tour at the Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, Calif. "Makers: Women Who Make America," a three-hour PBS documentary about the fight for women's equality, airs Tuesday and features prominent activists including Gloria Steinem and Marlo Thomas. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)The two were in a public spat over a bill giving sick leave to New Yorkers.


Putin accidentally listed among criminals

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 09:13 AM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to a speech during a tour of the Amsterdam Hermitage MuseumFinland apologizes for including the Russian president on a blacklist.


Postal Service Saturday mail here to stay — for now

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 08:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2013 file photo, U.S. Postal Service letter carrier Jamesa Euler, turns down the flag on a mailbox while delivering mail in the Cabbagetown of Atlanta. The U.S. Postal Service delivers mail to 11 million more homes, offices and other addresses than it did a decade ago, even as the amount of mail that people in the United States receive has dropped sharply. That combination may be financially dicey, some analysts say. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)The cut in service was proposed to reduce the agency's losses.


Massive burial site under Sea of Galilee?

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 04:17 AM PDT

Mysterious Stone Structure Discovered Beneath Sea of GalileeThe structure is cone shaped, made of "unhewn basalt cobbles and boulders."


Republicans head to Hollywood for spring strategy session

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 07:10 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 18, 2013 file photo, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. National Republican leaders made waves recently with a dim view of the party's future if it fails to expand its core support beyond white males and social conservatives. But weeks after Priebus unveiled the The party says it's ready to start winning elections again.


Sexting congressman Weiner weighing a run for NYC mayor

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 04:12 AM PDT

Don't pull an Anthony Weiner."It's now or maybe never for me, in terms of running for something," he said.


Thousands to rally for path to citizenship

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 05:43 AM PDT

People take part in a rally to demand that Congress fix the broken immigration system at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New JerseyTwo senators said that an immigration bill would likely be completed this week.


Michelle Obama to talk youth violence in Chicago

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 03:02 AM PDT

Michelle Obama Heads Home to Chicago to Address Youth ViolenceThe first lady is expected to deliver a deeply personal speech today.


British 'test tube baby' pioneer Robert Edwards dies

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 09:55 AM PDT

A picture of Robert Edwards of Britain is projected as winner of 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology is announced in StockholmThe Nobel prize-winning scientist pioneered in-vitro fertilization (IVF).


NC dad dug for buried children until he couldn't breathe

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 01:26 AM PDT

In this image made from video and provided by WSOC-TV Charlotte, authorities work to rescue two children at a construction site, Sunday, April 7, 2013, in Stanley, N.C. Two television stations are reporting that two children are trapped under a home under construction in Lincoln County near Charlotte. WBTV and WSOC report firefighters from several places, including Charlotte, are on the scene Sunday night. (AP Photo/WSOC TV)The man was operating a backhoe in a pit when the walls caved in.


China detains 10 for online bird flu rumors as toll rises

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 06:10 AM PDT

A boy plays inside a closed chicken market in ShanghaiThe number of infections from a new strain of the flu has ticked up daily.


Neighbors describe student behind stabbing as shy

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 07:22 AM PDT

Dylan Quick, who is a suspect in the multiple stabbings on the Lone Star Cy-Fair Campus, right, is escorted by Harris County Sherrif's Office investigators after being questioned, Tuesday, April 9, 2013, in Houston. Quick, a student at the school, allegedly went on a building-to-building stabbing attack at the Texas community college Tuesday, wounding at least 14 people — many in the face and neck — before being subdued and arrested, authorities and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty)Dylan Quick allegedly wounded least 14 people, two critically, at a Texas college.


Pa. man charged with bomb threat at White House

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 05:53 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after police say he made a bomb threat outside the White House.

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