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Republicans defend Chris Christie on 'bridgegate'

Republicans defend Chris Christie on 'bridgegate'


Republicans defend Chris Christie on 'bridgegate'

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 09:40 AM PST

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie walks past reporters as he leaves City Hall Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, in Fort Lee, N.J. Christie traveled to Fort Lee to apologize in person to Mayor Mark Sokolich. Moving quickly to contain a widening political scandal, Gov. Chris Christie fired one of his top aides Thursday and apologized repeatedly for the "abject stupidity" of his staff, insisting he had no idea anyone around him had engineered traffic jams to get even with a Democratic mayor. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)Prominent Republicans hit the Sunday morning talk show circuit to defend Chris Christie, comparing the New Jersey governor's handling of the bridge scandal to President Obama's response to the Benghazi terror attack and the IRS' targeting of conservative groups.


Body of Israel's Ariel Sharon lies in state

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 03:21 AM PST

Members of the Knesset guard carry the coffin of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Knesset plaza, in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle East, died Saturday, eight years after a stroke left him in a coma from which he never awoke. He was 85. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)Hundreds of Israelis lined up outside Israel's parliament building on Sunday to pay their last respects.


Obamacare may get sick if young Americans don't sign up

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 05:14 AM PST

A man looks over the Affordable Care Act signup page on the HealthCare.gov website in New York in this photo illustrationNow that more than 2 million people have signed up for private insurance plans created by President Barack Obama's healthcare law, a crucial next check-up for the new marketplace will be to see how old customers are.


Car bombs, clashes kill 21 civilians in Iraq

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 09:06 AM PST

Iraqi security forces stand guard at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. Two separate car bomb explosions targeted Sunday morning commuters in Baghdad, killing more than a dozen civilians, officials said, amid an ongoing standoff between Iraqi forces and al-Qaida-linked militants west of the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of car bomb attacks and clashes between security forces and militants around and north of Baghdad killed at least 21 civilians, officials said Sunday, amid an ongoing standoff between Iraqi forces and al-Qaida-linked militants west of the Iraqi capital.


Court weighs president's recess appointments power

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 07:24 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, a view of the Supreme Court can be seen from the view from near the top of the Capitol Dome on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in a clash between President Obama and Senate Republicans over the power granted the president in the Constitution to make temporary appointments to fill high-level positions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is refereeing a politically charged dispute between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans over the president's power to temporarily fill high-level positions.


Christmas delivery finally for space station

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 05:22 AM PST

In this image from video provided by NASA the Cygnus resupply spacecraft approaches the International Space Station early Sunday Jan. 12, 2013. The spacecraft is expected to arrive on the station later this morning. It is packed with 3,000 pounds of equipment and experiments provided by NASA, as well as food and even some ants for an educational project. Christmas presents also are on board for the six space station residents; the delivery is a month late. (AP Photo/NASA)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Christmas has finally arrived for the six space station astronauts.


AP PHOTOS: Detroit auto show through the years

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 09:55 AM PST

FILE -In this Oct. 14, 1960 file photo, people visit the National Auto Show at Cobo Hall in Detroit. In 2013, more than 795,000 people, including 5,200 journalists from around the world attended the show. (AP Photo/File)DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit auto show, which opens to the public Jan. 18 after a week of media and industry previews, dates to 1907, when a group of dealers held a show in a city park.


Blount has 4 TD runs, Patriots top Colts 43-22

Posted: 11 Jan 2014 10:10 PM PST

New England Patriots running back LeGarrette Blount (29) dives into the end zone for a touchdown during the first half of an AFC divisional NFL playoff football game against the Indianapolis Colts in Foxborough, Mass., Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — LeGarrette Blount wasn't satisfied with three short touchdown runs, not against a team coming off the second greatest comeback in playoff history.


Black rhino hunting permit auctioned for $350,000

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 12:23 AM PST

Bob Fretwell of Mesquite, Texas, holds a sign protesting outside the Dallas Convention Center where the Dallas Safari Club is holding it's weekend show and auction, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014, in Dallas. Hunt the black rhino to save the black rhino. That's the Dallas Safari Club's approach to a fundraiser for efforts to protect the endangered species. The group hopes to raise more than $200,000 Saturday by auctioning off the right to shoot and kill a black rhinoceros in the African nation of Namibia. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)DALLAS (AP) — A permit to hunt an endangered African black rhino sold for $350,000 at a Dallas auction held to raise money for conservation efforts but criticized by wildlife advocates.


AMC announces premiere for 'Better Call Saul'

Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:40 PM PST

FILE - This image released by AMC shows Bob Odenkirk in a scene from the final season of "Breaking Bad." AMC and Sony Pictures Television confirmed that Odenkirk, who plays Saul Goodman, will star in a one-hour prequel tentatively titled "Better Call Saul." (AP Photo/AMC, Ursula Coyote, file)ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Walter White's lawyer is returning to Albuquerque.


Frustration grows days after W.Va. chemical spill

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 07:03 AM PST

Dora Clark of Charleston, W.Va. stocks up on bottled water at a supermarket in Charleston, W.Va. on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014 in the wake of Freedom Industries' chemical spill into the Elk River on Thursday. Customers were allowed to purchase up to four cases of water at a time. As many stores ran out, the West Virginia National Guard was sent to bring bottled water to local distribution centers. (AP Photo/Michael Switzer)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Frustration is mounting for many of the 300,000 West Virginia residents who've gone three days without clean tap water.


Car bombs, clashes kill 18 civilians in Iraq

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 07:59 AM PST

Iraqi security forces stand guard at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. Two separate car bomb explosions targeted Sunday morning commuters in Baghdad, killing more than a dozen civilians, officials said, amid an ongoing standoff between Iraqi forces and al-Qaida-linked militants west of the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)BAGHDAD (AP) — Two car bombs targeted commuters in Baghdad and clashes between security forces and militants killed at least 18 civilians, officials said Sunday, amid an ongoing standoff between Iraqi forces and al-Qaida-linked militants west of the Iraqi capital.


AP Enterprise: Brawl hurts Berlin Jewish community

Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:44 PM PST

This Jan. 7, 2014 photo shows the Neue Synagoge (New Synagogue) in Berlin. The 10,000-member Jewish Community of Berlin, which experienced a stirring post-Holocaust rebirth, is in danger of falling apart - riven by cultural rivalries, its finances under official scrutiny. At the center of the storm is Gideon Joffe, who was elected nearly two years ago as community president. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)BERLIN (AP) — Under the golden dome of the Berlin synagogue, elderly worshippers traded shoves and obscenities flew. A man held up his phone to film the ruckus; the leader of the city's Jews snatched it away. Then punches began to land in a chaotic scrum, a man rammed a table into another's stomach, and demurely clad women put each other in chokeholds. Police had to be called to restore calm.


Car bombings kill 13 civilians in Iraqi capital

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 07:07 AM PST

Iraqi security forces stand guard at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. Two separate car bomb explosions targeted Sunday morning commuters in Baghdad, killing more than a dozen civilians, officials said, amid an ongoing standoff between Iraqi forces and al-Qaida-linked militants west of the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)BAGHDAD (AP) — Two car bombs targeted Sunday morning commuters in Baghdad, killing at least 13 civilians, officials said, amid an ongoing standoff between Iraqi forces and al-Qaida-linked militants west of the Iraqi capital.


Kerry, 10 other top envoys raise pressure on Syria

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 02:12 AM PST

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens carry the coffins wrapped by Syrian flags for the victims who were killed Thursday by a car bomb, during their funeral processions, at al-Kaffat village in the central Hama province, Syria, Friday, Jan. 10, 2014. Rebel-on-rebel fighting between an al-Qaida-linked group and an array of more moderate and ultraconservative Islamists has killed nearly 500 people over the past week in northern Syria, an activist group said Friday, in the most serious bout of violence among opponents of President Bashar Assad since the civil war began. (AP Photo/SANA)PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and top envoys from 10 other countries are raising the pressure on Syria's main opposition group to attend peace talks that would bring it face-to-face with the Syrian government.


Would Sharon have brought peace to Israel?

Posted: 11 Jan 2014 08:39 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 21, 1998 file photo, Israeli Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon, right, stands near but does not look at, or shake hands with, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Wye Plantation, Maryland. Before becoming a candidate, Sharon proudly boasted he had never shaken hands with Arafat, and called the Palestinian leader a "murderer and a liar" in an interview with the New Yorker magazine. Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle East, died Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014. The 85-year-old Sharon had been in a coma since a debilitating stroke eight years ago. (AP Photo/Israel Government Press Office, File)Journalist Dan Ephron, who interviewed Sharon, reflects on that very complicated question.


Israelis pay last respects to Ariel Sharon

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 07:34 AM PST

Ariel Sharon, pictured after lighting Hanukkah candles at his Jerusalem office, on December 27, 2005Ahead of his funeral on Monday, Sharon's body was to lie in state at the Knesset.


Tap water fix in W. Va. still days away after spill

Posted: 11 Jan 2014 09:54 PM PST

Cathy Mabe of Spring Hill, West Virginia makes use of a couple of watering cans to carry water at a bring-your-own-containers water filling station in South CharlestonResidents spent a third day unable to bathe, shower or drink from the faucet due to a chemical spill tainting the Elk River.


Strong cyclone hits Tonga, killing at least 1

Posted: 11 Jan 2014 09:40 PM PST

Tropical Cyclone Ian is seen in this NOAA GOES satellite handout imageNUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — Authorities were searching remote islands for cyclone victims on Sunday after the most powerful storm to hit Tonga in decades cut a swathe of destruction through this South Pacific archipelago, leaving at least one person dead and several injured.


Colorado ‘Mile 420’ marker replaced after repeated thefts

Posted: 11 Jan 2014 11:13 AM PST

A man smokes a blunt at 4/20 marijuana event in downtown DenverColorado officials were forced to change a state highway sign after it was repeatedly stolen by pot enthusiasts.


Accenture named lead contractor for Obamacare website

Posted: 11 Jan 2014 03:22 PM PST

Visitors look at devices at Accenture stand at the Mobile World Congress in BarcelonaAccenture has been chosen to replace CGI Federal as the lead contractor for the Obamacare enrollment website, which failed to work when it launched in October for millions of Americans shopping for health insurance, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said on Saturday. CGI Federal, a subsidiary of CGI Group, built the website, HealthCare.gov, which was plagued by error messages and slow speeds for weeks after the launch. The glitches created a political crisis for President Barack Obama, threatening the roll-out of his signature healthcare law and emboldening Republican foes to call for its repeal. "As CMS moves forward in our efforts to help consumers access quality, affordable health coverage, we have selected Accenture to become the lead contractor for the HealthCare.gov portal and to prepare for next year's open enrollment period," the agency said in a statement.


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