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Obama guns and immigration agenda finds itself competing with economic contraction

YoopyaJan 31, 2013October 17, 20230

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as President Barack Obama is pushing new initiatives on gun control and immigration, the gloomy old problem of a sluggish economy

Emotional gun hearing: Wounded Giffords says nation wants new curbs; NRA, some senators say no

YoopyaJan 31, 20130

WASHINGTON (AP) — Severely wounded and still recovering, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords begged lawmakers at an emotional hearing Wednesday to act quickly to curb firearms

Menendez says he reimbursed donor for 2 trips, denies having sex with Dominican prostitutes

YoopyaJan 31, 20130

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Robert Menendez’s office says he reimbursed a prominent Florida political donor $58,500 for the full cost of two of three trips

Neighbors of Ala. man suspected of holding child in standoff say he was threatening, violent

YoopyaJan 31, 20130

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Jimmy Lee Dykes moved to a rural Alabama neighborhood on a rutted red clay road more than a year ago.

Powerful storm flips cars, decimates homes along destructive path through Southeast; 2 dead

YoopyaJan 31, 20130

ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A massive storm system raked the Southeast on Wednesday, generating tornadoes and dangerous winds that flipped cars on a major Georgia

Sex to burn calories? Snacking and skipping breakfast are bad? Authors claim these are myths

YoopyaJan 31, 2013October 17, 20230

Fact or fiction? Sex burns a lot of calories. Snacking or skipping breakfast is bad. School gym classes make a big difference in kids’ weight.

Patty Andrews, last surviving member of Andrews sisters, remembered for rallying troops

YoopyaJan 31, 20130

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patty Andrews never served in the military, but she and her singing sisters certainly supported the troops. During World War II,

‘Agitated’ Ray Lewis says he ‘never, ever took’ SWATS products, story won’t distract Ravens

YoopyaJan 31, 20130

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ray Lewis is “agitated.” Not because the Baltimore Ravens linebacker thinks the magazine report linking him to a company that purports

French troops in Mali take Kidal, last Islamist holdout

YoopyaJan 31, 20130

French forces have secured the northern Malian town of Kidal, the last main stronghold of Islamist rebels in the region, military officials say. Militant Islamist

China court rejects damages plea from man jailed for Bo joke

YoopyaJan 31, 20130

(Reuters) – A Chinese man sent to a labor camp for a joke about Bo Xilai said he was awarded minimal compensation by a court