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Over the fiscal cliff: Soft or hard landing?

Over the fiscal cliff: Soft or hard landing?
By CONNIE CASSAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Three days out from the end of the year, lawmakers appeared to have made little progress toward devising a compromise to keep the nation from going over the so-called fiscal cliff at the start of 2013. All eyes were on the Democratic and Republican

Over the fiscal cliff: Soft or hard landing?

Over the fiscal cliff: Soft or hard landing?
By CONNIE CASSAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Three days out from the end of the year, lawmakers appeared to have made little progress toward devising a compromise to keep the nation from going over the so-called fiscal cliff at the start of 2013. All eyes were on the Democratic and Republican

Over the fiscal cliff: Soft or hard landing?

Over the fiscal cliff: Soft or hard landing?
By CONNIE CASSAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Three days out from the end of the year, lawmakers appeared to have made little progress toward devising a compromise to keep the nation from going over the so-called fiscal cliff at the start of 2013. All eyes were on the Democratic and Republican

Over the fiscal cliff: Soft or hard landing?

Over the fiscal cliff: Soft or hard landing?
By CONNIE CASSAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Three days out from the end of the year, lawmakers appeared to have made little progress toward devising a compromise to keep the nation from going over the so-called fiscal cliff at the start of 2013. All eyes were on the Democratic and Republican

India rape victim's body cremated in New Delhi

India rape victim's body cremated in New Delhi
By ASHOK SHARMAAssociated Press NEW DELHI (AP) - The body of a young woman who was gang-raped and brutally beaten on a moving bus in India's capital has been cremated. Indian police have charged six men with murder in the Dec. 16 attack, which shocked the country and triggered protests for

Over the fiscal cliff: Soft or hard landing?

Over the fiscal cliff: Soft or hard landing?
By CONNIE CASSAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Efforts to save the nation from going over a year-end "fiscal cliff" were still in disarray as lawmakers returned to the Capitol to confront the tax-and-spend crisis. A tone-setting quotation was Democratic Sen. Harry Reid's assertion that the

Mayor: Keep 2 NY subway push deaths in perspective

Mayor: Keep 2 NY subway push deaths in perspective
By TOM HAYSAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - For New York City, it wasn't an unusual sight: a possibly mentally ill woman pacing and mumbling to herself on an elevated subway station platform. The woman eventually took a seat on a bench Thursday night, witnesses later said. Then, without any

Experts: Trained police needed for school security

Experts: Trained police needed for school security
By LARRY MARGASAKAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The student's attack began with a shotgun blast through the windows of a California high school. Rich Agundez, the El Cajon policeman assigned to the school, felt his mind shift into overdrive. People yelled at him amid the chaos but he didn

Indian gang-rape victim dies in Singapore hospital

Indian gang-rape victim dies in Singapore hospital
By HEATHER TANAssociated Press SINGAPORE (AP) - An Indian woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus in New Delhi died Saturday at a Singapore hospital, after her ordeal galvanized Indians to demand greater protection for women from sexual violence that impacts thousands of them every day. Indian

10 Things to Know for Friday

10 Things to Know for Friday
By The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about Friday: 1. WHO COMMANDED DESERT STORM "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf, who commanded the U.S.-led coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991, dies at 78