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The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed stricter health standards for smog, replacing a Bush-era limit that ran counter to scientific recommendations.
An employee of a St. Louis manufacturing plant walked in with an assault rifle and a handgun on Thursday morning and opened fire, killing at least three people and wounding five others, authorities said.
Gaza's Hamas rulers have suffered back-to-back setbacks with Israel's successful test of a rocket shield and Egypt's push to block smuggling tunnels.
Department stores reported higher sales in stores open at least a year this December than last, and many raised their fourth-quarter forecasts.
The Chilean National Zoo is celebrating the birth of a rare litter of five white tigers.
The Texas attorney general says Gov. Rick Perry can pardon a wrongly convicted man who was cleared of rape after he died in prison.
CVS Caremark Corp. said Thursday it will partner with electronic health records maker Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Inc., and begin switching clients to Allscripts' e-prescribing tool.
Indianapolis has decided to use kicker Matt Stover instead of Adam Vinatieri during this year's playoffs.
The PGA Tour season is under way with a tee shot from Martin Laird that split the middle of the expansive first fairway at Kapalua in the SBS Championship.
NEW YORK - Despite rumors to the contrary, NBC has no plans to cancel the low-rated “The Jay Leno Show.”
The mayors of Hawaii's four counties agree on one thing. They want to hold on to their share of the hotel tax.
An Indianapolis woman has been sentenced to four years in prison after she was convicted of defrauding investors in an Internet business venture.
A Nebraska lawmaker says taxpayers are picking up the health-insurance tabs for too many businesses and wants to make the names of the businesses public.
Anyone who gets the feeling the NFC playoffs are vastly more wide open than the AFC probably is right. All six teams, including the four playing this weekend in wild-card games, seem capable of making the Super Bowl.
Officials say a church has been set on fire in Malaysia by unidentified attackers amid a growing conflect in the country over the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims.
The new BCS executive director says a major college football playoff would lead to more injuries, conflict with final exams, kill the bowl system and diminish the importance of the regular season.
Genzyme Corp., which has seen its stock decline in the past year due to manufacturing problems, said Thursday it struck a standstill deal with a major shareholder that will potentially give the investor a spot on the biotechnology company's board.
Shares of Comsys IT Partners Inc. soared Thursday after the IT staffing company hiked its profit and revenue estimates for the fourth quarter, saying business has picked up.
An Associated Press survey of Alabama legislators found there is no consensus yet on whether state government should bail out Alabama's financially ailing prepaid college tuition plan with millions of state dollars.
Authorities say they have few clues as they hunt for three federal prisoners who bolted from a detention center near the southern Illinois town of Ullin (UHL'-lihn).
A U.N. human rights investigator said Thursday that a videotape of an apparent execution of blindfolded and naked Tamils by Sri Lankan soldiers probably is authentic and called for a war crimes investigation.
Shares of InfoSpace Inc. surged Thursday after the company lifted its fourth-quarter revenue and profit forecasts.
Federal banking regulators are considering a plan to link the insurance premiums U.S. banks must pay to the degree of risk-taking encouraged by their executive compensation policies.
Several reportedly shot at St. Louis businessA gunman stormed a power company in north St. Louis and shot several people, at least one fatally, according to local media on Thursday.
Jail-bound 'balloon boy' dad: It wasn't a hoaxThe Colorado father who pleaded guilty to a felony in the runaway balloon saga insisted in an interview set to air Friday that the event wasn't a hoax.
Key Republican Strategist Can't Name One Way That Republicans Helped the Country in the Last 20 YearsTodd Harris can't name one thing the Republicans did in the last 10 – 20 years to help the country. His excuse is basically "that's not my job to know that."
'Negro' Race Choice On Census Form Sparks Outrage A fiery blast from the past is conjuring controversy in the new millennium. The word "negro" is now featured on an official U.S. document and now many are questioning if the Census Bureau is being insensitive.
Fox News Contributor Goes Off on Anti-Gay RantRadio host, Townhall.com columnist, and Fox News Channel contributor Sandy Rios wants to know if Rep. Mark Kirk is gay, or if Kirk's roommate is gay. Probably whether Kirk has ever even met a gay man, too, though she doesn't quite spell that out in her strange diatribe.
Naked jogger nabbed near White HouseA man was taken into custody and later hospitalized for a mental evaluation after he took off his clothes and began a jog a few blocks from the White House.
Bill O'Reilly Labels NPR JihadistFNC's Bill O'Reilly has been behaving relatively sanely, but that changed tonight on his program The O'Reilly Factor when he expressed his outrage at an animated political cartoon by Mark Fiore about learning to speak teabag which was posted on their website November 12, by label …
Brit Hume: Stop Persecuting Me for Trying to Convert Tiger - Tuned In - TIME.comexcerpt:"Last weekend on Fox News Sunday, anchor-turned-commentator Brit Hume stirred up trouble saying that golfer/adulterer Tiger Woods should convert to Christianity from Buddhism, because Christianity uniquely offers the chance of redemption.
Sarah Palin will headline first-ever Tea Party ConventionAlmost 1-1/2 years since she shook up American politics with her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is set to headline another landmark political event: the first-ever Tea Party Convention next month in Nashvill …
Obama to release report on botched terror bidThe U.S. public is getting its clearest look at the government missteps that allowed a suspected terrorist to slip through post-Sept. 11 security and threaten lives on American soil.
In war of dogs vs. cats, the winner is clearCats. Dogs. Those can be fighting words in some circles. An Associated Press-Petside.com poll showed that 74 percent of people like dogs a lot, while only 41 percent like cats a lot.
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White House: We will NOT discuss broken C-Span/Healthcare promiseOn Tuesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to answer questions about the president's campaign commitment to hold health-care negotiations on C-Span.
EPA aims to tighten Bush smog rulesFollowing a review of Bush-era rules, the Environmental Protection Agency proposes what it called "the strictest health standards to date for smog."
POLL The Republicans are really fond of going back to the Emancipation Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln as the definitive proof that their political party has done something beneficial and considered good for the country.
Words Conservatives Can't SayThe right is screaming that President Obama either refuses, or is unable to use the word "terrorist." This, of course is false, but you already knew that.
Gallup : "The gains the Democratic Party made in public support during the last several years of the George W. Bush administration have disappeared," .....problematic for Democrats is the trend line of the numbers last year; in the first three months of 2009, the party's support stood at nearly 52 percent while in the final quarter of the year it had fallen to 47 percent.
It is very interesting to hear people's reaction to American companies outsourcing to Asia or other countries.
CES. The biggest consumer electronics show in the world, boasting a lengthy history of important product introductions. The Nintendo Entertainment System? DVD? The camcorder? Blu-Ray? Virtual Boy? (On second thought, scratch that last one.)
So things are very serious around the Vine lately with meta stuff and outside the vine - in the so called real world with layoffs and the economy and we're all recovering from the holidays so I thought this would be a great time to try again to do a newsvine version of the class …
Feds: Sex abuse high at 13 juvenile centersA study finds 13 juvenile detention facilities in the nation have high rates of sex abuse and victimization, where nearly 1 out of every 3 inmates reported some type of victimization.
Midwest City man uses buttocks to smash ex's 72-inch TV, Oklahoma City police say Oklahoma City police arrested a Midwest City man early New Year's Day after his ex-girlfriend said he kicked in her door, fought with her current boyfriend and used his rear end to smash her television set.
After crash, activists up 'whale war'A conservation group searched Antarctic waters by helicopter for a key Japanese whaling ship, renewing its relentless pursuit one day after one of its boats was wrecked in a clash.
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