tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47939242013297139532024-02-22T01:06:57.321-08:00Latest News & Headlines ~ LiveNewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1910125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-33304986993051548372013-03-05T23:07:00.002-08:002013-03-05T23:07:46.710-08:00Chavez's successor in Venezuela: Nicolas Maduro
Vice President Nicolas Maduro is taking over leadership of Hugo Chavez's political movement after the socialist leader died Tuesday at age 58 following a nearly two-year bout with cancer. Maduro now faces the daunting task of rallying support in a deeply divided country while maintaining unity within his party's ranks.
Maduro decidedly lacks the vibrant personality that made Chavez a one-man Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-59536924023794057402013-03-05T23:03:00.002-08:002013-03-05T23:03:51.121-08:00Venezuela's Chavez dies, officials call for unity
Some in anguish, some in fear, Venezuelans raced for home and stocked up on food and water Tuesday after the government announced the death of President Hugo Chavez, the larger-than-life firebrand socialist who led the nation for 14 years.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro's voice broke and tears ran down his face as he appeared on national television to announce that Chavez died at 4:25 p.m. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-55312177388588633532013-03-05T22:54:00.002-08:002013-03-05T22:54:34.910-08:00Devastated, mourning Chavez supporters pour onto streets
Grieving and stunned supporters of deceased Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took to the streets on Tuesday weeping, chanting slogans and vowing to continue their hero's revolution.
Gathering in streets and squares across the South American nation of 29 million people, backers of the socialist leader shouted: "Chavez lives forever!" and "The fight continues!"
"We have to show that what he Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-20300425889722815142013-02-27T22:57:00.002-08:002013-02-27T22:57:42.770-08:00Medicare paid $5.1B for poor nursing home careMedicare paid billions in taxpayer dollars to nursing homes nationwide that were not meeting basic requirements to look after their residents, government investigators have found.
The report, released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general, said Medicare paid about $5.1 billion for patients to stay in skilled nursing facilities that failed to meet federal Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-13568284711588060492013-02-27T22:52:00.001-08:002013-02-27T22:52:23.326-08:00Senate Dems' bill light on deficit cuts in 2013
White House-backed legislation in the Senate to replace $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts would raise the deficit through the end of the budget year by tens of billions of dollars, officials said late Wednesday as the two parties maneuvered for public support on economic issues.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said that under the Democratic measure, deficits also would Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-28792006898462870452013-02-27T22:47:00.001-08:002013-02-27T22:47:44.908-08:00As budget cuts loom, is government shutdown next?
With big, automatic budget cuts about to kick in, House Republicans are turning to mapping strategy for the next showdown just a month away, when a government shutdown instead of just a slowdown will be at stake.
Both topics are sure to come up at the White House meeting Friday between President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders, including Republican House Speaker John Boehner. A Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-20529691008092845692013-02-20T23:12:00.000-08:002013-02-20T23:12:07.214-08:00Sources: Rockets make deals with Suns, Kings; Morris twins reunited in Phoenix
The Houston Rockets acquired Sacramento's Thomas Robinson, the fifth overall pick in the 2012 draft, in a deal on Wednesday night, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
The Rockets sent Patrick Patterson, Toney Douglas and Cole Aldrich to the Kings. In a separate deal, the Rockets sent Marcus Morris to the Phoenix Suns for a 2013 second-round draft pick. That deal reunites Morris with his twin Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-15287780695717713522013-02-20T23:08:00.001-08:002013-02-20T23:08:54.734-08:00Lakers beat Celtics 113-99 on emotional night
Dwight Howard had 24 points and 12 rebounds in helping the Los Angeles Lakers to an emotional 113-99 victory over the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night in their first game since the death of owner Jerry Buss.
Kobe Bryant added 16 points, Steve Nash and Earl Clark had 14 apiece, and Metta World Peace 12 in a game that surely would have delighted Buss, who always loved to win but especially Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-87790923548872734312013-02-20T23:05:00.002-08:002013-02-20T23:05:36.300-08:00Soccer: Milan strangle Barcelona to seal shock win
AC Milan produced a defensive masterclass to shackle Barcelona and secure a shock 2-0 win in their Champions League last-16 first-leg match on Wednesday.
A hotly-protested goal by Kevin-Prince Boateng in the 57th minute set AC Milan on their way over the Champions League favorites.
Barcelona, who eliminated Milan last season, surrounded the referee complaining Cristian Zapata had handled the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-5844733267251423962013-02-20T23:00:00.004-08:002013-02-20T23:00:57.005-08:00Special Report: Russia's $50 billion Olympic gamble
Above the Black Sea city of Sochi, one of Russia's richest men is spending billions of roubles to turn a patch of mountainside into a global showpiece. Metals magnate Vladimir Potanin has paid for new buildings, new lifts and hundreds of snow canons in the hope of transforming slopes not far from sub-tropical Sochi into a world-class ski resort.
Like most of the plans to host the Winter Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-31544041515992687022013-02-20T22:54:00.003-08:002013-02-20T22:57:10.857-08:00Official: Calif. gunman was loner, 'gamer'
The first of three people killed in a gunman's rampage was identified Wednesday as a 20-year-old woman but police did not know why she was in the home of the shooter, who lived with his parents and was described by authorities as a video game-playing loner.
Courtney Aoki, 20, of Buena Park was shot multiple times early Tuesday in the home where gunman Ali Syed, 20, lived, said Orange County Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-84537912926151249992013-02-20T22:50:00.001-08:002013-02-20T22:50:46.034-08:00Adults cut back fast food, but U.S. kids still eat too much fat: CDC
American adults have made a little progress in recent years in cutting back on calories from fast food, but children are still consuming too much fat, U.S. health researchers say.
French fries, pizza and similar items accounted for about 11 percent of U.S. adults' caloric intake from 2007 to 2010, on average, down from about 13 percent between 2003 and 2006, the Centers for Disease Control andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-8801532603853974552013-02-20T22:42:00.002-08:002013-02-20T22:42:46.612-08:00Cash, sexism and violence keep women out of Kenyan politics
Violence, a deeply chauvinistic society and a lack of cash are locking women out of elected office in Kenya, east Africa's leading economy but a laggard when it comes to female representation.
The country's new constitution guarantees women a third of seats in parliament, but two and a half years since its adoption, Kenya's male-dominated assembly has still not passed the necessary legislationUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-53440413054075543592013-02-20T22:38:00.003-08:002013-02-20T22:38:54.015-08:00SAfrica police: Pistorius detective faces charges
South African police say the lead investigator in the case against Olympian Oscar Pistorius faces attempted murder charges in an October 2011 shooting.
Police Brig. Neville Malila said Thursday that detective Hilton Botha is scheduled to appear in court in May on seven counts of attempted murder. Malila says Botha and two other police officers fired shots while trying to stop a minivan in the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-67901661558407334132013-02-20T22:34:00.004-08:002013-02-20T22:34:58.825-08:005 dead after small jet crashes in eastern GA
An official says five people are dead and two injured after a small jet ran off the end of a runway and crashed at an airport in eastern Georgia.
Thomson-McDuffie County Sheriff Logan Marshall says the jet carrying seven people crashed after 8 p.m. Wednesday. Logan says the two survivors were taken to area hospitals and their conditions were not known. He says the identities of those killed Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-76585431530895317112013-02-20T22:23:00.002-08:002013-02-20T22:30:39.440-08:00Japan's Abe seeks to show off alliance, get Obama nod on Abenomics
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be seeking to put a strong U.S.-Japan alliance on full display in the face of potential threats from a nuclear North Korea and an assertive China when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday.
Abe, who has kept his ratings high since taking office in December, also needs Obama's signoff on his economic revival recipe of big spending and hyper-easy Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-78937473307551815942013-02-20T22:18:00.001-08:002013-02-20T22:18:34.962-08:00Mexico security forces abducted dozens in drug war: rights group
Dozens of people were abducted and murdered by Mexican security forces over the past six years during a gruesome war with drug cartels, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, urging President Enrique Pena Nieto to overhaul the military justice system.
The rights group said that since 2007 it has documented 149 cases of people who were never seen again after falling into the hands of security Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-82045369217291748142013-02-20T06:57:00.001-08:002013-02-20T06:57:58.384-08:00Witness heard "non-stop shouting" in Pistorius home before shooting
A witness heard "non-stop shouting" in the home of athletics star Oscar Pistorius shortly before his girlfriend was shot dead, the lead detective in the murder investigation said on Wednesday.
Warrant officer Hilton Botha, a detective with 24 years on the force, also told the Pretoria magistrates court that police had found two containers of testosterone and needles in Pistorius' bedroom.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-50932308501239464012013-02-20T06:46:00.000-08:002013-02-20T06:49:47.400-08:00Champions League - Paper Round: Wenger out of a job?
This morning's papers make dismal reading for Arsenal fans after their Champions League humiliation against Bayern Munich.
Out of the FA Cup - Out of the League Cup - Out of title race - Almost out of CL - Should Wenger be OUT OF A JOB?
Oliver Holt: The righteous anger of Arsene Wenger gave way to something more poignant at the Emirates. Outraged by newspaper headlines on Monday, he Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-38131197413662573702013-02-20T02:10:00.003-08:002013-02-20T02:10:32.571-08:00NKorean propaganda video shows Obama in flames
A new North Korean video portrays President Barack Obama and American troops in flames and says the North conducted its recent nuclear test because of U.S. hostility.
The video follows a string of critical rhetoric against the United States. Another video posted earlier this month showed an American city being attacked by missiles.
The most recent video, posted Sunday by a YouTube account Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-53420179666001055962013-02-20T02:06:00.000-08:002013-02-20T02:06:20.925-08:00Syria "Scud-type" missile said to kill 20 in Aleppo
A Syrian missile killed at least 20 people in a rebel-held district of Aleppo on Tuesday, opposition activists said, as the army turns to longer-range weapons after losing bases in the country's second-largest city.
The use of what opposition activists said was a large missile of the same type as Russian-made Scuds against an Aleppo residential district came after rebels overran army bases Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-5869465823338418812013-02-20T02:03:00.002-08:002013-02-20T02:03:18.071-08:00Man goes on shooting rampage in Calif.; 3 killed
The early morning commute was just getting under way on suburban Orange County's network of freeways when Melvin Lee Edwards pulled up to a stop sign near a busy off-ramp.
It was just after 5 a.m. and Edwards, 69, was on his way to work when, police say, a fleeing murder suspect forced him out of his BMW at gunpoint, marched him across the street and shot him three times from behind as Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-5281112983789244942013-02-20T01:59:00.001-08:002013-02-20T01:59:23.057-08:00Family threatened by ex-cop recalls 6-day ordeal
Christopher Dorner's threats to kill officers and the families of those linked to his 2008 firing from the department was backed up with deep research that included surveillance of possible victims, officials said Tuesday.
Chief Charlie Beck told reporters Tuesday that the former Los Angeles police officer "did a lot of homework." Authorities believe he even conducted surveillance near the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-85246117004325775592013-02-20T01:54:00.001-08:002013-02-20T01:54:22.341-08:00Bulgaria government resigns amid growing protests
Bulgaria's government resigned on Wednesday after violent nationwide protests against high electricity prices, joining a long list of European administrations felled by austerity after Europe's debt crisis erupted in late 2009.
Many Bulgarians are deeply unhappy over high energy costs, power monopolies, low living standards and corruption in the European Union's poorest country and protesters Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793924201329713953.post-1627944001746692572013-02-20T01:51:00.000-08:002013-02-20T01:51:02.874-08:00Canadian tourist's body found in hotel water tank
Police say the body of a woman found wedged in a water tank on the roof of a downtown hotel is that of a missing Canadian guest.
Investigators used body markings to identify 21-year-old Elisa Lam, police spokeswoman Officer Diana Figueroa said late Tuesday. A maintenance worker at the Cecil Hotel found the body earlier in the day after guests complained of low water pressure.
Lam, of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0