Apr 3, 2012 – President Barack Obama on Tuesday will shred the House GOP budget as a “Trojan horse” built around radical right-wing, “thinly veiled social Darwinism” and the makings of a renewed recession. That’s the message he’ll take to The Associated Press’s annual luncheon in Washington, according to prepared remarks provided by...

Apr 3, 2012 – President Obama, for the second day in a row, put public pressure on the Supreme Court to uphold the federal health care overhaul -- saying the court has traditionally shown "deference" to Congress. The president addressed the case during a meeting with newspaper executives in Washington, D.C., following...

Apr 3, 2012 – Former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D) kept up his torrid fundraising pace by raising $2.2 million since Jan. 1, his campaign announced Tuesday morning. Kaine now has $4.4 million cash on hand for his Senate race, according to the campaign, a substantial war chest for a non-incumbent candidate at...

Apr 3, 2012 – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said this week she'd like to see Secretary of State Hillary Clinton run for president in 2016. The California Democrat told PBS's Charlie Rose she has "no knowledge" of Clinton's intentions, but also left no mystery about her wishes to see Clinton on the...

Apr 3, 2012 – Senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod mocked GOP front-runner Mitt Romney’s economic policies on Tuesday, saying his ideas were from a "time warp." "He must watch 'Mad Men' and think it's the evening news," said Axelrod on "CBS This Morning," referring to the popular drama set in the 1960s....

Apr 3, 2012 – Voters in the US say health care, unemployment, the federal deficit, international issues and gas prices will help influence their decision ahead of the presidential election -- but just one in five thinks birth control policies are an important factor, a Gallup poll out Monday found. The poll also...

Apr 3, 2012 – Felony charges related to election fraud have touched the 2008 race for the highest office in the land. Prosecutors in South Bend, Ind., filed charges Monday against four St. Joseph County Democratic officials and deputies as part of a multiple-felony case involving the alleged forging of Democratic presidential primary...

Apr 3, 2012 – The man accused of killing seven people execution-style at a small religious college in Oakland, California, "does not appear to be remorseful at all," the city's police chief said Tuesday. Former student One Goh, 43, told authorities he was upset at being expelled from Oikos University earlier this year,...

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Apr 2, 2012 – Leaders of the 15-state West African bloc ECOWAS have decided to impose diplomatic, trade and financial sanctions on Mali’s junta with immediate effect, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said after a regional summit on Monday. Ouattara told reporters the leaders would apply the previously announced sanctions - which include...

Apr 2, 2012 – Russia on Monday rejected Arab and Western calls for a deadline to be set for the Syrian regime's implementation of a peace plan put forward by international mediator Kofi Annan. "Ultimatums and artificial deadlines rarely help matters," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said while on a visit to the former...

Apr 2, 2012 – The Pentagon recently activated its global missile shield in anticipation of North Korea’s launch of a long-range missile, according to defense officials. The measures include stepped-up electronic monitoring, deployment of missile interceptor ships, and activation of radar networks to areas near the Korean peninsula and western Pacific. Three...

Apr 2, 2012 – A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck southern Mexico on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake's epicenter was about 17 miles (27 kilometers) from Ometepec, Guerrero. It was about 7.6 miles (12 kilometers) deep, the USGS said. There were no immediate reports of...

Apr 2, 2012 – Police captured a suspect in a shooting at a California religious college that resulted in "multiple fatalities" Monday, an Oakland police spokeswoman said. Several other wounded people were taken to hospitals, police said. Highland Hospital spokeswoman Jerri Applegate told KGO-TV that five shooting victims were being treated there....

Apr 2, 2012 – As circus great P. T. Barnum said, "There's a sucker born every minute."  The latest sucker appears to be the #1 clown at NBC News, President Steve Capus, who keeps tripping on his over-sized clown shoes.  Steve keeps falling in the sticky stuff left by the rogue circus elephants at...

Apr 2, 2012 – George Will discusses President Obama's open mic comments on the "This Week" roundtable. ABC's George Will said that President Obama's open mic comments asking the Russian president Dmitri Medvedev for "flexibility" and "space" on missile defense until after November's election reinforced perceptions that he is "kind of slippery, very...

Apr 2, 2012 – President Obama has extended an olive branch to Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and invited him to the White House this week to attend a signing ceremony for bipartisan jobs legislation. Eight months ago, Obama and Cantor clashed sharply during negotiations to raise the debt limit. At...

Apr 2, 2012 – Screams recorded on a 911 call during the confrontation that ended in Florida teenager Trayvon Martin's death don't seem to be those of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, two audio experts who analyzed the recordings said Monday. Zimmerman, 28, has claimed self-defense in the February 26 shooting, saying Martin...

Apr 2, 2012 – The United States is expanding its support for the Syrian opposition, agreeing to supply communications equipment and other aid but stopping short of arming anti-regime forces. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at an international conference in Turkey, joined other countries in pledging a fresh round of aid for...

Apr 2, 2012 – A major donor to President Barack Obama has been accused of defrauding a businessman and impersonating a bank official, creating new headaches for Obama's re-election campaign as it deals with the questionable history of another top supporter. The New York donor, Abake Assongba, and her husband contributed more than...

Apr 2, 2012 – A Pakistani judge sentenced Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters on Monday to 45 days of house detention for living illegally in Pakistan, the widows' lawyer said. The judge ordered that after their term, the five be deported back to their countries of citizenship, said Amir Khalil,...

Apr 2, 2012 – Would you rather have $1 to spend, or $1.49 billion? For winners in three states, all it took was a dollar to cash in and reap the rewards of Friday's record-setting Mega Millions jackpot. By picking the same winning numbers -- 2, 4, 23, 38, 46 with a Mega...

Apr 2, 2012 – A twin-engine plane carrying 43 people crashed soon after takeoff in Siberia on Monday, killing all but 12 people on board, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said. The plane had taken off from the city of Tyumen and traffic control lost contact with it immediately afterward, the ministry said....

Apr 2, 2012 – A woman who was found guilty of killing five patients at a Texas dialysis center by injecting them with bleach will learn her fate this week. A jury in Angelia County found Kimberly Saenz, 38, guilty last week of capital murder in connection with the deaths. On Monday,...

Apr 19, 2012 – A South Carolina county's deputies say a McDonald's employee spit in two customers' cups of iced tea after the drinks were returned because they weren't sweet enough. Authorities say 19-year-old Marvin Washington Jr. was arrested Wednesday and charged with malicious tampering with food. Greenville County investigators say surveillance...