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Senate Democrats have reached a deal on background checks for firearms, sources close to the negotiations said early Wednesday, setting the stage for a vote on new gun laws later this week.Sen. Pat Toomey, a conservative Pennsylvania Republican, will announce the agreement later Wednesday with West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who holds an A rating from the National Rifle Association, the...
President Barack Obama views his forthcoming budget on Wednesday as a "sticking point" in negotiations with Republicans toward a fiscal deal, rather than a "starting point."The administration's 2014 budget — which Obama will introduce at 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday — seeks an additional $1.8 trillion in savings through a combination of new revenues, entitlement reforms and targeted cuts to discretiona...
A mother from Georgia just found out that she was saved by her 11-year-old son after a perilous car crash — as he crawled out of a broken window and climbed up a steep 13-foot embankment to get her help.“He is amazing,” Lisa Polk, who has no recollection of the accident, told NBC affiliate WXIA in Cummings, Ga., on Tuesday. “He is one of a kind.”Polk was driving her son Charlie to his brother’s so...
An unseasonably cold air mass brought ice, heavy snow and high winds to the Plains and parts of the Midwest on Wednesday on its way to spawning potentially severe thunderstorms in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.The cold air, being pulled south from the Arctic region by a deep, southward dip in the jet stream, is crashing into warm air, producing disturbances – some of them odd. They including a ...
Less than two weeks after Chinese officials released the genetic sequence of a new type of bird flu, U.S. vaccine experts are well on the way to making a vaccine to protect people against it.There’s no evidence the H7N9 virus would ever threaten the U.S. It’s been diagnosed in fewer than 30 people, all restricted to eastern China. People don’t appear to be infecting one another, at least not in la...
A bizarre incident involving a meat cleaver in a hospital maternity ward landed a man behind bars.Kareem Jorif, 34, of Arlington, Va., is charged with multiple counts of attempted malicious wounding and carrying a concealed weapon.Jorif went into the maternity ward at Virginia Hospital Center last week and got into an argument when he was told he couldn't go into a patient's room, police said.More...
A bizarre incident involving a meat cleaver in a hospital maternity ward landed a man behind bars.Kareem Jorif, 34, of Arlington, Va., is charged with multiple counts of attempted malicious wounding and carrying a concealed weapon.Jorif went into the maternity ward at Virginia Hospital Center last week and got into an argument when he was told he couldn't go into a patient's room, police said.More...
A bizarre incident involving a meat cleaver in a hospital maternity ward landed a man behind bars.Kareem Jorif, 34, of Arlington, Va., is charged with multiple counts of attempted malicious wounding and carrying a concealed weapon.Jorif went into the maternity ward at Virginia Hospital Center last week and got into an argument when he was told he couldn't go into a patient's room, police said.More...
In the battles over the budget, there are really just two issues: How much revenue the government takes in and how much it spends. President Barack Obama signed a big tax increase into law on Jan. 2, and since then Republicans have tried to keep the fight squarely focused on the spending-side of the ledger. But that hasn't stopped Democrats and others from seeking different, and at times innovativ...
A couple accused of abducting their two young sons from their grandmother in Florida sailed with them to Cuba before being flown back to the U.S. early Wednesday.Cuban authorities confirmed that Joshua Hakken, 35, and Sharyn Hakken, 34, arrived in the island nation in their sailboat the Salty Paw on Sunday. They notified the U.S. the next day and decided on Tuesday morning to turn over the couple ...
