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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. births fell for the fourth year in a row, the government reported Wednesday, with experts calling it more proof that the weak economy has continued to dampen enthusiasm for having children. But there may be a silver lining: The decline in 2011 was just 1 percent — not as sharp […]
Three new national polls show President Barack Obama is taking the lead over Republican candidate Mitt Romney in two major battleground states. The polls conducted by NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, and Marist College show Obama taking a drastic lead in Ohio while also winning over Florida and Virginia. Virginia and Florida are two […]
Passengers at a security checkpoint had the opportunity to create screwdrivers out of their morning orange juice at Washington D.C.’s Dulles Airport. A woman going through airport security decided to share her bottle of Smirnoff vodka before the Transportation Security Authority confiscated it. The woman began drinking it in line at 7:30a.m. and offered it […]
DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines said that improperly installed clamps caused seats to pop loose on two planes during flights and an inspection turned up four others with the same problem. The airline said Tuesday that it inspected and fixed the seats on 36 of its Boeing 757 jets and planned to check 11 other […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council reversed course Tuesday and repealed a ban on pot shops that it passed just two months ago to shutter hundreds of medical marijuana storefronts. Council members voted 11-2 to negate its July decision to rid the nation's second-largest city of pot dispensaries. The repeal came after […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment rates fell in August in nearly 90 percent of large U.S. metro areas, mainly because more people gave up looking for work. The Labor Department said Wednesday that unemployment rates dropped in 329 large cities, the most in four months. Rates rose in 24 cities and were unchanged in 19. The […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Police investigating two gangs called the Very Crispy Gangsters and the Rockstarz didn't need to spend all their time pounding the pavement for leads. Instead, they fired up their computers and followed the trash talk on Facebook. "Rockstarz up 3-0," one suspect boasted — a reference to the body count from […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Of the four openly gay members of Congress, the two longest-serving stalwarts are vacating their seats. Instead of fretting, their activist admirers are excited about a record number of gays vying to win seats in the next Congress — and to make history in the process. When the oaths of office […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania voters won't have to show photo identification to cast ballots on Election Day, a judge said Tuesday in a ruling on the state's controversial voter ID law that could help President Barack Obama in a presidential battleground state. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson delayed Pennsylvania's voter ID requirement from taking […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives on Tuesday used a speech President Barack Obama delivered as a candidate in 2007 to accuse him of using racially charged rhetoric. "There's no way you can listen to this speech and not hear it as a deliberately divisive speech that pits Americans against each other and does so largely with […]
You know the desperation is thick when the other side has to stoop to talking about someone’s mama to lure voters. Yet that’s the latest tactic that wing-nuts are deploying in their war to destroy President Obama’s chances of being re-elected. They can’t win by lying about his record, as too many fact-checking organizations have […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A recall of peanut butter and other nut products has some of the country's largest grocery stores pulling store-brand products off their shelves. New Mexico-based Sunland Inc. has expanded its recall of peanut butter and almond butter to include cashew butters, tahini and blanched and roasted peanut products. The company, which sells […]
