‘Big ice threat’ for parts of the Midwest as storm churns on
A “big ice threat” could cause power outages across parts of the Midwest over the next two days as a storm that dumped as much as 30 inches of snow in some locations churns east. “It could be...
View ArticleObama taps veteran Dem hand to revive presidency
President Obama is turning to a former top Clinton aide and veteran Democratic operative to help revive his flagging second term. John Podesta will serve as a counselor to the president for a year, a...
View ArticleCops looking for fraternity members who left fatal hazing
Some fraternity members left the scene of a fatal hazing ritual before police arrived, and now authorities are appealing for them to come forward. “We are looking for the truth. The family deserves...
View ArticleNSA program stopped no terror attacks
A member of the White House review panel on NSA surveillance said he was “absolutely” surprised when he discovered the agency’s lack of evidence that the bulk collection of telephone call records had...
View ArticleChristian camp counselor allegedly said she molested girls to show them...
A middle school teacher in Buffalo Grove, Illinois is accused by two women of sexual impropriety years ago when she mentored them at a Christian camp in Wisconsin.According to NBC News, the second...
View ArticleJet wing strikes building at Johannesburg airport
The wing of a jetliner carrying some 180 passengers sliced through a building at the airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, just as the plane was about to take off on Sunday night. No one appeared...
View ArticleUN stops counting Syrian dead as first chemical weapons removed
The “complex and dangerous” nature of Syria’s civil war has made it impossible to accurately update the death toll that last stood at around 100,000 people, a spokesman from the United Nations human...
View ArticleGOP ad targets Dems over ‘if you like your plan’ promise
The Republican plan to use Obamacare to target vulnerable Democrats in 2014 has kicked into gear. The Republican National Committee is releasing radio ads attacking at least eight Democratic senators...
View Article5 militants with bomb arrested in Russia weeks before Olympics
MOSCOW — Five members of a banned militant group were arrested in southern Russia on Saturday and a homemade bomb packed with shrapnel was defused, in another security scare weeks before the Winter...
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