End of 2012 brings end to all federal extensions of unemployment benefits
Family keeps quiet on health of George H.W. Bush
Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) - The Bush family is keeping quiet on former President George H.W. Bush's condition.
The 88-year-old former president has been hospitalized since Nov. 23, first for a bronchitis-related cough and more recently with a lingering fever.
A spokesman for the former president said Thursday
...Congress extends foreign surveillance law
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate gave final congressional approval Friday to a bill renewing the government's authority to monitor overseas phone calls and emails of suspected foreign spies and terrorists - but not Americans -without obtaining a court order for each intercept.
The classified Foreign
...Video released of NYC suspect in fatal subway push
NEW YORK (AP) - Police searched for a woman who killed a man by pushing him in front of a subway train and released surveillance video Friday of her running away from the station.
Commuters, meanwhile, absorbed the news of the second fatal subway shove in the city this month.
"It's just a really sad commentary on the world and on human beings,
...Animal rights group settles lawsuit with Ringling
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - An animal rights group will pay Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus $9.3 million to settle its part of a lawsuit stemming from claims the circus abused its elephants.
The circus company's owners announced the settlement with the American Society for the Prevention of
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