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Gridlock: No budging at the budget-cuts deadline
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 03/01/2013 - 2:21pmWASHINGTON - Gridlocked once more, President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders refused to budge in their budget standoff Friday as $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts bore...
Obama says no way to avoid gay marriage case
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 03/01/2013 - 11:53amWASHINGTON - Citing the principle of equality that drove the nation's founding, President Barack Obama spoke out Friday against California's ban on gay marriage and said the Supreme Court should st...
Cuts imminent, Senate rejects stopgap efforts
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 03/01/2013 - 10:15amWASHINGTON (AP) - Squabbling away the hours, the Senate swatted aside last-ditch plans to block $85 billion in broad-based federal spending reductions Thursday as President Barack Obama and Republi...
Obama to urge court to overturn gay marriage ban
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 03/01/2013 - 6:00amWASHINGTON - The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn California's ban on gay marriage and take a skeptical view of similar bans across the country.That's according to perso...
Music, movie industry to warn copyright infringers
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/27/2013 - 6:00amWASHINGTON - Internet users who illegally share music, movies or TV shows online may soon get warning notices from their service providers that they are violating copyright law. Ignore the notices,...
DHS releasing illegal immigrants before sequester
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/27/2013 - 6:00amWASHINGTON - A week before mandatory budget cuts go into effect across the government, the Department of Homeland Security has started releasing illegal immigrants being held in immigration jails a...
Spin Meter: In budget fight, sky is falling again
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/26/2013 - 8:33amWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and his officials are doing their best to drum up public concern over the shock wave of spending cuts that could strike the government in just days. So it'...
Obama urges Congress to 'compromise' on cuts
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 9:01amWASHINGTON (AP) -- Facing a Friday deadline, President Barack Obama said Monday that Congress can avert sweeping across-the-board cuts with "just a little bit of compromise," as he sought to stick ...
Hagel has enough support for defense secretary
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/21/2013 - 3:02pmWASHINGTON - Barring any new, damaging information, Chuck Hagel has secured the necessary votes for the Senate to confirm him to be the nation's next defense secretary. A vote ending the bitter fig...
Dr. Kenneth Spielvogel, OB/GYN, joins Barton Women’s Health
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 02/21/2013 - 10:00am
Barton Women’s Health welcomes Kenneth Spielvogel, M.D., obstetrician and gynecologist (OB/GYN), to their care team. Dr. Spielvogel and the entire women’s health team, including, OB/GYN, John Missanelli and long-time, Barton Health, family nurse practitioner, Patience Wenck will host a public open house reception on Tuesday, Feb. 26. Just across from Barton Memorial Hospital, at 2175 South Avenue, South Lake Tahoe, the newly remodeled women’s facility, will open its doors from 4 to 6 p.m.
Sen. Harry Reid addresses 2013 Nevada Legislature (full text)
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 02/20/2013 - 8:30pm
Nevada son and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid addressed a joint session of the Nevada State Legislature today in Carson City. Here is the text of his speech:
Pentagon notifies Congress of likely furloughs
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/20/2013 - 11:19amWASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress on Wednesday that if automatic government spending cuts kick in on March 1 he may be compelled to furlough the "vast majority" of the Defen...
High-stakes fight over soybeans at high court
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/18/2013 - 1:30pmWASHINGTON - Vernon Hugh Bowman seems comfortable with the old way of doing things, right down to the rotary-dial telephone he said he was using in a conference call with reporters.But the 75-year-...
Climate contradiction: Less snow, more blizzards
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/18/2013 - 10:33amWASHINGTON - With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit.Then when a w...
Pentagon creates new medal for cyber, drone wars
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/13/2013 - 11:31amWASHINGTON - They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens.But the troops that launch the drone strikes and direct the cyberattacks that can kill or disable an enemy may never set foo...
Education Roundup: LTUSD moves toward paperless classrooms
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/13/2013 - 6:00amSouth Tahoe Middle School teacher Carol Murdock took her social studies class from St. Louis to the Washington coast Tuesday, but unlike Lewis and Clark's journey, the eighth-graders followed th...
Senate Dems, GOP clash over need for new gun curbs
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/13/2013 - 6:00amWASHINGTON - The toll of gun violence and the widespread disgust it has generated makes it time for new federal gun curbs that balance public safety with gun rights, Democrats said Tuesday at the S...
Obama: Nation stronger, GOP should back his plans
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 7:30pmWASHINGTON - Uncompromising and politically emboldened, President Barack Obama urged a deeply divided Congress Tuesday night to embrace his plans to use government money to create jobs and strength...
Senate panel approves Hagel for Pentagon chief
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 5:00pmWASHINGTON - A bitterly divided Senate panel on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary in a rancorous session at which Republican q...
Obama vows job creation without adding to deficit
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 4:38pmWASHINGTON - Pledging to revive a "rising, thriving middle class," President Barack Obama promised Tuesday night to create solid new jobs without raising the federal deficit. He's calling for a "sm...
Postal Service lost $1.3 billion over quarter
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 02/08/2013 - 3:30pmWASHINGTON - The U.S. Postal Service lost $1.3 billion in the final three months of last year, despite a blizzard of campaign advertising for the fall political elections and a big holiday mail and...
Goodbye Saturday mail? Postal Service plans cuts
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 5:13pmWASHINGTON - Saturday mail may soon go the way of the Pony Express and penny postcards. The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything exce...
Official: REI exec picked for Interior
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/06/2013 - 9:00amWASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday will nominate business executive Sally Jewell to lead the Interior Department, an administration official said.Jewell is the president and chie...
US home prices rose last year by most in 6.5 years
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/05/2013 - 8:46amWASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. home prices jumped by the most in 6 1/2 years in December, spurred by a low supply of available homes and rising demand.Home prices rose 8.3 percent in December compared wit...
Twitter, Washington Post targeted by hackers
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/04/2013 - 8:42amNEW YORK (AP) -- Social media giant Twitter is among the latest U.S. companies to report that it is among a growing list of victims of Internet security attacks, saying that hackers may have gained...
Senate tries again to move anti-violence bill
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/04/2013 - 8:30amWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate took up the Violence Against Women Act Monday, seeking to remedy Congress' failure last year to extend and expand a law protecting women from domestic abuse while broa...
Healthier schools: Goodbye candy and greasy snacks
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 02/02/2013 - 6:00amWASHINGTON - Goodbye candy bars and sugary cookies. Hello baked chips and diet sodas.The government for the first time is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools are mo...
US economy shifted into reverse in late 2012
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/31/2013 - 10:10amWASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. economy shrank unexpectedly late last year, a reminder of the biggest threat it faces in 2013: sharp government spending cuts and prolonged political budget fights.A plun...
Senate confirms Kerry nomination for State Dept.
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/29/2013 - 3:40pmWASHINGTON - The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed President Barack Obama's choice of five-term Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state, with Republicans and Democrats praising him as the ideal succ...
US consumer confidence plunges on higher taxes
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/29/2013 - 9:02amWASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. consumer confidence plunged in January to its lowest level in more than a year, reflecting higher Social Security taxes that left Americans with less take-home pay.The Confer...
Senate panel approves Kerry nomination
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/29/2013 - 8:34amWASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday swiftly and unanimously approved President Barack Obama's choice of Sen. John Kerry to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretar...
Senators reach agreement on immigration reform
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/28/2013 - 10:35amWASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, including a path to citizenship for the 11 mill...
Study: Distant rural areas may feel cities' heat
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/28/2013 - 9:59amWASHINGTON (AP) - Heat rising up from cities such as New York, Paris and Tokyo might be remotely warming up winters far away in some rural parts of Alaska, Canada, and Siberia, a surprising study t...
Senators reach agreement on immigration reform
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/28/2013 - 9:41amWASHINGTON (AP) - A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, including a path to citizenship for the 11...
Obama picks foreign policy aide as chief of staff
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/25/2013 - 11:53amWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama announced Friday that his new chief of staff is longtime trusted aide Denis McDonough, whom the president described as a close friend unafraid to deliver stra...
Democrats reintroduce assault weapons ban
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 10:51amWASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Democrats are reintroducing legislation to ban assault weapons but the measure faces long odds even after last month's mass school shooting in Newtown, Conn.The meas...
Obama says 'America's possibilities are limitless'
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/21/2013 - 10:19amWASHINGTON - Declaring "our journey is not complete," President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term before a crowd of hundreds of thousands Monday, urging the nation to set ...
Jobless rates fall in less than half of US states
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/18/2013 - 10:14amWASHINGTON (AP) - Unemployment rates fell in less than half of U.S. states last month, as steady but slow hiring is making only gradual improvement in the job market.The Labor Department said Frida...
Obama unveils $500 million gun violence package
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/16/2013 - 12:33pmWASHINGTON (AP) - Braced for a fight, President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades, pressing a reluctant Congress to pass univers...
World warm last year, but not like record US heat
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/16/2013 - 12:13pmWASHINGTON (AP) - While the U.S. was smashing heat marks last year, the world as a whole barely slipped into the top 10 hottest years on record, two American science agencies said Tuesday.The globa...
House approves $50.7 billion in superstorm aid
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 4:39pmWASHINGTON - More than 10 weeks after Superstorm Sandy brutalized parts of the heavily populated Northeast, the House approved $50.7 billion in emergency relief for the victims Tuesday night as Rep...
Sandy aid package moving toward House votes
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 12:20pmWASHINGTON - The House moved toward action Tuesday on a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeast lawmakers hoped could be approved despite attempts by fiscal conservatives to elimi...
Strong holiday season in South Shore despite domestic fiscal woes
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/11/2013 - 6:00amEven though the country avoided a serious fall, the travel industry might be headed for the brink after Washington passed the "fiscal cliff" deal last week, according to the U.S. Travel Association...
In picking Lew, Obama turns a page at Treasury
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 10:32amWASHINGTON - Jack Lew, President Barack Obama's nominee for treasury secretary, is a premier federal budget expert who would take the helm of the government's main agency for economic and fiscal po...
US roasts to hottest year on record by landslide
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/09/2013 - 6:00amWASHINGTON - America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012.A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55....
Congress approves $9.7 billion in Sandy flood aid
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/04/2013 - 1:22pmWASHINGTON - The new Congress has passed a $9.7 billion bill to help pay flood insurance claims to homeowners, renters and businesses damaged by Superstorm Sandy.The bill cleared the Senate followi...
New tax law packed with breaks for businesses
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 3:19pmWASHINGTON - Tucked into the "fiscal cliff" tax package approved by Congress are billions of dollars in tax breaks that should make the new year a lot happier for businesses of many stripes, includ...
Cliff averted, it's on to the next fiscal crisis
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 3:19pmWASHINGTON - Onward to the next fiscal crisis. Actually, several of them, potentially. The New Year's Day deal averting the "fiscal cliff" lays the groundwork for more combustible struggles in Wash...
Clinton talking to staff as she recovers from clot
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 1:09pmWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been speaking with staff and reviewing paperwork from the New York hospital where she is recovering from a blood clot in her head, the Sta...
Obama says fiscal cliff deal close, not done
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 12/31/2012 - 4:11pmWASHINGTON - Agonizingly close to a New Year's Eve compromise, the White House and congressional Republicans agreed Monday to block across-the-board tax increases set for midnight, but held up a fi...
