LaHood: Time for GOP to "wake up" to avoid "calamity" at airports

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today warned of the "enormous impact" the looming sequester budget cuts will have on air travel in America, given that his department will have to cut nearly $1 billion from its budget, with more than $600 million coming from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). As the one former Republican congressman in President Obama's cabinet, LaHood put the responsibility...

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Jodi Arias' Friends Believe in Her Innocence

Accused murderer Jodi Arias believes she should be punished, but hopes she will not be sentenced to death, two of her closest friends told ABC News in an exclusive interview.Ann Campbell and Donavan Bering have been a constant presence for Arias wth at least one of them sitting in the Phoenix, Ariz., courtroom along with Arias' family for almost every day of her murder trial....

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Would the pope vote be hackable?

The Conclave of Cardinals that will elect a new pope will meet in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. STORY HIGHLIGHTSBruce Schneier: Rules for picking a new pope are very detailedHe says elaborate precautions are taken to prevent election fraudEvery step of the election process is observed by people who know each otherSchneier: Vatican's procedures, centuries in the making, are very secureEditor's...

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Massive winter storm blankets central US

CHICAGO: A massive winter storm blanketed much of the central United States Thursday and looked set to keep dumping heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain for days as it makes its way slowly towards the east coast.The National Weather service reported that as much as 38 centimetres of snow had fallen in parts of Colorado and New Mexico by Thursday morning and warned that many areas would...

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Gunfire, crash kill 3 in Vegas

By CNN Staffupdated 1:58 PM EST, Thu February 21, 2013STORY HIGHLIGHTSCasino visitor to KLAS: I "could see the fireball" out my windowA gunman in an SUV shoots at a car on the Las Vegas strip, causing a multivehicle crashThree were dead following the shooting and crash at Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo RoadPolice are looking for a black Range Rover Sport with large black rims(CNN) -- Three people...

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Cops: Hotel altercation sparked Vegas shooting

(CBS/AP) LAS VEGAS - Police believe a deadly car-to-car shooting in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip Thursday morning was prompted by an earlier altercation at a hotel.The shooting occurred at Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road, the site of several major hotel-casinos, when someone in a black Range Rover opened fire on a Maserati at a stoplight, sending it into a taxi that burst into flames,...

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Las Vegas Strip Shooting Leads to 3 Dead

A drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas strip early this morning by the occupants of a Range Rover SUV, who shot at the occupants of a Maserati, caused a multi-car accident and car explosion that left three dead.Police said that they believe a group of men riding in a black Range Rover Sport SUV pulled up alongside a Maserati around 4:20 a.m. today and fired shots into the car, striking...

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Obama can't kick his legacy down road

President Obama has a small window of opportunity to get Congress to act on his priorities, Gloria Borger says.STORY HIGHLIGHTSGloria Borger: Prospect of deep budget cuts was designed to compel compromiseShe says the "unthinkable" cuts now have many supportersThe likelihood that cuts may happen shows new level of D.C. dysfunction, she saysBorger: President may want a 2014 House victory, but action...

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EU nears national budget oversight

BRUSSELS: The EU moved closer Wednesday to centralised oversight on national budgets, negotiators said, an increasingly sensitive topic as Brussels readies to issue new economic forecasts with France in the firing line over puny growth and a probable deficit overshoot.Long-contested tweaks to a package of laws designed to harmonise economic governance especially across the eurozone met...

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Report: Gang hacked Apple, Facebook

The hackers appear bent on stealing company secrets to sell on the underground market, according to reports.STORY HIGHLIGHTSCybersecurity expert says most savvy Web crime originates in Eastern EuropeApple, Facebook, Twitter attacks came from Eastern European gang, report says"Water hole" attack apparently used a site for developers on Apple's mobile systemApple said this week that some employees'...

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