The Nation

12/25/2012

Storms, tornado threats for Christmas around US

Posted 9:57 AM 12/25/2012 by Matt Stafford

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Nasty weather is already complicating travel in parts of the U.S., with forecasts of snow, thunderstorms and more threatening a sloppy Christmas Day from Texas to Florida. In Oklahoma, authorities were already warning would-be travelers to stay home Tuesday as (More)

US gun support runs far deeper than politics

DC hotels less busy for Obama's 2nd inauguration

12/24/2012

Marines to face random blood-alcohol tests

Posted 2:59 PM 12/24/2012 by Matt Stafford

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Marines and sailors will be subject to random blood-alcohol tests twice a year in what is billed as the toughest anti-drinking policy in the U.S. military. The Los Angeles Times reports Monday that any Marine or sailor with a blood-alcohol level of 0.01 percent or (More)

Army teams going to Africa as terror threat grows

12/23/2012

Eagle lured to Denver's City Park

Posted 11:05 AM 12/23/2012 by Matt Stafford

DENVER (AP) - Efforts by Denver city parks managers to lure avian predators back into the city appear to be paying off with at least one wild bald eagle confirmed to be hunting in City Park. The Denver Post reports Sunday that park managers have been erecting "raptor" poles around (More)

Former President Bush still hospitalized

Senators: Hagel would face tough confirmation

Beam me to work, Scotty! Sort of

12/22/2012

NORAD Tracks Santa now trademarked

Posted 10:26 AM 12/22/2012 by Matt Stafford

PETERSON AFB (AP) - The military command that protects the skies over the U.S. and Canada is also protecting the name of its famous Santa-tracking operation. The North American Aerospace Defense Command has trademarked NORAD Tracks Santa and licensed a private company to sell official (More)

12/20/2012

Options for feeding birds in winter

Posted 9:01 AM 12/20/2012 by Lauren Molenburg

CHARLESTON, WV (AP) - For countless millennia, birds survived the rigors of winter without humans' help. Today, it's a little different. In backyards nearly everywhere, in summer as well as in winter, people put out food and watch the birds that come to eat it. "Feeding is an age-old (More)

12/18/2012

Arbitrator: Beauty queen defamed pageant, owes $5M

Posted 4:29 PM 12/18/2012 by Matt Stafford

NEW YORK (AP) - A contestant who claimed the Miss USA contest was fixed has been ordered to pay the pageant $5 million for defamation. In a decision signed last week, an arbitrator found that Sheena Monnin's comments were false, harmful and malicious. Monnin was Miss Pennsylvania (More)

Justice reaches settlement with Penguin on e-books

Source of persistent Gulf sheen remains a mystery

Free snow removal for military families

Lawmakers await Benghazi review

12/16/2012

No danger at Conn. church after phoned threat

Posted 12:08 PM 12/16/2012 by Matt Stafford

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - Police say there's no danger at a Connecticut church following a phoned-in threat days after 20 children and six adults were massacred at a school. Deborah Metz, a Trumbull police officer on the scene, gave the all-clear after an hour in which armed police in (More)