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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Clemson edges LSU 25-24 on last-second FG (Yahoo! Sports)
Yahoo! Sports - Top News: James, Bosh lead Heat over Magic 112-110 in OT (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: No. 7 Syracuse beats Central Connecticut 96-62 (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Bobcats end 18-game skid with 91-81 win over Bulls (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: No. 9 Minnesota tops No. 18 Michigan St 76-63 (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: No. 14 Cincinnati bull past by No. 24 Pitt 70-61 (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Cardinals fire coach Whisenhunt, GM Graves (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Eagles fire Andy Reid after 14 seasons (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Duke still a runaway No. 1 in AP Top 25 (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Chargers fire coach Norv Turner, GM A.J. Smith (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Hockey-tennis match: Ovechkin, Kirilenko engaged (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Bears fire coach Lovie Smith after 9 seasons (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Chiefs fire Crennel, make no move on GM Pioli (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Eagles fire Andy Reid after 14 seasons (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Browns fire coach Pat Shurmur, GM Tom Heckert (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Jaguars fire GM Gene Smith after 4 seasons (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Out with the old: Clips take streak into new year (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: NHL labor talks expected to resume Monday (Yahoo! Sports)
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Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Jets fire GM Tannenbaum, Ryan stays (Yahoo! Sports)
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2012年12月30日星期日
Yahoo! Sports - Top News: Clippers win 17th in row, finish December at 16-0 (Yahoo! Sports)
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Missing Ga. Boys Found, Dad in Custody
Missing Ga. Boys Found, Dad in Custody
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Two missing Georgia boys have been found safe in Texas and their father has been taken into police custody.
Moments after pleading for her boys' return on television, the boys' mother Theresa Nash received a phone call from a citizen in Texas who said he was with her sons.
"I was in complete disbelief," Nash told ABC Atlanta affiliate WSB-TV as she was boarding a plane to pick up her sons. "He immediately put the phone to Ben and Henry and I talked to them. They were very, very shaken up."
Police in Austin, Texas, were notified when someone recognized the boys and their father at a motel after seeing them on TV.
"They were playing with a Nerf ball, went back inside, they were with Daddy and they came back out and somebody said, 'Put your hands up,' and everybody put their hands up," Nash said.
The boys' father Daniel Cleary was arrested without incident, police said.
"We don't know why he chose Austin," Austin Police Cpl. Wuthipong Tantaksinanuki told WSB-TV. "I know that after he was taken into custody, we did recover a handgun -- a pistol -- and a large sum of money."
Daniel Cleary, who will be extradited to Georgia, faces a charge of interstate interference with custody, a felony, and could face other charges, McGee said.
Benjamin and Henry Cleary had been missing since Wednesday from the greater Atlanta area.
Benjamin, 9, and Henry, 7, had plans to leave with their father, Daniel Cleary, on an overnight trip to Chattanooga, Tenn., on Dec. 22. When they failed to return as scheduled on Dec. 26, their mother, Theresa Nash, who does not live with the boys' father, went to his house to check on them, only to find the phone disconnected and the house empty.
An Amber Alert was issued for the boys.
"There is a court order for them to contact me every day," Nash told ABCNews.com on Friday. "When I hadn't heard from them, and their father's phone was turned off, I went to their father's house to see if they were there. The house was cleared out as if they had moved."
Nash called Cleary "unstable," and said he had only been using cash since the boys went missing. Police said they had not found any charges on his credit card.
The three were spotted Friday at a Walmart in Jackson, Tenn., McGee said.
The boys were found on Henry's eighth birthday and were expected to be reunited with their mother today.
"They've been begging for an Xbox 360 for Christmas, and Santa brought them one so they need to come home because it's waiting," Nash said on Friday.
A prayer vigil that was scheduled tfor today at 2 p.m. in Georgia's Suwanee Town Center Park will be still be held for prayers of thanks.
Additional reporting by ABC News' Jennifer Abbey.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A 31-year-old woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train because she believed he was Muslim laughed and smiled during a court hearing where she was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Erika Menendez, 31, was charged Saturday night with murder as a hate crime after she told police she spontaneously pushed Sunando Sen, according to prosecutors.
"There is no reason. I just pushed him in front of the train because I thought it would be cool," she said, according to the Queens district attorney's office.
She laughed so hard during her arraignment in Queens criminal court that Judge Gia Morris told her lawyer: "You're going to have to have your client stop laughing."
Defense attorney Dietrich Epperson said Menendez's behavior in court was no different from how she had been acting when he spoke to her privately, and said his client didn't really think the proceedings were funny. He represented her for the arraignment only and had no further comment. Menendez was held without bail and ordered to have a mental health exam.
Prosecutors said she pushed the 46-year-old India native to his death because she blamed "Muslims, Hindus and Egyptians" for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims — ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I've been beating them up," Menendez told police, according to the district attorney's office.
Friends and co-workers said Sen, a native of Calcutta, was Hindu. He had lived in Queens for decades and was a graphic designer and copy shop owner. Sen was standing on an elevated platform of the 7 train that travels between Manhattan and Queens when he was shoved from behind as the train entered the station.
Witnesses told police a woman had been mumbling to herself and was sitting on a bench behind Sen until the train pulled in, then shoved him from behind. She then fled.
Police released a sketch and surveillance footage of a woman running from the subway station. Menendez was arrested after a passer-by saw her on the street and thought she looked like the wanted suspect. Witnesses identified her in a lineup and she was questioned by police, when she implicated herself, according to police and prosecutors.
Angel Luis Santiago, who used to work at the Queens building where Menendez's mother and stepfather live, said he was shocked by her arrest.
"It surprised me what she did," he said. "She never acted that way."
Menendez's next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 14.
Sen was the second man to die after being pushed in front of a New York City subway train this month. Ki-Suck Han was killed in a midtown Manhattan subway station on Dec. 3. A homeless man was arrested and charged with murder in that case and is awaiting trial. He claimed he acted in self-defense.
Such subway deaths are rare, but transit officials said last week they would consider installing barriers with sliding doors on some subway platforms. Other cities including Paris and London have installed such barriers.
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Associated Press Writer Karen Matthews contributed to this report.
Obama boasts support of American people in ‘fiscal cliff’ fight
Obama boasts support of American people in ‘fiscal cliff’ fight
As Congress races to pass legislation before the Jan. 1 "fiscal cliff" deadline, President Barack Obama in an interview which aired Sunday publicly touted the support of the American people for the plan he offered to Republicans.
"We have put forward not only a sensible deal, but one that has the support of the majority of the American people including close to half of Republicans," the president told NBC "Meet the Press" host David Gregory in a taped interview.
The president said the American people support raising taxes on the wealthiest earners-- something the Republicans have staunchly opposed as a means to generate revenue and reduce the nation's deficit.
"At a certain point, if folks can’t say 'yes' to good offers, than I also have an obligation to the American people to make sure that the entire burden of deficit reduction doesn't fall on seniors who are relying on Medicare... families who rely on Medicaid to take care of a disabled child" and middle class families, he said. "There is a basic fairness that is at stake in this whole thing."
Obama held firm to his demands Sunday, blaming congressional Republicans for the failure to reach a deal to avoid the automatic spending cuts and tax increases set to go into effect Jan. 1.
The president conceded that markets will be adversely affected if America "goes over" the fiscal cliff, as Gregory phrased it.
"Businesses and investors are going to feel more negative about the economy," the president said, adding that employment will also "tick down." ?"But what’s been holding us back has been the dysfunction here in Washington."
Obama took no responsibility for that dysfunction in the interview, and repeated his argument that Republican leaders have difficulty "saying yes" to the president and are rejecting the desires of the American public.
Republicans say their "biggest priority" is the nation's debt, the president said, "but the way they’re behaving is that their only priority is making sure that tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans are protected."
The president announced Friday that he had tasked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell this weekend?with producing a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff before the Jan. 1 deadline.
The president remained optimistic that in the short term, congressional leaders can pass legislation to prevent tax increases on the middle class ahead of the Jan. 1 deadline. "That's something we all can agree on," he said.
Passing legislation to protect middle class tax rates will "take a big bite out of the fiscal cliff," the president said, leaving Congress to deal with the remainder of deficit reduction, spending and tax issues in the future.
Pivoting to his future final term in office, the president reconfirmed his commitment to gun control and other legislative action to prevent shooting tragedies such as the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.
"I’d like to get it done in the first year," he said.
When asked, Obama expressed doubt about the National Rifle Association's proposal to place armed security in every school in America to protect students and teachers.
"I’m not going to pre-judge recommendations given to me," Obama said. "But I'm skeptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools."
The president also conceded that the circumstances surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya weren't ideal.
“There was just some sloppiness" in how we secure some embassies, he said and pledged to follow recommendations offered by the review board.
"We're not going to pretend that this was not a problem. This was a huge problem. And we're going to implement every single recommendation that's been put forward," he said.
We Look Back Earthily At 2012
We Look Back Earthily At 2012
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Twenty-twelve was quite a year of change for the planet, if not quite the apocalypse imagined by New Age shamans or Hollywood producers. Arctic summer sea ice shattered its previous record low, and set off a storm of speculation about what an ice-free Arctic might mean for future weird weather. In a bid to counter exactly this kind of thing, a team of would-be geoengineers dumped iron in the ocean off British Columbia to prompt a plankton bloom, in hopes of boosting local salmon populations and sucking CO2 out of the air. In a perhaps less quixotic bid, scientists continued to work on breakthroughs that could alter our dependence on fossil fuels, from using microbes to turn seaweed into biofuels to better batteries for electric cars. Speaking of which, an electric car, the Tesla Model S, became simply the best car of the year, according to Motor Trend. Meanwhile, the human population kept growing, urbanizing and struggling to either feed itself or not overfeed itself. Finally, there was Hurricane Sandy, which closed our offices for a week and appeared to have blown climate change back onto the American political landscape, however briefly. Judging by what happened at the United Nations climate conference in Doha, however, 2012 was not the year when the United States or the world finally did something about restraining the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change, not even CO2 capture and storage. And it doesn’t look like 2013 will be either. That said, natural gas began to supplant coal in the U.S., driving down greenhouse gas emissions. And that's a good thing. Happy New Year!—David Biello [The above text is a transcript of this podcast]? ? Follow Scientific American on Twitter @SciAm and @SciamBlogs. Visit ScientificAmerican.com for the latest in science, health and technology news. ? 2012 ScientificAmerican.com. All rights reserved.
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