1. Federal accident investigators are recommending states ban the use of cell phones and other electronic devices by all drivers except in emergencies. The recommendation follows a finding that the initial collision in a deadly highway pileup in Miss
1. A bill to extend the social security payroll tax cut is expected to be dead on arrival in the Senate Wednesday. The House passed the bill, what included a provision to fast track a controversial oil pipeline. 2. The man accused of shooting at the
1. President Barack Obama is marking the end to the Iraq war. He's telling troops at Fort Bragg that the US is peacefully leaving behind the stable nation. All American troops are to be out of the country by December 31st. 2. Defense Secretary Leon P
1. An Associated Press-GFK poll finds that Americans want Congress to continue the payroll tax reduction. Nearly six in ten respondents support the measure. The same number say they are angry about the political scene. 2. The federal government says
1. President Barack Obama says he is pleased the Senate has passed a two-month extension of the social security payroll tax cut. The Senate voted 89 to 10 in favor of the measure today. It also extends jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed. 2
1. House Republicans want the Senate return to Washington to keep working on a new version of a payroll tax cut extension. Members of the House GOP don't like the version the Senate pleaded and approved for leaving town for the holidays. 2. North Kor
1. The House has rejected a plan to extend a social security payroll tax cut for two months. Republican members are instead demanding that the Senate return to negotiate an extension for the entire year. President Barack Obama called the Senate's ver
1. House Speaker John Boehner says he opposes a Senate-approved bill extending a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months. He wants congressional bargainers to write a new measure that would last an entire year. 2. Tributes are appear
1. 3 American students will be detained from S. to back to US. They were accused growing the fire bombs from the roof by the American university in the Carot. protestor stuffs for secury offices in X square. 2.African official say it is very true sup
1. Irene is now a tropical storm, but it remains massive and powerful as it soaks New England and moves northward into Canada. At least 15 deaths are blamed on the storm, many due to fallen trees. 2. From North Carolina to Maine, residents are cleani
Convicted cop killer Troy Davis maintain his innocence to the end.While strapped to journey inn Gedogia's death chamber, he denies killing S police officer Mark Macphail.Davis has aked for God's mercy and blessing on the sores of those carrying out t
1 Fire officials say sparks from power lines likely started the blaze that became the most destructive wildfire in Texas history. The blaze started near Bastrop on Sep.4th. It destroyed more than 1500 homes and killed two people. 2 A lawyer for a Mar
1. International criticism of Egypt's military rulers mounted Wednesday as police clashed for a fifth day with protesters demanding the military relinquish power immediately. A rights group raised the death toll for the wave of violence to at least 3
1. President Obama presents his long-term deficit reduction plan today. It includes $1.5 trillion in new taxes mainly on the wealthy. The plan is seen as having little chance of making it through Congress. 2. It's still the nation's deadliest air rac
1. Crews in Turkey are working frantically to pull more survivors from the rubble of Sunday's earthquake. As many as 9 people including this two-week-old baby girl were rescued on Tuesday. 2. A US diplomatic official says Yemeni President Ali Abdulla
1. President Barack Obama says it appears Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule is almost over. Speaking from Martha's Vineyard, the president warns the situation in Libya is still fluid and uncertain with the whereabouts of Gaddafi still unknown. 2. Pr
1. Hurricane Irene has been making a mess of the Bahamas. The powerful storm has largely spared the capital. But property damage appears to be extensive in some of the less populated areas. 2. States from the Carolina zone up to the north are declari
1. The White House is urging Congress to act. That is the deficit reduction super committee gets closer and closer to facing failure. The panel has until Wednesday to approve a plan with 1.2 trillion in deficit reduction. 2. Egypt's State Television
1. The Republican co-chair of Congress' debt supercommittee says chances are slim that the panel can agree on a plan to reduce spending by $1.2 trillion over ten years. The committee faces a Wednesday deadline. 2. Egyptian doctors say three people ha
1. Rescuers in eastern Turkey are searching among crumbled buildings after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake. News reports say at least 4 survivors were pulled from a collapsed six-story building after a man managed to call police on his cell phone. At leas