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Term II: US must help poor, elderly, Obama says

Written by JULIE PACE - AP White House Correspondent Monday, 21 January 2013 19:24

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 an unwavering course toward prosperity and freedom for all its citizens and protect the social safety net that has sheltered the poor, elderly and needy. "Our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it," Obama said in his relatively brief, 18-minute address. "We believe that America's prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle…

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Sandy's death toll climbs; millions without power

Written by Allen G. Breed & Tom Hays - ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, 30 October 2012 18:26

NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain. The U.S. death toll climbed to 38, many of the victims killed by falling trees. The full extent of the damage in New Jersey, where the storm roared ashore Monday night with hurricane-force winds of 80 mph, was unclear. Police and fire officials, some with their own departments flooded, fanned out to rescue hundreds. "We are…

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'Moon River' crooner Andy Williams dies at age 84

Written by BOB THOMAS and JIM SALTER - Associated Press Wednesday, 26 September 2012 20:25

ST. LOUIS (AP) — With a string of gold albums, a hit TV series and the signature "Moon River," Andy Williams was a voice of the 1960s, although not the '60s we usually hear about. The singer known for his easy-listening style and his wholesome, middle-America appeal was the antithesis of the counterculture that gave rise to rock and roll. "The old cliche says that if you can remember the 1960s, you weren't there," he once recalled. "Well, I was there all right, but my memory of them is blurred — not by any drugs I took but by the…

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Apple: iPhone 5 orders topped 2M in 24 hours

Written by ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday, 17 September 2012 16:32

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Orders for the iPhone 5 topped 2 million in their first 24 hours, more than double the amount of its predecessor over the same period. Apple started taking iPhone 5 orders at 3 a.m. EDT on Friday. The company also says that while most orders will be delivered on Friday, demand for the iPhone 5 exceeds the initial supply, so some of the devices are scheduled for delivery in October. The Cupertino, Calif. company's stock added $7 to $698.28 in morning trading after rising as high as $699.54 earlier in the session. The iPhone 5 has…

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Chicago mayor: Court must end teachers' strike

Written by MICHAEL TARM and SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press Monday, 17 September 2012 16:29

CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked a state court Monday to force Chicago school teachers back to work and end a weeklong strike he calls illegal. Emanuel spokeswoman Sarah Hamilton said city attorneys asked the Cook County Circuit Court to force Chicago Teachers Union members off the picket line and back into classrooms. The request, filed in Circuit Court of Cook County, argues the strike is illegal because state law bars the union from striking on anything but economic issues and that the work stoppage is focused instead on such issues as evaluations, layoffs and recall rights. The filing…

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Myanmar's Suu Kyi begins landmark US visit

Written by MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press Monday, 17 September 2012 16:10

WASHINGTON (AP) — Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived Monday in Washington, where she will be presented Congress' highest award. It's the latest milestone in her remarkable journey from political prisoner to globe-trotting stateswoman. The Nobel Peace laureate embarks on a 17-day U.S. tour that will include meetings at the State Department and likely the White House. She then goes to New York, the American Midwest and California. The trip comes as the Obama administration considers easing remaining sanctions on the country, also known as Burma. She meets Tuesday with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Since her…

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Libyan witness: Stevens was breathing when found

Written by MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press Monday, 17 September 2012 16:06

CAIRO (AP) — Ambassador Chris Stevens was still breathing when Libyans stumbled across him inside a room in the American Consulate in Benghazi, pulled him out and drove him to a hospital after last week's deadly attack in the eastern Libyan city, witnesses told The Associated Press on Monday. Fahd al-Bakoush, a freelance videographer, was among the Libyan civilians searching through the consulate after gunmen and protesters rampaged through it last Tuesday night. Al-Bakoush said he heard someone call out that he had tripped over a dead body. A group of people gathered as several men pulled the seemingly lifeless…

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Romney shifts message to challenge status quo

Written by KASIE HUNT and KEN THOMAS - Associated Press Monday, 17 September 2012 16:01

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is reshaping his message from an all-economic pitch to an all-out challenge to what he argues is a failed status quo, taking a risk with barely 50 days to go in the campaign. Former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie will have an elevated role in shaping the campaign message for the GOP nominee and will focus it more tightly on a broader change-versus-status-quo strategy. "The timing is right at this moment to reinforce the specifics, more specifics about the Romney plan for a stronger middle class," Gillespie told reporters during a…

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God out of Democratic platform

Written by ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday, 05 September 2012 20:55

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Democratic Party's platform makes no reference to God, drawing criticism from Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan. Ryan tells Fox News' "Fox & Friends" the change is not in keeping with the country's founding documents and principles and suggests the Obama administration is behind the decision. The Republican platform mentions God 12 times. The 2008 Democratic Party platform made a single reference to God, referring to the "God-given potential" of working people. The new platform does contain a plank on faith, saying it "has always been a central part of the American story." The platform…

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Ryan praises Bill Clinton on day of his DNC speech

Written by THOMAS BEAUMONT - Associated Press Wednesday, 05 September 2012 20:47

ADEL, Iowa (AP) — Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan heaped praise on Bill Clinton Wednesday, holding him up as a model of reform and Barack Obama as his opposite just hours before the former president's speech to the Democratic National Convention. Campaigning in Iowa, Ryan lauded Clinton administration action on welfare reform and spending reductions — areas where the GOP ticket has aimed some of its sharpest critiques of Obama, the incumbent Democrat. Clinton, once an Obama critic, has become one of his biggest assets as the president scraps with GOP nominee Mitt Romney for re-election. Clinton, whose two…

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