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Appeals Court Overturns Stem Cell Research Ban
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Opponents of taxpayer-funded stem cell research lost a key round in a federal appeals court Friday. In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the U.S. court of appeals in Washington overturned a judge's order that would have blocked taxpayer funding for stem cell research. The judges ruled that opponents of taxpayer-funded stem cell research are not likely to succeed in their lawsuit to stop it. The panel reversed an opinion issued last August by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who said the research likely violates the law against federal funding of embryo destruction. "We're thrilled ...
Gov't Seeks to Limit Junk Food Ads to Kids
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is planning to ask food companies and restaurants to cut back on advertising unhealthy foods to children. Under guidelines obtained by The Associated Press, companies would be urged only to market foods to children ages 2 through 17 if they are low in fats, sugars and sodium and contain specified healthy ingredients. The government is planning to propose the voluntary guidelines Thursday, according to three people familiar with the process who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The guidelines set ...
Obama Heads to Chicago for Oprah, NYC for Money
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- President Barack Obama plunged into donor-rich New York on Wednesday, his first fundraising sweep of the city since announcing his re-election bid this month, with a lament that he has not seen his wish for less-polarizing politics realized. "The hope that I had that we'd start coming together in a serious way ... has been resisted," Obama told contributors gathered at the home of financier and former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. His intention, Obama said, is to make the 2012 campaign an "election in which we're not just talking slogans ... but we are looking soberly at the ...
Obama Reportedly to Make Major National Security Leadership Changes
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans this week to name CIA Director Leon Panetta to replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Gen. David Petraeus, now running the war in Afghanistan, would take the CIA chief's job in a major shuffle of the nation's top national security leadership, administration and other sources said Wednesday. All sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the changes are not final. Getty Images Leon Panetta, left, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the International Security Assistance Force and ...
White House Considering Targeted Sanctions Against Syria
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has begun drawing up targeted sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad and his inner circle, officials said Monday, as the White House escalated U.S. condemnation of the increasingly violent crackdown against anti-government protesters in which more than 300 people have been killed. An official familiar with the process said inter-agency discussions about the severity and scope of possible sanctions are under way but that they would likely involve asset freezes and travel bans on Assad, members of his family and senior regime officials. Syria ...
60-Year Data: Tornadoes a Major Threat Beyond 'Tornado Alley'
By Paul Yeager - AOL News"Tornado Alley," the Southern Plains, has earned its infamous reputation for being the most tornado-prone region in the world. From a climate perspective, though, the tornado threat is relatively high across much of the United States. The recently updated severe report database of the government's Storm Prediction Center, now including data from 1950 through 2010, indicates that tornado touchdowns are indeed most common in the Plains. However, tornado touchdowns have been widespread across the eastern two-thirds of the nation and have dotted the Rockies and the West Coast. (Tornado ...
Past House GOP Tactic Proves Useless to Democrats
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A year ago, when Republicans were in the minority on Capitol Hill, they drove Democrats crazy by using an obscure parliamentary maneuver to change, delay and even kill Democratic priorities. Now that Republicans are running the House, Democrats have tried to stymie the GOP agenda by relying on the tactic, known as the motion to recommit. But they've failed on every one of their 23 attempts this year. That motion is almost always the last step just before the final vote on a bill. It gives the minority party, which has little voice and few rights in the House, a last chance to ...
Wash. Considers Annual Flat Fee for Electric Cars
By not in system - AOL NewsOLYMPIA, Wash. -- Drivers of electric cars may have left the gas pump behind, but there's one expense they may not be able to shake: paying to maintain the roads. Ted S. Warren, AP General Services Administration chief Martha Johnson tours an electric vehicle charging station at Bellevue City Hall in Bellevue, Wash., on Wednesday. Electric car advocates say the state risks alienating users of the cars with proposed legislation that would impose a $100 annual fee on electric cars to make up for lost gas tax revenue. After years of urging residents to buy fuel-efficient cars and ...
Appeals Court Resurrects Blackwater Prosecution
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- An appeals court is resurrecting the case against four Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a 2007 shooting in a Baghdad public square that killed 17 Iraqi citizens. A federal trial judge in Washington, Ricardo Urbina, threw out the case on New Year's Eve 2009 after he found the Justice Department mishandled evidence and violated the guards' constitutional rights. But a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Urbina wrongly interpreted the law. It ordered that he reconsider whether there was any tainted evidence against four of the five defendants - ...
Pakistan Army Accuses US of 'Negative Propaganda'
By not in system - AOL NewsISLAMABAD - The Pakistani army on Thursday rejected what it called "negative propaganda" by the United States, hours after the top U.S. military officer accused the country's spy agency of continued links to a powerful Afghan Taliban faction. The unusually strident back and forth reflected the poor state of relations between the two counterterrorism allies, which sunk to new lows after an American CIA contractor in January shot and killed two Pakistanis he said were trying to rob him. While officials from both nations have raised the level of rhetoric, they have also spoken of the need to ...
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