Tag: Nation

Curious onlookers inspect an emaciated 60-foot finback whale that beached itself in the Breezy Point neighborhood of the Rockaways in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Biologist Mendy Garron says it's unclear what caused the whale to beach itself, but its chances of survival appear slim. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Official: Endangered whale beached in NYC is dead

Tom Hays · December 27, 2012 6:53 pm

Hawaii Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz speaks the state Capitol in Honolulu on Wednesday, Dec. 26. 2012 after Gov. Neil Abercrombie, right, announced he was appointing Schatz to fill the seat vacated by the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

Hawaii lieutenant gov. picked to fill Senate seat

Becky Bohrer · December 27, 2012 6:50 pm

Man gets DUI after driving on AA co-founder’s lawn

Washington Examiner · December 27, 2012 4:46 pm

Drought unrelenting despite recent snowstorms

Washington Examiner · December 27, 2012 3:36 pm

Report: US law enforcement deaths down in 2012

Eric Tucker · December 27, 2012 3:34 pm

FILE - In this photo taken June 25, 2011, file photo, Toyota keys sit in a fish bowl at the Toyota of Tampa Bay dealership in Tampa, Fla. A plaintiffs' attorney on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, says Toyota Motor Corp. has reached a settlement in a case involving hundreds of lawsuits over accelerations problems. Steve Berman said Wednesday the settlement, which still needs a federal judge's approval, was worth more than $1 billion and is the largest settlement in U.S. history involving automobile defects.

$1 billion deal major step in Toyota legal trouble

Greg Risling · December 27, 2012 1:07 pm

Manatee riding? 911 phone sex? That’s weird Fla.

Brendan Farrington · December 27, 2012 11:39 am

NY charity finds shelter for homeless in Hamptons

Frank Eltman · December 27, 2012 8:31 am

FILE - In a Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush, and his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, arrive for the premiere of HBO's new documentary on his life near the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said Wednesday, Dec. 26. 2012 that doctors at the Houston hospital where Bush has been treated for a month remain âcautiously optimisticâ that he will recover. Still, no discharge date has been set, and McGrath says that doctors are being cautious because at Bushâs age âsometimes issues crop up that are beyond anybodyâs ability to discern or foretell.â(AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Spokesman: George H.W. Bush in intensive care

Ramit PlushnickMasti · December 27, 2012 3:57 am

Co-owner of Lynden's Soda Fountain, Tobi Lynden, poses for a photo alongside candy cigarettes, in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Lynden's Soda Fountain was cited for selling candy cigarette's to kids. The candy cigarettes are no longer displayed or sold. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jeff Wheeler)

Minn. soda shop rebuked for stocking candy smokes

Washington Examiner · December 27, 2012 2:57 am

This 2009 photo shows the Chapter House of Ovila at California's Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina, Calif. Monks in the small Northern California town are rebuilding the centuries-old Spanish monastery with help from what may seem an unlikely source: beer. The first phase of the building's decades-long restoration project in the Sacramento Valley town of Vina has been completed, with the Chapter House of Ovila now standing, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Red Bluff Daily News, Chip Thompson) NO SALES MAGS OUT

Beer sales help rebuild Northern Calif. monastery

Washington Examiner · December 27, 2012 2:10 am

Ailing Calif nuke plant faces questions on restart

Michael Blood · December 27, 2012 1:35 am