[U.S.] Former president George HW Bush in "guarded" condition

Former president George HW Bush in "guarded" condition
http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Spokesman-George-H-W-Bush-in-intensive-care-4146503.php
A spokesman for the Bush family says that former President George H.W. Bush is in "guarded" condition with a stubborn fever that is not responding well to medication.

Senators Returning With Little Urgency as Fiscal Clock Ticks
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/us/politics/little-sense-of-fiscal-urgency-as-senators-prepare-to-return.html
WASHINGTON - With just five days left to make a deal, President Obama and members of the Senate were set to return to Washington on Thursday with no clear path out of their fiscal morass even as the Treasury Department warned that the government will ...

Los Angeles police offer gift cards to take guns off streets
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57560898/californians-honor-newtown-victims-by-selling-their-guns/
LOS ANGELES | Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:22pm EST. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police traded gift cards for guns in Los Angeles on Wednesday, in a buyback program Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced as a crime-fighting response to the deadly shooting ...

6 dead, several injured as winter storm system lashes US, heads east
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/snowstorm-heads-east-south-twisters-3-dead-article-1.1227374
MOBILE, Ala. - A powerful winter storm system pounded the American heartland Wednesday and headed toward the Northeast, where people braced for the high winds and heavy snow that disrupted holiday travel, knocked out power to thousands of homes ...

Hawaii's Lieutenant Governor to Succeed Inouye
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/hawaii-lt-gov-schatz-tapped-inouye-u-s-senate-seat-article-1.1227844
HONOLULU - Hawaii's lieutenant governor, a rising political star here who is unknown on the national scene, will become the state's next United States senator, filling a leadership vacuum in Honolulu and in Washington after the death of Senator Daniel K.

Outcry Over Newspaper's Map of Handgun Permit Holders
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/a-newspaper-publishes-names-of-gun-permit-holders-sparking-outrage/
A screengrab of The Journal News's gun-permit map, which is concentrated in Westchester County. 8:455 p.m. | Updated In the days after the Connecticut school killings, a newspaper in nearby Westchester County, N.Y.

Police: NBC asked to use high-capacity magazine
http://www.eonline.com/news/374030/david-gregory-s-meet-the-press-gun-magazine-display-the-target-of-d-c-police-probe
The host of NBC's “Meet the Press” displayed what appeared to be a high-capacity ammunition magazine on national television Sunday, embroiling the network in controversy and leaving D.C.

Supreme Court won't block contraception mandate
http://www.kpic.com/news/national/Justice-refuses-to-block-morning-after-pill-rule-184872191.html
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block the Obama administration's contraception mandate from taking effect. Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected a request for an emergency injunction that would have shielded employers from the mandate.

Jury awards CMU $1.169 billion in patent violations case
http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/26/marvell-1b-carnegie-mellon-patents/
A Pittsburgh federal jury on Wednesday awarded Carnegie Mellon University one of the largest patent damage awards in the country in a lawsuit over a Bermuda-based chip manufacturer's use of the university's technology.

Flight cancellations near 2000 from newest holiday storm
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/weather/stories/Expected-Storm-Causes-Delays-Cancellations-at-Philly-International-184799391.html
Close. Flight cancellations near 2,000 from newest holiday storm. Today in the Sky. Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY7:19p.m. EST December 26, 2012.

Mobster Frank Calabrese Sr. dies in prison
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/50300307/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
A gavel rests on top of a desk in the courtroom of the Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum in Miami. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Joe Raedle/Getty Images).

No Ben Affleck? That's OK, Massachusetts Senate race still poised to be big.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/Senate/2012/1226/No-Ben-Affleck-That-s-OK-Massachusetts-Senate-race-still-poised-to-be-big
Massachusetts seems to have a thing about Senate races. The state is holding elections more often than usual for US Senate seats, and in ways that garner the national spotlight.