[U.S.] Obama ramps up pressure on GOP to avert budget cuts

Obama ramps up pressure on GOP to avert budget cuts
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/19/who-s-to-blame-for-the-sequester.html
WASHINGTON -- With less than two weeks before across-the-board spending cuts begin taking effect, President Obama is cranking up pressure on congressional Republicans to agree to a Democratic plan that would temporarily block the deep reductions.

Winter storm to hit US from Calif. to Midwest
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/19/17014410-winter-storm-to-hit-us-from-calif-to-midwest
By John Newland, Staff Writer, NBC News. A winter storm moving in from the Pacific Ocean was expected to bring a foot or more of snow and 75 mph wind gusts to mountainous areas of California on Tuesday, before aiming for the Midwest and laying down a ...

Report: Sandy Hook shooter tried to emulate Norway massacre
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/police-dismiss-report-suggesting-adam-lanza-wanted-to-top-norway-death-toll/article8798194/
(CNN) -- The shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School may have been motivated by a desire by Adam Lanza to outdo Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man who killed 77 people in July 2011, law enforcement sources told CBS Evening News.

CBS anchor Morrison in wife 'choke'
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/cbs_anchor_in_wife_choke_z8mFXtQFLOLl4DuRkJ6IZI
Local news anchorman Rob Morrison is bloodied (left) after he allegedly choked his wife, Ashley (right) and she fought back. Longtime New York anchorman Rob Morrison choked his fellow-journalist wife, Ashley, at their tony Connecticut home - then ...

Sanford: I never cheated taxpayers
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/mark-sanford-i-never-cheated-taxpayers-87772.html?hp=l2
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on Tuesday defended his decision to run for Congress because he “one place I didn't ever fail was with the taxpayers” even while having an affair with the Argentinian woman.

Is $500 Enough for Enduring the Cruise from Hell?
http://business.time.com/2013/02/19/is-500-enough-for-enduring-the-cruise-from-hell/
So you've survived for five days stranded at sea aboard the Carnival Triumph. The ship had no working toilets, sewage dripped from walls, and the whole place smelled “like a hot port-o-potty.

Two teens -- a boy and a girl -- killed in Antioch crash
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8998175
Two teenagers were killed Monday evening when the SUV they were traveling in struck a tree in Antioch, authorities said. The teens had been traveling westbound in a Chevrolet Trailblazer in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road about 7 p.m.

07 February 2013: Mississippi gets around to ratifying the 13th Amendment
http://www.goddiscussion.com/107420/07-february-2013-mississippi-gets-around-to-ratifying-the-13th-amendment/
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.