[U.S.] Worker Killed by Lion at California Sanctuary

Worker Killed by Lion at California Sanctuary
http://abcnews.go.com/US/person-killed-lion-california-sanctuary/story?id=18669810
An intern at a big cat sanctuary in Dunlap, Calif., was killed after being attacked by a lion, officials told ABC News and ABC News station KFSN.

Obama reaches out to Republican senators
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57572786/obama-gop-try-to-smooth-over-rocky-relationship/
WASHINGTON - With budget talks in tatters and his top priorities tied up in the Senate, President Obama took his Republican opponents out to dinner Wednesday, part of a multi-step, multi-meal plan to thaw the chilly relations with Congress that threaten his ...

Arkansas sets earliest abortion ban in country
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/arkansas-sets-earliest-abortion-ban-in-country-88527.html
Abortion rights groups are gearing up for a legal fight against Arkansas's new law banning abortions after 12 weeks, the most restrictive early abortion ban in the nation.

Gabby Giffords takes gun control message to scene of Tucson shooting
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Giffords-visits-rampage-site-urges-gun-control-4332164.php
By Brad Poole. TUCSON, Arizona | Wed Mar 6, 2013 7:11pm EST. TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, returning to the site of the shooting rampage where she was gravely wounded, on ...

Politics of Sen. Rand Paul filibuster
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57572883/rand-paul-filibusters-vote-on-cia-director-nominee-john-brennan-over-drones/
.... -- you can have different rules but we already know that a large percentage of the drone strikes overseas we're not naming the person.

Suspect in hit-and-run crash that killed NY family surrenders
http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Arrest-in-NYC-crash-that-killed-expectant-parents-4331592.php
New York (CNN) -- The suspect wanted in connection with the hit-and-run crash that killed a Brooklyn couple and their unborn child this week turned himself in to authorities in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, New York police said.

Mass. Dems. fault Republican US Senate hopeful Michael Sullivan on gay ...
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mass-Dems-fault-GOP-s-Sullivan-on-gay-marriage-4333520.php
BOSTON - Massachusetts Democrats are faulting Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Michael Sullivan over his opposition to gay marriage.

Jurors ask Jodi Arias about religion, memory
http://abcnews.go.com/US/jodi-arias-jurors-show-skepticism-questions-arias/story?id=18665931
PHOENIX - Jodi Arias was peppered with a wide range of questions Wednesday as jurors in her murder trial asked about everything from Mormonism to the definition of a derogatory name he called her and specific details from the day she killed her lover, ...

Springfield Airport Passengers Mixed on TSA Knife Policy Change
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57572903/some-9-11-families-angry-over-loosened-tsa-rules-on-knives/
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- It's been nearly 12 years since the September 11 attacks, but changes on what you can take on board are about to change.

Attorney general says big banks' size may inhibit prosecution
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jIiK1xK93i1YdMWVycErMrPe0b4g?docId=8abd9cb946984bce80bb697256a33a1c
U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told lawmakers that some financial institutions have become “so large” that it makes it “difficult for us to prosecute them.

Deal closer on gun trafficking than background checks
http://thegrio.com/2013/03/05/deal-still-elusive-on-expanding-gun-background-checks/
Senate talks aimed at getting broad support for requiring background checks at more gun sales have ground to a halt, but a bill that would strengthen laws against gun trafficking appears to be gaining momentum in Congress.

'What are you waiting for?'
http://560wgan.com/Illinois-governor-calls-budget-plan-toughest-in-st/11435227?newsId=197860
Moments after Gov. Pat Quinn's budget address Wednesday in Springfield, freshman state Rep. John Cabello stepped out of the House chamber to answer questions.

In Washington, manufactured crises lurk around every corner
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/snowquester-brings-snow-delays-northeast/story?id=18666032
There is a kind of awful genius to the clumsy word “snowquester.” A bland budgetary term is beheaded and capped with a meteorological prefix, and the resulting three syllables capture our lazy addiction to crisis.

Ryan on budget: Your move, Obama
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/paul-ryan-on-budget-your-move-obama-88509.html
Paul Ryan says it's time for President Barack Obama to get back in the game. In a short briefing with reporters Wednesday, Ryan - the House Budget Committee chairman and former vice presidential nominee - blasted Obama for not giving any indication of ...

Gun Control Debate: More Gun Laws Equal Fewer Gun Deaths, Study Says
http://www.latinospost.com/articles/13778/20130306/gun-control-debate-more-laws-equal-fewer-deaths-study.htm
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine reveals that states with the strongest gun control laws have fewer gun-related deaths, including both suicides and murders.