Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea isn’t alone in using Friday’s school shooting to push his own views regarding gun control. But Flea went a few steps further, calling for a ban on all guns in the U.S. for both
(AP) ‘The Hobbit’ tops box office with $84.8 millionNEW YORKPeter Jackson’s “The Hobbit” led the box office with an opening of $84.8 million, a start better than the three previous “Lord of the Rings” films. Studio estimates Sunday had the
On CBS News’ “Face The Nation” anchor Bob Schieffer injected his opinion, and racial politics into the discussion about the Connecticut school massacre. “After 9/11 we turned this culture upside-down, we doubled our defense budget. If this person had had,
(AFP) French actor Gerard Depardieu, claiming he was “insulted” by critics for becoming a tax exile in Belgium, announced he was giving up his French passport. The 63-year-old star said in an open letter to Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, published
Japan’s conservative Liberal Democratic Party looked to have secured a convincing majority in Sunday’s general election, broadcasters said. NHK, citing forecasts based on its own exit polls, said the LDP was likely to win 275 to 310 seats in the
(AP) Egypt rights groups say vote marred by violationsCAIROKey Egyptian rights groups are calling for a repeat of the first round of a constitutional referendum on grounds that the vote was marred by widespread violations. Representatives of the seven groups
Warplanes bombarded a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus on Sunday for the first time since the start of Syria’s more than 21-month conflict, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The air strike on Yarmuk was the sixth on
Jillian Soto uses a phone to get information about her sister, Victoria Soto, a teacher at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 after a gunman killed over two dozen people, including 20 children. Victoria
Late Saturday evening, a source from the White House said the Speaker of the House John Boehner had put tax rate hikes on the table in fiscal cliff negotiations. The White House promptly rejected the offer, since Boehner also wanted
More than 50 rounds were fired in a parking lot at Fashion Island in Newport Beach today by a 42-year-old male gunman, Newport Beach Police reported. He fired the shots at approximately 4:30 p.m. and was quickly arrested by officers
(AP) – Hollywood has responded to the rampage at a Connecticut elementary school by pulling back on its offerings, and one star says the entertainment industry should take some responsibility for such violence. Fox pulled new episodes of “Family Guy”
(AP) – The father of the gunman in the Connecticut school rampage says his family is saddened and struggling to make sense of what happened. Peter Lanza says in a statement released late Saturday that “our family is grieving along
(AFP) – President Barack Obama on Sunday will visit Newtown, Connecticut, where a shooter gunned down 20 small children and six adults at an elementary school, the White House said. Obama will also speak at an interfaith vigil for families
(AP) – Most died at the very start of their young lives, tiny victims taken in a way not fit no matter one’s age. Others found their life’s work in sheltering these little ones, teaching them, caring for them, treating
(AP) – At Newtown High School, Adam Lanza had trouble relating to fellow students and teachers, but that was only part of his problem. He seemed not to feel physical or emotional pain in the same way as classmates. Richard
(AP) Guest lineups for the Sunday news showsWASHINGTONGuest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC’s “This Week” _ Gov. Dannel Malloy, D-Conn.; Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Reps. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Donna Edwards, D-Md.; Mayor Pedro
(AP) – The scope and senselessness of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting challenged journalists’ ability to do much more than lend, or impose, their presence on the scene. Pressed with the awful urgency of the story, television, along with other
(AP) – Egyptians took their quarrel over a draft constitution to polling stations Saturday after weeks of violent turmoil between the newly empowered Islamists and the mostly liberal opposition over the future identity of the nation. Regardless of the outcome,
(AP) – Authorities have released the names of the 26 people gunned down in a rampage at a Connecticut elementary school. All six adults killed at the school were women. Of the 20 children who were shot to death, eight
(AP) Okla. teen arrested in school shooting plotBARTLESVILLE, Okla.An Oklahoma high school student is in custody on charges he plotted to bomb and shoot students at the Bartlesville High School auditorium on the same day 26 people were shot and
(AP) Domino’s founder sues feds over health care lawDETROITThe founder of Domino’s Pizza is suing the federal government over mandatory contraception coverage in the health care law. Tom Monaghan, a devout Roman Catholic, says contraception isn’t health care but a
(AP) Conn. police: Gunman forced his way into schoolBy JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN and JIM FITZGERALDAssociated PressNEWTOWN, Conn.Connecticut State Police say a gunman who massacred 26 children and adults at an elementary school before committing suicide forced his way into the building.
(AP) Secretary of state faints, sustains concussionBy MATTHEW LEEAssociated PressWASHINGTONSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who skipped an overseas trip this past week because of a stomach virus, sustained a concussion after fainting, the State Department said Saturday. The 65-year-old
In the wake of a shooting massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut, New Corp. Chief Rupert Murdoch tweeted the following: – Terrible news today. When will politicians find courage to ban automatic weapons?As in Oz after similar tragedy. —
Daily Caller: An ABC News editorial producer earned the online equivalent of a hard slap to the face Friday, after she used Twitter to approach two people for interviews who were painfully close to the morning massacre of a Connecticut
