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Watch: Sandy Hook School Shooting: New Threat, Funerals Resume

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Watch: Sandy Hook School Shooting: New Threat, Funerals Resume Threat kept one Newtown school closed, while the families of 6 victims prepare for funerals.


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Watch: Mayan Apocalypse: Inside Doomsday Bunkers

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Watch: Mayan Apocalypse: Inside Doomsday Bunkers David Wright looks at the extreme bunkers of those who believe the world is ending on December 21.


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Trash Site Yields $120,000 in Cash

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Trash Site Yields $120,000 in Cash The Japanese have long had a reputation for honesty, especially when it comes to returning things lost and found. An employee of a waste disposal site in the Hiroshima Prefecture is making sure that reputation stays intact, after finding and reporting $120,000 cash mixed in...


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Deal Or No Deal: Fiscal Talks Leap Backward

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Deal Or No Deal: Fiscal Talks Leap Backward By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter)   NOTABLES:  OBAMA SIGNALS SUPPORT FOR GUN CONTROL BILL: The White House yesterday indicated President Obama would support legislation that would reinstate the ban on certain types of semi-automatic rifles–known as “the assault weapons ban” — and...


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Bushmasters Flying Off Shelves

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Bushmasters Flying Off Shelves Two reasons explain why the Bushmaster rifle--the weapon implicated in the mass murder of children in Newtown, Conn.--is disappearing fast from gun store shelves: It's been vilified. And it remains hugely popular.


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Inmates Escape Using Sheets, Blankets

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Inmates Escape Using Sheets, Blankets A massive manhunt is underway after two bank robbers escaped from their Chicago jail cell by breaking through the window and scaling down the building with a makeshift rope of bed sheets and blankets.


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Singer Charged With Child Sex Crimes

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Singer Charged With Child Sex Crimes Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins charged with sexual offenses against children


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UBS to Pay $1.5B Over Rate-Rigging

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UBS to Pay $1.5B Over Rate-Rigging Switzerland's UBS becomes second bank to settle LIBOR rate-rigging probe


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Time Names 'Person of the Year'

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Time Names 'Person of the Year' Time magazine names President Barack Obama as its 'Person of the Year' for 2012


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Violent Boy's Grandma to Parents: 'Have a Loud Voice'

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Violent Boy's Grandma to Parents: 'Have a Loud Voice' Knowing when social awkwardness is a personality disorder that might lead to violence is hard to predict, say psychologists, and often the signs aren't pronounced.


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Benghazi Review Finds 'Systemic Failure' by State Department

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Benghazi Review Finds 'Systemic Failure' by State Department The State Department has released its independent, internal investigation into the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, concluding the attack was the result of the State Department's "systematic failure" in addressing the security needs of the consulate.


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Inside One School's Extraordinary Security Measures

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Inside One School's Extraordinary Security Measures While schools across America reassess their security measures in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., one school outside of Chicago takes safety to a whole new level. The security measures at Middleton Elementary School start the moment...


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10 Biggest Dividend Fiscal Cliff Winners

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10 Biggest Dividend Fiscal Cliff Winners While Congress and the White House negotiate a mix of tax increases and budget cuts, many firms decided to make use its cash and paid shareholders an early or special dividend ahead of an anticipated increase in the dividend tax rate. Not surprisingly, the largest individual shareholders of these companies often sit on the board of directors and have millions of dollars in tax savings.


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Top Google Health Trend of 2012 Is…

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Top Google Health Trend of 2012 Is… 'Hemorrhoids' topped Google health search trends this year, possibly to avoid an embarrassing trip to the doctor.


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Newtown Notebook: When the Funeral Processions Drive By

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Newtown Notebook: When the Funeral Processions Drive By Everything about Newtown, Conn., is sad now. Everywhere you turn, there are sets of 26 items for the 26 people who died at Sandy Hook Elementary School — flags, Christmas tree ornaments, wreaths, teddy bears, wooden angels, candles, Christmas trees — and the list goes...


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Biden to Lead Post-Newtown Action Plan

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Biden to Lead Post-Newtown Action Plan President Obama has tasked Vice President Joe Biden with coordinating the administration’s response to the deadly massacre in Newtown, Conn., last week. Biden will oversee the formulation of new policies aimed at reducing gun violence and preventing mass-shootings like the one that took 26 lives...


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