(15 stories) Obama, GOP Offer Economic Solutions In Weekly Addresses

US News - News February 4, 2012 See US News Weather Obama, GOP Offer Economic Solutions In Weekly Addresses (Channel3000) President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to pass his recently announced housing plan, describing it as a key component to getting the American economy back on track. 1 dead, 2 injured in explosion near CA Marine base (WHAS11) A propane gas explosion damaged several residences in a housing unit serving a U.S. Marine Corps training base in northern California, killing one person and injuring two others, an official said Saturday. Navy 'sends submarine to Falklands' (Salisbury Journal) The Royal Navy is sending a nuclear submarine to the Falkland Islands amid heightened tensions between Britain and Argentina over the disputed islands, it has been reported. Taliban deny their leader sent letter to Obama (Lake Wylie Pilot) Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said reports that Omar had sent a letter indicating an interest in talks key to ending the war in Afghanistan were "baseless allegations." "The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is strongly condemning these rumors and allegations," Mujahid said in an email to media organizations, referring to the Taliban by the name ... (more) Romney, Gingrich expect Romney to win Nev. Vote (KLTV Tyler) A confident Mitt Romney is looking past his GOP opponents and Nevada's caucuses the day the state votes. Stevens portrait unveiled at Alaska state museum (The Wichita Eagle) Gov. Sean Parnell and Catherine Stevens stand next to a portrait of the late-U.S. Sen. Romney campaign lets go of new debate coach (Click Orlando) Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has parted ways with debate coach Brett O'Donnell, a Romney campaign source confirmed Friday. UN council meeting Saturday to consider Syria (WHDH) The U.N. Security Council will meet Saturday morning to take up a much-negotiated resolution on Syria, said a diplomat for a Western nation that sits on the council. Man gets 20 years in Va. crash that killed nun (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin) MANASSAS, Va. - An illegal immigrant from Bolivia who caused a drunken driving crash that killed a Benedictine nun and severely injured two others has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Prolonged redistricting fight keeps Texas in limbo (The Kansas City Star) The once-a-decade fight over political boundaries in Texas has been so frenetic that a Democrat who bolted for the GOP saw his state House district redrawn solidly blue, opted against re-election, then got new hope from the U.S. Supreme Court that it might go red again.And amid all the confusion, a deadline of Monday looms for some kind of ... (more) Analysis: When is getting better good enough? (WFIE-TV Evansville) President Barack Obama talks about the economy during an event at Fire Station #5 in Arlington, Va., Friday, Feb. Influence Game: Big donors and what they want (Athens Banner-Herald) The millionaires, billionaires and companies giving big sums to political committees supporting Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama have important business with the next president. House passes 4-year aviation program blueprint (Rome News) A four-year blueprint for aviation programs that hastens the transition to a new air traffic control system based on GPS technology was given final approval by the House on Friday despite last-minute objections from organized labor. Jury deliberating charges in Indiana election chief Charlie White's voter fraud trial (The Washington Post) A jury that heard days of testimony against embattled Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White began deliberating voter fraud, theft and other charges Friday that could oust White from office. Comment: Komen's Choice : (newyorker) In 1731, Benjamin Franklin's nineteen-year-old sister, Jane, wrote to her brother that their sister Mary, a mother of three, was dying of breast cancer. Franklin was in Philadelphia; his sisters were in Boston. "I know a cancer in the breast is often thought incurable," Franklin wrote Jane, "yet we have here in town a kind of shell made of some wood, cut at a proper time, by some man of great skill which has done wonders in that disease among us, being worn for some time on the breast." Mary died ... (more) More US News News...

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