POWERBALL JACKPOT RISING TO A RECORD $600 MIL **

THAT'S THE HIGHEST POWERBALL JACKPOT IN HISTORY AND THE SECOND-LARGEST EVER **

TOTAL PRIZE MONEY COULD INCREASE THROUGHOUT THE DAY AS TICKET SALES RISE **

DRAWING WILL BE HELD TONIGHT **

PRES OBAMA CALLING ATTENTION TO HIS ECONOMIC PROPOSALS AND EFFORTS TO **

IN HIS WEEKLY ADDRESS, THE PRES SAYS THE U.S. SHOULD ATTRACT MORE JOBS AND **

MEANWHILE, IN THE GOP ADDRESS, REP ANDY HARRIS (R-MD) SAYS THE EMBATTLED **

NTSB TO PROBE THE COLLISION OF TWO COMMUTER TRAINS IN CT **

THE RUSH-HOUR CRASH ON FRI ON THE METRO-NORTH RAILROAD LEFT 70 PEOPLE **

IT'S UNCLEAR WHAT CAUSED THE ACCIDENT **

SERVICE ON THE LINE COULD BE DISRUPTED FOR SEVERAL DAYS IN THE WAKE OF THE **

FIREFIGHTERS BATTLING TWO WILDFIRES IN SOUTHERN CA **

ONE FIRE HAS TORCHED SOME 4,300 ACRES SINCE IT WAS SPARKED ON WED NEAR L.A **

IT REMAINS ABOUT 55% CONTAINED **

MEANWHILE, A SECOND FIRE HAS BROKEN OUT JUST 30 MILES AWAY **

FLAMES HAVE CONSUMED 500 ACRES AND LED TO THE EVACUATIONS OF NEARLY 20 **

N KOREA TEST FIRES THREE SHORT-RANGE MISSILES, ACCORDING TO S KOREAN **

LATEST TEST COMES AMID HEIGHTENED TENSIONS ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA AFTER **

N KOREA IS BANNED FROM TESTING BALLISTIC MISSILES UNDER UN SECURITY COUNCIL **

FRENCH PRES FRANCOIS HOLLANDE SIGNS A LAW ALLOWING GAY MARRIAGE AND **

PASSAGE THIS MORNING CAME AFTER FRANCE'S CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL STRUCK DOWN **


 

OOPS! Look what a Secret Service Agent Forgot

Secret Service gun inadvertently left in Romney plane lavatory

 

(CBS News) A gun belonging to a member of Mitt Romney’s U.S. Secret Service detail was found unattended in the bathroom of the candidate’s charter plane Wednesday afternoon. The Republican nominee was traveling from Tampa, Fla., site of his party’s convention, to Indianapolis, Ind., for a speech.

The weapon, presumably left behind in the bathroom by accident, was discovered by a CBS News/National Journal reporter, who alerted a flight attendant about the gun. A member of the Secret Service on board the plane was informed and retrieved the gun.

 

Romney has traveled with Secret Service protection since early February and has an armed detail assigned to him at all times. His wife, Ann, was just assigned her own detail – albeit a smaller one – last Friday.

 

Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told CBS News/National Journal in a statement: “We are aware of the incident. We take the care and custody of our equipment, especially firearms, very seriously. We will deal with this matter internally and in an appropriate manner.”

 

 

Hunter Ryan

Politics Editor

 

 









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