YAHOO INC ANNOUNCES IT'S BUYING ONLINE BLOGGING SERVICE TUMBLR FOR $1.1 BIL **

DEAL WILL USE ABOUT ONE-FIFTH OF YAHOO'S $5.4 BIL IN CASH AND MARKETABLE **

YAHOO SAYS TUMBLR WILL BE INDEPENDENTLY OPERATED AS A SEPARATE BUSINESS **

FORECASTERS SAY MORE TORNADOES COULD HIT THE NATION'S MIDSECTION TODAY **

VIOLENT STORMS RIPPED THROUGH IOWA, KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA ON SUN **

WORST DAMAGE APPEARS TO BE IN THE SHAWNEE, OK AREA, WHERE TWO PEOPLE WERE **

TWENTY-ONE PEOPLE WERE INJURED THROUGHOUT THE STATE **

UNITED AIRLINES' 787S RETURN TO THE SKIES **

FED GOVT HAD GROUNDED THE BOEING PLANES FOR FOUR MONTHS BECAUSE OF A **

UNITED SAYS IT'LL FIRST USE THE 787S FOR SHORTER DOMESTIC FLIGHTS AND **

WAVE OF ATTACKS ACROSS IRAQ LEAVES MORE THAN 85 DEAD **

ATTACKS ON MON OCCURRED IN MOSTLY SHIITE AND SUNNI AREAS **

LATEST ROUND OF VIOLENCE PUSHES THE DEATH TOLL OVER THE PAST WEEK TO MORE **

PRES OBAMA HOSTING BURMESE PRES THEIN SEIN AT THE WHITE HOUSE IN THE FIRST **

U.S. SAYS THE VISIT SHOWS COMMITMENT TO HELPING "GOVERNMENTS THAT MAKE THE **

BURMA HAS LAUNCHED A SERIES OF REFORMS SINCE ESTABLISHING A NOMINALLY **

BUT SOME ACTIVISTS AND LAWMAKERS ARE CRITICAL OF THE HIGH-PROFILE MEETING **

CT COMMUTERS FACING LONG, SLOW TRIPS IN AND OUT OF NYC AFTER FRI'S TRAIN **

OFFICIALS SAY THE DISRUPTION IMPACTS ABOUT 30,000 PEOPLE **

CT GOV DAN MALLOY SAYS RESIDENTS SHOULD PREPARE FOR A WEEK'S WORTH OF **

INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING INTO WHAT CAUSED THE ACCIDENT **


 

Senator Mitch McConnell fires back

 

McConnell Statement on White House Sequester Event

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell released the following statement today as the President held another campaign event on the sequester:

 

“Today’s event at the White House proves once again that more than three months after the November election, President Obama still prefers campaign events to common sense, bipartisan action. Surely the President won’t cut funds to first responders when just last year Washington handed out an estimated $115 billion in payments to individuals who weren’t even eligible to receive them, or at a time when 11 different government agencies are funding 90 different green energy programs. That would be a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice by a President who claims to want bipartisan reform.”









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