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Pro-Syrian regime protesters shout slogans and carry a huge portrait of the Syrian president Bashar Assad during a protest against the Arab League decisions, in Damascus, Syria, on Friday Nov. 25, 2011. Syria missed an Arab League deadline Friday to allow hundreds of observers into the country, prompting the bloc to consider economic sanctions against Damascus for its eight-month crackdown on dissent, a senior diplomat said. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
Pro-Syrian regime protesters shout slogans and carry a huge portrait of the Syrian president Bashar Assad during a protest against the Arab League decisions, in Damascus, Syria, on Friday Nov. 25, 2011. Syria missed an Arab League deadline Friday to allow hundreds of observers into the country, prompting the bloc to consider economic sanctions against Damascus for its eight-month crackdown on dissent, a senior diplomat said. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
Syrian refugees who fled violence in their country to Lebanon carry an Arabic placard read:"Stop the killing of the Syrian kids," during a demonstration in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross office urging the international organization to improve their living conditions, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Friday Nov. 25, 2011. Syria missed an Arab League deadline Friday to allow hundreds of observers into the country, prompting the bloc to consider economic sanctions against Damascus for its eight-month crackdown on dissent, a senior diplomat said. (AP Photo)
A pro-Syrian regime protester shouts slogans and holds up a portrait of the Syrian president Bashar Assad during a protest against the Arab League decisions, in Damascus, Syria, on Friday Nov. 25, 2011. Syria missed an Arab League deadline Friday to allow hundreds of observers into the country, prompting the bloc to consider economic sanctions against Damascus for its eight-month crackdown on dissent, a senior diplomat said. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
Pro-Syrian regime protesters appear from a huge Syrian flag as they wave portraits of the Syrian president Bashar Assad during a protest against the Arab League decisions, in Damascus, Syria, on Friday Nov. 25, 2011. Syria missed an Arab League deadline Friday to allow hundreds of observers into the country, prompting the bloc to consider economic sanctions against Damascus for its eight-month crackdown on dissent, a senior diplomat said. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
Two Syrian refugees children who fled violence in their country flash a V for victory sign while their faces faces are decorated with the Syrian revolution flag and Arabic words read:"Syria, The freedom," during a demonstration in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross office urging the international organization to improve their living conditions, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Friday Nov. 25, 2011. Syria missed an Arab League deadline Friday to allow hundreds of observers into the country, prompting the bloc to consider economic sanctions against Damascus for its eight-month crackdown on dissent, a senior diplomat said. (AP Photo)
BEIRUT (AP) ? The Syrian military vowed Friday to "cut every evil hand" that targets the country's security, a defiant stance by the regime as it faces the possibility of sweeping economic sanctions from the Arab League.
The military statement could signal darker days to come in an eight-month revolt against President Bashar Assad that is turning more violent by the day.
Until recently in the uprising, most of the bloodshed came as security forces fired on mainly peaceful protests. But there have been growing reports of army defectors and armed civilians fighting Assad's forces ? a development that some say plays into the regime's hands by giving government troops a pretext to crack down with overwhelming force.
"The choice offered by the regime appears clear-cut: preservation of Assad's rule or collective destruction," the International Crisis Group said in a report this week.
Assad blames the unrest on a foreign plot to destabilize Syria, saying extremists and terrorists ? not true reformers ? are driving the calls to oust him. On Friday, the military blamed terrorists for an attack a day earlier in Homs, saying six elite pilots and four technical officers were killed in an ambush.
"The general command of the armed forces sees that enemies of the country are behind this terrorist act," the military said. "The armed forces will continue to carry out its mission ... and will cut every evil hand that targets Syrian blood."
Although many Syrians resent police and intelligence agencies that they blame for oppressing the uprising, they respect the armed forces, which is seen as a bulwark against Israel.
Unlike the armies of Tunisia and Egypt, Syria's military has stood fiercely by the country's leader as Assad faces down an extraordinary protest movement.
In the past 40 years, Assad and his father before him stacked key military posts with members of their minority Alawite sect ? an offshoot of Shiite Islam ? ensuring the loyalty of the armed forces by melding the fate of the army and the regime. Syria is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim.
"Many regime supporters are terrified about their future and thus liable to resist till the bitter end," the Brussels-based ICG said in its report. "A majority of Alawite officials, security officers and ordinary citizens, along with segments of the Christian community and some secularists, have become convinced that their fate is either to kill or be killed."
It is not clear who was behind Thursday's attacks. It's impossible to verify events on the ground because Syria has banned foreign journalists and prevented independent reporting.
Syria is the scene of the deadliest crackdown against the Arab Spring's eruption of protests, with the U.N. reporting more than 3,500 people killed in eight months. International pressure has been mounting on Assad to stop the killing.
Also Friday, a U.N. human rights panel expressed alarm at reports it received of security forces in Syria torturing children. The Geneva-based Committee against Torture says it has received "numerous, consistent and substantiated reports" of widespread abuse in the country.
The panel's chairman, Claudio Grossman, cited reports of "extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; arbitrary detention by police forces and the military; and enforced and involuntary disappearances."
The Arab League gave Syria a 24-hour deadline to agree to an observer mission or face sanctions, a humiliating blow to a nation that was a founding member of the Arab coalition.
But the Friday afternoon deadline passed with no agreement. Instead, Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby received a letter from Syria seeking more details about the proposed observer mission and its legal status.
The league will meet Saturday to decide on sanctions, according to Arab League deputy Secretary-General Ahmed Ben Heli. The punishments could include halting flights and imposing a freeze on financial dealings and assets.
Syria's state-run SANA news agency dismissed the ultimatum, declaring Friday that the Arab League had become a "tool for foreign interference."
SANA also said thousands of people were demonstrating in support of the regime.
But violence continued Friday, after activists urged protesters to flood the streets to support army defectors who have sided with the opposition.
Security forces fired on protesters, killing at least 11 people ? and possibly as many as 26, activists said. The differing death tolls are common in Syria, and they point to the confusion tallying information in a country that remains largely sealed off.
Syrian security forces fired outside mosques in Daraa province ? apparently to prevent demonstrations by people leaving Friday afternoon prayers, activists said. Demonstrations were reported in Idlib province, which borders Turkey.
The death tolls were compiled by the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees.
Despite the violence, Assad still has a firm grip on power, in part because the opposition remains fragmented and he retains the support of the business classes and minority groups who feel vulnerable in an overwhelmingly Sunni nation.
International intervention, such as the NATO action in Libya that helped topple Moammar Gadhafi, is all but out of the question in Syria, in part due to concerns that it could spread chaos around the region.
Sanctions, however, could chip away at the regime in the long-term, although Syria's staunch allies of Russia, China and Iran will help cushion the economic blow for a while.
But it is clear the unrest is eviscerating the economy, threatening the business community and prosperous merchant classes that are key to propping up the regime. An influential bloc, the business leaders have long traded political freedoms for economic privileges.
The opposition has tried to rally these largely silent but hugely important sectors of society. But Assad's opponents have failed so far to galvanize support in Damascus and Aleppo ? the two economic centers in Syria.
With the military's iron loyalty on his side, Assad likely sees the use of force as the only way he can survive because if the crackdown ends, the people would come out in force.
"They are asking (Assad) to get his tanks and soldiers out of the streets," said Timor Goksel, a professor at the American University of Beirut. "But he also knows as a dictator that if he takes his tanks out of the streets, then who takes the streets?"
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Associated Press writer Selcan Hacaoglu in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.
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Jennifer Lopez is reportedly still getting it on with Marc Anthony on occasion, but numerous sources confirm there's definitely something going on with backup dancer Casper Smart.
"It's pretty serious," an insider tells E! News. "They're together a lot. She couldn't be happier."
So, who the heck is Casper Smart? He's a 24-year old whose real first name is Beau. He's good friends with Mark Salling and has made cameos on Glee. In 2008, meanwhile, he also played a role in a Barack Obama/John McCain dance-off video, one that has garnered over 12 million YouTube hits. Yes, that is McCain's head superimposed over Smart's body below. Watch now.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -FIFA president Sepp Blatter says he believes he has apologized enough for his recent comments on racism that triggered a furor and considers the matter "closed."
Blatter told a news conference in Malaysia on Wednesday that he feels hurt by the criticism leveled against him.
The FIFA boss had said last week he was sorry for the uproar caused by his claim that any racial incidents between players could be settled by a handshake at the end of a game.
Blatter said Wednesday that he "can only say the item for me is closed."
He added that he has "made my apologies and I cannot say more."
He stressed that he believes there should be "no tolerance against racism."
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For the first time in decades, football in Libya is just about, well, football.
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Without question, Kermit and his felt friends are the true stars of "The Muppets," and the world is super geared up to see all their singing, dancing and laugh-a-minute antics when the film hits theaters this week. But human celebrities have always been an important part of the Muppets' performances, from the first episode of "The Muppet Show" up through all of their previous films, and this new flick is no different.
This time around, Jason Segel, who co-wrote the film, and Amy Adams will be the featured human stars, but there are plenty of more big Hollywood names that will grace the screen in smaller roles. Rashida Jones plays a begrudging TV network executive, while Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Silverman and many others have cameos.
Just like all of us, they couldn't help but get swept up in the Muppet madness, and this musical montage is great, fun proof.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. ? Mary Ann Holder wanted to see her married former flame one last time as their bitter love triangle threatened to open a new and potentially costly chapter in court.
The meeting ended with Randall Lamb, 40, getting shot and Holder, 36, taking her own life Sunday. Later, police found that Holder gunned down four children living in her home, including her two sons, and the older boy's girlfriend. Two are dead. Three of the children survived and were in critical condition Monday.
Investigators were trying to unravel the violent chain of events and understand why Holder took out her rage on children. Holder left notes taking responsibility for the shootings and apologizing for the pain she was causing, Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes said. The notes also indicate Holder was angry about how her relationship with Lamb came to an end.
"They were obviously shot for the purpose of killing them. You can call it an execution, you can call it a shooting, you can call it whatever you want. The result is the same," he said. "We may never know exactly what her thoughts were and why."
Investigators said Holder and Lamb had been having an affair for almost four years and it was grinding to an acrimonious end.
In February, Lamb's wife, Jennifer, sought a court order to keep Holder away from her and her husband. Jennifer Lamb stated in the complaint that Holder would constantly call and text their cell phones and that Holder also sent nude pictures of herself. In June, Holder filed restraining orders against Lamb and his wife, saying they stalked and harassed her and that Lamb constantly drove past her house.
Authorities said Lamb agreed to meet Holder at a community college parking lot around 9 a.m. Sunday. His wife was about to file an alienation of affection lawsuit against Holder. North Carolina law allows a married person to sue the person with whom his or her spouse had an affair.
Holder shot at him multiple times and hit him once in the shoulder, the sheriff said. Lamb called his wife, who reported the shooting to 911 dispatchers. He was in stable condition on Monday.
Holder then drove off to pick up her 14-year-old son. Phone records indicate that about 45 minutes later, Zachary Smith was sending a text message thanking his hosts for letting him stay over the previous night.
Nearly half an hour later, a sheriff's deputy on the lookout for Holder's black SUV drove past it and turned around after seeing what he thought was a puff of smoke inside the vehicle. Holder was found dead inside with a gunshot to the head, and Zachary critically wounded was in the SUV's back seat. Deputies recovered two handguns inside the vehicle, one in Holder's lap, the sheriff said.
The officers then went into Holder's home in the Pleasant Garden community south of Greensboro and found Holder's son, 17-year-old Robert Dylan Smith, dead. Smith's girlfriend, Makayla Woods, 15, and Holder's nephew, Richard Suttles, 17, were also shot inside the home and were in critical condition Monday. Holder's niece, Hannaleigh Suttles. 8, died Monday.
The victims appeared to have been shot while they slept in a bedroom and the home's living room, said Barnes's chief deputy, Col. Randy Powers.
Holder's decision to take in her dead sister's children appeared to add to the pressures of what appeared to be a life in turmoil, neighbor Teresa Scott said.
"Why would you take them children, keep them children, when your life's rocky, up and down?" said Scott, who said Holder began renting the home across the street about four years ago.
Holder's children were kind and vigilant towards the elderly couple across the road, Teresa Scott said. They volunteered to help with yard maintenance and enquired about the health of her husband Joe, who has had recent health problems.
In the past, Lamb also appeared to like Holder's children, Teresa Scott said. "They'd pack up things and go places together," she said.
But it was also clear the affair between Holder and Lamb had become acrimonious, Teresa Scott said. Robert Smith posted no-tresspassing signs on trees in the front yard this year in response to the rising level of tension between Holder and Lamb, Scott said.
No one answered the door at Lamb's home or at the homes of neighbors at the end of long driveways.
The multiple shootings stunned law officers, Barnes said.
"We've got death. We've got drama. We've got a situation basically no one could ever imagine," Barnes said.
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AL-ARAKIB, Israel (Reuters) ? Bulldozed by Israel more than two dozen times, a village known by Bedouin Arabs as Al-Arakib is one of many ramshackle desert communities whose names have never appeared on any official map.
If Israel's parliament adopts proposed new legislation, it never will.
The plan to demolish more Bedouin homes in the southern Negev region and move 30,000 people to government-authorized villages connected to power and water lines has been hailed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "historic opportunity" to improve Bedouin lives.
But Israeli Arab leaders, who have long complained about discrimination against their community in the Jewish state, call it "ethnic cleansing," and aim to thwart the project with protests, a general strike and appeals to the United Nations to intervene.
"I will never leave here, I intend to stay until I die," said Abu-Madyam, 46, a farmer from al-Arakib.
He and his family of nine live in a makeshift plastic-sided shack in a cemetery near the ruins of their wooden home, razed by Israeli authorities last year.
The project is the most ambitious attempt in decades by the government to resettle Negev Bedouin and free up land in the largely open spaces of southern Israel for development and construction of military bases to replace facilities in the crowded center of the country.
Some Israelis argue the Bedouin have grown too dominant in the Negev, a geographic area wedged between Hamas Islamist-ruled Gaza and the occupied West Bank where Palestinians want a state, and that they pose a possible security risk.
The area being restructured also abuts Israel's largest Negev city of Beersheba and is near several military bases.
For decades, Israeli governments have tried to attract Jewish Israelis to move to the Negev, offering mortgage and tax breaks, but the region has fewer opportunities for employment than in the heavily populated center of the country.
Only 20 percent of Israel's Jewish population lives in the Negev, which covers more than 60 percent of the nation's land area. Bedouin villages take up two percent of Negev land.
This month, Netanyahu sat down with Bedouin mayors at his office to urge them to accept the plan, which could take at least five years to implement at a cost of more than 1 billion shekels ($300 million) once legislation due to be introduced shortly becomes law.
"Our state is leaping toward the future and you need to be part of this future. We want to help you reach economic independence. This plan is designed to bring about development and prosperity," Netanyahu told the Bedouin officials.
Arabs make up about 20 percent of Israel's population of seven million, 200,000 of them Bedouin citizens.
Most of Israel's Bedouin, who predominate in the desert area that accounts for two-thirds of its territory, are descendants of nomadic tribes that had wandered across the Middle East from Biblical times.
Half of the Bedouin live in towns and villages recognized as formal communities by the government. Others live rough, in tents and shacks on patches of desert.
"If everyone sat exactly where they felt their place was, then it wouldn't be possible to develop anything," said Yisrael Scop, a senior official at the Israel Lands Authority, which would bear responsibility for carrying out the Negev plan.
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Some new villages will be built for displaced Bedouin, Scop told Reuters in an interview. He said about 60,000 acres would be affected, with 30,000 Bedouin called upon to abandon their homes in return for monetary compensation.
Another 2,000 Bedouin who have claims against Israel for past relocation would have their cases settled under the new project.
"We cannot have such a large population living in unorganized settlement," Scop said.
Bedouin leaders in the Negev say Israel has long discriminated against their communities, denying them public funds and services, in a bid to make their inhabitants leave.
Many of them were built, the officials said, because Israel had failed in the past to offer other housing options.
In a 2008 report on Israel's policy toward Bedouin in the Negev, Human Rights Watch said the government "appears intent on maximizing its control over Negev land and increasing the Jewish population in the area for strategic, economic and demographic reasons."
"The state implements forced evictions, home demolitions and other punitive measures disproportionately against Bedouin as compared with actions taken regarding structures owned by Jewish Israelis that do not conform to planning law," the New York-based group said.
Khalil Alamour, a 42-year-old schoolteacher, plans to head to Geneva this month to a meeting of a U.N. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as part of a delegation to protest against the resettlement project.
His village of Al-Sira, home to 500 Bedouin, has long been tagged by Israel for demolition. It is located near an airbase.
"I always thought we could be a bridge to peace but this has not happened because we don't feel involved," Alamour said about the Bedouin, some of whom serve as volunteers in Israel's military. Unlike Jewish men and women in Israel, members of its Arab minority are exempt from conscription at the age of 18.
Alamour called the Negev plan "a second Nakba," the Arabic word for "catastrophe" that Palestinians use to describe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of them in fighting over Israel's establishment in 1948.
"We've been around for so many years, yet they treat us as little more than numbers on a map. It's shameful," he said.
Like most unauthorized Bedouin villages, Al-Sira is not hooked up to Israel's electricity grid. Alamour and his neighbors have installed their own solar panels to generate electricity, supplementing the supply with power generators.
They have run their own pipes to hook up with a regional grid to provide running water for their homes.
In the ruins of al-Arakib, Abu-Madyam vowed to hang on to land which he said was once covered by lush grapevines and bought by his grandparents more than a century ago.
"I will seek justice until my last day. I don't have any objections to Jews living here, too, but why must I give up my own rights?" he said.
(Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Sonya Hepinstall)
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) ? A top Federal Reserve official said on Monday that given recent improvements in the U.S. economy, any further central bank actions to boost growth should be through clearer communications about policy, rather than expanded bond buying.
"In light of the somewhat better performance of the economy, notwithstanding the slow pace of reduction of unemployment... if we're looking at options, I would prefer communications," Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart told reporters after a speech to business students.
The U.S. central bank cut benchmark borrowing costs to near zero almost three years ago and has bought $2.3 trillion in bonds to spur economic activity.
More recently, it has shifted its portfolio to hold more longer-term bonds to lower mortgage interest rates and has announced it is unlikely to raise rates before the middle of 2013, a proclamation aimed at reassuring markets it won't budge from easy money policies at the first sign the recovery has gotten stronger.
Many in financial markets believe that a persistently high unemployment rate will prompt the Fed to take further steps to boost growth next year.
Lockhart repeated his view that the Fed should set a high bar for any further bond buying, also referred to as quantitative easing.
"For me the conditions that would make another round of quantitative easing would be entering clear recessionary conditions, the worsening of the unemployment rate and the conceivable prospect of deflation," he said.
However, the Fed could provide more clarity to the public about where policy is likely to go and how it might respond to various conditions, Lockhart said.
"Short of another round of large-scale asset purchases, there are various ways we could try to communicate with the broad public and markets," he said in response to questions after his speech.
"I certainly think it's conceivable that we could improve our communications," he said.
Lockhart will be a voter on the Fed's policy-setting panel in 2012.
The economy, while not terribly strong, has exceeded recent expectations and could log a growth rate above 3 percent in the last three months of the year, he said.
"Given that the United States is an advanced economy... the growth rate is respectable," Lockhart said.
Reports over the last two months, including about retail sales, consumer confidence, and exports, have been encouraging, he said.
(Reporting by Luciana Lopez, writing by Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Dan Grebler)
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SAN DIEGO ? Griffin O'Neal, the son of actor Ryan O'Neal, has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of drugs stemming from a head-on crash that injured another motorist.
The San Diego Union-Tribune ( http://bit.ly/tHTGso) says O'Neal pleaded guilty Tuesday to driving under the influence and possession of a firearm by a felon, both felonies. He also acknowledged he has a 1992 conviction for shooting into an unoccupied vehicle.
Prosecutors say O'Neal was on drugs Aug. 2 when he veered into oncoming traffic and collided with another vehicle in San Diego County.
Defense attorney Heather Boxeth said at a previous hearing that her client had been trying to help his half-brother Redmond O'Neal, who had been arrested on suspicion of heroin possession the same day.
Griffin O'Neal faces up to four years in prison.
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Become acquainted with this name: Elizabeth Olsen. Yes, she is the sister of the Olsen twins - Mary Kate and Ashley, but I guarantee she will become this generation's Mia Farrow. Once you see the brilliant Martha Marcy May Marlene, you too will be convinced at what a great actress Elizabeth Olsen is.This is not just a great performance. This is the kind of performance that young female leads will be compared to. It's better than Charlize Theron's portrayal of Aileen Wuornos in Monster. So demanding is this role that the film's success relies almost completely on it. And that's not to say that Olsen is above the material. She has a lot to work with. The script is smart. The direction is controlled, focused, and well paced, and the tone is disturbingly bleak, chilling, and suspenseful.Horrific things happen to this character. The audience is forced to endure much of it with her, and then analyze the effects these events have on Martha's psyche. Elizabeth Olsen bares all; she completely understands her character but also forces the audience to reflect and debate on her decisions. Whatever triggered the trauma in Martha's mind has completely overtaken her being, rendering her incapable of distinguishing the past from the present and figuring out a way to move on.This is a powerful film. Elizabeth Olsen's performance is nothing short of perfect. If she doesn't win the Oscar, they may as well retire the award. The same goes for John Hawkes' portrayal of Patrick, a sinister cult leader who is every bit the antagonist to Martha. You thought he was great in Winter's Bone, but that's nothing compared to his acting here.Yes, Martha Marcy May Marlene is a must see movie because of the performances. But the acting is made even better when the material is good. In this case, the filmmaking is perfect. Thus, the performances are the best of the best, and that's within a year that has already seen Ryan Gosling, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Natalie Portman, Michelle Williams, Michael Fassbender, and Leonardo DiCaprio cement themselves as the best actors of our time.
November 11, 2011Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/martha_marcy_may_marlene/
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WASHINGTON ? A special deficit-reduction supercommittee appears likely to admit failure on Monday, unable or unwilling to compromise on a mix of spending cuts and tax increases required to meet its assignment of saving taxpayers at least $1.2 trillion over the coming decade.
The panel is sputtering to a close after two months of talks in which they were never able to get close to bridging a fundamental divide over how much to raise taxes to address a budget deficit that forced the government to borrow 36 cents of every dollar it spent last year.
Members of the bipartisan panel, formed during the summer crisis over raising the government's borrowing limit, spent their time on Sunday in testy performances on television talk shows, blaming each other for the impasse.
In a series of television interviews, not a single panelist seemed optimistic about any last-minute breakthrough. And it was clear that the two sides had never gotten particularly close, at least in the official exchanges of offers that were leaked to the media.
Aides said any remaining talks had broken off.
"There is one sticking divide. And that's the issue of what I call shared sacrifice," said panel co-chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., on CNN's "State of the Union."
"The wealthiest Americans who earn over a million a year have to share too. And that line in the sand, we haven't seen Republicans willing to cross yet," she said
Republicans said Democrats' demands on taxes were simply too great and weren't accompanied by large enough proposals to curb the explosive growth of so-called entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
"If you look at the Democrats' position it was `We have to raise taxes. We have to pass this jobs bill, which is another almost half-trillion dollars. And we're not excited about entitlement reform,' " countered Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Under the committee's rules, any plan would have to be unveiled Monday, but it appeared that Murray and co-chair Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas would instead issue a statement declaring the panel's work at a close, aides said.
"Put a bow on it. It's done," said an aide to a supercommittee Republican.
Failure by the panel would trigger about $1 billion over nine years in automatic across-the-board spending cuts to a wide range of domestic programs and the Pentagon budget, starting in 2013, according to the Congressional Budget Office. This action, called a "sequester," would also generate $169 billion in saving from lower interest costs on the national debt.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the required cuts of up to $454 billion to the Pentagon would be "devastating" and leave a "hollow force," and defense hawks of Capitol Hill promise to unwind them. But that effort will be complicated by the insistence of other lawmakers that the overall amount of the budget cuts be left in place.
"I can't imagine that, knowing of the importance of national defense, that both Democrats and Republicans wouldn't find a way to work through that process so we still get the $1.2 trillion in cuts, but it doesn't all fall on defense," said supercommittee Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona.
The panel's failure also sets up a fight within a battle-weary, dysfunctional Congress over renewing a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed, both of which are set to expire at the end of the year. Both proposals are part of President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan.
Extending the current 2 percentage point payroll tax cut isn't a popular idea with many Republicans, but allowing it to expire could harm the economy, economists say. So too would a cutoff of unemployment benefits averaging about $300 a week to millions of people who have been out of work for more than six months.
Serious negotiations ended Friday after Democrats rejected a $644 billion offer comprised of $543 billion in spending cuts, fees and other non-tax revenue, as well as $3 billion in tax revenue from closing a special tax break for corporate purchases of private jets. It also assumed $98 billion in reduced interest costs.
Officials familiar with the offer said it would save the government $121 billion by requiring federal civilian workers to contribute more to their pension plans, shave $23 billion from farm and nutrition programs and generate $15 billion from new auctions of broadcast spectrum to wireless companies.
Democrats said the plan was unbalanced because it included barely any tax revenue.
"Our Democratic friends are unable to cut even a dollar in spending without saying it has to be accompanied by tax increases," Kyl said.
On Saturday, Sen. Rob Portman floated an even smaller plan, said a lawmaker directly familiar with the panel's work. It, too, was rejected. The lawmaker required anonymity because of the secrecy of the talks.
The committee faces a Wednesday deadline. But members would have to agree on the outlines of a package by Monday to allow time for drafting and assessing by the Congressional Budget Office.
Over the past couple of weeks, the two sides have made a variety of offers and counter-offers, starting with a more than $3 trillion plan from Democrats that would have increased tax revenues by $1.3 trillion in exchange for further cuts in agency budgets, a change in the measure used to calculate cost-of-living increases for Social Security beneficiaries, and curbs on the growth of Medicare and Medicaid.
"We put on the table a proposal that required tough compromises on both sides, and they never did that," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., the only House Democrat on the panel to participate in late-stage bipartisan talks.
Republicans countered with a $1.5 trillion plan that included a potential breakthrough ? $250 billion in higher taxes gleaned as Congress passes a future tax reform measure. The plan was trashed by Democrats, however, who said it would have lowered tax rates for the wealthy too far while eliminating tax breaks that chiefly benefit the middle class.
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CALDWELL, Ohio ? A South Carolina man who was shot while responding to a Craigslist ad for a job in southeastern Ohio had hidden in the woods for several hours and then showed up at a woman's house covered in blood, the woman said Friday.
Authorities investigating the wounding of that man and the death of another man charged a 16-year-old boy with attempted murder and complicity to attempted murder on Friday. The teen and another suspect were in custody.
"The investigation is moving swiftly but also deliberately," Noble County Sheriff Stephen Hannum and Prosecutor Clifford Sickler said in a news release announcing the charges.
Rose Schockling called police after the wounded man came to her farmhouse on a hill in the tiny village of Fulda. She said the man was lucky he'd come the way he did because there were no houses for more than 2 miles in the other direction.
"Thank God he didn't go the other way, he'd never find anybody," she said.
Hannum and Sickler said no further information would be released because a judge on Friday had issued a gag order. Authorities had said the order was sought by the attorney for a juvenile suspect who wanted to keep authorities and prosecutors from speaking about what the lawyer described as a "highly sensational" case.
Cadaver dogs found the body of a Florida man this week in a grave in a remote area outside Caldwell, a small village about 80 miles east of Columbus, Hannum said.
The man who visited Schockling was bloody and told her he'd been shot several hours earlier and hid in woods until it was dark, when he began walking, she said. He said he came to her place because it was the first well-lighted house he could see.
The man told the 74-year-old Schockling that he'd answered an ad on Craigslist for a job and was told he'd be erecting fences for a cattle farm. Schockling said there's no farm of the size the man described nearby, with most of the surrounding countryside being either woods or strip mines.
The Akron Beacon Journal identified as suspects a 52-year-old man from Akron, about 90 miles away, and a 16-year-old student from Stow-Munroe Falls High School in the Akron area.
Jail officials said they could not confirm that they were holding an inmate who was a suspect in the case.
Stow-Munroe Falls Superintendent Russ Jones identified the juvenile suspect as a 16-year-old junior at the high school. On Friday, Jones declined to elaborate on the teen's background or activities but said there was no security issue at the school.
"The incident in question originated from Noble County, which is in southeastern Ohio, had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with any of our students or staff nor at school grounds," he said.
Hannum said the South Carolina man escaped from the remote area on Nov. 6 and went to police, who later found a hand-dug grave that they believe had been intended for him.
The man had been told to carry his belongings to Ohio because he'd be living at the farm, and investigators believe robbery was the motive, he said.
Five days later, authorities received a call from the Florida man's twin sister, concerned that her brother had not been heard from since Oct. 22 in Parkersburg, W.Va., the sheriff said. The twin, in Boston, said her brother had responded to what she believed was the same Craigslist ad, which sought a caretaker for cattle on a 688-acre farm.
Investigators then found the Florida man's body.
Authorities had said an autopsy on the Florida man was being performed Thursday. A message seeking comment was left Friday for the Noble County coroner.
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Associated Press writers Thomas J. Sheeran in Cleveland and Kantele Franko in Columbus contributed to this report.
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A study of invertebrates on two Dumfries and Galloway estates has found three species that are new to Scotland.
The survey, commissioned by the National Trust for Scotland, was carried out at Threave and Rockcliffe.
It found three types of fly previously undiscovered north of the border as well as an "extremely rare" ladybird.
NTS nature conservation adviser Lindsay Mackinlay said the study found 40 species deemed "significant in terms of biodiversity and conservation".
The work, supported by Scottish Natural Heritage, found the flies Thaumatomyia rufa, Holocera lamellate and Chorisops tibialis for the first time in Scotland.
'Extremely rare'Mr Mackinlay said the discovery would help develop a clearer understanding of importance of invertebrates and their habitats.
"Although most people look on them as 'creepy-crawlies', invertebrates play a vital role in ensuring the sustainability of our environment," he said.
As well as the new types of fly, the survey - carried out between 2009 and 2011 - made another surprising discovery.
"The survey discovered a ladybird at Rockcliffe which is extremely rare in Scotland," Mr Mackinlay said.
"The official name is Subcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata, which refers to the 24 spots on its wings.
"However we're looking to see whether any of our visitors can come up with a more uniquely Scottish, and certainly a much shorter, nickname."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-15774799
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether children conceived through in vitro fertilization after the death of their parent were entitled to survivor benefits under the Social Security law.
The justices agreed to hear an appeal by the Obama administration of a ruling by a U.S. appeals court for a woman who seeks benefits for her twins conceived by artificial insemination after her husband's death.
At issue in the dispute are new reproductive technologies and the requirements to qualify for child survivor benefits under the Social Security Act.
In its appeal, administration lawyers said the Social Security Administration has received more than 100 applications for survivor benefits by posthumously conceived children, and the rate of such applications has increased significantly in recent years.
The case involved Karen Capato, who had sued in federal court in New Jersey after her request for Social Security benefits for her twins had been denied.
In 1999, her husband, Robert Capato deposited sperm at a fertility clinic after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He died in March 2002, and his wife then underwent in vitro fertilization. She gave birth to twins in September 2003.
The Social Security Administration has taken the position that eligibility for benefits depends partly on whether the applicable state law would allow a posthumously conceived child to inherit property in the absence of a will.
In the Capato case, the state law at issue bars children conceived posthumously from inheritance unless they are named in a will. Capato's only beneficiaries named in his will were his wife, their son and two children from a previous marriage.
Capato's attorneys opposed the government's appeal and said the Philadelphia-based appeals court had correctly determined that a posthumously conceived child fell within the law's definition of a child for the purpose of receiving Social Security survivor benefits.
The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments in the case early next year, with a ruling due by the end of June.
The Supreme Court case is Astrue v. Capato, No. 11-159.
(Reporting by James Vicini; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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NEW YORK (Reuters) ? U.S. stocks reversed course and were higher at midday on Tuesday, with technology shares leading the way.
The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) was up 40.72 points, or 0.34 percent, at 12,119.70. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) put on 5.21 points, or 0.42 percent, at 1,256.99. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) gained 20.42 points, or 0.77 percent, at 2,677.64.
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FILE - In this May 2, 2011 file photo, Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway gestures during an interview, in Omaha, Neb. Investor Warren Buffett said Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, his company bought $10.7 billion of IBM stock this year, about a 5.6 percent stake. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
FILE - In this May 2, 2011 file photo, Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway gestures during an interview, in Omaha, Neb. Investor Warren Buffett said Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, his company bought $10.7 billion of IBM stock this year, about a 5.6 percent stake. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ? Investor Warren Buffett says his company bought about $10.7 billion of IBM stock this year, giving it a stake of more than 5 percent in the technology company.
Buffett revealed the investment during an interview on CNBC on Monday. Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., planned to file a full quarterly update on its U.S. stock portfolio Monday afternoon.
Buffett has long refused to invest in high-tech companies because he has said it's too difficult to predict which technology businesses will prosper in the long run.
But he said he recently changed his view of IBM based on what he read in the company's annual reports and what he learned by talking to information-technology departments at Berkshire subsidiaries. He said he should have realized years sooner that the heart of IBM's business is providing service and equipment to IT departments.
"There's a fair amount of presumption in many places that if you're with IBM, you stay with them," Buffett said.
So Berkshire has bought about 64 million shares since March, or about 5.5 percent of IBM. Buffett says he believes IBM has a sound plan for the future.
IBM officials declined to comment Monday on Buffett's investment.
International Business Machines Corp., which marked its 100-year anniversary in June, has proven resilient even in a downturn because of hard decisions it made in the 1990s, when it tapped an outsider as CEO to help with a turnaround.
At the time, IBM was slipping with the rise of cheap microprocessors and rapid changes in the industry. Although it helped make the personal computer a mainstream product, it quickly found itself outmatched in a market it helped create. PCs also began to perform many of the functions of mainframes computer, throwing IBM's main moneymaking business into disarray.
The company decided then to focus on the high-margin areas of software and technology services and move away from computer hardware. That intensified with IBM's $3.5 billion purchase of PricewaterhouseCoopers' consulting business in 2002 and the sale of its PC business to Lenovo for $1.75 billion in 2005. Today, IBM is the world's biggest technology services provider.
The shift is important because it has allowed IBM to ride two recessions. When times are tough, businesses pay IBM to help them find ways to cut costs and handle technology chores that would be more expensive to perform in-house.
IBM's stock has more than doubled since the depth of the recession in 2008. IBM shares gained 74 cents to $188.12 in midday trading Monday, near the 52-week high of $190.53 reached in mid-October.
Buffett said Berkshire paid an average of about $170 per share for the IBM stock.
IBM executives insist the company's focus on long-term contracts insulates it from economic swings. The company has said it is ahead of its own aggressive forecasts. IBM has disclosed a goal of hitting $20 per share in adjusted earnings by 2015, a rare example of a long-term earnings target made public by a major company. IBM, which is based in Armonk, N.Y., says it plans to continue growing its software business and invest about $20 billion in acquisitions from 2011 to 2015.
Berkshire's investments are closely watched in the market because of Buffett's successful record. Buffett has said that Berkshire has been buying aggressively during the recent market turmoil.
Buffett said Monday that Berkshire had been adding to its already sizeable stake in Wells Fargo, but he didn't say how many more shares had been bought recently. At the end of June, Berkshire held 352.3 million Wells Fargo shares. That was up from 342.6 million shares Berkshire held at the end of March.
Monday afternoon's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission may not reveal a full picture of Berkshire's investments because regulators often allow the Omaha-based company to conceal new investments for a time while building a position.
Buffett said that the third-quarter report that will be filed Monday won't show all of Berkshire's new IBM stake because some of the shares were bought in the fourth quarter.
Besides investments, Berkshire owns roughly 80 subsidiaries including insurance, railroad and utility firms.
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