| Senator Baucus calls for urgent House action on farm bill Dec 28th 2012, 21:45  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An influential Democratic senator on Friday called for the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to vote on a new U.S. farm bill before the end of the year and thus avoid a potential spike in U.S. milk prices and other repercussions. "Our rural economies will take a big hit if the House fails to pass a farm bill. Make no mistake, the farm bill is a jobs bill," Senator Max Baucus of Montana said during a Senate debate on Friday. "There is absolutely no excuse for inaction. ...
|  | After Jackson, EPA faces decisions on U.S. fracking boom Dec 28th 2012, 21:27  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The past four years of U.S. environmental regulation was marked by a crackdown on emissions that angered coal miners and power companies. Over the next four, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency will have to decide whether to take on an even larger industry: Big Oil. Following Lisa Jackson's resignation on Wednesday, her successor will inherit the tricky task of regulating a drilling boom that has revolutionized the energy industry but raised fears over the possible contamination of water supplies. ...
| | Arrest made connected to NY firefighter shooter's weapons-report Dec 28th 2012, 21:12 (Reuters) - A suburban Rochester, New York, woman has been arrested in connection with the weapons used in the Christmas Eve sniper deaths of two volunteer firefighters who were responding to a deliberately set house fire, local media reported Friday. Dawn Nguyen was led out of her Greece, New York, home in handcuffs, according to photographs on the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle website. ... | | Maine gets set to ring wedding bells for same-sex couples Dec 28th 2012, 20:19  (Reuters) - Same-sex couples in Maine were counting down the hours on Friday until the first wedding bells were due to ring, less than two months after state residents approved gay marriage in a historic vote. The city clerk's office in Portland, the state's largest city with a metropolitan population of 250,000, planned to open a minute after midnight and stay open for three hours to accommodate same-sex couples rushing to wed. City clerk offices in Maine typically are closed on Saturdays. ...
| | Would-be adoptive parents look beyond Russia Dec 28th 2012, 20:16  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russia's new ban on U.S. adoptions is the latest setback for hopeful American parents as countries increasingly impose restrictions. Other countries, including China and Guatemala, have erected hurdles for adoptive families as they create their own domestic adoption programs. The signing of the Hague Convention on adoption in 2008 drastically improved regulation of the process, which had been rife with corruption. But it has also led to a slowdown in adoptions or shutdowns in some countries. ...
| | New York woman charged with lying to FBI about Newtown scheme Dec 28th 2012, 19:32 (Reuters) - A New York City woman who used her Facebook page to dupe donors into contributing to a "funeral fund" for one of the children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was charged with lying to the FBI, court documents showed. Nouel Alba, 37, of the Bronx, used a Facebook page to pose as the aunt of one of the victims, 6-year-old Noah Pozner, and encouraged potential donors to contribute to a PayPal account in her name she had set up last February, according to court papers. Alba, who made an initial appearance on Thursday before a U.S. ... | |
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