| Te'o tells Katie Couric he lied to maintain hoax Jan 23rd 2013, 14:39 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o told ABC News' Katie Couric that he had lied to keep up a hoax involving a nonexistent dying girlfriend once he learned he had been duped two days before the Heisman Trophy winner was announced. In a preview of the interview shown on Wednesday on "Good Morning America," Te'o talked about the girlfriend, Lennay Kekua. He mourned her September 12 death from cancer, but it later turned out that she never existed except as part of an online fraud. ... |  | Clinton defends her handling of Benghazi attack in testimony Jan 23rd 2013, 14:25  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday defended her handling of the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi that killed four Americans, an event that threatens to stain her legacy at the State Department. Clinton cast the incident, the first in which a U.S. ambassador was killed since 1988, as part of a long history of such violence as well as the result of regional instability since the Arab Spring of popular revolutions began in 2011. ...
| | Lawmakers touched by gun violence take debate personally Jan 23rd 2013, 13:29  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They belong to an exclusive group in the U.S. Congress: survivors of gun violence. They number at least seven. A few were nearly killed. Others lost family members or colleagues before they came to Washington and became players in the national debate on guns. Still carrying the emotional and, in some cases, physical scars from those episodes, most of the legislators believe a string of mass killings - notably the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting that killed 26 last month - has put the goal of more stringent gun control laws within tantalizing reach. ...
| | NJ Governor Christie heavy favorite to win re-election: poll Jan 23rd 2013, 11:19  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three-quarters of New Jersey voters approve of Governor Chris Christie's job performance and nearly seven in 10 say he deserves to be elected to a second term in November, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday. Christie, a Republican who is often mentioned as a potential presidential contender in 2016, has seen his popularity skyrocket since superstorm Sandy ripped through the state last fall. The governor's embrace of President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and his angry rebuke of the Republican majority in the U.S. ...
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