| Hurry up Mr Vice President, I've got a train to catch Jan 20th 2013, 22:09 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sonia Sotomayor had one eye on the door when she administered the oath of office to Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday. Apart from officially swearing in Biden for his second term in office, the Supreme Court justice had other business to attend to: signing copies of her new autobiography at a New York City bookstore a few hours later. Biden's office scheduled the swearing-in for 8 a.m. EST/1300 GMT to allow Sotomayor, the first Hispanic on the nation's highest court, enough time to catch a train for a three-hour ride to New York. On Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ... |  | No flubs, no re-dos for Obama and Roberts at swearing-in Jan 20th 2013, 21:32  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This time they got it right. President Barack Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts, who flubbed the oath of office in a public inauguration ceremony four years ago, made it through without mistakes on Sunday at a private gathering that launched the Democrat's second term. Shortly before noon on a sunny day, Roberts, dressed in his traditional dark robe, strode into the oval-shaped White House Blue Room and positioned himself, with cue card in hand, at the edge of a light beam streaming in through the window. ...
| | Five shot dead in Albuquerque, teen charged Jan 20th 2013, 19:23 SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - A teenage boy with several weapons including an assault rifle shot and killed five people, three of them children, at a house in Albuquerque, New Mexico, authorities said on Sunday. The boy, whose exact age had yet to be determined, was arrested and charged with the killings which took place late Saturday night, said Aaron Williamson, a Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department deputy. "The victims all had multiple gunshot wounds, and there appeared to be multiple weapons, including an assault type weapon," Williamson said. ... | |
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