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Thursday, December 26, 2013

U.S. Top News: Surge of holiday packages delays UPS shipments

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12/26/2013
Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between
Surge of holiday packages delays UPS shipments
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A high volume of holiday packages overwhelmed shipping and logistics company UPS, the company said on Wednesday, delaying the arrival of Christmas presents around the globe and sending angry consumers to social media to vent.
American held by al Qaeda in Pakistan urges Obama for help
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A U.S. development worker kidnapped in Pakistan by al Qaeda two years ago appealed to President Barack Obama to intervene and help negotiate his release, in a video released on Thursday.
New York ex-Governor Spitzer, wife say marriage is over
(Reuters) - Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and his wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, said they are ending their marriage, more than five years after she stood by his side as the embattled Democrat resigned from office over a prostitution scandal.
Christmas in Southern California: temperatures near record highs
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Unseasonably balmy weather settled over Southern California on Wednesday as a region already accustomed to celebrating Christmas without snow experienced temperatures some 15 degrees (9 degrees Celsius) above normal.
Obama thanks troops for service on Christmas visit to base
KANOEHE BAY, Hawaii (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and wife Michelle thanked U.S. troops for their service on Wednesday during a Christmas Day visit to Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kanoehe Bay.
Utah clerks admonished to issue marriage licenses to gay couples
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Utah's attorney general instructed county clerks on Tuesday to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples requesting them, as ordered by the federal judge who overturned a state ban on same-sex weddings, or risk being held in contempt of court.
The painful path to Obamacare deadline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tuesday is a moment of truth for Obamacare.
Mother of boy thrown by dad from NY highrise blames custody fight
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The grieving mother whose estranged husband threw their 3-year old son off a Manhattan skyscraper in a murder-suicide on Sunday said the act was his "sick" way of retaliating against her over a bitter custody dispute.
Release of 911 tapes shed more light on fatal Nevada shooting rampage
(Reuters) - The gunman who killed one doctor and wounded another before taking his own life at a Nevada urology office last week had been a patient there, and investigators are examining reports he had complained of suffering from a botched vasectomy, police said on Tuesday.
California judge won't extend order keeping brain-dead girl on ventilator
OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Relatives of a California girl declared brain dead after complications from a tonsillectomy lost their bid on Tuesday to extend a court order that bars a hospital from taking the child off a breathing machine without their consent before December 30.
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