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Jan. 14, 2013: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center, speaks during a news conference announcing an agreement with legislative leaders on New York’s Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act in the Red Room at the Capitol.apALBANY, N.Y. Key measures of New York’s tough new gun law are set to kick in, with owners of guns now reclassified as assault weapons required to register the firearms and new limits on the number of bullets allowed in magazines.As the new provisions take effect Monday, New York’s affiliate of the National Rifle Association said it plans to head to court to seek an immediate halt to the magazine limit.Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls those and other provisions in the state’s new gun law common sense while dismissing criticisms he says come from “extreme fringe conservatives” who claim the government has no right to regulate guns.”Yes, they are against it, but they are the extremists and the extremists shouldn’t win, especially on this issue when it is so important to the majority,” Cuomo said in a radio interview Wednesday. “In politics, we have to be willing to take on the extremists, otherwise you will see paralysis.”New York’s new gun restrictions, the first in the nation passed following December’s massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, limit state gun owners to no more than seven bullets in magazines, except at competitions or firing ranges.The new regulations in New York commence as the U.S. Senate prepares to .”The report — subtitled “How Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez manipulated Justice and Ignored Rule of Law” — was a joint effort by minority leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Republican-led House’s Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees.”The facts surrounding this quid pro quo show that Perez may have exceeded the scope of the ethics and professional-responsibility opinions he received from the department and thereby violated his duties of loyalty and confidentiality to the United States. Perez also misled senior Justice Department officials about the quid pro quo,” the report states.But congressional Democrats put out a statement and memo of their own late Sunday refuting the details.The statement said the “overwhelming evidence” indicates Perez and others “acted professionally to advance the interests of civil rights and effectively combat the scourge of discrimination in housing.” They said the decision not to intervene in the suit against St. Paul was based on expert recommendations.”Instead of identifying inappropriate conduct by Mr. Perez, it appears that the accusations against him are part of a broader political campaign to undermine the legal safeguards against discrimination that Mr. Perez was protecting,” they said.

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Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2012 and an abortion opponent, said Thursday that anti-abortion activists should try to build a broad coalition and find common ground with supporters of abortion rights as a way to advance their agenda.Ryan, R-Wis., said in a speech to the Susan B. Anthony List that those who oppose abortion “need to work with people who consider themselves pro-choice — because our task isn’t to purge our ranks. It’s to grow them.”"We don’t want a country where abortion is simply outlawed. We want a country where it isn’t even considered,” he said.Ryan told the organization that seeks to elect women who oppose abortion rights that “labels can be misleading.” He pointed to former GOP Sen. Scott Brown, whose 2010 election in Massachusetts nearly derailed President Barack Obama’s health care law. Brown supports abortion rights. In contrast, Ryan told the group that former Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak, who opposed abortion, “delivered the votes that passed it into law.”Many opponents of abortion disagreed with the health care overhaul because it requires most employers to cover birth control free of charge to female workers as a preventative service. The law exempted churches and other houses of worship.Ryan said critics often urge abortion opponents to abandon their beliefs but “that would only demoralize our voters.” But he said anti-abortion activists should work with people of all beliefs to pla law’s meaning. Gura’s clients and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, defending the law, disagree about whether there is a split among federal appeals courts.In December, the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the only statewide ban on carrying concealed weapons, in Illinois. The court gave state lawmakers until June to adopt a law that takes account of the ruling. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has said she will wait to see what the state legislature does before deciding whether to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.Gura said the Illinois ruling “brings this split into sharp relief at the federal appellate level.”But Schneiderman said the decision in Illinois stressed the unique nature of the state law that was struck down and contrasted that law with the statutes in New York and elsewhere that give officials wide discretion in deciding whether to grant permits to carry guns in public.The case is Kachalsky v. Cacace, 12-845.

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B-52 bombers, for the first time. The paper reports U.S. officials have demonstrated an earlier version of the bomb’s capabilities to Israeli leaders several times recently by showing them a video of the bomb hitting its target in high-altitude testing.Pentagon officials view the development of the weapon as critical to convincing Israelit can rely on the U.S. to stop Iran from developing nukes, and that the Israeli military cannot do so on its own.According to the Wall Street Journal, the new version of the MOP has advanced components that would allow it to evade Iranian defense systems to reach the Fordow nuclear complex, which is by numerous accounts buried under a mountain in Iran. This upgraded version has not yet been dropped from a plane.”It gives us a far greater capability to reach and destroy an enemy’s weapons of mass destruction that are located in well protected underground facilities… to a magnitude far greater than we have now,” Pentagon Spokesman Capt. John Kirby said.Kirby denied the bombs are designed to target Iran, even though it is the only country known to have buried its nuclear weapons program.”The system is not aimed at any one country, it’s to develop a capability we believe we need,” Kirby said. That remark was met by audible groans and various comments of disbelief from the Pentagon press corps.Boeing successfully tested the bomb on March 17, 2007 at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.Pentagon Spokesma Hes gone from most wanted to least wanted.Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaevs family in Russia doesnt want his body, his widow declined to claim it and now cemeteries in Massachusetts have refused to take the body. The corpse has languished in a city morgue since April 19, when he was killed in a shootout with police, but now it is being prepared for burial somewhere in or around Boston. The remains were originally taken to Dyer-Lake Funeral Home in North Attleboro late Thursday, prompting crowds to jeered and jab middle fingers in the air as the hearse passed by.”They can protest, but what do you do? In this country, we bury the dead,” Peter Stefan, owner of Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlor, told Fox News. Stefan has agreed to handle the funeral arrangements.- Peter Stefan, owner of Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral ParlorStefan said everybody deserves a dignified burial service no matter the circumstances of their death and said he is prepared for protests. But he added that arrangements have yet to be worked out, and finding a final resting plot for the body – which Islamic law says must not be cremated – could prove difficult.Massachusetts cemetery officials told FoxNews.com graveyards typically dont turn away families, no matter how much the public might revile the deceased. In the case of Tsarnaev, Boyle suggested the family might opt for the most inconspicuous option available – if they can find a cemetery that wi

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Is there a “monster” living in Lough Foyle, Ireland.YouTube.com videoFor lovers of the paranormal who’ve grown weary of waiting for the Loch Ness monster to reappear, here’s a new “monster” to feast your eyes upon.Three college students were filming a short movie as a class project at Lough Foyle, a large tidal estuary in County Donegal, Ireland, when something very odd moved through the water in front of them, UPI reports.”Looks like we have our own Loch Ness monster!” Conall Melarkey, a student at North West Regional College in Derry, Ireland, wrote in his posting of the video clip to YouTube. [Loch Ness, Chupacabra & More: Our 10 Favorite Monsters]“I have absolutely no idea what it is, but it looked amazing!” Melarkey wrote.The shaky, 59-second video shows a dark object of indeterminate size moving slowly along the surface of Lough Foyle before diving or sinking slowly beneath the waves.Some observers have speculated that the object could be a large fish, a whale, a dolphin or some other marine animal (Lough Foyle is open to the North Atlantic).Besides the infamous Loch Ness monster of Scotland, reports of large, lake-dwelling creatures have come from other parts of the world, including the mysterious “Devil of Lake Labynkyr” in Siberia.Nessie achieved international fame when, in 1934, a now-famous photograph was published showing a large animal with a serpentine head and neck. The photo, taken by a London surgeon named Kenneth Wilso ins, based on police records.West Fertilizer did not have a fence or security guards, and just one security camera was installed, Cawthon said. Besides the costs of adding security, the plant was often visited after hours by farmers needing fertilizer.”If the owner was to spend that money to make this a fortress, it would decrease his business because the farmers can’t come and go,” Cawthon said.Daniel Keeney, a spokesman for Adair Grain, which owned and operated the plant, declined to answer questions about plant security to avoid “misunderstandings or confusions.”Last month’s explosion occurred during the spring planting season, when the plant was especially busy, officials in the investigation have said. Two months before the explosion, plant officials reported they could store as much as 270 tons of ammonium nitrate.Teams from the state fire marshal’s office and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are hoping to determine how much ammonium nitrate was on site when the blast occurred by studying the 90-foot-crater left in the explosion and combing through records.

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d others that Russian officials contacted the U.S. government at least twice in 2011 with concerns about Tsarnaev, the Chechen who two years later would carry out last week’s deadly bombing of the Boston Marathon, as an example of an instance that merits further investigation.”In a string of apparent intelligence-sharing lapses, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was able to slip through the cracks and carry out this devastating attack,” the senators said.Authorities suspect Tsarnaev, 26, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, of using improvised explosives to kill and maim runners and spectators near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Three people were killed and more than 200 injured in the April 15 attack.Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed days later in a shootout with police. His 19-year-old brother escaped but was captured alive Friday night and now faces a charge of use of a weapon of mass destruction that could carry the death penalty.The brothers immigrated to the United States about a decade ago with their family. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev became a U.S. citizen last year, but Tamerlan had not yet earned citizenship.Senators, after being briefed on the case Tuesday, said the U.S. government had “multiple contacts” with Russia about the older Boston bombing suspect, but those lawmakers wouldn’t offer any more details.Fox News was told the FBI tried to determine if Tsarnaev had any ties to terrorism, but those efforts apparently proved inconclusive.”W he says he never wanted to hear someone say, “Oh, THAT’S why he wrestles.”In fact, though more gay and lesbian athletes are coming out in college, gay male professional athletes in major sports have waited to do so until they have left their sport, one of the more recent being Robbie Rogers, an American soccer player who played professionally in England. There have been reports that gay male athletes who are currently playing may be on the verge of going public.But women have already done so with little backlash.U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe, for instance, came out right before she played in last year’s Olympics. WNBA star Seimone Augustus and the league’s No. 1 draft pick, Brittney Griner, are some of the more recent female athletes to follow suit.In Hollywood in recent years, both openly gay men and lesbians have had successful careers. And when it comes to television and movies, it appears there are more high-profile gay male characters.Still, while many see the two dads on the “Modern Family” sitcom as groundbreaking, others have a sense that the societal discomfort with gay men as parents is at the root of many of the jokes.”A good portion of that is for comedic effect,” says Don Todd, a 32-year-old father in a two-dad family in Orange, Calif. He doesn’t think most people would think it was as funny if the characters were two moms.Herek, the researcher at UC-Davis, has, in fact, found in surveys that heterosexuals think lesbians

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A leading Republican said Friday that the unfolding events in Boston underscore the need to address “gaps and loopholes” in the nation’s immigration system, stressing that any new immigration bill should tighten screening to stop those “who wish to do us harm.”Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, addressed the terror attack and ongoing manhunt at the start of a Capitol Hill hearing on newly unveiled comprehensive immigration legislation. The Boston crisis rapidly overshadowed the hearing, the first held for the major piece of legislation. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had been scheduled to testify but canceled as federal law enforcement agencies were pulled into the crime scene. Grassley, though, suggested the attacks in Boston could influence how the immigration bill is considered.”It’s important for us to understand the gaps and loopholes in our immigration system. While we don’t yet know the immigration status of the people who have terrorized the communities in Massachusetts, when we find out, it will help shed light on the weaknesses of our system,” said Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.The two suspects have been identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was killed early Friday morning.The two are believed to be from the region near Chechnya. One source briefed on the matter said they are thought to have arrived in the United States about a decade ago. Po

The lovely and talented Kim KardashianKim is perhaps the most talented woman in the world when it comes to two things: getting attention, and getting paid.A Los Angeles judge has approved a divorce settlement between Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries.Details of the agreement were not disclosed in a brief court hearing Friday, but the judge said he felt that settlement talks had led to resolution.The divorce will become final once papers are prepared and signed by the parties.Kardashian appeared with her lawyer and said she understood the terms of the agreement.Humphries did not attend. The judge dropped an order for the NBA player to appear and explain why he failed to attend a previous hearing.Kardashian and Humphries were married in August 2011. The two were married for 72 days before Kardashian filed for divorce in Oct. 2011. She is currently pregnant with rapper Kanye Wests child.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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fuse to comply with the requirements for legalization.The trade of legalization for enforcement looks good for conservatives if one considers what proponent Sen. Marco Rubio calls de facto amnesty. If there is no deal, border crossings will persist and there will be no crackdown on those here who do not break other laws. Certainly not under President Obama and almost assuredly under any president. The political clout of Hispanic voters is now so great as to make such things impossible.Republicans do not like the status quo, neither politically nor practically. Democrats, meanwhile, love the political posture of the debate and can mostly live with a system that achieves most of their aims for permissive immigration by default.Conservatives like Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions and Heritage Foundation honcho Jim DeMint are doing their best to sink the legislation, but as long as the discussion remains mostly focused on undocumented workers and those living in the shadows, their efforts are doomed. Maybe they can scuttle this legislation, but the next bill on offer will certainly be more liberal.Conservatives stood athwart the 1964 Civil Rights Act on the reasonable grounds that the measure was unconstitutional. But their principled opposition did not stop the law and helped erase a century of standing for Republicans as the party of racial equality.But when illegal immigrants are accused of helping terrorists and authorities say the system di FRANKFURT, Germany The European Central Bank and its president, Mario Draghi, have played a key role in fighting the government debt crisis afflicting the 17 European Union member countries that use the euro.The ECB is the issuer of the euro currency and serves as the top monetary authority for the eurozone and its 333 million people.Some of its key steps have been:LOWER INTEREST RATES: The ECB has cut its key interest rate four times since Draghi become president. This month the ECB lowered the so-called main refinancing rate further by a quarter-point to a record low of 0.5 percent.The refinancing rate is what the bank charges on the credit it offers to eurozone banks and thereby influences interest rates on the loans banks provide to each other, businesses and consumers. Theoretically, a lower rate means cheaper borrowing costs and more incentive to borrow money and expand a business. In practice, a slack economy has meant weak demand for loans.UNLIMITED BOND BUYS: In 2012, high borrowing costs were threatening to push indebted countries such as Italy and Spain into a financial collapse that could have broken up the euro.Draghi took a major step toward calming the eurozone crisis by announcing last year that “within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro.”The ECB followed through on Sept. 6 by offering to purchase unlimited amounts of bonds issued by heavily indebted countries, lowering their bor

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Reports that the suspects in the Boston bombing are believed to be from the region near Chechnya may have caught some by surprise — rebels in Chechnya are known for their violent and long-running campaign to break away from Russia, but not for exporting terror to America.But congressional researchers and foreign policy analysts have long tracked a connection between the Chechnya region and Islamic extremists sympathizing with Al Qaeda and the Taliban. If the suspects are indeed Chechen, analysts told Fox News they may represent part of a jihadi network which has made its way to American soil.”The Chechen jihadi network is very extensive,” Middle East analyst Walid Phares said Friday. “They have a huge network inside Russia and Chechnya.”John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Chechen rebels are motivated by two things — a desire for independence from Russia and Islamic radicalism. He speculated that, if the suspects are Chechen, they could be motivated more by the latter. “They could well be supported by a significant international network,” he said.One suspect is dead and another is on the loose, as federal and local law enforcement are engaged in what Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick called a “massive manhunt.” Many questions are still unanswered.Sources said authorities are investigating whether Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass., and his brother may have had military training overseas.Reports hav cture. He said “there’s a jihad element that has grown larger and more important” inside of Chechnya in the wake of bloody wars with the Russians.He said the official leadership is more secular and moderate, but there is an extremist element that sees the Russians as “infidels.” He said the Al Qaeda links are tenuous, though Al Qaeda “sympathizes” with them.Williams said he is publishing a book on the subject next year called “Inferno in the Caucus.”Fox News’ Catherine Herridge and Mike Levine contributed to this report.

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President Obama said Monday that officials do not know who is behind the attack on the Boston Marathon, but vowed that those responsible will “feel the full weight of justice.”The president assured that the administration is mobilizing its “full resources” to help investigate and provide security.”The American people will say a prayer for Boston tonight,” Obama said.The president addressed the nation from the White House briefing room just hours after the explosion.Officials tell Fox News that Obama has been in touch with Massachusetts officials regarding the fatal attack and has directed his administration to provide “whatever assistance is necessary.”Reflecting the very preliminary stage of the investigation, Obama said authorities do not know who was behind the explosion.”We still do not know who did this or why, and people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before we have all the facts,” he said. “But make no mistake, we will get to the bottom of this. … We will find out who did this, and we will hold them accountable.”A White House official said the president called Boston Mayor Tom Menino and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick earlier Monday to “express his concern for those who were injured and to make clear that his administration is ready to provide needed support as they respond to the incident.”Obama was briefed by Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco and other members of his senior staff Monday afternoon, as well as by FBI Direc As a belligerent North Korea gives mixed signals about its intentions, Sen. John McCain on Monday urged the U.S. to be prepared to shoot down any missile that leaves North Korean airspace.The hawkish Republican senator made the call in a brief statement Monday afternoon. So far, Pyongyang has not gone through with a missile launch, despite expectations among some that the regime could mark the anniversary of Kim Il Sung’s birth with such a launch.”As the world waits to see whether North Korea will act on its threat to test launch a medium-range ballistic missile, I maintain that the United States should treat any North Korean missile launch as a threat to our national security and our allies, and that we should shoot it down once it leaves North Korean airspace,” McCain said in a statement. “North Korea’s leaders should have no doubt that the United States of America has both the capability and the will to eliminate the threats they seek to pose to international peace and stability.”U.S. defense officials have already said the United States has the capability to intercept any missile headed toward the homeland — though it is seen as unlikely that North Korea would fire a missile toward the U.S.Asked Monday about the absence of any missile test so far, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said officials are still monitoring “very carefully.”"We would not be surprised if that series of provocative actions and bellicose statements were

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