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• Obama signs Sept. 11 first responders bill Jan 02, 2022 06:51 PM
  
  • HONOLULU - President Barack Obama said Sunday he was honored to sign a bill to provide aid to survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks and first responders who became ill working in the ruins at the World Trade Center.
  • "We will never forget the selfless courage demonstrated by the firefighters, police officers and first responders who risked their lives to save others," Obama said in a statement.
  • "I believe this is a critical step for those who continue to bear the physical scars of those attacks."

  • GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election Jan 02, 2022 06:32 PM
    
    • WASHINGTON - The Republican agenda for the new Congress that convenes Wednesday may have a greater impact on the 2012 elections than on the lives of Americans in the next two years.
    • Getting this agenda through the House may be easier than in the Senate, given the GOP's 241-194 majority in the House.
    • Democrats still hold an edge there, though smaller than the one Obama had during his first two years in the White House.

    • Insurgent attacks kill 4 Iraqi security officers Jan 02, 2022 06:22 PM
      
      • BAGHDAD - Insurgents killed four members of Iraq's security forces and a city engineer in separate incidents across the Iraqi capital Sunday evening, officials said.
      • Iraqi police and hospital officials said gunmen killed an off-duty traffic policeman in a drive-by shooting in eastern Baghdad around 8 p.m., and shot dead an Iraqi army colonel in his car downtown.
      • Assailants killed two more policemen in separate incidents later Sunday in Baghdad, as well as a city engineer northeast of the capital.

      • Dead suspect in Ohio trailer park shootout is ID'd Jan 02, 2022 06:11 PM
        
        • COLUMBUS, Ohio - Authorities have identified a man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy and injuring a police officer in a gun battle at a western Ohio trailer park.
        • The Clark County sheriff's office says 57-year-old shooting suspect Michael Ferryman also was killed during the New Year's Day standoff in the Enon Beach mobile-home park, about 50 miles west of Columbus.
        • The sheriff's office provided few details about Ferryman on Sunday.

        • Navy to investigate lewd videos shown on carrier Jan 02, 2022 05:38 PM
          
          • NORFOLK, Va. - The Navy said Sunday it will investigate "clearly inappropriate" videos broadcast to the crew of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in which a top officer of the ship used gay slurs, mimicked masturbation and opened the shower curtain on women pretending to bathe together.
          • The star of the videos, made in 2006 and 2007, is a former Top Gun pilot who now commands the same ship, the Norfolk-based USS Enterprise, which was deployed in the Middle East at the time and is weeks from deploying again.
          • The Virginian-Pilot newspaper reported on the videos in its Sunday editions and posted an edited version of one video on its website.

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