And total accounting for that. But he isnt about to do it and it can be done, obviously. If a person is gay and seeks god and has goodwill, who am i to judge them . Children born today grow up in a World Without doma, and the same children who happen to be gay will be free to love and get thated as thea and i did with the same federal benefits and protections as anyone else. At 2013. A look back all of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. At 2013. Look back it was an historic year. Edward snowden exposed how the National Security agency amid the nsa, built a worldwide surveillance apparatus while Chelsea Manning wasnt it said 35 years in jail for leakin your secret documents was sentenced to 35 years in jail for leaking secret documents. Pope francis warned about the journey of unfettered capitalism. Tens of thousands were killed in syria. The philippines was devastated by typhoon haiyan. The Supreme Court struck
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 227. The nays are 190. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. He house will come to order. The house will come to order. Please, members take conversations off the floor. Cease conversations. Clear thewell, clear the aisle. Clear the well, clear the aisle. Please ceaseual conversationsd. Cease all conversations. Lease clear the aisle. He house will come to order. The house will come to order. The chair would ask all present to rise for the purpose of a moment of silence. The chair asks that the house now observe a moment of silence in remembrance of our brave men and women in uniform who have given their lives in the service of our nation in iraq and afghanistan and the families of all who serve in our armed forces and their families. Woit, fiveminute voting will continue without objection, fiveminute voting will continue. The Unfinished Business is the motion on the gentleman from
Joggers braving the weather. Less than inch fell in maryland. As temperatures dip below freezing, officials warning drivers to take it easy. Storm team 4 meteorologist kim martucci is here with more. Not much snow fell at d. C. A trace at reagan national. If you go north of frederick you get to 3 inches or more. The storm is leaving us. We said goodbye to the flurries a while ago. That is where ski country is. Heres what is next for us. Gusty winds on the way picking up overnight. This sends the wind chills into the teens tonight. It will feel like the 20s tomorrow. When i see you next well talk about a hiccup in the weather system coming our way for new years day. Thanks, kim. New tonight, a 19yearolds death in Fairfax County is being called a homicide. We know the name of the victim, xavier stringfellow. He was from manassas. Darcy spencer has new details on the investigation. Reporter a Fairfax County Police Officer discovered the scene. A van slammed through a wall and traveled up
After a poor first half due to poor weather and a weak yen. Fingers crossed, everybody, that today will be the end when we have to the end of time when we can stop talking about taper. Set taper gossip giving away to cold, hard facts when the feds twoday meeting concludes. The fass dak being up at a 15year peak on tuesday, u. S. Treasuries up for the fifth day in a row and the nikkei up on an eightweek high. Investors appeared calm by the prospects of a modest scale back of stimulus. But what if recent data turns paper light into paper zero . Get a look at some of the estimates for more. Cnbc. Com. Right now for more we have our own inhouse expert here in london. Karen has all the details. These are the estimates to how much the fed will taper. We have got first up let me run you through the numbers. Warptants expect 14. 5 billion to be taken off the table, up absolutely from the Previous Survey which averaged just over 12 billion. The poll of Top Economists said reduction, which is ex
Very latest news from europe including cracks appear in Silvio Berlusconis power base if it finds threats italy has to go to the polls again over his role in government. Golden dawn or golden dusk . In greece activists face new threats to their political future. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged president obama not to let up on sanctions against iran. Netanyahu is visiting the white house just three days after obama and new iranian president Hassan Rouhani spoke on the phone. Thats the highest level of contact in decades. He assured netanyahu he will be levelheaded during talks with iran. The head of irans elite revolutionary guard questions the time between the phone call. He told the state news agency that rouhani should have waited until washington demonstrated genuine intentions towards iran. He says given the fact that the islam my republic of iran demonstrated its goodwill, especially by the stances and the remarks made in the 68th session of the United Nations,