Pres. Obama Gets Some Quick Reactions on Gun Safety Initiative
President Obama has called for sweeping new gun laws in the United States, setting the stage for what may become the most sweeping political battle over gun control in decades.
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President Obama has called for sweeping new gun laws in the United States, setting the stage for what may become the most sweeping political battle over gun control in decades.
Mayor Nutter says the Sandy Hook Principles, modeled on the "Sullivan Principles" that helped force an end to apartheid in South Africa, are designed to make the gun industry behave better.
It has sharp colors. You can tap and swipe it, like other screens. But just try bending yours.
A new law now in effect prohibits light bulb manufacturers from producing traditional incandescent 75-watt light bulbs.
Spurred by both last month's Newtown, Conn., tragedy and three fatal New Year's Day shootings in Philadelphia, Mayor Nutter indicates that he is preparing a new effort to stem gun violence.
The guilty plea last week to fossil smuggling is seen as significant by Ted Daeschler (right), paleontologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, for a number of reasons.
A Main Line woman whose family adopted a child from Russia says the move by the Russian parliament would hurt children.
The online service suffered a widespread outage that lasted about 20 hours.
At 60 years old, Troop 358 of Grace Baptist Church of Germantown is one of the oldest African-American Boy Scout troops in America, says chairman Charles Whiting.
Adopting a child from Russia was never easy, but the Russian parliament is considering making it impossible for Americans to do so.
In this new CBS News poll, only 50 percent think a budget-cutting, tax-stabilizing deal can be accomplished by Republicans and Democrats by New Year's Day.
"They know what's going on," one mother says. "You try to explain that things happen, but you try and explain at the same time all the people who came to help."
"We never thought it could happen here" is the usual response after such horrific incidents, says a South Jersey security consultant.
The wait is over, and we finally have the first words of Twitter wisdom from Pope Benedict XVI.
Mayor Nutter said Philadelphia and other cities in the Commonwealth would face "devastating" cuts in services if the fiscal cliff spending cuts kick on at the start of the new year.
