http://news.yahoo.com/rss-goodwin/ en-US Copyright (c) 2013 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved Thu, 23 May 2013 15:32:43 -0400 5 http://news.yahoo.com/rss-goodwin/ http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif Anthony Weiner's nascent New York City mayoral campaign might have hit a slight snag. Azi Paybarah at Capital New York notes on Thursday that the skyline featured in a banner on Weiner's campaign site appears to picture the lovely city of Pittsburgh, not New York. Weiner announced his candidacy in a video posted to the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/anthony-weiner-logo-features-pittsburgh-skyline-193243770.htmlThu, 23 May 2013 15:32:43 -0400blogs/ticket/anthony-weiner-logo-features-pittsburgh-skyline-193243770Mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner made his first appearance on Thursday since declaring his candidacy, apologizing again for his bizarre, Internet-only infidelity scandal that forced him out of Congress nearly two years ago. "There may be people who will never vote for me, and I respect that," Weiner told the phalanx of reporters who surrounded him [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/anthony-weiner-courts-nyc-voters-second-chance-city-150226386.htmlThu, 23 May 2013 11:02:26 -0400blogs/ticket/anthony-weiner-courts-nyc-voters-second-chance-city-150226386It's been a good week for proponents of immigration reform. The sweeping bill that seeks to legalize most of the country's 11 million unauthorized immigrants was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday night, after five full days of debate and amendments that did little to significantly change the original compromise. So, what's next [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/next-immigration-reform-bill-204958093.htmlWed, 22 May 2013 16:49:58 -0400blogs/ticket/next-immigration-reform-bill-204958093A bipartisan group of senators begins a fifth full day of debating changes to the immigration reform bill Tuesday. So far, the so-called mark-up process has left the sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws—which would legalize most of the country's 11 million undocumented immigrants—largely untouched. On Tuesday, the senators will address some of the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/immigration-reform-bill-largely-untouched-going-fifth-day-140819202.htmlTue, 21 May 2013 10:08:19 -0400blogs/ticket/immigration-reform-bill-largely-untouched-going-fifth-day-140819202Conservative radio talk show hosts have signed a letter opposing the sweeping immigration reform bill in the Senate, bucking tea party favorite Sen. Marco Rubio's attempts to win their support for the bill, which would combine enhanced border security with a legalization program for the nation's unauthorized immigrants. Rubio, a member of the "gang of [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/despite-rubio-wooing-radio-hosts-protest-immigration-reform-040037879.htmlTue, 21 May 2013 00:00:37 -0400blogs/ticket/despite-rubio-wooing-radio-hosts-protest-immigration-reform-040037879The president of a union that represents 12,000 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees announced his opposition to the immigration reform bill in the Senate on Monday morning. "The legislation will provide legal status to millions of visa overstays while failing to provide for necessary in-person interviews," union President Kenneth Palinkas said in a statement. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/uscis-union-president-fights-immigration-reform-bill-151954357.htmlMon, 20 May 2013 11:19:54 -0400blogs/ticket/uscis-union-president-fights-immigration-reform-bill-151954357When high school senior Jenny Bonilla got her college acceptance letter in March, she felt shock and heartbreak rather than joy. That’s because the letter from Goucher College, a private liberal arts school in Baltimore, also brought news that she would owe an unaffordable $20,000 a year in tuition and board, even with a scholarship [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/sticker-shock-college-graduates-why-education-cost-much-092117028.htmlMon, 20 May 2013 05:21:17 -0400blogs/lookout/sticker-shock-college-graduates-why-education-cost-much-092117028Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the Justice Department investigation into IRS employees singling out conservative nonprofits for extra scrutiny will be a broad, nationwide one based in Washington. "This is something that we will base in Washington, and that way we can have a better impact nationwide," Holder said in response to tough [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/holder-grilled-house-committee-meeting-163815035.htmlWed, 15 May 2013 12:38:15 -0400blogs/ticket/holder-grilled-house-committee-meeting-163815035A bipartisan group of senators voted against adding a biometric system to the sweeping immigration reform bill that would ensure people on tourist, student and other temporary visas leave the country when they are supposed to. The failed amendment was one of the most controversial additions to the bill considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/senators-reject-biometric-visas-immigration-reform-184521049.htmlTue, 14 May 2013 14:45:21 -0400blogs/ticket/senators-reject-biometric-visas-immigration-reform-184521049Minnesota senators approved a gay marriage bill on Monday, meaning the Midwestern state will soon be the 12th in the union to allow same-sex couples to wed. Gov. Mark Dayton is expected to sign the bill into law on Tuesday. Just last week, Delaware lawmakers voted to allow gay marriage in the state. In April, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/minnesota-legalizes-gay-marriage-212923538.htmlMon, 13 May 2013 17:29:23 -0400blogs/ticket/minnesota-legalizes-gay-marriage-212923538A jury has found abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell guilty of three counts of first-degree murder after deliberating for 10 days on the case. Prosecutors are expected to now seek the death penalty for Gosnell. The 72-year-old was charged with killing four premature babies by severing their spinal cords after they were born alive in his [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/jury-finds-kermit-gosnell-guilty-first-degree-murder-191903698.htmlMon, 13 May 2013 15:19:03 -0400blogs/lookout/jury-finds-kermit-gosnell-guilty-first-degree-murder-191903698Candida Moss, a professor of early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame and a practicing Catholic, wants to shatter what she calls the “myth” of martyrdom in the Christian faith. Sunday school tales of early Christians being rounded up at their secret catacomb meetings and thrown to the lions by evil Romans are mere [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/notre-dame-professor-tackles-myth-christian-martyrdom-151620492.htmlFri, 03 May 2013 11:16:20 -0400blogs/lookout/notre-dame-professor-tackles-myth-christian-martyrdom-151620492One might imagine that activists at the pro-immigrant, pro-labor May Day rally in New York City would be happy about the bipartisan immigration reform bill currently in the Senate. But signs and activists at Wednesday's rally called the current draft bill an "unjust" plan that would leave out too many immigrants in its legalization scheme [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/nyc-may-day-rally-calls-more-liberal-immigration-220339474.htmlWed, 01 May 2013 18:03:39 -0400blogs/ticket/nyc-may-day-rally-calls-more-liberal-immigration-220339474Nearly 75 percent of Americans want Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, to be tried in a nonmilitary federal court, a new Washington Post/ABC poll finds. Seventy percent said they believe Tsarnaev should be put to death if found guilty. Past polls have shown that Americans are generally more supportive of [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/most-americans-want-tsarnaev-tried-non-military-court-140446376.htmlWed, 01 May 2013 10:04:46 -0400blogs/lookout/most-americans-want-tsarnaev-tried-non-military-court-140446376George Zimmerman has waived his right to a pretrial hearing over whether he should be acquitted of murder charges under Florida's "stand your ground" law. Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who's charged with second-degree murder in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, said Tuesday in court that he did not want the preliminary hearing, the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/zimmerman-passes-stand-ground-hearing-chance-immunity-192058221.htmlTue, 30 Apr 2013 15:20:58 -0400blogs/lookout/zimmerman-passes-stand-ground-hearing-chance-immunity-192058221Anti-abortion activists are harnessing the outrage generated over the trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor to pressure lawmakers to pass more restrictive abortion laws. The activists say the trial of 72-year-old Kermit Gosnell, which concludes Monday as attorneys on both sides make their closing arguments, shows that late-term abortions are inhumane and unsafe and should [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/anti-abortion-movement-seeks-laws-gosnell-trial-201034006.htmlMon, 29 Apr 2013 16:10:34 -0400blogs/lookout/anti-abortion-movement-seeks-laws-gosnell-trial-201034006Rachel Lietzke Payne started using NuvaRing in 2008, when she was a 20-year-old college student. The contraceptive device appealed to her because it was easy to use. Birth control pills have to be taken every day, but NuvaRing, which came onto the market in 2001, is inserted into the vagina and removed each month—and is [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/more-1-000-suits-against-nuvaring-trial-fall-103903135.htmlFri, 26 Apr 2013 06:39:03 -0400blogs/lookout/more-1-000-suits-against-nuvaring-trial-fall-103903135An incredibly poised and positive Boston Marathon bombing survivor, Heather Abbott, told reporters Thursday she's "overwhelmed" by the outpouring of support she's received after having her leg amputated below the knee. Abbott was injured by one of the shrapnel-packed bombs set off in the attack, which wounded more than 200 and killed three people. At [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/boston-bombing-survivor-heather-abbott-amputation-best-case-191724457.htmlThu, 25 Apr 2013 15:17:24 -0400blogs/lookout/boston-bombing-survivor-heather-abbott-amputation-best-case-191724457Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon with his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was questioned for 16 hours by authorities before being read his Miranda rights, the AP reports today. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old college student, confessed his role in the crime during the questioning in his hospital room, but that confession may not be [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/tsarnaev-questioned-16-hours-read-miranda-rights-135531333.htmlThu, 25 Apr 2013 09:55:31 -0400blogs/lookout/tsarnaev-questioned-16-hours-read-miranda-rights-135531333New England's gay marriage holdout may soon join the rest of the region in allowing same-sex unions. Rhode Island senators are expected to vote on a measure as early as Wednesday, making the state the 10th in the nation to allow same-sex marriage. A similar bill has already passed the House. Interestingly, every single Republican [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rhode-island-could-become-10th-state-allow-same-134809048--election.htmlWed, 24 Apr 2013 09:48:09 -0400blogs/ticket/rhode-island-could-become-10th-state-allow-same-134809048--electionThe immigration status of the Boston bombings suspects may become a stumbling block for a new bill that seeks to legalize nearly 11 million immigrants and increase the number of legal immigrants to the United States. Opponents of the bill—which was crafted by a bipartisan "Gang of Eight" in the Senate—and even some supporters, say [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/bombing-suspects-immigration-status-emerges-reform-bill-talks-160951186--election.htmlTue, 23 Apr 2013 12:09:51 -0400blogs/ticket/bombing-suspects-immigration-status-emerges-reform-bill-talks-160951186--electionThe suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, will not be treated as an enemy combatant and will face trial in a civilian, federal court, White House spokesman Jay Carney announced Monday. In his hospital bed, the 19-year-old was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction, killing three people and injuring more than [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/tsarnaev-not-tried-enemy-combatant-does-mean-181419272--politics.htmlMon, 22 Apr 2013 14:14:19 -0400blogs/ticket/tsarnaev-not-tried-enemy-combatant-does-mean-181419272--politicsKatie Lyles was a sophomore at Columbine High School when her math class was interrupted by the sound of gunfire on April 20, 1999. She fled the class, and survived. But by the end of the day, she would find out that her lab partner from science class and one of her teachers were among [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/columbine-survivor-gun-bill-failure-not-over-151457085.htmlSat, 20 Apr 2013 11:14:57 -0400blogs/lookout/columbine-survivor-gun-bill-failure-not-over-151457085An aunt of Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said she doesn't believe her nephews could be behind the attacks. “I know them as angels,” Maret Tsarnaev told the National Post in Toronto. “I’m suspicious that this was staged.” In a press conference later aired by CNN, she reiterated her suspicions and said she [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/suspect-aunt-says-she-suspicious-investigation-190616201.htmlFri, 19 Apr 2013 15:06:16 -0400blogs/lookout/suspect-aunt-says-she-suspicious-investigation-190616201A second victim in the Boston Marathon bombings has been identified: Krystle M. Campbell, a 29-year-old originally from Medford, Mass. Her father, William A. Campbell Jr., told Yahoo News he's in shock that his daughter was killed. "My daughter was the most lovable girl. She helped everybody, and I'm just so shocked right now. We're [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/second-boston-marathon-victim-identified-krystle-campbell-174401374.htmlTue, 16 Apr 2013 13:44:01 -0400blogs/lookout/second-boston-marathon-victim-identified-krystle-campbell-174401374A new poll of Hispanic immigrants who entered the country illegally or overstayed visas finds that 87 percent would apply for citizenship if it's offered in a new immigration reform bill. A group of senators is expected to release a draft version of a bill Tuesday that lays out a nearly 15-year path to citizenship [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/poll-87-percent-unauthorized-immigrants-apply-citizenship-145754934--politics.htmlMon, 15 Apr 2013 10:57:54 -0400blogs/ticket/poll-87-percent-unauthorized-immigrants-apply-citizenship-145754934--politicsAs a bipartisan group of senators prepares to release a bill that could put as many as 11 million immigrants on a path to legalization and eventual citizenship, opponents of immigration reform—which many opponents refer to as "amnesty"—are trying to recreate the grass-roots backlash that helped kill the last major attempt at changing U.S. immigration [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/immigration-restrictionist-groups-hope-launch-grassroots-revolt-against-190447654--election.htmlThu, 11 Apr 2013 15:04:47 -0400blogs/ticket/immigration-restrictionist-groups-hope-launch-grassroots-revolt-against-190447654--electionDozens of relatives of victims in the Dec. 14 shooting spree in Newtown, Conn., released a statement Thursday shaming senators who attempted to block, or filibuster, a vote on legislation that would expand criminal background checks for gun purchases. Senators voted Thursday morning on whether to block the legislation crafted by West Virginia Democrat Joe [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/newtown-families-senators-fillibuster-gun-background-check-bill-152127122--election.htmlThu, 11 Apr 2013 11:21:27 -0400blogs/ticket/newtown-families-senators-fillibuster-gun-background-check-bill-152127122--electionFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is joining with top Silicon Valley CEOs to launch a political advocacy group called FWD.us that, among other things, will urge lawmakers to pass immigration reform. Politico reports that Linkedin co-founder Reid Hoffman and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer are among the group's major contributors. Former staffers in the Bill Clinton and [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/zuckerberg-launches-pro-immigration-reform-advocacy-group-134333401.htmlThu, 11 Apr 2013 09:43:33 -0400blogs/ticket/zuckerberg-launches-pro-immigration-reform-advocacy-group-134333401Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., unveiled a deal in a press conference on Wednesday morning to expand background checks to nearly every commercial gun purchase. President Barack Obama said there were parts of the agreement "that I might prefer to be stronger," but welcomed the move and pushed Congress to "finish the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/senators-announce-deal-gun-background-check-bill-145147692--election.htmlWed, 10 Apr 2013 10:51:47 -0400blogs/ticket/senators-announce-deal-gun-background-check-bill-145147692--electionLabor and immigration advocacy groups are planning a rally of tens of thousands of supporters on Wednesday afternoon to urge lawmakers to pass immigration reform. Organizers of the "rally for citizenship"—which include the Service Employees International Union and several civil rights and immigrant advocacy groups—say people from dozens of states will gather at the West [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/immigration-activists-labor-groups-descend-capitol-wednesday-214536819.htmlMon, 08 Apr 2013 17:45:36 -0400blogs/ticket/immigration-activists-labor-groups-descend-capitol-wednesday-214536819One in 9 students in middle and high schools in the 2009-2010 school year were suspended at least once, according to a new report by a civil rights group concerned that the high suspension rate may be pushing kids to drop out of school altogether. Most out-of-school suspensions were handed out for relatively minor infractions, [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/one-nine-middle-high-schoolers-suspended-during-school-161125273.htmlMon, 08 Apr 2013 12:11:25 -0400blogs/lookout/one-nine-middle-high-schoolers-suspended-during-school-161125273Earlier this week, we wrote about how if the federal Defense of Marriage Act is struck down by the Supreme Court this summer, it may lead to confusion for same-sex married couples who live or work in the 38 states that specifically bar the recognition of gay marriage. If DOMA is struck down, same-sex couples [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/one-clear-result-doma-struck-down-immigration-benefits-200551444--election.htmlFri, 05 Apr 2013 16:05:51 -0400blogs/ticket/one-clear-result-doma-struck-down-immigration-benefits-200551444--electionLater this month, the Senate is expected to begin debating a Democrat-backed bill to vastly expand the federal background check system for gun buyers. The proposed legislation, part of President Barack Obama's recent push to curb gun violence, would close the so-called gun show loophole that allows a substantial minority of overall gun sales to [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gun-background-checks-isn-t-allowed-purchase-gun-191132087--politics.htmlThu, 04 Apr 2013 15:11:32 -0400blogs/ticket/gun-background-checks-isn-t-allowed-purchase-gun-191132087--politicsDespite a major push from the White House, more states have cut back on gun regulations rather than pass gun-control reforms in the wake of the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Five states—New York, Colorado, Mississippi, Utah and Wyoming—have enacted seven new laws tightening restrictions on guns since [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/despite-gun-control-push-more-states-cut-back-135854909--election.htmlThu, 04 Apr 2013 09:58:54 -0400blogs/ticket/despite-gun-control-push-more-states-cut-back-135854909--electionVirginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has petitioned an appeals court to reconsider its decision to strike down the state's anti-sodomy law. Cuccinelli is asking the full 15-judge panel of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to uphold the state's sodomy ban, the Washington Blade first reported, after a three-judge panel invalidated the law last [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/virginia-attorney-general-asks-court-reconsider-anti-sodomy-212006596--politics.htmlWed, 03 Apr 2013 17:20:06 -0400blogs/ticket/virginia-attorney-general-asks-court-reconsider-anti-sodomy-212006596--politicsIf, as many legal experts predict, the Defense of Marriage Act is struck down by the Supreme Court, advocates behind the decadeslong movement for gay rights will have won a major victory. But the decision could also create a dense legal maze for gay and lesbian married couples, one that would surely lead to more [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gay-couples-employers-could-face-legal-maze-supreme-094406233--politics.htmlWed, 03 Apr 2013 08:20:51 -0400blogs/ticket/gay-couples-employers-could-face-legal-maze-supreme-094406233--politicsThe Associated Press announced today that it will no longer use the term "illegal immigrant" to describe people who are living in the country illegally. "The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term 'illegal immigrant' or the use of 'illegal' to describe a person," AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll wrote. "Instead, it tells users that 'illegal' [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/associated-press-drops-illegal-immigrant-stylebook-192309809--politics.htmlTue, 02 Apr 2013 15:23:09 -0400blogs/ticket/associated-press-drops-illegal-immigrant-stylebook-192309809--politicsA Republican congressman from Arizona told a local news station that his son's sexual orientation hasn't changed his view that same-sex couples should not be allowed to marry. Rep. Matt Salmon, from Arizona's 5th Congressional District, told 3TV that he loves his son and does not believe he chose to be gay, but that he [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/arizona-congressman-gay-son-doesn-t-change-position-191347768--election.htmlMon, 01 Apr 2013 15:13:47 -0400blogs/ticket/arizona-congressman-gay-son-doesn-t-change-position-191347768--electionEven as Democratic lawmakers rush to announce their support for gay marriage, a look back at the congressional debate over the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 shows they haven't always championed the rights of same sex couples. In historic gay marriage arguments before the Supreme Court this week, justices noted comments made by congressional [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/flashback-almost-every-politician-supported-traditional-marriage-173237350--election.htmlFri, 29 Mar 2013 13:32:37 -0400blogs/ticket/flashback-almost-every-politician-supported-traditional-marriage-173237350--election