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Cops: Woman Burned In NYC Elevator Over $2K

Source: AP / CBS News NEW YORK – As Deloris Gillespie went up the elevator to her fifth-floor Brooklyn apartment, carrying groceries, a man was waiting. His face was one her neighbors later recognized, and she surely must have, too. Surveillance video from inside the small elevator shows that he looked something like an exterminator, [...]

Eric Holder Tells NY Times He's Taking Hits For Obama Because "We're Both African American"

Source: Josh Feldman / Mediaite The New York Times has a new profile out today about Attorney General Eric Holder, detailing how he has become a "partisan lightning rod" and frequent target of conservatives over his pursuance of issues like illegal immigration and gay rights. In the piece, Holder claims that many of his critics are playing "Washington 'gotcha games,'" viewing [...]

Stalemate As House GOP Opposes Senate Tax Bill (VIDEO)

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Report: North Korea's Kim Jong Il Is Dead

Update  10:30 PM EDT Source: AP / MSNBC SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69. Kim's death was announced Monday by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but appeared relatively vigorous in [...]

'The War Is Over': Last US Soldiers Leave Iraq (VIDEO)

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Source: MSNBC KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait – The last American troops crossed the border from Iraq into Kuwait early Sunday, ending the U.S. military presence there after nearly nine years. As the last convoy left Iraq at daybreak Sunday, soldiers whooped, bumped fists and embraced each [...]

Boehner Rejects Senate Payroll Tax Plan

Source: Tom Cohen / CNN Washington - House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday that he opposed the Senate plan to extend the payroll tax cut for two months, while a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama said chances were small that the House would reject the proposal. Boehner, R-Ohio, told the NBC program "Meet [...]

Man Burns Woman Alive In New York Elevator

Source: Maria P. White / CNN Police are questioning a person of interest in connection with the killing of a woman who was doused with a flammable liquid and lit on fire in the elevator of a Brooklyn apartment building, a New York police spokesman said Sunday. Neighbors said the woman was returning home to her fifth-floor [...]

In Iraq, The Last To Fall: David Hickman, The 4,474th U.S. Service Member Killed

Source: J. Freedom du Lac / The Washington Post GREENSBORO, N.C. — To find Army Spec. David Emanuel Hickman on the morning after his unit returned to Fort Bragg from Iraq, you had to drive 100 miles north, to his home town. Up Highway 29, less than two clicks from the northeast Greensboro cul-de-sac where [...]

WATCH: President Obama Speaks On Payroll Tax Cut Extension

President Obama says that Congress did the right thing for the American people by coming together to extend the payroll tax cut.

LIVE VIDEO: President Obama Delivers A Statement

JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV President Obama Delivers a Statement in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room