Family of Bronze Star Recipient Appealing for Death Benefits After Pentagon Decision

Friday, December 02, 2011 TOP STORIES 1 Family of Bronze Star Recipient Appealing for Death Benefits After Pentagon Decision Capt. Samson Luke served seven years in the U.S. Army, deployed twice to Iraq and was given the Bronze Star for "bravery, heroism or meritorious" service after a particularly harrowing incident in 2006 that left many in his unit dead. He later died in the U.S., but the Army has declined to pay out military death benefits to the family. 2 Dad Gets Up to 30 Years in Prison for Killing Kid-Strangler Wife 3 Mysterious Manuscript's Code Has Been Cracked, 'Prophet of God' Claims 4 On The Job Hunt: Manufacturing Jobs Readily Available With No Skilled Workers to Fill Positions 5 The Miley Cyrus Conundrum: Train Wreck in Training, or Typical Teen? TOP VIDEOS 1 Senate Bill Ensures Arkansas Soldier's Death Benefits New measure helps protect military families 2 New Polls Show Gingrich Ahead in First Primaries 3 Huckabee Previews Republican Presidential Forum 4 Radio Listeners Outraged By Rhode Island 'Holiday' Tree 5 Occupiers' Debris Debacle FOX News Newsletters Just one click to sign up. FoxNews Breaking News Alerts Get alerted the moment major business or economic news breaks! View All Newsletters » This e-mail is never sent unsolicited; you received it because you subscribed to receive updates from foxnews.com Manage Subscriptions | Unsubscribe | Unsubscribe from all Newsletters Advertise with foxnews.com | Download the Fox News Community Toolbar Copyright ©2010. All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy Fox News Network, LLC 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY.

Politics: Absolution for Newt

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Politics Absolution for Newt How evangelicals are finding a way to support Gingrich. By David Weigel Posted Friday, Dec 02, 2011, at 12:10 AM ET The last time Pastor Robert Jeffress elbowed into the presidential race, he was warning a crowd of "values voters" about the dangers of nominating a Mormon. Jeffress, who leads the First Baptist Church in Dallas, wanted them to pick Rick Perry instead: He was an evangelical Christian who "sang the doxology," married his childhood sweetheart, and stayed faithful (as far as anyone knows) for 29 years. Easy choice. But Republicans may not get to choose between Perry and Mitt Romney. The current front-runner in Iowa is Newt Gingrich—thrice married, an admitted adulterer, a late convert to Catholicism. He's pulling voters from the other "anti-Romney" of choice, Herman Cain, because women keep tumbling out of Cain's closet clutching sexual harassment settlements and phone records of (allegedly!) decade-long affairs. "I think there's now an evangelical tri-lemma," says Jeffress, who still backs Perry but doesn't have illusions about his current electoral oomph. "Do you vote for a Mormon who's had one wife, a Catholic who's had three wives, or an Evangelical who may have had an entire harem?" This is a problem. The leadership of the evangelical right, as loose as it is, has the most influence over a Republican nomination in Iowa, in the caucuses. With a month to go, the candidate who said the right things and built the right-sized lead over Romney is Gingrich. Evangelical kingmakers, whom Newt has courted for years, are discussing how to forgive him. The actual voters who'll ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Why Won't South Hadley Say How Much It Paid Phoebe Prince's Family? Herman Cain Prepares To Blame His Wife for the End of His Campaign Shame: Can Michael Fassbender's Sterling Performance Save This Mediocre Movie?	Advertisement
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Arts: Do Hugo and The Artist have a Movie-About-Movies Advantage?

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Brow Beat Do Hugo and The Artist have a Movie-About-Movies Advantage? By Forrest Wickman Posted Friday, Dec 02, 2011, at 08:59 PM ET The National Board of Review named Hugo the best film of 2011 on Thursday. On Tuesday, the New York Film Critics Circle gave The Artist its Best Picture award. Over at Grantland, Oscarmetrics columnist Mark Harris offered three ways of looking at the National Board of Review's selection. I'd like to offer one more: Do movie critics—along with many diehard movie lovers, not to mention movie makers—have a bias towards movies about movies? I don't mean to suggest that these movies are undeserving of awards recognition. I loved Hugo, not just as a film about the transporting power of the movies, but as a transporting movie in itself. Similarly, I have no reason to believe that The Artist, which has won not just critical raves and Best Actor at Cannes but rapturous word-of-mouth from just about everyone on the Internet, isn't the best movie of the year. Still, it's only natural for all varieties of -philes (from cine- to audio- to biblio-) to express extra interest in work about the things we love most. In the past two weeks Slate has run pieces about The Artist and Hugo in addition to reviews of each film (as the author of the piece on Hugo, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with this, of course), and it's not alone. Meanwhile, one of the buzziest topics of the last few weeks has been the suspension of  meta-sitcom Community, a show that pretty clearly ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Why Won't South Hadley Say How Much It Paid Phoebe Prince's Family? Herman Cain Prepares To Blame His Wife for the End of His Campaign Shame: Can Michael Fassbender's Sterling Performance Save This Mediocre Movie?	Advertisement
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Good evening LATEST NEWS Apple's Siri irks abortion rights advocates SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc is facing its first major controversy over well-received voice software Siri, as the cutting-edge iPhone search service ran afoul of abortion rights advocates. | Full Article Behavioral therapy may ease kids' fibromyalgia December 02, 2011 05:19 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teaching teens coping skills to deal with the chronic pain of fibromyalgia may provide them some relief, a small study suggests. | Full Article Arsenic in water tied to breathing issues December 02, 2011 05:20 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People in Bangladesh exposed to high levels of arsenic in drinking water were more likely to report shortness of breath in a new study than those who drank water with safer arsenic concentrations. | Full Article Lots of pregnancies linked to a healthier heart December 02, 2011 05:21 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study from a single California community, women who had been pregnant at least four times were less likely to die from cardiovascular disease than those who'd never been expecting. | Full Article Bristol-Myers, J&J team up against hepatitis C December 02, 2011 01:11 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and Johnson & Johnson plan to jointly develop experimental treatments for hepatitis C in a market worth billions of dollars. | Full Article US TOP NEWS Germany's Merkel fights for euro, Cameron for UK December 02, 2011 03:54 PM ET PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron threatened on Friday to obstruct a Franco-German drive for swift change to the European Union's treaty, a sign of the difficulty leaders will face transforming Europe to save the euro. | Full Article U.S. jobless rate drops to 2-1/2 year low December 02, 2011 01:59 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. unemployment rate tumbled to a 2-1/2 year low in November, even though the pace of hiring remained too slow to suggest a significant acceleration in the labor market recovery. | Full Article Zynga seeks lower IPO value in tough market December 02, 2011 05:16 PM ET (Reuters)- Zynga Inc is seeking a more modest valuation than Wall Street expected for its initial public offering, hoping to attract investors after a series of Internet stocks fell below their IPO price in recent weeks. | Full Article Obama promises big push on payroll tax cut December 02, 2011 05:18 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday pledged an aggressive push to pass an extension to the payroll tax cut for U.S. workers, saying lawmakers must not leave for their holiday break without taking action on it. | Full Article GE, Rolls drop push to build F-35 engines December 02, 2011 05:19 PM ET (Reuters) - General Electric Co and Rolls Royce dropped their drive to build an alternate engine for Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 joint strike fighter, giving up on what they had said could be a $100 billion market. | Full Article BUSINESS NEWS Wall St. caps stellar week on drop in jobless rate AA woes menace Dallas, Miami, Chicago airports: Fitch Senate panel may subpoena MF Global's Corzine RIM caps dismal year with another profit warning BofA CEO faces investors, shares plumb lows RELATED VIDEO A plea from the streets of Syria Storming Parliament in Argentina Outcry over Biden in Turkey A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today. Your daily briefing on the latest tech developments from around the world from Reuters expert tech correspondents. Register Today. The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day.. Register Today. » MORE NEWSLETTERS ODDLY ENOUGH Mayans never predicted world to end in 2012? Full Article Professor is dumpster-diving urban Robin Hood Funny Finnish bunny thinks he's a chicken Top Gear presenter in hot water over "silly" remarks Paris cleans lipstick off Oscar Wilde grave Thanksgiving spat over chair ends in knife attack - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2010 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add mail@nl.reuters.com to your address book. Details Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Forward to a friend