Long Island News

NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC suspended political analyst Mark Halperin for an off-color remark about President Barack Obama on “Morning Joe” Thursday. “I thought he was a dick yesterday,” Halperin said on Thursday’s show during a discussion about Obama’s news conference the day before. Halperin, a Time magazine editor at large, quickly apologized on the air and in a statement

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A father accused of abandoning his 4-year-old son along a rural West Texas highway in the middle of the night was charged Thursday with attempted capital murder, prosecutors said. 32nd Judicial District Attorney Ann Reed said she upgraded the charge against Carlos Rico after talking with the Sweetwater police chief. “As the facts of the case developed it became apparent that the more serious charges were appropriate,” Reed told The Associated Press.

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman seeking the Republican presidential nomination, said Wednesday that a “devastating” miscarriage led her to become a foster parent to 23 children. Speaking to voters in South Carolina, the mother of five biological children said the experience changed her and refocused her family’s priorities

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