Sunday's Breaking US News Report

US NEWS CONTINUALLY UPDATED FROM THOUSANDS OF SOURCES AROUND THE NET.

• High court poised to upend civil rights policies _{2013-03-31, 05:40 am}
  In this March 5, 2013 photo, University of Texas senior Bradley Poole, 21, poses for a photo on the campus in Austin, Texas.
• Willie Nelson: 'Same-Sex Marriage Is A Human Right' _{2013-03-31, 01:24 am}
  Willie Nelson attends the 46th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 1, 2012 in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1 $750k bid for unwanted Alaska ferry worth $80M _{2013-03-30, 09:20 pm}
  An unwanted, $80 million ice-breaking ferry owned by an Alaska borough has only one bid to buy it, and it's for $751,000. The bid was the only entered by Friday's deadline set up by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, which has been trying to get rid of the 200-foot ferry.
• Business, labor get deal on worker program _{2013-03-30, 09:20 pm}
  Big business and labor have struck a deal on a new low-skilled worker program, removing the biggest hurdle to completion of sweeping immigration legislation allowing 11 million illegal immigrants eventual U.S. citizenship, labor and Senate officials said Saturday.
• The South: A near-solid block against 'Obamacare' _{2013-03-30, 05:15 pm}
  As more Republicans give in to President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, an opposition bloc remains across the South, including from governors who lead some of the nation's poorest and unhealthiest states.
• Gov. Nikki Haley: We Will Not Expand Medicaid On President Obama's Watch _{2013-03-30, 05:15 pm}
  As more Republicans give in to President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, an opposition block remains across the South, including from governors who lead some of the nation's poorest and unhealthiest states.
• What happened on HMS Bounty? _{2013-03-30, 03:15 pm}
  The tall-ship crew enjoyed a life of adventure -- until the Bounty went down in Hurricane Sandy.
• Partisan discord finds roots in toss-up districts _{2013-03-30, 11:10 am}
  Here in Cincinnati's suburbs, where people tend to be polite, one finds seeds of the bitter partisanship that gnaws at Washington, 500 miles away.
• Veterans fight changes to disability payments _{2013-03-30, 10:10 am}
  Veterans groups are rallying to fight any proposal to change disability payments as the federal government attempts to address its long-term debt problem.
• Obama: Easter, Passover a time to pray, reflect _{2013-03-30, 08:06 am}
  In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the Easter and Passover holidays give millions of Christians, Jews and people of other faiths a chance to slow down and recommit themselves to loving their neighbors and seeing everyone as a child of God.
• Thousands in NYC living in hotels after Sandy _{2013-03-30, 04:52 am}
  More than 2,000 people displaced by Superstorm Sandy are still living in New York City hotels five months after the storm.
• Lawmakers tighten belts amid automatic budget cuts _{2013-03-30, 04:52 am}
  Members of Congress are traveling less and worrying more about meeting office salaries.
• 2 charged in teen's killing plead not guilty _{2013-03-30, 01:51 am}
  Two men have pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges tied to the shooting death of a Chicago teenage girl, who days before had performed at a Washington brunch in the run-up to President Barack Obama's inauguration.
• US appeals court grants Hobby Lobby full hearing _{2013-03-29, 11:46 pm}
  A federal appeals court has granted Hobby Lobby's request for the entire court to hear its challenge of a federal requirement that it provide insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar emergency contraceptives.
• Okla. governor signs horse slaughter legislation _{2013-03-29, 10:41 pm}
  Oklahoma's 50-year-old ban on horse slaughtering was lifted Friday when the governor signed a new law that will allow facilities to process and export horse meat, despite bitter opposition by animal rights activists.
• Feds want $18 million back from timber counties _{2013-03-29, 10:41 pm}
  This July 19, 2011 shows workers with Brandt Logging Company loading pine beetle-killed trees on a truck near Frisco, Colo.
• Why Israel and Turkey Got Back Together _{2013-03-29, 09:03 pm}
  Israel apologized, Turkey accepted, and the two countries have resolved a three-year dispute -- all because Turkey's leaders realized that they stood to benefit more from cooperating with Israel than from exploiting the dispute for domestic political gain.
• Syrian rebels in strategic battle for south _{2013-03-29, 07:37 pm}
  A grand jury has indicted about three dozen educators in a standardized test cheating scandal that rocked Atlanta's public school system.
• Business, labor close on deal for immigration bill _{2013-03-29, 05:37 pm}
  Business and labor groups moved close Friday to resolving a dispute over a new low-skilled worker program that had threatened to stall negotiations on a sweeping immigration bill in the Senate, officials said.
• FBI 'flying saucers' NM memo bureau's most viewed _{2013-03-29, 05:37 pm}
  A single-page FBI memo relaying a vague and unconfirmed report of flying saucers found in New Mexico in 1950 has become the most popular file in the bureau's electronic reading room.