No defenses against chemical weapons in Syria
CNN's Arwa Damon says civilians in Syria have no way to protect themselves if al-Assad attacks with chemical weapons.
Clark: Prosecutor shouldn't hold evidence
Marcia Clark discusses how a photo showing George Zimmerman bloody and swollen will impact the case and why evidence should never be withheld.
Syria's chemical weapons 'deadly serious'
Fran Townsend and Bob Baer explain the dire consequences if Syria's government uses chemical warfare on their people.
Zimmerman lawyer speaks out on bloody photo
George Zimmerman's attorney, Mark O'Mara, says a bloody photo of his client shows what Zimmerman was going through the night he shot and killed Trayvon Martin.
The picture had previously been given to his defense team as a grainy, black and white image. In the color version they received recently, Zimmerman's injuries are more visible.
"It's frustrating because this type of evidence should have come out day one," says O'Mara. He argues the anger toward Zimmerman would have been quelled if the public had seen the high-resolution photo, which shows "why he reacted the way he did."
A lawyer for Trayvon Martin's family dismisses that assessment because the black and white picture had been released.
Buzz over royal baby, hospitalization
Because she was hospitalized, Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, made an early announcement about their baby. CNN's Max Foster reports.
Walker: Price to pay for going off cliff
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KTH: Fiscal cliff blame leads nowhere
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Search for wanted millionaire John McAfee
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Tonight on AC360: Bloody photo of George Zimmerman released
George Zimmerman’s defense team has released a color photo showing his bloody face and swollen nose the night he shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Does the photo help their claim of self-defense? We’ll talk about that and more with Zimmerman’s lawyer Mark O’Mara.
The photo was taken by a Sanford, Florida police officer. Prosecutors gave the high-resolution image to the defense in late October. Previously, only a black and white picture of Zimmerman’s bloody face was released.
The 28-year-old former volunteer neighborhood watchman is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting more than nine months ago. Martin’s family says he was killed “in cold blood” and they claim the unarmed teen was attacked for no reason.
Tonight on AC360: Gergen: Will President Obama push us over the cliff?
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Forgive me, but haven't we seen this movie before in the aftermath of national elections? Usually, it doesn't end well.
In the weeks since his victory, President Barack Obama has argued - correctly - that voters are demanding that high-income Americans pay higher taxes as a way to reduce deficits. Some 60% in exit polls endorsed that proposition, and a Pew/Washington Post poll released this week found that 60% still support it. The president, then, has good reason to push the idea.
In a breakthrough, House Speaker John Boehner quickly lined up behind the idea of the wealthy paying more. He still disagrees with the president on how to get there, of course, but critics are losing sight of how far Boehner seems prepared to go. In private negotiations with Obama last year, the two men first agreed on raising $800 billion in new taxes over 10 years. When Obama pushed to see whether Boehner would go up another $400 billion to $1.2 trillion, the talks fell apart amid bitter recriminations and conflicting accounts of what happened.
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