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This specific decision in response to the little sisters, cap a group of nuns who oppose this mandate. >> their lawyer said they were delighted with the decision. a denver-based order of nuns, they dont want to include it in health insurance they offer to their employees who help them run nursing homes for low income people. the group was turned down by federal appeals court earlier yesterday and an emergency request to the supreme court. justice sonia sotomayor granted the request for implement...

Overtake bin the brown and the black and the poor and people they see as less worthy of sort of the america they believe that they created. so the idea that they resent these entitlements, resent these programs, feel theyre enfeeb lg and destroying america, that is what designs them as conservatives. its very difficult to have a proactive positive agenda other than their proactive i want to cut taxes, for instance, on the wealthy, because they feel that would be better for the country. >> we kee...

Shut down by, who else, the federal government. fredrick is one of 23 towers at small and medium airports the faa may close because of forced spending cuts. >> were awarded the money, and you know, ten months later they say that you dont need a tower here. so its the world of mixed messages. >> reporter: in florida, the government also giveth and now may taketh away. $1.8 million in stimulus money went to construct this new tower at opa-locka. one million for this new tower in st. petersburg. no...

Transgender people. to business, the probe into the british bank libor scandal is widening. new yorks attorney general has subpoenaed some of the biggest banks in the world over their role in an alleged rate-fixing scandal. cn cnbcs or yell morrison is live in london this morning. >> thank you so much for that. some of these names that youre probably recognize, there are seven banks that were hearing has now been subpoenaed. jpmorgan chase, deutsch bank, ubs, citigroup and hsbc. what were hear...

numbers that we were hoping to see and hopefully will continue. so new jobless claims plunged to 352,000 last week. thats a huge drop. down by 50,000. this demonstrates there are fewer layoffs. however, jobless claims can be a little volatile. for example, we saw claims jump a few weeks ago because of the temporary holiday workers that were laid off. and also the prior week was revised a little bit higher, not much. just by about 3,000. it did go above 400,000. we need to stay below th...

Putting their hands in their pockets. sales stalling after .4% last month. the aussie dollar is weakening today. japan was closed for holiday. in india, down by .5%. thats after the government revised its growth forecast for the year. down the second time in two months that india has actually revised its growth forecast down. the prime minister says he now expects gdp to grow around 7% to the end of the year. thats down from 8 point 5% from last year. its also more than the 7.5 percent the gover...

man has been sentenced to death. the countrys court has found him guilty of working for an enemy country, meaning the united states, and spying for the cia. ven ne swale len president chaff vez -- mahmoud ahmadinejad is going to cuba, ecuador and nicaragua. hes hoping to shore shore up support. an american pop star surprised her fans when she announced her pregnancy to the world during the mtv video awards back in august. beyonce and her husband, jay-z, welcomed their baby girl int...

Stop. and lets be fair. hes delivered some of his drain the swamp pledges, like cracking down on the resolving door between government and lobbying. and michael cohens peddling didnt work. the trump administration took at&t to court to block the merger. but the sight of a trump insider running around trying to help big corporations is an insult to every trump voter. just today "the wall street journal" is reporting that michael cohen pushed his swampy service to ford as well. donald trump was el...

Tell you if he is nodding off before you go under the knife? im harris faulkner in tonight for shepard smith. we begin with a strong signal tonight the job market is in the process of turning around. first time claims for unemployment dropped sharply last week, down by 34,000 according to the labor department. its the first time the number of people fresh out of work has been below 400,000 since july 2008. you can see how it peaked to just above 600,000 last year. jerry willis of the fox busines...