[h=3]Headlines[/h]Change in position
Mitt Romney said Wednesday that requiring all Americans to buy health insurance amounts to a tax, contradicting a senior campaign adviser who said the Republican presidential candidate viewed President Barack Obama's mandate as anything but a tax.
"The majority of the court said it's a tax and therefore it is a tax," Romney told CBS News.
Romney's comments amounted to a shift in position. Earlier in the week, senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said Romney viewed the mandate as a penalty, a fee or a fine.
Internet child porn
[h=3]Probe identifies 272 men as suspects[/h]Austrian police said they have identified 272 suspects in the country as part of an investigation of Internet-based child pornography involving 141 nations.
Chief Inspector Harald Gremel said Austrian police were alerted by Luxembourg authorities after they found child pornography was being watched worldwide from several Luxembourg-based home pages.
Gremel told reporters Wednesday that all the suspects are male and come from all kinds of professions. Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner says they range in age from 17-70.
[h=3]Quick hits[/h]Bombing: A car exploded outside a southern Iraqi marketplace on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and wounding 28.
Found: Spanish police recovered Wednesday a priceless 12th-Century religious manuscript that was stolen from a cathedral last year. It was found in a garage and came a day after four suspects were arrested, the Interior Ministry said.
Killed: Thousands of people participated in the beating death of a man accused of desecrating Islam's holy book. He was dragged from a police station in central Pakistan, then set on fire, a police official said Wednesday.
Recount: Mexican electoral authorities said Wednesday they are re-counting more than half the ballot boxes used in the weekend's presidential election after finding inconsistencies in the vote tallies.
Derailed: A freight train derailed and a bridge collapsed Wednesday in the northern Chicago suburbs. No injuries were reported, and the cause was under investigation.
Mitt Romney said Wednesday that requiring all Americans to buy health insurance amounts to a tax, contradicting a senior campaign adviser who said the Republican presidential candidate viewed President Barack Obama's mandate as anything but a tax.
"The majority of the court said it's a tax and therefore it is a tax," Romney told CBS News.
Romney's comments amounted to a shift in position. Earlier in the week, senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said Romney viewed the mandate as a penalty, a fee or a fine.
Internet child porn
[h=3]Probe identifies 272 men as suspects[/h]Austrian police said they have identified 272 suspects in the country as part of an investigation of Internet-based child pornography involving 141 nations.
Chief Inspector Harald Gremel said Austrian police were alerted by Luxembourg authorities after they found child pornography was being watched worldwide from several Luxembourg-based home pages.
Gremel told reporters Wednesday that all the suspects are male and come from all kinds of professions. Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner says they range in age from 17-70.
[h=3]Quick hits[/h]Bombing: A car exploded outside a southern Iraqi marketplace on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and wounding 28.
Found: Spanish police recovered Wednesday a priceless 12th-Century religious manuscript that was stolen from a cathedral last year. It was found in a garage and came a day after four suspects were arrested, the Interior Ministry said.
Killed: Thousands of people participated in the beating death of a man accused of desecrating Islam's holy book. He was dragged from a police station in central Pakistan, then set on fire, a police official said Wednesday.
Recount: Mexican electoral authorities said Wednesday they are re-counting more than half the ballot boxes used in the weekend's presidential election after finding inconsistencies in the vote tallies.
Derailed: A freight train derailed and a bridge collapsed Wednesday in the northern Chicago suburbs. No injuries were reported, and the cause was under investigation.