Meet Elise Summerhill. She has the beautifully squeaky voice of a child. When she speaks it is pure sweetness, even as she describes the cancer that made her so sick.
 
"Germinoma. It's a brain tumor that was in my pituitary gland," she said.
 
Elise was diagnosed when she was 11. Her mother Heather says the granting

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will speak from the White House briefing room about the mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, his first comments on an incident that has left at least 27 people dead, including 18 children.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said that mass shootings "weigh heavily" on Obama

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia issued a clumsy denial Friday of a statement from its point man on Syria, who said a day earlier that Syrian President Bashar Assad is losing control of the country. The Foreign Ministry insisted it is not changing its stance on the embattled Syrian regime.

Russia's