Jumat, 18 September 2009

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Dems unhappy with proposed tax in health care bill (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 10:27 PM PDT

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Unhappy Senate Democrats on Thursday found plenty to complain about in the fine print of the latest health overhaul bill, particularly a tax provision they fear would hit hard at middle-class Americans, from coal miners in West Virginia to firefighters in New York.

Mass. House approves Sen. Kennedy succession bill (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 12:00 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 12, 2008 file photo, Paul Kirk, Jr., chairman, John Kennedy Library Foundation Board of Directors, is seen at the annual Profile in Courage Award ceremonies at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. Should the Massachusetts legislature change an existing succession law, Kirk is among those Gov. Deval Patrick could appoint to temporarily fill the Senate seat left vacant by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File)AP - A bill allowing Gov. Deval Patrick to name an interim appointment to the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward Kennedy is headed to the Massachusetts Senate, where its fate is uncertain.

AP IMPACT: Gov't stands by as mercury taints water (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 10:28 PM PDT

Ron Paul, a dog belonging to Kate Woods, walks through a creek colored by runoff from a mercury mine in New Idria, Calif., Thursday, March 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people.

Police focus on Yale murder suspect's attitude (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 12:10 AM PDT

Raymond Clark III, 24, is lead into court in New Haven, Conn. on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 for his arraignment. Clark was arrested Thursday at a hotel and charged with murdering Le, whose body was found stuffed in the wall of a research building on what would have been her wedding day. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey).AP - Police are considering whether a Yale University graduate student's killing may have stemmed from a dispute with an animal research technician described as an overbearing "control freak" who clashed with scientists and their proteges in the lab where they both worked.

Afghan leader: Election 'true and fair' (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 12:14 AM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. Karzai conceded Thursday that some government officials had been biased toward him in last month's election but defended the integrity of the vote, saying he had so far seen little proof of fraud. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)AP - President Hamid Karzai called Afghanistan's disputed election "true and fair" and said he would not accept a second round of voting simply to satisfy critics claiming massive fraud, after European monitors said more than a quarter of the votes were suspect.

AP NewsBreak: Nuke agency says Iran can make bomb (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 10:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 15, 2008 file photo, The Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamad El Baradei arrives for talks with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)AP - Iran experts at the U.N.'s nuclear monitoring agency believe that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and worked on developing a missile system that can carry an atomic warhead, according to a confidential report seen by The Associated Press.

US military training Iraqi prison guards (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 11:25 PM PDT

Brig. Gen. David Quantock, right, who is in charge of detainees in US custody in Iraq, stands at Camp Bucca, in Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. The U.S. military on Wednesday closed the desert prison camp, once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it forges ahead with plans to release detainees or transfer them to Iraqi custody. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - As the U.S. military prepares to hand over the remnants of its detention system to the Iraqi government next year, it is training Iraqi wardens and guards to ensure that changes it made after the Abu Ghraib scandal remain in place.

Google injects search savvy into display ad system (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 11:20 PM PDT

File - Robert Reineke, of Venezuela, stands by the Google booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, in this Jan. 7, 2006 file photo. Google has melded the technology powering its lucrative search marketing network with a system that it bought 18 months ago to sell online billboards and other more visual commercials, including video. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)AP - Google Inc. is counting on the crown jewel of its online advertising empire to burnish a diamond in the rough.

TV anchor's flub turns into catch phrase overnight (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 10:41 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 15, 2007 file photo originally released by Fox 5, WNYW Fox 5 anchor Ernie Anastos poses for a photo at the 40th Anniversary celebration of their 10 p.m. newscast in New York. (AP Photo/Fox 5, Jeffrey Neira, file)AP - A veteran New York City news anchor flubs a line and an obscene catch phrase goes viral on the Internet.

Miami puts emphatic end to Tech hex, 33-17 (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 10:42 PM PDT

Miami's LaRon Byrd (47) catches a pass as Georgia Tech's Jerrard Tarrant (37) looks on during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, in Miami. Byrd caught the pass and ran in for a touchdown. (AP Photo/Hans Deryk)AP - Miami quarterback Jacory Harris raised some eyebrows this week when he suggested the Hurricanes' offense couldn't be stopped. Georgia Tech did nothing to disprove that theory.

U.S. replaces Bush plan for Europe missile shield (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 04:24 PM PDT

A C300 anti-aircraft missile flies over head during an air defense exercise near the Black sea town of Shabla east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. The exercise is organized in accordance with the NATO military standards. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov)Reuters - President Barack Obama on Thursday scrapped a Bush-era missile defense plan for Europe that Russia had bitterly opposed and offered what he said would be faster, more flexible defense systems to protect against Iran.

Obama, Baucus push U.S. healthcare reform (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 03:07 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama pitched his U.S. healthcare reforms to college students on Thursday and Senate Democrats searched for common ground after some criticized elements of a highly anticipated new plan.

U.S. envoy resumes push for Israel settlement deal (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 12:05 AM PDT

A tank takes position near Kibbutz Kissufim, just outside the central Gaza Strip November 5, 2008. REUTERS/Amir CohenReuters - United States and Israeli officials began a third meeting in Jerusalem on Friday to try to reach agreement on a West Bank settlement freeze that could restart peace talks with the Palestinians.

Iran security forces clash with protesters: witness (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 12:52 AM PDT

Iranian opposition demonstrators carry portraits of defeated reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, in Tehran on June 15. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told US television Thursday he regretted the deaths of protestors during demonstrations that erupted after Iran's disputed June elections.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)Reuters - Iran security forces clashed with supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and arrested at least 10 of them during annual anti-Israel rallies in central Tehran on Friday, a witness said.

Contraception vital in climate change fight: expert (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 11:51 PM PDT

Reuters - Contraception advice is crucial to poor countries' battle with climate change, and policy makers are failing their people if they continue to shy away from the issue, a leading family planning expert said on Friday.

At least 25 dead in NW Pakistan car bomb attack (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 12:50 AM PDT

Map locating Kohat in northwest Pakistan near to the village where a suspected suicide bomb tore through a market place Friday, killing at least 14, police said.(AFP/Graphic)Reuters - The death toll from a car-bomb attack in northwest Pakistan on Friday was at least 25, with victims killed either in the blast or when nearby buildings collapsed on them, an administrator said.

U.S. judge orders Kuwaiti held at Guantanamo freed (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 07:38 PM PDT

Reuters - A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered the Obama administration to release another Kuwaiti detainee held at the controversial U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Suicide blast kills at least 10 in Pakistan: police (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 11:30 PM PDT

Map locating Kohat in northwest Pakistan near to the village where a suspected suicide bomb tore through a market place Friday, killing at least 14, police said.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - A suicide car bomb attack killed at least 10 people after tearing through shops and vehicles at a market in a small Shiite-dominated town in northwest Pakistan on Friday, police said.

Obama revamps Bush-era missile shield (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 08:03 PM PDT

Iran's Revolutionary Guards fire the Shahab-3 long-range missile in the Iranian desert in 2006. In a major shift based on a reassessment of the threat from Iran, US President Barack Obama Thursday shelved plans for a missile shield in Eastern Europe, the cause of a Cold War-style row with Russia.(AFP/MEHR News/File)AFP - In a major shift after reviewing the threat from Iran, US President Barack Obama Thursday shelved plans for a missile shield in Eastern Europe which sparked a Cold War-style row with Russia.
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