Jumat, 25 September 2009

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Prosecutor: Terror plot focus was 9/11 anniversary (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:39 PM PDT

This courtroom drawing shows U.S. Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer presiding over a hearing in federal court in Denver, on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, for Najibullah Zazi, left, and his father Mohammad Zazi, center. Defense Attorney Author Folsom, right, talks to Zazi. (AP Photo/Jeff Kandby)AP - An Afghan immigrant was on the verge of unleashing a terrorist attack on New York City on the Sept. 11 anniversary but was scared off after drawing suspicion from police, prosecutors said Friday as they provided new details about how far along the plot was.

Ohio woman implanted with wrong embryo gives birth (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2009 file photo, Carolyn Savage, 40, is seen at her home, in Sylvania, Ohio. Savage who had the wrong embryo implanted by a fertility clinic has given birth to a boy on Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/J.D. Pooley, file)AP - A woman who had the wrong embryo implanted by a fertility clinic has given birth to a boy, her family said Friday.

Witness: Census worker's hanging body naked, bound (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:09 PM PDT

Graves dot a hillside at the Hoskins Cemetery in rural Clay County near Manchester, Ky., Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. It was near this cemetery census worker Bill Sparkman was found dead earlier this month. (AP Photo/\Ed Reinke)AP - A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape, said an Ohio man who discovered the body two weeks ago.

Thousands opposed to G-20 march through Pittsburgh (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 09:35 PM PDT

Masked protesters shout slogans during a march through Pittsburgh, Friday Sept. 25, 2009. World leaders are in Pittsburgh for the G20 summit. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A vociferous but peaceful group of several thousand people marched for miles through the downtown area on Friday, united by opposition to the Group of 20 summit but expressing a diversity of mostly liberal causes as an army of stone-faced riot police watched their every move.

Scrutiny rises over NJ kids singing Obama song (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:02 PM PDT

B. Bernice Young Elementary School is seen Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, in Burlington Township, N.J. New Jersey's education commissioner has ordered a review after a YouTube video shows more than a dozen children learning a song celebrating President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - A school for kindergartners through second-graders in a comfortable Philadelphia suburb has become the latest target of accusations by conservatives that schoolchildren are being indoctrinated to idolize President Barack Obama.

Backers begin push to get pot measure on ballot (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 09:51 PM PDT

AP - Pot advocates started their push Friday to get a marijuana legalization measure on California's 2010 ballot with backing from a prominent state politician.

Army to allow Iraq war objector to resign (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:18 PM PDT

AP - The Army is allowing the first commissioned officer to be court-martialed for refusing to go to Iraq to resign from the service, his attorney said late Friday.

Gadhafi meets with Lockerbie family members in NYC (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:25 PM PDT

AP - A woman whose brother died in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, says she and another victim's relative met in New York City with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, whose country has been blamed for the attack.

4 bodies found in Maryland home; no suspect sought (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 09:29 PM PDT

State Police stand in front of a house in Mt. Airy, Md. where a 911 call was made Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. Four people were found dead in a home Friday in Mount Airy and troopers on the scene said it appeared to be a murder scene. (AP Photo/Baltimore Sun, Gene Sweeney Jr.) WASHINGTON EXAMINER OUT, MANDATORY CREDITAP - Authorities said they found four members of a family slain Friday in a home in central Maryland, but they said they were not searching for any suspects.

Biden visits Ga. storm victims; more rain expected (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 08:42 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden consoles Evelyn Brummage, of Austell, Ga.,who lost everything recent flash flooding, while touring a Red Cross disaster relief center set up in Marietta for victims of the flood, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - Vice President Joe Biden on Friday pledged the federal government would help Georgia recover from the severe weather that swept through the Southeast, even as rain and the threat of more flooding was forecast for the weekend.

In 2 bomb cases, FBI let sting operation play out (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 03:53 PM PDT

At left: an undated photo released Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009 by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows Michael C. Finton. At right: an undated photo released by the Dallas County Sheriff shows Hosam Maher Husein Smadi. Two men unconnected to each other or to the investigation that has spawned recent national terrorism warnings are in federal custody after attempting to detonate what they thought were bombs outside an Illinois courthouse and a Texas skyscraper, authorities said. (AP Photo)AP - As Hosam Maher Husein Smadi prepared to remotely detonate what he believed was a powerful bomb underneath a Dallas skyscraper, his comrade-in-arms, who was actually an undercover FBI agent, offered him earplugs, authorities say.

Southern California wildfire 85 percent contained (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:08 PM PDT

This photo taken Thursday Sept. 17,2009 shows a trailhead sign about 25 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles that was damaged from a wildfire that burned through more than 250 square miles of the Angeles National Forest since Aug. 26,2009. Vast areas have been left utterly barren or transformed into stick-figure worlds in which remnants of shrubs look like charcoal drawings and once-vibrant green pines have been baked into shades of khaki and dun. (AP Photo/John Antczak)AP - A 27-square-mile Southern California wildfire was 85 percent contained Friday as the withering Santa Ana winds that had fanned it faded away.

Jailed Texas billionaire hospitalized after fight (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 07:12 PM PDT

AP - A U.S. Marshals Service spokesman says jailed Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford is being treated at a hospital after being injured during a fight with another inmate.

Man convicted in death of father left to rot (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 06:01 PM PDT

AP - Jurors in Louisiana have convicted a retired Army Reserve officer of manslaughter in the death of his 81-year-old father whose rotted body was found in a bedroom in their home.

Retired AF officer convicted in China spying case (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 04:21 PM PDT

AP - A jury has convicted a retired Air Force officer on charges of selling classified information on U.S.-China military relations to a Chinese agent and lying to the FBI about it.

Bomb plot suspect transferred from Denver to NYC (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 03:35 PM PDT

File - Terrorism suspect Najibullah Zazi arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning in this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo. Zazi plotted for more than a year to detonate homemade bombs in the United States, an indictment charged Thursday Sept. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - A Denver airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bomb attack in New York City on Sept. 11 is in custody in New York.

Police: TV contestant killed actress girlfriend (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 02:28 PM PDT

AP - A self-proclaimed preacher who was on the TV beauty pageant "The Sexiest Bachelor in America" will be arraigned next week for allegedly torturing and murdering his girlfriend, an ex-adult movie actress.

Obama: G20 brought economy back from brink (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 05:48 PM PDT

President Barack Obama answers questions during a press briefing at the conclusion of the G-20 summit, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009 in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - World leaders on Friday issued sweeping promises to fix a malfunctioning global economic system in hopes of heading off future financial meltdowns. President Barack Obama said actions taken so far "brought the global economy back from the brink."

Civil liberties groups: Police overreacted at G-20 (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 02:30 PM PDT

People watch riot police confront protesters at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh during the G20 Summit, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/ Philip Scott Andrews)AP - Police used all the nonlethal tools at their disposal to thwart protesters at the Group of 20 summit this week, firing bean bags, hurling canisters of smoke and pepper spray, using flash-bang grenades and batons and deploying a high-tech sound-blasting device meant to push back crowds.

Man pleads guilty in Vt. in border child porn case (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 02:28 PM PDT

AP - A Vermont man pleaded guilty Friday to charges he had child pornography on his laptop computer when he entered the United States from Quebec nearly three years ago.
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Iran Nuclear Site Could Pose Test to US, Israel Ties - FOXNews

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:42 AM PDT


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Iran Nuclear Site Could Pose Test to US, Israel Ties
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The disclosure of a second Iranian nuclear site raises questions about whether President Obama has enough influence to prevent an Israeli military strike. Iran's disclosure that it has been building a secret nuclear site ratchets up already simmering ...
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Biden: For some Georgia flood victims, damage akin to Katrina - CNN International

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:36 AM PDT


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Biden: For some Georgia flood victims, damage akin to Katrina
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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Georgia's flooding may pale to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, but the impact of the state's torrential rains on individual Georgians is comparable, Vice President Joe Biden said Friday. Vice President Joe Biden ...
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Manson Disciple Susan Atkins Dies in Prison at 61 - ABC News

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 05:51 AM PDT


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Manson Disciple Susan Atkins Dies in Prison at 61
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Forty years after being convicted of seven murders alongside Charles Manson, right, Susan Atkins goes up for what will likely be her final parole hearing. Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and ...
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Health Buzz: Spanking May Make Kids Dumber and Other Health News - U.S. News & World Report

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:49 AM PDT


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Health Buzz: Spanking May Make Kids Dumber and Other Health News
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An expert on discipline and domestic violence says that children who are spanked score lower on IQ tests, HealthDay reports. Murray Straus, codirector of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire, ...
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Boeing may offer US Air Force 2 tankers - Reuters

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 08:38 AM PDT


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Boeing may offer US Air Force 2 tankers
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WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N) said it might offer versions of both its 767 and 777 aircraft against the rival team of Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC.N) and EADS (EAD.PA) in a renewed $35 billion contest to build a refueling ...
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G-20 leaders push global economic reforms Friday (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 12:51 AM PDT

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wait to receive guests at the G-20 summit dinner in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Leaders of the world's major economies are coming together on reforms to rein in greedy bankers, toughen financial regulations and guard against the dangerous imbalances that contributed to the worst global downturn since the 1930s.

AP IMPACT: School drinking water contains toxins (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 12:07 AM PDT

Jesus Lealstripe, left gets a drink of water from a dispenser at Lovell High School after playing basketball Monday, June 1, 2009 in Cutler, Calif. School administrators in the farmworker town of Cutler cannot fix chronic water problems at Lovell High School because funding is frozen due to the state's budget crisis. Signs posted above the kitchen sink warn students not to drink from the tap, because the water is tainted with nitrates, a potential carcinogen, and DBCP, a pesticide scientists say may cause male sterility. Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins that put the nation's students at risk. An Associated Press investigation found that contaminants have surfaced at public and private schools in all 50 states — in small towns and inner cities alike. But the problem has gone largely unmonitored by the federal government, even as the number of water safety violations has multiplied. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)AP - Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.

Obama-led UN council backs broad nuclear agenda (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:08 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama(R) greets UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon as he arrives to chair a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York. World powers Thursday adopted a landmark resolution seeking to rid the planet of nuclear arms at an unprecedented Security Council summit hosted by President Obama.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)AP - With President Barack Obama presiding, the U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously endorsed a sweeping strategy aimed at halting the spread of nuclear weapons and ultimately eliminating them, to usher in a world with "undiminished security for all."

In a first, an AIDS vaccine shows some success (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:00 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the U.S. Military HIV Research Program shows a researcher during the Thai phase III HIV Vaccine Trial, also known as RV 144, testing the 'prime-boost' combination of two vaccines: ALVAC HIV vaccine and AIDSVAX B/E vaccine at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS) in Bangkok, Thailand. For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. The study was done in Thailand because U.S. Army scientists did pivotal research in that country when the AIDS epidemic emerged there, isolating virus strains and providing genetic information on them to vaccine makers. (AP Photo/MHRP)AP - Scientists and government leaders have already started mapping out how to try to improve the world's first successful AIDS vaccine, which protected one in three people from getting HIV in a large study in Thailand.

Justice Ginsburg hospitalized after feeling faint (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 10:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 10, 2009 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks to law students at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Ginsburg was hospitalized, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, after feeling ill at work (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, FILE)AP - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Thursday after becoming ill in her office at the court following treatment for an iron deficiency.

Men accused of unrelated bomb plots in Ill., Texas (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 10:57 PM PDT

This undated photo released Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009 by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows Michael C. Finton. Finton, 29, also known as Talib Islam, was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 and charged in a criminal complaint with one count of attempting to murder federal officers or employees after attempting to detonate what he thought was a bomb inside a van outside a federal courthouse. (AP Photo/Illinois Department of Corrections)AP - A man who idolized American born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh and a Jordanian national who frequented extremist Web sites are charged in unrelated cases after attempting to detonate what they thought were bombs outside an Illinois courthouse and a Texas skyscraper, federal officials said.

Seniors' hopes, fears at center of health debate (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 10:37 PM PDT

The Senate Finance Committee's ranking Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, right, makes a point on an amendment as committee chairman Sen. Max. Baucus, D-Mont. listen, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington as the committee continued their markup on health care legislation. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - For the moment, the health care fight is all about older folks.

Police: Ky. Census worker died from asphyxiation (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 12:53 AM PDT

In this undated 2008 photo, Bill Sparkman speaks to a 7th grade class during a lesson about sound waves. A law enforcement official says Sparkman, a U.S. Census worker found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery, had the word 'fed' scrawled on his chest, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment. (AP Photo/The Times-Tribune)AP - Authorities confirmed a U.S. Census worker died by asphyxiation but were releasing few other details about the mysterious case nearly two weeks after Bill Sparkman's body — with the word "fed" scrawled on the chest — was found hanging from a tree near a family cemetery secluded by Appalachian forest.

Feds: Suspect hit beauty stores for bomb supplies (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 12:50 AM PDT

File - Terrorism suspect Najibullah Zazi arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning in this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo. Zazi plotted for more than a year to detonate homemade bombs in the United States, an indictment charged Thursday Sept. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - An Afghan immigrant trained in explosives by al-Qaida traveled from the terrorist camps of Pakistan to the beauty shops of suburban Denver for chemical ingredients to make bombs, authorities charged in papers describing one of the most significant post-Sept. 11 terror threats to the United States.

Gamecocks pull Top 5 surprise, beat Ole Miss 16-10 (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:11 PM PDT

South Carolina's Moe Brown (9) celebrates with fans after South Carolina's 16-10 win over No. 4 Mississippi in an NCAA college football game Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Mississippi wasn't ready for the Top 5 — or South Carolina's defense. Star passer Jevan Snead was hounded all game and the fourth-ranked Rebels never got in gear, losing to South Carolina 16-10 Thursday night.

G20 takes center stage in new economic world order (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 10:41 PM PDT

Signs are seen near the site of the upcoming G20 Pittsburgh Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 23, 2009. REUTERS/Eric ThayerReuters - The Group of 20 rich and developing countries were set to anoint themselves as caretakers of the global economy on Friday, giving rising stars such as China and India more say in world affairs.

Protests, clashes hit G20 summit city (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 10:40 PM PDT

A demonstrator runs after police threw pepper gas canisters during a protest prior to the start of the G20 Pittsburgh Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 24, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaReuters - Protesters smashed shop windows and threw rocks at police on Thursday as police used pepper gas and batons to disperse marches against capitalism at the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh.

U.N. calls for nuclear disarmament, Obama presides (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 08:18 PM PDT

President Barack Obama addresses the 64th United Nations General Assembly, at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 23, 2009. REUTERS/Mike SegarReuters - The U.N. Security Council, at a summit chaired by U.S. President Barack Obama, unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday that envisaged a world without nuclear weapons.

Myanmar's Suu Kyi gives backing to U.S. engagement (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 12:29 AM PDT

Reuters - Myanmar's detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will support U.S. plans to engage with the isolated nation but only if opposition groups are involved in any dialogue, her party said.

U.S. charges Afghan-born man with bombing plot (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 09:32 PM PDT

Reuters - A Colorado airport shuttle bus driver was charged under federal anti-terrorism laws with plotting to set off explosives in the United States and accused of acquiring the same bomb-making chemicals used in the 2005 London transit attacks.

U.S. Senate panel backs health insurance requirement (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 05:52 PM PDT

Supporters of the health care reform hold signs outside a health care town hall meeting with U.S. congressman Kendrick Meeks (R-FL) in Miami, Florida September 3, 2009. Democrats in the U.S. Congress hope to pass President Barack Obama's overhaul of the country's $2.5 trillion healthcare system amid mounting public skepticism and unified opposition from Republicans. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaReuters - A U.S. Senate panel considering a sweeping healthcare overhaul upheld a requirement on Thursday that individuals purchase health insurance and rejected a proposal that could have scuttled an $80 billion White House deal with drugmakers.

California gay marriage groups launch ballot fight (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 12:39 AM PDT

Gay couple Ethan Collings (L), 32, and his spouse Stephen Abate, 36, hug as they celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary in West Hollywood, California, June 16, 2009. REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonReuters - Gay rights activists hoping to win back the right to marry in California submitted a ballot proposal on Thursday for the November 2010 election -- a date deep-pocketed advocates have said is too soon.

Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg taken to hospital (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 06:31 PM PDT

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stands as Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States pose for a 2006 class photo inside the Supreme Court in Washington in this March 3, 2006 file photo.Reuters - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was taken on Thursday to a Washington hospital for evaluation after she experienced lightheadedness and fatigue, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said in a statement.

G20 becomes main world economic forum (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:56 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wait for arriving leaders before an opening reception at the Pittsburgh G20 Summit. World leaders announced Friday the Group of 20 developed and developing nations would become the top economic forum, spreading influence to emerging powers such as China and India(AFP/Pool/Philippe Wojazer)AFP - World leaders announced Friday the Group of 20 developed and developing nations would become the top economic forum, spreading influence to emerging powers such as China and India.

Ex-Israeli PM Olmert makes first court appearance (AFP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 12:51 AM PDT

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, shown in a file picture, appeared in a Jerusalem court on Friday for an arraignment hearing on three counts of graft, the first premier to face criminal charges.(AFP/Pool/File/Yonathan Weitzman)AFP - Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert on Friday made his first court appearance on charges of graft, vowing he would prove his innocence.
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