Jumat, 08 Januari 2010

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Obama orders up more air security, intel sharing (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 12:30 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama makes statements to outline steps the U.S. government is taking to try to shore up airline security at the White House in Washington January 7, 2010. Obama took responsibility on Thursday for security lapses that led to an attempted Christmas Day bombing on a Detroit-bound plane and ordered steps taken to plug gaps. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)AP - Hundreds of law enforcement officers are being trained as federal air marshals to ramp up security as the Obama administration tries to prevent a repeat of the near-catastrophic attempt to blow up an airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day.

Christmas plane attack case will test defense (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 01:03 AM PST

This Dec. 2009 photo released by the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in Milan, Mich. A grand jury indicted Abdulmutallab on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 on charges accusing him of attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day by trying to use a weapon of mass destruction. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshal's Service)AP - A young Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a packed U.S. jetliner is going to court in Detroit for the first time since his alleged attack on Christmas Day.

Report may show first monthly job gain in 2 years (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 12:31 AM PST

Richard Nnadi looks for a job in the restaurant industry in the New York State Labor Department's Division of Employment Services in Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. The number of people claiming unemployment benefits for the first time barely rose last week, after two weeks of sharp drops, further evidence that layoffs are easing.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Some economists think the nation will break a 23-month streak of job cuts and add to employment when the government issues the December labor report Friday.

Crisis inquiry commission set to quiz top bankers (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 12:52 AM PST

FILE - In this March 29, 2009, file photo, JP Morgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, left, and Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, leave the White House in Washington, after a meeting between chief executives and President Barack Obama. On Jan. 13 and 14, 2010, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission that Congress created last Spring will hold its first public hearings featuring a gallery of the nation's top bank executives including Blankfein, Dimon, John Mack of Morgan Stanley and Brian Moynihan of Bank of America. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Two blocks from the Treasury, where the government not long ago scrambled to save a collapsing financial system, a team of investigators armed with subpoena powers is preparing the official narrative of the crisis and what went wrong.

After scare, No. 1 Alabama beats No. 2 Texas 37-21 (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 11:13 PM PST

Alabama defensive lineman Marcell Dareus (57) catches a pass intended for Texas wide receiver D.J. Monroe (26) during the second quarter of the BCS Championship NCAA college football game in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. Dareus went on to score a touchdown on the play. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)AP - The houndstooth hat is a memory — the Snake, Joe Willie and Bart Starr replaced by guys named Julio, Javier and Mount Cody.

Source: NBC weighing Leno return to late-night (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 09:09 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2009 file photo, Jay Leno speaks during the panel for 'The Jay Leno Show' at the NBC Universal Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif. Citing unnamed NBC executives, the network is considering reinstating Leno as host of 'The Tonight Show,' a job he turned over to Conan O'Brien last spring. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)AP - NBC's disappointing experiment with Jay Leno's prime-time show may end with Leno back in late-night and the venerable "Tonight Show" and its freshman host, Conan O'Brien, pushed to a midnight slot.

Snowstorm enters Northeast, imperils morning rush (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 12:34 AM PST

Vehicles travel in white out conditions caused by blowing snow on Interstate 80 west of Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. A storm system with sub-freezing temperatures and high winds is traveling through the Midwest. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - A broad snowstorm pushed eastward early Friday, dumping a light coating of snow in the Northeast with the potential to make the morning rush tricky, all part of a powerful cold front engulfing much of the nation.

AP Exclusive: Gates to stay at Pentagon (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 09:44 PM PST

Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrives for a meeting with President Barack Obama and other agency heads to discuss ongoing reviews of the Christmas Day incident, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a holdover from the Bush administration, will remain in his Cabinet post for at least another year, his spokesman said Thursday.

NJ airport video shows security guard leaving post (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 09:40 PM PST

In this image made Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010 from a Sunday, Jan. 3 Transportation Security Administration surveillance video, a couple, seen inside the highlighted area, walk into a secure area of Newark Liberty International Airport. Call it the tortured airport goodbye felt around the world. A man struggling to say goodbye to a female companion took advantage of a guard's absence to sneak past a security checkpoint Sunday evening, causing a terminal shutdown the delayed flights across the globe and calling into question just how secure the nation's airports really are. (AP Photo/Transportation Security Administration)AP - Call it the airport embrace felt around the world.

Stricter new smog limit would hit rural areas, too (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 10:04 PM PST

Map shows counties that violate the EPA smog standardsAP - Hundreds of communities far from congested highways and belching smokestacks could soon join big cities and industrial corridors in violation of stricter limits on lung-damaging smog proposed Thursday by the Obama administration.

U.S. job purge likely halted, jobless rate seen up (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 09:35 PM PST

A home is seen for sale in the Washington suburb of Takoma Park, Maryland, October 27, 2009. REUTERS/Jim BourgReuters - A U.S. government report on Friday is expected to show the economy stopped shedding jobs last month for the first time since it fell into recession two years ago, easing a political weight on President Barack Obama.

Obama takes responsibility for lapses (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 05:19 PM PST

Bomb suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who is accused of trying to blow up a plane as it approached Detroit. President Barack Obama has since accused a Yemen-based affiliate of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda group of being involved in the attempted bombing of the plane.(AFP/USMS/File)Reuters - President Barack Obama took ultimate responsibility on Thursday for security failures that led to the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner and ordered reforms aimed at thwarting future attacks.

Gates backs critique of spy agencies in Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 08:11 PM PST

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates arrives for President Obama's security meeting at the White House, January 5, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates threw his support on Thursday behind a harsh critique of the U.S. military's spy agencies in Afghanistan, increasing pressure on them to shift focus from killing insurgents to winning hearts and minds.

Karzai: Afghan corruption "blown out of proportion" (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 12:30 AM PST

Reuters - A defiant Afghan President Hamid Karzai defended his record on corruption in an interview broadcast on Friday, saying the issue that has damaged his reputation had been "blown out of proportion" by Western media.

Four dead in Missouri ABB factory shooting (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 02:35 PM PST

Reuters - An assembly line worker armed with a rifle who had a pending lawsuit against electrical products company ABB Power killed three co-workers and wounded five others on Thursday before killing himself, police said.

U.S. intel failed to focus resources on al Qaeda threat (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 02:05 PM PST

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in an undated photo. REUTERS/US Marshals Service/HandoutReuters - The U.S. intelligence community failed to dedicate sufficient resources to address the threat by the militant group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a White House review released on Thursday said.

Former Bush lawyer charged with attempted murder (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 03:16 PM PST

Reuters - A former top attorney for President George W. Bush was charged in Connecticut on Thursday with attempted murder after he allegedly attacked his wife with a long flashlight.

"Jay Leno Show" future uncertain (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 11:20 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2009 file photo, Jay Leno speaks during the panel for 'The Jay Leno Show' at the NBC Universal Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif. Citing unnamed NBC executives, the network is considering reinstating Leno as host of 'The Tonight Show,' a job he turned over to Conan O'Brien last spring. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)Reuters - Are Jay Leno's days in primetime numbered?

Sri Lanka faces new pressure over war crimes (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 12:29 AM PST

Sri Lankan Army soldiers are seen on patrol in the Jaffna Peninsula, in 2008. Sri Lanka was under new pressure Friday to submit to a war crimes investigation after the United Nations authenticated a video allegedly showing prisoners being executed by troops last year.(AFP/File/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi)AFP - Sri Lanka was under new pressure Friday to submit to a war crimes investigation after the United Nations authenticated a video allegedly showing prisoners being executed by troops last year.

Airline plot 'buck stops with me': Obama (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 06:45 PM PST

Interactive graphic on airport security as checks are tightened worldwide after a Nigerian man was accused of trying to blow up an airliner over Detroit in a failed Christmas Day attack.(AFP iactiv)AFP - President Barack Obama has declared "the buck stops with me" over major intelligence flaws exposed by an Al-Qaeda attack on a US passenger jet and ordered a sweeping homeland security overhaul.
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