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2 dead in Las Vegas federal building shootout (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 09:10 PM PST

Law enforcement surround the Lloyd D. George federal courthouse building in downtown Las Vegas following a shooting Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, in Las Vegas. A courthouse security official and the suspect were killed, another officer is in serious condition. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - A gunman who opened fire with a shotgun at a federal building Monday, killing one security guard and wounding a U.S. marshal before he was shot to death, was upset over losing a lawsuit over his Social Security benefits, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.

Oil rises to near $82 on stocks, cold weather (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 08:39 PM PST

World oil prices, which have soared more than 70% this year on global economic recovery signs, have risen as solid US demand underpins the market on the last trading day of 2009.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)AP - Oil rose to near $82 a barrel Tuesday in Asia after a jump in U.S. stock markets boosted investor confidence and helped extend a four-week rally in crude prices.

Spotty enforcement for new US air screening rules (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST

TSA officer Robert Howard signals an airline passenger forward at a security check-point at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, in SeaTac, Wash. The names of dozens more people have been added to the government's terrorist watch list and no-fly list after a failed terrorist attack on Christmas prompted U.S. officials to closely scrutinize a large database of suspected terrorists, an intelligence officials said. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - On the first day of what was supposed to be tighter screening ordered by the U.S. for airline passengers from certain countries, some airports around the world conceded Monday they had not cracked down.

Top GM lobbyist to step down in DC office shake-up (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 11:26 AM PST

AP - The top lobbyist at General Motors Co. will retire next year and will be replaced by a former lobbyist at AT&T in a shake-up at the automaker's Washington office.

Mo. trucker's sons charged in slaying of Ohio man (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 05:10 PM PST

AP - Two more teenage sons of a Missouri truck driver have been charged in the death of a man found in the refrigerated compartment of their father's tractor-trailer.

US court rejects Zacarias Moussaoui's appeal (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:59 PM PST

This booking photo obtained from The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press shows Al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. A US appeals court confirmed Monday a life sentence handed down on Moussaoui, a French national, for complicity in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.(AFP/HO/File)AP - A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the conviction of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to stand trial in a U.S. court in the Sept. 11 attacks, rejecting arguments that he was denied access to evidence and the right to choose his own attorney.

As dog racing drops, greyhound adoption need rises (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:19 PM PST

In this Dec. 28, 2009 photo provided by the Mack Family, Rhonda Mack, of Lake Zurich, Ill., poses for a photo with recently adopted greyhounds Jack, back left, and Lexi, center, in Lake Zurich, Ill. She adopted the dogs from Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha, Wis., which stopped greyhound racing at the end of 2009. Greyhound advocates are scrambling to find homes for hundreds of dogs that will no longer be racing. (AP Photo/Mack Family) NO SALESAP - Seven dog tracks halted racing across the country last year, forcing hundreds of greyhounds into an uncertain future. With fewer tracks available for them to race, the sleek long-limbed dogs are now flooding the adoption market at a difficult time.

Indigenous immigrants to be counted in 2010 Census (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:47 PM PST

Gregoria Chales Pablo, 40, an indigenous immigrant from Guatemala poses for a portrait at a holiday dance on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009 in Bremerton, Wash. Pablo is a member of the indigenous group Mam, which has settled on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. (AP Photo/Manuel Valdes)AP - For most people, describing themselves on the U.S. Census form will be as easy as checking a box: White. Black. American Indian.

2009 tourism down but NYC is top US destination (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 04:45 PM PST

AP - The number of visitors to New York City fell last year for the first time since 2001 when terrorists struck. But tourism declines elsewhere across the U.S. made it the most popular destination in the country for the first time in almost two decades, tourism officials said Monday.

Winter system drops record snow, chills the South (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 10:07 PM PST

With New York's Empire State Building behind them, a group of friends play in the snow in a park along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey December 31, 2009. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)AP - A bitter chill has settled in across the eastern half of the country, threatening crops, closing schools and making Charleston, S.C., feel more like New York City.

Disgraced Miss. judge reports to federal prison (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 06:18 PM PST

FILE -In this Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 file photo, former Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter, listens to his attorney Thomas Durkin speak on his behalf following DeLaughter's sentencing by a federal judge in Aberdeen, Miss. DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, reports to federal prison Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, for lying to the FBI in a judicial bribery investigation. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)AP - Bobby DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, reported to federal prison Monday for lying to the FBI in a judicial bribery investigation.

NJ airport security breach noticed by bystander (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 04:13 PM PST

Passengers fill the terminal after a security breach shut down Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010. Authorities are searching for a man who walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal Sunday night at the airport, and flights were grounded and passengers being re-screened, an air safety official said. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - The unidentified man may have been lost, confused or simply mistaken about which way to go when he bypassed security and walked in through an exit door at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Pa. principal hits boy with SUV, delays saying so (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 05:33 PM PST

AP - A middle-school principal struck a high school student with her SUV at a crosswalk Monday and stayed at the scene with emergency crews, but didn't identify herself as the driver until calling authorities 50 minutes later, police said.

Letters prompt anthrax scares across Alabama (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 01:45 PM PST

AP - Envelopes containing white powder set off anthrax scares in five Alabama cities, shutting down two federal courthouses Monday and trapping a congressman in his office as authorities tested the substance.

More suspected terrorists moved to watch lists (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 12:42 PM PST

AP - Counterterrorism officials have moved the names of dozens of people onto the terror watch list and the no-fly list after reviewing a massive government database of suspected terrorists.

Planet-hunting telescope unearths hot mysteries (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:29 PM PST

This image taken by the Kepler telescope and released by NASA in 2009 shows small portion of Kepler's full field of view -- an expansive, 100-square-degree patch of sky in our Milky Way galaxy. NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered five new planets beyond the solar system, the US space agency said Monday, just 10 months after Kepler launched into space to find Earth-like planets.(AFP/NASA/File)AP - NASA's new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars.

Power out for 1 hour at Reagan National Airport (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 01:22 PM PST

AP - Flights were grounded for about an hour Monday when the power went out at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C.

Legal fight in lesbian custody dispute ratchets up (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 02:09 PM PST

AP - A Vermont woman locked in a child custody battle with a former partner who has since renounced homosexuality asked a judge Monday to hold her ex in contempt and help find her and their 7-year-old daughter.

Sen. John Kerry undergoes 2nd hip replacement (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 01:25 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2009 file photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. presides over a committee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kerry is back at Massachusetts General Hospital for a second hip surgery. The same doctor who replaced Kerry's right hip in August was operating Monday, Jan 4, 2010 to replace his left hip. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)AP - Sen. John Kerry returned to Massachusetts General Hospital on Monday for a second hip replacement by the doctor who replaced his right hip in August.
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