Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law (AP)

Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law (AP)

Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:01 PM PDT

Federal police officers stand outside the grounds of the Sandra Day O'Connor Court House Wednesday, July 28, 2010 in Phoenix moments after portions of Arizona's new immigration law, SB1070, was blocked by a Federal Judge. The judge has blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona's new immigration law from taking effect Thursday, handing a major legal victory to opponents of the crackdown. The law will still take effect Thursday, but without many of the provisions that angered opponents — including sections that required officers to check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws. The judge also put on hold a part of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - A federal judge dealt a serious rebuke to Arizona's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law on Wednesday when she put most of the crackdown on hold just hours before it was to take effect.

152 die as plane crashes in rainy Pakistan hills (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:53 PM PDT

A video grab shows debris from a commercial Pakistani passenger plane lying scattered amid shrubbery in hills near the capital, Islamabad, July 28, 2010. Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of at least 20 people from the wreckage of a Pakistani passenger plane which crashed near the capital on Wednesday, an official said. The Airblue jet was carrying 146 passengers and six crewmen. REUTERS/via Reuters TV (PAKISTAN - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER)AP - A passenger jet that officials suspect veered off course in monsoon rains and thick clouds crashed into hills overlooking Pakistan's capital Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board and scattering body parts and twisted metal far and wide.

Jury gets case in Blagojevich corruption trial (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:52 PM PDT

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich shakes hands with supporters as he arrives at the Federal Court for the beginning of jury instructions in his corruption trial, Wednesday, July 28, 2010, in Chicago. Blagojevich and his brother are accused of scheming to sell or trade President Obama's old Senate seat. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Rod Blagojevich's fate was in the hands of jurors Wednesday as they prepared to begin deciding whether the impeached Illinois governor tried to sell a nomination to President Barack Obama's former Senate seat and schemed to use his political power for personal gain.

WikiLeaks: We don't know source of leaked data (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:50 PM PDT

Founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, faces the media during a debate event, held in London Tuesday July 27, 2010. On Sunday, the online whistle-blower website WikiLeaks released some 90,000 leaked U.S. army and intelligence documents relating to the war in Afghanistan, which have been highlighted as potentially putting American military lives at risk, although Assange says there is 'no reason' to doubt the reliability of the leaked documents.(AP PHOTO/Max Nash)AP - WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief claims his organization doesn't know who sent it some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents, telling journalists that the Web site was set up to hide the source of its data from those who receive it.

FBI director defends bureau over test cheating (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:44 PM PDT

FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 28, 2010, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the 'Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation' . (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he doesn't know how many of his agents cheated on an important test about the limitations of the bureau's powers to conduct surveillance and open cases without evidence that a crime has been committed.

Sarkozy orders illegal Roma immigrants expelled (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:59 PM PDT

A member of a Romany association, Alice Januel, displays an official document which authorizes French Romanies to travel with their caravan, during a press conference with members of different French Roma associations in Saint Ouen north of Paris, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. French Roma associations have lashed out at the government for what they claim is racist treatment ahead of a meeting called by President Nicolas Sarkozy to deal with 'problems' among traveling folk. Members of Romany associations Renardo Loriers, left, and Emile Scheitz, right, in the background.(AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered authorities to expel Gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma.

Congress narrows gap in cocaine sentences (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:50 PM PDT

AP - Congress on Wednesday changed a quarter-century-old law that has subjected tens of thousands of blacks to long prison terms for crack cocaine convictions while giving far more lenient treatment to those, mainly whites, caught with the powder form of the drug.

Calif. wildfires burn about 40 homes, threaten 150 (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:43 PM PDT

A bulldozer pushes over a burning tree that caught fire at Old West Ranch were residents were evacuated due to a wildfire about 10 miles southeast of the Mojave Desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Firefighters on Wednesday braced for strong afternoon winds at the sites of two wildfires north of Los Angeles that have burned about 40 homes, threatened at least 150 more and forced some 2,300 people to evacuate. The two blazes in mostly rural Kern County remained out of control after scorching more than 26 square miles (67 square kilometers) of hilly pine forests and chaparral. (AP Photo by Alex Gallardo)AP - Firefighters gained ground Wednesday against the most destructive of two big wildfires that have burned dozens of homes and forced 2,300 people to evacuate mountain communities on the edge of the Mojave Desert and in the southern Sierra Nevada.

Florida great-grandma takes a bite out of crime (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:09 PM PDT

AP - A great-grandmother in Daytona Beach bit an assailant and was dragged several feet hanging on to the getaway car of a couple who snatched her purse. Patricia Robertson doesn't know how she summoned the strength, but the commotion she created helped get her belongings back.

Pitino says extortion suspect unzipped his pants (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:38 PM PDT

A representative from the US Attorney's Office escorts University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, second left, to the federal courthouse in Louisvile Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Pitino will testify in the trial of Karen Sypher who is accused of attempting to extort money from the coach after a sexual encounter. (AP Photo/ The Courier-Journal, Barry Westerman) NO MAGS NO SALES NO ARCHIVESAP - Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino told a jury Wednesday that a woman accused of demanding millions from him initiated sex by whispering to him and unzipping his pants in an empty Italian restaurant.

Key parts of Arizona anti-immigration law blocked (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:56 PM PDT

A demonstrator takes part during a protest on a new U.S. law that requires immigrants to carry their papers at all times in Arizona, outside the U.S embassy in Mexico City July 28, 2010. A U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked key parts of Arizona's tough new immigration law just hours before it was to take effect, handing a victory to the Obama administration as it tries to take control over the issue. The banner reads Reuters - A judge on Wednesday blocked key parts of Arizona's tough new immigration law hours before it was to take effect, handing a victory to the Obama administration as it tries to take control over the issue.

Pakistan plane crashes, all 152 on board dead (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 10:05 AM PDT

Smoke rises from the wreckage of a passenger plane which has crashed in The Margalla Hills on the outskirts of Islamabad, July 28, 2010. REUTERS/Mian KhursheedReuters - A Pakistani passenger plane crashed in heavy rain near Islamabad Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board, officials said, in the worst aviation accident in Pakistan.

Oil spill hits 100 days as BP aims for quick well kill (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 11:40 AM PDT

A response vessel is seen along a line of emulsified oil between the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site and the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, Monday, July 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Reuters - BP Plc may permanently shut the well that caused the worst off-shore oil spill in U.S. history as early as Monday, the company said on Wednesday as speculation grew over the assets it might sell to cover mounting costs.

Special Report: Watching grass grow in the Gulf, and cheering! (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 11:54 AM PDT

Dr. Irv Mendelssohn observes samples of marsh grasses at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 16, 2010. REUTERS/Debbie ZabarenkoReuters - Marsh grasses are the tough guys of the plant world. Left alone, they dominate coastal marshes from Texas to Newfoundland. Burn their stems and leaves, and they come back bushier than ever.

U.S. keeps pressure on Iraq to form new government (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:19 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged Iraq's politicians, still unable to agree on a new government, to "get on with the business of governing" as U.S. troops prepare to end their combat mission.

Bomb blast kills 25 bus passengers in Afghan west (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:06 PM PDT

The casket of Army Pfc. David T. Miller is carried during his funeral service at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Miller was killed in Afghanistan. Miller of Wilton, N.Y., died June 21 in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Reuters - At least 25 Afghan passengers were killed and 20 wounded when their bus was hit by a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan on Wednesday, the government said.

Palestinians set to reject direct talks for now (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 05:20 AM PDT

A Palestinian Bedouin of the Al-Azzazneh family fill up a container with water for his family's livestock, on top of a mountain on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will tell the Arab League on Thursday indirect talks with Israel have not progressed enough to justify face-to-face peace negotiations, a Palestinian official said on Wednesday.

Durable goods orders fall, business spending up (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 11:54 AM PDT

Shoppers look at appliances at a Home Depot store in New York in this file image from December 23, 2009. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/FilesReuters - New orders for manufactured goods like cars and planes fell unexpectedly for a second straight month in June, posting the largest drop since August in a sign economic recovery cooled in the second quarter.

Pakistani plane crashes, 152 dead (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:21 PM PDT

Pakistani rescue workers push the body of a plane crash victim on a stretcher into hospital as relatives gather to collect their remains in Islamabad. A Pakistani airliner carrying 152 people crashed in a ball of flames Wednesday into densely wooded hills outside Islamabad amid heavy rain and poor visibility, killing everyone on board.(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - A Pakistani airliner carrying 152 people crashed in a ball of flames Wednesday into densely wooded hills outside Islamabad amid heavy rain and poor visibility, killing everyone on board.

Spain's Catalonia region bans bullfighting (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:49 PM PDT

Anti-bullfight activists celebrate in Madrid. Catalonia's parliament on Wednesday voted to ban bullfighting from January 1, 2012, becoming the first region in mainland Spain to outlaw the centuries-old tradition.(AFP/Pedro Armestre)AFP - Catalonia's parliament on Wednesday voted to ban bullfighting from January 1, 2012, becoming the first region in mainland Spain to outlaw the centuries-old tradition.
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