Monday, August 30, 2010

Obama: GOP should let small business bill through (AP)

Obama: GOP should let small business bill through (AP)

Obama: GOP should let small business bill through (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:43 PM PDT

President Barack Obama taps his microphone for sound, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, prior to his remarks on the economy. The audio system had unexpectedly gone silent during the first part of his speech. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama exhorted Congress on Monday to make passage of a long-languishing small business aid package its first order of business when it returns next month from its summer break.

Hurricane Earl lashes Caribbean, threatens US (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:43 PM PDT

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image shows Hurricane Danielle (Top-R) and Hurricane Earl (Bottom-R) churning in the Atlantic Ocean. Hurricane Earl surged into the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean early Monday after strengthening to a Category Two storm with 110 mile-an-hour winds, weather authorities said.(AFP/NOAA)AP - Hurricane Earl lashed the northeastern Caribbean on Monday as a still-growing Category 3 storm, tearing roofs off buildings and cutting power to islanders on a course that could threaten the eastern United States this week.

Biden in Iraq to mark formal end to US combat (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:43 PM PDT

** RETRANSMISSION OF BAG102 ** U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, center left, shake hands with Gen. Ray Odierno, right, on his arrival, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Vice President Joe Biden returned to Iraq Monday to mark this week's formal end to U.S. combat operations and push the country's leaders to end a six-month postelection stalemate blocking formation of a new government. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Vice President Joe Biden returned to Iraq Monday to mark the formal end to U.S. combat operations and push the country's leaders to end a six-month stalemate blocking formation of a new government.

7 US troops die in bombings in violent south (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:44 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a trilateral regional summit in Tehran, August 5, 2010. REUTERS/Raheb HomavandiAP - Roadside bombs killed seven American troopers on Monday — including five in a single blast in Kandahar — raising to more than a dozen the number who have died in the last three days.

Indonesian volcano erupts after 400 years of quiet (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:44 PM PDT

Mount Sinabung spews volcanic materials into the sky in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. The volcano that had been dormant for more than four centuries erupted for the second day in a row Monday, spewing out towering clouds of ash and forcing the evacuation of more than 21,000 people. (AP Photo/Roone Patikawa)AP - Tens of thousands of people packed emergency shelters Monday after a long-dormant volcano in western Indonesia spewed clouds of hot ash and smoke more than a mile (several kilometers) into the air — an eruption that caught scientists off-guard.

Roger Clemens pleads not guilty to charge of lying (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:43 PM PDT

Seven-time Cy Young winner, baseball pitcher Roger Clemens leaves federal court in Washington, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, after pleading not guilty to charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids or human growth hormone. His attorney Rusty Hardin is at left. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - Seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids or human growth hormone.

Iran state media call French first lady prostitute (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, June 18, 2010 file photo, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, right, waves as she leaves 10 Downing Street in London with her husband French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, after their lunch with British Prime Minister, David Cameron and his wife Samantha Cameron. Iran's hardline media have called the French first lady a 'prostitute' after she expressed strong support for an Iranian woman facing death by stoning for adultery. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)AP - Iranian state media called France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, a "prostitute" on Monday in an unusual attack on the wife of a world leader that shows deep anger over her support for an Iranian woman who faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction.

Israel researchers find ancient disposable cutlery (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:22 PM PDT

Israeli archaeology Prof. Ran Barkai uses a ruler to display a stone believed by researchers to be one of the world's oldest known disposable knives, at the Tel Aviv University, Israel, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Israeli archaeologists believe they have discovered the world's oldest known disposable knives in a cave near Tel Aviv.Dating to the Stone Age, the sharp pieces of flint are believed to be at least 200,000 years old. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Israeli archaeologists believe thousands of ancient shards of flint found scattered around a fire pit in a cave near Tel Aviv might be the world's oldest known disposable knives.

RV dealer challenges 'Twilight' star to push-ups (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:21 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 28, 2010 photo, Actor Taylor Lautner attends the Cinema Society premiere of 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' in New York. Lautner is suing an RV dealership he claims didn't deliver a customized ride in time for him to use it on his current movie shoot. The star of the 'Twillight' series sued the Irvine, Calif. dealership of McMahon's RV for more than $300,000 in Los Angeles on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. The lawsuit claims McMahon's missed a deadline to deliver a customized 2006 Affinity Country Coach RV by June 21. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)AP - The owner of an RV dealership sued by Taylor Lautner over a customized vehicle challenged the "Twilight" star Monday to use his muscles instead of his lawyers to resolve the case.

Manny Ramirez officially joins the White Sox (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 01:06 PM PDT

Los Angeles Dodgers' Manny Ramirez hits a double during the third inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)AP - Manny Ramirez is back in an American League playoff chase. As expected, the Chicago White Sox claimed the 12-time All-Star slugger on waivers from the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday, hoping his bat can help them make a postseason push.

Obama widens sanctions on North Korea (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:31 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama broadened U.S. financial sanctions on North Korea on Monday and froze the U.S. assets of four North Korean citizens and eight firms in part to punish it for the sinking of a South Korean warship.

VP Biden visits Iraq as troops withdraw (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 11:05 AM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention in Indianapolis, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden flew into Iraq Monday to assure Iraqis the United States is not abandoning them as it stops combat operations, a milestone in the 7-1/2 year war the Obama administration is trying to end.

Earl becomes major hurricane, could swipe U.S. east (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 10:24 AM PDT

Hurricane Earl strengthened to category three Monday packing winds of up to 120 miles (195 kilometers) an hour, US weather experts said, as it headed for the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.(AFP/NOAA-HO)Reuters - Hurricane Earl turned into a major Category 3 storm on Monday as it lashed northeast Caribbean islands on a track that could see it swiping the U.S. East Coast in the next few days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Bad weather delays retrieval BP blowout preventer: US gov't (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 10:10 AM PDT

Reuters - BP Plc delayed retrieval of the failed blowout preventer atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well this week because of bad weather, the top U.S. official overseeing the oil spill said on Monday.

As U.S. withdraws, Iraqis still live in crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 07:44 AM PDT

A man sits at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad August 25, 2010. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - Kareem Hassan Abboud's family of seven share a two room house in a makeshift squatter camp in the mainly Shi'ite district of Chukook in northwestern Baghdad. Sewage muddies the dirt road outside.

Seven U.S. troops killed in south Afghan bombings (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 08:45 AM PDT

Reuters - Seven U.S. troops were killed in two separate roadside bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.

Election skews NY Muslim center debate: imams (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 11:43 AM PDT

Reuters - A debate over plans for an Islamic center near New York's World Trade Center site has been politicized ahead of the congressional election, the Muslim cleric heading the project and other city imams say.

Fed policy on right course, economists say (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 09:02 PM PDT

Reuters - Most economists in a recent survey said they approved of the Federal Reserve's current course on monetary policy and see deflation as a risk for the short term.

Gun rampage leaves eight dead in Slovakia (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:26 PM PDT

The gunman standing on a street in the Bratislava suburb of Devinska Nova Ves. A man armed with an assault rifle shot seven people dead, wounded 15 and then turned the gun on himself in a Monday morning rampage on a street in the Slovak capital Bratislava, the police said.(AFP/Rudolf Urmin)AFP - A man armed with an assault rifle shot seven people dead, wounded 15 and then turned the gun on himself in a Monday morning rampage on a street in the Slovak capital Bratislava, the police said.

Pakistan continue tour despite match fixing claims (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 08:47 AM PDT

Pakistan's Mohammad Asif bowls on the second day of their fourth NPower Test match against England,at Lord's Cricket Ground in London. Pakistan set off for the next leg of their tour of England despite increasing pressure to call it off amid damaging allegations that top players were caught up in a match-fixing scandal.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Pakistan set off on Monday for the next leg of their tour of England despite increasing pressure to call it off amid damaging allegations that top players were caught up in a match-fixing scandal.
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