Thursday, August 5, 2010

Senate confirms Kagan as 112th justice (AP)

Senate confirms Kagan as 112th justice (AP)

Senate confirms Kagan as 112th justice (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 12:51 PM PDT

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan laughs as she testifies on the third day of her Senate confirmation hearings in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 30, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstAP - The Senate has confirmed Elena Kagan as the 112th justice and fourth woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

Trustees: Medicare hospital fund extended 12 years (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 10:59 AM PDT

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, second from right, speaks about the Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, at the Treasury Department in Washington. Joining him, from left are, Social Security Administration Commissioner Michael J. Astrue, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - A report on the financial condition of the Medicare and Social Security programs contends the Obama administration's sweeping health care overhaul will extend the life of the Medicare hospital insurance fund by 12 years — an assertion that Medicare's top numbers-cruncher disputed.

BP pumping cement in well to finish 'static kill' (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 11:22 AM PDT

Bobby Bolton, BP wellsite leader, talks to reporters on the Helix Q4000, which is performing the static kill procedure, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - BP began pumping a steady stream of fresh cement into its blown-out oil well Thursday, hoping to seal for good the ruptured pipe that blew its top months ago and spewed crude into Gulf of Mexico in one of the world's worst spills.

Co.: Conn. shooter was selling beer to 3rd party (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 12:25 PM PDT

**ADDS LOCATION PHOTO WAS TAKEN** This June 2010 cell phone photo provided by Kristi Hannah, shows her boyfriend Omar Thornton in Niantic, Conn. Police said Thornton killed eight people and wounded two, then turned the gun on himself in a rampage Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010, in Manchester, Conn. (AP Photo/Kristi Hannah) NO SALESAP - The president of a beer distribution company says the employee who went on a shooting rampage there had been systematically stealing beer and selling it to a third party.

Appeal filed over gay marriage ruling in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 11:20 AM PDT

Same-sex marriage supporters march through San Francisco celebrating a federal judge's decision overturning California's same-sex marriage ban on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker made his ruling in a lawsuit filed by two gay couples who claimed the voter-approved ban violated their civil rights. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)AP - Supporters of California's gay marriage ban filed an appeal Thursday of a federal judge's ruling striking down the voter-approved law.

US Army flies flood relief missions in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 11:56 AM PDT

Pakistani army soldiers in a helicopter rescue families stranded by flood water in Sanawan near Multan in central Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. U.S. Army choppers flew their first relief missions in Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest Thursday, airlifting hundreds of stranded people to safety from a devastated tourist town and distributing emergency aid. In the country's south, authorities began evacuating half-a-million people as the worst monsoon rains in decades threatened new destruction. (AP Photo/Khallid Tanveer)AP - U.S. Army choppers flew their first relief missions in Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest Thursday, airlifting hundreds of stranded people to safety from a devastated tourist town and distributing emergency aid.

2 dead, dozens hurt in school bus crash in Mo. (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 12:50 PM PDT

Rescue personnel work at the scene of an accident involving two school buses and a tractor-trailer Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, on eastbound Interstate 44 near Gray Summit, Mo. The school buses were carrying high school band students to an amusement park. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - Two buses carrying high school band students to an amusement park Thursday slammed into a freeway wreck that happened right in front of them, crushing a pickup truck and killing its driver and one of the students. Dozens of other students were treated for injuries.

New claims for jobless benefits rise to 479K (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 07:45 AM PDT

In this July 20, 2010 photo, Gena Burgdorf, sitting, Regional Team Manager with DriveTime meets with prospective job applicants during a National Career Fairs Job Fair, in Plano, Texas. Initial requests for jobless benefits rose last week to their highest level since April, a sign that hiring remains weak and some companies are still cutting workers.(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - Initial requests for jobless benefits rose last week to their highest level since April, a sign that hiring remains weak and some companies are still cutting workers.

Naomi Campbell tells war-crimes court: Not clear gift was diamonds (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 08:14 AM PDT

In this image made from television Naomi Campbell is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. Naomi Campbell appeared at a Dutch courthouse to give evidence at the war crimes trial of former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor after the supermodel lost her battle to avoid testifying. Campbell will be questioned about claims made by actress Mia Farrow that Taylor gave the British model an uncut diamond after a dinner party hosted by Nelson Mandela in South Africa in 1997. Prosecutors say if that's true, it's evidence that he received diamonds from Sierra Leone rebels in exchange for weapons during that country's 1992-2002 civil war. (AP Photo/Special Court for Sierra Leone, via APTN) ** TV OUT **AP - Naomi Campbell told a war crimes tribunal Thursday that she had received some "dirty-looking stones" after a 1997 dinner party with former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor — but added that she didn't know if the stones were actually diamonds or who sent the gift.

Ky. woman guilty of extortion in coach Pitino case (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 12:58 PM PDT

Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino gets into his vehicle after finishing testimony in Karen Cunagin Sypher's federal trial in Louisville, Ky., Thursday, July 29, 2010. Sypher is charged with trying to extort millions of dollars from Pitino, among other things. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP - A Kentucky woman was convicted Thursday of demanding millions of dollars from Rick Pitino to keep secret their one-night stand in a restaurant, then claiming the Louisville basketball coach raped her after he reported the extortion.

Senate approves Obama nominee Kagan to top court (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 12:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 30, 2010 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination. On Thursday, the Senate confirmed Kagan as the 112th justice. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Reuters - President Barack Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court won Senate approval on Thursday, his second appointment to the highest U.S. court that decides abortion, death penalty and other contentious cases.

BP cements Gulf oil well and sets up for permanent kill (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 11:36 AM PDT

A remotely operated robotic arm is pictured at work near the containment capping stack, in this image captured from a BP live video feed from the Gulf of Mexico August 3, 2010. REUTERS/BP/HandoutReuters - BP pumped cement down its blown-out Gulf of Mexico well on Thursday, sealing it off and setting up a planned permanent kill later this month of the source of the world's worst marine spill.

Gay marriage appeal notice filed (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 12:18 PM PDT

Same-sex couple Stuart Gaffney (L) and John Lewis wait to hear the ruling on Prop 8 outside of the Philip Burton Federal building in San Francisco, California. Opponents of same-sex marriage formally challenged a decision to overturn California's ban on gay and lesbian weddings Thursday, launching an appeals process expected to take years to complete.(AFP/Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)Reuters - One day after a federal judge struck down California's ban on gay marriage, supporters of the voter-approved law on Thursday filed notice with the court that they would appeal, firing a new salvo in what experts say will be a long legal battle ahead.

GM at work on IPO filing but not ready yet: CEO (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 12:19 PM PDT

General Motors acting chief executive Ed Whitacre leaves a news conference in Detroit, Michigan in this January 25, 2010 file photo.REUTERS/Rebecca CookReuters - General Motors Co has begun work on the paperwork for an initial public offering of stock that could be the largest ever for the U.S. market, the automaker's Chief Executive Ed Whitacre said on Thursday.

Wary U.S. employers keep hiring plans on hold (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 12:17 PM PDT

Reuters - Anyone puzzled by the reluctance of U.S. companies to hire workers in the midst of what looks like a business-led recovery needs to talk to Robert Harvell.

Surprise rise in jobless claims casts pall on economy (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 10:46 AM PDT

People wait in line to enter the City University of New York (CUNY) Big Apple job fair in New York in this April 23, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - New claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week to the highest level since early April, highlighting a weak labor market and the fragile economic recovery.

Al Qaeda, Taliban resilient terrorist threats: U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 09:31 AM PDT

Reuters - Al Qaeda's core leadership in Pakistan remains the most formidable terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland and al Qaeda's growing presence across Africa challenges many states, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.

Petraeus clarifies rules on Afghan air strikes (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 07:35 PM PDT

U.S. General David Petraeus (R) stands during a change-of-command ceremony at the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters in Kabul July 4, 2010. REUTERS/Ahmad MasoodReuters - The new commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan issued a directive on Wednesday that could facilitate use of air strikes but also called on troops to do everything possible to avoid putting civilians at risk.

NATO admits civilian deaths in east Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 10:07 AM PDT

US soldiers sleep on cots under makeshift awnings at an under-construction base in Kandahar. NATO on Thursday admitted killing a number of civilians during military operations in eastern Afghanistan after President Hamid Karzai launched a probe into the case.(AFP/Yuri Cortez)AFP - NATO on Thursday admitted killing a number of civilians during military operations in eastern Afghanistan after President Hamid Karzai launched a probe into the case.

Huge evacuation underway as Pakistan floods hit four million (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 12:36 PM PDT

Pakistani men lead their cattle through flood waters as they evacuate Mehmood Kot. Pakistan began evacuating half a million people from flood-risk areas in the south on Thursday as the overall number hit by the country's worst floods in living memory rose to more than four million.(AFP/Arif Ali)AFP - Pakistan began evacuating half a million people from flood-risk areas in the south on Thursday as the overall number hit by the country's worst floods in living memory rose to more than four million.
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