Thursday, September 30, 2010

AP sources: Emanuel leaving White House on Friday (AP)

AP sources: Emanuel leaving White House on Friday (AP)

AP sources: Emanuel leaving White House on Friday (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 27, 2010 file photo, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel laughs as he takes some good natured ribbing about his recent comment about someday wanting to be mayor of Chicago while participating in the sixth annual Richard J. Daley Global Cities Forum in Chicago. Two people familiar with Rahm Emanuel's plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they did not want to pre-empt Emanuel's announcement, said Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, that he will resign as White House chief of staff on Friday, and will begin his campaign for Chicago mayor by meeting with voters in the city on Monday. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is set to give up his influential national post Friday to begin a run for Chicago mayor, a job he has long coveted but won't win unless he persuades voters he's still one of them.

AIG bailout exit doesn't resolve losses from TARP (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2008 file photo, an American International Group office building is shown in New York. AIG has reached a deal Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010 to repay the government billions of dollars in assistance it received during the credit crisis. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - American International Group finally has a plan to exit the biggest of the Wall Street bailouts a month before midterm elections. But much as embattled lawmakers might wish otherwise, the book on TARP won't close anytime soon.

Jimmy Carter lands in DC after hospital stay (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:03 PM PDT

Former President Jimmy Carter waves as he leaves MetroHealth Hospital Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, in Cleveland. Carter left the hospital where he spent two days recovering from a viral infection doctors say likely gave him stomach problems. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - Former President Jimmy Carter landed in Washington on Thursday after spending two nights in an Ohio hospital recovering from a viral infection that doctors say likely gave him stomach problems.

NJ student's suicide illustrates Internet dangers (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:47 PM PDT

**CORRECTS BYLINE TO VANDERBERG** A group participates in a 'lie-in' near the Student Center at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, N.J Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. The rally was in support of safe places for gay students, in response to the death of a Rutgers University freshman who jumped off a bridge last week after a recording of him having a sexual encounter with a man was broadcast online. (AP Photo/Erin Vanderberg)AP - The shocking suicide of a college student whose sex life was broadcast over the Web illustrates yet again the Internet's alarming potential as a means of tormenting others and raises questions whether young people in the age of Twitter and Facebook can even distinguish public from private.

J&J, FDA leaders take heat for 'phantom' recall (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:21 PM PDT

Johnson & Johnson Chairman and CEO William Weldon, left, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing to examine the circumstances surrounding the recall of medicines produced by Johnson & Johnson/McNeil Consumer Healthcare. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Group Chair Colleen Goggins is at right. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - Johnson & Johnson executives and the Food and Drug Administration both shouldered the blame Thursday for a secret recall in which hired contractors quietly bought up defective painkillers to clear them from store shelves.

Massive storms blamed for 4 deaths in the East (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:21 PM PDT

A Pike Electric Inc., crew takes down a utility line running to a house after a large tree fell and damaged a significant portion of the home in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, September 30, 2010. (AP Photo/News & Record, Nelson Kepley)AP - A massive rainstorm drenched the East Coast from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, causing at least four deaths, flooding roads and washing away months of dry weather.

Court: Make records public in friars' sex cases (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 05:54 PM PDT

AP - A California appeals court ruled Thursday that psychiatric and other confidential records of Franciscan friars accused of sex abuse should be made public in a long-awaited decision that could speed the release of similar documents about dozens of other accused priests and religious figures.

Feds want case dropped against Afghan in Calif (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 04:21 PM PDT

AP - Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to drop charges against the Afghan-born brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's bodyguard, saying a key overseas witness was unavailable to testify.

Witness describes 'hell' at NJ party shooting (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 04:04 PM PDT

All vehicles trying to enter Seton Hall University campus tonight were stopped at the security gate after five students were shot, one of whom has died, at an off campus party today, Saturday Sept. 25, 2010 in East Orange, NJ. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein)AP - A Seton Hall University student who attended an off-campus house party at which five people were shot said the gunman stood on her back as she lay on the floor and didn't appear to be targeting anyone during the chaos she described as "hell."

Warner praises Beckham's support for World Cup bid (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 12:58 PM PDT

David Beckham, former England's soccer team captain and Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder, right, talks with Jack Warner, the vice-president of the International Federation of Football Association, FIFA, during a coaching clinic in Macoya, Trinidad and Tobago, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. Beckham is visiting Trinidad and Tobago to bolster both England's World Cup bid and Caribbean youth football. (AP Photo/Anthony Harris)AP - CONCACAF President Jack Warner praised David Beckham's role with the England bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, saying he adds a "lot of weight" to the chances of staging the event for the second time.

Health care law may hamper limited insurance plans (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 04:09 PM PDT

McDonald's may drop its health insurance plan for nearly 30,000 hourly restaurant workers unless regulators waive a new requirement, The Wall Street Journal reported(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AP - The new health care law could make it difficult for companies like McDonald's to continue offering limited insurance coverage to their low-wage workers.

Duck boat captain sues tug, Philly in deadly crash (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:38 PM PDT

AP - A tour boat captain has sued the city of Philadelphia and operators of a tugboat that pushed a huge city barge into his amphibious vessel, sinking it and leaving two Hungarian tourists dead.

Sparks flying, wing aground, flight lands in NYC (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 01:22 PM PDT

AP - With a flight attendant yelling "heads down, stay down," passengers cowered and prayed on a tense descent into John F. Kennedy International Airport as malfunctioning landing gear sent sparks flying and left one of the plane's wings dragging along the tarmac.

Experts question BP's take on Gulf oil spill (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 12:43 PM PDT

Mark Bly, BP Group Head of Safety and Operations, testifies before the National Academy of Engineering committee In Washington Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. Experts probing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill exposed holes in BP's internal investigation as the company was questioned for the first time in public about its findings. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - Engineering experts probing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill exposed holes in BP's internal investigation as the company was questioned Sunday for the first time in public about its findings.

Defiance, resilience marked career of Tony Curtis (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:37 PM PDT

FILE - Actor Tony Curtis and his wife Janet Leigh are shown at Academy Awards, in this April 6, 1959 file photo taken in Hollywood. Curtis died Wednesday Sept. 29, 2010 at his Las Vegas area home of a cardiac arrest at 85 according to the Clark County, Nev. coroner. (AP Photo, File)AP - From dressing in drag to posing nude for his 80th birthday, Tony Curtis truly was a defiant one.

NY lawyer convicted in Dead Sea Scrolls case (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 04:27 PM PDT

AP - A scholar's son was convicted Thursday of using online aliases to harass and discredit his father's detractors in a heated academic debate over the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Court hears appeal in 'West Memphis Three' case (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 12:52 PM PDT

**CORRECTS DATE** Mary Ann Britton along with other supports of Jessie Misskelley, Damien Ecols, and Jason Baldwin hold a vigil at Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church in Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 on the eve of oral arguments in the Arkansas Supreme Court. The three men were convicted of the 1993 deaths of three West Memphis boys. (AP Photo/Russell Powell)AP - Justices on the Arkansas Supreme Court sharply questioned the state attorney general's office Thursday, asking what damage could be done if a judge examined evidence that allegedly exonerates an inmate sentenced to death for killing three Cub Scouts in 1993.

Idaho gov. candidates play up cowboy credentials (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2010 file photo, Idaho Gov. C.L. 'Butch' Otter works the heels of a calf while team roping with the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association commissioner Karl Stressman at the Caldwell Night Rodeo in Caldwell, Idaho. From the rims of their Stetsons to the shotguns on their shoulders, Republican C.L. 'Butch' Otter and Democrat Keith Allred appear to be running as much for Idaho's cowboy-in-chief as they are for governor. As different as Otter, a 30-year politician and businessman, and Allred, a former Harvard University professor who ran a nonpartisan reform group, seem in real life, both are tapping images that harken back to the Old West to send powerful messages to voters come Nov. 2 about their characters: individualism, a sense of purpose, common sense — and the spurs to give the economy a little giddy-up. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Charlie Litchfield, File)AP - They have castrated thousands of calves. They spend free time riding the range on horseback or hunting with shotguns slung over their shoulders. Cowboy hats, oversized belt buckles and scuffed-up boots are standard attire.

Veteran's family denied WH tour because of shorts (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:07 PM PDT

** FILE ** President Clinton shakes hands with Vernon Baker after presenting him with a Medal of Honor, Monday Jan. 13, 1997 at the White House. In a long-awaited ceremony, Baker and six other World War II veterans became the first black soldiers of that conflict to receive the medal. Baker was the sole survivor of the group. The White House is apologizing for turning the family of the late Medal of Honor recipient away from a tour on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, because the late veteran's 10-year-old grandson was wearing shorts. (AP Photo/Ruth Fremson)AP - The White House apologized Thursday for turning the family of a Medal of Honor recipient away from an exclusive tour last week because the late veteran's 10-year-old grandson was wearing shorts.

Wife: Writing notes helped missing hiker survive (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:47 PM PDT

This undated image provided by the Edward Rosenthal family via Joshua Tree National Park shows Edward Rosenthal who was reported missing Friday Sept. 24, 2010 after failing to return from a hike inside Joshua Tree National Park, Calif. Authorities say 64-year-old Edward Rosenthal was found by a San Bernardino County sheriff's helicopter crew just before noon in a canyon about six miles east of Desert Hot Springs. (AP Photo/ courtesy Edward Rosenthal family via Joshua Tree National Park)AP - A real estate broker survived six days without food or water in the desolate Joshua Tree National Park by staying still and writing messages to his family on his hat, telling them what kind of funeral he wanted, who they could trust and how much he loved them, his wife said.
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