Friday, September 10, 2010

Obama says voters may blame him for economy (AP)

Obama says voters may blame him for economy (AP)

Obama says voters may blame him for economy (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 11:04 AM PDT

President Barack Obama attends Milwaukee Laborfest event in Wisconsin to celebrate Labor Day September 6, 2010. REUTERS/Larry DowningAP - President Barack Obama insisted Friday that the U.S. economy is digging itself out of the deepest recession in decades but conceded that "progress has been painfully slow" and many voters in November's elections may blame him.

CA crews try to reach smoldering homes after blast (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 01:09 PM PDT

A massive fire roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Firefighters from San Bruno and surrounding cities are battling the blaze that started on a hillside and is now consuming homes in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)AP - Fire crews tried to douse the remnants of an enormous blaze and account for the residents of dozens of homes Friday after a gas line ruptured and an explosion ripped through in a neighborhood near San Francisco, killing at least four people.

9/11 politicized by mosque, Quran controversies (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2010 file photo, construction continues at the World Trade Center site in New York. On Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, the nation will observe the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - For almost a decade, the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was marked by somber reflection and a call to unity, devoid of politics. Not this time.

Stocks edge higher, continue September rally (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 01:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2010 file photo, traders and specialists work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. Stock futures inched higher Friday, Sept. 10, as investors bet the economy will continue to grow slowly. (AP Photo/David Karp, file)AP - Stocks are closing higher as investors hold on to their newfound optimism about the economy.

Police: Feuds led Pa. woman to shoot colleagues (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 01:03 PM PDT

Police gather at the scene of a workplace shooting at the Kraft Foods Inc. facility in Northeast Philadelphia on Thursday Sept. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)AP - A Kraft Foods plant worker who had been suspended for feuding with colleagues, then escorted from the building, returned minutes later with a handgun, found her foes in a break room and executed two of them with a single bullet each and critically wounded a third, police said Friday.

Priest sex abuse linked to 13 suicides in Belgium (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 09:13 AM PDT

File - In this Sunday, April 3, 2005 file photo Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels leans on his staff while leading a memorial Mass for Pope John Paul II, at the St. Michael church in Brussels. On Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 a Belgian commission looking into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy says it has received testimony from hundreds of victims and that witnesses say widespread abuse over decades led to at least 13 suicides. Cardinal Godfried Danneels, acknowledged Wednesday that damage control often took precedence over concerns for victims in sexual abuse cases involving clergy. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)AP - Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as two, a special commission said Friday.

Spanish miners in Day 9 of underground protest (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 10:27 AM PDT

Miners read newspapers and magazines inside Las Cuevas mine near the town of Velilla del Rio Carrion, northern Spain, on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. Fifty Spanish coal miners 1,640 feet (500 meters) underground are staging the ninth day of a strike over unpaid wages and government aid to the coal industry. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)AP - Far, far away from a Chilean mine where 33 trapped men struggle to cope as they await rescue, 50 Spanish miners are also deep in the earth's bowels — but by their own choice.

Vegas police arrest Mayweather in domestic case (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:56 PM PDT

AP - Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been arrested in Las Vegas on a felony theft charge stemming from a domestic violence complaint by his ex-girlfriend.

Team claims record-breaking pumpkin launch in Utah (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:01 PM PDT

AP - A team that shoots pumpkins from a giant air cannon says it achieved the holy grail of the sport - chucking a pumpkin a distance of more than one mile.

Brady OKs contract to become NFL's top paid player (AP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 08:44 AM PDT

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) stretches before practice begins at the NFL football team's facility in Foxborough, Mass., Thursday afternoon, Sept. 9, 2010. Brady was in a two-car accident near his home on Thursday morning but was unhurt. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - A day that started badly for Tom Brady turned out to be a pretty good one after all. After a morning crash left Brady's car damaged but the New England Patriots quarterback unhurt, he came to terms on a contract that will make him the highest paid player in the NFL.

Obama says Koran burning can badly damage U.S. abroad (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 01:12 PM PDT

Retired U.S. Marine Charlie Paleveda stands with his American flag outside the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida September 10, 2010. REUTERS/Scott AudetteReuters - President Barack Obama said on Friday he hoped a Florida pastor would drop a plan to burn Korans on U.S. soil, saying such an act could deeply harm the United States abroad.

Obama says Republicans holding recovery hostage (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:23 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the economy at the Cuyahoga Community College West Campus in Parma, Ohio, near Cleveland, September 8, 2010. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - President Barack Obama accused Republicans on Friday of holding the middle class hostage and defended his efforts to stimulate the sluggish economy as he tries to reverse grim election prospects for his fellow Democrats in November.

U.S. troops charged with murder of Afghan civilians (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:47 PM PDT

Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and US soldiers return from a patrol. The Pentagon on Thursday said it was concerned about the fallout from a grisly murder case involving a dozen US soldiers accused of killing Afghan civilians and conspiring to cover it up.(AFP/Patrick Baz)Reuters - Twelve U.S. soldiers have been charged with gruesome crimes in Afghanistan ranging from murdering civilians to keeping body parts as war trophies -- revelations that the Pentagon said on Thursday damaged America's image around the world.

Iran cancels release of detained American: report (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:56 PM PDT

Sarah Shourd speaks with journalists during a news conference in Tehran May 20, 2010. REUTERS/Raheb HomavandiReuters - Iran has canceled the planned release of a detained American woman because the legal process has not been completed, Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi was quoted as saying on Friday.

Judge rules ban on gays in military unconstitutional (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:47 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. military rule banning openly gay people from serving in the armed forces violates constitutional rights to free speech and due process, a federal judge in southern California ruled Thursday.

Castro says comment on Cuban economy misunderstood (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:55 PM PDT

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro speaks during a meeting with students at Havana's University September 3, 2010. REUTERS/Desmond BoylanReuters - Fidel Castro said on Friday his recent comment that communist-led Cuba's economic model does not work was badly understood and that what he really meant was that capitalism does not work.

Four dead in San Francisco suburb gas line inferno (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:47 PM PDT

A massive fire roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Firefighters from San Bruno and surrounding cities are battling the blaze that started on a hillside and is now consuming homes in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)Reuters - At least four people died after a gas line explosion and fire razed 38 homes in a San Francisco suburb, and officials expected the death toll to rise on Friday as firefighters search the wreckage.

Hitmen kill 25 in bloodiest day on Mexico-U.S. border (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 12:48 PM PDT

A soldier guards the perimeter of a court where members of the Zetas drug cartel, according to Guatemalan courts, listen to the sentencing of their trial in Guatemala City, late Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. 14 members of the Mexican drug organization were sentenced accused of having killed Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose 'Juancho' Leon and 10 others in March 2008. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)Reuters - The murders of 25 people by suspected drug hitmen on the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday was the bloodiest day in almost three years in an area gripped by an escalating drug war, officials said on Friday.

Obama calls on Americans to unite, not divide, over Islam (AFP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 10:24 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama Friday warned Americans not to turn on one another over religion amid a spate of rows over Islam in US society, nine years after the September 11 attacks.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)AFP - An impassioned President Barack Obama Friday warned Americans not to turn on one another over religion amid a spate of rows over Islam in US society, nine years after the September 11 attacks.

US pastor puts Koran-burning on hold (AFP)

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 08:22 AM PDT

Dove World Outreach Center while Pastor Terry Jones speaks with reporters after earlier delivering the news Septemer 9 that Korans will not be burned at the church in Gainesville, Florida on Sept 11, 2010. Jones insisted he would not carry out a plan to burn the Koran, but failed to stem a global tide of Muslim outrage.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)AFP - A Florida pastor at the center of a global firestorm insisted Friday he would not proceed with a planned Koran burning ceremony, but failed to stem a tide of Muslim outrage.
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