Sunday, November 28, 2010

Leaked US cables reveal sensitive diplomacy (AP)

Leaked US cables reveal sensitive diplomacy (AP)

Leaked US cables reveal sensitive diplomacy (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:41 PM PST

FILE - This Aug. 14, 2010 file photo shows WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Stockholm, Sweden. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010 spoke with the Chinese government about the expected release of classified cables by the Wikileaks website. The release of hundreds of thousands of cables is expected this weekend, though Wikileaks has not specified the timing. (AP Photo/Scanpix/Bertil Ericson, File) SWEDEN OUTAP - Hundreds of thousands of State Department documents leaked Sunday revealed a hidden world of backstage international diplomacy, divulging candid comments from world leaders and detailing occasional U.S. pressure tactics aimed at hot spots in Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea.

Ore. fire raises Muslims' fears of attack backlash (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 06:15 PM PST

Ahson Saeed, of Corvallis, Ore., reacts over a pile of burnt debris pulled from a local mosque in Corvallis, Ore. Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010 where an alleged arsonist set a fire in the early morning hours. Anger on Sunday over a Somali-born teen's failed plan to blow up a van full of explosives during Portland's Christmas tree lighting ceremony apparently erupted in arson on Sunday when a fire damaged the Islamic center once frequented by the suspect. Police don't know who started the blaze or exactly why, but they believe the mosque was targeted because terror suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, occasionally worshipped there. (AP Photo/Corvallis Gazette-Times, Jesse Skoubo) MANDATORY CREDITAP - Someone set fire to an Islamic center on Sunday, two days after a man who worshipped there was accused of trying to blow up a van full of explosives during Portland's Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Other Muslims fear it could be the first volley of misplaced retribution.

Tax break for employer health plans a target again (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 10:21 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2010 file photo, Erskine Bowles, left, accompanied by former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of President Barack Obama's bipartisan deficit commission, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Job-based health care benefits could wind up on the chopping block if President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans get serious about cutting the federal deficit. Major budget proposals from leaders on both sides of the political aisle have recently urged downsizing or eliminating tax breaks that help make employer health insurance the leading source of coverage in the nation, a middle-class mainstay. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Job-based health care benefits could wind up on the chopping block if President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans get serious about cutting the deficit.

NJ anti-Facebook pastor to resume job in 90 days (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:04 PM PST

AP - A pastor who barred church officials from using Facebook, saying it can lead to adultery, will take a 90-day sabbatical and return to his post, a church elder announced Sunday. The decision follows the pastor's admission that he engaged in a three-way sexual relationship a decade ago.

In air cargo capital, no fear over shipping rules (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 08:17 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2006 file photo, FedEx planes wait to be loaded and unloaded at their hub in the Memphis International Airport. The Memphis economy relies on FedEx for 30,000 jobs and the billions of dollars of business FedEx creates at Memphis International Airport. FedEx shipped 98 percent of cargo put aboard an airplane in 2007 at the airport, which had a $28.6 billion impact on the area that year, according to a 2009 study commissioned by the airport. (AP Photo/Greg Campbell, File)AP - As the busiest shipping season of the year begins, the specter of tighter security measures on air shipping after last month's international mail-bomb scare might have sent a shiver through FedEx's hometown.

A search for answers in '75 SD reservation murder (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:16 AM PST

AP - A long-delayed murder trial may shed light on who ordered the decades-old killing of an American Indian Movement activist who was shot in the head and left to die on South Dakota's Pine Ridge reservation.

Muslim orphans caught between Islamic, Western law (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:52 AM PST

FILE - This June 29, 2008 file photo shows an orphaned Afghan girl listening to her teacher during Quran-i- Sharif class in a dormitory in an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan. Islam has a guardianship system that resembles foster care yet has no exact counterpart in Western law. To try to bridge the differences, adoption specialist Helene Lauffer has sought out a group of Muslim women scholars and activists. 'At the end of the day, it's about trying to find families for kids,' she says. (AP Photo/Farzana Wahidy)AP - Helene Lauffer knew Muslim children — orphaned, displaced, neglected — needed homes in the United States. She knew American Muslim families wanted to take them in.

Recount to begin in Minnesota governor's race (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:03 AM PST

AP - Election officials are keeping the 47-day slog through the ballots in Minnesota's 2008 U.S. Senate race in mind as they prepare for their second statewide recount in as many years, but they're optimistic the recount that starts Monday in the governor's race between Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer will go more quickly.

NYC teacher caught up in Spanish curse debate (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 06:08 PM PST

In this photo taken on Nov. 16, 2010, Michael Izquierdo, originally from the Dominican Republic, reacts to the Spanish word 'cono' while working at a Nutri-Life store in the Queens borough of New York. A city public high school teacher, who is accused of saying 'cono,' in the classroom, is suing the city after he was suspended and fined $15,000 for what school officials say was misconduct for using it in his classroom. 'El cono is used for everything,' said Izquierdo, adding that a teacher could use it to commend a student without it being considered offensive. 'It just depends on the tone that you are using with it.' (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - It can be tossed off almost harmlessly like "damn" or dropped like an F-bomb.

Police: Pa. couple hid 5 children from society (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:32 AM PST

AP - They lived outside society, hidden from the world in a squalid row house with no heat, electricity or running water. They had no birth certificates, no schooling, no immunizations or evidence of medical care — nothing whatsoever to prove their existence.

Fire reported at Ore. Islamic center; no injuries (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 09:43 AM PST

The Salman Al-Farisi Center in Corvallis, Ore. is photographed on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, who allegedly planned a bombing in Portland, Ore. during Friday's Christmas tree lighting ceremony, attended this center. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes)AP - Arson caused a fire on Sunday at an Islamic center that was the occasional place of worship for a Somali-born teen who two days ago was arrested on charges of plotting a terror attack in Portland, authorities said.

FBI: Planes, dogs, psych experts seek 3 Mich. boys (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 03:27 PM PST

This undated photo provided by The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children shows Tanner Skelton. An Amber Alert has been issued for 5-year-old Tanner and his two brothers, 9-year-old Andrew and 7-year-old Alexander, who police in Morenci, Mich., say were given by their father to a woman he met over the Internet. Police were told that he asked the woman to return the boys to their mother. The woman is believed to be from Jackson or Hillsdale counties, and driving a silver van. Morenci is about 75 miles southwest of Detroit and just north of the Ohio state line. (AP Photo/National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) NO SALESAP - The head of Detroit's FBI office says two planes, police dogs and the agency's behavioral science experts are aiding the search for three southern Michigan boys who went missing on the same day their father tried to hang himself.

US asks WikiLeaks to halt document release (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:55 AM PST

FILE - This Aug. 14, 2010 photo shows WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Stockholm, Sweden. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010 spoke with the Chinese government about the expected release of classified cables by the Wikileaks website. The release of hundreds of thousands of cables is expected this weekend, though Wikileaks has not specified the timing. (AP Photo/Scanpix/Bertil Ericson, File) SWEDEN OUTAP - The Obama administration has told whistleblower WikiLeaks that its expected imminent release of classified State Department cables will put "countless" lives at risk, threaten global counterterrorism operations and jeopardize U.S. relations with its allies.

Through the past, darkly: The '60s at 50, blurred (AP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 09:01 PM PST

This two picture combination shows above: in a Jan. 20, 1961 file photo, U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural address after taking the oath of office at Capitol Hill in Washington, and below, in a May 4, 1970 file photo, Mary Ann Vecchio gestures and screams as she kneels by the body of a student lying face down on the campus of Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. National Guardsmen had fired into a crowd of demonstrators, killing four. The definition of the era referred to as 'the 1960's' may be difficult to pinpoint. One person will assert the era began with Kennedy's inauguration (1961) and ended with the shootings at Kent State (1970). Another might count from Kennedy's assassination (1963) until Nixon's resignation (1974) or even until Saigon fell (1975). (AP Photos/File, John Filo, below)AP - His overalls are weathered. His white beard is grown out to aging-hippie perfection. The tattoos on his arms tell the story of a moment from the summer of 1969 that has passed into legend — three days of peace and music that became a doorway to defining an era.

Holiday sales encouraging, but are shoppers done? (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 02:22 PM PST

A vendor sells puppets at the Union Square Holiday Market, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Holiday spending appears to be off to a respectable start, with shoppers crowding stores and malls in bigger numbers than last year on Friday and maintaining steady traffic the rest of the weekend.
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