Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Allen Stanford incompetent for trial: judge (Reuters)

Allen Stanford incompetent for trial: judge (Reuters)

Allen Stanford incompetent for trial: judge (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 05:17 PM PST

Texas billionaire Allen Stanford arrives at the Federal courthouse in Houston, in the custody of U.S. marshalls, June 25, 2009. REUTERS/ Steve CampbellReuters - Financier Allen Stanford is incompetent to stand trial at this time over accusations that he led a $7 billion fraud, a U.S. judge in Texas ruled on Wednesday.

Giffords begins first full round of therapy (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 05:24 PM PST

Mark Kelly, the husband of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, is pictured watching the State of the Union address in the hospital room of his wife, in Houston, January 25, 2011. REUTERS/Office of Rep. Gabrielle GiffordsReuters - U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was moved on Wednesday from an intensive-care ward to a long-term rehabilitation facility to begin her first full round of therapy since she was shot through the head 17 days ago.

Rabbis protest Fox host's use of Holocaust imagery (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:54 PM PST

Reuters - Four hundred rabbis will publish a letter on Thursday calling on Fox News to sanction host Glenn Beck for repeated use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery and for airing attacks on World War Two survivor George Soros.

When Life in Prison Doesn't Mean Life in Prison (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Jan 2011 08:30 PM PST

Time.com - A Christmas day killing in Massachusetts has rekindled a debate about the parameters of paroling people on so-called life sentences

State of the Union: Why the Middle East Won't Be the Focus (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Jan 2011 03:55 PM PST

Time.com - Washington's influence on events is slipping fast in the region that has been the dominant focus of U.S. foreign policy over the past decade

Smugglers with "medieval catapult" nabbed at U.S. border (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:44 PM PST

Reuters - In a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. Border, authorities said on Wednesday.

Montana files lawsuit over video late fees (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:31 PM PST

AP - People who didn't return movies to Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery before they closed their doors for good last year may run into credit trouble when looking to take out a mortgage or finance a car.

No one hurt in a not-quite-miracle on the Hudson (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 11:51 AM PST

** CORRECTS SPELLING OF NAME OF SHIP TO MOIRA SMITH INSTEAD OF MORIA SMITH AND REMOVES THIRD SENTENCE ** The 'Moira Smith,' left, a New York Waterway ferry which caught fire on the Hudson River, is towed toward Port Imperial, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, in Weehawken, N.J. The ferry was named after an NYPD officer who died on Sept. 11 while she helped others escape the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)AP - A commuter ferry that was among the first to respond to the plane splashdown in the Hudson River two years ago had to be rescued itself Wednesday morning when an engine began emitting dark smoke.

What does it mean to be a resident of a city? (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 02:19 PM PST

Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel accepts the endorsement of Teamsters Joint Council 25, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, in Chicago. Emanuel asked the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that knocked him off the ballot for Chicago mayor a day after an appeals court removed him from the Feb. 22 ballot because he did not live in Chicago for a year before the election. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - If history unfolded differently, and Abraham Lincoln had served out his second term in the White House, could he have returned to Illinois to run for mayor of his hometown?

Ex-SC governor, Argentine lover hit Uruguay resort (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:23 PM PST

AP - A week after divorced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford left office, he and his Argentine lover he called his "soul mate" were spotted frolicking on the beach in the same resort where their romance began.

Doctors: Rep. Giffords ready to start full rehab (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:30 PM PST

Astronaut Mark Kelly sits in the passenger seat of the ambulance as it carries his wife, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, to TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, in Houston. Giffords was transferred Wednesday to begin the next phase of her recovery from a gunshot wound at TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Wednesday left intensive care for the first time since she was shot in the head in Arizona more than two weeks ago, the latest big step in the long road to recovery.

Medical examiner: missing Texas teen was strangled (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:52 PM PST

Lubbock County Medical Examiner Sridhar Natarajan speaks during a press conference in Lubbock, Texas, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 to confirm that a body found Monday was that of missing teenager Elizabeth Ennen. (AP Photo/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Zach Long)AP - A 15-year-old girl whose body was found along a roadside in West Texas was strangled soon after her abduction from a motel where she had been babysitting the children of a man accused in her disappearance, authorities said Wednesday.

Not again! Another snowstorm hits East Coast (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 07:58 PM PST

Shelby, a German Shepherd mix, tries to catch a snowball thrown by her owner Mikell Olson at Port Imperial, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, in Weehawken, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)AP - Another snowstorm is sweeping over the East Coast, closing schools and grounding planes. Hundreds of thousands of customers are without power in Washington, D.C.

Suspect who fled into Ore. woods avid outdoorsman (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:24 PM PST

A member of the Oregon State Police SWAT team trains his gun on a door during a search in the Bayview community Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, in Waldport , Ore. Police are searching for 43-year-old David Anthony Durham suspected of shooting and critically wounding an officer on the Oregon coast. The gunman fled into the wilderness surrounding Waldport's peninsula, about five miles from Siuslaw National Forest. The search for him entered its third night early Wednesday as 25-member SWAT teams armed with assault rifles searched the area. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - A man who fled into the wilderness along the Oregon coast after allegedly shooting a police officer is an avid outdoorsman who designs his own camouflage clothing, his brother said Wednesday as police searched for the suspect on a small peninsula.

Witness in ex-CIA operative case had mental issues (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 06:18 PM PST

AP - Defense attorneys for an elderly ex-CIA operative and anti-communist militant on trial for perjury argued Wednesday that a top prosecution witness' history of schizophrenic episodes and hallucinations make him unreliable.

Republicans back at work cutting spending (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 10:34 AM PST

President Barack Obama is applauded by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, while delivering his State of the Union address (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)AP - Moving quickly on their own priorities, House Republicans pushed legislation to abolish partial public financing of presidential campaigns on Wednesday, one day after a State of the Union address in which President Barack Obama pronounced the country "poised for progress" and beckoned lawmakers of both parties to make job creation their common goal.

Mixed results shown from dispersants in BP spill (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 02:32 PM PST

FILE -In this April 27, 2010 file photo, a dispersant plane passes over an oil skimmer as it cleans oil in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana. The first peer-reviewed study looking at the effectiveness of chemical dispersants used deep undersea on the BP oil spill found mixed results. It appeared to keep some oil from bubbling up to the surface where it could do worse damage, but it didn't appear to biodegrade the oil quite as fast as promised. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)AP - Dispersants injected deep in the Gulf of Mexico to counter an oil gusher last spring seemed to keep some oil from fouling the water's surface, but the chemicals lingered underwater, raising concerns about long-term problems, a new study found.

About 26 million Americans have diabetes, up 9 pct (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:23 AM PST

AP - U.S. health officials have raised their estimate of how many Americans have diabetes to nearly 26 million.

Mosque to be built in CA city after appeal denied (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 04:13 PM PST

AP - Opponents of a proposed mosque in the Southern California city of Temecula collected hundreds of signatures, bombarded city planners with angry letters and e-mails, and even staged protests with bullhorns and dogs.

GOP invokes 1700s doctrine in health care fight (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2011 11:56 AM PST

AP - Republican lawmakers in nearly a dozen states are reaching into the dusty annals of American history to fight President Obama's health care overhaul.
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