Sunday, January 2, 2011

GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election (AP)

GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election (AP)

GOP agenda: Major impact may be on 2012 election (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 08:33 AM PST

FILE - In this April 15, 2010 file photo, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Republican agenda for the 112th Congress that convenes Wednesday may have a greater impact on the 2012 elections than the lives of Americans in the next two years. Issa, the chief Republican investigator, is raring to get started. As the incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, he's been especially critical of what he calls waste in Obama’s economic stimulus spending. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - The Republican agenda for the new Congress that convenes Wednesday may have a greater impact on the 2012 elections than on the lives of Americans in the next two years.

US Navy to probe lewd videos shown to carrier crew (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 12:22 PM PST

In this frame grab taken from video obtained by the Virginian-Pilot newspaper, U.S. Navy Capt. Owen Honors appears in one of a series of profanity-laced comedy sketches that were broadcast on the USS Enterprise via closed-circuit television. A top officer aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier broadcast to his crew the series of sketches in which he uses gay slurs, mimics masturbation and opens the shower curtain on women pretending to bathe together, a newspaper reported. The Virginian-Pilot reported in its Sunday editions that Capt. Owen Honors appeared in the videos in 2006 and 2007 while he was the USS Enterprise's second-ranking officer, and showed them across the ship on closed-circuit television. He took over as the ship's commander in May. (AP Photo/The Virginian Pilot) NO SALESAP - A top officer aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier broadcast to his crew a series of profanity-laced comedy sketches in which he uses gay slurs, mimics masturbation and opens the shower curtain on women pretending to bathe together, a newspaper reported.

Magnitude-7.1 quake shakes southern Chile (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 01:15 PM PST

AP - Chilean officials and the U.S. Geological Survey say a magnitude-7.1 quake has shaken southern Chile, sending hundreds fleeing for higher ground for fear that it would generate a tsunami.

Senator proposes permanent US bases in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:37 AM PST

Pfc, Mark Puget from Woodland CA, of 2nd Platoon Bravo Company 2-327 Infantry stands guard as a woman passes by during a patrol in Chowkay district in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan near Pakistan border on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - A leading GOP lawmaker on U.S. military policy says he wants American officials to consider establishing permanent military bases in Afghanistan.

Israeli PM wants nonstop talks with Palestinians (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:34 AM PST

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second right, convenes the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, Pool)AP - Israel's prime minister on Sunday proposed nonstop, face-to-face talks with the Palestinian president until a peace agreement is reached — offering a possible way to advance talks that have stalled over the construction of Jewish settlements.

Russia orders halt to Tu-154B flights after fire (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 08:37 AM PST

In this image taken from Russia 24 television channel TV, showing a tail part of the Russian passenger Tu-154 aircraft seen after an explosion in Surgut, about 2200 kilometers (1,350 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. The Russian passenger jet carrying 128 people caught fire and later exploded at a Siberian airport on Saturday, killing one person and injuring several others, officials said. The rest of the passengers and crew were safely evacuated before the explosion in the Western Siberian oil town of Surgut. (AP Photo/Rossia 24 Television Channel) TV OUTAP - Russia's transport oversight agency on Sunday ordered the country's airlines to stop using Tu-154B planes until the cause of a passenger jet fire and explosion that killed three people is determined.

Probe of Egypt church bomb focuses on local group (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:47 AM PST

Egyptian Coptic Christian Ahlam Fawzy Saber, center, who lost two of her sisters and a niece in the blast, is helped back into the church to sit down after collapsing from emotion following morning mass inside the Saints Church in Alexandria, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. Grieving Christians, many clad in black, were back praying Sunday in the blood-spattered church where 21 worshippers were killed in an apparent suicide bombing, feeling betrayed by a government they say has not done enough to keep them safe. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Egyptian police are focusing their investigation into the New Year's suicide bombing of a church on a group of Islamic hard-liners inspired by al-Qaida and based in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria where the attack killed 21 people, security officials said Sunday.

Reports of sea lion shootings on rise in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 10:46 AM PST

AP - The weak and woozy California sea lion found on a San Francisco Bay-area beach in December with buckshot embedded in its skull has become an all-too-common sight for wildlife officials.

Apple's absence to be felt at CES gadget show (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:50 AM PST

**ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, JAN. 3** FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2010 file photo, Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach speaks during CEO Steve Ballmer's keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The International Consumer Electronics Show, which kicks off this week in Las Vegas. It’s the largest trade show in the Americas, and organizers expect attendance to be as strong as last year. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch, file)AP - What do you call it when you have 120,000 people and an elephant in the room?

Steelers blast Browns 41-9, win AFC North title (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 01:20 PM PST

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Mike Wallace catches a 56-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in the first quarter of an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)AP - Ben Roethlisberger threw two touchdown passes and the Pittsburgh Steelers won the AFC North to secure a first-round playoff bye with a 41-9 win over Cleveland on Sunday, in what could be the final game for Eric Mangini as Browns coach.

House Republicans eye quick repeal of healthcare law (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:50 AM PST

Reuters - Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to hold a vote in January to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul and say they have nearly enough support to override a presidential veto of the repeal, a top lawmaker said on Sunday.

China Premier Wen reiterates fight against inflation (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 03:40 AM PST

Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao vowed again to step up efforts to keep consumer inflation in check in 2011, state media reported on Sunday.

Iran says shot down two spy planes in Gulf: report (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 07:00 AM PST

Reuters - Iran has shot down two unmanned western reconnaissance drone aircraft in the Gulf, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency on Sunday.

Egypt holds seven for questioning after church blast (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 12:16 PM PST

Egyptian Christians grieve for their relatives at the Coptic Orthodox church in Alexandria, January 2, 2011. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Egypt is holding seven people for questioning over the New Year's Day bombing of a Coptic church in the northern city of Alexandria and has released 10 others, a security source said on Sunday.

Navy to probe controversial carrier videos (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:53 AM PST

Reuters - The Navy will investigate "inappropriate" videos produced on the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, which among other scenes show simulated masturbation and women showering together.

Apple wakes up to iPhone alarm glitch on New Year's (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 12:02 PM PST

Reuters - Apple Inc got a wake-up call on Sunday, as iPhone users complained the New Year got off to a slow start because built-in alarms on their phones failed to wake them.

Record floods swamp Australia's northeast (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 04:33 AM PST

Houses in the town of Theodore, about 410km (255 miles) north west of Brisbane, are partially submerged by flood waters in this January 1, 2011 handout picture. REUTERS/Queensland Police Service/HandoutReuters - Large parts of Australia's coastal northeast disappeared under floodwaters on Sunday in a spreading disaster that has brought some of the highest floods on record and forced thousands from their homes.

Obama aide: Debt limit fight could be "catastrophic" (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 01:09 PM PST

Reuters - A fight over the budget loomed on Sunday as a top aide to President Barack Obama warned of catastrophic consequences if Republicans follow through on threats to reject an increase in the nation's borrowing limit.

Catastrophic Australian floods claim first victim (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 07:30 AM PST

A man wades across a flooded bridge on the Perry River near the town of Gin Gin in northeastern Australia. Devastating floods in the region have claimed their first victim, with the body of a missing woman recovered as the surging waters continued to rise and a fresh storm loomed.(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Devastating floods in northeastern Australia claimed their first victim Sunday, with the body of a missing woman recovered as the surging waters continued to rise and a fresh storm loomed.

Pakistan government in crisis as coalition partner quits (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:48 AM PST

Pakistani policemen stand guard on a street in Karachi in October 2010. The second largest party in Pakistan's ruling coalition Sunday quit the government to join the opposition, destabilising the US ally in the war on Al-Qaeda and threatening to paralyse business of state.(AFP/File/Rizwan Tabassum)AFP - The second largest party in Pakistan's ruling coalition Sunday quit the government to join the opposition, destabilising the US ally in the war on Al-Qaeda and threatening to paralyse business of state.
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