Thursday, February 3, 2011

Cairo square chaos intensifies, violence spreads (AP)

Cairo square chaos intensifies, violence spreads (AP)

Cairo square chaos intensifies, violence spreads (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 01:06 PM PST

An anti-government protester throws rocks at pro-government supporters, while another talks on his mobile phone, right, during clashes between the two sides near the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. Protesters and regime supporters skirmished in a second day of rock-throwing battles at a central Cairo square while new lawlessness spread around the city. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Protesters and government supporters fought in a second day of rock-throwing battles at a central Cairo square while more lawlessness spread around the city. New looting and arson erupted, and gangs of thugs supporting President Hosni Mubarak attacked reporters, foreigners and rights workers while the army rounded up foreign journalists.

Journalists attacked by mobs, detained in Cairo (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 01:06 PM PST

Two foreign photographers take cover as they follow stone throwing clashes between pro- and anti- government protesters in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. New clashes are heating up again and shots are being fired in the air around Cairo's central Tahrir Square as anti-government protesters push back regime supporters. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - Foreign journalists were beaten with sticks and fists by pro-government mobs on Thursday, and dozens were detained by security forces. The U.S. condemned what it called the "systematic targeting" of the reporters, photographers and film crews who have brought searing images of Egyptian protests to the world.

House Republicans move to slash domestic programs (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 01:06 PM PST

In this photo taken Jan. 19, 2011, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio talks about the upcoming vote to to repeal the health care bill at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans used their first two weeks in power, interrupted by tributes to the Arizona shooting victims, to excoriate the health law. Boehner says the next big priority is to codify a perennially renewed ban on federal funding for abortion, and to specify that it applies to health plans. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Republicans controlling the House promised Thursday to slash domestic agencies' spending by almost 20 percent in their drive to bring it back to levels in place before President Barack Obama took office.

Bitter cold, destruction in wake of mammoth storm (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 01:06 PM PST

The Chicago skyline is reflected on a thin layer of ice as a chunk of snow-covered ice floats in Monroe Harbor one day after a blizzard dumped the third largest snowfall in Chicago's history, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - A mammoth winter storm left dangerously slick roads and frigid Midwestern temperatures in its frozen footprint Thursday, a day after crushing snow-laden buildings in the Northeast.

Tens of thousands march against Yemen's president (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 12:24 PM PST

Yemenis chant slogans and hold banners during a demonstration against the government, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. Thousands of opponents of Yemen's government and its supporters are demonstrating in the capital and other cities a day after the president pledged not to seek another term in office. Banner reads in Arabic, ' Raise your voice, No for corruption and poverty policy'.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)AP - Tens of thousands of protesters Thursday staged unprecedented demonstrations against Yemen's autocratic president, a key U.S. ally in battling Islamic militants, as unrest inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia spread further in the Arab world.

GOP divided over Obama response to Egypt (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 01:07 PM PST

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., leave after speaking about health care at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. A Republican drive to repeal the year-old health care law ended in party-line defeat in the Senate on Wednesday, leaving the Supreme Court to render a final, unpredictable verdict on an issue steeped in political and constitutional controversy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - As chaos roils Egypt, Republican lawmakers and the GOP's potential presidential candidates are divided over President Barack Obama's response though united in concern that an Islamic regime could rise to power in a nation that is an important U.S. ally in the precarious Middle East.

Senators criticize FBI, Army in Fort Hood tragedy (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 12:38 PM PST

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., looks on at left, as the committee's ranking Republican Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, to discuss a Senate report on the Fort Hood shooting that is sharply critical of the FBI and its failure to adequately share information with the military about the alleged shooter's extremist views. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - A Senate report on the Fort Hood shooting is sharply critical of the FBI's failure to recognize warning signs that an Army psychiatrist had become an Islamist extremist and amounted to a "ticking time bomb."

Arrest made in $1.5M Bellagio casino chip heist (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 12:15 PM PST

This police booking photo provided on Thursday Feb. 3, 2011 by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Anthony M. Carleo, 29, from Las Vegas who was being held on felony armed robbery and burglary charges. Police say the Las Vegas man is suspected of the brazen armed robbery of $1.5 million in casino chips from the posh Bellagio resort on the Las Vegas Strip on Dec. 14. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Carleo is the son of a Las Vegas Municipal Court judge. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Police Department)AP - Police have arrested a 29-year-old Las Vegas man in the brazen armed robbery of $1.5 million in casino chips from the posh Bellagio resort on the Las Vegas Strip.

'Last Tango in Paris' star Maria Schneider dies (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 12:21 PM PST

FILE - In this 1972 file photo originally provided by United Artists, Director Bernardo Bertolucci, left, Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider are shown during the filing of 'The Last Tango in Paris.' A representative of the Act 1 agency said Schneider died in Paris on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, following a long illness. She was 58. (AP Photo/United Artists)AP - Maria Schneider, the French actress who was Marlon Brando's young co-star in the steamy 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris," has died at age 58.

Super Bowl ad frenzy stretches far beyond the game (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 12:50 PM PST

In this photo provided by PepsiCo, an Eminem puppet likeness is shown. Eminem is partnering with Brisk ice tea in a Super Bowl ad spot to debut on Sunday during the first quarter of the big game. (AP Photo/PepsiCo) ** NO SALES **AP - The Super Bowl commercial blitz is extending beyond the usual talking babies and office chimps to engage viewers online and get more for advertisers' $3 million-plus investment.

Data points to stronger growth momentum (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 10:44 AM PST

Job seekers prepare for career fair to open at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 6, 2011. REUTERS/Mike SegarReuters - Growth in the U.S. services sector in January was the fastest in more than five years, another sign the economy started 2011 on a solid footing, with measures of employment showing more strength.

Judge finds Feinberg not independent of BP (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 05:29 AM PST

Reuters - The administrator of BP Plc's $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Gulf oil spill is not independent and the oil company must refrain from calling him "neutral," a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.

Bernanke says growth, inflation still missing Fed goals (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 11:32 AM PST

Reuters - The U.S. economic recovery still needs help from the Federal Reserve despite signs of improvement, the central bank's chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday.

Retailers beat estimates and January storms (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 11:38 AM PST

Reuters - January sales at major U.S. retailers blew past analysts' expectations as shoppers braved snowstorms in an unexpected sign of consumer strength.

ISS backs call for Apple CEO succession plan (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 12:26 PM PST

Reuters - Influential investor advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services has thrown its weight behind a shareholder proposal to require Apple Inc to disclose a succession plan for Chief Executive Steve Jobs.

House Republicans seek $32 billion in spending cuts (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 08:56 AM PST

Reuters - Republican leaders in the House of Representatives will seek $32 billion in spending cuts from current levels this year as part of an effort to reduce a forecasted $1.5 trillion deficit.

Dig-out and budget headaches after huge winter storm (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 10:10 AM PST

Cars sit abandoned on Lake Shore Drive as crews work to re-open the roadway in Chicago, February 2, 2011. REUTERS/John GressReuters - Cities across the United States dug out on Thursday from a snow and ice storm that stretched for thousands of miles (km) as air travel remained a mess and local officials struggled to make roads passable.

Egypt VP tells protesters to go home, clashes rage (AFP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 12:37 PM PST

An Egyptian anti-government demonstrator sits on a wrecked truck used as a barricade at Cairo's Tahrir square. Deadly clashes between opponents and partisans of Hosni Mubarak raged for a second day on Thursday as Egypt's vice president urged protesters to go home, criticising their demands for the president's ouster as a AFP - Deadly clashes between opponents and partisans of Hosni Mubarak raged for a second day on Thursday as Egypt's vice president urged protesters to go home, criticising their demands for the president's ouster as a "call for chaos."

Tens of thousands of Yemenis demonstrate in Sanaa (AFP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 11:26 AM PST

Yemeni anti-government protesters shout slogans during a AFP - Tens of thousands of Yemenis staged a "day of rage" on Thursday calling for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, as a similar number of government loyalists held a counter protest in the capital.
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