Sunday, May 1, 2011

Top officials survey storm-ravaged South (Reuters)

Top officials survey storm-ravaged South (Reuters)

Top officials survey storm-ravaged South (Reuters)

Posted: 01 May 2011 06:14 PM PDT

Volunteers from neighboring Blount County, Alabama help clean up rubble in the Pleasant Grove community April 30, 2011. REUTERS/Marvin GentryReuters - Federal officials vowed urgent support on Sunday for a region devastated by the deadliest U.S. natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina, even as they acknowledged recovery would not be quick or easy.

May Day rallies call for reform, voice frustration (Reuters)

Posted: 01 May 2011 04:32 PM PDT

Reuters - Demonstrators rallied at May Day events across the nation on Sunday, calling for reform on a host of issues and voicing frustration with President Barack Obama.

Shifting weather aids battle against Texas wildfires (Reuters)

Posted: 01 May 2011 04:51 PM PDT

Reuters - Firefighters worked under a thick haze of ash on Sunday to starve a still-burning West Texas blaze that has destroyed more than 40 homes.

A TIME Gala and A Royal Wedding (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 11:05 PM PDT

Time.com - A TIME Gala and A Royal Wedding

Alabama Tornadoes: An Eyewitness Account from Tuscaloosa (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 11:05 PM PDT

Time.com - An enormous tornado barreled through the Alabama city, wreaking enormous damage and killing at least 36 people

Tornado-hit Alabama town copes with destruction, loss (Reuters)

Posted: 01 May 2011 02:45 PM PDT

A choir performs during a Sunday church service amid devastation, at the site of the Phil Campbell Church of God, destroyed in a deadly tornado April 27, in Phil Campbell, Alabama May 1, 2011. REUTERS/Lee CelanoReuters - In the small Alabama town of Phil Campbell, where a tornado killed 20 people and wiped out 40 percent of the homes, church services went on Sunday amid the destruction and loss.

Polygamous church dispute may head to Utah court (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2011 01:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2010 file photo, Warren Jeffs sits in the Third District Court in Salt Lake City. Utah and state court officials are treading a constitutional tightrope in efforts to resolve a fight for control of jailed polygamous sect leader Jeffs' southern Utah-based church without infringing on federally protected religious rights. (AP Photo/Trent Nelson, Pool, File)AP - An internal tug-of-war over control of jailed polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs' southern Utah-based church may force Utah courts to walk a constitutional tightrope that experts say could tread a little too close to separation of church and state.

Huckabee criticizes Obama at NRA keynote address (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 10:38 PM PDT

Former governor of Arkansas, Michael Huckabee addresses the National Rifle Association's 140th annual meeting, Saturday, April 30, 2011 in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee called himself a "gun-clinger and a God-clinger" but didn't come close to saying whether he'll be a Republican presidential candidate next year when he delivered the keynote address Saturday at the annual National Rifle Association convention.

Tornado victims seek comfort in Sunday services (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2011 05:27 PM PDT

Jean Croft worships at an outdoor service at Mt. Peria Baptist Church in Ringgold, Ga. Sunday, May 1, 2011 after thke church was damaged by a tornado on Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Billy Weeks)AP - Macolee Muhammed accepted the prayer of a relief worker who stopped by what was left of her Birmingham home. It didn't matter that she was Muslim and he was a Southern Baptist.

Workers demand better jobs, pay on May Day (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2011 05:04 PM PDT

Participants of a May Day march organized by the German trade union carry flags and banners as they march through Berlin, Germany, Sunday, May 1, 2011. Banner in front reads: ' This is the least, fair salaries, fair jobs'. (AP Photo/dapd, Steffi Loos) GERMANY OUT AUSTRIA OUT SWITZERLAND OUTAP - Millions of demonstrators around the world marched for labor rights Sunday, including thousands in Wisconsin who continued their divisive battle over collective-bargaining rights that began in February and had prompted huge masses of protesters to pour into the Madison Capitol.

Court declines to block levee blast, farm flooding (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2011 07:17 PM PDT

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, left, speaks as Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh, right, with the Army Corps of Engineers listens during a news conference near the Birds Point levee Sunday, May 1, 2011, in Mississippi County, Mo. The Army Corps of Engineers is considering blowing a two-mile hole into the Birds Point levee in southeast Missouri, which would flood 130,000 acres of farmland in Missouri's Mississippi County but protect nearby Cairo, Ill. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - The U.S. Supreme Court on Sunday refused to halt a plan by the Army Corps of Engineers to blast open a levee to relieve the rain-swollen Mississippi River even as the Illinois town at risk of flooding was cleared out.

NASA says no new launch attempt before next Sunday (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2011 02:52 PM PDT

Space shuttle Endeavour is seen at Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, April 30, 2011. Yesterdays' launch attempt was scrubbed due to technical problems.(AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - NASA's space shuttles are dragging their tails toward retirement.

Navy vets fundraiser gave to top GOP candidates (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2011 04:38 PM PDT

This photo provided by Ohio Attorney General's Office, shows an undated file photo of Bobby Charles Thompson, right, with U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam. A fugitive accused of running a bogus charity for U.S. Navy veterans that ripped off more than $20 million in donations nationwide gave generously to mostly Republican political causes, according to Ohio authorities. Campaign finance records show the man, using what authorities say is the stolen identity Bobby Charles Thompson, has donated nearly $300,000 since 1999 to George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns, several U.S. senators, other candidates and groups. Ohio investigators say Thompson and his political action committee gave to more than 50 mostly Republican candidates in 16 states. (AP Photo/Ohio Attorney General's Office)AP - He called himself Bobby Charles Thompson and gave himself the rank of lieutenant commander as he headed a nationwide nonprofit for U.S. Navy veterans.

1 year after Times Square scare, concerns endure (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 10:40 PM PDT

AP - One year after a militant from Connecticut spread panic by driving a bomb-laden SUV into the heart of Times Square, New Yorkers, tourists and even the street vendor who alerted police to the smoking vehicle still descend on "The Crossroads of the World" as if it never happened.

NFL star helps NY boy after mom's suicide plunge (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2011 09:00 PM PDT

In this Aug. 21, 2010 photo, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis smiles as he walks along the bench during the second half of an NFL preseason football game in Landover, Md., NFL linebacker Ray Lewis and former cornerback Reggie Howard are helping a 10-year-old New York boy whose mother drowned herself and three children by driving a van into the Hudson River. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - NFL linebacker Ray Lewis and former cornerback Reggie Howard are helping a 10-year-old New York boy whose mother drowned herself and three children by driving a van into the Hudson River.
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