Friday, July 29, 2011

House nears vote on GOP debt bill; Dems oppose (AP)

House nears vote on GOP debt bill; Dems oppose (AP)

House nears vote on GOP debt bill; Dems oppose (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:56 PM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks out of a caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Partisan to the core, Congress groped uncertainly Friday for a way to avoid a government default threatened for early next week. "We are almost out of time," warned President Barack Obama as U.S. financial markets trembled.

Economy slowed sharply in first half of year (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:26 PM PDT

In this June 21, 2011 photo, Shell gas worker Toke Fusi changes gas prices down at a Shell gas station in Menlo Park, Calif. The economy slowed in the first six months of 2011 to its weakest pace since the recession ended. High gas prices and scant income gains forced Americans to sharply pull back on spending. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - The economy expanded at a meager 1.3 percent annual rate in the spring after scarcely growing at all in the first three months of the year, the Commerce Department said Friday.

New mileage standards aim for less fuel, pollution (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:03 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama and automakers ushered in the largest cut in fuel consumption since the 1970s on Friday with a deal that will save drivers money at the pump and dramatically cut heat-trapping gases coming from tailpipes.

AWOL soldier defiant in 1st court appearance (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:19 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the U.S. Army shows Pfc. Naser Abdo. Abdo, 21, arrested Wednesday, July 27, 2011, who had weapons stashed in a motel room near Fort Hood, Texas, admitted planning an attack on the post, where 13 people died in 2009 in the worst mass shooting ever on a U.S. military installation, the Army said in an alert issued Thursday. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)AP - An AWOL soldier accused of plotting to launch an attack on Fort Hood was defiant during his first court appearance on Friday, yelling out the name of the Army psychiatrist blamed in the 2009 deadly shooting rampage at the same Texas base.

Witnesses: Commander killed by fellow Libya rebels (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 01:28 PM PDT

Libyan men carry the coffin, gesture and chant slogans during a funeral of Libyan rebels' slain military chief Abdel-Fattah Younis in the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Friday, July 29, 2011. Thousands of mourners marched in the funeral procession Friday for the Libyan rebels' slain military chief, a day after he was gunned down under still mysterious circumstances. Abdel-Fattah Younis was killed as he traveled from his front lines operations room to the rebels' de facto capital Benghazi. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - The Libyan rebels' military commander was killed by his comrades while in custody after he was arrested by the opposition's leadership on suspicion of treason, witnesses said Friday, in a sign of disarray that posed a major setback for the movement battling Moammar Gadhafi.

Somali man recalls horrors of fleeing famine (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 01:24 PM PDT

This July 28, 2011 photo shows Somali refugee Ahmedhashim Mawlid Abdi with his family in Dagahaley camp in Dadaab, Kenya. Famine and violence in Somalia pushed Abdi, a 40-year-old father of seven, to flee his country. On his way to the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, his pregnant wife was raped in his presence and he lost a 7-year-old son to hunger, disease and exhaustion. (AP Photo/Malkhadir Muhumed)AP - When al-Qaida-linked militants learned that Ahmedhashim Mawlid Abdi and his family were planning to flee Somalia's famine, they threw the 40-year-old father of seven in jail for two days.

A week later, Norway mourns 77 victims of massacre (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:16 AM PDT

A mourner weeps during the funeral service for Bano Abobakar Rashid, 18, the first victim of the shooting rampage at Utoeya to be buried, at a church in Nesodden, near Oslo, Norway, Friday July 29, 2011. Rashid, whose family fled to Norway from Iran in 1996, was one of the victims on Utoya island, where gunman Anders Behring Breivik killed at least 68 people, exactly one week ago. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Norway began burying the dead on Friday, a week after an anti-Muslim extremist killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage. Mourners of all ages vowed they would not let the massacre threaten their nation's openness and democracy.

Ultraconservative Muslims join protesters in Egypt (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 08:38 AM PDT

An Egyptian protester prays poised on a light pole at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 29, 2011. Thousands of Egyptians rallied in Cairo's central Tahrir Square on Friday seeking to unify their demands despite rifts over key issues between liberal activists and Islamist groups. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)AP - Ultraconservative Muslims turned out in force Friday as tens of thousands filled Cairo's central Tahrir Square in a rally marked by a growing rift in the protest movement.

Spain's embattled premier calls early elections (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 08:18 AM PDT

Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero looks down during a press conference at the Moncloa Palace, in Madrid, Friday, July 29, 2011. Zapatero announced early general elections in November, scheduling the race four months earlier than anticipated.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)AP - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Friday announced early general elections in November, scheduling the race four months earlier than anticipated to give his Socialist Party a better chance to stay in power amid growing outrage over the nation's economic woes.

Judge: Time to unseal Nixon's Watergate testimony (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 1974 black-and-white file photo, President Richard M. Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon are shown standing together in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Thirty-six years after Nixon testified secretly to a grand jury investigating Watergate, a federal judge orders the first public release of the transcript. (AP Photo/Charlie Harrity, File)AP - Thirty-six years after Richard Nixon testified to a grand jury about the Watergate break-in that drove him from office, a federal judge on Friday ordered the secret transcript made public.

Obama urges compromise, Republicans set to vote (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:47 PM PDT

A man in a Captain America costume wrestles with a large flag as dozens of Tea Party supporters rally near the U.S. Capitol against raising the debt limit in Washington, July 27, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - With four days left before the United States hits its debt limit, Republicans pressed ahead with a deficit plan that cannot pass Congress and President Barack Obama told lawmakers to stop wasting time and find a way "out of this mess."

Growth anemic, debt row poses recession risk (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:34 AM PDT

Reuters - The economy stumbled badly in the first half of 2011 and came dangerously close to contracting in the January-March period, raising the risk of a recession if a standoff over the nation's debt does not end quickly.

Moody's threatens Spain rating cut (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:23 AM PDT

Reuters - Rating agency Moody's put Spain on review for a possible downgrade on Friday, adding to concerns that a Greek rescue package has done little to halt the spread of Europe's debt crisis.

World Bank head: U.S. playing with fire on debt limit (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:44 PM PDT

World Bank President Robert Zoellick speaks at a news conference during the spring International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank meetings in Washington April 16, 2011. REUTERS/Yuri GripasReuters - The United States is courting calamity with the continuing stalemate in Congress over raising the country's debt limit, the World Bank's chief warned on Friday.

Special report: Is Israel Inc. too powerful? (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:49 AM PDT

Shari Arison, the richest woman in Israel, is pictured during an interview with Reuters in Jerusalem November 15, 2009. REUTERS/Baz RatnerReuters - It took a two week-long cottage cheese rebellion to get Israelis to question the power of the country's tycoons.

Obama unveils sharp increase in auto fuel economy (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:16 AM PDT

Traffic moves slowly on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles, California in this July 14, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Eric ThayerReuters - Several major automakers on Friday embraced the Obama administration's proposal to push the industry further away from once-dominant gas guzzlers to more lean and efficient vehicles.

Norway mourns, buries dead, a week after massacre (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 10:03 AM PDT

A graffitti with a message of condolences for Norway is seen in the centre of Oslo July 28, 2011. Norwegian police on Thursday ended a six-day search for bodies on the island where anti-Islamist extremist Anders Behring Breivik killed 68 people and say they are increasingly certain he acted alone. Breivik, 32, killed a total of 76 people in a bomb attack in central Oslo followed by the shooting rampage at the island summer camp for the ruling Labour Party's youth wing. REUTERS/Stoyan NenovReuters - Norwegians united in mourning on Friday as the first funerals were held a week after anti-Islam extremist Anders Behring Breivik massacred at least 77 people in attacks that traumatized the nation.

UK lawmakers likely to recall James Murdoch on hacking (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 10:40 AM PDT

BSkyB Chairman James Murdoch appears before a parliamentary committee on phone hacking at Portcullis House in London July 19, 2011. REUTERS/Parbul TV via Reuters TvReuters - British lawmakers said on Friday it was likely they would recall News Corp's James Murdoch to clarify evidence on phone hacking he gave to a parliamentary committee following claims his testimony was "mistaken."

US 'almost out of time' for debt deal: Obama (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:55 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama leaves after speaking on the status of debt ceiling negotiations in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC. US President Barack Obama warned that polarized lawmakers were AFP - US President Barack Obama warned Friday that polarized lawmakers were "almost out of time" to forge a deal averting a disastrous debt default that could send shockwaves though the world economy.

Norway buries first victims as police question gunman (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 01:16 PM PDT

A close friend of Bano Rashid, one of the victims of the massacre on the youth camp of the Norwegian Labour Party, walks ahead of her coffin carrying her portrait as they make their way to her gravesite at Nesodden Kirke south of the Norwegian capital Oslo.(AFP/Odd Andersen)AFP - Flags flew at half-mast Friday as Norway held the first funerals for victims of the twin attacks a week before, and police said psychiatrists would assess the mental health of Anders Behring Breivik.
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