Saturday, July 30, 2011

House rejects Senate Dems debt-limit bill (AP)

House rejects Senate Dems debt-limit bill (AP)

House rejects Senate Dems debt-limit bill (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 12:27 PM PDT

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, returns to his office from the House floor as the debt crisis showdown continues on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, July 30, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The Republican-led House on Saturday rejected a Senate Democratic bill to raise the nation's debt limit just three days before the deadline to avert an unprecedented U.S. financial default. President Barack Obama and lawmakers remained at loggerheads on any possible compromise.

On tea party bandwagon, DeMint in driver's seat (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 10:19 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 14, 2011, file photo Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., speaks to media on Capitol Hill in Washington. In these nervous days of debt limit warfare and pre-election posturing DeMint, who calls himself Sen. Tea Party, is specific and focused on what change, exactly, he wants: passage รข€AP - He calls himself Sen. Tea Party.

Fight over debt tests leadership of Obama, Boehner (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 11:30 AM PDT

AP - The fight over the debt ceiling has turned into a dramatic leadership test for President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, opponents in a divided government who've gone from negotiating in secret to facing off in public at a watershed moment for the country and their own political careers.

Libya and Syria offering US no easy answers (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 10:18 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 10, 2011, file photo Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gestures to his supporters in Tripoli, Libya. Five months after President Barack Obama told him to leave Libya, Gadhafi is pressing on against NATO-backed rebel forces, flaunting his remaining power in the face of Western nations fearful of combating him with greater force. And four months after Obama offered Syria's leader an ultimatum to lead reform or leave, Bashar Assad's crackdown on dissent rages on. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)AP - Five months after President Barack Obama told him to leave Libya, Moammar Gadhafi is pressing on against NATO-backed rebel forces, flaunting his remaining power in the face of Western nations fearful of combatting him with greater force. And four months after Obama offered Syria's leader an ultimatum to lead reform or leave, Bashar Assad's crackdown on dissent rages on.

Norway gunman's tale diverges sharply from reality (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 08:46 AM PDT

FILE - In this undated file image obtained from the Twitter page of Anders Behring Breivik, 32, who was arrested in connection with the twin attacks on a youth camp and a government building in Oslo, Norway. There's a long thread of delusion winding throughout the 1,518-page manifesto Breivik e-mailed to hundreds of people hours before he set out on his murderous rampage in Norway's capital and a nearby vacation island just over a week ago. But those who know Breivik told The Associated Press Saturday, July 30, 2011, that much is true about the manifesto's autobiographical material, which is interlaced with long political screeds and detailed instructions on bomb-making. (AP Photo/Twitter, Anders Behring Breivik)AP - In the world according to Anders Behring Breivik, a seat on Oslo's city council was once nearly in his grasp — until he was sidelined by a jealous adversary. Nonsense, says the so-called rival, who notes that Breivik attended just five or six party meetings and barely spoke.

400 attend roller rink shooting victims' funeral (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 10:48 AM PDT

Rev. Peter Quang Le, left, of the Sacred Heart of Mary Church in Barling, Ark., on Saturday, July 30, 2011, conducts a service for four of the five victims of a shooting rampage last weekend at a Grand Prairie, Texas roller rink. Trini Do, 29, her sisters, Lynn Ta, 16, and Michelle Ta, 28, and her brother, Hien Ta, 21, were killed when her estranged husband opened fire during a birthday party for the couple's 11-year-old son. Tan Do, 35, later killed himself. Trini Do received a protective order in December against her husband, but she had it withdrawn earlier this year against a prosecutor's advice because she wanted to give him another chance, an aunt has said. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - Four siblings killed in a shooting rampage at a Texas roller rink were remembered Saturday as a part of a tight-knit family, even as the hundreds gathered in an Arkansas church to mourn them tried to make sense of the tragedy.

Cheers to screams as jet from NY crashes in Guyana (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 12:46 PM PDT

The broken fuselage of a Caribbean Airlines' Boeing 737-800 is seen after it crashed at the end of the runway at Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Timehri, Guyana, Saturday July 30, 2011. The Caribbean Airlines flight 523 from New York touched down on the rainy runway, slid through a chain-link fence and broke apart just short of a ravine but there were no immediate reports of death among the 163 people aboard, despite several dozen of injuries. (AP Photo/Jules Gibson)AP - Flight 523 from New York had just touched down and passengers were applauding the pilot's landing in the South American country Saturday when something suddenly went wrong.

FBI offers $25K reward in case of missing NH girl (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 10:44 AM PDT

Family friends hold up missing posters for Celina Cass for passing cars to view outside the family residence, at rear, in Stewartstown, N.H., Wednesday, July 28, 2011. Cass, 11, has been reported missing since she was last seen at her home on Monday.(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - The FBI is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to an 11-year-old northern New Hampshire girl who's been missing for five days.

Businesses play critical role in thwarting terror (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 11:29 AM PDT

AP - Ultimately, it was the keen eye of a Texas gun shop clerk that helped authorities find an AWOL soldier who'd stashed bomb-making material in his nearby motel room for a planned attack on Fort Hood soldiers.

Bush to be in NYC to mark 10th anniversary of 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 10:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2001 file photo, President George W. Bush puts his arm around firefighter Bob Beckwith while standing in front of the World Trade Center in New York during a tour of the devastation. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says former President Bush will be among the dignitaries at a World Trade Center site ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)AP - The ceremony at the World Trade Center site marking the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks will be a solemn but stately event that will include former President George W. Bush and a chance for victims' families to view the names of loved ones etched into the memorial, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

Mood tense as debt talks go down to wire (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 01:05 PM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) leaves after a GOP conference meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington July 29, 2011. REUTERS/Yuri GripasReuters - A bitter mood prevailed on Capitol Hill as lawmakers struggled on Saturday to find a compromise measure to lift the nation's $14.3 trillion debt, as talks to avert a ruinous default went down to the wire.

Republican leaders say fully engaged with Obama (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 01:14 PM PDT

Reuters - The top Republicans in the Senate and House of Representatives said on Saturday that after a week of stalemate they are now in serious talks with President Barack Obama to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a looming default.

W.House says supports bill lifting debt limit to 2013 (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 12:05 PM PDT

Reuters - The White House said on Saturday it "strongly supports" a bill being considered in the House of Representatives that incorporates both Democratic and Republican ideas and would raise the debt limit to early 2013.

Moody's expects to affirm U.S. rating, negative outlook (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:12 PM PDT

Reuters - The United States will likely keep its top-notch credit rating from Moody's for now, despite the "limited magnitude" of the deficit reduction plans being discussed in Washington, the ratings agency said on Friday.

Libyan rebel commander killed by allied militia (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 01:17 PM PDT

A destroyed satellite dish is seen in the compound of the Libyan state TV building in Tripoli, July 30, 2011. NATO said on Saturday it had bombed three satellite dishes in Tripoli to stop Reuters - Libyan rebels say the gunmen who shot dead their military chief were militiamen allied in their struggle to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, raising questions over divisions and lawlessness within rebel ranks.

Iraq says to buy 36 F-16 fighters from U.S (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 09:17 AM PDT

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during a joint news conference with Iraqi parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi in Baghdad December 20, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenReuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday his government would buy 36 F-16 fighters from the United States, doubling the number it had initially planned to purchase to strengthen its weak air defenses.

Turkey's leaders deny crisis as top generals quit (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 12:54 PM PDT

Turkey's Ground Forces Chief General Isik Kosaner attends a ceremony in Ankara, in this July 16, 2010 file picture. Kosaner, along with the heads of the ground, naval and air forces have resigned, broadcaster CNN Turk reported on July 29, 2011. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/FilesReuters - For Turkey's political leaders it was business as usual Saturday, denying any crisis, or simply not mentioning the resignation of the country's four top military commanders.

NY Post reporters told to preserve documents: memos (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:20 PM PDT

Reuters - Rupert Murdoch's New York Post has ordered newsroom staff to keep all documents related to questionable reporting methods involving phone hacking or unlawful payments to government officials in light of the fire storm in the UK engulfing the newspaper's owner, News Corp.

Obama, Democratic allies to huddle on debt stalemate (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 01:18 PM PDT

US Speaker of the House John Boehner (R) speaks with staff members before going to the House chamber at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. The Republican-led House of Representatives rejected a proposal Saturday from Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to avert a US debt default with ruinous global consequences.(AFP/Karen Bleier)AFP - President Barack Obama called his top Democratic allies in Congress to emergency talks Saturday amid a desperate hunt for a deal to avert a US debt default with disastrous global consequences.

Three journalists killed in NATO raid: Libya (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 12:23 PM PDT

Khaled Basilia -- the director of Al-Jamahiriya's English-language TV service -- tells reporters that three people were killed and 15 wounded in NATO air strike on the television headquarters in Tripoli.(AFP/Mahmud Turkia)AFP - Libya said three journalists were killed in a NATO air strike on state television on Saturday and that the murder of the rebels' army chief proved Al-Qaeda was instigating the country's armed revolt.
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