Thursday, September 22, 2011

Obama challenges Boehner, McConnell on home turf (AP)

Obama challenges Boehner, McConnell on home turf (AP)

Obama challenges Boehner, McConnell on home turf (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:27 PM PDT

President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Brent Spence Bridge, regarding his American Jobs Act Now legislation, Thursday, Sept., 22, 2011, in Cincinnati, Ohio. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Employing in-your-face politics, President Barack Obama sold his jobs plan Thursday from the turf of the top Republicans on Capitol Hill, combatively calling them out by name to demand action.

Bachmann: Social conservatives shouldn't settle (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:30 PM PDT

Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks to employees during a plant tour at Sukup Manufacturing, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, in Sheffield. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann said Thursday that social conservatives don't have to settle for a nominee who does not share their values, and rival Mitt Romney said the party should nominate someone from the private sector — double-teaming criticism of front-runner Rick Perry.

US walks out as Iran delivers anti-US speech (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:47 PM PDT

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - American diplomats led a walkout at the U.N. General Assembly Thursday as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fiercely attacked the United States and major West European nations as "arrogant powers" ruled by greed and eager for military adventurism.

GOP leader sees House vote on new disaster bill (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:15 PM PDT

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, after the House rejected a measure Wednesday providing $3.7 billion for disaster relief as part of a bill to keep the government running through mid-November. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - House Republicans grappled Thursday with ways to revive a must-pass measure to provide billions of dollars in disaster relief and prevent a government shutdown at the end of next week.

Davis' backers seek next step after execution (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:11 PM PDT

Minister Lynn Hopkins, left, comforts her partner Carolyn Bond after hearing that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last minute plea of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis In Jackson, Ga., Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. Davis was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday for killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail. (AP/Photo Stephen Morton)AP - Minutes before he was put to death, Troy Davis asked his supporters to "continue to fight this fight" — but will they, and how?

Co-chair of debt panel wants corporate tax reform (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:41 PM PDT

Supercommittee co-chair, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, right, begins a hearing of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. From right are: Hensarling, Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., and Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The Republican co-chairman of the deficit-fighting "supercommittee" said Thursday he wants to tackle corporate tax reform, a theme the White House has promoted for months. But big differences remain, including on the sticky issue of whether changes should lead to higher overall taxes on businesses.

Texas prisons end special last meals in executions (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:58 PM PDT

FILE - In a Wednesday, April 28, 1999 file photo, Lawrence Russell Brewer is led from the Jasper County courthouse following a change of venue hearing in his capital murder trial for the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd Jr. , in Jasper, Texas. Brewer, 44, one of two purported white supremacists condemned for Byrd’s death, is set for execution Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011 for participating in chaining Byrd to the back of a pickup truck, dragging the black man along the road and dumping what was left of his shredded body outside a black church and cemetery. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Texas inmates who are set to be executed will no longer get their choice of last meals, a change prison officials made Thursday after a prominent state senator became miffed over an expansive request from a man condemned for a notorious dragging death.

AP IMPACT: NYPD ethnic tracking included citizens (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:18 PM PDT

In this photo taken Sept. 2, 2011, Amine Darhbach, a U.S. citizen from Morocco, is interviewed as he cuts hair at his barber shop in the Astoria neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York. His shop had been under scrutiny by the New York Police Department as part of a secret program to gather intelligence on the city's Moroccan population. The New York Police Department subjected American citizens to surveillance and scrutiny, not because of any wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity. Documents obtained by The Associated Press describe a secret program known as the Moroccan Initiative, which catalogued where people of Moroccan ancestry shopped, ate and prayed. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The grainy photographs could have come from any undercover police file: A man in jeans talking on his cell phone. Another in a windbreaker walking past people at a coffee shop. A car parked outside a grocery store.

Roll over Einstein: Pillar of physics challenged (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:49 PM PDT

This undated file photo shows famed physicist Albert Einstein. Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, the world's largest physics lab, say they have clocked subatomic particles, called neutrinos, traveling faster than light, a feat that, if true, would break a fundamental pillar of science, the idea that nothing is supposed to move faster than light, at least according to Einstein's special theory of relativity: The famous E (equals) mc2 equation. That stands for energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The readings have so astounded researchers that they are asking others to independently verify the measurements before claiming an actual discovery. (AP Photo)AP - A pillar of physics — that nothing can go faster than the speed of light — appears to be smashed by an oddball subatomic particle that has apparently made a giant end run around Albert Einstein's theories.

Ted Haggard to appear on wife swap television show (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:16 PM PDT

AP - Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard and Hollywood actor Gary Busey are trading wives for a week for an upcoming edition of ABC-TV's "Celebrity Wife Swap."

Market's 3 percent plunge suggests deepening worry (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:32 PM PDT

The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 283.82 points, or 2.49 percent, to 11,124.84. REUTERS/GraphicReuters - Stocks plunged on Thursday, extending a selloff to four days, as policymakers' failure to arrest global economic stagnation sent markets spiraling downward.

HP named Whitman CEO, Apotheker out (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:31 PM PDT

Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co named former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman as its new president and CEO, replacing unpopular leader Leo Apotheker at the helm of the largest U.S. technology company.

Warnings mount on euro crisis, BRICS mull more aid (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:52 PM PDT

Reuters - World leaders and finance chiefs demanded Europe act decisively to quell its debt crisis and big emerging economies said they would consider providing more money to help prevent the chaos from spreading.

Failed bill spotlights dysfunction in Congress (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:49 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama receives a standing ovation as he addresses a Joint Session of Congress inside the chamber of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington September 8, 2011. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - Republican leaders

"Super committee" eyes taxes amid differences (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 11:50 AM PDT

Representative Fred Upton (R-MI) (L-R), Rep. Xavier Bacerra (D-CA), Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) meet for the first time for a Joint Deficit Reduction Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 13, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - The leaders of a congressional "super committee" squared off on Thursday over the hot-button issue of tax increases and how new revenues might fit into the panel's deficit reduction proposals.

Sparks fly as U.S. and Pakistan spar over Afghan bloodshed (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:35 PM PDT

U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha Company 2nd battalion 27th infantry (the Wolfhounds), Task Force No Fear climb upon arrival to Observation Post Mace from FOB Bostick in eastern Afghanistan Naray district, Kunar province near border of Pakistan August 26, 2011. REUTERS/Nikola SolicReuters - The United States and Pakistan inched closer to open confrontation on Thursday, the top U.S. military officer accusing Pakistan's intelligence agency in the strongest terms yet of involvement in violence against U.S. targets in Afghanistan.

Jobless claims fall but recession still feared (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 08:57 AM PDT

Reuters - Americans filed fewer new claims for jobless benefits last week but the decline was not enough to dispel worries the economy was dangerously close to falling into a new recession.

Private sector slowdown heightens recession fears (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:46 AM PDT

A labourer works at a textile mill in Huaibei, Anhui province September 22, 2011.REUTERS/StringerReuters - Private sector business activity in Europe and China declined sharply this month, and new claims for U.S. jobless benefits remained high, underlining fears that the global economy could lapse back into recession.

How Democrats' anger at disaster funding helped doom House spending bill (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 08:08 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A stop-gap spending plan to keep the government running through Nov. 18 failed in the House Wednesday by a 230-to-195 margin, as Democratic support that the GOP leadership had counted on vanished in a dispute over disaster funding.

UAW and GM strike a deal. Is that good news for Ford and Chrysler, too? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 04:35 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - General Motors and the United Auto Workers union announced a tentative agreement late Tuesday that will create more than 6,000 new jobs and raise hourly pay for entry-level workers.
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