Saturday, September 3, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee stalls, dumps on Gulf Coast (AP)

Tropical Storm Lee stalls, dumps on Gulf Coast (AP)

Tropical Storm Lee stalls, dumps on Gulf Coast (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 11:58 AM PDT

Beachgoers run for shelter as the rain starts pouring down Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011 in Dauphin Island, Ala. As Tropical Storm Lee continues advancing toward the Louisiana coast, the storm dumps sporadic heavy rain along the coasts. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - Bands of heavy rain and strong wind gusts from Tropical Storm Lee knocked out power to thousands in south Louisiana and Mississippi and prompted evacuations in bayou towns like Jean Lafitte, where water lapped at several front doors along the main highway Saturday morning.

AP IMPACT: 35,000 worldwide convicted for terror (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 12:54 PM PDT

In this July 29, 2011 photo, Naciye Tokova, a Kurdish mother and housewife, who was sentenced to seven years in jail for helping rebels who are described by Turkey as terrorists, speaks during an interview in her home in Kurtalan, Siirt in southeastern Turkey. The key piece of evidence against Tokova, who is illiterate, was the sign that she held up at a protest. It said: 'Either a free leadership and free identity, or resistance and uprising until the end.' The punishment stems from the Turkish state's homegrown narrative of terrorism, one that pre-dates the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and is rooted in the bloody legacy of Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan, jailed since 1999. Activists counter that Tokova was denied the right to free assembly and expression and hardly qualifies as a terrorist accomplice.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - At least 35,000 people worldwide have been convicted as terrorists in the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. But while some bombed hotels or blew up buses, others were put behind bars for waving a political sign or blogging about a protest.

Libya rebels push toward a Gadhafi stronghold (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 11:11 AM PDT

Freedom fighters climb on a tank for a lookout at a defensive outpost, some 30 kilometers outside Misrata, Libya, Thursday, Sep. 01, 2011. A ring of outposts along the outer perimeter of Misrata have been created to defend the city as well as to provide backup troops and supplies to the fighters heading to the frontline.(AP Photo/Gaia Anderson)AP - Rebel fighters closed in Saturday on one of Moammar Gadhafi's last strongholds, the remote desert town of Bani Walid, but were trying to persuade tribal elders there to surrender without a fight.

Disasters in US: An extreme and exhausting year (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 11:30 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 25, 2011 file picture, a line of severe storms crosses the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tenn., passing by the Memphis Pyramid. The dark formation was reported a few minutes earlier as a tornado in West Memphis, Ark. Nature is pummeling the United States in 2011 with extremes. There have been more than 700 U.S. disaster and weather deaths. What's happening, say experts, is mostly random chance or the bad luck of getting the wrong roll of the dice. However, there is something more to it, many of them say. Man-made global warming is loading the dice to increase our odds of getting the bad roll. (AP Photo/Lance Murphey, File)AP - Nature is pummeling the United States this year with extremes.

Man gets life in prison for nursing home slayings (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 12:58 PM PDT

FILE - In a May 28, 2009 file photo, Robert Kenneth Stewart attends a hearing in Moore County Superior Court in Carthage, N.C. Stewart was convicted Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011 of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths of eight people at a nursing home in 2009, meaning he will not be eligible for the death penalty. The jury deliberated for two days before reaching the verdict against Stewart. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)AP - A North Carolina man has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing eight people at a rural nursing home.

Congress returns, unpopular as well as divided (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:43 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010, file photo the sun sets prior to the anticipated State of the Union speech by President Barack Obama to a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Congress returns to work this coming week, scorned by the nation it was elected to help lead. Leaders in both political parties promise action in the coming weeks to help create jobs, with unemployment stuck in the 9 percent range and the economy barely growing. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)AP - Congress returns to work this coming week, divided over measures to create jobs and scorned by the nation it was elected to help lead.

NATO kills ex-Gitmo detainee in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 09:32 AM PDT

Afghans are reflected in blood mixed water at the scene where Sabar Lal Melma, a former Guantanamo detainee, was killed in a NATO and Afghan forces raid in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. NATO and Afghan forces killed the man who had become a key al-Qaida affiliate after returning to Afghanistan, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - NATO and Afghan forces have killed a former Guantanamo detainee who returned to Afghanistan to become a key al-Qaida ally, international officials said Saturday.

Israeli rabbi pairs gays to lesbians (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 12:15 AM PDT

In this Aug. 31, 2011 photo, Rabbi Arele Harel studies in his home in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Shiloh, near Nablus. Harel is an Israeli rabbi setting up gay men with lesbian women in a bid to give religious homosexuals a chance to have children while remaining observant, as homosexuality is viewed as a sin and a violation of Halacha, or traditional Jewish law. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Rabbi Arele Harel offers an unconventional solution for Orthodox Jewish gay men who want to raise a conventional family: He fixes them up with Orthodox lesbians.

Caroline Wozniacki wins easily again at US Open (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 11:49 AM PDT

Vania King serves to Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark during the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki rolled through her third straight match at the U.S. Open, avoiding an upset bug that has turned big sections of the women's bracket into a free-for-all.

Vatican rejects Irish criticism over sex abuse (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 10:45 AM PDT

Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi gestures during a press conference at the Holy See Press Office, at the Vatican, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2011. The Vatican on Saturday vigorously rejected claims it sabotaged efforts by Irish bishops to report priests who sexually abused children to police and accused the Irish prime minister of making an 'unfounded' attack against the Holy See. The Vatican issued a lengthy response to the Irish government following Prime Minister Enda Kenny's unprecedented July 20 denunciation of the Vatican's handling of abuse, in which he cited the 'dysfunction, the disconnection, the elitism that dominate the culture of the Vatican to this day.' (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - The Vatican on Saturday vigorously rejected claims it sabotaged efforts by Irish bishops to report priests who sexually abused children to police and accused the Irish prime minister of making an "unfounded" attack against the Holy See.

CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi on dissidents: rights group (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 12:12 PM PDT

An aerial view of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters in Langley, Virginia January 18, 2008. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.

Obama ups pressure over transportation (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 07:00 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama walks from the Oval Office of the White House to Marine One in Washington September 2, 2011. Obama is travelling to Camp David for the weekend. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - President Barack Obama, under fire over high unemployment, stepped up pressure on Congress on Saturday to pass transportation legislation he said would protect almost 1 million American jobs.

Job growth stalls, fuels recession fears (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 02:37 AM PDT

Reuters - Employment growth ground to a halt in August, reviving recession fears and piling pressure on both President Barack Obama and the Federal Reserve to provide more stimulus to aid the frail economy.

ECB's Trichet presses Italy on budget targets (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 09:24 AM PDT

Reuters - ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet kept up warnings over Italy's strained public finances Saturday, telling the struggling center-right government it must act quickly to reassure nervous markets.

Tropical Storm Lee drenches Louisiana coast (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 11:57 AM PDT

Reuters - Slow-moving Tropical Storm Lee brought torrential rains to the Louisiana coast on Saturday as the heart of the storm neared New Orleans, where flood defenses were expected to be put to the test.

Greek PM Papandreou rules out snap elections (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 05:02 AM PDT

Reuters - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou Saturday ruled out snap elections and said his government would succeed in bringing Greece out of the crisis by the end of his term in 2013.

Apple hunted lost item - clue points to new iPhone (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 09:52 PM PDT

People walk inside an Apple retail store in Shanghai August 25, 2011. REUTERS/Aly SongReuters - San Francisco police said on Friday they had helped Apple Inc security search for a "lost item," following a week of reports that a prototype of the newest iPhone had gone missing in July.

Regulator sues major banks over subprime bonds (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 02:41 AM PDT

A security guard patrols outside a Bank of America office in Burbank, California August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Fred ProuserReuters - A regulator sued 17 large banks and financial institutions on Friday over losses on about $200 billion of subprime bonds, which may hamper a broader government settlement of the mortgage mess left over from the housing crisis.
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