Thursday, September 29, 2011

Wall Street now home to protest campground (Reuters)

Wall Street now home to protest campground (Reuters)

Wall Street now home to protest campground (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 10:55 AM PDT

An Occupy Wall Street campaign protester sleeps on the sidewalk in Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street in New York early September 28, 2011. REUTERS/Mike SegarReuters - A standoff near Wall Street between protesters opposed to what they say is corporate greed and police may drag on into winter, with a march on police headquarters the likely next test of whether tensions escalate.

Massachusetts case ignites "home grown" attack fears (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:12 PM PDT

A Reuters - The arrest of a Massachusetts man who allegedly plotted to fly explosives-packed model planes into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol has reignited concern about the risk of a home-grown militant attack in the United States.

Boeing workers busted in drug sweep at plant (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 06:01 PM PDT

Reuters - Federal agents arrested dozens of current and former Boeing workers on Thursday on charges of illegally dealing in painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs at a plant that makes military aircraft models used in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Why Obama Wants a Supreme Court Fight on Health Reform in 2012 (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 04:20 AM PDT

Time.com - The Obama administration's decision not to ask for a full court review of the August decision by two appeals court judges to strike down ObamaCare is a risky but potentially high-value play by the White House in the legal battle over health care reform

Coming Together to Dismantle Education Reform (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 04:20 AM PDT

Time.com - A new consensus is emerging in education politics. But can the center hold? And would reformers even want it to?

Facing uncertainty, Oshkosh pushes UAW deal (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 03:12 PM PDT

Reuters - Pressure is mounting on the United Auto Workers union as Oshkosh Corp plans to pull a key financial incentive off the table if thousands of workers in Wisconsin fail to ratify a new contract by midnight on Friday.

Capitol Police react to Onion satire (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 07:07 PM PDT

This screen grab taken from the The Onion's Twitter feed shows tweets reporting gunshots and hostage-taking at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. Capitol Police were not amused by the tweets and an article written by the satirical newspaper falsely reporting that members of Congress had taken a group of schoolchildren hostage. (AP Photo)AP - Capitol Police were not amused by tweets and an article written by the satirical newspaper The Onion falsely reporting that members of Congress had taken a group of schoolchildren hostage.

Killer cantaloupe, scary sprouts — what to do? (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 06:22 PM PDT

Cantaloupes rot in the afternoon heat on a field on the Jensen Farms near Holly, Colo., on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. The Food and Drug Administration has recalled 300,000 cases of cantaloupe grown on the Jensen Farms after connecting it with a listeria outbreak. Officials said Wednesday more illnesses and possibly more deaths may be linked to the outbreak of listeria in coming weeks. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Avoid foreign produce. Wash and peel your fruit. Keep it refrigerated. None of these common tips would have guaranteed your safety from the deadliest food outbreak in a decade, the one involving cantaloupes from Colorado.

NASA IDs 90 pct. of largest near-Earth asteroids (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 03:29 PM PDT

In this undated artist's rendition released Thursday Sept. 29,2011 by NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, showing WISE, (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer), NASA on Thursday Sept. 29,2011 said its sky-mapping spacecraft called WISE has discovered 911 of 981 of the largest asteroids and has found more than 90 percent of the biggest asteroids that might pose a threat to Earth. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL)AP - If you're worried about a killer asteroid wiping out Earth, NASA has some good news.

Could model airplanes become a terrorist weapon? (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 06:36 PM PDT

This undated photo released Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 by the U.S. Department of Justice shows a large remote controlled aircraft similar to what the department said suspect Rezwan Ferdaus plotted to fill with C-4 plastic explosives to use in an attack of the Pentagon and U.S. Capital. Ferdaus of Ashland, Mass., was arrested in a federal sting operation Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 in Framingham, Mass. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Justice)AP - Model airplanes are suddenly on the public's radar as potential terrorist weapons. A 26-year-old man from a Boston suburb was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting to attack the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol with remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives.

US: Cyber attacks on utilities, industries rise (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 07:35 PM PDT

A cyber security analyst work in the watch and warning center during the first tour of the government’s secretive cyber defense lab intended to protect the nation’s power, water and chemical plants, electrical grid and other facilities, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)AP - U.S. utilities and industries face a rising number of cyber break-ins by attackers using more sophisticated methods, a senior Homeland Security Department official said during the government's first media tour of secretive defense labs intended to protect the nation's power grid, water systems and other vulnerable infrastructure.

Census: Hispanics fuel US white population growth (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 03:07 PM PDT

AP - In a twist to notions of race identity, new 2010 census figures show an unexpected reason behind a renewed growth in the U.S. white population: more Hispanics listing themselves as white in the once-a-decade government count.

Police: 3 soldiers admitted to Okla. home invasion (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:25 PM PDT

AP - Three soldiers from an Oklahoma Army post admitted under police questioning that they carried out a home invasion in which four people were shot and wounded, a detective said.

Police: NY woman said man paid her to kill him (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 06:13 PM PDT

This undated booking photo released by the New York State Police shows Jennifer Riesel, 28, of Little Falls, N.Y., arrested on a second-degree murder charge for fatally running over Francis Nelson, 74, also of Little Falls, on a rural road near Herkimer. A police official said Riesel told troopers that Nelson asked her to kill him, promising financial gain for ending his life. (AP Photo/New York State Police)AP - A New York woman is accused of running over a bound man who she said promised her $180,000 if she ended his life, but police said they have no evidence he wanted to die.

Michelle Obama shops at Washington-area Target (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 03:24 PM PDT

First lady Michelle Obama, wearing a hat and sunglasses, stands in line at a Target department store in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011, after doing some shopping. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Attention Target shoppers: You could have been standing in line with Michelle Obama.

GOP starting line inches toward New Year's Day (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 07:09 PM PDT

AP - So much for pushing back the start of primary season.

US general: al-Qaida in Iraq severely weakened (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 03:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 13, 2009 file photo, sickened Iraq veteran Larry Roberta covers his face while testifying before the House Rules Committee at the Oregon Capitol in Salem, Ore., about his exposure to to a chemical called sodium dichromate, which contains a potentially cancer-causing substance. A federal agency has found that a contractor failed to act as quickly as it could have to protect soldiers and civilians from exposure to a carcinogenic chemical at an Iraqi water treatment plant. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, file)AP - Al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq has been severely weakened by a money squeeze, internal squabbling, a shortage of volunteer suicide bombers and more effective Iraqi efforts to snatch the terror group's foreign recruits when they slip across the border from Syria, a senior U.S. general said Thursday.

Full bladders, wasabi alarm earn Ig Nobels (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 04:36 PM PDT

AP - Driving while desperately needing to urinate isn't a crime, but maybe it should be.

Bangladeshi mom, daughter to stay in US for now (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 04:18 PM PDT

AP - The deportation letter arrived just as Nadia Habib was starting her junior year at Stony Brook University, its message straightforward and scary: Please report to our offices on Sept. 29, and be prepared to leave the country.
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