Tuesday, November 1, 2011

U.S. Army soldier arrested on suspicion of espionage (Reuters)

U.S. Army soldier arrested on suspicion of espionage (Reuters)

U.S. Army soldier arrested on suspicion of espionage (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:17 PM PDT

Reuters - A U.S. Army specialist from Kentucky who was serving as a military policeman has been arrested at an Alaska military base on suspicion of spying, an Army spokesman said on Tuesday.

Volatile Oakland faces general strike on Wednesday (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:15 PM PDT

Protestors hold a moment of silence by request of activist and filmmaker Michael Moore (not pictured) during Moore's speech to the people of Occupy Oakland at the steps of Oakland City Hall in Oakland, California October 28, 2011. REUTERS/Beck DiefenbachReuters - After Oakland emerged as a new center for the Occupy Wall Street movement -- largely because an Iraq war veteran was seriously injured in a clash with police -- local protest leaders decided on a tactic with a storied history in the city: a general strike.

Accused Tucson shooter seeks end to medication (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:23 PM PDT

Reuters - A U.S. appeals court panel wrestled on Tuesday with whether Tucson shooting rampage suspect Jared Loughner should be compelled to undergo further psychiatric treatment at a Missouri prison hospital.

Occupy Oakland: Will Small Business Support Nov. 2 Strike? (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 11:10 AM PDT

Time.com - A call for solidarity on Wednesday may see several businesses closing in sympathy with the protesters. But many local merchants are fed up

Enough Is Enough: How the Fight Over Health Care Reform Impacts Americans (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 11:10 AM PDT

Time.com - While we fight over health care reform, more blameless Americans grow sick and die

NYC firms got $898 million of aid but job data slim (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 04:40 PM PDT

Reuters - New York City has paid $898 million in subsidies to companies that promise more jobs and not to move away, but has failed to track whether the firms meet their commitments for each project, officials said on Tuesday.

Deficit hawks urge deep cuts by supercommittee (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:15 PM PDT

AP - Four prominent deficit-cutters told Congress' bipartisan supercommittee on Tuesday that they should raise revenues and make major changes to expensive health programs on their way to a debt-reduction compromise that should exceed their $1.2 trillion, 10-year mandate.

Rice: Mideast peace prospects worsened under Obama (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:33 PM PDT

AP - Prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace are far worse today than when she left office, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday, and she partly blames the Obama administration's tough line against Israeli settlement-building for spoiling chances for new talks.

First lady in La. urges more green peas, exercise (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:08 PM PDT

First lady Michelle Obama sings and dances to exercises with staff, parents and children as she visits the Royal Castle Child Development Center, as part of her 'Lets Move!' initiative in New Orleans, La., Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - First lady Michelle Obama led toddlers at a New Orleans daycare center in calisthenics and read them a book about a mouse that eats green peas, bidding to get America's children eating better and exercising more.

US school kids showing slight improvement in math (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:36 PM PDT

AP - Some progress. Still needs improvement.

Feds: Response to snowstorm slower than to Irene (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:20 PM PDT

Residents look at a transformer that lies in the middle of Maple Ave. in Newton, N.J. Monday Oct. 31, 2011. An unusual October snow storm this past Saturday dumped up to 15 inches of snow in some areas of N.J. causing power outages across the state. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - Utility crews have been slower to fix Northeast power outages caused by last weekend's record-setting snowstorm than they were after Hurricane Irene and its remnants because they had less time to prepare, a U.S. Department of Energy official said Tuesday.

Ill. powerbroker convicted of shakedown conspiracy (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:09 PM PDT

Illinois powerbroker William Cellini arrives at the federal building in Chicago, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, to hear the verdict in his corruption trial. Jurors convicted Cellini Tuesday of of conspiring to commit extortion and soliciting a bribe. Cellini had been accused of trying to shake down a Hollywood producer for a campaign donation to then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - A multimillionaire who wielded enormous behind-the-scenes influence in Illinois for decades was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to shake down the Oscar-winning producer of "Million Dollar Baby," one of the last chapters of the legal saga tied to disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

APNewsBreak: Safeway drops sandwich theft charges (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:27 PM PDT

AP - Safeway is dropping charges against a Honolulu couple whose arrest for stealing sandwiches led to their 2-year-old daughter being taken into state custody and sparked nationwide outrage.

Tug pilot gets year in deadly Pa. duck boat crash (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:18 PM PDT

Former tug pilot Matt Devlin, of Catskill, N.Y., leaves the U.S. Courthouse Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, in Philadelphia. Deviln was sentenced to one year and a day in prison for a deadly river crash in Philadelphia that killed two Hungarian students. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A tug pilot distracted by cellphone calls amid a family emergency was sentenced Tuesday to a year in prison for a deadly river crash in Philadelphia that killed two Hungarian students.

Congress moves to protect Peace Corps volunteers (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 04:18 PM PDT

AP - Congress has responded to complaints that the Peace Corps hasn't done enough to protect its volunteers from sexual assaults with legislation requiring the agency to better train participants in how to avoid such attacks.

Inmates freed after crack penalties are eased (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:12 PM PDT

Antwain Black, 36, talks about his freedom Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 in Springfield, Ill., after being released early from Leavenworth Prison. Black was among the first of potentially thousands of inmates who are being released early from federal prison because of an easing of the harsh penalties for crack that were enacted in the 1980s, when the drug was a terrifying new phenomenon in America's cities. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)AP - Antwain Black was facing a few more years in Leavenworth for dealing crack. But on Tuesday, he returned home to Illinois, a free man.

New Libyan PM was Alabama professor for 20 years (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:35 PM PDT

In this Monday, Oct. 31, 2011 photo, Libya's new U.S. educated electrical engineer prime minister Abdurrahim el-Keib speaks in Tripoli, Libya. El-Keib, an NTC member from Tripoli with a doctorate from North Carolina State University, said he would appoint the government within two weeks. (AP Photo)AP - For 20 years, Abdurrahim el-Keib taught electrical engineering at the University of Alabama, helped lead the area's Muslim community and talked little about his home country of Libya. With Moammar Gadhafi's regime deposed, the professor now has a new role as prime minister of his homeland.

Occupy movement accepts modest help from the left (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 02:12 PM PDT

In this Oct. 16, 2011 file photo, supplies fill a storage space housed in an unused space donated by the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) to support the camp of Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York. The UFT is one of the long list of experienced, well-funded organizations, unions and political committees lending their support to the Occupy Wall Street Movement. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)AP - With its noisy drum circle, meandering parades of bandanna-clad youth and disdain for centralized leadership, the Occupy Wall Street encampment sometimes has the ragtag look of a group that is making things up as it goes along and discovering its own purpose along the way.

Deaths from painkiller overdose triple in decade (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2010 file photo, a pharmacy technician poses for a picture with hydrocodone tablets at the Oklahoma Hospital Discount Pharmacy in Edmond, Okla. Hydrocodone is the key ingredient in Vicodin. The number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers more than tripled over a decade, the government reported Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 - a trend that a U.S. health official called an epidemic, but one that can be stopped. Prescription painkillers such as OxyContin, Vicodin and methadone led to the deaths of almost 15,000 people in 2008, including actor Heath Ledger. That's more than three times the 4,000 deaths from narcotics in 1999. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)AP - The number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers more than tripled over a decade, the government reported Tuesday — a trend that a U.S. health official called an epidemic, but one that can be stopped.

Authorities: Cubs have small chance after mom shot (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:37 PM PDT

AP - The odds are against the survival of two Lake Tahoe bear cubs that were orphaned when a deputy loaded the wrong kind of bullet into his weapon and shot the mother after the animal broke into a garage cluttered with garbage, authorities said Tuesday.
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