Monday, December 26, 2011

Back in campaign mode, presidential hopefuls focus (AP)

Back in campaign mode, presidential hopefuls focus (AP)

Back in campaign mode, presidential hopefuls focus (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 10:00 AM PST

FILE - Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., signs an autograph during a campaign stop at at Tangleberries in Centerville, Iowa, in this Dec. 23, 2011 file photo. After a brief respite for Christmas, the Republicans in search of their party’s presidential nomination return to the campaign trail for a final push ahead of the Iowa caucuses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)AP - Republicans in search of their party's presidential nomination are returning to campaign mode after a brief Christmas respite, with Rick Santorum planning a hunting trip with conservatives in Iowa and Mitt Romney phoning supporters.

Nigerians fear more church attacks after 39 killed (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 10:46 AM PST

Onlookers gather around a car destroyed in a blast next to St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing scores of people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. (AP Photo/Sunday Aghaeze)AP - In the chaos after the Christmas terror attack on a Catholic church, one mortally wounded man cradled his wounded stomach and begged a priest for religious atonement. "Father, pray for me. I will not survive," he said.

Arab monitors head to Syria, opposition skeptical (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 12:44 PM PST

A Syrian Kurdish boy carries a banner during a protest outside the Arab League office in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. The protesters said the Arab League was not serious in attempts to stop the Syrian regime crackdown. A man behind the boy was carrying a poster of President Bashar Assad of Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)AP - The Arab League sent monitors to Syria Monday even though President Bashar Assad's regime has only intensified its crackdown on dissent in the week since agreeing to the Arab plan to stop the bloodshed.

Police: Gunman in murder-suicide dressed as Santa (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 08:30 AM PST

Grapevine police investigate the scene where they found seven people dead outside Dallas in Grapevine, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. Four women and three men who police believe to be related were found apparently shot to death, and authorities said they believe the shooter is among the dead. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)AP - Six members of a Texas family apparently opened Christmas presents just before a relative dressed as Santa Claus showed up, opened fire and killed them before killing himself, police said Monday.

FBI joins search for missing Indiana girl (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 12:20 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the Allen County Sheriff's Department shows Aliahna Lemmon. Numerous police officers and others are searching in Fort Wayne, Ind., for Lemmon, 9, who was last seen the morning of Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. Allen County Sheriff's Department Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel says investigators have no indication that Lemmon was abducted or what might have happened to her. (AP Photo/Allen County Sheriff's Department)AP - The FBI joined the search for a missing 9-year-old Indiana girl with physical and emotional problems Monday as agents descended on the mobile home park where she lived and that's a known haven for registered sex offenders.

Sadrists call for new elections in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 11:46 AM PST

File - In this June 5, 2004 file photo, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, left, steps from an office building in Najaf, Iraq. The political party loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday Dec.26 2011 for the dissolution of Iraq's parliament and new elections in another move that could escalate the country's growing sectarian crisis. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - The political party loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for the dissolution of Iraq's parliament and new elections in another move that could escalate the country's growing sectarian crisis.

2 Mayo Clinic workers die in Fla. helicopter crash (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 12:48 PM PST

AP - Two Mayo Clinic employees and a pilot flying to a University of Florida hospital to retrieve a heart for a transplant were killed when their helicopter crashed Monday in north Florida, officials said.

Conn. house where 5 died in fire is torn down (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 12:32 PM PST

Yellow tape stretches across the driveway, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011, at the house where a fire left five people dead Christmas Day, in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - A house severely damaged in a Christmas morning fire that killed three children and two grandparents, one of whom worked as Santa Claus at Saks Fifth Avenue, has been torn down.

Mexico's cartels build own national radio system (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 12:46 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2011 file photo, members of the Navy stand guard over seized telecommunications equipment, allegedly built by the Zetas drug cartel, during a media presentation in Veracruz, Mexico. The Mexican army and marines have seized hundreds of pieces of communications equipment in at least three operations since September that offer a firsthand look at a surprisingly far-ranging and sophisticated infrastructure. According to authorities, the network was built around 2006 by the Gulf cartel, a narcotics-trafficking gang that employed a group of enforcers known as the Zetas who had defected from Mexican army special forces. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)AP - When convoys of soldiers or federal police move through the scrubland of northern Mexico, the Zetas drug cartel knows they are coming.

New powerful painkiller has abuse experts worried (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 11:02 AM PST

In this Dec. 22, 2011 photo, the sun slowly sets on the empty parking lot at the Zogenix headquarters in San Diego. The pharmaceutical maker is one of at least four companies working on purer, more powerful versions of the nation’s second most-abused medicine, hydrocodone, a trend that has addiction experts worried that it could spur a new round of abuse. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)AP - Drug companies are working to develop a pure, more powerful version of the nation's second most-abused medicine, which has addiction experts worried that it could spur a new wave of abuse.

Exclusive: Afghanistan sets ground rules for Taliban talks (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 06:21 AM PST

Reuters - Afghanistan will accept a Taliban liaison office in Qatar to start peace talks but no foreign power can get involved in the process without its consent, the government's peace council said, as efforts gather pace to find a solution to the decade-long war.

U.S. stores hope for "Mega Monday" of brisk sales (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 10:14 AM PST

Reuters - Shoppers found a mixed bag of bargains and so-so deals on Monday, as a day off for many Americans and warm, dry weather lured some out for what was likely to be the third busiest shopping day of the holiday season.

Nigerian leaders rapped after Islamists attack churches (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 08:37 AM PST

Reuters - Nigeria's main opposition leader accused the government of incompetence on Monday after Islamist militants killed more than two dozen people in Christmas Day attacks on churches and other targets.

Monitors arrive in Syria as tanks fire in Homs (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 11:56 AM PST

Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad after Friday prayers in Binsh near Adlb December 23, 2011. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - The first group of Arab monitors arrived Syria on Monday to assess whether Damascus is adhering to a peace plan, and residents of the flashpoint city of Homs said at least 23 people were killed as tanks fired on neighborhoods.

PIP implants sold to Dutch firm under new name (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 10:59 AM PST

Reuters - Potentially dangerous breast implants made by a now-defunct French company were sold to about 1,000 Dutch women under a different name, a Dutch health official said on Monday, broadening a scandal that could already affect some 300,000 women worldwide.

Paul builds campaign on doomsday scenarios (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 10:42 AM PST

Republican presidential candidate U.S Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) speaks during a town hall meeting in Ft. Madison, Iowa December 21, 2011. REUTERS/Joshua LottReuters - The man who might win the Republican Party's first presidential nominating contest fears that the United Nations may take control of the U.S. money supply.

Suicide bomber kills 7 outside Iraq ministry (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 02:20 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announces a new new home financing package for Illinois veterans in military families at a news conference in Chicago. As younger military veterans stream back into Illinois from Iraq and Afghanistan, Illinois faces a challenge as it tries to make them more of a priority in a time of desperately tight budgets. The state has been increasing the amount it spends on veterans services in recent years. But the bulk of that money is spent on older veterans while many younger soldiers and National Guard troops are returning to a difficult economy looking for help with jobs and training. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)Reuters - At least seven people were killed when a suicide car bomber hit Iraq's interior ministry on Monday in the latest attack since a crisis erupted between the Shi'ite-led government and Sunni leaders a week ago.

Sony to sell LCD venture stake to Samsung for $940 million (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 01:13 AM PST

Reuters - Sony Corp has agreed to sell its nearly 50 percent stake in an LCD joint venture with Samsung Electronics to the South Korean company for $940 million, as it struggles to reduce huge losses at its TV business.

Joe Lieberman: "I don't think Congress has ever been as bad as it is today." (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Dec 2011 09:00 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Elected to the Senate in 1988, he ran as an independent in 2006 after losing Connecticut's Democratic primary. He spoke at the Dec. 13 Monitor breakfast in Washington.
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