Monday, January 30, 2012

Protesters in capital pledge to stay despite ban (Reuters)

Protesters in capital pledge to stay despite ban (Reuters)

Protesters in capital pledge to stay despite ban (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 03:24 PM PST

Reuters - Defiant anti-Wall Street protesters in Washington vowed to remain peacefully entrenched in two parks near the White House on Monday despite a police order to stop camping on federal land, raising the specter of possible confrontation.

Florida highway crash report details scary scene (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 05:51 PM PST

Reuters - A new report on the Florida highway pileup on Sunday that killed 10 people describes a frightening scene of semi-trailer trucks driving into a cloud of smoke and fog, stopping in the road and being hit by the vehicles behind, killing some people inside.

Freed Somalia hostage Buchanan arriving in Pennsylvania (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:06 PM PST

Reuters - Jessica Buchanan, rescued by U.S. special forces in Somalia after three months in captivity, is due to arrive home in Pennsylvania on Monday, her father told ABC World News.

Endangered Gray Wolf Makes Rare Appearance in California (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 09:55 PM PST

Time.com - Exterminated from the Golden State in 1924, the endangered gray wolf makes a singular return, bringing with it hope -- and fear.

Obama's State of the Union: An Optimistic President Talks to a Pessimistic Nation (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 05:35 PM PST

Time.com - Bristling with optimism and a can-do pep, President Obama asked for his pessimistic nation's attention on Tuesday night to announce he would not stand the naysayers any longer.

Back on campaign trail, Santorum says daughter improving (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 05:50 PM PST

Reuters - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said on Monday that his three-year-old daughter was getting better at a hospital in Philadelphia, and he returned to the campaign trail in Missouri to try to boost his flagging White House bid.

Obama wants small business tax, investment breaks (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 05:25 PM PST

AP - Fleshing out a year-old initiative, the Obama administration wants Congress to enact or expand tax breaks for small businesses and remove barriers to startups, seizing on some existing bipartisan proposals that could win support even in the polarized climate of an election year.

Obama works to save jobs, 1 at a time (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 05:35 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the press, while seated next to Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili (not pictured), at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington January 30, 2012. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)AP - President Barack Obama is trying to rebuild the American economy, one job at a time — literally.

Man says Nigeria kidnapping like 'an action movie' (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 06:46 PM PST

Greg Ock recounts how he was kidnapped and held hostage in Nigeria during an interview at his home in Bowdon, Ga., Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. Ock was on his way to a clinic about an hour’s drive from the Nigerian plant where he worked as a contractor when a gunman ran up to the car he was driving in, shot his security guard about five times and forced him into a tiny red Audi. Ock was released and returned home Sunday. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)    AP - As the car an American man was riding in idled in traffic in a remote Nigerian town, two men appeared, one of them shooting the Georgia man's security guard five times, while the other forced him into a tiny getaway car that sped away.

Water trucked to nearly bone-dry Texas town (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 05:03 PM PST

AP - Under dark clouds and rain, two tanker trucks for the first time delivered thousands of gallons of water Monday to a Texas town that came precariously close to becoming the state's first community to run out of water during a historic drought.

Experts: US ill-prepared for oil spill off Cuba (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 06:37 PM PST

AP - The U.S. is not ready to handle an oil spill if drilling off the Cuban coast should go awry but can be better prepared with monitoring systems and other basic steps, experts told government officials Monday.

Senate clears way for vote on insider-trading ban (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 03:26 PM PST

AP - Congress is rushing to make it absolutely clear to everyone that its members are banned from insider stock trading, hoping to improve their sagging image that has approval ratings at historic lows.

Occupy protest rekindles debate about flag-burning (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 06:29 PM PST

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan surveys damage to City Hall on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, in Oakland, Calif., following an Occupy Oakland protest Saturday. After a confrontation with police, demonstrators gained entrance to City Hall where they burned an American flag, broke glass and toppled a model of City Hall. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)AP - Many in the crowd outside Oakland City Hall shouted "Burn it! Burn it!" as masked protesters readied to set fire to an American flag. That's when a woman emerged from the scrum, screaming for them to stop, that it would hurt the cause.

Conn. chief at center of abuse scandal retires (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 02:26 PM PST

East Haven police cars are parked at the police station in East Haven, Conn., Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. East Haven police chief Leonard Gallo retired Monday after four officers in his department were arrested January 24 by the FBI accused of waging a campaign against Latino residents. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - The chief of a police department roiled by a Latino abuse scandal announced his retirement Monday, ending a 14-year tenure marked by several episodes of friction with minorities in this shoreline Connecticut suburb.

Fla. highway patrol defends reopening I-75 (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 07:11 PM PST

Debris and wreckage lie along the highway after a multi-vehicle accident that killed at least nine people, on Interstate 75 near Gainesville, Fla., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Authorities were still trying to determine what caused the pileup on the highway, which had been closed for a time because of the mixture of fog and heavy smoke from a brush fire. At least five cars and six tractor-trailers were involved, and some burst into flame. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)AP - Minutes before two pileups killed 10 people on a highway shrouded in fog and thick smoke from a brush fire, the Florida Highway Patrol had reopened the always busy six-lane interstate after an earlier serious accident. A sergeant and lieutenant determined after about three hours that conditions had cleared enough for drivers, but visibility quickly became murky again, officials said Monday.

Marine pleads guilty to assault fellow Marine (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 06:59 PM PST

Allen Lew, father of Lance Cpl. Harry Lew and Rep. Judy Chu of California, speak to members of the press outside the courtroom of the Legal Services Center of Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012, in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Lance Cpl. Jacob D. Jacoby, Sgt. Benjamin Johns, and Lance Cpl. Carlos Orozco III are accused of hazing fellow Marine Lance Cpl. Harry Lew who later committed Suicide. (AP Photo/Kent Nishimura)AP - A Hawaii-based Marine accused of hazing a fellow Marine who later killed himself in Afghanistan pleaded guilty Monday to assault as part of an agreement with prosecutors.

Obama meets Georgia leader amid Russia dispute (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 04:57 PM PST

President Barack Obama meets with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan., 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama offered encouragement Monday for the former Soviet republic of Georgia's hopes for a preferential trade agreement with the United States, but said the country has a way to go in its economic reforms.

Pythons apparently wiping out Everglades mammals (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 06:37 PM PST

In this November 14, 2009 photo provided by the University of Florida, University of Florida researchers hold a 162-pound Burmese python captured in Everglades National Park, Fla. Therese Walters, left, Alex Wolf and Michael R. Rochford, right, are holding the 15-foot snake shortly after the python ate a six-foot American alligator. The National Academy of Science report released Monday, Jan. 30, 2012, indicates that the proliferation of pythons coincides with a sharp decrease of mammals in the park. (AP Photo/ University of Florida, Michael R. Rochford)AP - A burgeoning population of huge pythons — many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big — appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other mammals in the Everglades, a study says.

Many federal workers out-earn private sector labor (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 02:38 PM PST

AP - The average federal worker earns about 2 percent more than a private sector worker in a comparable profession, though the government's generous pension system means that overall compensation is significantly higher, a government study released Monday said.
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