Sunday, February 5, 2012

Police clear DC Occupy site, protesters look to a new day (Reuters)

Police clear DC Occupy site, protesters look to a new day (Reuters)

Police clear DC Occupy site, protesters look to a new day (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 04:25 PM PST

Reuters - U.S. police officers cleared tents from an "Occupy" protest site in downtown Washington on Sunday, but demonstrators said even without the camp they would continue to fight for economic equality and other issues.

Man pardoned by Barbour charged with DUI weeks before (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 05:21 PM PST

Reuters - Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour was not aware that a man who received a pardon in January had been charged with driving while intoxicated for a fourth time just weeks before Barbour granted the pardon, his spokeswoman said on Sunday.

"Intentional" explosion kills husband, two sons of missing woman (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 05:22 PM PST

Reuters - An "intentional" house explosion on Sunday near Tacoma, Washington killed the husband and two sons of a Utah woman missing since December 2009, fire department officials said.

Class War 2012: Why Both Parties Are Flying the Anti-Wall Street Banner (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 05:35 PM PST

Time.com - Gingrich ended his campaign against Romney in Florida with the same message strategy that Romney's senior advisers had used in another Republican primary two years earlier: Attack Goldman Sachs. There was a good reason

Inside Facebook's IPO: How the Social Web Will Reshape the Economy (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 05:35 PM PST

Time.com - Facebook's IPO -- the largest in Internet history -- is a once-in-a-generation milestone in the evolution of the web

Obama could alter stance of federal appeals courts (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 07:07 AM PST

In this photo taken Oct. 8, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court justices pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington. Three justices will turn 80 before the next presidential term ends: Associate Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, right, who leads the closely divided court's liberal wing, Antonin Scalia, second from left, a conservative, and Anthony Kennedy, second from right, who leans conservative, but on some issues provides a decisive vote for the liberals. A titanic confirmation fight would ensue if it allowed a Republican president to cement conservative control of the court, or a Democrat president to give liberal appointees a working majority for the first time in decades. Others seated are Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, left, and Chief Justice John Roberts, center; standing from left are Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito Jr., and Elena Kagan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - A second term for President Barack Obama would allow him to expand his replacement of Republican-appointed majorities with Democratic ones on the nation's appeals courts, the final stop for almost all challenged federal court rulings.

As colleges obsess over rankings, students shrug (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 10:50 AM PST

In this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 photo, students walk through the campus of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif. When US News & World Report debuted its list of “America's Best Colleges” nearly 30 years ago, the magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer for students and families. Arguably, they've had a much bigger effect on colleges themselves. A senior administrator at Claremont McKenna, a highly regarded California liberal arts college, resigned after acknowledging he falsified college entrance exam scores for years to rankings publications such as US News. The scale was small: submitting scores just 10 or 20 points higher on the 1600-point SAT math and reading exams. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - When US News & World Report debuted its list of "America's Best Colleges" nearly 30 years ago, the magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer for students and families. But arguably, they've had a much bigger effect on colleges themselves.

Marine wife killed in Ca. explosion was Iowan, 31 (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 06:55 PM PST

AP - Families began returning to their homes Sunday following a propane gas explosion in a military housing complex outside a remote U.S. Marine training base in Northern California that killed a Marine's wife and critically burned two other people.

Authorities: Stun gun used on woman at drive-thru (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 04:59 AM PST

AP - North Carolina authorities say they used a stun gun on a woman motorist who blocked a McDonald's drive-thru for 20 minutes after employees refused to serve her because she cut in line.

Giants beat Patriots 21-17 to win the Super Bowl (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 07:06 PM PST

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning reacts in the closing minutes of the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game against the New England Patriots, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, in Indianapolis. The Giants won 21-17. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - Eli Manning and the Giants one-upped Tom Brady and the Patriots again, coming back with a last-minute touchdown to beat New England 21-17 Sunday night for New York's fourth Super Bowl title.

Blast kills husband of missing Utah woman, 2 boys (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 06:47 PM PST

A Pierce County Sheriff's deputy and Graham Firefighters work around the smoldering remains of a house near Fredrickson, Wash., Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, where, according to a sheriff's spokesman, three bodies were were found. The bodies are believed to be Josh Powell and his two sons. The explosion occurred moments after a Child Protective Services worker brought the two boys to the home for a supervised visit. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Peter HaleyAP - Josh Powell's note was simple and short, a farewell to the world after two years of being scrutinized in the media, hammered by police and questioned by judges, prosecutors and social workers, living his life under a microscope since the day his wife vanished.

AP Newsbreak: 3 lost in Ore. considered eating dog (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 05:31 PM PST

Dan Conne hugs his dog, Jesse, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 at the pound in Gold Beach, Ore., where he was with her after they spent six night lost in the woods. Conne, his wife, Belinda, and son, Michael were airlifted out of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest on Saturday and spent the night at the Curry General Hospital recuperating from their ordeal. The dog walked out with a ground search team. Conne said at one point he thought he might have to kill the dog for food, but his wife said they never could have done that. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)AP - Three mushroom pickers lost six nights in the rugged forest of southwest Oregon with no food considered eating their dog, and used the screen on their dead cellphone and the blade of a sheath knife to flash a signal at the helicopter pilot who found them.

NYC protest gets heated when Yemen leader is seen (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 02:56 PM PST

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh waves to people protesting his presence in the United States as he exits his hotel in New York, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. Saleh arrived in the United States on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, for treatment of burns he suffered during an assassination attempt in June. Human Rights Watch, a New York-based human rights organization says it has documented the deaths of hundreds of anti-government protesters in confrontations with Saleh's security forces, and while they are not opposed to Saleh receiving care in the United States, the organization wants assurances that concerned governments will insist on prosecution for those responsible for last year's attacks. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - A protest against embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside a luxury hotel in New York got heated Sunday when demonstrators saw him leave the building, with one charging toward him and another throwing a shoe.

Obama says he deserves re-election, job's not done (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 02:02 PM PST

President Barack Obama talks about the economy during an event at Fire Station #5 in Arlington, Va., Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - President Barack Obama says he deserves re-election, despite the nation's economic troubles.

Obama refuses to pick sides in Super Bowl (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 02:14 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama isn't picking sides this Super Bowl Sunday.

No more Naptown: Super Bowl boosts Indy's image (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 11:12 AM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 file photo, people crowd the streets through Super Bowl Village, in Indianapolis. Indianapolis was once called Naptown and India-No-Place for a reason. For decades, there was no reason to stay downtown after dark. This week, as 150,000 visitors descend on a new, vibrant district before Super Bowl Sunday, even cynics agree that the city has successfully shed its image as a bastion of boredom in what was once called “flyover country.” The New England Patriots are scheduled to face the New York Giants in NFL football's Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday, Feb. 5, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)AP - Indianapolis was once called Naptown and India-No-Place for a reason.

Blast kills husband of missing Utah woman, 2 boys (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 06:03 PM PST

A Pierce County Sheriff's deputy and Graham Firefighters work around the smoldering remains of a house near Fredrickson, Wash., Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, where, according to a sheriff's spokesman, three bodies were were found. The bodies are believed to be Josh Powell and his two sons. The explosion occurred moments after a Child Protective Services worker brought the two boys to the home for a supervised visit. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Peter HaleyAP - Days after a judge ruled against him in a child custody hearing, a father and his two young sons were killed Sunday when police said he intentionally blew up a house with all three inside — a tragic ending to a bizarre case that began more than two years ago when the man's wife went mysteriously missing in Utah.

Bigger US role against companies' cyberthreats? (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 10:57 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2011, file photo Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn. presides over the committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government’s ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth. “But where the market has failed, and critical systems are insecure, the government has a responsibility to step in,” said Leiberman. (AP Photo Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government's ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth.

Obama: Israel has not decided on attacking Iran (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 03:55 PM PST

President Barack Obama talks about the economy during an event at Fire Station #5 in Arlington, Va., Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - President Barack Obama said Sunday he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a standoff that has the Middle East on edge.
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