Thursday, December 6, 2012

Police scour Iowa park after hunters find 2 bodies

Police scour Iowa park after hunters find 2 bodies

Police scour Iowa park after hunters find 2 bodies

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:45 PM PST

This combo made from undated photos provided by the FBI shows cousins Lyric Cook, 10, right, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, who have been missing since Friday, July 13, 2012. Authorities say hunters have found bodies believed to be two young Iowa cousins who disappeared while riding their bikes in July. (AP Photo/FBI)Investigators scoured a rural wildlife area in northeastern Iowa for clues Thursday after hunters found dead bodies believed to be those of two young cousins who vanished in July.

Smokers celebrate as Wash. legalizes marijuana

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:44 PM PST

From left, Andre Edwards, G.E. Montoya, and J. Smiley pass around a glass pipe as they smoke marijuana, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, just after midnight at the Space Needle in Seattle. Possession of marijuana became legal in Washington state at midnight, and several hundred people gathered at the Space Needle to smoke and celebrate the occasion, even though the new law does prohibit public use of marijuana. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)The crowds of happy people lighting joints under Seattle's Space Needle early Thursday morning with nary a police officer in sight bespoke the new reality: Marijuana is legal under Washington state law.

Egypt's Morsi: Some protesters old regime remnants

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:41 PM PST

In this image made from video, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi delivers a televised statement in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Nile TV) EGYPT OUTEgyptian President Mohammed Morsi has angrily accused some of the opposition protesters of serving remnants of the old regime and vowed never to tolerate anyone working for the overthrow of his "legitimate" government.

Drought revives old water war among river states

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:39 PM PST

FILE - In this June 13, 2012 file photo Bich Nguyen catches a smallmouth bass at Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River near Yankton, S.D. North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana, which in the past have brought suits to reduce water being released from dams to boost recreation, are once again battling battling downstream states facing a severe drought and low water levels that threaten commercial traffic along a 180-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between St. Louis and Cairo, Ill. (AP Photo/Argus Leader, Jay Pickthorn, File) NO SALESThe water wars are raging again in America's heartland, where drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River — to drink from their faucets, irrigate their crops and float the barges that carry billions of dollars of agricultural products to market.

Minn. gov.: No plan to redo Vikings stadium plan

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:36 PM PST

Gov. Mark Dayton on Thursday downplayed the sluggish start of a statewide gambling initiative being counted on to help fund the new Minnesota Vikings stadium, saying doesn't plan to redo the financing package during the upcoming legislative session.

Actor Stephen Baldwin charged in NY tax case

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:35 PM PST

FILE - This Oct. 12, 2012 file image released by Starpix shows contestant Stephen Baldwin posing at the cast announcement for the new "All Star Celebrity Apprentice, in New York. Baldwin has been charged with failing to file New York state income taxes for three years. Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe says Baldwin owes more than $350,000 in taxes and penalties. He says Baldwin was arraigned Thursday, Dec. 6, on a charge of repeated failure to file tax returns. (AP Photo/Starpix, Kristina Bumphrey, file)Actor Stephen Baldwin has been charged with failing to file New York state income taxes for three years.

Russian trade, human rights bill heads to Obama

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:35 PM PST

A Russian trade and human rights bill cleared Congress and headed for President Barack Obama's signature Thursday, opening new export opportunities for American businesses but antagonizing relations with Russia over its treatment of dissidents.

Police arrest, spray protesters at Mich. Capitol

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:33 PM PST

David Dudenhoefer, left, a right to work supporter, receives a thumbs down sign from a union worker during a rally in Lansing, Mich., Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Tensions rose at the Capitol late Wednesday afternoon when hundreds of union members packed into the rotunda area, blowing whistles and shouting slogans such as "Union buster" and "Right to work has got to go." Senate Republicans introduced right-to-work legislation in the waning days of the legislative session as outnumbered Democrats pledged to resist the proposal and say rushing it through would poison the state's political atmosphere. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)Police used pepper spray Thursday to subdue protesters trying to rush the Michigan Senate chamber after Gov. Rick Snyder and other Republican leaders announced they would press for quick approval of right-to-work legislation limiting union powers.

Bomber posing as peace envoy wounds Afghan spy chief

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:30 PM PST

Afghan policemen stand guard near the site of a suicide attack that wounded Afghanistan's Intelligence Chief Asadullah Khalid in KabulKABUL (Reuters) - A Taliban suicide bomber posing as a peace messenger wounded Afghanistan's intelligence chief in Kabul on Thursday, another sign that the government is struggling to improve security ahead of a NATO pullout in 2014. Asadullah Khalid was wounded when the bomber struck in a meeting at a guesthouse used by the National Directorate of Security (NDS). "The bomber was a peace messenger sent by the Taliban to the Afghan government, around 3 p.m. in a meeting with the head of NDS, detonated his explosives," said NDS spokesman Shafiqullah Tahiri. ...

McAfee denied asylum; expected in Belize

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:28 PM PST

In this photo released by Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman's office, software company founder John McAfee is pictured in an immigration detention center in Guatemala City, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. The anti-virus guru was arrested at a hotel in an upscale neighborhood with the help of Interpol agents, hours after he said he would seek asylum in the Central American country. Guatemalan authorities were awaiting orders from their Foreign Ministry about whether to send him back to Belize, where he is a person of interest in the killing of a fellow expatriate American. (AP Photo/Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman's office)Software company founder John McAfee was denied political asylum in Guatemala on Thursday and police in Belize said they expected him to be flown back soon for questioning about the killing of a fellow American expatriate.

Te'o leads Irish defense, key to perfect season

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:25 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2012, file photo, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o waits for the snap during the second half of Notre Dame's 21-6 win over Boston College in a NCAA college football game in Boston. Te'o is a finalist for the Heisman Trophy. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson, File)If Manti Te'o's career at Notre Dame has seemed like something straight out of a Hollywood script, perhaps it is fitting the linebacker is cast as a underdog in the final two scenes of his collegiate career.

Gay Washington state couples get marriage licenses

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:24 PM PST

Melody Platt, left, and her partner Beratta Gomillion wait among the first couples in line to be issued a marriage license to a same-sex couple, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, in Seattle. King County Executive Dow Constantine was to began issuing the licenses just after midnight, Thursday, Dec. 6, immediately upon certification of the November election that passed Referendum 74 allowing same-sex couples to wed. The couple are planning on getting married on their 32nd anniversary, Monday Dec. 12. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)Two by two, dozens of same-sex couples obtained their marriage licenses in Washington state early Thursday, just hours after Gov. Chris Gregoire signed a voter-approved law legalizing gay marriage.

Greek jobless rate up to record 26 percent

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:24 PM PST

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras waits the arrival of Lebanese President Michel Suleiman in Athens, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Greece's is finalizing a major tax reform bill, demanded by international rescue creditors as one of several conditions for continued payments. Greece's conservative-led government has promised to try and stem the country's punishing recession, but last month introduced another round of austerity measures. New unemployment figures, released Thursday, showed the country's jobless rate rising to 26 percent in September. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Greece's unemployment rate rose to a new record of 26 percent in September, underscoring the economic plight in the country as it heads toward a sixth year of recession.

Hamas chief's Gaza visit sign of regional embrace

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:22 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday Nov. 5, 2010, file photo, the leader of Hamas Khaled Mashaal addresses the crowd during a rally at the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, Syria, Hamas' exiled supreme leader visits the Gaza Strip for the first time this weekend on a landmark trip to the sliver of land ruled by his Islamic militant movement. The visit signals growing regional acceptance of the once isolated Hamas and even grudging acquiescence by Israel in the wake of an eight-day battle last month that ended with a cease-fire between the bitter enemies. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, File)The supreme Hamas leader's first-ever visit to the Gaza Strip this weekend signals growing regional acceptance of the Islamic militant movement in charge of the once isolated territory and grudging acquiescence by Israel.

Wells Fargo boss talks bank fees, economy, taxes

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:22 PM PST

In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, photo, John Stumpf, Chairman, President and CEO of Wells Fargo, talks during an interview, in New York. Stumph, one of the few CEOs who kept his job as peers fell after the 2008 financial crisis, is a strategist who expanded his company while others shrank theirs. Stumph says Wells Fargo's vanilla business model of making loans and taking deposits has kept it above the fray while exotic derivatives and other risky practices have bludgeoned rivals. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)John Stumpf is a survivor.

Brazil mourns architect Niemeyer's death

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:21 PM PST

The coffin containing the remains of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is carried past an honor guard up a ramp leading to the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Niemeyer, 104, the groundbreaking architect who designed Brazil's futuristic capital and much of the United Nations complex, died Wednesday night in Rio de Janeiro, the seaside city where he was born and where his remains will be buried after he is honored with a service in Brasilia at the presidential palace he designed. (Photo/Cadu Gomes)Hundreds of mourners lined up in the vast open plaza at the heart of Brasilia, Brazil's modernist capital, to honor internationally renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer during a Thursday memorial in the city that most strongly reflects his signature style in its monumental buildings of flowing concrete and grand, sweeping curves.

Federer hopes to play 2016 Games in Rio

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:20 PM PST

Tennis players, Roger Federer, of Switzerland, and Maria Sharapova of Russia hold a press conference to promote the Gillette Federer Tour, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Federer will take on Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci in an exhibition match Thursday evening, Sharapova and Danish tennis star Caroline Wozniacki are scheduled for a Friday match. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)Roger Federer says he won't play as often in the next few years and hopes to compete in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Apple to produce line of Macs in the US next year

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:47 PM PST

Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company will produce one of its existing lines of Mac computers in the United States next year.

NHL owners, players await return to negotiations

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:12 PM PST

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, center, arrives to speak with reporters after an NHL Board of Governors meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 in New York. The NHL and NHL Players' Association have cleared their schedules with progress being made in collective bargaining talks. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)The next set of NHL labor negotiations were expected to get going later Thursday, but internal conversations by the players kept the sides apart by mid-afternoon.

Safety, need compete in typhoon-hit Philippines

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:10 PM PST

A survivor of Tuesday's devastating typhoon is carried into a makeshift clinic after being rescued Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, in New Bataan township, Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines. The powerful typhoon that washed away emergency shelters, a military camp and possibly entire families in the southern Philippines has killed hundreds of people with nearly 400 missing, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)The government's geological hazard maps show why this farming community was largely washed away by a powerful typhoon: "highly susceptible to flooding and landslides." That didn't stop some villagers from rebuilding Thursday, even with bodies still lying under the mud.

Oil drops on bleak outlook for Europe economy

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:03 PM PST

The price of oil fell Thursday after the European Central Bank predicted a bleak year ahead for the region's economy but stopped short of offering new measures to boost growth

THE RESET: Other voices in fiscal cliff debate

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:03 PM PST

High school English teacher Tiffany Santana listens at left as President Barack Obama speaks to the media during a visit with middle class taxpayers to discuss the importance of extending income tax cuts for Americans and small businesses, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, in Falls Church, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)They don't have a seat at the talks to defuse a year-end fiscal bomb, yet wield considerable influence.

New drama, returning comedy scheduled for CBS

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:02 PM PST

CBS is giving a special platform to a new cop drama that it will premiere in February.

CDC: Language barrier caused chlorine gas leak

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:56 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2006, file photo, a car passes in front of a Tyson Foods Inc., sign at Tyson headquarters in Springdale, Ark. A chlorine gas leak that sickened nearly 200 people at a Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas last year happened because a worker who couldn't read the English-language label on a barrel of chemicals inadvertently poured bleach into it, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released Thursday. (AP Photo/April L. Brown, File)A chlorine gas leak that sickened nearly 200 people at a Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas last year happened because a worker who couldn't read the English-language label on a barrel of chemicals inadvertently poured bleach into it, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released Thursday.

T-Mobile to get Apple devices soon, iPhone likely

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:55 AM PST

T-Mobile will likely start carrying the iPhone next year after its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, said it has reached a new deal with Apple.

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer dies, aged 104

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:53 AM PST

File photo of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer looking at the Copacabana beach in Rio de JaneiroRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Oscar Niemeyer, a towering patriarch of modern architecture who shaped the look of contemporary Brazil and whose inventive, curved designs left their mark on cities worldwide, died late on Wednesday. He was 104. Niemeyer had been battling kidney and stomach ailments in a Rio de Janeiro hospital since early November. His death was the result of a lung infection developed this week, the hospital said, little more than a week before he would have turned 105. ...

Pregnant Kate discharged from London hospital

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:53 AM PST

Britain's Prince William stands next to his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge as she leaves the King Edward VII hospital in central London, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Prince William and his wife Kate are expecting their first child, and the Duchess of Cambridge has been admitted to hospital suffering from a severe form of morning sickness in the early stages of her pregnancy. (AP Photo/Andrew Matthews, PA)The Duchess of Cambridge left a London hospital Thursday after being treated for acute morning sickness related to her pregnancy.

Debt limit gives GOP leverage, Obama demands fix

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:48 AM PST

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, accompanied by the House GOP leadership, gestures as he speak to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, following a closed-door GOP strategy session. From left are, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of Calif., Boehner, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The political fight that took the nation to the verge of defaulting on its debts last year is back, overshadowed by "fiscal cliff" disputes but with consequences far graver than looming tax hikes and steep spending cuts.

Gary Sinise, Trombone Shorty to ride in Orpheus

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:48 AM PST

FILE - In this July 28, 2010 file photo, actor Gary Sinise arrives at the CBS CW Showtime press tour party in Beverly Hills, Calif. Sinese and New Orleans jazz musician Trombone Shorty Andrews will lead the parade of the Krewe of Orpheus on the evening of Lundi Gras, the day before Fat Tuesday. The celebrity riders were announced Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, at Mardi Gras World, the huge studio where many Carnival floats are built. Orpheus marks its 20th anniversary when it parades Feb. 11. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)Actor Gary Sinise and New Orleans musicians Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and Harry Connick Jr. will lead the parade of the Krewe of Orpheus on the evening of Lundi Gras, the day before Fat Tuesday, and perform at the glitzy ball that follows.

Alan Simpson dances Gangnam Style to urge debt fix

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:46 AM PST

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson is dancing "Gangnam Style" to urge younger Americans to fix the national debt using their social media skills.

Metallica's music now available on Spotify

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:44 AM PST

FILE - This Oct. 27, 2012 file photo shows James Hetfield, left, and Kirk Hammett of Metallica performing at the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans. All music spanning Metallica's 30-year history is now available on Spotify. The company announced the move Thursday, Dec. 6, during a presentation to debut new features in New York. Metallica had previously refused to stream its music. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP, file)Metallica is bringing its all-out assault to Spotify.

Syrian capital a maze of checkpoints, blast walls

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:44 AM PST

FILE -In this April 24, 2011 file photo taken with a mobile phone, through a car windscreen, showing Syrian army soldiers at a check point, in Damascus, Syria. As rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad edge closer toward the Syrian capital, ushering in what many say could eventually be the final and most brutal episode of the 20-month-old civil war, Damascus residents are bracing for more hardship. (AP Photo,File)a two-hour journey that is often terrifying.

With war shifting, US, Russia talk Syria's future

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:45 PM PST

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listens to a question during a joint news conference with Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the government building in Dublin, Ireland, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Clinton was in Ireland to attend the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) conference. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)Diplomatic efforts to end Syria's civil war moved forward Thursday with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joining Russia's foreign minister and the U.N. peace envoy to the Arab country for extraordinary three-way talks that suggested Washington and Moscow might finally unite behind a strategy as the Assad regime weakens.

Military halts clashes as political crisis grips Egypt

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:43 AM PST

Members of the Republican Guard blocks off a road leading to the presidential palace in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Republican Guard restored order around the presidential palace on Thursday after clashes killed seven people, but passions ran high in a contest over the country's future. President Mohamed Mursi had been due to address the nation, but a presidential source said the Islamist leader, criticized by his opponents for his silence in the last few days, might speak on Friday instead. He did not explain the possible delay. Mursi supporters withdrew before a mid-afternoon deadline set by the Republican Guard, an elite unit whose duties include protecting the palace. ...

Both sides scramble for leverage as clock ticks on "fiscal cliff"

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:42 AM PST

U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner gestures as he is interviewed in Washington for "Face the Nation"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the clock ticking toward an end-of-year deadline, the "fiscal cliff" showdown focused on Thursday on a renewed fight over raising the U.S. debt ceiling as both sides maneuvered for political and public relations advantage. A largely partisan procedural scuffle broke out in the U.S. Senate when Republicans tried to provoke a vote related to the debt ceiling, in an apparent effort to reframe the debate on more favorable terms and gain some leverage. ...

Families of missing Iowa girls await IDs of bodies

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:40 AM PST

This combo made from undated photos provided by the FBI shows cousins Lyric Cook, 10, right, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, who have been missing since Friday, July 13, 2012. Authorities say hunters have found bodies believed to be two young Iowa cousins who disappeared while riding their bikes in July. (AP Photo/FBI)Five months after two young cousins vanished while riding their bikes, residents of the northeast Iowa community where they were last seen are anxiously waiting to hear whether two bodies found by hunters are those of the missing girls.

Former Nazi guard appeals to immigration board

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:38 AM PST

A former Nazi concentration camp guard who has lived quietly in western Pennsylvania for more than 50 years took has fight against deportation to the nation's highest immigration court Thursday, arguing that he shouldn't be punished because he served in Hitler's army against his will.

Obama seeks to put personal touch on cliff talks

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:31 AM PST

President Barack Obama walks with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, as he returned from speaking about the fiscal cliff at Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)President Barack Obama, trying to put a personal touch on "fiscal cliff" negotiations, visited a northern Virginia family's basement apartment Thursday to press his hardline on tax rate increases for the wealthy.

T-Mobile USA to get Apple devices soon

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:25 AM PST

T-Mobile will likely start carrying the iPhone next year after its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, said it has reached a new deal with Apple.

mtvU honors Frank Ocean, wounded Pakistani teen

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 11:23 AM PST

FILE - In this undated file handout photo issued by Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Malala Yousufzai, at left in her hospital bed, poses for a photograph with her father Ziauddin, second right accompanied by her two younger brothers Atal, right and Khushal, in Birmingham, England. The mtvU network is honoring, Yousufzai who was shot for her education advocacy, as its Woman of the Year. (AP Photo/ Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham)The mtvU network is honoring a rap superstar who detailed his love for another man and a Pakistani girl shot for her education advocacy as its Man and Woman of the Year.
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