Wednesday, October 6, 2010

High court struggles with funeral protest case (AP)

High court struggles with funeral protest case (AP)

High court struggles with funeral protest case (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:43 PM PDT

Shirley Phelps-Roper, a member of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., protests in front of the Pennsylvania Statehouse Thursday, March 2, 2006, in Harrisburg, Pa. Funeral protests test limits of free speech as the Supreme Court's 2010-2011 term gets under way this week. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower)AP - Supreme Court justices on Wednesday pondered the vexing question of whether the father of a dead Marine should win his lawsuit against a fundamentalist church group that picketed his son's funeral.

Panel: Gov't blocked worst-case oil spill figures (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:43 PM PDT

BP PLC contractor Nick Wilson pauses while testifying about his experience aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig when it exploded during joint investigation hearings held by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Management Regulation and Enforcement in Metairie, La., Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)AP - The White House blocked efforts by federal scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could have been, according to a panel appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

AP-GfK Poll: Working-class whites move toward GOP (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:43 PM PDT

David Winston, president of The Winston Group, poses for a photo in his office in Washington, Monday, Oct. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Working-class whites are favoring Republicans in numbers that parallel the GOP tide of 1994 when the party grabbed control of the House after four decades.

US apologizes for attack on Pakistani soldiers (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:42 PM PDT

Drivers of Afghanistan-bound NATO vehicles are parked at Pakistani border town of Torkham wait on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The U.S. apologized Wednesday for a recent helicopter attack that killed two Pakistani soldiers at an outpost near the Afghan border, saying American pilots mistook the soldiers for insurgents they were pursuing.

New program will boost security at military bases (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2009 file photo, an entrance to Fort Hood Army Base in Fort Hood, Texas, near Killeen is seen. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)AP - Nearly a year after a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon is taking new steps to beef up security and surveillance programs at its bases, and will join an FBI intelligence-sharing program aimed at identifying future terror threats, U.S. officials said.

Tornadoes derail train, smash homes in N. Arizona (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:48 PM PDT

A man walks through a Bellemont, Ariz., backyard after a tornado swept through the community west of Flagstaff on Wednesday, Oct. 6. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)AP - Two tornadoes touched down in northern Arizona early Wednesday, derailing 28 cars of a parked freight train, blowing semis off the highway and smashing out the windows of dozens of homes.

ACLU sues NC school over student's nose piercing (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:41 PM PDT

FILE - In a Sept. 15, 2010 file photo, Ariana Iacono, 14, poses for a photograph in Clayton, N.C. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court in Raleigh, NC on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 on behalf of Iacono, 14, who was suspended from high school over her nose piercing. The lawsuit seeks a court order allowing Iacono to return to Clayton High School immediately. Iacono and her mother belong to a small religious group called the Church of Body Modification. The group believes that piercings, tattoos and other adornments are a way of expressing religious faith. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)AP - The American Civil Liberties Union claims in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that a North Carolina school violated the constitutional rights of a 14-year-old student by suspending her for wearing a nose piercing.

Virulent skin germ grates on Maine lobstering isle (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:30 PM PDT

Landon Morton, a lobster fisherman, shows one of the sores that he has on his legs as he's battled staph infections four or five times in the past year, on Vinalhaven Island, Maine, on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Just a few weeks ago, Morton began his latest bout . A strain of a drug-resistant skin disease is now proving a persistent pest among lobstermen and their families on this Maine island. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)AP - A strain of a drug-resistant skin disease that has afflicted sports teams, prisons and military units is now proving a persistent pest among lobstermen and their families on a Maine island.

Fired CNN host Sanchez apologizes to Jon Stewart (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:44 PM PDT

This undated photo from the biography section of CNN's website, shows former CNN news anchor Rick Sanchez. CNN fired Sanchez on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, a day after he called Jon Stewart a bigot in a radio show interview where he also questioned whether Jews should be considered a minority. (AP Photo/CNN) NO SALESAP - Fired CNN host Rick Sanchez has apologized to Jon Stewart and anyone else he offended with what he calls "inartful comments" he made during a radio interview.

Vikes get Randy Moss from Patriots in trade (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2010 file photo, New England Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss (81) pulls away from Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Johnathan Joseph (22) en route to a first down during the second quarter of an NFL football game in Foxborough, Mass. Randy Moss is returning to Minnesota. The New England Patriots traded the seven-time Pro Bowl wide receiver to the Vikings on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, giving Moss the exit he expected all along and sending him back to the place where he became a superstar, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)AP - When Randy Moss first came to Minnesota 12 years ago, he electrified a stagnant franchise and immediately turned the Vikings into Super Bowl contenders. Now the Vikings need him to do it again.

Gunmen torch NATO trucks in new raids in Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:01 PM PDT

Fuel tankers, which were carrying supplies to foreign forces in Afghanistan, explode after they were attacked in the outskirts of Quetta October 6, 2010. Gunmen in Pakistan attacked and set fire to 20 trucks transporting supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday, police said. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Gunmen in Pakistan set fire to up to 40 supply trucks for NATO troops in two raids on Wednesday, police said, the latest in a series of assaults on the logistical backbone of the war in Afghanistan.

Taliban and Afghan government hold talks to end war: report (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:38 AM PDT

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai speaks during the opening ceremony of the peace jirga in Kabul in this June 2, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Omar SobhaniReuters - Representatives of the Taliban and President Hamid Karzai's government have started secret talks to negotiate an end to the war in Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing Afghan and Arab sources.

U.S. apologizes to Pakistan over NATO shootings (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 10:25 AM PDT

Trucks wait in a compound carrying NATO supplies at the Pakistan-Afghan border area of Torkham on October 6, 2010. REUTERS/K. ParvezReuters - The U.S. ambassador to Islamabad apologized to Pakistan on Wednesday for a NATO incursion in which U.S. helicopters killed two Pakistani soldiers, saying it was a "terrible accident."

American, two Japanese share Nobel for chemical tool (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 07:22 AM PDT

A combination of undated handout photos shows the winners of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. From left, Akira Suzuki, Ei-ichi Negishi and Richard F. Heck. American scientist Richard Heck, and Japanese scientists Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki shared the prize for the development of Reuters - A U.S. and two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for inventing new ways to bind carbon atoms with uses that range from fighting cancer to producing thin computer screens.

Court considers anti-gay protests at funerals (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 11:50 AM PDT

Reuters - The Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether a church has the legal right to stage anti-gay protests at U.S. military funerals to promote its claim that God is angry at America for tolerance toward homosexuals.

IMF warns against currency war (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:51 PM PDT

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn speaks at his closing news conference at the G20 Summit in Toronto June 27, 2010. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - Global policymakers clashed over currency policies on Wednesday as Western leaders warned China and other emerging markets that widespread efforts to weaken exchange rates threatens to derail economic recovery.

Verizon to sell Apple iPhone from early 2011: report (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 11:54 AM PDT

Women use iPhone mobile phones in September 2010. Apple plans to begin producing a new iPhone that will be sold by Verizon Wireless next year, ending the run of AT&T as the exclusive US carrier, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)Reuters - Apple Inc plans to begin making a new iPhone by the end of the year, and Verizon Wireless will begin selling them in early 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Kennedy-owned emancipation proclamation to be sold (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 08:09 AM PDT

Reuters - A copy of President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery that was owned by Robert F. Kennedy will be auctioned in December, Sotheby's said on Wednesday.

Pakistan Taliban attacks destroy more than 40 NATO vehicles (AFP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:20 PM PDT

Pakistani firefighters try to extinguish burning NATO supply oil tankers following an attack in Quetta. More than 40 NATO vehicles were destroyed in two separate Taliban attacks in Pakistan Wednesday as the militants stepped up their efforts to disrupt supply routes into Afghanistan.(AFP/Banaras Khan)AFP - More than 40 NATO vehicles were destroyed in two separate Taliban attacks in Pakistan Wednesday as the militants stepped up their efforts to disrupt supply routes into Afghanistan.

Trained extremists heading to Europe: security sources (AFP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:42 PM PDT

Policemen work in a video surveillance room at the police prefecture in Paris on October 5. A group of 25 Islamist extremists is planning to return to Europe after combat training in the Afghan-Pakistani border regions, French intelligence officials said on Wednesday, citing a US tip-off.(AFP/File/Eric Feferberg)AFP - A group of 25 Islamist extremists is planning to return to Europe after combat training in the Afghan-Pakistani border regions, French intelligence officials said on Wednesday, citing a US tip-off.
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