Saturday, October 9, 2010

Obama: GOP plans to 'shortchange' education (AP)

Obama: GOP plans to 'shortchange' education (AP)

Obama: GOP plans to 'shortchange' education (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 02:32 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, prior to signing the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Offering voters a reason to keep Democrats in power on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama says Republicans would cut education spending and put the country's economic future at risk if they had their way.

Hiker freed by Iran appeals for friends' release (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 04:52 PM PDT

Nora Shourd, left, along with her daughter, Sarah Shourd, speak to the media, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 in Oakland, Calif. Sarah Shourd recently freed by Iran said Saturday she is still haunted by images of her friend and fiance in their cramped jail cells and won't have her life back until they have been released. (AP Photo/Dino Vournas)AP - An American hiker recently freed by Iran said Saturday she is still haunted by images of her friend and fiance in their cramped jail cells and won't have her life back until they have been released.

NYC officials outraged over anti-gay gang torture (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 06:42 PM PDT

The abandoned home that served as a clubhouse, and allegedly a torture chamber, for a street gang accused of trapping and brutalizing three gay men is seen, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - Outraged city leaders said Saturday that the city wouldn't tolerate the "vicious" hatred that had apparently caused a street gang to allegedly beat and torture two teenage boys and a man inside an abandoned home over the course of several hours because they were gay.

Dying communities see salvation in new prisons (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 11:26 AM PDT

In this Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 photo, Mike Secinore has a cup of coffee at a local diner in Berlin, N.H. Fresh with a criminal justice degree, the 20-year-old Berlin native plans to apply for a corrections officer job. One option is the new federal prison, expected to open in the city next summer. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)AP - Mike Secinore is pinning his hopes on prison.

America moves on from spill; coast feels abandoned (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 09:16 AM PDT

In this Oct. 8, 2010 photo, Chris Sherrill, owner of Staycations Beach Weddings, uses the kitchen of Champs Place as he prepares for an event in Gulf Shores, Ala. Sherrill and other business owners along the Alabama Gulf Coast feel forgotten since the oil well has been capped and attention has been moved elsewhere. (AP Photo/Michelle Rolls-Thomas)AP - About 800 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, Dave Edmonds is struggling to remind people about the BP oil spill.

Space double: Astronaut twins to join up in orbit (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2010 file photo, U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly, a crew member of the mission to the International Space Station, accompanied by his brother Mark Kelly, right, walks to the rocket ahead of the launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian-leased cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The stars may have finally aligned for the world's only space sibling team. Astronaut Scott Kelly is circling the planet, fresh into a 5½-month space station mission. His identical twin, Mark, will join him next year, if NASA's shuttle schedule holds up. Together, they will become the first blood relatives to meet up in space. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)AP - The stars may have finally aligned for the world's only space sibling team.

John Lennon's 70th celebrated in NY's Central Park (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 04:56 PM PDT

People gather around the Imagine mosaic in Strawberry Fields in New York's Central Park, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. This would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - A crush of fans circled a flower-graced mosaic in Central Park's Strawberry Fields and sang lyrics from "Imagine" on Saturday to honor Beatles legend John Lennon on his 70th birthday.

Suicide surge: Schools confront anti-gay bullying (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 02:34 PM PDT

AP - A spate of teen suicides linked to anti-gay harassment is prompting school officials nationwide to rethink their efforts against bullying — and in the process, risk entanglement in a bitter ideological debate.

Report: Candidate in Ohio wore German SS uniform (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 04:45 PM PDT

AP - A report says a Republican candidate for the U.S. House in Ohio dressed up in a German SS uniform to participate in Nazi reenactments.

Capsule docks at space station with 3 new arrivals (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

A newly-modernized Russian Soyuz spacecraft (pictured before launch) carrying three astronauts on Sunday docked with the International Space Station (ISS) to double its crew to six, mission control said. The Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft is a modernised version of the ship used by Russia to put humans into the space and the first of a new series to have fully digital systems.(AFP/File)AP - A Russian capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, bringing three new residents.

Major balloon race gets under way in Albuquerque (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 02:31 AM PDT

Hot air balloons inflate during the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, N.M., on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. Many balloonists participating in the event are hopeful that missing American pilots Richard Abruzzo and Carol Rymer Davis will be found. The pair went missing over the Adriatic Sea on Wednesday during a European gas balloon race. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)AP - Racers lifted off early Saturday in one of ballooning's most prestigious events, but without two pilots considered to be among the fiercest competitors at the annual America's Challenge gas balloon race.

Mexico opens probe into reported lake shooting (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 10:07 PM PDT

A man on a U.S. Coast Guard uses binoculars on Falcon Lake, a lake that straddles the U.S. Mexico border, where where Coloradan David Hartley is still missing, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010 in Zapata, Texas. Hartley's wife says her husband was shot to death by Mexican pirates chasing them on speedboats across the lake on Sept. 30 as they returned on Jet Skis from a trip to photograph a historic Mexican church. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - The Mexican government said Friday it has opened a federal investigation into the reported shooting of an American tourist on a border lake plagued by Mexican pirates and strongly denied delaying action on finding the man or his attackers.
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