Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Deficit panel leaders' plan curbs Social Security (AP)

Deficit panel leaders' plan curbs Social Security (AP)

Deficit panel leaders' plan curbs Social Security (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:50 PM PST

Erskine Bowles, left, accompanied by former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of President Barack Obama's bipartisan deficit commission, gestures while speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The leaders of President Barack Obama's bipartisan deficit commission launched a daring assault on mushrooming federal deficits on Wednesday, proposing reducing annual cost-of-living increases for Social Security, gradually raising the retirement age to 69 and taking aim at popular tax breaks such as the mortgage interest deduction.

AP-GfK Poll: Palin most polarizing of 2012 crowd (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:48 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2010 file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks to supporters at a Republican National Committee rally in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)AP - Sarah Palin is the most polarizing of the potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates, while impressions of Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney lean more positive, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. As for the rest — Pawlenty, Barbour, Thune, Daniels — most Americans say, "Who?"

Police: Mail bomb could have exploded over US (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:44 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 29, 2010, file photo the UPS building at the East Midlands airport, Derby, England, is seen after UPS cargo containers were searched by British police. When a UPS plane, carrying an explosive package from Yemen, landed it was just after 10 p.m. in Washington and 3 a.m. Friday in England. Tipped off, police searched the plane, even the explosive-laden-printer, for hours but found nothing. (AP Photo/Tim Hales, File)AP - A mail bomb intercepted last month at an English airport could have exploded over the East Coast of the United States, British police said Wednesday. Forensic evidence showed the device, originally sent from Yemen by way of Cologne, Germany, was timed to be detonated about six to seven hours after the cargo aircraft carrying it left the U.K. for the U.S. The package was removed by police in Britain during transit.

Write-in ballot count begins in Alaska Senate race (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:56 PM PST

Alaska Elections Division Director Gail Fenumiai, right, and Assistant Attorney General Sarah Felix look over a ballot Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010, in Juneau, Alaska. Election officials planned to began poring over more than 92,500 write-in ballots in the Alaska Senate race on Wednesday, in spite of a federal lawsuit that's challenging the way the count was to be conducted. Republican nominee Joe Miller sued Tuesday to prevent the state from using discretion in determining voter intent on write-in ballots. But Lt. Gov. Craig Campbell, the Republican overseer of Alaska elections, said the count would go forward on Wednesday as planned. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - Misspellings and poor penmanship took center stage Wednesday in Alaska's contentious U.S. Senate race as teams of election workers began tallying more than 92,500 write-in ballots, with the two candidates' lawyers and observers intently watching the tedious process unfold.

Obama to world leaders: Must help on economy, too (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:45 PM PST

US President Barack Obama arrives at the Seoul Airport to attend the G-20 Summit, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. Twenty world leaders will come together in Seoul Nov. 11-12 to discuss the state of the global economy as it emerges from the financial crisis. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - Under worldwide pressure, President Barack Obama told global leaders Wednesday the burden is on them as well as the U.S. to fix trade-stifling imbalances and currency disputes that imperil economic recoveries everywhere. The president promised the United States would do its part but declared "the world is looking to us to work together."

Slow tow home for thousands on disabled ship (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:42 PM PST

A Navy Seahawk helicopter takes off with supplies headed to the Carnival Spleandor cruise ship from the USS Ronald Reagan in waters off the Baja Peninsula of Mexico,Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - Two tugboats slowly pulled a disabled cruise ship with nearly 4,500 passengers and crew toward San Diego on Wednesday. The 952-foot Carnival Splendor crept into cell phone range and the onboard phone system started working on a limited basis, allowing passengers mostly cut off from communication since an engine fire Monday to finally reach their loved ones.

Thousands of UK students protest tuition fees hike (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:41 PM PST

Demonstrators burn protest banners outside Millbank Tower, housing the headquarters of the Conservative Party, during a protest in London Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010, against an increase in university tuition fees. Organizers said 50,000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9,000 pounds ($14,000) a year - three times the current rate.(AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Tens of thousands of students marched through London on Wednesday against plans to triple university tuition fees, and violence erupted as a minority battled police and trashed a building containing the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party.

Steele may face challengers for GOP chairmanship (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:39 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2010 file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speaks during an election night gathering hosted by the National Republican Congressional Committee, in Washington. GOP activists are making an aggressive push to recruit a challenger to Steele, whose tenure as the central party's chief has been pocked with controversy and has been a period that some leaders are eager to put behind them. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - Republicans are aggressively recruiting a challenger to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, whose tenure as party chief has been marked by ill-chosen comments and questions about finances.

Feds propose graphic cigarette warning labels (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:34 PM PST

Three examples of proposed warning graphics that will appear on cigarette packaging as part of the government's new tobacco prevention efforts, seen in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs are among the images the federal government plans for larger, graphic warning labels that would take up half of each pack of cigarettes sold in the United States.

Pa. man lights joint to celebrate child's birth (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:29 PM PST

AP - Police said a new father faces drug charges because he lit up a marijuana joint, instead of a cigar, to celebrate his child's birth at a western Pennsylvania hospital. Police aren't identifying the man found smoking the pot in a designated smoking area of Uniontown Hospital Tuesday morning, but said he'll face marijuana possession charges.

Obama tells G20 dollar strength rests on U.S. economy (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:52 PM PST

President Barack Obama delivers the keynote speech at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta November 10, 2010. REUTERS/Barbara Walton/PoolReuters - President Barack Obama responded to widespread criticism that the United States is deliberately weakening the dollar as he tried to swing the G20 spotlight back onto global imbalances at a gathering of world leaders in Seoul.

Cargo bomb found in UK could have exploded over U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 09:53 AM PST

A forensic officer removes a package from a UPS container at East Midlands Airport in Castle Donington, central England October 29, 2010. REUTERS/Darren StaplesReuters - A bomb found on board a cargo plane at a British airport last month could have exploded over the eastern seaboard of the United States if it had not been defused, British police said on Wednesday.

Obama seeks better ties with skeptical Muslim world (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 06:39 AM PST

President Barack Obama (L) is welcomed by Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono upon his arrival at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta November 9, 2010. REUTERS/Adi Weda/PoolReuters - President Barack Obama held up his boyhood home of Indonesia as an example to the Muslim world in a speech on Wednesday in which he said America was not at war with Islam but acknowledged it was hard to eradicate "years of mistrust."

HP CEO Apotheker pops up in Japan (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 05:48 PM PST

Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 28, 2010. REUTERS/Michael BuholzerReuters - If the private eyes hired by Oracle Corp to track down Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker could read Japanese, they might have already closed the case.

Iran's rights to nuclear non-negotiable: Ahmadinejad (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 11:17 AM PST

Iranian workers stand in front of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, about 1,200 km (746 miles) south of Tehran October 26, 2010. REUTERS/Mehr News Agency/Majid AsgaripourReuters - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Iran's right to nuclear capabilities was non-negotiable, ahead of proposed talks with major world powers on its controversial atomic programme.

Amnesty: prosecute Bush for admitted waterboarding (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:08 PM PST

Demonstrator Maboud Ebrahimzadeh is held down during a simulation of waterboarding outside the Justice Departement in Washington November 5, 2007. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - The United States must prosecute former President George W. Bush for torture if his admission in a memoir that he authorized waterboarding holds true, rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

Clinton says Israeli settlement plan not productive (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 10:16 AM PST

Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday Israel's plan to go ahead with more settlement building in the West Bank was counterproductive to peace negotiations but voiced hope that a deal was still possible.

U.S. close to decision on 9/11 trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:49 PM PST

Reuters - The Obama administration is close to deciding where the self-professed mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks will be tried and whether he will face a military tribunal, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday.

Yemen bomb was set to explode over US: British police (AFP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 11:48 AM PST

A handout picture released by the Emirates News Agency shows the contents of a US-bound parcel displayed by police in the Gulf emirate of Dubai. A parcel bomb sent from Yemen and removed from a cargo plane at a British airport last month was timed to explode over the eastern seaboard of the United States, Scotland Yard said Wednesday.(AFP/WAM/File)AFP - A parcel bomb sent from Yemen and removed from a cargo plane at a British airport last month was timed to explode over the eastern seaboard of the United States, Scotland Yard said Wednesday.

Baghdad Christians in firing line as deadly bombs sow panic (AFP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 11:30 AM PST

A child walks past destroyed vehicles in a mainly Christian neighborhood of central Baghdad. A string of anti-Christian bombings has cost six more lives in the wake of a Baghdad church bloodbath, sowing panic in Iraq's 2,000-year-old minority on Wednesday, many of whom now want to flee.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A string of anti-Christian bombings has cost six more lives in the wake of a Baghdad church bloodbath, sowing panic in Iraq's 2,000-year-old minority on Wednesday, many of whom now want to flee.
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