Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Jury convicts Tom DeLay in money laundering trial (AP)

Jury convicts Tom DeLay in money laundering trial (AP)

Jury convicts Tom DeLay in money laundering trial (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 06:47 PM PST

Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay, along with his wife, Christine, left, and daughter Danielle Garcia, leave the Travis Coumty Courthouse in Austin, Texas on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. A jury found Delay guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)AP - The heavy-handed style that made Tom DeLay one of the nation's most powerful and feared members of Congress also proved to be his downfall Wednesday when a jury determined he went too far in trying to influence elections, convicting the former House majority leader on two felonies that could send him to prison for decades.

Powerful storm to bring snow, ice to the Dakotas (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 06:30 PM PST

An Amish buggy turns onto U.S. Highway 2 in Fosston, Minn. as a winter storm begins on Wednesday, Nov. 24. The National Weather Service on Wednesday issued a batch of winter weather advisories, watches and warnings for North Dakota and South Dakota through Thursday morning and a storm is expected to drop 6 to 8 inches of snow in northern Minnesota by Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Grand Forks Herald, Eric Hylden)AP - A powerful storm that pummeled much of the West is promising to bring its chaotic mix of snow, sleet and ice to much of the Dakotas on Thanksgiving Day. The system closed roads and delayed flights from Anchorage to Salt Lake City on some of the busiest travel days of the year.

Airport protest never takes off, few delays seen (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 06:30 PM PST

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer pats down a traveler as he works his way through security at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in Bloomington, Minn., Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)AP - The big Opt-Out looked like a big bust Wednesday as most of the Thanksgiving travelers selected for full-body scans and pat-down searches chose to submit to them rather than create havoc on one of the busiest flying days of the year. In fact, in some parts of the U.S., bad weather was shaping up as a bigger threat to travelers' hopes of getting to their destinations on time.

Indiana: Obama Touts Successes of His Economic Policies (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 03:15 AM PST

Time.com - Two years after Obama became the first Democrat in four decades to capture the Hoosier State's electoral votes, Indiana was at the heart of the Republican landslide in the midterm elections

TSA Chief Faces Outrage as He Defends Screening Procedures (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:15 AM PST

Time.com - With the holiday-travel crunch looming and outrage over his agency's stringent new airport-screening procedures nearing a boil, TSA chief John Pistole is doing his best to defend the program

US jury convicts Somalis as pirates in Navy attack (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:07 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2010 file artist's sketch, bottom row from left, Abdi Gurewardher, Abdi Umar, Mohammed Hasan, Abdi Dire and Gabul Ali listen to interpreter Ayderus Ali as Judge Mark Davis looks on in U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Va. The five Somali men accused of attacking a U.S. Navy ship off Africa's coast were convicted on federal piracy charges Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010 in what experts said was the first trial of its kind in America in more than a century. (AP Photo/Alba Bragoli, File)AP - Five Somali men accused of attacking a U.S. Navy ship off Africa's coast were convicted Wednesday on federal piracy charges in what the government said was the first piracy conviction in a U.S. courtroom in nearly 200 years.

Lawyer: Emanuel broke Chicago mayor residency rule (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:08 PM PST

Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel watches an NBA basketball game between Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - As he travels about the city, assuring Chicagoans that he is one of them, Rahm Emanuel must be asking himself why he just didn't leave his house vacant when he went off to work in the White House. Or rent it to a buddy or a relative.

Holocaust survivors deal with purported $42M fraud (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 08:35 AM PST

In this photo taken on Nov. 12, 2010, 96-year-old Lillian Block, right, sits on the boardwalk near her home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Block is one of many American-born Jews living here since she moved in in 1941. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Walk along the boardwalk on a late autumn day, and Brighton Beach can seem like an old-age home by the sea, where stooped ladies wear rouge like armor and almost everyone lives in the shadow of a difficult past.

For disabled, airport security hassles are old hat (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 06:28 AM PST

Marguerite Aswad, of Naples, Fla., is pushed in a wheelchair by her grandson Stephen Aswad, of Westfield, N.J., after arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, in Newark, N.J., for a holiday visit. Advocates for the disabled say that the new intensive and obtrusive security measures at U.S. airports that are new for most passengers, are old hat for travelers with disabilities. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - For air passengers already fed up with being hauled off to the side of the security line for a pat-down or facing aggressive questions about bulky clothing or odd items in their luggage, advocates for the disabled have this to say: Welcome to our lives.

Netted tar balls close deepwater shrimp fishing (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 06:03 PM PST

AP - An area off the Gulf Coast hit hard by the BP oil spill was closed Wednesday to fishing for a deepwater shrimp species after a skipper hauled up tar balls in his net, federal regulators said.

Pope's remarks on condoms sow widespread confusion (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 06:30 PM PST

Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges faithful as he leaves after his weekly general audience, in Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. The Vatican on Wednesday denounced China for ordaining a bishop without papal consent, accusing the government-backed church of gravely damaging the faith, and warning that the bishop himself risked excommunication. Pope Benedict XVI learned of the ordination of Rev. Joseph Guo Jincai 'with deep regret'' as it constituted a 'grave violation'' of church law and hampered reconciliation efforts that have been a priority for the papacy, the Vatican press office said.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Some Roman Catholics are confused. Some are angry. Others just don't believe the pope meant what it seems he said.

Aust. deports US man convicted in wife's death (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 07:32 PM PST

AP - An American man convicted of manslaughter in his wife's honeymoon death was deported Thursday from Australia to the United States, where he is likely to face murder charges for the 2003 drowning.

Charges dropped against teen in Fla. cat killings (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 06:13 PM PST

AP - A Florida teen no longer faces animal cruelty charges in a string of cat killings with prosecutors saying Wednesday that the defense showed some of the cats may have been killed by other animals.

Shuttle Discovery's last flight over Christmas? (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 03:33 PM PST

Space shuttle Discovery STS-133 sits on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida November 5, 2010. REUTERS/Scott AudetteAP - Baffled by fuel tank cracks, NASA announced another prolonged launch delay for space shuttle Discovery on Wednesday and raised the prospect of a Christmastime flight.

Fire at Ohio home where 3 were slain ruled arson (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 09:34 AM PST

AP - Authorities say someone set a fire at an Ohio home where police say two women and an 11-year-old boy were stabbed to death before their remains were placed in a tree.

Conservatives at odds with Vatican over condoms (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 04:00 AM PST

In undated but recent picture made available by the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano Pope Benedict XVI, right, meets with German journalist Peter Seewald, in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome. The Vatican on Tuesday broadened the scope of the pope's comments about condom use being a lesser evil than transmitting HIV by saying the concept also applies to women. Pope Benedict XVI said in a book 'Light of the World'' released Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, that condom use by people such as male prostitutes was a lesser evil since it indicated they were taking a step toward a more moral and responsible sexuality by aiming to protect their partner from infection. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Faced with a changing outlook from Pope Benedict XVI on condoms and their role in preventing the spread of HIV, many prominent conservative Roman Catholics in the U.S. are rejecting the Vatican's own explanation of what the pope said.

Economic data reveal a hint of consumer merriness (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:00 PM PST

A FedEx employee sorts packages next to his truck, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 in New York. The holiday season is the busiest of the year for the Memphis-based delivery company. Americans loosened the grips on their wallets and spent more last month, a hopeful sign as shoppers head into the holiday buying season. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Americans are earning and spending more, companies are shedding fewer workers and hopes are rising for the economy as the holiday shopping season starts.

Boeing: Foreign debris probably sparked 787 fire (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 03:35 PM PST

AP - Boeing Co. says some kind of foreign debris probably caused the electrical fire on board one of its 787s earlier this month.

Judge reaches out to holdouts in 9/11 health suit (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:07 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2001 file photo, emergency workers continue recovery and cleanup efforts with the help of heavy machinery at the site of the World Trade Center attacks in New York. More than 10,000 people have joined a legal settlement that will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to workers exposed to the tons of toxic dust that blanketed Lower Manhattan after the World Trade Center fell, officials announced Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)AP - A federal judge overseeing a major legal settlement for thousands of ground zero workers who were exposed to World Trade Center dust said Wednesday that he would give a handful of holdouts one last chance to take the deal.
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