Monday, June 6, 2011

Congressman Weiner admits online affairs (Reuters)

Congressman Weiner admits online affairs (Reuters)

Congressman Weiner admits online affairs (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 04:36 PM PDT

Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) questions a witness at the U.S House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations about the health effects of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York, September 8, 2006. REUTERS/Nicholas RobertsReuters - Representative Anthony Weiner on Monday tearfully admitted having a number of inappropriate relationships with women over the Internet, saying he was deeply ashamed but would not resign.

Eastern Arizona fire burns nearly 350 square miles (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 05:03 PM PDT

Cattle graze in a field as smoke from the Wallow wildfire settles in the sky near Eagar, Arizona June 5, 2011. REUTERS/Joshua LottReuters - A wildfire that has charred more than 350 square miles in eastern Arizona raged out of control for a ninth day on Monday as it forced the evacuation of a third town and crept near populated areas along the New Mexico border.

Missouri River flood levee breaches expected (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 02:43 PM PDT

Reuters - Iowa National Guard troops have dumped thousand-pound sandbags from a helicopter to delay a full breach of a Missouri River levee long enough to build a secondary wall to protect a town, officials said on Monday.

Are U.S. Child-Labor Laws Under Threat? (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:10 PM PDT

Time.com - The government has not had a lot of ideas for what to do about the nation's anemic job market, but there are troubling signs that one old idea is starting to re-emerge: child labor

U.S. Unemployment Crisis: How to Create Jobs (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Growth is back, but jobs still aren't. Here are five ways to bring unemployment down

Alabama's Jefferson County mulls public worker layoffs (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 04:47 PM PDT

Reuters - Alabama's troubled Jefferson County says it may have to lay off up to 1,000 workers due to a $70 million shortfall in its operating revenue that is adding to its chronic debt problems.

Wildfire forces evacuation of another Arizona town (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 06:18 PM PDT

Robert Joseph, 64, rides his ATV as smoke plumes from the Wallow fire fill the sky in Luna, N.M., Monday, June 6, 2011. Firefighters worked furiously Monday to save a line of mountain communities in eastern Arizona from a gigantic blaze that has forced thousands of people from their homes and cast a smoky haze over states as far away as Iowa. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Stiff winds whipped up a gigantic blaze in the mountains of eastern Arizona on Monday, forcing the evacuation of a third resort town and casting a smoky haze over states as far away as Iowa.

Prosecutor tries to use Blago's words against him (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 26, 2011 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, arrives at federal court before taking the stand in his second corruption trial in Chicago. Prosecutors at Blagojevich’s corruption retrial will have the time to cross-examine the former Illinois governor in earnest Monday, June 6, 2011, and will likely start asking him about specifics of his testimony in which he pronounced his innocence. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - A prosecutor at Rod Blagojevich's corruption retrial sought to methodically discredit the ousted Illinois governor on the witness stand Monday by repeatedly deploying the same weapon against him: His own words.

NC student can continue to wear nose stud to class (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:19 PM PDT

AP - A North Carolina high school student can wear the nose piercing that's part of her religious faith under the terms of a legal settlement announced Monday.

Woman regrets role in Calif.-to-Ohio pot scheme (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:55 PM PDT

AP - A woman convicted in a $3 million scheme that shipped thousands of pounds of marijuana from California to Ohio in suitcases says she deeply regrets her involvement and has asked a federal judge not to send her to prison.

Weiner admits lying about lewd photo, won't quit (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 06:26 PM PDT

U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-NY, addresses a news conference in New York, Monday, June 6, 2011. After days of denials, a choked-up New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman and admitted to 'inappropriate' exchanges with six women before and after getting married. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - A tearful Rep. Anthony Weiner on Monday admitted sending a lewd photo of his underwear-clad crotch to a young woman over Twitter and then lying repeatedly to protect himself. In a flash of defiance, Weiner refused to resign even as Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called for a House ethics investigation into whether he broke the rules.

Ex-IMF leader pleads not guilty to sex assault (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:51 PM PDT

Hotel workers from New York hotels who who were bused in by their union gather at the Manhattan Criminal Courts building before the arrival of Dominique Strauss-Kahn for his arraignment proceedings on charges of sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid, Monday, June 6, 2011 in New York (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - Dominique Strauss-Kahn formally asserted his innocence Monday to charges he tried to rape a hotel maid, but the drama unfolded outside the Manhattan courtroom as protesters jeered the former International Monetary Fund leader and lawyers for the housekeeper said she was eager to testify despite a "smear campaign" against her.

Army expects full breach of Missouri River levee (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 06:09 PM PDT

A Wendy's restaurant is surrounded by a temporary berm Monday June 6, 2011 in Hamburg, Iowa. The southwest Iowa town is under a mandatory evacuation order as the Missouri River continues to rise. (Photo/Dave Weaver)AP - Crews scrambled Monday to protect a southwest Iowa town from the swollen Missouri River, but local officials said it's unclear whether they'll be able to prevent the river from leaving the community under several feet of water for weeks.

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Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:22 PM PDT

AP - A New Mexico man's decision to lash out with a billboard ad saying his ex-girlfriend had an abortion against his wishes has touched off a legal debate over free speech and privacy rights.

Prosecutor: Suspect in Baseline Killer case a wolf (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 04:59 PM PDT

Defendant Mark Goudeau, left, talks with one of his attorneys, Randall Craig before the start of opening arguments during the trial for the 'Baseline Killer' crimes at the Superior Court Central Court Building in downtown Phoenix on Monday, June 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Schennum, Pool)AP - A man accused of killing nine people in the Baseline Killer case was driven by a hunger to rape, and the victims who didn't cooperate were shot point-blank in the head, a prosecutor said Monday.

Forensics expert testifies in Casey Anthony trial (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:57 PM PDT

Casey Anthony wipes away tears at the start of the third day of her first degree murder trial at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Florida May 26, 2011. REUTERS/Red Huber/PoolAP - A forensic expert who has come up with a new technique for detecting decayed bodies testified Monday that he smelled an "overwhelmingly strong" odor of human decomposition in an air sample taken from the car of a Florida woman on trial in the death of her toddler daughter.

Burress leaves NY prison for uncertain NFL career (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 01:16 PM PDT

Former New York Giants star Plaxico Burress gestures from a car after being released from the Oneida County Correction Facility in Rome, N.Y., Monday, June 6, 2011. Burress was released from prison after spending nearly two years behind bars on a gun charge. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)AP - Clad nearly all in black — hooded sweat shirt, athletic shorts, sneakers — and a white T-shirt, the tall, lanky man walked alone through a gate in a chain-link fence topped by swirls of barbed wire.

Republicans ask Wis. justices to act in union case (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:45 PM PDT

The Wisconsin Supreme Court considers oral arguments regarding whether the court should exercise jurisdiction over matters relating to the passage of 2011 Wis. Act 10, commonly referred to as the budget repair bill, during a hearing at the Wisconsin State Capitol Monday, June 6, 2011. The controversial bill, which largely eliminates the collective bargaining rights of public employees, was previously blocked by a lower court judge who ruled that lawmakers violated the state's open meetings law. (AP Photo/John Hart, Pool)AP - Attorneys for Republican lawmakers asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday to overturn a judge's order blocking the state's polarizing union rights law, while Democrats urged the justices to uphold the ruling or make the GOP go through the usual — and slow — appeals process.

US citizen stuck in Kuwait can now leave country (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 11:17 AM PDT

This photo provided by Aziz Nouhaili. taken in 2009 at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, shows Aziz Nouhaili, right. For months, U.S. citizen Nouhaili has been stuck in Kuwait, unable to renew his passport and return home. Embassy officials have told him he should consider himself 'denaturalized.' Nouhaili's lawyer has now written a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, demanding that Nouhaili be allowed to return to the United States and receive due process if the U.S. wants to take away his citizenship. (AP Photo)AP - A naturalized U.S. citizen stuck in Kuwait for months said Monday that he will finally be able to leave the country after the U.S. Embassy reversed course and returned his confiscated passport.

Irradiation underused to fight E. coli in foods (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 12:53 PM PDT

A farm worker empties cucumbers into a container after failing to sell them due an ongoing food crisis in Europe, in Carquefou, western France, Monday, June 6, 2011. The current crisis is the deadliest E. coli outbreak in modern history, and the outbreak is being blamed on a highly aggressive, 'super-toxic' strain of E. coli. (AP Photo/Jacques brinon)AP - Zapping salad fixings with just a bit of radiation can kill dangerous E. coli and other bacteria — and food safety experts say Europe's massive outbreak shows wary consumers should give the long-approved step a chance.
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