Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Government sues to block AT&T, T-Mobile merger (AP)

Government sues to block AT&T, T-Mobile merger (AP)

Government sues to block AT&T, T-Mobile merger (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:24 AM PDT

FILE - This file combination photo displays logos for AT&T, left, and Deutsche Telekom AG. The Justice Department filed suit Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, to block AT&T's $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA on grounds that it would raise prices for consumers. (AP Photo/dapd File)AP - The Justice Department filed suit Wednesday to block AT&T's $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA on grounds that it would raise prices for consumers.

East struggles to recover from Irene (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:45 PM PDT

Corrinne Levin, left, kisses her daughter Jillianne Davis, who's home was destroyed by floodwaters rustling from Tropical Storm Irene, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011, in Woodford, Vt. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Running low on food and money, Vermont residents stranded by flooded roads relied upon provisions dropped by National Guard troops to get by Wednesday while the rest of the East Coast labored to recover from the wrath of the hurricane-turned-tropical storm known as Irene.

AP IMPACT: Pakistani fertilizer fuels Afghan bombs (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:19 PM PDT

In this July 27, 2011 photo, sacks of fertilizer are held in wheelbarrows at Pakistani Chaman border post to be smuggled into the neighboring Afghanistan. The U.S. government believes that most of the bombs killing its troops in Afghanistan are made with a chemical fertilizer produced by a single company in Pakistan and American officials have launched an intense and so far unsuccessful push for regulation. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)AP - The main ingredient in most of the homemade bombs that have killed hundreds of American troops in Afghanistan is fertilizer produced by a single company in Pakistan, where the U.S. has been pushing unsuccessfully for greater regulation.

Court case lifts lid on secret post 9/11 flights (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:02 PM PDT

AP - A hidden network of U.S. companies headed by a prominent defense contractor played a key role in secret post-9/11 flights that transported terror suspects to overseas prisons.

Libyan leader's sons make dueling statements (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:55 PM PDT

FILE -- Al-Saadi Gadhafi, third son of the Libyan leader, Moammar Gadhafi, speaks to the media as he arrives in Sydney, Australia in this Saturday Feb. 5, 2005 file photo. The rebel commander in Tripoli Abdel Hakim Belhaj, said Wednesday Aug, 31, 2011, that Moammar Gadhafi's son al-Saadi has called him to negotiate the terms of his own surrender. . Belhaj says al-Saadi first called him on Tuesday and asked whether his safety could be guaranteed. Belhaj said he told al-Saadi he would not be harmed but he would be treated according to the law.(AP Photo/Dan Peled, File)AP - Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam vowed Wednesday to fight to the death, insisting nobody still loyal to the regime would surrender to the rebels. He said he was speaking from the suburbs of Tripoli and insisted his father was fine.

Unemployment rates fell in most US cities in July (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:39 AM PDT

AP - Unemployment rates fell in a majority of U.S. cities in July, despite a weak economy that is producing few jobs.

NYPD monitored where Muslims ate, shopped, prayed (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:38 PM PDT

In this Aug. 18, 2011 photo, people pass below a New York Police Department security camera, upper left, which is above a mosque on Fulton St., in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. Working with the CIA, the New York Police Department maintained a list of “ancestries of interest” and dispatched undercover officers to monitor Muslim businesses and social groups, according to new documents that offer a rare glimpse inside an intelligence program the NYPD insists doesn't exist. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - From an office on the Brooklyn waterfront in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, New York Police Department officials and a veteran CIA officer built an intelligence-gathering program with an ambitious goal: to map the region's ethnic communities and dispatch teams of undercover officers to keep tabs on where Muslims shopped, ate and pray.

Ancient humans used hand axes earlier than thought (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:41 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the National Center of Scientific Research shows ancient hand axes unearthed at an archaeological site at Lake Turkana in Kenya. A study published in the journal Nature suggests that ancient humans were using hand axes, cleavers and picks about 1.76 million years ago, much earlier than previously believed. (AP Photo/National Center of Scientific Research, Pierre-Jean Texier)AP - Ancient humans fashioned hand axes, cleavers and picks much earlier than believed, but didn't take the stone tools along when they left Africa, new research suggests.

Gibson to pay ex $750K to settle nasty legal fight (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:17 PM PDT

Oscar winner actor Mel Gibson is shown in a Los Angeles courtroom to settle a long-running custody dispute with girlfriend, Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva over their young daughter Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, in Los Angeles. Gibson will pay $750,000 to his ex-girlfriend and continue to provide housing and financial support for their young daughter to resolve a legal fight between the former lovers, a judge announced Wednesday. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, Pool)AP - Mel Gibson will pay $750,000 to his ex-girlfriend and continue to provide housing and financial support for their young daughter to resolve a bitter legal fight that followed sexist, racist rants attributed to the actor.

Texas A&M plans to leave Big 12 by July 2012 (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:27 AM PDT

AP - Texas A&M dealt a blow to the Big 12 Conference on Wednesday, saying it plans to leave by July 2012 if it is accepted by the SEC or another league.

U.S. moves to block AT&T, T-Mobile deal (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:31 PM PDT

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado April 20, 2011. REUTERS/Rick WilkingReuters - The Obama administration on Wednesday fired a legal broadside to block AT&T Inc's $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile, launching its biggest challenge yet to a takeover and dealing the carrier a potentially costly blow.

Recession fears ease on factory, hiring data (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 10:55 AM PDT

People wait in line to enter a job fair at the Phoenix Workforce Connection in Phoenix, Arizona August 30, 2011. REUTERS/Joshua LottReuters - Factory activity in the U.S. Midwest slowed just a bit in August and private employers continued to hire despite extreme financial market turmoil, easing fears the economy would fall back into recession.

Obama makes opening salvo on jobs with speech date (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:09 PM PDT

President Obama waves to onlookers before lifting off from the White House aboard Marine One in Washington, August 18, 2011. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - President Barack Obama on Wednesday sought a high profile and politically provocative venue to unveil new economic proposals, asking to address Congress on the same night Republican presidential candidates hold a debate.

Waters recede but storm victims suffer in East (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:06 PM PDT

Reuters - Floodwaters finally started to recede from areas of the northeast devastated by Hurricane Irene but many communities were still under water on Wednesday and relief workers battled cut-off roads and raging rivers to deliver emergency supplies.

General Petraeus hangs up uniform, warns on budget (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:50 AM PDT

Reuters - General David Petraeus warned against sacrificing U.S. military capabilities to ease America's budget woes, as he retired from the Army on Wednesday ahead of becoming CIA director.

New blow for BP in Russia as office raided (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 08:13 AM PDT

BP Russia President Jeremy Huck (R) speaks to the media as he leaves an office building housing a trading unit of British oil company BP in Moscow August 31, 2011. REUTERS/Mikhail VoskresenskyReuters - Black-clad special forces raided BP's Moscow offices on Wednesday, deepening the British company's problems in Russia after its attempts to salvage an oil exploration agreement in the Russian Arctic collapsed.

Insight: Arctic has great riches, but greater challenges (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 10:35 AM PDT

A traditional Inuit inukshuk stone formation looks out over Frobisher Bay near Iqaluit, capital of the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut, in this photo taken June 14, 2011. REUTERS/David LjunggrenReuters - At the rim of the Arctic Circle in Canada, gold mining firm Agnico-Eagle is learning how tough it is to operate in a remote region with temptingly large, but frustratingly inaccessible, reserves of oil, gas and minerals.

Merkel backs euro fund boost, faces revolt risk (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 09:19 AM PDT

German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) Angela Merkel, delivers her speech at a party meeting of Lower Saxony's CDU in Hameln, August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Fabian BimmerReuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved new powers for the euro zone's bailout fund on Wednesday, but she faces an uphill battle to convince party skeptics to back efforts to contain the crisis.
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