Monday, September 26, 2011

On spending, Congress can't agree on easy stuff (AP)

On spending, Congress can't agree on easy stuff (AP)

On spending, Congress can't agree on easy stuff (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 11:35 AM PDT

In this Sept. 23, 2011, photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress is once again allowing shutdown politics to bring the federal government to the brink of closing. For the second time in nine months, lawmakers are bickering and posturing over spending plans. The difference this time is that everyone agrees on the massive barrel of money to keep the government running for another seven weeks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Congress is once again allowing shutdown politics to bring the federal government to the brink of closing.

Obama defends push to raise taxes on rich (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 01:02 PM PDT

President Obama gestures during a LinkedIn Town Hall Meeting at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., Monday, Sept. 26, 2011, as he participates in “Putting America Back to Work: LinkedIn Presents a Town Hall with President Obama.” (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Inviting questions, President Barack Obama got one he was happy to answer.

Libya orders state security courts abolished (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 01:14 PM PDT

Samia Tahir, a US citizen from Illinois, who lived in the city of Tawarga, holds her daughter while waiting to be rescued along with other internally displaced Libyans, outside Sirte, Libya, Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. Hundreds of Libyan revolutionary fighters pushed into Sirte, home town of Libya's ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi at the weekend and later retreated as meeting fierce resistance from his loyalists. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - Libya's transitional justice minister said Monday that he has approved a measure to abolish the country's state security prosecution and courts, which sentenced opponents of the old regime to prison.

Attack on Kabul CIA office kills agency contractor (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:55 PM PDT

Afghan National Army soldiers pray inside their sleeping quarters at their barracks in Kunduz, northen Afghanistan, Sunday,Sept. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - An Afghan working for the U.S. government killed a CIA contractor and wounded another American in an attack on the intelligence agency's office in Kabul, officials said Monday, making it the latest in a series of high-profile attacks this month on U.S. targets.

Perry ups ante with twist on Romney's '4 aces' (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2011 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry addresses the Republican Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island, Mich. Call it a personal class war: Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the son of a cotton farmer, is trying to draw sharp class lines with his chief GOP presidential rival, the very well-heeled former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)AP - Call it a personal class war: Texas Gov. Rick Perry is trying to draw sharp class lines with his chief GOP presidential rival, the well-heeled former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Home-buying season the worst in at least 50 years (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 01:46 PM PDT

In this Aug. 22, 2011 photo, a new home is shown for sale, in Pepper Pike, Ohio. Sales of new homes fell to a six-month low in August. The fourth straight monthly decline during the peak buying season suggests the housing market is years away from a recovery.(AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - The home-buying season was a bust.

Living people on US stamps: Who would you choose? (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 01:46 PM PDT

AP - Who would you put on a stamp? Charlie Sheen? Lady Gaga? Yourself?

2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:00 PM PDT

Shai Halevi, a photographer working for the Israel Antiquities Authority, IAA, photographs fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, at the IAA offices at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls are available online. Israel's national museum and the international web giant Google are behind the project, which saw five scrolls go online Monday. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time on Monday in a project launched by Israel's national museum and the web giant Google.

Riot-hit London district slams Britney's gun video (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:24 PM PDT

Britney Spears performs on a stage during a concert in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. Britney Spears performs in Moscow, St.Petersburg and Kiev as part of her European tour. (AP Photo)AP - Britney Spears has raised some hackles in Hackney.

McKeon says he'll retire at end of season (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 01:49 PM PDT

AP - Florida Marlins manager Jack McKeon says he'll retire at the end of the season at age 80, a decision that had been expected.

Euro zone damps talk of rapid debt crisis steps (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 10:00 AM PDT

Riot police stand guard in front of the parliament during a rally against the government's new austerity measures in Athens September 25, 2011. Greek riot police fired teargas at anti-austerity protesters pelting them with bottles outside parliament on Sunday in the first such unrest after a summer lull. The banner reads Reuters - Euro zone officials are working on ways to magnify the financial firepower of the euro zone's rescue fund to fight a sovereign debt crisis more effectively, a senior European Central Bank policymaker said on Monday.

Congress gets breathing room in budget dispute (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:39 PM PDT

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) speaks to the press following more U.S. debt reduction talks on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 26, 2011. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - The government probably will not run out of disaster aid until the end of the week, buying more time for Congress to resolve a budget dispute that has raised the specter of a government shutdown.

Berkshire Hathaway in surprise buyback; shares soar (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 01:37 PM PDT

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett wanders the company trade show before his company's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska April 30, 2011. REUTERS/Rick WilkingReuters - (Reuters) Warren Buffett's conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway will launch a share buyback program, an unprecedented move from Buffett that comes after months of investor complaints that the stock is undervalued.

Fed officials defend most recent policy (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 11:02 AM PDT

Reuters - Two top Federal Reserve officials on Monday defended the central bank's most recent effort to boost growth, with one suggesting further steps may be justified.

Libya's NTC says Lockerbie case closed (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 01:13 PM PDT

A couple shelters from the rain under an umbrella as they look at the main headstone in the Lockerbie air disaster memorial garden in Lockerbie, Scotland, August 19, 2010. REUTERS/David MoirReuters - The investigation into the 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner over Lockerbie in Scotland is closed and Tripoli will not release more evidence that could lead to others being charged, Libya's interim leaders said on Monday.

Moody's: Obama budget a plus but adoption unlikely (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 08:54 AM PDT

President Barack Obama holds a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, July 11 2011. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - President Barack Obama's deficit reduction plan would be positive for the United States's credit ratings but chances of its implementation are "extremely low," Moody's Investors Service said on Monday.

Strauss-Kahn seeks dismissal of civil suit by maid (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 01:37 PM PDT

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former International Monetary Fondation chief (IMF), reacts on the TF1 prime time news programme in their studios in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, September 18, 2011. REUTERS/Francois Guillot/PoolReuters - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn asked a judge on Monday to dismiss a civil suit filed by a hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, saying he was immune from such a suit under international law when it was filed in early August.

Analysis: U.S., Palestinians race for votes at U.N. council (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 01:40 PM PDT

Reuters - The Palestinians' initiative to seek U.N. recognition as a state, which goes to the Security Council on Monday, faces an uphill struggle to secure the nine votes needed for approval.

Rick Perry's 'heart' comment shows GOP's immigration problem (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 01:34 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - “I don't think you have a heart.”

Can Herman Cain keep up the momentum after his Florida straw poll win? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 09:10 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Herman Cain is basking in the Sunday glow of his surprise win Saturday in the Florida straw poll.
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