Saturday, November 26, 2011

Woman accused of pepper-spraying shoppers surrenders (Reuters)

Woman accused of pepper-spraying shoppers surrenders (Reuters)

Woman accused of pepper-spraying shoppers surrenders (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 11:45 AM PST

Reuters - A woman suspected of dousing fellow Walmart shoppers with pepper spray during a Black Friday eve bargain frenzy in suburban Los Angeles has turned herself in to authorities, police said on Saturday.

Former heavyweight title contender Ron Lyle dies (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 03:35 PM PST

Reuters - Former prizefighter Ron Lyle, a convict-turned-contender who once fought Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight title, died on Saturday at age 70 in Denver.

Why Won't The Supreme Court Allow TV Cameras? (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 10:20 PM PST

Time.com - Our justices aren't used to being second-guessed, but it's time to demand more transparency in the highest court in the land

Winners and Losers of the Deficit Supercommittee Deadlock (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 10:20 PM PST

Time.com - With the deficit supercommittee charged with finding $1.2 trillion in savings teetering on the brink of failure, Washington is embroiled in a high stakes round of recriminations

Marines to wind down Afghan combat in 2012 (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 10:10 AM PST

Marine Gen. John Allen, left, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps, and Marine Maj. Gen. John Toolan, right, the senior U.S. commander in Helmand Province, confer at Combat Outpost Alcatraz on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2011, on Thanksgiving, just north of Sangin in north-central Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (AP Photos/Robert Burns)AP - U.S. Marines will march out of Afghanistan by the thousands next year, winding down combat in the Taliban heartland and testing the U.S. view that Afghan forces are capable of leading the fight against a battered but not yet beaten insurgency in the country's southwestern reaches, American military officers say.

Obama pops into bookstore, backs small businesses (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 12:16 PM PST

President Barack Obama visits Kramerbooks for shopping with his daughters Sasha, and Malia, right, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama has pitched in to help small businesses get into the holiday shopping season.

Teddy Roosevelt's NY home set for $6.2M rehab (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 02:42 PM PST

In this Nov. 23, 2011 photo, Sagamore Hill, which former President Theodore Roosevelt called home until his death in 1919, is seen in Oyster Bay, N.Y. The entire contents of the house are being packed up and put in storage because the National Parks Service is preparing for a three-year, $6.2 million renovation of the 28-room Queen Anne shingle-style mansion on the north shore of Long Island. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Theodore Roosevelt had a lot of stuff.

NASA launches super-size rover to Mars: 'Go, Go!' (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 05:07 PM PST

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover lifts off from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. The rocket will deliver a science laboratory to Mars to study potential habitable environments on the planet. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)AP - A rover of "monster truck" proportions zoomed toward Mars on an 8 1/2-month, 354 million-mile journey Saturday, the biggest, best equipped robot ever sent to explore another planet.

US vows full probe into Pakistan border incident (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 06:44 PM PST

AP - The Obama administration on Saturday pledged a full investigation into a NATO attack that allegedly killed 24 Pakistani troops.

How much crazier can Black Friday get? (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 05:14 PM PST

In this Friday, Nov. 25, 2011, photo, shoppers stop to look at a display while shopping at Dadeland Mall, in Miami. As reports of shopping-related violence rolled in this week from Los Angeles to New York, experts say a volatile mix of desperate retailers and cutthroat marketing has hyped the traditional post-Thanksgiving holiday sales to increasingly frenzied levels. (AP Photo/ Lynne Sladky)AP - Pepper-sprayed customers, smash-and-grab looters and bloody scenes in the shopping aisles. How did Black Friday devolve into this?

American student arrested in Cairo arrives in US (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 03:33 PM PST

Gregory Porter, left, one of three U.S. students arrested during a demonstration in Cairo, and his attorney Theodore Simon, second from right, speak to members of the news media after arriving at Philadelphia International Airport, in Philadelphia, on Saturday Nov. 26, 2011, after an Egyptian court ordered the release of Porter and two other U.S. students who were arrested for throwing firebombs at security forces said Egyptian officials. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)AP - At least one of three American students arrested during protests in Cairo arrived back in the U.S. Saturday evening, nearly three days after an Egyptian court ordered their release.

Body ID'd as Ohio man who answered Craigslist ad (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 04:26 PM PST

AP - A body found in a shallow grave in northeast Ohio was identified Saturday as that of a missing man whose father said answered a Craigslist ad similar to one police say was used in a deadly robbery scheme.

White House: US expresses condolences to Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 03:18 PM PST

Paramilitary forces patrol the streets of Peshawar, in northwest Pakistan November 26, 2011. REUTERS/Khuram ParvezAP - The White House says senior U.S. civilian and military officials have extended condolences to their Pakistani counterparts following a NATO airstrike that Pakistan says killed 24 of its troops along a frontier area that serves as a haven for militants.

1965 shooting shows pitfalls of closing old cases (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 09:11 AM PST

This is an Oct. 27, 2011 photograph of the grave site of the late Joseph Robert McNair in Pelahatchie, Miss. McNair, a black man, was killed on Nov. 6, 1965 in an alleged scuffle with a constable attempting to serve a warrant. Cousin Ralph McNair does not believe there is any point in pursuing the Cold Case investigation into his cousin's Nov. 6, 1965 shooting death. The McNair case was one of 111 at which the Department of Justice was taking another look, in hopes of either prosecuting someone or declaring it formally closed. The case was closed. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - On a late-fall evening 46 years ago, gunfire shattered the revelry at a nameless juke joint in this rural crossroads. When the smoke cleared, Joseph Robert McNair, a black father of six, lay at the feet of the community's white constable.

Thomas, Kagan asked to sit out health care case (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 06:19 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2010, file photo the Supreme Court's newest member, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, is seen during a group portrait at the Court in Washington. Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and Democrats in Congress say it's Justice Clarence Thomas who should sit it out. Neither justice is budging â€AP - Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Elena Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and Democrats in Congress say it's Justice Clarence Thomas who should sit it out.

Eagles' freedom flight _'a really joyous moment' (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 09:24 AM PST

AP - This crowd did not gather for a ball game or a protest, or to gawk at some sort of disaster. They came to the banks of the sleepy Illinois River to witness a little miracle — a happy ending, or an anxious beginning, depending on how you look at it.

Environmental programs fall victim to budget cuts (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 11:25 AM PST

AP - When lightning ignited a wildfire near Idaho's Sun Valley in 2007, environmental regulators used monitoring gear to gauge the health effects for those breathing in the Sawtooth Mountains' smoky, mile-high air.

Colleges defend humanities amid tight budgets (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 09:51 AM PST

AP - Like many humanities advocates, Abbey Drane was disheartened but not surprised when Florida's governor recently said its tax dollars should bolster science and high-tech studies, not "educate more people who can't get jobs in anthropology."
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