Saturday, December 3, 2011

Cain announces he's suspending his campaign (AP)

Cain announces he's suspending his campaign (AP)

Cain announces he's suspending his campaign (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 12:06 PM PST

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, right, bows and his wife Gloria applauds as Cain arrives on stage for a scheduled announcement Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, in Atlanta. 'I am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distractions and the continued hurt caused on me and my family,' Cain told several hundred supporters gathered at what was to have been the opening of his national campaign headquarters. (AP Photo/David Tulis)AP - The Cain train has come to a stop.

AP Interview: Iraq PM confident in post-US future (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 11:57 AM PST

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Iraq's prime minister says a bombing in the Green Zone earlier this week was an assassination attempt against him. During an interview with The Associated Press Saturday, Nouri al-Maliki said the parliament building or speaker also could have been targets but preliminary information suggests the bombers were trying to get him. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Weeks before the U.S. pullout, Iraq's prime minister confidently predicted Saturday that his country will achieve stability and remain independent of its giant neighbor Iran even without an American troop presence.

NATO says 3 troops killed in eastern Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 05:30 AM PST

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, right, talks to his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu during a press conference after a meeting in Bonn, western Germany, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. On Monday, Dec. 5, the Afghanistan Conference takes place in Bonn. (AP Photo/dapd, Roberto Pfeil)AP - A roadside bombing killed three NATO service members Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said.

Cutting deficits harder than just talking about it (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 07:44 AM PST

People wait in line to enter a job fair Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, in, Portland, Ore. The unemployment rate fell last month to its lowest level in more than two and a half years, as employers stepped up hiring in response to the slowly improving economy. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - The coming year-end spending spree after so much debate over budget deficits shows just how hard it is to stem the government's flow of red ink.

As US leaves Iraq, AP men recall a war in pictures (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:20 AM PST

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - In this March 31, 2004 file photo, Iraqis chant anti-American slogans as charred bodies hang from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah, west of Baghdad. The photo has a great deal of significance to AP photojournalist Khalid Mohammed. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Burned bodies hanging from a bridge. A boy buried under rubble from a bombing. A father gunned down in front of his 7-year-old daughter. These were some of the harrowing images captured by three Iraqi photographers of The Associated Press who have covered the Iraq war since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.

Web an increasing tool to link campaigns, voters (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 05:06 AM PST

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, center, visits with former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara at their Houston home, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - As potential voters in New Hampshire and Iowa scan the Internet, they probably are seeing ads for Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama alongside deals for shoes and holiday gifts.

Some Asians' college strategy: Don't check `Asian' (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 10:40 AM PST

In this Nov. 18, 2011 photo, Harvard University student Lanya Olmstead stands in front of an entrance to the school's quad as passers-by stream by, in Cambridge, Mass. Ethnically, she considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. But when applying to Harvard, Olmstead checked only one box for her race: white. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - Lanya Olmstead was born in Florida to a mother who immigrated from Taiwan and an American father of Norwegian ancestry. Ethnically, she considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. But when applying to Harvard, Olmstead checked only one box for her race: white.

Candy, cash — al-Qaida implants itself in Africa (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 07:39 AM PST

FILE - In this May 17, 2010 file photo, a nomad from the Tuareg tribe of the Sahara Desert brings his herd for vaccination to a team of U.S. Special Forces in the Sahara Desert handing out aid near the town of Gao in northeastern Mali. With almost no resistance, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, is implanting itself in Africa's soft tissue, choosing as its host Mali, one of the poorest nations on earth. Although AQIM's leaders are Algerian, it recruits people from Mali, including 60 to 80 Tuareg fighters, the olive-skinned nomads who live in the Sahara desert, according to a security expert who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the matter. (AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou, File)AP - The first time the members of al-Qaida emerged from the forest, they politely said hello. Then the men carrying automatic weapons asked the frightened villagers if they could please take water from the well.

George McGovern in stable condition after SD fall (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 11:48 AM PST

AP - Former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern was alert, comfortable and in stable condition at a South Dakota hospital Saturday after hitting his head during a fall, hospital officials said.

Obama pushes payroll tax cut extension (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 04:54 AM PST

President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the White House Tribal Nations Conference, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, at the Interior Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - President Barack Obama wants voters to get involved in the debate over extending the reduced payroll tax and he's asking them to tell members of Congress to keep the cut in place.

Embattled Cain ends 2012 bid (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 01:12 PM PST

Gloria Cain (L), wife of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, watches as Cain announces that he is Reuters - Former pizza magnate Herman Cain dropped out of the U.S. presidential race on Saturday after accusations of sexual misconduct overwhelmed his bid to win the Republican nomination as an anti-Washington tax reformer.

SAP to bid $40 a share for SuccessFactors (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 12:05 PM PST

Reuters - Germany's SAP has agreed to buy U.S. cloud-computing software company SuccessFactors for $40 a share in cash, a major move into web-based software.

Russians vote in election test for Vladimir Putin (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 12:52 PM PST

Reuters - Vladimir Putin's ruling party could see its vast parliamentary majority cut back in elections that began Sunday in the icy tundra and sparsely-populated swathes of Russia's far east.

At least 23 dead in intensifying Syria violence (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 06:43 AM PST

Reuters - At least 23 people were reported killed in Syria on Saturday as violence intensified in the eighth month of unrest against President Bashar al-Assad, pushing the death toll close to 4,600, according to a leading activist group.

A decade on, what can U.S. accomplish in Afghanistan? (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 11:47 AM PST

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, right, talks to his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu during a press conference after a meeting in Bonn, western Germany, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. On Monday, Dec. 5, the Afghanistan Conference takes place in Bonn. (AP Photo/dapd, Roberto Pfeil)Reuters - As senior U.S. officials head to a major meeting on Afghanistan next week, underlying their talks will be a simple question: what can Washington hope to accomplish there with fewer troops, less money, and less time?

Exclusive: MF Global mixed funds, transferred abroad (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 08:44 AM PST

Reuters - Regulators investigating the collapse of MF Global have determined that the firm combined money between securities and futures accounts owned by customers, and transferred funds outside the country to at least one entity, a source said on Friday.

No number yet on boost to IMF from eurozone central banks (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 06:01 AM PST

Reuters - Talks on the size of loans from euro zone national central banks to the International Monetary Fund are starting at a technical level after euro zone finance ministers gave the green light to explore the idea last Tuesday, officials said on Saturday.

Italy's Monti seeks broad support for crisis measures (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 08:30 AM PST

Reuters - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti met party leaders on Saturday to drum up support for new measures aimed at shoring up public finances, helping growth and calming the debt crisis in the euro zone's third largest economy.

Guantánamo for US citizens? Senate bill raises questions (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 05:40 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Legislation passed by the Senate this week and headed for the House â€" and a possible presidential veto â€" could allow the US military to detain American citizens indefinitely.

Hurricane-force Santa Ana winds: Another sign of global warming? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 03:40 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The unseasonably strong Santa Ana winds that have pounded southern California during the past two days have left hundreds of thousands of residents without power, not to mention closed schools and businesses. Many counties are on emergency footing and even Griffith Park, one of the nation’s largest urban parks, has closed as crews struggle to clear fallen trees and debris away from power lines and off roads. 
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