Monday, January 16, 2012

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered across the nation (Reuters)

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered across the nation (Reuters)

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered across the nation (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 12:24 PM PST

Reuters - Americans honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with a traditional day of service as well as a new wave of economic injustice protests by Occupy Wall Street.

U.S. gun industry appeals new rifle reporting rules (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:14 PM PST

Reuters - The gun industry on Monday appealed a U.S. judge's decision to uphold new Obama administration regulations requiring gun dealers in four states bordering Mexico to report the sales of multiple semi-automatic rifles.

In South Carolina, attorney general says voting rights at risk (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 09:25 AM PST

Reuters - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, appearing at a Martin Luther King holiday rally in South Carolina, warned on Monday that voting rights laws are still at risk and said aggressive enforcement of those laws is "a moral imperative."

Outrage at Video of Marines Urinating on Taliban Corpses: A Veteran's View (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:40 AM PST

Time.com - A former Marine sergeant who deployed to Iraq three times -- including once as scout sniper -- reflects on the video of four Marines urinating on the corpses of three dead Taliban in Afghanistan

Haley Barbour's Pardons: Why No One in Mississippi Is in a Forgiving Mood (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:40 AM PST

Time.com - The red, white and blue bunting is still up, whipping in the winter winds on the temporary platform in front of Mississippi's state capitol

Organizers of bid to recall Wisconsin governor face deadline (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 11:35 AM PST

Reuters - Organizers of a petition drive to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker vow to submit more than enough signatures this week to force the controversial first-term Republican to defend his seat in a special vote.

Bank foreclosing on O.J. Simpson's Florida house (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:35 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2008 file photo, O.J. Simpson listens during his trial in Las Vegas. A bank is foreclosing on the Florida home of Simpson, who is serving time in a Nevada prison for kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges. The 64-year-old former football star and actor is serving a nine-to-33-year prison sentence in a 2007 armed confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas casino hotel room. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, POOL, File)AP - Like tens of thousands of other Florida homeowners, imprisoned former football star O.J. Simpson is in danger of losing his house to foreclosure.

Suspect in CA killings returned from Iraq changed (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:13 PM PST

A relative holds a government military photo of Itzcoatl Ocampo, a former Marine who saw combat in Iraq, in Yorba Linda, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. Ocampo has been named as a suspect in a series of killings of homeless men in Orange County, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Just months after he was deployed to Iraq in 2008, a Marine veteran now suspected in the deaths of four homeless men in Southern California sent his family a short, upbeat video greeting.

Immigration courtrooms silent during ICE review (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 07:56 AM PST

In this Jan. 4, 2012 photo Jesus Gerardo Noriega, front, poses for his picture at the family home in Aurora, Colo. Jesus, 21, faced deportation last year after he was arrested for driving with no license plate light. Noriega's family brought him to the United States from Mexico when he was 9. His parents and three brothers live here legally, and he graduated from high school here. He learned in December that the case against him was being closed. U.S. prosecutors in Denver and Baltimore are reviewing thousands of deportation cases to determine which illegal immigrants might stay in the country. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - In a trial of a politically divisive program, U.S. prosecutors in Denver and Baltimore are reviewing thousands of deportation cases to determine which illegal immigrants might stay in the country — perhaps indefinitely — so officials can reduce an overwhelming backlog by focusing mainly on detainees with criminal backgrounds or who are deemed threats to national security.

Obamas mark King's birthday with volunteer outing (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:34 PM PST

President Barack Obama paints a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during a community service project, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, at the Browne Education Campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - President Barack Obama evoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s own words about public service Monday as Obama and his family celebrated the life of the late civil rights leader with a volunteer project.

Wikipedia to be blacked out over anti-piracy bill (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 07:30 PM PST

AP - Wikipedia will black out the English language version of its website Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress, the foundation behind the popular community-based online encyclopedia said in a statement Monday night.

Mount Rainier park official: Snowshoer found alive (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 07:59 PM PST

AP - A 66-year-old snowshoer who had been missing on Mount Rainier since Saturday was found alive Monday by a team of three rescuers, a national park spokeswoman said.

SC rally marks MLK day with voting rights message (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:22 PM PST

Hundreds of people take part in a march and rally at the Statehouse, Monday Jan. 16, 2012 in Columbia, S.C. Hundreds of people rallied Monday outside the South Carolina capitol to honor the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and protest the state's voter identification law. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)AP - Thousands commemorating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday outside South Carolina's capitol heard a message that wouldn't have been out of place during the halcyon days of the civil rights movement a half-century ago: the need to protect all citizens' right to vote.

Minn. couple missing after Italian ship capsized (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:19 PM PST

This undated photo provided Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 by the St. Piux X Catholic Church directory in White Bear Lake, Minn. shows Jerry and Barbara Heil. The Heils are among those still missing after a cruise ship capsized off the west coast of Italy late Friday, Jan. 13. (AP Photo/St. Pius X Church Directory Photo, Olan Mills Studios)AP - A Minnesota couple missing after a cruise ship capsized off the west coast of Italy are devout Catholics who spend part of almost every day at church, where he teaches religious classes and she hands out baked goods and other sweet treats to parishioners.

Murder-suicide suspect videotaped self doing meth (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:25 PM PST

AP - A woman who shot her two children, their father and a cousin in California's Central Valley before committing suicide took video of herself on her iPad as she smoked methamphetamine prior to the killings, police said Monday.

GOP maps strategy in wake of payroll tax debacle (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 11:09 AM PST

AP - When last seen in Washington, House Republicans were furious with their own leader, Speaker John Boehner, and angry with their Senate Republican brethren over how the showdown over the Social Security tax cut turned into a year-end political debacle.

Arkansas teen tells investigators he killed sister (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:13 PM PST

AP - A 15-year-old described by a neighbor as a "nice young boy" showed up at a sheriff's department in rural Arkansas and told investigators he had shot and killed his 16-year-old sister in his family's home.

Study: Babies try lip-reading in learning to talk (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 12:55 PM PST

This undated handout photo provided by Florida Atlantic University shows a baby, looking at a monitor, wearing a band that contains a little magnet that the head-tracker, under the monitor uses to determine head position which, in turn, enables the eye tracker to find the eye and the pupil. New research suggests babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds — they're lip-readers, too. It happens during that magical stage when a baby's babbling gradually changes from gibberish into syllables and eventually into that first 'mama' or 'dada.' (AP Photo/Florida Atlantic University)AP - Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too.

US seeks stronger democracies, partners in Africa (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:15 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton walks towards her jet before departing Liberia for Ivory Coast, in Monrovia January 16, 2012. Clinton was in Liberia to attend the second presidential inauguration of Africa's first woman president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf earlier in the day. REUTERS/Larry Downing (LIBERIA - Tags: POLITICS)AP - After an intense year of diplomacy sparked by revolution and repression across the Arab world, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking stock this week of an entirely separate democratic advance a half-continent away in West Africa.
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