Friday, January 6, 2012

Oddly mild winter leaves much of U.S. on thin ice (Reuters)

Oddly mild winter leaves much of U.S. on thin ice (Reuters)

Oddly mild winter leaves much of U.S. on thin ice (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:13 PM PST

Melting ice on a lake is seen on Sunapee Lake in New Hampshire January 6, 2012. REUTERS/Eric ThayerReuters - Unusually mild winter weather is spoiling the fun for hockey players, skaters and ice fisherman across the Northeast and Midwest as officials warn of uncommonly thin ice.

Immigration process to be eased for some families (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 06:46 PM PST

Reuters - The government said on Friday it plans to reduce the time that U.S. citizens are separated from spouses and children who have been in the country illegally and who are forced to leave for as long as 10 years while their visa requests are processed.

Legal road ahead uncertain for accused Tucson shooter (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:12 PM PST

Reuters - A year after a deadly shooting spree that left Representative Gabrielle Giffords battling for her life, the accused gunman remains shut up in a prison hospital amid wrangling over his fitness to stand trial.

Why Americans Are More Generous than We Think (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:15 AM PST

Time.com - When the going gets tough, our country's charitable nature still shines through

The Obama Campaign's Romney Glossary (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:15 AM PST

Time.com - It is fast becoming a 2012 campaign tradition: When Mitt Romney has a good news cycle or two, the Obama campaign calls together reporters covering the race to poke holes in his potential

Green Beret released on bond in airport bomb case (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:28 PM PST

Reuters - An Army demolitions expert who was arrested New Year's Eve for trying to carry explosives onto a commercial airplane in Texas was ordered released Friday on a $50,000 unsecured bond.

US redefines rape; adds men, others as victims (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:56 PM PST

AP - The Obama administration on Friday expanded the FBI's more than eight-decade-old definition of rape to count men as victims for the first time and to drop the requirement that victims must have physically resisted their attackers.

Boxer Mayweather sidesteps Vegas jail until June (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:09 PM PST

Floyd Mayweather Jr. drives away from his attorney's office, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012, in Las Vegas. The 34-year-old fighter had been scheduled to turn himself in Friday to begin serving a 90-day jail sentence imposed last month but avoided the jail time after the judge said she weighed Mayweather's contractual obligations to a fight set for May in Las Vegas against an as-yet unnamed opponent. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - A judge agreed Friday to postpone a jail sentence against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a Las Vegas domestic violence case, allowing the undefeated boxer to make a Cinco de Mayo fight against an as-yet unnamed opponent.

US: Iran 'flailing' for friends in Latin America (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:21 PM PST

AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's upcoming four-nation tour of Latin America is a sign of desperation as sanctions increasingly isolate his country, the Obama administration said Friday, as it warned the leader's hosts against expanding ties with Iran.

Former teacher accused of sex abuse was popular (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:30 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the Shelby County Jail shows longtime Alabama schoolteacher Daniel Montague Acker Jr. Acker, 49, was jailed on charges of sexually abusing a fourth-grade female student, and police said Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, the man told them he molested more than 20 other girls over his 25-year career. (AP Photo/Shelby County Jail via The Birmingham News)AP - Children used to clamor to get into Danny Acker's classes, and he was so popular he was once named his elementary school's Teacher of the Year.

Book depicts tensions between first lady, aides (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:22 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrive on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. First lady Michelle Obama is a behind-the-scenes force in the White House whose opinions on policy and politics drew her into conflict with presidential advisers and who bristled at some of the demands and constraints of life as the president's wife, according to a detailed account of the first couple's relationship. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)AP - First lady Michelle Obama is a behind-the-scenes force in the White House whose opinions on policy and politics drew her into conflict with presidential advisers and who bristled at some of the demands and constraints of life as the president's wife, according to a detailed account of the first couple's relationship.

Mother: Texas teen deported to Colombia back in US (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:29 PM PST

This undated file photo provided by WFAA-TV News shows Jakadrien Lorece Turner, a Texas teen who ran away more than a year ago, her family said. Immigration officials say they're investigating the circumstances under which Turner was deported to Colombia after providing a false identity. She was located in Bogota by Dallas police, with help from Colombian and U.S. officials. (AP Photo/Courtesy of WFAA-TV)AP - A Texas teenager who was deported to Colombia after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was back in the United States on Friday and at the center of an international mystery over how a minor could be sent to a country where she is not a citizen.

Trouble followed German mother, son in 3 countries (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:11 PM PST

FILE - In this courtroom sketch, Dorothee Burkhart appears in federal court on fraud charges Tuesday Jan. 3, 2012 in Los Angeles. Burkhart is the mother of suspected Los Angeles arsonist Harry Burkhart. Burkhart is scheduled to again appear in federal court Friday Jan. 6,, 2012 on fraud charges. (AP Photo/Bill Robles, File)AP - Wherever Dorothee and Harry Burkhart went, trouble followed the mother-and-son duo.

Judge postpones sentence for underwear bomber (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 06:53 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2011 file courtroom drawing, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, center, appears in U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds' courtroom in Detroit with Anthony Chambers, his lawyer who was assisting in his defense, left, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel, right. The sentencing for Abdulmutallab, who admits he tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner has been postponed. He will now get his mandatory life sentence on Feb. 16. (AP Photo/Jerry Lemenu, File)AP - A judge on Friday postponed the sentencing of a Nigerian who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner but said passengers who can't make the new date can speak publicly to the man known as the underwear bomber at court later this month.

Firebomb fails to go off at Seattle bank's ATM (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:12 PM PST

AP - Seattle police released surveillance images Friday of a person they suspect may have left a firebomb under an ATM inside a foyer at a Chase bank branch.

Calif. lawmaker pleads no contest in shoplift case (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:25 PM PST

In this file photo from Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, D-Castro Valley, right, talks with her seatmate, Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani, D-Livingston, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. A Judge has set a preliminary hearing date for a San Francisco Bay area lawmaker facing a felony shoplifting charge. Hayashi currently faces a felony shoplifting charge for allegedly shoplifting $2,500 worth of merchandise from the San Francisco's Neiman Marcus store. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - A California lawmaker pleaded no contest Friday to stealing leather pants and other merchandise from a Neiman Marcus store in an incident her attorney blamed on a benign brain tumor.

12-year-old girl who blogged cancer fight has died (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:43 PM PST

In this April 13, 2011 photo, Stacey Rees, right, tries to keep daughter Jessica upbeat as they get ready to take a limousine ride to an 'American Idol' taping in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. Jessica Joy Rees, 12, who started a blog and a Facebook page to raise awareness about child cancer has died of brain tumors. Her family says Jessica died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 after a 10-month battle with cancer. Jessica Rees began her blog after she became sick in March. Her Internet posts described her feelings and urged her readers to pray for other children with cancer. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Ana Venegas) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUTAP - A Southern California girl who became a nationally recognized face of child cancer with a blog that chronicled her fight against brain tumors has died. Jessica Joy Rees was 12 years old.

Analysis: Jobs rate gives Obama positive plot line (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:58 PM PST

President Barack Obama has a quiet lunch with a small group of supporters at a restaurant in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The promising drop in unemployment on Friday looks like a job-security bonus for President Barack Obama as well, undercutting Republicans' assertions that his economic policies have failed. The president himself heralded the news with his most confident assessment yet.

Race questions cloud lawsuit over Jewish cemetery (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:33 PM PST

A grave marker for Juliet Steer is seen in an interfaith area of the Congregation Ahavath Achim cemetery in Colchester, Conn., Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. Maria Balaban, a member of the congregation, has filed a lawsuit alleging the congregation broke its own rule against burials of non-Jews at the cemetery and is seeking to have Steer's remains exhumed and moved because Steer is not Jewish. The dispute over Steer, who was black, escalated recently with allegations of racism against the plaintiff and of retaliation against her by fellow congregation members. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - Juliet Steer was dying of cancer when she chose her final resting place in the woods of southeastern Connecticut. She picked the plot in an interfaith section of a Jewish cemetery in Colchester because it was peaceful, her brother said, and she died at age 47 in 2010.

Ind. House Dems may head back to work soon (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:15 PM PST

Protests gather outside the windows in the House chamber during a joint committee hearing on the right-to-work bills at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - The leader of Indiana's House Democrats said Friday that an end could be near to their three-day boycott over a right-to-work bill that has started moving through the Legislature despite their protest.
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