Thursday, February 16, 2012

Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison (AP)

Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison (AP)

Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:54 PM PST

FILE - This December 2009 file photo released by the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in Milan, Mich. Abdulmutallab is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, for trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner with a bomb in his underwear on Christmas 2009. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service, File)AP - Calling it a "just punishment," a federal judge ordered life in prison Thursday for a Nigerian man who turned away from a privileged life and tried to blow up an international jetliner with nearly 300 people during a suicide mission for al-Qaida.

Democrats protest religious freedom hearing (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:02 PM PST

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announces the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Religious leaders told a House panel Thursday the Obama administration was violating basic rights to religious freedom with its policies for requiring that employees of religion-affiliated institutions have access to birth control coverage.

Fire exposes corruption, chaos in Honduras (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:59 PM PST

Leonardo Aguilar, an inmate who survived a deadly fire, cleans up inside the prison perimeter in Comayagua, Honduras, Honduras, early Thursday Feb. 16, 2012. A fire started by an inmate tore through the prison Tuesday night. Officials confirmed 358 dead, making it the world's deadliest prison fire in a century. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Six guards, 800 prisoners, one set of keys. The numbers spelled disaster when fire tore through a prison and 355 people died, many of them men who had never been convicted of a crime.

House speaker says payroll tax bill won't add jobs (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:44 PM PST

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio talks about an accord on the payroll tax cut negotiations, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - A compromise bill extending a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed should be enacted, but it's not going to help the economy very much, House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday.

Dad won't be buried in Wash. near sons he killed (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:07 PM PST

FILE - In a Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 file photo, Josh Powell, the husband of missing Utah woman Susan Powell, listens during a court hearing regarding the custody of his two sons, in Tacoma, Wash. A search at a recycling center in Grahan, Wash. recovered some papers, books and a map of Utah that Josh Powell dropped off the day before he killed his two young sons and himself in an explosive fire, the Pierce County sheriff's office said Monday, Feb. 13. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)AP - The man who killed his two sons in an explosive house fire in Washington state will not be buried in the same cemetery as the children, his family said Thursday.

Iran seeks unity around memory of slain scientists (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:35 PM PST

In this photo released by the Iranian President's Office, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the staff next to a poster with a picture of late Ayatollah Khomeini, during a tour of Tehran's research reactor centre in northern Tehran, Iran, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. In defiant swipes at its foes, Iran said Wednesday it is dramatically closer to mastering the production of nuclear fuel even as the U.S. weighs tougher pressures and Tehran's suspected shadow war with Israel brings probes far beyond the Middle East. (AP Photo/Iranian President's Office)AP - Moments before Iran's president began his speech about claimed nuclear advances, Iranian state TV made sure the secondary message also was clear: showing framed photos of five slain scientists whose deaths Tehran blames on Israel and its allies.

Dow within 100 of 13,000 as stocks barrel higher (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:06 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2012 file photo, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Markets were in a jittery mood Thursday as uncertainty escalated over whether Greece will get vital bailout cash to avoid defaulting next month. (AP Photo/Jin Lee, File)AP - The stock market built a big rally on the strength of the American job market Thursday and barreled toward its highest levels of the year. The Dow Jones industrial average pushed to within 100 points of 13,000.

Police officer in Ariz. shooting has shot 6 others (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:32 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the Scottsdale, Ariz., Police Dept. shows Scottsdale Police Officer James Peters. Peters was one of several Scottsdale police officers called to a home in the Phoenix suburb on Tuesday night, Feb. 14, after neighbors reported a man holding a baby was threatening them with a handgun, Chief Alan Rodbell said. Peters shot and killed Loxas, who was holding his grandson at the time. For Officer Peters it is his seventh officer involved shooting since 2002, six of them being fatal. Police department spokesman Sgt. Mark Clark said investigators were looking into Peters' decision to shoot Loxas on Tuesday and why officers felt threatened or believed he was a threat to the child. (AP Photo/Scottsdale Police Department)AP - Authorities are investigating an Arizona officer's decision to shoot a man holding a baby, as officials point out that the same policeman had been involved in six previous shootings since 2002, five of them fatal.

Remote-controlled chip implant delivers bone drug (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:27 PM PST

This undated handout photo provided by MicroCHIPS, Inc., Massachusetts, show the drug delivery device, right, next to an everyday computer memory stick. Medication via remote-control instead of a shot? Scientists implanted a microchip in seven women that did just that, oozing out the right dose of a bone-strengthening drug once a day without them even noticing. Implanted medicine is a hot field, aiming to help patients better stick to their meds and to deliver those drugs straight to the body part that needs them. (AP Photo/MicroCHIPS, Inc., Massachusetts)AP - Medication via remote-control instead of a shot? Scientists implanted microchips in seven women that did just that, oozing out the right dose of a bone-strengthening drug once a day without them even noticing.

'Colbert Report' off air; Comedy Central mum (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:44 PM PST

FILE- This Thursday, June 30, 2011 file photo shows comedian Stephen Colbert as he appears before the Federal Election Commission in Washington. Comedy Central's 'Colbert Report' is currently off the air. An expected live version of the show was replaced by a repeat on Wednesday. Comedy Central said Thursday's live show will be off, too. The network said it was airing the repeats 'due to unforeseen circumstances,' but offered no other explanation. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)AP - Comedy Central's "Colbert Report" is off the air and it's a mystery why. An expected new episode of the show was replaced by a repeat on Wednesday. Comedy Central said Thursday's live show will be off, too.

Congress leaders rally support for tax deal (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:11 AM PST

Reuters - Democratic and Republican leaders rallied support on Thursday in a divided Congress for a bipartisan deal to renew a payroll tax cut for 160 million U.S. workers through the November elections.

Afghan peace push brings rare chance, risks, for U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:10 AM PST

Reuters - If all goes as hoped, U.S. and Qatari negotiators will meet soon to nail down final details for transferring Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo prison - a momentous step for President Barack Obama, the Afghan war and perhaps U.S. foreign policy as well.

Jobs, factory data strengthen growth outlook (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:08 AM PST

Reuters - The number of Americans filing for new unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell to a near four-year low last week, suggesting the labor market recovery was quickening.

Moody's may downgrade UBS and Morgan Stanley (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST

Reuters - Moody's warned on Thursday it may cut the credit ratings of 17 global and 114 European financial institutions in another sign the impact of the euro zone government debt crisis is spreading throughout the global financial system.

China's Xi, US officials talk food trade in Iowa (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:46 PM PST

Reuters - China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, gathered with U.S. agricultural officials in America's grainbelt on Thursday and stressed their shared interests in fostering increased trade in farm goods.

Hopes rise for Greek deal after new budget cuts found (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:40 PM PST

Reuters - Hopes rose on Thursday that Greece has finally done enough to secure a second bailout after Athens set out extra budget savings demanded by its international lenders, but the optimism failed to ease tensions with EU paymaster Germany.

Former executives, bankers arrested over Olympus fraud (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:51 AM PST

Reuters - Japanese police and prosecutors have arrested seven men, including the former president of Olympus Corp and ex-bankers over a $1.7 billion accounting fraud -- one of the country's biggest corporate scandals.

Insurers see costs in Obama birth control rule (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:14 PM PST

Reuters - The Obama administration maintains that its plan to have health insurers pay for birth control offered to employees of religious groups won't end up costing the industry. But insurers aren't so confident.

Paul Ryan as GOP vice presidential candidate? He doesn't say no (+video) (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:16 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Rep. Paul Ryan (R) of Wisconsin gave a nondenial Thursday when asked whether he is interested in being the vice presidential candidate on the 2012 Republican ticket.

Special Forces in Afghanistan: not just taking out terrorists anymore (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:09 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - From the rescue of hostages held by pirates to the SEAL Team 6 strike on Osama bin Laden's compound, the formerly secretive world of Special Forces is increasingly front and center in US operations throughout the globe.
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