Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Shelling kills 2 Western journalists in Syria (AP)

Shelling kills 2 Western journalists in Syria (AP)

Shelling kills 2 Western journalists in Syria (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 01:16 PM PST

AP - Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold where the last dispatches from a veteran American-born war correspondent chronicled the suffering of civilians caught in the relentless shelling. An intense morning barrage killed her and a French photojournalist — two of 74 deaths reported Wednesday in Syria.

Santorum mocks Romney ahead of Arizona GOP debate (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:57 PM PST

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during a campaign rally at the El-Zaribah Shrine Auditorium, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - Rick Santorum acknowledged Wednesday that he's probably running behind Mitt Romney in Arizona, but he implored a tea party crowd not to settle for "a Johnny-come-lately to the conservative cause."

Obama seeks corporate tax rate cut, loophole limit (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:06 PM PST

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, talks about the importance of the payroll-tax cut and jobless-benefits extension compromise that bi-partisan House and Senate conferees reached last week, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed a lower corporate tax rate and an end to dozens of loopholes he said helps companies move jobs and profits overseas. "It's not right and it needs to change," he said.

Newark mayor: NYPD misled us on Muslim spying (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:48 PM PST

Mohammed el-Sioufi, an accountant and vice president of the Islamic Culture Center, a mosque in Newark, is interviewed by the Associated Press about the New York Police Department's surveillance of the Muslim community in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Americans in New Jersey’s largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive, even the city’s mayor says he was kept in the dark. For months in mid-2007, plainclothes NYPD officers snapped pictures of mosques and eavesdropped in Muslim neighborhoods. The result was a 60-page report, obtained by The Associated Press. It cited no evidence of crimes. It was just a guide to Newark’s Muslims. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.

Russia warns against 'hasty conclusions' over Iran (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 01:10 PM PST

Herman Nackaerts (R), head of a delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), arrives from Iran next to delegates Raphael Grossi (L) and Laura Rockwook at the airport in Vienna February 22, 2012. The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday it had failed to secure an agreement with Iran during talks over disputed atomic activities and that the Islamic Republic had rejected a request to visit a military site. The team from the IAEA had hoped to inspect a site at Parchin, southeast of the capital Tehran, where the agency believes there is a containment chamber to test explosives, suggesting possible weapon development. Iran has denied the charge that it is developing nuclear weapons. REUTERS/Herwig PrammerAP - Russia said Wednesday the world should not draw "hasty conclusions" over Iran's most recent rebuff of U.N. attempts to investigate allegations the Islamic Republic hid secret work on atomic arms, but the U.S. and its allies accused Tehran of nuclear defiance.

High court torn over law banning lie about medals (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:24 PM PST

AP - The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday over a law that makes it a crime to lie about having been awarded top military honors.

Argentine train slams into station, killing 49 (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:35 PM PST

AP - A train packed with morning commuters slammed into a barrier at the end of a line in Buenos Aires Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds as passenger cars crumpled and windows exploded. It was Argentina's worst train accident in decades.

Romney calls for 20 percent income tax cuts (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 01:06 PM PST

AP - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Wednesday called for 20 percent across-the-board cuts in personal income tax rates as part of a program to help the economy grow.

Man's childhood comic collection fetches $3.5M (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:54 PM PST

This Feb. 13, 2012 handout photo provided by Heritage Auction shows the CGC-Certified 3.0 copy of Action Comics #1 from the Billy Wright Collection at Heritage Auctions in Dallas,Texas. On Wednesday, the collection is expected to bring more than $2 million when Heritage Auctions offers the comics at auction in New York City. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Heritage Auctions)AP - The bulk of a man's childhood comic book collection that included many of the most prized issues ever published has sold for about $3.5 million.

Ishikawa rallies in Match Play (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:22 PM PST

AP - One putt changed everything for Ryo Ishikawa and sent Riviera winner Bill Haas home early Wednesday in a riveting start to the Match Play Championship.

Obama urges corporate tax cut, closing loopholes (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 01:00 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama is pictured during a Democratic Party fundraiser in Bellevue, February 17, 2012. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - President Barack Obama made an opening offer in what could be a long negotiation with corporate America on Wednesday, putting forward his first clear plan to cut the corporate tax rate.

U.S., French journalists killed in Syria (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:26 AM PST

Journalist Marie Colvin poses for a photograph with Libyan rebels (unseen) in Misrata in this June 4, 2011 file photograph. Two Western journalists were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on February 22, 2012 when shells hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said. They were named as Marie Colvin, an American working for Britain's Sunday Times, and French photographer Remi Ochlik. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT MILITARY)Reuters - American correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday when rockets fired by government forces hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said.

Fitch downgrades Greece on debt swap plan (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 06:04 AM PST

Reuters - Fitch cut Greece's long-term ratings on Wednesday to its lowest rating above a default, becoming the first ratings agency to make the widely expected downgrade after the country announced a bond exchange plan to ease its massive debt burden.

Home resales at 1-1/2 year-high, supply falls (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 10:36 AM PST

A labourer selects wooden planks as he works at a residential construction site in Hefei, Anhui province February 18, 2012. China's home prices fell in January from December, marking the fourth monthly fall in a row and showing that the policy-driven property market downturn is deepening, which will add to worries about a hard landing in the world's second-largest economy. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS REAL ESTATE CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT)Reuters - U.S. home resales rose to a 1-1/2 year high in January, pushing the supply of properties on the market to the lowest level in almost seven years in a hopeful sign for the housing sector.

Iran defiant as U.N. nuclear talks fail (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:25 PM PST

Herman Nackaerts (L), head of a delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), checks in for a flight to Iran next to other IAEA delegates at the international airport in Vienna February 19, 2012. REUTERS/Herwig PrammerReuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog ended its latest mission to Iran after talks on Tehran's suspected secret atomic weapons research failed, a setback likely to increase the risk of confrontation with the West.

Assad forces try to bomb Homs into submission (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 11:09 AM PST

In this photo taken, Tuesday, Feb. 21,2012, White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily White House briefing in Washington. The Obama administration opened the door slightly Tuesday to international military assistance for Syria's rebels, with officials saying new tactics may have to be explored if President Bashar Assad continues to defy pressure to halt a brutal crackdown on dissenters. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Reuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs on Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 people, including two Western journalists.

Karzai urges calm as six die in Afghan Koran protests (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 09:07 AM PST

An Afghan man shouts anti-U.S slogans near a pile of wood and tyres, set on fire by the protesters, during a protest outside the U.S. military base in Bagram, north of Kabul February 21, 2012. More than 2,000 Afghans protested outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday over a report that foreign troops had improperly disposed of copies of the Koran and other religious items, Afghan officials said. REUTERS/Mohammad IsmailReuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main base in the country.

Greece pores over bailout laws amid protests (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 11:17 AM PST

Reuters - Trade unionists, communists and pensioners angry at punishing spending cuts in Greece marched through central Athens on Wednesday as lawmakers set to work on legislation needed to secure payment of a second bailout for the debt-laden country.

Could Rick Santorum super PAC do more harm than good? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 05:38 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - One point being made repeatedly in the media of late is that super PACs are changing the usual dynamics of the presidential nominating process by allowing underdog Republican candidates to remain in the race.

Stolen Valor Act at Supreme Court: Is lying about being a hero a right? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 05:28 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - When Xavier Alvarez stood up and introduced himself at a local water district meeting in July 2007, he had no idea he was about to commit a federal crime.
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