Monday, June 25, 2012

Obama criticizes Romney's 'outsourcing' jobs

Obama criticizes Romney's 'outsourcing' jobs


Obama criticizes Romney's 'outsourcing' jobs

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:26 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at the Oyster River High School gym, Monday, June 25, 2012 in Durham, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)President Barack Obama, campaigning in Mitt Romney's backyard, criticized his Republican rival anew for what his re-election campaign says is a record of shipping American jobs overseas.


Turkey: NATO should view Syria as attacking it

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:20 PM PDT

In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Monday, June 25, 2012, smoke rises from buildings following purported shelling in Talbeesa, Homs, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIALTurkey said Monday it would push NATO to consider Syria's downing of a Turkish jet as an attack on the whole military alliance.


Teacher, students arrested in hazing investigation

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:16 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Fontana, Calif., Police Department, shows Emmanuel Delarosa, 27, a high school teacher who was arrested on suspicion of directing students to assault at least one other student in a classroom hazing incident, police said. Investigators alleged that Delarosa, a summer school teacher at A.B. Miller High School, in Fontana, Calif., knew about the hazing and in at least one instance directed some students to carry out the hazing to curb behavior problems in the classroom. (AP Photo/Fontana Police Deptartment)Police said Monday they have arrested a teacher and four students as they investigate allegations of brutal hazing at a summer school in Southern California.


3 policemen shot to death at Mexico City airport

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:15 PM PDT

Mexico's Federal Police officers arrive to the scene where a shooting took place in Mexico City's international airport on Monday, June 25, 2012. Two people were shot to death and one was wounded at one of the airport's terminal and according to the federal Public Safety Department, at least one was an officer. Details of the shooting are still unclear. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)Drug trafficking suspects opened fire in a crowded food court at Mexico City's international airport on Monday, killing three federal policemen who were on an anti-narcotics mission as panicked witnesses dove for cover.


Tunisian government split over Libya extradition

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:15 PM PDT

Tunisia's president has rebuked the prime minister for allowing a close associate of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to be extradited to Libya, prompting fears Monday of a split in the ruling coalition.

3 missing after trains collide in rural Oklahoma

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:13 PM PDT

Smoke rises from two cargo trains that collided two miles east of Goodwell, Okla. on Sunday, June 24, 2012. A total of four people were on the trains, and one was reportedly killed in the accident. (AP Photo/The Guymon Daily Herald, Trudy Hart)Two freight trains that collided in an Oklahoma wheat field weren't blowing their horns or flashing their lights as they hurtled toward each other, according to long-haul trucker who watched helplessly from a highway as the locomotives collided head-on.


Lochte, Phelps advance to final of loaded 400 IM

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:12 PM PDT

Michael Phelps before swimming in the men's 400-meter individual medley preliminaries at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, Monday, June 25, 2012, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/David Phillip)Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps will have their first showdown on the opening night of the U.S. Olympic swimming trials.


Experts say 32-pound Mo. girl faces long recovery

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:10 PM PDT

A severely malnourished 10-year-old Kansas City girl who was found locked in a closet remained hospitalized Monday and likely faces an extended recovery after an initial "failure to thrive" diagnosis, experts said.

Arizona governor hails immigration ruling, opponents dismayed

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:10 PM PDT

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Republican Governor Jan Brewer hailed Monday's U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a key part of Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants, while the law's critics said thousands of families will live in fear in the southwestern state bordering Mexico. The Supreme Court supported the law's most controversial aspect, requiring police to check the immigration status of people they stop, but threw out three other provisions that had been challenged by the federal government. ...

Committee will help pick US attorney in Chicago

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 6, 2006 file photo, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Shapiro speaks at a news conference in Chicago. On Monday June 25, 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder named Shapiro to be acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois after the resignation of Patrick Fitzgerald. Shapiro has served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the last 14 years and has four decades of experience as a federal prosecutor in Chicago. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)Illinois' two senators will appoint a six-member committee to help find a worthy successor to outgoing U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, whose tenure in Chicago included the successful prosecutions of two Illinois governors, Sen. Dick Durbin said Monday.


Stocks head lower as Spain seeks help for banks

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:09 PM PDT

Specialist Christopher Trotta works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, June 25, 2012. U.S. stocks are sliding at the opening of trading, following global markets lower after Spain requested help for its struggling banks. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Europe's latest efforts to quell its financial crisis left investors exasperated, causing steep losses in stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic.


Mumbai attacks 'handler' arrested in India

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:09 PM PDT

A security official stands in front of a burning section of The Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai on November 29, 2008Indian police have arrested a key suspect accused of coordinating the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which 166 people were killed and more than 300 wounded, the government said Monday.


State immigration law challenges to move forward

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:08 PM PDT

Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning key provisions in Arizona's illegal immigration law opens the door for courts to strike down similar provisions in states that have tried to make it a crime to live and work in the U.S. illegally.

Cyprus becomes 5th eurozone state to seek bailout

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:07 PM PDT

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, left, speaks with Cypriot Finance Minister Vasos Shiarly, right, and Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan, center, during a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg on Thursday, June 21, 2012. As the cracks in the euro currency seem to grow even wider, finance ministers from the 17 countries that use the currency brainstorm Thursday on how to stabilize it. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)Cyprus on Monday became the fifth eurozone country to request financial aid from its partners in the troubled European currency union as it struggles to shore up banks that took heavy losses on Greek debt.


Bridal party joins newlyweds in taking the plunge

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:04 PM PDT

A Michigan wedding party joined the bride and groom in taking the plunge over the weekend when the boat dock they were lined up on for pictures gave way.

Trail mix: Seeking ways to connect 2 iconic routes

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:03 PM PDT

Shows path of North Country TrailOne of the longest hiking trails in the United States stops 40 miles short of its most famous cousin, but a group is trying to bridge that gap.


RIM shares dive after Morgan Stanley downgrade

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:03 PM PDT

Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion have dived to a nine-year low Monday after Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock, saying RIM's challenges are piling up.

Ousted leader hopes to regain power in Paraguay

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:02 PM PDT

Ousted Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo speaks during a press conference, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Monday, June 25, 2012. Lugo said Monday that he is aiming to return to power, rallying allies at home and abroad to force congress to reverse a landslide vote to remove him that he called a break with democracy. Lugo has created a parallel Cabinet, attacking the legitimacy of the government that replaced him.(AP Photo/Cesar Olmedo)Ousted Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo said Monday that he is aiming to return to power, rallying allies at home and abroad to try to prevail after a landslide congressional vote forced him from office in what he called a break with democracy.


Egypt's Morsi mulls cabinet amid Tahrir sit-in

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:02 PM PDT

Mohamed Morsi (centre) has to contend with a ruling military seeking to retain broad powersEgypt's first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi began selecting a new government on Monday as his supporters pursued a sit-in to pressure the ruling military to hand over full powers to the Islamist.


And then there were five: Cyprus seeks EU aid

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:02 PM PDT

A cleaner cleans the facade of a Bankia-Caja Madrid bank branch in the Andalusian capital of SevilleNICOSIA/ATHENS (Reuters) - A fifth euro zone country turned to Brussels for emergency funding on Monday when Cyprus announced it was seeking a lifeline for its banks and its budget, hours after Spain submitted a formal request to bail out its banks. Global share prices and the euro slid as investors bet that European leaders - due to meet this week for the 20th time since the currency zone's debt crisis hit Greece in 2010 - would fail to come up with radical measures to back up weak countries. ...


Romney: States have right to secure their borders

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:01 PM PDT

Mitt Romney on Monday said states have a duty and a right to secure their borders even as he declined to address the merits of the Supreme Court's decision to strike down key parts of Arizona's tough immigration enforcement law.

P-word? OK. The V-word? That's trickier

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:58 PM PDT

FILE - This June 18, 2012 file photo shows, from left, Rep. Barb Byrum, D-Onondaga, Rep. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, playwright Eve Ensler and Sen. Rebecca Warren, D-Ann Arbor, posing for a group picture during an event including a performance of "The Vagina Monologues" by Brown and 10 other lawmakers on the Michigan Statehouse steps, in Lansing, Mich. Brown, who says she was barred from speaking in the Michigan House because Republicans objected to her saying "vagina" during debate over anti-abortion legislation, performed "The Vagina Monologues" with a hand from the author Eve Ensler. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Dale G. Young)Kayt Sukel, an author who writes about neuroscience and sexuality, has given lectures around the country on the issue. And there's one word, she finds, that never fails to get her audiences squeamish.


Greece faces more woes: Finance minister resigns

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:54 PM PDT

FILE - This is a Thursday, June 21 2012 file photo of prominent banker Vassilis Rapanos as he looks on during his meeting with New Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the heads of the two minority coalition partners, Evangelos Venizelos from the Greek Socialist PASOK party and the smaller Democratic Left's Fotis Kouvelis, in Athens. The prime minister's office said Monday June 25, 2012 that Greece's designated finance minister, Vassilis Rapanos who was rushed to hospital on Friday, has resigned. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis, File)The banker who was chosen to be Greece's next finance minister resigned for health reasons Monday three days after he was rushed to the hospital, while the country's prime minister was confined to his home, recovering from serious eye surgery.


Ariz. law drafter calls court ruling a 'victory'

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:54 PM PDT

Rosa Maria Soto, right, and Maria Durand, both from Arizona, cheer as they react to the United States Supreme Court decision regarding Arizona's controversial immigration law, SB1070, comes down at the Arizona Capitol Monday, June 25, 2012, in Phoenix. The Supreme Court struck down key provisions of Arizona's crackdown on immigrants Monday but said a much-debated portion on checking suspects' status could go forward. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)Arizona officials claimed a partial victory Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the "show me your papers" provision of the state's immigration law, while rights groups vowed to prevent it from ever taking effect.


FDA delays decision on Pfizer, Bristol-Myers drug

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:53 PM PDT

A Friday, March 2, 2012 photo shows the exterior of Pfizer in Groton, Conn. Pfizer Inc. Shares of Pfizer Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. fell Monday, June 25, 2012, after federal regulators unexpectedly delayed for a second time a decision on whether to approve the companies' highly touted experimental anticlotting drug Eliquis. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)Shares of Pfizer Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. fell Monday after federal regulators unexpectedly delayed for a second time a decision on whether to approve the companies' highly touted experimental anticlotting drug Eliquis.


Cyprus seeks EU bailout for banks, budget

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:51 PM PDT

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus said on Monday it was applying to Brussels for a bailout, both for its banking sector hit by exposure to Greece and for its budget deficit, making it the fifth euro zone country to turn to the bloc's rescue funds for help. Tiny Cyprus has just four days left to raise at least 1.8 billion euros - equivalent to about 10 percent of its domestic output - to meet a deadline set by European regulators to recapitalize Cyprus Popular Bank, its second largest lender which saw its balance sheet hurt by bad Greek debt. ...

Turkey jet crisis unlikely to pull NATO into Syria

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:51 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Turkish Presidency Press Office, Turkish President Abdullah Gul, right, shakes hands with Gen. Mehmet Erten, Commander of the Turkish Air Force, in Istanbul Turkey, Monday, June 25, 2012. Upon Turkey's request, NATO will hold a meeting Tuesday in Brussels over article 4 of its charter concerning Friday's incident, when a Turkish warplane was shot down by Syria. (AP Photo/Mustafa Oztartan, Turkish Presidency Press Office, HO)Syria's downing of a Turkish military jet has the feel of a turning point that could drag Western powers into a conflict that is spiraling out of control.


Turkey insists Syria downing of warplane 'hostile act'

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:50 PM PDT

A wounded Syrian man is lifted off the back of a pick-up truck following shelling by Syrian government forcesSyria insisted on Monday that a Turkish warplane shot down by its forces violated its airspace, but Ankara hit back saying it was a "hostile act of the highest order" ahead of NATO emergency talks.


AP Exclusive: Al-Qaida trains Norwegian to attack

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:50 PM PDT

A Norwegian man has received terrorist training from al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen and is awaiting orders to carry out an attack on the West, officials from three European security agencies told The Associated Press on Monday.

New Egypt president has tight window on economy

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:49 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's new president has a window of opportunity to pull the economy from the brink of disaster, but he will have to chart a careful path to convince a host of deeply skeptical players at home and abroad that his is a government they can trust. After winning the country's first freely contested election for head of state, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi, 60, brings with him strongly free-market policies that would delight investors were it not for Egypt's daunting economic challenges and fraught politics. ...

Seeking elusive 'alpha,' investors scour the globe

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:48 PM PDT

In this Monday, April 2, 2012, photo, Lawrence Speidell, Chief Investment Officer for Frontier Market Asset Managment, poses for a picture near his offices in La Jolla, Calif. Looking to spread their bets in case of another market drop, investors are buying oddball assets and heading to risky corners of the globe. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)You can leap off a mountainside in extreme skiing, kick and claw to near death in extreme fighting and twist yourself into a pretzel in extreme yoga. Why not turn investing into an adventure sport?


NHL labor negotiations about to begin

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:46 PM PDT

The head of the NHL players' union said Monday that negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement will begin "very quickly" — perhaps as early as this week.

Famed Galapagos tortoise autopsied

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:46 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Galapagos National Park Direction, DPNG, the body of the famed Galapagos giant tortoise Lonesome George is removed on stretcher from a corral at the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, Sunday, June 24, 2012. The Galapagos National Park says in a statement that the tortoise estimated to be about 100 years old died Sunday. Various mates had been provided for Lonesome George over the years in unsuccessful attempts to keep his subspecies alive. (AP Photo/Galapagos National Park Direction)Giant tortoise experts from near and far have begun an autopsy of Lonesome George, whose failed efforts to reproduce made him a symbol of disappearing species.


Oil falls on lingering concerns about Europe

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:46 PM PDT

FILE- In this Sunday, June 24, 2012 file photo, Cedar Key Fire Chief Robert Robinson walks on a section of a floating dock that broke loose during a storm surge from Tropical Storm Debby in Cedar Key, Fla. The price of oil declined Monday, June 25, 2012, as Spain's banking crisis added to concerns about the troubled European economy and Tropical Storm Debby appeared to be shifting away from the heart of America's oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/The Gainesville Sun, Brad McClenny)The price of oil declined Monday as Spain's banking crisis added to concerns about the troubled European economy.


Saudis to permit women to compete in Olympics

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:42 PM PDT

A month before the London Games, Saudi Arabia appears to be moving closer to sending female athletes to the Olympics for the first time amid mounting pressure on the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom to grant women more rights.

Suspect held in fatal shooting of Denver officer

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:40 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Denver Police Department shows veteran Denver Police Officer Celena Hollis. Hollis was shot and killed during a free jazz festival, Sunday, June 24, 2012, in Denver. A suspect, Rollen Oliver, was taken into custody late Sunday after witnesses gave a description of the gunman. Police also recovered a gun and said they believe Oliver was the only person involved in the attack. Police Chief Robert White said investigators were not sure if Hollis was the target of the shooting when she answered a call about a disturbance in the park. (AP Photo/Denver Police Department)A 21-year-old man was arrested for investigation of first-degree murder after a veteran Denver policewoman who was raising her 12-year-old daughter alone was shot and killed during a free jazz festival, police said Monday.


Gunmen open fire on Pakistan television station

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:40 PM PDT

Pakistani men wwatch television at an electronics market in Karachi on June 1Gunmen opened fire on a local television station in Pakistan's largest city, injuring a guard and an employee, police and TV officials said late Monday evening.


Wildfires threaten summer Rocky Mtn tourism

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:38 PM PDT

In this Saturday, June 23, 2012 photo provided by Darrell Spangler, a firefighter works the scene of a home being consumed by flames in Estes Park, Colo. As many as 21 structures were destroyed by the fire on Saturday. Eight separate wildfires are burning across Colorado, which is seeing record-breaking heat. (AP Photo/Darrell Spangler) MANDATORY CREDITColorado's brutal wildfire season has its $5 billion tourism industry on edge as images like those of smoke-choked Pikes Peak and flaming vacation cabins near Rocky Mountain National Park threaten to scare away summer tourists.


Lawyer: Jerry Sandusky still says he's not guilty

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:26 PM PDT

Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, leaves the Centre County Courthouse in custody with Centre County Sheriff Denny Nau, left, after being found guilty of multiple charges of child sexual abuse in Bellefonte, Pa., Friday, June 22, 2012. Sandusky was convicted of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years, accusations that had sent shock waves through the college campus known as Happy Valley and led to the firing of Penn State's beloved Hall of Fame coach, Joe Paterno. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)Jerry Sandusky wants "people to know that he's not guilty," a lawyer for the retired Penn State assistant football coach said Monday.


Relatives deny abuse in stand-your-ground case

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:23 PM PDT

Relatives of a man who claimed Texas' version of a stand-your-ground law allowed him to fatally shoot a neighbor after an argument about a noisy party tell jurors he was not an abusive person and always stressed the importance of gun safety.

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