Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Egyptian protesters scale US Embassy wall in Cairo

Egyptian protesters scale US Embassy wall in Cairo

Egyptian protesters scale US Embassy wall in Cairo

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:57 PM PDT

Protesters destroy an American flag pulled down from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. Egyptian protesters, largely ultra conservative Islamists, have climbed the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, went into the courtyard and brought down the flag, replacing it with a black flag with Islamic inscription, in protest of a film deemed offensive of Islam. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)Main ultraconservative Islamist protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt's capital Tuesday and brought down the flag, replacing it with a black flag with an Islamic inscription to protest a video attacking Islam's prophet, Muhammad.

Congress courts veterans leading up to election

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:54 PM PDT

Both parties are using a brief pre-election session of Congress to make campaign appeals to returning veterans.

Judge: US civil trials at risk without budget deal

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:49 PM PDT

Federal civil jury trials in the United States probably would grind to a halt if Congress fails to reach a budget deal and $600 billion in automatic spending cuts kick in next year, a leading federal judge said Tuesday.

Lack of Southerners on US presidential tickets

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2012 file photo, Rep. John Lewis of Georgia waves to delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. For decades, Southerners put a firm imprint on national politics from both sides of the aisle, holding the White House for 25 of the last 50 years and producing a legion of Capitol Hill giants throughout the 20th century. But that kind of obvious power has waned as Democrats and Republicans in the region navigate the consequences of tidal shifts in demographics, migration and party identity. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)For decades, Southerners put a firm imprint on national politics from both sides of the aisle, holding the White House for 25 of the past 50 years and producing a legion of Capitol Hill giants during the 20th century. But that kind of obvious power has waned as Democrats and Republicans in the region navigate the consequences of tidal shifts in demographics, migration and party identity.

Double factory blazes in Pakistan kill 39

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:49 PM PDT

A Pakistani fireman tries to extinguish a factory fire on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 in Lahore, Pakistan. A fire that broke out in a factory in eastern Pakistan on Tuesday after sparks from a generator hit chemicals used to make shoes killed dozens of people, a Pakistani police officer said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)Factory fires in two of Pakistan's major cities killed 39 people and injured dozens more on Tuesday, including some who had to break through barred windows and leap to the ground to escape the flames.

Is America safer? Presidential candidates disagree

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:49 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, joined by members of the White House staff pause during a moment of silence to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept, 11th, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Looking to win voters even as they swore off negative attacks, the presidential candidates clashed over whether the country is a safer place on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Murray caps Britain's golden sports summer

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:46 PM PDT

2012 U.S. Open tennis men's singles champion Andy Murray, of Britain, poses in Central Park on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)First came the victory in the Tour de France. Then there were the stacks of medals at a dazzling Olympics at home.

Chicago mayor and union spar on second day of teachers strike

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:45 PM PDT

Chicago teachers take over the streets outside the headquarters of Chicago Public Schools in ChicagoCHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and unionized teachers argued publicly on Tuesday over how to improve struggling inner-city schools as negotiations remained deadlocked on the second day of a strike that has closed the nation's third-largest school district. The two sides could not even agree on how far apart they were in the bitter negotiations over a new contract for some 29,000 teachers and support staff. Speaking at a school where children affected by the strike are being supervised and fed for half a day, Emanuel repeated that an agreement with the union was close. ...

US employers posted fewer open jobs in July

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:44 PM PDT

FILE-In this Tuesday, July 17, 2012, file photo, business employment specialist Linda Reynolds, right, helps job searcher D'Andre Preston at WorkSource Oregon in Tualatin, Ore. U.S. employers posted fewer jobs in July than in June, the latest evidence that hiring is weak. Job openings fell to a seasonally adjusted 3.67 million, the Labor Department said Tuesday. That down from June's 3.72 million job openings, which was revised lower.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)U.S. employers posted fewer jobs in July than in June, further evidence that hiring may stay weak in the coming months.

Dry Northwest burns as fire season in West extends

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:43 PM PDT

Clouds turn red from the setting sun where a wildfire burns nearby Monday evening, Sept. 10, 2012, near Wenatchee, Wash. Crews in central Washington and Wyoming worked Monday to protect homes from two of the many wildfires burning throughout the West as a destructive fire season stretches into September with no relief expected from the weather anytime soon. The National Weather service issued red-flag warnings for wide swaths of eastern Washington and Oregon, Idaho, Montana and all of Wyoming, meaning conditions could exacerbate blazes. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)A haze of thick smoke formed Tuesday over vast swaths of the West as wildfires forced more residents to flee their homes in several states.

NY Fashion Week inspired by faraway lands

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:42 PM PDT

The Vera Wang Spring 2013 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)Every so often at Fashion Week, there is a moment when the runway is transported from the bustle of New York to a different time or place.

Ex-prof pleads guilty to killing Ala. colleagues

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:42 PM PDT

An ex-professor pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally shooting three colleagues and wounding three others during a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2010, court officials said.

SAfrican politician calls for national mine strike

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:41 PM PDT

Striking mine workers listen to firebrand politician Julius Malema, nicknamed Juju, addressing them at the Goldfields Mine, Grootfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. In a speech punctuated by cheers of thousands of miners and the blowing of whistles and vuvuzelas, firebrand politician Julius Malema called Tuesday for a national strike in all of South Africa's mines, encouraging a step-up of a strike that has already halted production at several platinum and gold mines. (AP Photo)In a speech punctuated by the cheers of thousands of miners and the blowing of whistles and vuvuzelas, firebrand politician Julius Malema called Tuesday for a national strike in all of South Africa's mines, encouraging the escalation of labor unrest that has already halted production at two platinum and gold mines.

Sonar to give best view yet of Civil War shipwreck

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:41 PM PDT

Researchers are using new 3-D sonar imaging technology to capture the most complete picture yet of what remains of the only U.S. Navy ship sunk in combat the Gulf of Mexico during the Civil War.

Wounded flood hospitals in Syria's largest city

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:39 PM PDT

Medics carry Fatima Qassem, 6, whose legs were badly injured when government forces fired on her family's car, into the emergency room in a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)It had been a calm day in Aleppo's Shifa Hospital, said Dr. Osman al-Haj Osman, his face etched with exhaustion from just three hours of sleep. Then, a man burst in bearing the shrieking bundle of a 6-year-old girl who'd had a machine-gun bullet rip through both her knees.

Calif. bank robbed; bomb squad investigates object

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:38 PM PDT

A gunman wearing military-style clothing robbed a bank on Tuesday and left behind an object that resembles an explosive device, authorities said.

Obama: 9/11 victims never to be forgotten

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:37 PM PDT

Obama and first lady Michelle look at the headstone of a grave during their visit to Arlington National Cemetery on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks near WashingtoNEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The victims of September 11 will be remembered "no matter how many years pass," President Barack Obama said on Tuesday during one of three main ceremonies marking the 11th anniversary of the attacks in which nearly 3,000 people were killed by airliners hijacked by Islamist militants. Two of the passenger jets brought down the Twin Towers of New York City's World Trade Center, another hit the Pentagon outside Washington and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania when passengers aboard that flight fought back against the hijackers. ...

Chicago teacher strike poses test for unions

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:37 PM PDT

A woman pushes a stroller past a group of public school teachers picketing outside Amundsen High School, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, in Chicago. The school is one of more than 140 schools in the Chicago Public Schools' "Children First" contingency plan, which feeds and houses students for four hours during the teachers strike started by the Chicago Teachers Union Monday. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)The massive teacher strike in Chicago offers a high-profile test for the nation's teacher unions, which have seen their political influence threatened as a growing reform movement seeks to expand charter schools, get private companies involved with failing schools and link teacher evaluations to student test scores.

Guantanamo prisoner who died battled confinement

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:36 PM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by Marc Falkoff , an attorney representing Adnan Latif shows Latif, the Guantanamo prisoner who was found unconscious in his cell on Saturday, Sept. 8. 2012 and later declared dead at a hospital on the U.S. base in Cuba. Latif, a 32-year-old from Yemen, had been held at Guantanamo without charge since January 2002. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Marc Falkoff)The latest prisoner to die at the U.S. base in Guantanamo, Cuba, was identified Tuesday as a Yemeni man with a history of mental illness who battled guards inside the prison and challenged his confinement all the way to the Supreme Court.

GOP leaders seek vote to block welfare waivers

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:33 PM PDT

Senior Republicans are pushing for votes in Congress to block the Obama administration from waiving some provisions of the nation's landmark welfare-to-work law.

NBC's 'Today' skips 9/11 moment for Kardashian

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:33 PM PDT

This image released by NBC shows host Savannah Guthrie, left, listening to TV personality Kris Jenner from "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," during an interview on the "Today" show in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer)Kardashian family matriarch Kris Jenner talked about her breast augmentation on NBC's "Today" show at the same time other news outlets were airing the solemn commemoration of the first plane striking New York's World Trade Center 11 years ago.

How the nation and world are commemorating 9/11

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:32 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden, center, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, right, walk in front of The Wall of Names, containing the names of the 40 passengers and crew of Flight 93, as they arrive for a memorial service at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)A look at some commemorations outside New York and around the world on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks:

Autopsy: Man killed self after officer's shooting

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:27 PM PDT

This photo provided by the West Bloomfield Police shows officer Pat O'Rourke. Police evacuated an upscale neighborhood and surrounded a house Monday in suburban Detroit, hours after O'Rourke was fatally shot while responding to a 911 call about trouble at the address. O'Rourke was shot about 10 p.m. Sunday inside the home in West Bloomfield Township and later died at a hospital, police Lt. Timothy Diamond said. (AP Photo/West Bloomfield Police)A business executive who gunned down a police officer responding to a trouble call at his suburban Detroit house committed suicide, an autopsy found Tuesday.

BoE's Miles says is "open minded" about more QE

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:26 PM PDT

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker David Miles said on Tuesday that he was currently open minded about whether the central bank should expand its programme of asset purchases once the current round is complete in November. Speaking to reporters after a Scottish Economic Society event in Edinburgh, he said that the economy had been "anaemic" over the previous 12 months, but that he would need to see more data before deciding if further stimulus was warranted. "I am open minded at the moment about what the next move should be," he said. ...

Putin: Romney helped Russia by calling it top foe

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:23 PM PDT

President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a comment made by U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney has made Russia feel justified in opposing America's missile defense plans in Europe.

Mammoth fragments from Siberia raise cloning hopes

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 28, 2008 file photo a sculpture of mammoths is seen in the Siberian town of Khanty-Mansiisk, 2000 kilometers (1250 miles) east of Moscow, Russia. A Russian university said Tuesday that an international team of scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells, edging a step closer to the possibility of cloning the prehistoric animal. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky,File)Scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells, edging a tad closer to the "Jurassic Park" possibility of cloning a prehistoric animal, the mission's organizer said Tuesday.

War crimes by both sides increasing in Syria: EU

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:17 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - As the fighting in Syria gets worse, forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels determined to oust him are committing an increasing number of violations of international humanitarian law, the EU humanitarian chief said on Tuesday. "This is an asymmetrical war, and there is a degree of expansion of violation of international humanitarian law on both sides that seems to be escalating," Kristalina Georgieva, the European Union's commissioner for international cooperation, humanitarian aid and crisis response, told reporters. ...

Premiums for family health plans hit $15,745

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:15 PM PDT

Annual premiums for job-based family health insurance went up just 4 percent this year, but that's no comfort with the price tag approaching $16,000 and rising more than twice as fast as wages.

Digital Domain files for Ch. 11, to sell itself

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:11 PM PDT

In this film image released by Paramount Pictures, a scene is shown from 3-D version of James Cameron's romantic epic "Titanic." Digital Domain Media Group Inc., best known for its work on Cameron's "Titanic," filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, along with a Canadian court, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. ital production company founded by director James Cameron said Tuesday that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and reached a deal to sell its operating business to a private investment firm for $15 million. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures)Less than a year after going public, the digital production company founded by director James Cameron has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and agreed to sell the core of its business to a private investment firm for $15 million.

Egyptians angry at film scale U.S. embassy walls

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:11 PM PDT

Protesters destroy an American flag pulled down from the U.S. embassy in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy on Tuesday, tore down the American flag and burned it during a protest over what they said was a film being produced in the United States that insulted Prophet Mohammad. In place of the U.S. flag, the protesters tried to raise a black flag with the words "There is no God but God, and Mohammad is his messenger", a Reuters witness said. Once the U.S. flag was hauled down, some protesters tore it up and showed off pieces to television cameras. ...

Boehner expresses no confidence on budget deal

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:10 PM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that he's not confident Congress can reach a budget deal and avoid a downgrading of the U.S. debt rating.

HRW: Rebels in Congo commit widespread war crimes

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2012 file photo, an M23 rebel walks the streets of the North Kivu town of Rubare near Rutshuru, 75 km (48 miles) North of Goma, Congo. According to a report published Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 by Human Rights Watch, the newly-formed rebel group is responsible for widespread war crimes in eastern Congo, including summary executions and rape. It says that the M23 has forcibly conscripted at least 137 youth and killed at least 33 young men and boys who tried to escape the rebels' ranks. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)The 25-year-old lay on a hospital bed in the Congolese city of Goma, his leg wrapped in a bandage tinted by the blood still seeping from his bullet wound.

LeGrands reach out to family of hurt Tulane player

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:09 PM PDT

The mother of paralyzed Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand is reaching out to the parents of the Tulane player whose spinal cord was severely injured during a game.

US lawsuits target Carnival in Italy cruise crash

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:08 PM PDT

Despite legal obstacles that might force them to sue in Italy, hundreds of Costa Concordia passengers and up to 1,000 businesses on the island where the capsized cruise ship ran aground are pressing ahead with U.S. lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages from Miami-based Carnival Corp.

Moody's set to downgrade US without budget deal

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:05 PM PDT

The U.S. government's debt rating could be heading for the "fiscal cliff" along with the federal budget.

US stocks rise ahead of Fed meeting

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 11:59 AM PDT

FILE-In a Friday Sept. 7, 2012, file photo, a specialist works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks slipped Monday, Sept 10, 2012, as troubling economic news from China and the U.S. outweighed optimism about more stimulus from the Federal Reserve. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)Investors are looking ahead to two events sure to move markets this week: a Federal Reserve meeting and a court decision on whether Germany can help support its struggling neighbors. And if the stock market's gains Tuesday are any sign, they expect both events to turn out well.

Pakistan Shiites face rising militant attacks

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 11:59 AM PDT

In this Friday, Sept. 7, 2012 photo, Shiite Muslims visit their graveyard in Pakistan's violent Baluchistan capital of Quetta, Pakistan, where radical Sunni Muslim rivals have terrorized and murdered minority Shiites in a wave of suicide bombings and target killings. In recent years Pakistan's sparsely populated southwestern Baluchistan province has been spiraling deeper into chaos, wracked by a secessionist insurgency that has been overtaken in the last two years by a violent sectarian campaign. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)In the Shiite Muslim graveyard of this provincial Pakistani capital, entire sections are dedicated to the hundreds killed by Sunni militants over the past two years, their portraits line the cobblestone entrance, some garlanded with wilted flowers.

Company owners more upbeat about post-election biz

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 11:57 AM PDT

Small business owners are getting a little more optimistic about how their companies will do after the November election, according to a survey released Tuesday.

Partisan attacks on hold, but not politics

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 11:54 AM PDT

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, joined by members of the White House staff pause during a moment of silence to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept, 11th, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)The presidential candidates are taking a break from their partisan attacks — but not all their politicking — to remember the 9/11 anniversary.
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