Thursday, September 20, 2012

Judge denies request to stop anti-Muslim film clip

Judge denies request to stop anti-Muslim film clip

Judge denies request to stop anti-Muslim film clip

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:47 PM PDT

Cindy Lee Garcia, right, one of the actresses in "Innocence of Muslims," and attorney M. Cris Armenta hold a news conference before a hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Garcia is asking a judge to issue an injunction demanding the 14-minute trailer for "Innocence of Muslims" be pulled from YouTube. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)An actress who appears in a clip of an anti-Muslim film blamed for causing deadly violence in the Middle East says she will continue to press to get YouTube to pull the trailer.

Oil drop reflects reality of global economy

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:45 PM PDT

Reality returned to the oil market this week.

Microsoft fixing security bug in Internet Explorer

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:43 PM PDT

Microsoft is releasing an update to its Internet Explorer browser to fix a security problem that could expose personal computers to hacking attacks.

Joke photo on Fox suggests Obama met with pirate

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:41 PM PDT

Fox News Channel apparently wasn't in on the pirate joke.

Obama's record in Muslim world: strides, setbacks

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT

Pakistani protesters hold a banner depicting U.S. President Barack Obama and pastor Terry Jones during a rally in Peshawar, Pakistan as a part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Hundreds of Pakistanis angry at an anti-Islam film that denigrates the religion's prophet clashed with police in the Pakistani capital Thursday, the most violent show of anger in a day that saw smaller demonstrations in Indonesia, Iran and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)Images of angry mobs in Arab cities burning American flags and attacking U.S. diplomatic posts suggest the Muslim world is no less enraged at the United States than when President George W. Bush had to duck shoes hurled at him in Baghdad.

Wal-Mart stops selling Amazon Kindles

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT

A Walmart store, that was destroyed by a tornado and later rebuilt, is seen in Joplin(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will no longer sell Amazon.com Inc's Kindle eReaders and tablets, severing its relationship with a major competitor and placing a bet that consumers are more interested in Apple's iPad and other gadgets. The world's largest retailer, which has been trying to catch up to Amazon in online sales, said the decision was consistent with its overall merchandising strategy. Owners of Kindle tablets such as the new Kindle Fire HD can shop on the devices for millions of items beyond digital books. This allows Amazon to compete with stores on more lines of merchandise. ...

Mammoth skeleton up for auction in Paris

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:39 PM PDT

Looking for that must-have ornament for a cavernous living room or backyard lawn? Perk up, Sotheby's is putting a complete Mammoth skeleton up for sale in Paris.

Arkansas' Smith stays positive through losses

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2012, file photo, Arkansas coach John L. Smith, center, stands beside the huddle during a timeout in the second half of an NCAA college football game against Jacksonville State in Fayetteville, Ark. New documents filed in Arkansas coach John L. Smith's bankruptcy show he has debts of more than $25 million and assets of just over $1.2 million. (AP Photo/April L. Brown, File)Even now, John L. Smith refuses to let go of his infectious smile.

Endeavour flies over Ariz. en route to Calif. home

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:37 PM PDT

Space shuttle Endeavour sits atop the shuttle aircraft carrier, passes above the Austin, Texas, skyline Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Endeavour is making a final trek across the country to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, where it will be permanently displayed. (AP Photo/Statesman.com, Ralph Barrera) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; INTERNET AND TV MUST CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND STATESMAN.COMSpace shuttle Endeavour flew over Tucson on Thursday in honor of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband before continuing its trek west to retirement in a Los Angeles museum.

Bourbon Street 'no preaching' law challenged

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:37 PM PDT

A street preacher sued on Thursday to block a city ordinance that restricts religious or political speech on Bourbon Street after dark.

Ohio Amish sect leader, followers convicted of hate crimes

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:36 PM PDT

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A federal jury on Thursday convicted an Ohio Amish sect leader and 15 of his followers on federal hate crimes charges in connection with several beard- and hair-cutting attacks on Amish people that shocked the state last fall. Samuel Mullet Sr. and each of his followers were found guilty on multiple charges for the attacks on nine Amish men and women. The jury in federal court in Cleveland began deliberating last Thursday. ...

Amish guilty of hate crimes in Ohio hair attacks

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:35 PM PDT

Two Amish women walk to the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Cleveland on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. The jury will begin their fifth day of deliberations in the trial of 16 Amish people accused of hate crimes in hair- and beard-cutting attacks against fellow Amish in Ohio. (AP Photo/Scott R. Galvin)Sixteen Amish men and women were convicted Thursday of hate crimes including forcibly cutting off fellow sect members' beards and hair in a religious dispute that offered a rare and sometimes lurid glimpse into the closed and usually self-regulating community of believers.

Speed the key between Arizona and Oregon

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:31 PM PDT

Oregon running back De'Anthony Thomas rushes during the first half of their NCAA college football game against Tennessee Tech in Eugene, Ore., Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. Oregon won 63-14. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)Not long after his team's latest race-up-the-field victory, Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez was asked about the next opponent, the Oregon Ducks.

Giuliana Rancic: Motherhood brings tears of joy

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:23 PM PDT

This image released by Starpix shows TV personality Giuliana Rancic attending the "Do It For the Girls!" event, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, in New York. The initiative, sponsored by Proctor & Gamble and the National Breast Cancer Foundation, hopes to motivate woman nationwide to conduct a breast self-exam and create an early detection plan for breast cancer. In addition, P&G will donate an uncapped amount to the National Breast Cancer Foundation through online social momentum and brandSaver coupons. Last October, Rancic announced that she had breast cancer and later revealed that she was undergoing a double mastectomy. (AP Photo/Starpix, Kristina Bumphrey)Giuliana Rancic may be known as a trendsetting red carpet regular, but it's the unglamorous side of new motherhood that's got her smiling from ear to ear.

Fiona Apple arrested for hashish in West Texas

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:22 PM PDT

This handout photo provided by the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office shows Fionna Apple. The singer-songwriter has been arrested for hashish possession in Sierra Blanca after a Border Patrol drug-sniffing dog detected marijuana in her tour bus. Sierra Blanca Sheriff's office spokesman Rusty Flemming says the artist spent Wednesday night at the Hudspeth County jail and would be bonded out Thursday. (AP Photo/Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office)Singer-songwriter Fiona Apple has been arrested for hashish possession at a West Texas town after a Border Patrol drug-sniffing dog detected marijuana in her tour bus.

New Libyan leader to attend Clinton-run NY meeting

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:20 PM PDT

FILE - This combination of file photos shows Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, left, speaking at the European Union headquarters in Brussels on Sept. 13, 2012, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, speaking at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept. 10, 2012. Morsi and Ban will each speak at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting starting Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012, New York. (AP Photo/File)Libya's newly-elected leader will join Egypt's president and the U.N. secretary-general for the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York City.

Kelly, Giffords watch Endeavour fly over Ariz.

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT

Space shuttle Endeavour sits atop the shuttle aircraft carrier, passes above the Austin, Texas, skyline Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Endeavour is making a final trek across the country to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, where it will be permanently displayed. (AP Photo/Statesman.com, Ralph Barrera) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; INTERNET AND TV MUST CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND STATESMAN.COMThe last commander of the space shuttle Endeavour said "That's my spaceship" as it flew over Tucson, Ariz., in honor of him and his wife, former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Wis. woman convicted in fetal-abduction deaths

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:17 PM PDT

Bailiffs lead Annette Morales-Rodriguez into Milwaukee County court on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, for the second day of her trial on charges that she killed a pregnant woman last year and tried to steal her full-term fetus. Defense attorneys haven't said whether they plan to have Morales-Rodriguez testify. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde)A Milwaukee woman was convicted Thursday of killing a pregnant woman and trying to steal her full-term fetus last year.

Clinton forms panel to investigate Benghazi attack

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:17 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Hillary Clinton speaks at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in DakarWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday she was forming a panel to investigate the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. officials. The panel, whose creation is generally required by law when someone is killed or seriously injured at a U.S. mission abroad, will be chaired by Thomas Pickering, a retired diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, El Salvador, Jordan and at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. ...

Starbucks turns up heat on coffee brewer market

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:15 PM PDT

FILE - Hannah So demonstrates a "Verismo," a single-serving espresso machine, at the annual Starbucks shareholders meeting in this March 21, 2012 file photo taken in Seattle. The Seattle-based company says it will start selling its new single-serve brewer online in mid September 2012 for $199. It plans to start selling the machine in its ubiquitous cafes in October. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)Starbucks Corp. is turning up the heat on the single-serve coffee market, and someone might get burned.

Syrian air strike kills at least 54: activists

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:14 PM PDT

Smoke rises above Aleppo after a heavy jet strike on the cityBEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 54 people were killed when a Syrian air strike hit a fuel station in the northern province of al-Raqqa on Thursday, an area of heavy fighting between government and rebel forces, a British-based monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of activists across Syria reporting on government violence during the 18-month-old revolt, cited an activist in the region saying that more than 110 people were dead or wounded. ...

Partisan Dems, GOP can only agree defense cuts bad

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:14 PM PDT

The only thing a bitterly partisan Congress can agree on as it heads for the exits is that looming defense cuts will have a devastating effect on the military.

Jury convicts Wis. woman in fetal-abduction deaths

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:12 PM PDT

Bailiffs lead Annette Morales-Rodriguez into Milwaukee County court on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, for the second day of her trial on charges that she killed a pregnant woman last year and tried to steal her full-term fetus. Defense attorneys haven't said whether they plan to have Morales-Rodriguez testify. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde)A Milwaukee woman has been convicted of killing a pregnant mother last year and trying to steal her full-term baby.

Syrian activists: airstrikes kill at least 30

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:12 PM PDT

In this image taken from video obtained Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, people are seen after an airstrike on a gas station in Raqqa, Syria. Syrian opposition activists said a regime airstrike hit a gas station in the north of the country Thursday, setting off an explosion that killed and wounded dozens of people. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)Regime airstrikes hit a gas station in northern Syria Thursday, setting off a fiery explosion that killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens, opposition activists said. Amateur video showed thick black smoke engulfing the scene.

Libya's Benghazi keeps its air of rebelliousness

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:12 PM PDT

Libyans fishing at the Seaport shore cornice, in Benghazi, Libya, Monday, Sept. 20, 2012. In front of Benghazi's stock market, there are lakes of sewage in the street, and the grandest hotel here is a gloomy hulk with broken windows and dim corridors. The city that was the site of a deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate was the heart of Libya's revolution, and now its residents are discontent with the new leadership in Tripoli.(AP photo/Mohammad Hannon)In front of Benghazi's stock market, pedestrians pick their way around lakes of sewage in the street, carefully stepping on bricks set in the fetid water. The grandest hotel in Libya's second largest city is a gloomy, state-owned bulk, with broken windows and dim corridors.

Milwaukee woman convicted of killing pregnant mother and trying to steal her fetus

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:09 PM PDT

Milwaukee woman convicted of killing pregnant mother and trying to steal her fetus.

Issa: IG report step toward restoring faith

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:08 PM PDT

Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's inspector general, goes before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee a day after he faulted the department for disregard of public safety in "Operation Fast and Furious," the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' program that allowed hundreds of guns to reach Mexican drug gangs, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. While the IG's report confirmed findings by Congress' investigation of misguided strategies, errors in judgment and management failures in "Fast and Furious", it did not find direct fault with Attorney General Eric Holder, who had been directly targeted by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the committee's chairman. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)A Republican House committee chairman said Thursday that a watchdog report on a bungled gun-trafficking probe in Arizona is a huge step toward restoring public faith in the Justice Department.

Protests against prison abuse before Georgian vote

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:05 PM PDT

Street protests against the brutal abuse of prisoners escalated Thursday in the Georgian capital, fueling anger against the Western-allied government and possibly boosting support for the opposition before a tight parliamentary election.

UK soldier unexpectedly gives birth in Afghanistan

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:01 PM PDT

FILE- A British armored vehicle patrols on the periphery of the camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan, in this Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007 file photo. The Taliban claimed responsibility on Saturday Sept 15 2012 for an attack against the sprawling British base in southern Afghanistan that killed two U.S. Marines and wounded several other troops, saying it was to avenge an anti-Islamic film which insulted the Prophet Muhammad and also because Britain's Prince Harry is serving there.The camp Bastion, which is the middle of the Afghanistan desert, locally called Dasht-e-Margo or 'the desert of death' houses some 3,500 British servicemen and provides logistic supports to all the troops for their various operations in Southern Afghan. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)Hours after a British soldier in Afghanistan told medics she was suffering from stomach pains, the Royal Artillery gunner unexpectedly gave birth to a boy — the first child ever born to a member of Britain's armed forces in combat.

Obama has a mixed record on outreach to Muslims

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Pakistani protesters hold a banner depicting U.S. President Barack Obama and pastor Terry Jones during a rally in Peshawar, Pakistan as a part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Hundreds of Pakistanis angry at an anti-Islam film that denigrates the religion's prophet clashed with police in the Pakistani capital Thursday, the most violent show of anger in a day that saw smaller demonstrations in Indonesia, Iran and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)Images of angry mobs in Arab cities burning American flags and attacking U.S. diplomatic posts suggest the Muslim world is no less enraged at the United States than when President George W. Bush had to duck shoes hurled at him in Baghdad.

Tunisia bans protest over French Muhammad cartoons

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:55 AM PDT

Tunisia's government has banned any protests Friday against a French satirical weekly's publication of lewd, crude caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

How the tabby got its stripes: It's in the genes

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:53 AM PDT

This undated photo made available by Science magazine shows tabby cats with the mackerel pattern, top row, and blotched pattern, bottom row. Scientists say they've found the gene that sets the common tabby pattern - stripes or blotches. Cats with narrow stripes, the so-called "mackerel'' pattern, have a working copy of the gene. But if a mutation turns the gene off, the cat ends up with the blotchy "classic'' pattern, researchers reported online Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Science, Helmi Flick)How does a tabby cat earn its stripes? With the right DNA.

Stock prices reduced US household wealth in Q2

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:52 AM PDT

FILE-In this Thursday, June 7, 2012, file photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appears on a television screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Americans' wealth dipped about 0.5 percent in the April-June quarter as a drop in stock prices more than offset a gain in home values. Yet since June, a resurgent stock market has jumped about 7 percent; more than reversing last quarter's 3 percent drop in stock prices. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)Americans' wealth dipped about 0.5 percent in the April-June quarter as a drop in stock prices more than offset a gain in home values.

Prophet film puts spotlight on US Copts

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:50 AM PDT

Archy Jacob sits in a sound room during a mass at St. Mary and St. Verena Orthodox Coptic Church in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)The anti-Islamic movie trailer inflaming the Middle East opens with Muslims ransacking a Christian medical clinic and then segues into a flashback of Muhammad's life. "Set the place on fire! We'll burn out these forsaken Christians!" cries one Muslim character.

Madoff victims to receive $2.48 billion payout

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:49 AM PDT

A police officer keeps an eye on demonstrators while they hold a protest in New York(Reuters) - Bernard Madoff's victims will soon receive $2.48 billion to help cover their losses, by far the largest payout since the swindler's massive fraud was uncovered nearly four years ago. Checks ranging from $1,784 to $526.9 million were mailed on Wednesday to 1,230 former customers of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, according to Irving Picard, the trustee liquidating the firm. The latest payout more than triples the total recovery to $3.63 billion, Picard said on Thursday. ...

THE RACE: Hard for both sides to focus on economy

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:46 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney waves to supporters before he makes a speech in Miami, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)For months, all the major polls have identified the economy as the No. 1 presidential election issue. But it drifts in and out of focus on the campaign trail as first one side and then the other becomes occupied with something else.

Park Service defends refusal to use wolves

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:44 AM PDT

The National Park Service acted properly when it ruled out using wolves to control the elk population in Rocky Mountain National Park, government lawyers argued Thursday before a federal appeals court.

Arkansas coach Smith bankruptcy shows $25.7M debt

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:43 AM PDT

Arkansas coach John L. Smith is trying to wipe away $25.7 million in debt in bankruptcy court and hang onto $1.2 million in retirement accounts and some personal property, all while he leads the Razorbacks through one of the strangest seasons in team history.

King says euro zone threatens slow UK recovery

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:41 AM PDT

Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King speaks at a business conference in LondonLONDON (Reuters) - The economy is recovering slowly, but much depends on the euro zone finding a way to put its problems behind it, and there is little sign that a return to normal economic conditions is close, Bank of England governor Mervyn King said on Thursday. "I think the next quarter will probably be up. I think we're beginning to see a few signs now of a slow recovery, but it will be a slow recovery. After a banking crisis one can't expect to get back to normal and I fear it will take a long time," he said in a television interview for Channel 4 News. ...

Egypt's mufti urges Muslims to endure insults peacefully

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:39 AM PDT

Riot policemen stand guard outside the French embassy in SanaaCAIRO (Reuters) - Muslims angered by cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad should follow his example of enduring insults without retaliating, Egypt's highest Islamic legal official said on Thursday. Western embassies tightened security in Sanaa, fearing the cartoons published in a French magazine on Wednesday could lead to more unrest in the Yemeni capital where crowds attacked the U.S. mission last week over an anti-Islam film made in America. ...
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