Friday, September 21, 2012

Obama gaining in battleground state contributions

Obama gaining in battleground state contributions

Obama gaining in battleground state contributions

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 01:14 PM PDT

Showing impressive momentum, President Barack Obama raised more in high-dollar contributions than Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the last two months in 10 of 11 battleground states that are pivotal to win the presidential election, according to an analysis of new campaign financial reports by The Associated Press.

Pelosi: Don't extend payroll tax cut

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 01:12 PM PDT

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says she does not want lawmakers to extend the payroll tax cut that expires at the end of this year. She says the measure was always meant to be temporary and says that instead, it is time for Congress to focus on overhauling the entire tax code.

Decades later, Brooklyn has its own pro team again

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 01:12 PM PDT

Pedestrians pass the main entrance to the Barclays Arena in New York, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 as workmen complete their cleanup for Friday's ribbon-cutting ceremony. A new chapter in Brooklyn's history Friday when the Brooklyn Nets new arena will open, just across the street from the spot where the Dodgers owner once tried to build a baseball stadium that never saw the light of day. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)It was like a death in the family for Brooklyn baseball fans when their beloved Dodgers left the borough behind in 1957 for the California coast.

Anti-Islam film causes deadly riots in Pakistan

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 01:11 PM PDT

Pakistan's "Day of Love for the Prophet" turned into a deadly day of gunfire, tear gas and arson.

Milan runway not all black and white

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 01:05 PM PDT

It's not all black and white in Milan this season.

Endeavour lands at Los Angeles airport

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 01:03 PM PDT

Space Shuttle Endeavour mounted on NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, passes over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 21, 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/Marcio Jose Sanchez)Space shuttle Endeavour landed safely at the Los Angeles International Airport Friday after a whirlwind aerial tour around California landmarks.

Actress, teacher, author Dorothy Carter dies in NY

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 01:01 PM PDT

Dorothy Carter, a former stage actress who starred in the adaptation of the groundbreaking novel "Strange Fruit" on Broadway and later became an educator and a children's book author, has died after battling bladder cancer. She was 94.

Endeavor gives Californians ultimate photo op

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:59 PM PDT

Space Shuttle Endeavour mounted on NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, passes over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 21, 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/Marcio Jose Sanchez)Rather than roaring to space on an elevator of flame, the shuttle Endeavour's final flight Friday was a leisurely, low-altitude journey past the iconic Golden Gate Bridge and Hollywood sign as well as other California landmarks.

Oilers, Flames players say lockout is illegal

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:56 PM PDT

Lawyers for players on the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames are trying to have the NHL lockout declared illegal under Alberta law.

Endeavour soars over Calif. landmarks in air show

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:54 PM PDT

Space Shuttle Endeavour mounted on NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, passes over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 21, 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/Marcio Jose Sanchez)Space shuttle Endeavour crisscrossed California Friday, looping over landmarks in a last aerial hurrah before retiring to a Los Angeles museum.

Romney releases doctor's letter, says he's healthy

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:52 PM PDT

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has released a letter from his doctor saying he's healthy and physically fit to meet the rigorous demands of a presidency.

USOC looks to build consensus for Olympic bid

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:50 PM PDT

When it comes to amassing medals, money and friends around the world, leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee couldn't be happier.

Review: iPhone evolves into jewel-like '5'

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:50 PM PDT

If you run your finger over one of the joints where plastic and metal meet on the rim of the iPhone 5, you feel just the slightest hint of the seam. The materials have been machined to blend into one another with astonishing, jewel-like precision.

Pump prices fall; oil prices up slightly

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:46 PM PDT

Gas prices are finally heading lower, but motorists shouldn't expect the numbers at the pump to drop quickly this autumn.

41-pound cat named Skinny up for adoption in Texas

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:45 PM PDT

This photo provided by Kim Chapin shows a 41-pound fat cat named Skinny at the Richardson, Texas, Animal Services shelter on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. A shelter spokeswoman says the 5-year-old orange tabby was dropped off at the facility last week, seems healthy except she is too heavy and likely has diabetes, and needs a home. (AP Photo/Kim Chapin)Don't be fooled by the name: Skinny the cat is one hefty feline. And all 41 pounds of her needs a home.

Mom's letter: Gillispie verbally abused son often

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT

The mother of a teenager at Billy Gillispie's summer basketball camp claims in a letter to a top school administrator that the former Texas Tech coach repeatedly verbally abused her son, according to a document obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

Corruption trial opens for former Detroit mayor

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:38 PM PDT

In a Sept. 6, 2012 photo, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick walks to federal court on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012 in Detroit with attorney Jim Thomas. Opening statements are set for Friday, Sept. 21. Kilpatrick, his father Bernard, former city water boss Victor Mercado and Kilpatrick pal Bobby Ferguson are accused of a sweeping corruption scheme. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUTFormer Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick repeatedly stuffed his bank account and paid off credit cards with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, the illegal fruit of a crooked politician who took bribes and left taxpayers "holding the short end of the stick," a prosecutor told jurors Friday at the start of a corruption trial.

Reds' Baker misses another game with health issue

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:35 PM PDT

Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker watches during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. The game is Baker's 3,000th as a manager in the majors. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)Reds manager Dusty Baker will miss another game because of an irregular heartbeat.

U.S. to drop Iranian MEK group from terrorist list: officials

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:32 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has decided to remove the Iranian dissident group Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK) from its list of terrorist organizations, U.S. officials said on Friday, handing a political victory to a group once sheltered by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein that claims to have abandoned its violent past. The officials said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had made the decision to remove MEK from the list, and that it was expected to be formally announced in coming days. ...

Disfigured Spain fresco rides global fame

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:32 PM PDT

File - In this combination of two undated handout photos made available by the Centro de Estudios Borjanos, the 20th century Ecce Homo-style fresco of Christ , left and the 'restored' version, at right. Only a month has gone by since an 80-year-old artist won global infamy for botching a restoration of a fresco of Christ in a little-known Spanish town, but it took even less time for Internet entrepreneurs to start copying her image compared to a monkey's head to sell everything from T-shirts to cellphone covers and wine. Now a mortified Cecilia Gimenez has lawyers researching her intellectual property rights, and could demand a cut of profits to benefit charity for her amazingly popular disfiguration of the fresco from the genre known as The image appears on T-shirts and cellphone covers, coffee mugs and wine labels. And the 80-year-old pensioner who just weeks ago was mortified by the global stir she created with her botched restoration of a fresco of Christ is now looking to get a piece of the action.

New NASA photo satellite to join 40-year mission

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:30 PM PDT

This Aug. 7, 2012, photo provided by NASA shows the next Landsat imaging satellite during testing at Orbital Science Corporation's facility in Gilbert, Ariz. A team of nearly 140 international scientists and engineers will gather on Sept. 24-28 at the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center near Sioux Falls, S.D., to discuss how the satellite will be used once it's launched into space in February. The imaging satellite, which will be known as Landsat 8 once it reaches orbit, continues the mission of Landsat 7, which has been transmitting images since 1999, and Landsat 5, launched in 1984 but on its last legs. (AP Photo/NASA, Courtesy Orbital Sciences Corporation)A fleet of picture-snapping NASA satellites that for 40 years has documented forest fires, tsunamis and everyday changes in the Earth's geography will soon get a new member.

New details emerge on Georgia teen found in L.A.

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Paul Matthew Comer is seen in an undated photo provided by the Paulding, Ga. County Sheriff's Office. Investigators were planning to search the Dallas, Ga., of Paul and Sheila Comer, a Georgia couple accused of child cruelty after an emaciated 18-year-old said he was kept there in isolation for years and then dumped by bus in Los Angeles. Mitch Comer told police his stepfather gave him $200 and a list of homeless shelters before he was put on a bus to Los Angeles on this 18th birthday, police in Los Angles said Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Stepfather Paul Comer and mother Sheila Comer faced charges of false imprisonment and cruelty to children, Paulding County jail records show. They were being held without bond. (AP Photo/Paulding County, Ga., Sheriff's Office)An emaciated teenage Georgia boy told police he was forced to kneel for hours at a time by his stepfather and mother, who now face charges of child cruelty after allegedly confining the teen in a bedroom for years and then sending him by bus to Los Angeles to seek a homeless shelter.

Libyans hold giant march against militias

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:26 PM PDT

Libyan women protest against Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias in front Tebesty Hotel, in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. The attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans has sparked a backlash among frustrated Libyans against the heavily armed gunmen, including Islamic extremists, who run rampant in their cities. More than 10,000 people poured into a main boulevard of Benghazi, demanding that militias disband as the public tries to do what Libya's weak central government has been unable to.(AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)Around 30,000 Libyans marched through the eastern city of Benghazi on Friday in an unprecedented protest to demand the disbanding of powerful militias in the wake of last week's attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

Bond at risk for Ohio Amish hate-crime defendants

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:25 PM PDT

A group of Amish 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)Prosecutors have asked a judge to lock up the remaining nine defendants still free following their convictions in beard- and hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio.

Obama declares Chimney Rock a national monument

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT

A dramatic rock formation in southwestern Colorado that was home to ancestors of the Pueblo Indians 1,000 years ago now has protection as a national monument — a potential boost for tourism in a state key to the presidential election.

In Lebanon, anti-film protests underscore divide

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT

Tens of thousands of people take part in Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012, for the latest in a series of protest rallies organized by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. Anger over insults to Islam's Prophet Muhammad isn't enough to bring Lebanon's divided Sunni and Shiite Muslims together. The two sects, which have been locked in sometimes violent political competition, hold separate protests. A hardline Sunni cleric accuses Shiite Hezbollah of using the protests to distract from the fighting in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)The urge to defend Islam's most unifying figure, the Prophet Muhammad, wasn't enough to bring together Lebanon's divided Sunni and Shiite Muslims. The two sects, which have been locked for years in a sometimes violent political rivalry, held separate protests Friday against an anti-Islam movie.

Stocks rise, extending Fed rally

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT

Trader Peter Mancuso, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. A batch of worrying economic figures tugged stock markets slightly lower Thursday. Measures of manufacturing and business activity in both China and Europe slumped. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Judging by the stock market, you'd think the U.S. economy was back in party mode.

Romneys paid $1.94 million in fed taxes for 2011

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:23 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gets out of his vehicle before boarding his campaign plane in West Palm Beach, Fla., Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, paid $1.94 million in federal taxes on last year's income of $13.7 million, for an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent, his campaign said Friday.

AP source: Cabrera DQed from NL batting title

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT

Melky Cabrera has been disqualified from the National League batting title at his own request, a person familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press.

PHOTOS: Latest in protests over anti-Islam film

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT

A Pakistani protestor hurls back a tear gas canister fired by police during clashes that erupted as the demonstrators tried to approach the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Over a dozen people were killed as tens of thousands protested against the film around the country after the government encouraged peaceful protests and declared a national holiday — "Love for the Prophet Day." Demonstrations turned violent in several Pakistani cities. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)Here's a look at protests and events across the world on Friday connected to an amateurish anti-Muslim film produced in the United States and vulgar caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a French satirical weekly. At least 47 people, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, have been killed in violence linked to the protests over the film, which has also renewed debate over freedom of expression in the U.S. and in Europe.

Obama says Romney writing off half the country

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT

Lynn Armstrong Coffin and Eric Papalini, not shown, of PunchingPoliticians.com hold puppets of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and President Obama boxing before a campaign rally at the Ringling Museum of Art Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, in Sarasota, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)Turning up the heat on Republican Mitt Romney's campaign stumble, President Barack Obama on Friday accused his rival of writing off half the country while defending his own remark that "you can't change Washington from the inside."

Defense hawk backs US withdrawal from Afghanistan

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta speaks during a joint news conference with his New Zealand counterpart Jonathan Coleman at the Government House in Auckland, New Zealand, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. After a 25-year ban, America will begin allowing Royal New Zealand Navy ships to visit U.S. military and Coast Guard facilities around the world, Panetta said. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)One of the strongest defense hawks in Congress says the United States should withdraw its forces from Afghanistan amid increasing signs that even Republican proponents of the war believe it's no longer worth the cost.

C'est chic! Impressionism taken down the runway

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:16 PM PDT

The painting by Eduard Manet, The Parisian, (1875), hangs on the mirrored catwalk during the press day of the Impressionism Fashion exhibition in at the Orsay museum in Paris, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. To coincide with Paris Fashion week, a new and highly original exhibit called "Impressionism and Fashion" opens at the Musee d'Orsay. It uses famous works of art to explore how at the dawn of impressionism, and as an emblem of "modernite" fashion, and how people dressed, became one of the main themes in art. The exhibition will open September 25, 2012 and last till January 2013. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)Paris fashion week will soon open in style, with an exhibit that puts impressionist art down the runway — literally.

Yoko Ono bestows peace grant on Pussy Riot

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:15 PM PDT

Yoko Ono, right, and Pussy Riot member Nadia Tolokonnikova's husband Pyotr Verzilov and daughter Gera pose for photographers after Ono presented Verzilov the LennonOno Grant for Peace Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)Yoko Ono and Amnesty International awarded the Russian punk band Pussy Riot this year's LennonOno grant for peace.

Revis to play, Keller questionable for Jets

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:14 PM PDT

Darrelle Revis is fully recovered from a concussion and will play for the New York Jets after practicing fully for the second straight day.

AP sources: US to take Iran group off terror list

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:13 PM PDT

A Sajjil missile is displayed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, in front of a portrait of the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a military parade commemorating the start of the Iraq-Iran war 32 years ago, in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)The Obama administration will remove from the U.S. terrorism list an Iranian militant group formerly allied with Saddam Hussein, officials said Friday, describing a move that will infuriate Tehran and end years of high-profile campaigning by the group.

Philly developer ticks off city by cleaning up lot

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:12 PM PDT

A vacant lot owned by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority is shown, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, in Philadelphia. Ori Feibush, a real estate developer, has turned a trash-strewn city-owned lot, vacant for roughly 30 years, into a welcoming spot for customers of his month-old corner cafe. But city officials say Feibush shouldn't have done work on a lot he doesn't own or rent, shouldn't be using taxpayer-owned property to benefit his business. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)There's a lot of trouble brewing next to a coffee house in a fast-developing neighborhood.

Protests cause new strains in US, Pakistan ties

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:09 PM PDT

The Obama administration sought Friday to shore up already tense U.S. ties with Pakistan amid massive, violent anti-American protests in several Pakistani cities over an anti-Islam film produced in the United States.

Billy Crystal to walk red carpet in N.O.

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:09 PM PDT

Billy Crystal will walk the red carpet for a screening of his latest film, "Parental Guidance," which opens in theaters later this year and co-stars Bette Midler and Marisa Tomei.

Financier to sell Richter painting at NYC auction

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:08 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by Christie's shows A painting by German abstract artist Gerhard Richter that's owned by "king of hedge funds" Steven Cohen is going on the auction block in New York City.
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