Sunday, October 21, 2012

Bomb unit arrives at scene of Wisconsin shooting

Bomb unit arrives at scene of Wisconsin shooting

Bomb unit arrives at scene of Wisconsin shooting

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:46 PM PDT

Police and swat team members respond to a call of a shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday , Oct. 21, 2012. Multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at the spa near the Brookfield Square Mall. Deputies are still looking for the gunman. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)Deputies searched Sunday for a shooter after multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at a spa near a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall.

Obama, Romney allies square off on foreign policy

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:39 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks before the start of a flag football game between between reporters that cover Romney, and Romney staff on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 in Delray Beach, Fla. Romney took a short break from debate preparations to do the opening coin toss, and watch the first play of the game. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)On the eve of their final presidential debate, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama — through their allies — squared off Sunday over which candidate would best protect the nation's interests and security abroad with just two weeks left in a race that polls show is increasingly tight.

Romney won't say if he's open to 1-on-1 Iran talks

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:38 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney arrives on the beach to watch a flag football game between reporters that cover Romney, and Romney staff on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 in Delray Beach, Fla. Romney took a short break from debate preparations to do the coin toss, and watch the first play of the game. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)Republican Mitt Romney on Sunday refused to say if he would be open to one-on-one talks with Iran if elected president.

Hendrick: Earnhardt cleared, will race next week

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:31 PM PDT

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be back on the track next weekend at Martinsville Speedway.

Israel swaps missile drills for earthquake rehearsal

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Israeli soldiers stand on rubble during an earthquake drill near Tel AvivJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel dropped its annual simulation of a missile attack and held its first major earthquake drill on Sunday instead, but officials insisted the country remained as ready as ever for the possibility of a war with arch-foe Iran. School children, civil servants and others participating in the "Turning Point 6" exercise were urged to flee outdoors if possible as radio and TV channels broadcast tremor alerts. In previous years, people were told to go to household bomb shelters in order to flee an imaginary missile attack. ...

Psst, taxes go up in 2013 for 163 million workers

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:26 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2012 file photo, Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. speaks during the vice presidential debate with Vice President Joe Biden at Centre Colleg, in Danville, Ky. A temporary reduction in Social Security payroll taxes is due to expire at the end of the year and hardly anyone in Washington is pushing to extend it. Neither Obama nor Romney has proposed an extension, and it probably wouldn't get through Congress anyway, with lawmakers in both parties down on the idea. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)President Barack Obama isn't talking about it and neither is Mitt Romney. But come January, 163 million workers can expect to feel the pinch of a big tax increase regardless of who wins the election.

Soldiers' arrest marks shift in Guatemala

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:25 PM PDT

In this Oct. 11, 2012 photo, detained soldiers waits to testify at their court hearing related to the killing of Indian protesters in Guatemala City. Nine soldiers were arrested in connection with the Oct. 4, 2012 killings of Indians from the town of Totonicapan who were protesting high electricity prices on the highway. Experts said the recent actions mark a dramatic shift in a country once known for its reluctance to punish its military. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Chanting and waving signs in protest of high electricity prices, thousands of unarmed indigenous demonstrators blockaded a highway in western Guatemala, forcing a standoff with police. Two truckloads of soldiers arrived and gunfire erupted, killing eight protesters and wounding 34.

Deputies search for suspect in Wis. mall shooting

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:21 PM PDT

Police and swat team members respond to a call of a shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday , Oct. 21, 2012. Multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at the spa near the Brookfield Square Mall. Deputies are still looking for the gunman. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)Deputies searched Sunday for a shooter after multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at a spa near a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall.

Fidel Castro alive and well: Chavez aide

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:21 PM PDT

Venezuela's former Vice President Elias Jaua shows a picture of himself and former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in HavanaHAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro is alive and well, according to Elias Jaua, a former Venezuelan vice president who says he met with Castro over the weekend. Squelching rumors that Castro was at death's door, Jaua, a key aide to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on Sunday showed reporters pictures of the Saturday meeting and said Castro, 86, was in good health and lucid. Jaua, who is running for governor in Venezuela's contested state of Miranda, said Castro accompanied him to Havana's famed Hotel National early on Saturday evening after their meeting. ...

Autopsy: NYC woman slashed, stabbed to death

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:20 PM PDT

Pedestrians walk past New Dimension Church in New York, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. Vindalee Smith, 38, who was eight months pregnant and was found stabbed to death Saturday in her apartment, was to supposedbe married in this church today, police said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)Authorities say a pregnant woman killed in her New York City apartment the day before her wedding died from slash and stab wounds to her neck.

Spain's Rajoy gets mixed message in regional votes

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:20 PM PDT

Spain's PM Mariano Rajoy gestures during an electoral meeting of People's Party in VigoMADRID, Spain (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy secured backing for his austerity drive in a vote in his home region of Galicia on Sunday, but a clear win for nationalist parties in the Basque Country could soon prove a headache for the central government. According to exit polls, Spain's ruling centre-right People's Party was set to retain its absolute majority and government in Galicia with 39 to 42 seats in the regional parliament compared with 18 to 20 seats for the Socialist Party and 15 to 18 seats for two nationalist parties. ...

Jordan foils Qaeda plot, arrests 11 militants: state TV

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:18 PM PDT

Handout pictures of al Qaeda-linked suspects detained by Jordanian security forcesAMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan foiled a major plot by an al Qaeda-linked cell to destabilize the key U.S. ally's security by bombing shopping centers and assassinating Western diplomats, state television said on Sunday. Security forces detained 11 suspects in connection with a plot going on since June to carry out attacks in the capital Amman using smuggled weapons and explosives brought from Syria, according to security officials cited by television. "Their plans included getting explosives and mortars from Syria," a security source told Reuters. ...

NHL, union still talking but not negotiating

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:16 PM PDT

While the NHL and the players' association are keeping the lines of communication open, they don't seem to be moving any closer to getting back to the bargaining table.

Low vote turnout, gains by rebels deal blow to West Bank leaders

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:16 PM PDT

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Gains by splittists and a low turnout have dealt a blow to Fatah, the dominant party in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which had hoped to paper over internal squabbles and a lack of cash with a strong election showing. The long-delayed elections for control of 94 West Bank towns and villages took place on Saturday for the first time in six years and were in many ways a vote of confidence in Mahmoud Abbas, the Western-backed president and Fatah chief, and his inner circle. ...

You betcha: Fargo awaits TV version of hit movie

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this 1996 file publicity photo originally released by Gramercy Pictures, actress Frances McDormand, left, is shown in this scene from the movie "Fargo." When the movie debuted in 1996, many residents in the North Dakota city were not fans of the film's dark humor, not to mention the heavy accents. But the fame and cash from the movie eventually brought many Fargo residents around. Now, 16 years later, Fargo awaits the debut of a new cable television show by the same name. And many residents are less apprehensive about how their hometown will be portrayed this time around. (AP Photo/Gramercy Pictures, File) NO SALESAsk folks in Fargo what they first thought about the 1996 movie that made their city famous, and some will tell you they were not fans.

Democrats criticize Republican for leaking sensitive Libya papers

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:12 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate's number two Democrat and others in his party criticized a Republican House of Representatives committee chairman on Sunday for releasing government documents related to last month's violent attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. Senator Richard Durbin charged that Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, had politicized the Benghazi events during a presidential election campaign, in particular by releasing sensitive papers with the names of Libyans who have worked with the United States. ...

Qatar's emir to head to Hamas-ruled Gaza

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:09 PM PDT

Palestinian tailors Eyad Absi, left and Salama Ashour make Qatari flags in a shop for Tuesday's official visit of the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani in Gaza City, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)The ruler of Qatar is expected in the Gaza Strip this week, in what would be a major stamp of legitimacy for the territory's Islamic militant Hamas rulers.

Jordan says it foils al-Qaida-linked terror plot

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:07 PM PDT

Jordanian authorities have arrested 11 suspected al-Qaida-linked militants for allegedly planning to attack shopping malls and Western diplomatic missions in the country, the government said Sunday.

Blue Jays trade manager John Farrell to Red Sox

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:04 PM PDT

FILE - This 2010, file photo shows Boston Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell. The Red Sox are preparing to announce that John Farrell will be their new manager, according to a baseball official with knowledge of the deal to bring the former Boston pitching coach back one year after the ballclub first tried to give him the top job. The announcement was delayed by the unusual logistics of hiring a manager under contract with another team, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the final procedural steps had not been cleared. But the three-year deal to replace Bobby Valentine could be announced as soon as Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 the official said. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)The Boston Red Sox hired John Farrell to be their new manager on Sunday, obtaining their former pitching coach from the Blue Jays in a trade for infielder Mike Aviles.

Fork in the road as U.S. outstrips Europe

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 12:02 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Slowly but surely, the global economy is witnessing a modest parting of the ways as the United States pulls ahead of a euro zone still shell-shocked by its debt and banking crisis. To be sure, a slew of reports this week will show neither America nor Europe in great shape. But while advance October surveys of purchasing managers are likely to confirm the euro zone stuck in recession, U.S. economic growth probably picked up to a 1.8 percent rate in the third quarter from 1.3 percent between April and June, according to a Reuters poll. ...

Saints LB Vilma active for game vs. Tampa Bay

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:57 AM PDT

New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma runs off the field after the coin flip before an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)New Orleans linebacker Jonathan Vilma made his debut Sunday while appealing a suspension for his role in the Saints bounty program.

In race to 270, it may come down to 106 counties

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:43 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio. This year, the presidential race may come down to an even narrower slice of the electorate than simply the nine states where both Obama and Romney are aggressively competing: Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)How Virginia goes in the presidential election may come down to voters who live amid the small wineries, affluent subdivisions and Civil War battlegrounds of Loudoun County.

Debate moderating: a thankless job

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:41 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 23, 2009 file photo, CBS newsman Bob Schieffer, right,arrives for Walter Cronkite's funeral at St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Ave. in New York. Beneath Schieffer's Southern charm is the tough spine of someone used to dealing with politicians. The moderator of Monday's final presidential debate will need it, because it has been open season on the other journalists who have done that job this campaign. Thanks to a bitter campaign rivalry, thriving partisan media outlets and the growth of social media, debate moderator is approaching baseball umpire on the scale of thankless jobs. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)Beneath Bob Schieffer's Southern charm is the tough spine of someone used to dealing with politicians. The moderator of Monday's final presidential debate will need it, because it has been open season on the other journalists who have done that job this campaign.

Fighting flares for 5th day in Libyan town

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:36 AM PDT

Demonstrators shout their defiance after militiamen acting as police fire in the air in an attempt to disperse their protest in front of Libya's parliament. A few hundred protesters from the Libyan town of Bani Walid rallied in front of parliament in Tripoli against the weeks of siege of their hometown before soldiers fired heavy machine guns in the air to disperse the crowd. (AP Photo/Paul Schemm)Pro-government militias battled fighters in a former stronghold of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi on Sunday, the fifth straight day of clashes that have killed at least 30 people.

Obama immigration stance locks in Hispanic support

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:32 AM PDT

Aida Castillo places a sticker on her blouse indicating that she had voted during the early voting period, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, in Las Vegas. In the heavily-Hispanic neighborhoods of Las Vegas, unemployment is high and home values are down. But President Barack Obama's immigration stand has locked in support from a fast-growing demographic group that has been trending sharply Democratic in the wake of increasingly hard-line Republican positions on immigration. Part of the reason is his executive order that allows people brought into the country illegally as children to avoid deportation if they graduate high school or join the military. The president's campaign is counting on Hispanics providing the margin of victory not just in Nevada, but in other swing states such as Colorado, Iowa, Virginia and North Carolina. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)Elizabeth Alvisar is exactly the sort of voter Mitt Romney needs.

Analysis : Killing of security chief raises fears for Lebanon

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:24 AM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Beirut car bomb that killed a top Lebanese security official will probably prove to be the most destabilizing attack in Lebanon since the 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri. What is less clear - and this is something that instills fear in a society still scarred by its 1975-90 civil war - is whether the attack was a reprisal or the start of a campaign of violence by Damascus and its allies, suspected by many Lebanese of trying to spread Syria's conflict across its borders. ...

BP backs deal to swap TNK-BP for Rosneft stake

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:21 AM PDT

The board of U.K. energy company BP PLC has struck a deal to swap its troublesome Russian oil venture TNK-BP for a big stake in Rosneft, the Kremlin-controlled energy company, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday.

Deputies on scene of shooting at Wisconsin mall

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:11 AM PDT

Multiple people were wounded in a shooting near a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall on Sunday, and deputies were still looking for the gunman.

Tide is AP No. 1 for school-best 8th straight week

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:11 AM PDT

Alabama wide receiver Amari Cooper (9) and teammate Kenny Bell (7) celebrate a touchdown during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game against Tennessee, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)Alabama has run its streak of weeks at No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll to eight, the longest stay atop the rankings by the Crimson Tide.

Taliban deny their bombs cause most Afghan deaths

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:06 AM PDT

Afghan National Civil Order Policemen (ANCAP) patrol in Marjah, southern Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct 21, 2012. A string of attacks by Afghan police and armymen against their own colleagues and international forces has spiked in recent months. The latest attack occurred Oct 20, killing six Afghan policemen. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)The Taliban dismissed on Sunday a UN report that roadside bombs are causing most civilian casualties in Afghanistan as "Western propaganda."

Funeral for slain Lebanon official ends in clashes

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Lebanese protesters are enveloped in tear gas as they pull a barbed-wire barrier during clashes after the funeral of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan who was assassinated on Friday by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday Oct. 21, 2012. Lebanese soldiers fired guns and tear gas to push back hundreds of protesters who broke through a police cordon and tried to storm the government headquarters in Beirut. The enraged crowd came from the funeral of a top Lebanese intelligence official assassinated in a massive car bombing.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Lebanese security forces unleashed a barrage of gunfire and tear gas in central Beirut on Sunday to disperse hundreds of protesters trying to storm the government headquarters after the funeral of a top Lebanese intelligence official killed by a car bomb.

Few answers so far in pregnant NYC woman's death

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 10:56 AM PDT

Pedestrians walk past New Dimension Church in New York, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. Vindalee Smith, 38, who was eight months pregnant and was found stabbed to death Saturday in her apartment, was to supposedbe married in this church today, police said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)Neighbors of a pregnant woman found stabbed to death in her New York City apartment the day before her wedding say she had only moved in a few weeks ago.

Ex Venezuelan VP says he met with Fidel Castro

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 10:53 AM PDT

ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XRE101.- Former Venezuelan Vice President Elias Jaua shows a picture of Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, third from left, at the Hotel Nacional in Havana Sunday Oct. 21, 2012. According to Jaua, the picture was taken Saturday Oct. 20, 2012 inside a van outside the hotel. A top executive of the hotel told the AP 86-year-old Fidel Castro appeared in public for the first time in months at the hotel Saturday challenging persistent rumors that the aging revolutionary is near death. Others in the picture being held by Jaua are, Antonio Martinez, director of the Hotel Nacional, center, Castro's wife, Dalia Soto del Valle, second from right, and Jaua at right. The two women at left are unidentified.(AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)HAVANA (AP) — Former Venezuelan Vice President Elias Jaua said Sunday that he met with aging revolutionary icon Fidel Castro for five hours and showed The Associated Press photos of the encounter, quashing persistent rumors that the former Cuban leader was on his deathbed or had suffered a massive stroke.

Jordan says its foils al-Qaida-linked terror plot

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 10:52 AM PDT

Jordan says authorities have arrested 11 suspected al-Qaida-linked militants for allegedly planning to attack shopping malls and Western diplomatic missions in the country.

Clinton speaks to Lebanon PM, agrees to aid bomb probe

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 10:51 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikhail on Sunday to reiterate U.S. condemnation of Friday's deadly car bombing in Beirut, and the two agreed that Washington would help investigate the attack. In a phone call with Mikati, Clinton called the attack that killed intelligence chief Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan and others "heinous" and offered condolences, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said. ...

Autopsy pending on body at Calif. shooting scene

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 10:41 AM PDT

Inglewood emergency personnel respond to the scene where a man, wearing a mask, set a duplex on fire and then shot five members of a family on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 in Inglewood, Calif. A father and his 4-year-old son were killed and a woman and two other young children were wounded by the gunman, authorities said. A 6-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl were in critical condition, Inglewood Police Chief Mark Fronterotta said. The woman, said to be the children's mother, was being treated for gunshot wounds to the knee and pelvis. An 8-year-old boy was uninjured. (AP Photo/The Daily Breeze, Chuck Bennett) MAGS OUT; NO SALES MBOAn autopsy was pending on a charred body found in the Southern California bungalow belonging to a gunman accused of breaking into a neighbor's home and shooting five family members, killing two of them.

Car bomb kills 13 in Syrian capital

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 10:40 AM PDT

A Syrian man looks at a damaged cars at the site after a car bomb attack in Bab Touma neighborhood, a popular shopping district largely inhabited by Syria's Christian minority in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. A taxi rigged with explosives blew up outside a police station in the Syrian capital Sunday, killing at least 13 people even as the U.N. envoy to the nation's crisis was visiting Damascus to push his call for a cease-fire in talks with President Bashar Assad. The SANA state news agency said tens of people were wounded. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)A taxi packed with explosives blew up near a police station in the Syrian capital Sunday, killing 13 people as the U.N. envoy tasked with ending the country's civil war pushed his call for a cease-fire in talks with President Bashar Assad.

Box-office activity slows for 'Paranormal,' Perry

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 10:36 AM PDT

Scary movie fans are still into "Paranormal Activity," though the horror franchise looks as though it's starting to run out of steam at the box office.

Assad tells Syria envoy arms flows to rebels must stop

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 10:36 AM PDT

Syria's President Assad meets U.N.-Arab League peace envoy for Syria Brahimi in DamascusDAMASCUS (Reuters) - A car bomb killed 13 people in central Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad told an international mediator seeking a truce in Syria's civil war that the key to any political solution was to stop arming rebels. The bomb exploded outside a police station in the mainly Christian central Bab Touma district of the capital while Assad held talks with United Nations-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who is pushing for a temporary ceasefire to mark the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha. ...

Cameron on ropes after "catastrophic" week

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 10:30 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Cameron gestures at a news conference at the end of a European Union leaders summit in BrusselsLONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron is under pressure to reassert his authority over a Conservative Party reeling after a week which saw the resignation of a senior minister and claims of incompetence and elitism at the heart of his government. After one of the most bruising weeks for the centre-right party since it took power in a coalition in 2010, the Conservatives have slipped further behind their Labour rivals, polls showed on Sunday. The next election is due in 2015. ...
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