2008年11月12日星期三

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AP Interview: Foley breaks silence on sex scandal (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 03:04 AM CST

Former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., is interviewed in New York, Monday Nov. 10, 2008. Even two years after Mark Foley's public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid computer messages to former male Capitol Hill pages. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages.

Gay couples to start to marry in Connecticut (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 03:54 AM CST

Same-sex couple Kristina Haas, right, and Jennifer Briz walk out of a clerk's office after they were denied marriage by a city clerk at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008. Voters put a stop to same-sex marriage in California, dealing a crushing defeat to gay-rights activists in a state they hoped would be a vanguard and putting in doubt as many as 18,000 same-sex marriages conducted since a court ruling made them legal this year. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - While there's anger and recriminations in California's gay-rights movement after voters there banned same-sex marriage, gay couples in Connecticut are at the opposite extreme: They're getting ready to pick up marriage license forms.

Police: Woman slain as she tried to leave KKK rite (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 03:20 AM CST

This photo provided by St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office shows Raymond Foster, the head of a Ku Klux Klan chapter from Bogalusa, La. Foster was booked into St. Tammany Parish jail in Covington, La., with second-degree murder charges in the death of a woman in rural St. Tammany Parish on Monday after she tried to back out of a KKK initiation ritual. (AP Photo/St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office)AP - After a Ku Klux Klan initiation at a Louisiana campsite went awry, authorities said, a recruit who tried to back out was shot dead. The body of the woman, who traveled from Oklahoma, was dumped on a rural roadside and covered with brush. Her belongings were set aflame.

Catholic bishops will fight Obama on abortion (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 12:14 AM CST

Bishop Dale J. Melczek of Gary, Ind., front left, and Archbishop John C. Nienstedt of St. Paul-Minneapolis, right, pray during the semi-annual meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008 in Baltimore. The bishops discussed today Catholic politicians and abortion rights. (AP Photo/ Steve Ruark)AP - The nation's Roman Catholic bishops vowed Tuesday to forcefully confront the Obama administration over its support for abortion rights, saying the church and religious freedom could be under attack in the new presidential administration.

Edwards speaks about Obama, Clinton but not affair (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 12:15 AM CST

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards speaks at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008 three months after he acknowledged an affair with a woman hired to produce videos of him in 2006. The former North Carolina senator and 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee has largely stayed in exile since admitting the affair. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - John Edwards didn't have to dodge tough questions from an Indiana University audience Tuesday, when the former presidential candidate returned to the stage three months after admitting to an extramarital affair.

God, humbug: Humanist holiday ads say just be good (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 06:02 PM CST

AP - You better watch out. There is a new combatant in the Christmas wars.

Criticism mounts among gays over Calif. ban (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 05:00 PM CST

AP - California's gay-rights movement has been beset by infighting and finger-pointing since the defeat of gay marriage at the ballot box, with some activists questioning the campaign's mild tactics, including the decision not to show same-sex couples in ads.

Ark. blacks can't break state, Congress barrier (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 09:26 PM CST

Barack Obama speaks during a townhall discussion in Flint, Michigan, in September 2008. In the days following Barack Obama's historic victory in the US presidential election, the grassroots movements that helped propel him to White House could easily have rested on their laurels or even packed up shop. But there was no let-up in their effort.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AP - Arkansas remains the only state from the former Confederacy not to elect an African-American to Congress or any statewide office since Reconstruction — and last week it soundly rejected the man set to become the nation's first black president.

Ohio grandma gives birth to daughter's triplets (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 06:47 PM CST

In this photo provided by Hillcrest Hospital, Jacilyn Dalenberg, left, her daughter, Kim Coseno, right, and Coseno's husband Joe Coseno, pose with the triplets carried and delivered by Dalenburg as a surrogate in this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2008 in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. Dalenberg decided that if she could help her daughter have a baby she would do it. But at 56, Dalenberg was an unlikely person to serve as a surrogate. Now, a month after three baby girls were born, Dalenberg is recovering from a Caesarean section and proud to call the triplets her granddaughters.(AP Photo/Hillcrest Hospital)AP - A 56-year-old woman who gave birth to her triplet granddaughters a month ago is recovering from a Caesarean section and hopeful that one of the girls will be home from the hospital by Saturday.

Even rich Harvard is strained by market downturn (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 04:56 PM CST

This undated photo released by the Harvard Law School shows Langdell Hall at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/ Harvard Law School)AP - You know the financial meltdown is bad when even Harvard is feeling the pinch.

Bankrupt Montana resort for ultra-rich owes $343M (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 06:50 PM CST

AP - Court documents show the exclusive Yellowstone Club resort in Montana owes an estimated $343 million to creditors such as banks and local contractors.

Anti-abortion groups jolted by election defeats (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 03:42 PM CST

In a Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 photo, Samantha Scarlata and her son Kade cheer for the cameras at the Vote Yes for Life election celebration in Sioux Falls, S.D. With Democrats now in full control in Washington, tactics for anti-abortion groups are likely to refocus on street protests, grass-roots activism and state legislation. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer)AP - Despite election setbacks on many fronts, anti-abortion leaders sound more defiant than deflated as they brace for a future with fewer friends in high places.

Mormon comments give gays hope for new Utah laws (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 02:24 PM CST

REFILE - ADDING SECOND SENTENCE Demonstrators for AP - Gay-rights activists see opportunities for their cause in Utah thanks to Mormon church officials, who strongly supported California's proposition denying same-sex couples the right to marry but said they did not object to granting those couples certain other rights.

Analyst: California faces $28 billion deficit (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 05:46 PM CST

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger discusses his proposed 1.5 percent sales tax increase during a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. Schwarzenegger proposed the sales tax increase, along with cuts to the current state budget, to help deal with California's fiscal crisis, which has created an $11.2 billion deficit.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - California's budget deficit will grow to $28 billion through June 2010 unless lawmakers take bold action, possibly including a hike in the state income tax, the Legislature's nonpartisan analyst said Tuesday.

Sheriff banning off-duty deputies from carrying guns when drinking (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 01:06 PM CST

AP - The sheriff of Los Angeles County plans to prohibit his off-duty deputies from carrying their guns while drinking because several have been accused in recent years of firing weapons while intoxicated.

Part-time veterans' nurses getting full pensions (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 05:07 PM CST

AP - For Mary Ann Mackin, a retired nurse, this Veterans Day has new meaning: It marks the official end of a 20-year battle with the U.S. government over pensions for nurses who cared for the nation's veterans.

Study: Exercise offers little to heart patients (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 04:55 PM CST

AP - Exercise can do a lot of good for most people, but it apparently isn't much help to those with heart failure, the fastest-growing heart problem in the United States.

Fat kids found to have arteries of 45-year-olds (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 04:34 PM CST

A young boy in a nutritional reeducation center in 2004. The neck arteries of obese children and teenagers experience similar strain as those of middle-aged adults, US researchers said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Francois Guillot)AP - Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside.

Cold front could thwart Friday's shuttle launch (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 04:15 PM CST

Crew member Sandra Magnus of the space shuttle Endeavour climbs from a NASA T-38 jet as she arrived with other crew members to prepare for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida November 11, 2008. (Scott Audette/Reuters)AP - An approaching cold front could thwart NASA's plans to launch space shuttle Endeavour on Friday on a flight to the international space station.

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