2009年5月26日星期二

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Burris pleads on taped call for Senate appointment (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 05:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2009 file photo, U.S. Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill. speaks at the City Club of Chicago. The U.S. Senate Ethics Committee will be allowed to listen to a federal wiretap of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's brother having a phone conversation with U.S. Sen. Roland Burris, who has been under scrutiny over the circumstances of his appointment, a federal judge said Tuesday. The conversation between Burris and the former governor's brother occurred while Blagojevich was still governor and before he named Burris to President Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - Transcripts from a call taped by the FBI show Sen. Roland Burris pleaded to be appointed to the U.S. Senate and promised to "personally do something" in response to a fundraising appeal on behalf of then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Mike Tyson's daughter dies after hanging accident (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 05:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken on Monday, Sept. 24, 2007, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson leaves Superior Court after pleading guilty to charges of drug possession and driving under the influence stemming from a traffic stop last year as he was leaving a nightclub in Mesa, Ariz. Tyson's 4-year-old daughter is on life support after she was found with her neck on a treadmill cable at their Phoenix home Monday May 25, 2009, police said. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)AP - The 4-year-old daughter of boxer Mike Tyson died at a hospital Tuesday, a day her neck apparently got caught in a treadmill cord at her Phoenix home, police said.

California high court upholds gay marriage ban (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 04:55 PM PDT

Michael Jackson, left, and Pablo Pollard embrace outside of the state supreme court building in San Francisco, Tuesday, May 26, 2009. The California Supreme Court upheld a voter approved ban on same-sex marriage Tuesday. Jackson and Pollard married in San Francisco in October 2008. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - California's Supreme Court upheld the state's gay-marriage ban Tuesday but said the 18,000 same-sex weddings that took place before the prohibition passed are still valid — a ruling decried by gay-rights activists as a hollow victory. Demonstrators outside the court booed, wept and yelled, "Shame on you!" Activists said they would go back to the voters as early as next year in a bid to repeal the ban.

NY judge rises from projects to the Supreme Court (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 04:06 PM PDT

FILE - This 2003 photo provided by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York shows U.S. Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Officials tell The Associated Press that President Barack Obama intends to nominate Sotomayor as the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Ron Jordan Natoli Studio) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALESAP - Sonia Sotomayor's ascent to the nation's highest court began in a Bronx housing project, fed by Nancy Drew, inspired by Perry Mason and encouraged by her hardworking immigrant mother.

Govt announces money for green jobs and training (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 03:06 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden speaks as he chairs a Middle Task Force Meeting at the Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, on Tuesday, May 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - Vice President Joe Biden and two Cabinet secretaries unveiled a national program Tuesday to train workers for "green jobs" that will make public housing more energy-efficient.

Chef jailed 2 nights has same name as drug suspect (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 03:30 PM PDT

AP - A retired chef was arrested and jailed for two nights based on a federal indictment of a man with an identical name who is a suspected heroin dealer linked to a Southern California street gang.

Vast US illegal drug market fuels Mexican cartels (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 01:37 PM PDT

This picture taken May 18, 2009, provided by Vincent James Petti III, shows David Hart posing outside the Springs Rescue Mission, a charity whose programs include substance-abuse counseling for drug-addicted homeless men. Hart, 49, said he had been abusing drugs since he was 14, but hopes treatment he started in January at the rescue mission will help him break the addiction. (AP Photo/Courtesy Vincent James Petti III)AP - The Mexican drug cartels battling viciously to expand and survive have a powerful financial incentive: Across the border to the north is a market for illegal drugs unsurpassed for its wealth, diversity and voraciousness.

Suspect beaten by Birmingham, Ala., police sues (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 03:35 PM PDT

AP - Five Birmingham police officers who were caught on video beating a suspect are being sued.

As judge, Sotomayor called baseball dispute (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 04:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 31, 1995 file photo, Donald Fehr, executive director of the Major League baseball Players Association, leave U.S. District Court in New York, following a brief news conference after a federal judge ruled against the baseball team owners. Baseball players found a friend in Sonia Sotomayor in 1995. The federal district judge tapped for the Supreme Court ruled against the sport's owners in a strike that had led to the cancellation of the World Series. She issued an injunction to keep work rules in place from the expired labor agreement. (AP Photo/Joe Tabacca, File)AP - Long before she was a Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor was an umpire between baseball players and team owners.

C-O-I-N-C-I-D-E-N-C-E? Spellers united by dreams (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 04:04 PM PDT

Sidarth Chand, 13, of Bloomfield Hills, Ind., studies for the Scripps National Spelling Bee, in Washington, on Tuesday, May 26, 2009. He hopes to one day become a neurosurgeon. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - The reigning national spelling champion is a 14-year-old kid whose one-liners kept everyone laughing a year ago. His parents moved to the United States from central India, and he wants to be a neurosurgeon when he grows up.

Dalai Lama offers $100K to FIU religion department (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 02:49 PM PDT

FILE -- In this April 24, 2009 file photo, Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama speaks during a news conference in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Dalai Lama has offered $100,000 to help an imperiled religion department at a Florida university after receiving an e-mailed plea for a letter of support from a longtime acquaintance on the faculty. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)AP - The Dalai Lama has offered $100,000 to help an imperiled religion department at a Florida university after receiving an e-mailed plea for a letter of support from a longtime acquaintance on the faculty.

Strapped states cut smoking-prevention funds (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 02:30 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, May 20, 2009 photo, stop smoking materials are on display in Berlin, Vt. Smokers who want to kick the habit may find themselves increasingly on their own. Cash-strapped state governments are slashing funding for tobacco prevention and cessation programs. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - After 30 years smoking Marlboros, 53-year-old hospital maintenance man Dave Hanna was ready to quit.

Crime may pay for SC con who got cushy jail stay (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 11:09 AM PDT

This undated photo released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Kevin Bell, 42. While serving time for cocaine trafficking, Bell was so trusted by his jailers that he ran a business washing county cars, was driven by an officer to shop at Wal-Mart and was allowed to eat dinner at his parents' house. (AP Photo/South Carolina Dept. of Corrections)AP - Like plenty of fathers, Kevin Bell took his young daughter to Chuck E. Cheese's for her birthday. He just had to get a ride from his jail cell to do it.

2 names for defendant in Mass. 'Rockefeller' trial (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 01:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2008 file photo, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who calls himself Clark Rockefeller, arrives for a hearing at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Rockefeller's kidnapping trial is set to begin Tuesday, May 26, 2009, in Suffolk Superior Court. (AP Photo/Ted Fitzgerald, Pool, file)AP - A man accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter from a Boston street last summer insists his name is Clark Rockefeller. Prosecutors say his real name is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a German national who used the famous Rockefeller name to ingratiate himself into wealthy society.

OJ Simpson appeals Vegas armed robbery conviction (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 01:10 PM PDT

FILE- In this Friday, Oct. 3, 2008 picture, O.J. Simpson arrives to court before being found guilty on all 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Simpson appealed Tuesday, May 26, 2009 to the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn his convictions for armed robbery and kidnapping during a a Las Vegas hotel room confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers. (AP Photo/Daniel Gluskoter, Pool)AP - O.J. Simpson has appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn his convictions for armed robbery and kidnapping during a a Las Vegas hotel room confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers.

NYPD seeks clues to small explosion at Starbucks (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 01:01 PM PDT

In this video frame grab image taken from WABC-TV via AP Television News, police respond at the scene of an early morning explosion at a Stabucks coffee shop on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York, Monday May 25, 2009. The explosion, which occurred at around 3:30 a.m., shattered the shop's windows, but no injuries were reported. The shop was closed at the time. Police are trying to determine what caused the blast. (AP Photo/WABC-TV via APTN)AP - Police combed surveillance footage Tuesday and hunted for additional video that might have captured a small explosion near a Starbucks on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

US, Canadian officials sign law enforcement pact (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 01:16 PM PDT

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Wally Silver, left, talks with U.S Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. James Marquez prior to a news conference with Canadian Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in Detroit, Tuesday, May 26, 2009. A pact, know as the Shiprider program, was signed that will allow officers with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and U.S. Coast Guard to ride each others' vessels for joint patrols and specific enforcement operations. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - The United States and Canada adopted an agreement Tuesday to allow law enforcement authorities of both nations to share personnel and cross the border more easily to fight human, drug and weapon smuggling on waterways that separate them.

OSHA cites Wal-Mart in NY worker's '08 crowd death (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 04:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2008 file photo, Nassau County Police examine the front of the Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y. where Jdimytai Damour, a temporary Wal-Mart worker, died after a throng of unruly shoppers broke down the doors and trampled him moments after the Long Island store opened for day-after-Thanksgiving bargain hunting. Wal-Mart on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 agreed to pay nearly $2 million and improve safety at its 92 New York stores as part of a deal with prosecutors that avoids criminal charges in the trampling death of a temporary worker last year. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, file)AP - The death of a temporary employee who was crushed in a stampede of post-Thanksgiving shoppers at a Wal-Mart store could have been prevented, federal officials said Tuesday as they proposed fining the world's largest retailer $7,000 — as much money as it makes in about 18 seconds.

EPA announces dioxin review, plans for Dow cleanup (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 03:33 PM PDT

AP - The federal government will speed up a long-delayed assessment of how dioxins affect human health, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency head said Tuesday.

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