2009年11月22日星期日

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Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 04:43 PM PST

This combination of undated photos shows, from left: Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Waleed bin Attash, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi and Ramzi Binalshibh. The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009. (AP Photos)AP - The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.

RI bishop asked Kennedy in 2007 to avoid Communion (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 04:41 PM PST

FILE - Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin, is shown in his office in Providence, R.I, in this Aug. 21, 2008 file photo. Rep. Patrick Kennedy says Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has barred him from receiving communion because of his support of abortion rights. The Providence Journal reported on its Web site Sunday Nov. 22, 2009. Under church rules, Tobin can prevent Kennedy from receiving communion within his diocese, which covers Rhode Island. It's unclear whether bishops outside Rhode Island will take the same path. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)AP - A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker's support for abortion rights.

Victim ID'd in fatal NYC subway seat stabbing (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 02:19 PM PST

AP - A subway passenger stabbed to death in front of horrified straphangers has been identified as 36-year-old Dwight Johnson of Brooklyn.

Senate Democrats at odds over health care bill (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 04:27 PM PST

In this photograph provided by 'Meet the Press,' Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., left, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, appear on 'Meet the Press'' Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009, at the NBC studios in Washington. (AP Photo/Meet The Press, William B. Plowman) MANDATORY CREDIT: WILLIAM B. PLOWMAN, MEET THE PRESS NO SALESAP - Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren't met, while more liberal members warned their party leaders not to bend.

Attorney: Jackson's doctor returning to work (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 03:49 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, Dr. Conrad Murray, a physician for the late pop star Michael Jackson, appears at a child support hearing at Clark County Family Court in Las Vegas. Edward Chernoff, a lawyer for Murray, says the doctor is returning to work at his Houston clinic on Monday Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, Pool, File)AP - Michael Jackson's former personal physician is returning to work at his Houston clinic for the first time since before the pop singer's death, his lawyer said Sunday.

Demonstration at UC Santa Cruz ends peacefully (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 02:21 PM PST

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) student Kendall Brown and other UCLA students and supporters protest as the UC Board of Regents votes to approve a 32 percent tuition hike next year on November 19 in Los Angeles, California.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)AP - Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest.

Lethal injection creator fine with 1 drug in Ohio (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 01:25 PM PST

FILE - In this May 8, 2007 file photo, Dr. Jay Chapman holds a human skull from Nepal that has been hand decorated with silver at his home in Napa, Calif. The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States says he never gave much thought to how many fatal drugs should be used in the process, only that it worked efficiently. Dr. Chapman, now semiretired in California, said Ohio's decision to adopt a one-drug protocol, the first such system in the country, fits that goal. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)AP - The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one — as his home state of Ohio has proposed — as long as the drug works efficiently.

Holidays will again test NYC air travel bottleneck (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 11:28 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2006 file photo, travelers arrive for their flights at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Fewer people are expected to fly this holiday season, but travelers shouldn't expect a full reprieve from the horrid flight delays of Thanksgivings past, especially if they need to land anywhere near New York City. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)AP - Fewer people are expected to fly this holiday season, but travelers shouldn't expect a full reprieve from the horrid flight delays of Thanksgivings past, especially if they need to land anywhere near New York City.

Mammogram guidelines spark debate over health bill (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 12:41 PM PST

AP - Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.

Astronaut's baby daughter born as he circles Earth (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 12:47 PM PST

This image provided by NASA shows Astronaut Randolph Bresnik is pictured near a beverage container floating freely on the aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Atlantis Tuesday Nov. 17, 2009. Bresnik announced early Sunday Nov. 22, 2009 his wife Rebecca gave birth to their second child at 11:04 .p.m. CST Saturday a daughter named Abigail in Houston while he was aboard the International Space Station. Bresnik says both mama and baby are doing very well. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Astronaut Randolph Bresnik jubilantly welcomed his new daughter into the world Sunday as he floated 220 miles above it.

Newspaper circulation may be worse than it looks (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 12:43 PM PST

In this Nov. 14, 2009 photo, a customer purchases a newspaper in Palo Alto, Calif. While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies.

Iraqi refugees move to Mich. despite poor economy (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 09:16 AM PST

In this Friday, Aug. 21, 2009 photo, Iraqi refugee Rawaa Bahoo helps her daughter Maryam, 5, with her hair as Marvin 8, left, and Maryana, 4, right, watch television in Farmington Hills, Mich. The hard-hit Detroit area saw a big jump in Iraqi refugees from other U.S. cities as the national economy eroded during the past year, according to a Michigan-based refugee resettlement agency. Bahoo, 29, came to Michigan in July 2008 just a few days after arriving in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - The U.S. government resettled Mazen Alsaqa in Massachusetts in February. Within a month, the Iraqi refugee moved to Michigan.

NRC investigating radiation at Three Mile Island (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:28 AM PST

AP - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending investigators to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant after a small amount of radiation was detected there.

Va. Military Institute faces sexism accusations (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 08:36 AM PST

AP - Virginia Military Institute is defending itself against a lengthy investigation into accusations that the school's policies are sexist and hostile toward female cadets, a dozen years after women won the right to enroll.

Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 10:53 AM PST

This Oct. 12, 2009 photo shows the scene near where Fred Alvarez was killed near Rancho Mirage, Calif. in 1981. In the days before Fred Alvarez was shot execution-style with two friends on his verandah, the strapping Cabazon tribal leader feared he was a marked man: His motorcycle had been tampered with, his mailbox shot up and his house ransacked. Now, 28 years later, the arrest of a murder suspect has revived the question, which lengthy investigations and a grand jury probe failed to answer. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - In the days before Fred Alvarez was shot execution-style with two friends on his verandah, the strapping Cabazon tribal leader feared he was a marked man: His motorcycle had been tampered with, his mailbox shot up and his house ransacked.

Thousands of strange creatures found deep in ocean (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 12:51 PM PST

This undated photo released by Census of Marine Life and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows a transparent sea cucumber, Enypniastes, creeping forward on its many tentacles at about 2 cm per minute while sweeping detritus-rich sediment into its mouth at 2,750 meters in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of marine species eke out an existence in the ocean's pitch-black depths by feeding on the snowlike decaying matter that cascades down, and even sunken whale bones, according to a report released Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Larry Madin) NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT, EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos" that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits.

Police identify gunman in deadly Saipan rampage (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2009 09:27 AM PST

These undated images provided by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety shows Li Zhongren, 42, a Chinese male who is believed to have started the initial shooting at the Kannat Tabla Shooting Range and who took his own life on Banzai Cliff with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 according to police. Li is believed to be the caretaker of the shooting range. (AP Photo/Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety )AP - The gunman who killed four people and wounded nine in a shooting rampage on the Pacific island of Saipan was identified Sunday as a Chinese national believed to be employed at the shooting range where the deaths occurred.

Biden says Senate handed Obama a big victory (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 08:17 PM PST

Vice President Joe Biden speaks to fellow Democrats at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner, Saturday Nov. 21, 2009 in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Steve Pope)AP - Vice President Joe Biden told Iowa Democrats on Saturday that the Senate handed the president a big victory with its decision to move forward with debate on sweeping legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system.

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