2010年5月6日星期四

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Pakistani Taliban: NY bomb attempt a 'brave' act (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:22 PM PDT

Alioune Niass, right, a vendor from Senegal, unloads his goods in Times Square in New York, Thursday, May 6, 2010.  Niass, who sells at the spot where police defused a car bomb Saturday, says he is concerned about piles of trash. 'I am nervous about it,' he said, pointing to the trash. 'If I had somewhere else to work I would not be here.'  (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - The Pakistani Taliban on Thursday denied any role in the botched car bombing in Times Square but praised the suspect for a "brave job," as New York authorities pressed him on his claims of terrorist training.


BP brings in the big box to deal with oil disaster (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:22 PM PDT

A barrel lid, left, floats amidst weathered oil in the Gulf of Mexico southwest of the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River on the coast of Louisiana, Thursday, May 6, 2010. Oil has spread 40 miles west-southwest of the Mississippi River and 25 miles southeast of Port Fourchon, La. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Workers gathered to begin lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea Thursday in a risky and untested bid to capture most of the gushing crude and avert a wider environmental disaster. "We haven't done this before. It's very complex and we can't guarantee it," BP spokesman David Nicholas warned.


Mosque going up in NYC building damaged on 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:23 PM PDT

This aerial photo of April 20, 2010, shows the New York city block, lower right, where a 13-story mosque is planned for construction two blocks north of the World Trade Center site, center left. The plan for the $100 million mosque and cultural center received initial support on Wednesday, May  5, 2010 from community board 1 in Lower Manhattan. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - In a building damaged by debris from the Sept. 11 airliners that brought down the World Trade Center and soon to become a 13-story mosque, some see the bridging of a cultural divide and an opportunity to serve a burgeoning, peaceful religious population. Others see a painful reminder of the religious extremism that killed their loved ones.


Passenger surrenders after NH bus bomb scare (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:32 PM PDT

A passenger exits a bus after a bomb threat aboard halted it in downtown Portsmouth, N.H. on Thursday May 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - A nine-hour bomb scare aboard a Maine-to-New York Greyhound bus ended peacefully Thursday night when the lone remaining passenger walked off it with his hands over his head. The other 16 passengers and the driver had left the bus safely hours earlier.


Ex-NFL star Lawrence Taylor charged with NY rape (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:42 PM PDT

Former New York Giants linebacker and Pro Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, left, and his attorney, Arthur Aidala, listen to proceedings during Taylor's arraignment at Ramapo Town Court in Suffern, N.Y., Thursday, May 6, 2010. Taylor has been arraigned on rape and prostitution charges in an assault on a 16-year-old runaway who police said was brought to his suburban New York hotel room against her will. (AP Photo/Seth Harrison, Pool)AP - Pro Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor was charged Thursday with raping a 16-year-old runaway who police said was forced into prostitution by a man who had beaten her up.


Arizona to eliminate speed cameras on highways (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 05:35 PM PDT

AP - Arizona is ending a groundbreaking and contentious program that put speed cameras along Phoenix-area freeways and in vans deployed across the state.

Crew couldn't stop oil disaster; can they fix it? (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 03:26 PM PDT

A worker is carried in a personnel basket from the Q4000 to the Joe Griffin in preparation to lower the containment vessel, seen on deck in background, over the oil leak at the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig collapse, Thursday, May 6, 2010.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - The burly, bearded man in overalls settled into the command chair of the Joe Griffin and admired the precious cargo firmly attached to the stern of the supply boat: a four-story box jutting from the deck that will be lowered into the Gulf of Mexico to contain an out-of-control oil gusher.


Va. military jury finds Navy SEAL not guilty (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 03:58 PM PDT

AP - A military jury in Virginia found a Navy SEAL not guilty Thursday on charges of punching a suspected Iraqi terrorist.

Utah court to hear appeal in firing squad case (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:20 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1977  file photo, this is the view the five executioners had for the Gary Gilmore execution at the Utah State Prison, in Point of the Mountain, Utah. View looks through the slot for the rifle pointed toward the chair where Gilmore was seated. A reader-submitted question about how are the members of a firing squad chosen for an execution, like the one that's coming up in Utah? is being answered as part of an Associated Press Q&A column called 'Ask AP.'  (AP Photo/File)AP - The Utah Supreme Court said Thursday it will hear an expedited appeal from a condemned inmate scheduled to be executed by a firing squad.


Shell to court: We're ready to drill Arctic Ocean (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 03:27 PM PDT

AP - Shell Oil is ready to drill in the Arctic Ocean this summer and asked a federal appeals court Thursday to rule quickly on a challenge by environmentalists concerned about the risk of a major spill after the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

Crews put out more than 140 miles of boom for oil (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:33 PM PDT

A shrimp boat near the Chandeleur barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana deploys boom to sweep for oil in an attempt to slow the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Thursday, May 6, 2010.  (AP Photo/David Quinn)AP - An executive with BP PLC says the good weather in the Gulf of Mexico is continuing to help crews clean up the oil and that more than 140 miles of containment boom have been put out.


3 retired couples among those killed by floods (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:53 PM PDT

Rodney Woods, eldest son of Robert J. Woods sits outside his fathers flood ravaged home Thursday, May 6, 2010, in north Nashville, Tenn. Woods, 74, was swept away by flood waters from White's Creek as it raced through the neighborhood during last weekends storms and did not survive. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - One couple was swept away by floodwaters while driving to dinner, part of the routine they cherished in retirement. Another retired couple died on the way to church, while a third pair were found in their inundated home. After decades of marriage, the three husbands and three wives died within hours of each other as weekend storms flooded Tennesee and killed 30 in three states.


Detainee: I'll skip trial if strip searches go on (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:08 PM PDT

A sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin of defendant Omar Khadr during a hearing at the U.S. Military Commissions court for war crimes, at Guantanamo Bay, January 19, 2009. REUTERS/Janet Hamlin/PoolAP - A former Guantanamo Bay detainee described by U.S. authorities as a bomb-making former aide to Osama bin Laden told a judge Thursday that he will waive his right to attend his September trial on terrorism charges if strip search procedures are not relaxed.


3 family members killed by gunman in LA-area home (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:50 PM PDT

A deputy carries a tortoise to safety in a nearby yard after it wandered into the scene of a shooting in which two persons were killed and three others wounded, on Devlin Avenue in the Los Angeles suburb of Hawaiian Gardens, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Six family members escaped a gunman rampaging through their house Thursday by climbing through a window and hiding on a roof as a room-to-room attack left a father, son and daughter dead and the mother critically wounded, authorities said.


First female officers headed to subs feel blessed (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 01:59 PM PDT

Midshipman Jessica Wilcox poses in Bancroft Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Thursday, May 6, 2010.  Wilcox is one of 11 women selected to begin training to become submarine officers this summer in a program that takes at least 15 months. They will report for duty aboard a submarine by 2012.   (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)AP - The first female U.S. Naval Academy graduates who will be able to serve as officers aboard submarines said Thursday they feel ecstatic, thankful and blessed by the chance to break one of the military's last gender barriers.


New AZ immigration bill old hat for 'Sheriff Joe' (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 12:10 PM PDT

FILE- In this Feb. 4, 2009 file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, left, orders approximately 200 convicted illegal immigrants handcuffed together in Tent City in Phoenix for incarceration until their sentences are served and they are deported to their home countries. Arizona's sweeping new law mirrors many of the policies Arpaio has put into place in the greater Phoenix area, where he set up a hot line for the public to report immigration violations, conducts crime and immigration sweeps in heavily Latino neighborhoods and frequently raids workplaces for people in the U.S. illegally. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)AP - Want to know what Arizona's new immigration law will look like in practice? Just ask Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He and his deputies have been stopping people and asking for evidence of their immigration status for years.


Court blocks release of jailed militia members (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 02:11 PM PDT

FILE - This combo of eight file photos provided by the U.S. Marshals Service on Monday March 29, 2010 shows from top left, David Brian Stone Sr., 44, of Clayton, Mich,; David Brian Stone Jr. of Adrian, Mich,; Jacob Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio,; Tina Mae Stone and bottom row from left, Michael David Meeks,  40, of Manchester, Mich,; Kristopher T. Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio; Joshua John Clough, 28, of Blissfield, Mich.; and Thomas William Piatek, 46, of Whiting, Ind. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshall, File)AP - A federal appeals court on Thursday intervened to block the release of nine members of a Michigan militia accused of plotting to overthrow the government, dealing a setback to the defendants as they gathered in a courtroom hoping to rejoin their families.


Conn. man charged with raping immigrant girlfriend (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 02:49 PM PDT

AP - A Connecticut man repeatedly raped his live-in girlfriend, attacked her with a machete and called her his slave after paying for her move to the United States from her native Guatemala, according to an arrest affidavit.

Gay couples ask judge to toss US marriage law (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 12:44 PM PDT

A small group of protesters, including Virginia Saxton, of Washington, center, pray near the D.C. Court of Appeals where arguments were being weighed about gay marriage in the city, in Washington, on Tuesday, May 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Seven gay couples and three widowers who married in Massachusetts after it became the first state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage went to court Thursday to challenge the constitutionality of a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.


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