2010年2月1日星期一

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Toyota has fix for gas pedals; repairs this week (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 06:08 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2010 file photo, Jim Lentz, president of Toyota Motor sales USA, speaks at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday, Feb. 1, 2010, its dealers should get parts to fix a sticky gas pedal problem this week as the automaker tries to bring an end to a recall that has affected 4.2 million vehicles worldwide.(AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)AP - Toyota apologized to its customers Monday and said a piece of steel about the size of a postage stamp will fix the gas pedal problem that led to the recall of millions of cars. Repairs will take about a half-hour and will start in a matter of days, the company said.

Stars gather to cover 'We Are the World' for Haiti (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 06:40 PM PST

FILE - In this June 19, 2009 file photo, multi-Grammy winning musician Quincy Jones attends an event at Fudan University in Shanghai. China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)AP - More than 75 mega-stars gathered Monday to re-record the 1985 charity anthem "We are the World" in the same Hollywood recording studio where the original was cut 25 years ago.

Arrest of Americans deepens Haiti adoption debate (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 05:22 PM PST

U.S. citizens arrested for their involvement in a suspected illegal adoption scheme pose in a judicial police station in Port-au-Prince January 31, 2010. REUTERS/St-Felix EvensAP - The debate over international adoption, already a bitter one, has intensified in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake and the arrest of 10 Americans for trying to take children out of the devastated country without permission.

US attorney leaves Landrieu phone caper case (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 06:08 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009, file photo, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., right, talks with an aide on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democrats say they never saw it coming, but the breakdown of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was abetted by their own mistakes. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - The top federal prosecutor for New Orleans removed himself on Monday from the case of four conservative activists arrested last week while trying to capture hidden camera footage in a senator's office.

Vt nuke plant leaks renew debate over aging plants (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 02:47 PM PST

In this photo taken June 9, 2009, the spent fuel pool is seen at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vt. The discovery of radioactive tritium at a Vermont nuclear plant brings to at least 28 the number of tainted U.S. reactors. That means more than a fourth of all reactors in the United States have tritium leaks. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - Radioactive tritium, a carcinogen discovered in potentially dangerous levels in groundwater at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, has now tainted at least 27 of the nation's 104 nuclear reactors — raising concerns about how it is escaping from the aging nuclear plants.

Money woes could threaten high-speed rail's future (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 06:09 PM PST

FILE - In this July 9, 2007, file photo Amtrak's Lincoln Service train passes Illinois cornfields en route to Chicago. The rail line between Chicago and St. Louis will get $1.1 billion of the $8 billion in grants for high-speed rail projects to be announced Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, by the White House. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)AP - The $8 billion in stimulus cash awarded to 13 high-speed rail corridors across the country may seem like a windfall for advocates, but there's a catch: The money isn't enough to finish any of the major projects.

Assembly practices go on trial with former Pa. rep (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 04:55 PM PST

Former Pennsylvania House Democratic Whip Mike Veon walks into Dauphin County District Court in Harrisburg, Pa., for opening statements Monday, Feb. 1, 2010, in the public corruption trial. Veon and three of his former aides are accused of conspiring to misappropriate government money, equipment and employees to help win political campaigns, in case brought by Attorney General, and leading Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett. (AP Photo/Jason Minick)AP - The Legislature's practices went on trial Monday along with a former state lawmaker and three of his aides, as prosecutors and defense attorneys described how taxpayer resources have been used to run campaigns while disagreeing sharply about who was to blame.

Newspaper: Jenny Sanford reacts to affair in book (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 06:07 PM PST

FILE - In a Friday, June 26, 2009 photo, Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, speaks about her husband's recent affair admission in Sullivans Island, S.C. Sanford's book 'Staying True' goes on sale Friday Feb. 5. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney, File)AP - South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford writes in her new book that she got short of breath and later felt unwanted and ugly when she found out about her husband's affair with an Argentine woman.

Parents, students on edge over soaring tuition (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 04:40 PM PST

In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010, students walk toward the Architecture Building on the University of Illinois campus in Champaign, Ill. The university plans to increase tuition by at least 9 percent this summer. (AP Photo/David Mercer)AP - As students around the country anxiously wait for college acceptance letters, their parents are sweating the looming tuition bills at public universities.

Autopsy: Detroit imam shot 20 times at FBI raid (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 03:05 PM PST

Jamil Carswell, son of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah talks to the media outside the Dearborn, Mich., police station, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. Carswell was commenting on the death of his father who was shot 21 times during an FBI raid at a Dearborn warehouse on Oct. 28. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - A Muslim prayer leader accused of encouraging his followers to commit violence against the U.S. government was shot 20 times during an FBI raid at a suburban warehouse last fall, according to an autopsy report released Monday.

Next in military technology: Unmanned Black Hawk? (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 01:20 PM PST

Attendees of a news event launching Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation's new technology creation business, Sikorsky Innovations, walk past a model of the Sikorsky X2 technology demonstrator aircraft in Hartford, Conn., Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. The Stratford-based helicopter maker and military contractor is launching a $1 billion venture featuring a pilot-less Black Hawk helicopter. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. announced a billion-dollar venture Monday that it hopes will respond to military demand for technology to fight two wars, including Black Hawk helicopters that can see and fly on their own.

Calif. mine locks out 550 workers over contract (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 01:56 PM PST

AP - Hundreds of workers remained locked out of California's largest open-pit mine Monday in a contract dispute that involves a corporation trying to keep its share of the global market and a tiny town that lives and dies by residents carving borax from the desert.

Super Bowl's Saints had humble start in Big Easy (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 04:27 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 1970 file photo, New Orleans Saints' Tom Dempsey (19) who is missing a hand and part of his right foot, moves up to kick a 63-yard field goal in New Orleans. The Saints of the late 1960s and '70s didn't win a lot. Give them credit, though: They sure jazzed up the NFL long before reaching the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/File)AP - They were an odd aggregation, a collection of misfits, nomads and newcomers eager to show off football, New Orleans-style.

Neighbor: Peterson assumed he would be suspected (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 02:33 PM PST

FILE - In this May 8, 2009 file photo, former Bolingbrook, Ill. police Sgt. Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill., for his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio. Savio was found dead in a dry bathtub in her home in 2004. Her death was initially ruled a suicide, but officials exhumed her body and ruled the death a homicide. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - Drew Peterson seemed distraught upon finding his third wife dead in her bathtub, and he immediately suggested he would be a suspect in her death, a witness testified Monday.

States seeking to ban mandatory health insurance (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 02:18 PM PST

FILE - In this July 31, 2009 file photo, Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., second from left,and others, listen to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md., center right, speak during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Becerra, D-Calif., Hoyer, and House Majority Whip James Clyburn of S.C. Senior House Democrats have largely abandoned hopes of including a government-run insurance option in the final compromise health care bill taking shape, according to several officials, and are pushing for other measures to rein in private insurers. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - Although President Barack Obama's push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in more than two-thirds of the states are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates.

Plane reporting on traffic lands on NJ Turnpike (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 10:23 AM PST

A Cessna is loaded onto a flatbed truck after making an emergency landing on the New Jersey Turnpike, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 in Haddonfield, N.J. The pilot had to make an emergency landing on the busy highway after an oil pressure indicator came on in the small plane. (AP Photo/Ted Aurig)AP - A traffic reporter in a small plane put himself in the thick of a rush-hour tie-up when his aircraft had to make an emergency landing Monday on the New Jersey Turnpike.

La. senator to stop blocking Obama nominees (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 01:56 PM PST

In this March 11, 2009 photo, U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La.,talks during a news conference discussing the economy on Capitol Hill in Washington. Vitter said Monday, Feb. 1, 2010, he'll stop delaying President Barack Obama's nominees to be federal prosecutors and judges in Louisiana. Vitter's office said the senator will sign off this week on the three nominations he was holding up: Stephanie Finley for the U.S. attorney's post in the Western District, Brian Jackson for a vacant federal judgeship in the Middle District, and Genevieve Lynn May for the U.S. marshal's job in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - U.S. Sen. David Vitter said Monday he'll stop delaying President Barack Obama's nominees to be federal prosecutors and judges in Louisiana.

Terrorism suspect's father headed to NYC court (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 02:43 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 file photo, Mohammed Zazi arrives at the federal courthouse in Denver. A federal grand jury has charged Zazi with conspiring to destroy and concealed chemicals, glasses and masks in the criminal probe of his son Najibullah Zazi, who was charged in September with plotting to attack New York City with homemade bombs. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - The father of an airport driver accused of trying to cook up bombs made from beauty supplies in a Colorado hotel for an attack on New York City was charged Monday with trying to get rid of chemicals and other evidence.

Pakistani scientist's trial hits closing arguments (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 02:21 PM PST

AP - Jurors heard a U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist portrayed Monday in closing arguments at her attempted murder trial as both a would-be terrorist determined to kill Americans and a fearful woman framed by the government.

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