2010年4月15日星期四

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Obama makes light of anti-tax protests (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:43 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Thursday, April 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday he's amused by the anti-tax tea party protests that have been taking place around Tax Day.

Volcanic cloud casts long shadow over US travel (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:05 PM PDT

People wait in line at British Airways to try and catch flights to Europe at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Thursday, April 15, 2010. The volcano that has halted air travel across Europe may have happened thousands of miles away, but the ash cloud threatens to disrupt business throughout the United States. Business travel could be frozen for weeks and long-planned vacations are at risk of being canceled. (AP Photo/David Banks)AP - A volcanic ash cloud that shut down airports and tied up air traffic across Europe could turn into a long, costly headache for businesses, airlines and tourists in the United States.

Immigration agents raid AZ van shuttle businesses (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:59 PM PDT

Federal immigration agents stand outside of Sergio's Shuttle Thursday, April 15, 2010 in Phoneix. The van shuttle services offers transportation from northern Mexico to cities in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Agents raided van shuttle operators in Arizona Thursday in a massive investigation into smuggling of illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Federal agents arrested nearly 50 shuttle operators and smugglers Thursday accused of using vans to transport thousands of illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix in what was billed as one of the government's largest-ever human smuggling busts.

Volcanic ash affects airplanes, weather, sunsets (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 02:32 PM PDT

Smoke and steam hangs over the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, Wednesday April 14, 2010, which has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. Volcanic ash drifting across the Atlantic forced the cancellation of flights in Britain and disrupted air traffic across northern Europe, stranding thousands of passengers. Flights in and out of London Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, were halted, and the shutdowns and cancellations spread to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland. The volcano's smoke and ash poses a threat to aircraft because it can affect visibility, and microscopic debris can get sucked into airplane engines and can cause them to shut down.(AP Photo/Jon Gustafsson) ** ICELAND OUT **AP - In 1989, all four engines of a Boeing 747 over Alaska conked out after it flew into a cloud of volcanic ash. The crew was able to restart them, but incidents like that dramatize why hundreds of flights every year are diverted around such gritty debris.

Benjamin Hooks, who boosted NAACP, dead at 85 (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2007 file photo, President Bush, left, presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Civil Rights pioneer Benjamin Hooks, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor whose longtime tenure as executive director of the NAACP included leading his organization through a deadly firebombing campaign that targeted his group, died early Thursday said State Rep. Ulysses Jones. He was 85. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - Civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks, who shrugged off courtroom slurs as a young lawyer before earning a pioneering judgeship and later reviving a flagging NAACP, died Thursday in Memphis. He was 85.

Russia adoption confusion rattles US families (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 02:28 PM PDT

In this Aug. 19, 2009 photo provided by Christie Zukor, Ken and Christie Zukor pose outside of their Havre de Grace, Md. home with the four biological siblings that they adopted in 2007 from Russia, from left: Elya, 7; Natasha, 5; Nadia, 6; and Anatoly, 9. The family is trying now to adopt the children's half-sister, 15-year-old Marina, who lives in a Russian orphanage. (AP Photo/Christie Zukor) NO SALESAP - For the Zukors in Maryland, and hundreds of other families across the U.S., there were anxious and confusing moments Thursday as reports surfaced — and then were questioned — regarding a freeze of adoptions from Russia.

NYC to stop paying teachers to do nothing (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 02:46 PM PDT

New York City public school teacher David Suker, who has been assigned to a rubber room for more than a year while he awaits the results of a disciplinary hearing, poses in front of the Board of Education in New York, Thursday, April 15, 2010. Suker is among hundreds of New York City school teachers who can spend months or even years in so-called rubber rooms playing Scrabble, reading or surfing the Internet while still collecting full salaries of $70,000 a year or more while they await the results of hearings to determine their fate. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers' union announced a deal Thursday to reassign most of the teachers to administrative or non-classroom work while their cases are pending. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - The city will end the practice of paying teachers to play Scrabble, read or surf the Internet in reassignment centers nicknamed "rubber rooms" as they await disciplinary hearings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers union announced Thursday.

Court: Ore. medical marijuana can lead to firing (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 01:58 PM PDT

AP - The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that workers can be fired for using medical marijuana even if they have a card from the state program authorizing its use.

Michelle Obama visits San Diego community farm (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:15 PM PDT

AP - Returning from Mexico, Michelle Obama made a brief stop Thursday across the border in San Diego to visit a community garden farmed by international refugees that she called a model for building healthy communities across the nation and around the world.

Tea party leaders anxious about extremists (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 06:50 AM PDT

File -- An April 15, 2009 file photo shows Becky Frusher, left, and Carol Embry, center, clapping and chanting during a tea party rally in Waco, Texas. Organizers of tax-day tea parties are preparing for their biggest day of the year Thursday, April 15, 2010, as thousands of demonstrators participate in local rallies against high taxes and big government spending. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune-Herald, Duane A. Laverty/file)AP - Organizers of tax-day tea parties are preparing for their biggest day of the year Thursday, as thousands of demonstrators participate in local rallies against high taxes and big government spending. But the leaders are striving to keep the rallies from presenting another image: one of fringe groups, extremists or infiltrators obsessed with hateful messages.

No time behind bars for Imam in NYC subway-plot (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 03:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2009 file photo, Ahmad Afzali, speaks to reporters before entering his home in the Fresh Meadows neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York, following his release from jail on terrorism charges. The Afghanistan-born imam linked to the suspects in an aborted New York City suicide bomb plot, has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and could get up to six months in prison. His sentencing is scheduled Thursday afternoon in New York. (AP Photo/Rick Maiman, File)AP - An Afghanistan-born imam who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into a suicide bomb plot against New York City subway stations will not go to prison but must leave the country within 90 days, a judge ruled Thursday.

Lawmakers to review Calif. sale of state buildings (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:12 PM PDT

AP - California lawmakers said Thursday they will examine Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to sell state office buildings after revelations that it might be a bad deal for taxpayers.

Federal judge rules Day of Prayer unconstitutional (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2007 file photo, Freedom From Religion Foundation co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor stands in front of the door at the foundation headquarters in Madison, Wis. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb reached the conclusion in a lawsuit the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison-based group of atheists and agnostics, brought against former President George W. Bush's administration near the end of his second term. The foundation argued the day violates the separation of church and state. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)AP - A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, saying the day amounts to a call for religious action.

Lawyer: Insanity plea coming in Vegas ax attack (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 01:54 PM PDT

FILE - This undated image provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Harold Montague. On Monday, April 12, 2010, Sonia Lisset Castro said through tears and a translator that Montague laughed as she pleaded for him to stop striking her and her 4-month-old son with a medieval-style battle ax on a residential street. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)AP - A defense lawyer says the man accused of hacking a 4-month-old baby to death and critically wounding the infant's mother with a medieval-style battle ax will plead not guilty by reason of insanity.

Ben Roethlisberger accuser says she told him 'no' (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 04:34 PM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 29, 2009, file photo shows Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger during warm ups prior to the start of an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens, in Baltimore. Steelers president Art Rooney II says the team is ready to discipline Ben Roethlisberger but the punishment will be coordinated with the NFL and won't pre-empt any league action. Rooney said Thursday, April 15, 2010, that Roethlisberger told him he is prepared to accept disciplinary action.(AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)AP - The young woman who accused Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault said she tried to get away from the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and told him "no, this is not OK," according to police documents released Thursday.

Astronauts remove troublesome cargo container (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 03:23 PM PDT

In this image provided by NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson, participates in the mission's third and final spacewalk Tuesday April 13, 2010 as construction and maintenance continues on the International Space Station. NASA is considering whether an emergency spacewalk by the crew of space shuttle Discovery is needed to clear a stuck valve in a critical cooling loop at the International Space Station, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - After struggling for hours with a balky latching system, shuttle Discovery's astronauts successfully removed a cargo carrier from the International Space Station on Thursday.

Porn star won't challenge Vitter for La. Senate (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 02:27 PM PDT

FILE - In a Wednesday, May 6, 2009 photo, Stormy Daniels visits a local restaurant in downtown New Orleans. Daniels has ended her yearlong flirtation with politics, announcing in an e-mail Thursday, April 15, 2010 that she won't run for Senate in her home state of Louisiana. Daniels had considered running as a Republican against GOP incumbent David Vitter. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)AP - Louisiana-born porn star Stormy Daniels announced Thursday that she will not run for U.S. Senate in her home state, ending a yearlong flirtation with politics that began as Republican incumbent Sen. David Vitter was working to overcome a sex scandal.

Soaring meteor lights up skies across the Midwest (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 03:22 PM PDT

This black and white photo from a rooftop webcam released Thursday, April 15, 2010, by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences shows a fireball as it passed over Madison, Wis., Wednesday night. National Weather Service meteorologist David Sheets in Davenport, Iowa, says a meteor soared past about 10 p.m. local and appears to have disintegrated as it reached southwest Wisconsin. The meteor, also seen in Missouri, Illinois and Iowa, apparently didn't cause any damage. (AP Photo/University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) MANDATORY CREDITAP - A large meteor streaked across the Midwestern sky momentarily turning night into day, rattling houses and causing trees and the ground to shake, authorities said Thursday. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

Polygamist sect members plead no contest to bigamy (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 01:52 PM PDT

AP - Two members of a polygamist sect were sentenced to prison Thursday on bigamy charges, the first legal finding of multiple marriages in a community that has mostly dodged questions about the practice.

Homeless 'Tent City' settlers in NJ get reprieve (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 02:11 PM PDT

Gino Lewis, left, James Boggs, second from left, Sherone Hurst, third from left, and Lorenzo 'Jamaica' Banks, second from right, listen to Pastor Frank Crosby, right, as they talk near tents at Tent City, Thursday, April 15, 2010, in Camden, N.J. People living in the tents on an enclave for the homeless got a reprieve on the day they were supposed to vacate their self-governing settlement. Both the residents and social service agencies were nervous about Thursday's deadline from a Camden County official to shut down the community. Lewis, the official who wanted to close the enclave, had arrived to tell community founder Banks that Tent City would not be closed yet, and that efforts would continue to find housing. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - Homeless people who built a community of campground tents just a few blocks from downtown got a reprieve Thursday, allowing them to remain, at least for now, at the self-governing settlement in one of the nation's poorest cities.

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