2010年4月23日星期五

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Ariz. governor signs immigration enforcement bill (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:32 PM PDT

Customs and Border Patrol agents meet along the international border after sunset in Nogales, Ariz. Thursday, April 22, 2010. Illegal immigration and border security are heating up as issues after the slaying of a border-area rancher and imminent passage of state legislation to crack down on illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Gov. Jan Brewer ignored criticism from President Barack Obama on Friday and signed into law a bill supporters said would take handcuffs off police in dealing with illegal immigration in Arizona, the nation's busiest gateway for human and drug smuggling from Mexico.

Oil drilling accidents prompting new safety rules (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:13 PM PDT

In this aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, a boat with an oil boom tries to contain oil spilled from the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, approximately seven miles from where the rig sunk, on Friday, April 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Federal regulators did not need this week's explosion aboard a state-of-the-art rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries over the last several years had already convinced them that changes were needed.

NY man pleads guilty in plot to bomb NYC subway (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:31 PM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 8, 2010 file courtroom sketch shows Zarein Ahmedzay, right, with his attorney Michael Marinaccio speaking during his arraignment at Brooklyn federal court in New York. Law enforcement officials say Ahmedzay, charged in a plot to attack the New York subway system with homemade bombs, plans to plead guilty Friday, April 23, 2010, in Brooklyn federal court. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams, File)AP - A New York man said Friday that a plan to attack the city subway system was ordered by al-Qaida leaders two years ago while he was in Pakistan with a friend, a former airport shuttle driver who has admitted to building the homemade explosives in the plot.

Scouts ordered to pay $18.5M in sex abuse case (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 13, 2010 file photo, plaintiff Kerry Lewis reacts after the verdict against the Boy Scouts of America was announced in Portland, Ore. The jury has already awarded Lewis, 38, $1.4 million for the 1980s abuse and could decide the Boy Scouts organization must pay as much as $25 million more in punitive damages. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)AP - A jury on Friday ordered the Boy Scouts of America to pay $18.5 million to a man sexually abused by a former assistant Scoutmaster in what is believed to be the largest such award against the national organization.

Atheists, religious groups lobby on Day of Prayer (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:13 PM PDT

Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, speaks about letters her group is sending to mayors asking them not to participate in the National Day of Prayer at the group's office in Madison, Wis. on Friday, April 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)AP - To pray or not to pray? That's the issue government leaders across the country are facing after a federal judge ruled that the National Day of Prayer set for May 6 was unconstitutional.

Man detained after trying to open plane's door (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:10 PM PDT

AP - A flight from Los Angeles to Florida was diverted to Albuquerque early Friday after a passenger sprayed the first-class cabin with a water bottle, tried to open a cabin door and threatened to blow up the aircraft.

Condemned Utah killer will face firing squad (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:13 PM PDT

Convicted murderer Ronnie Gardner, center, talks with his defense team, Andrew Parnes, right, and Megan Moriarty in Judge Robin Reese's courtroom at the Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday, April 23, 2010. Judge Reese is being asked to issue a warrant setting an execution date for Gardner. Under state law Gardner, 49, would be allowed to decide whether he would be killed by lethal injection or be shot by a five-man team of executioners firing from a set of matched rifles, a rarely used relic that harkens back to Utah's territorial history. (AP Photo/Francisco Kjolseth, Pool)AP - Utah is set to execute a convicted killer by firing squad after a judge agreed Friday to the inmate's request, renewing a debate over what critics see as an antiquated, Old West-style of justice.

Ex-Rwandan diplomat now in Ala. probed in genocide (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 01:15 PM PDT

This June 8, 1994 photo provided by the United Nations shows Rwanda's former U.N. ambassador, Jean-Damascene Bizimana addressing members of the Security Council. Now a U.S. citizen, Bizimana was the United Nations ambassador from his native Rwanda and spoke for its regime in the Security Council during the ethnic violence that claimed 800,000 lives in 1994. (AP Photo/United Nations, Milton Grant)AP - Aside from his name and accent, Jean-Damascene Bizimana blends in almost perfectly in small-town Alabama. He has a house on a corner lot, an SUV, a Polo shirt, a job and a mortgage.

Pa. incumbent: Foe feigning bisexuality for votes (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:37 PM PDT

Gregg Kravitz is seen during an interview in Philadelphia Friday April 23, 2010. In a left-leaning district anchored by a roughly three-square-block area known as the Gayborhood, a state representative accuses her foe of pretending to be bisexual to win votes. Rep. Babette Josephs says Gregg Kravitz, her challenger in the May 18 Democratic primary for the 182nd District House seat, told her he was gay, then appeared at a campaign event with a woman who introduced herself as his girlfriend. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)AP - The old tactic of dragging out an opponent's sexual skeletons for political gain is being turned on its head in the City of Brotherly Love.

A day to honor poets? Quoth the raven 'Evermore' (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:12 PM PDT

Walter Skold of Freeport, Maine, chats with a visitor in Eastern Cemetery, Tuesday, April 20, 2010, in Portland, Maine. Skold, the founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, will be leading a poetry reading at the cemetery this Friday to kick off his upcoming 22-state tour to make Oct. 7th 'Dead Poets Remembrance Day.' (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - A former teacher who founded the Dead Poets Society of America and traveled 15,000 miles to document the graves of poets has a new mission — to create a Dead Poets Remembrance Day on Oct. 7, the date master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe died.

Vet gets prison for faking paralysis to avoid Iraq (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 03:44 PM PDT

AP - A military veteran who claimed a rollover wreck left him paralyzed collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer benefits and was kept stateside when his Army unit shipped off to Iraq. Yet doctors could never pinpoint why he couldn't use his legs.

Minn. man charged with aiding suicides via the Web (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 03:20 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 15, 2009 file photo, shows William Melchert-Dinkel in Faribault, Minn. Melchert-Dinkel, a former nurse who was stripped of his license last year, was charged Friday, April 23, 2010, with aiding the suicides of at least two people by encouraging them to kill themselves in Internet chats. He's charged under a rarely used state law that carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. (AP Photo/Robb Long, File)AP - A former Minnesota nurse who told police he went on the Internet and encouraged dozens of depressed people to kill themselves for the "thrill of the chase" was charged Friday with helping a Canadian woman and a British man commit suicide, authorities said.

Ex-cop 'never intended to lie' in NYC cyclist case (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 03:07 PM PDT

AP - A former police officer accused of knocking down a bike-riding demonstrator and lying about it told jurors Friday he was just trying to protect himself and never meant to misrepresent what happened in a clash caught on video.

Grant's brigade fights push for Reagan on $50 bill (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 02:01 PM PDT

Loretta Furhman, caretaker at Ulysses S. Grant's birthplace, stands with a portrait of the 18th president inside the house Friday, April 23, 2010, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. Residents and officials in the area are outraged that Grant is in danger of his picture being removed from the $50 bill. (AP Photo/David Kohl)AP - Bugler, sound the charge! Folks in southern Ohio are mounting a counterattack against a congressional proposal to replace native son Ulysses S. Grant with Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill.

Oil drilling accidents prompted new safety rules (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:25 PM PDT

AP - A federal agency that oversees offshore oil drilling identified so many accidents in a study published last year that officials were moving to create new safety rules before this week's oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

Spanish hospital claims 1st full-face transplant (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:08 PM PDT

In this combo of computer-generated images released by the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain on Friday, April 23, 2010, the various steps undertaken to perform a full-face transplant on a young male patient in late March 2010 are graphically illustrated. The hospital in Spain says it has carried out the world's first full-face transplant, giving a young man who lost his in an accident a new nose, skin, jaws, cheekbones, teeth and other features. (AP Photo/Vall d'Hebron Hospital) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - A team of surgeons has carried out the world's first full-face transplant on a young Spanish farmer unable to breathe or eat on his own since accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago.

Tax evader who blamed Holocaust gets 10 months (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:50 PM PDT

AP - A tax evader was sentenced Friday to 10 months in federal prison after claiming his Jewish parents' experience fleeing the Nazi Holocaust drove him to compulsively hide more than $10 million in secret accounts at Swiss bank UBS AG and other offshore tax havens.

11 Somalis appear in US court on piracy charges (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 01:31 PM PDT

A suspected pirate from Somalia looks around as he is escorted into federal court by US Marshal's in Norfolk, Va., Friday, April 23, 2010. A group of eleven suspected pirates are due to be arraigned and tried in the Norfolk Federal court. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - Eleven suspected Somali pirates accused in separate attacks on two Navy ships off the coast of Africa were indicted in U.S. federal court Friday.

US families persevere in seeking Kyrgyz adoptions (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 01:03 PM PDT

This August 2008 photo provided Friday, April 23, 2010 by Lisa Reickerd shows Reickerd holding a baby girl she calls Addison, whom she hopes to adopt, at the baby house in Bishkek, Kyrgzstan. Amid high-profile furor over adoptions from Haiti and Russia, about 60 American families are persevering with a two-year struggle to complete adoptions of orphans from Kyrgyzstan — an emotionally draining quest now complicated by the recent political upheaval. Reickerd, of Orange, Calif., was chosen by the other waiting families to be their liaison with the State Department. (AP Photo/Lisa Reickerd) NO SALESAP - Amid high-profile furor over adoptions from Haiti and Russia, about 60 American families are persevering with a two-year struggle to complete adoptions from Kyrgyzstan â€" an already emotionally draining quest further complicated by recent political upheaval.

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