2010年4月28日星期三

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Gov't OKs 1st US offshore wind farm, off Mass. (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 27, 2006 file photo, wind turbines stand clustered offshore in Dronten, the Netherlands. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will announce Wednesday, April 28, 2010, his decision whether the Cape Wind project can proceed off the Cape Cod coast in Massachusetts, clearing the way for the construction of a 130-turbine wind farm in the Nantucket Sound. (AP Photo/ Peter Dejong, File)AP - A whole new way of generating electricity in the U.S. drew a big step closer to reality Wednesday, and it could look like this: 130 windmills, 440 feet tall, rising from the ocean a few miles off Cape Cod.

Crews try setting fire to oil leaking in Gulf (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:39 PM PDT

This aerial photo shows oil in the Gulf of Mexico, eight miles off the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River at the Southern tip of Louisiana on Wednesday, April 28, 2010. About 42,000 gallons of oil a day are leaking into the Gulf from the blown-out well drilled by the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Eleven workers are missing and presumed dead. The cause of the explosion has not been determined. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - It's a hellish scene: Giant sheets of flame racing across the Gulf of Mexico as thick, black smoke billows high into the sky.

Judge asks feds to show militia did more than talk (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:35 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. Nine members of the Michigan militia, called Hutaree, are returning to court to ask a judge to release them while they fight conspiracy and weapons charges. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshall, File)AP - A federal judge challenged prosecutors Wednesday to show that nine members of a Michigan militia accused of plotting war against the government had done more than just talk and should remain locked up.

Illegal immigrants plan to leave over Ariz. law (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:44 PM PDT

Day Laborers stand along Arizona Ave Wednesday, April 28, 2010 in Chandler, Ariz. Arizona's sweeping immigration bill allows police to arrest illegal immigrant day laborers seeking work on the street or anyone trying to hire them. It won't take effect until summer but it is already having an effect on the state's underground economy. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Many of the cars that once stopped in the Home Depot parking lot to pick up day laborers to hang drywall or do landscaping now just drive on by.

Army indicates it will seek death in Ft. Hood case (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:48 PM PDT

FILE - This 2000 file picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) shows Nidal Malik Hasan as a medical student at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, USUHS, in Bethesda, Md. Military prosecutors have sent a notice, Wednesday, April 28, 2010, indicating they plan to seek the death penalty against the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood shooting. (AP Photo/USUHS, File)AP - Military prosecutors sent a notice Wednesday indicating they plan to seek the death penalty against the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, a defense attorney said.

Foundations offer $506M for education innovation (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:55 PM PDT

AP - A coalition of wealthy foundations is offering up to half a billion dollars to match federal grants meant to encourage education reform, taking the pressure off schools scrambling to find the matching dollars they need to get the money.

In new book, Laura Bush discusses 1963 fatal crash (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2008, file photo, first lady Laura Bush, left, stands at the presidential palace in Panama City. In her new book, 'Spoken from the Heart,' Bush describes being wracked by guilt and losing her faith for many years after she ran a stop sign and slammed into another car in 1963. The book is scheduled to be released in May. (AP Photo/Sky Gilbar, file)AP - Former first lady Laura Bush says in her new book that she lost her faith for many years after her pleas to God to spare the life of a high school classmate whose car she hit were not answered.

Referendum could delay AZ immigration law to 2012 (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:27 PM PDT

Andrea Mercado makes a sign in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in preparation for a planned May 1 immigration rally against Arizona Senate Bill 1070. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A referendum drive launched Wednesday could put Arizona's tough new law targeting illegal immigration on hold until 2012 if organizers wait until the last minute to turn in petition signatures needed to get the measure on the ballot.

Univ. of Wyo. heightens security for Ayers visit (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:25 PM PDT

FILE -- In a Nov. 17, 2008 file photo William Ayers speaks about his two books to an audience at the All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington. The dispute over the University of Wyoming's decision to block Ayers from speaking on campus is in the hands of U.S. District Judge William Downes who said he would rule Tuesday April 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert/FILE )AP - Security was heightened Wednesday at the University of Wyoming as the school prepared for a speech from William Ayers, the 1960s radical whose visit was blocked before a federal judge ruled the university must allow him to speak.

Bishop bans RI hosps from pro-health reform group (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:41 PM PDT

AP - The Roman Catholic bishop of Providence has withdrawn two hospitals sponsored by his diocese from membership in a Catholic hospital group that supports health care reform.

Alaska ACLU files lawsuit over homeless camp raids (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:43 PM PDT

Dale Engle, center, speaks at a news conference with Jeffrey Mittman, executive director of American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska, left, and ACLU of Alaska attorney Tom Stenson, on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, in front of the Nesbett Courthouse in Anchorage, Alaska. Engle, a homeless man, is the plaintiff in an ACLU lawsuit that challenges an ordinance on destruction of homeless people's property. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)AP - Anchorage police raids on homeless camps in which tents, sleeping bags and other personal belongings were seized and destroyed were unconstitutional, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

Oklahoma pushes legal limits on taxpayers' dime (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 04:23 PM PDT

AP - With full control of the Oklahoma Legislature for the first time, Republicans have been flexing their political muscles, passing laws they know will face court challenges, including ones making it harder to get abortions and easier to buy guns.

NY wants man who spread HIV locked up indefinitely (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 02:24 PM PDT

FILE - This 1996 file booking photo released by the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Department shows Nushawn Williams in Mayville, N.Y. Relatives of the New York man who recently completed a 12-year prison sentence for knowingly infecting at least 13 women with the AIDS virus say there's no reason the state should keep him locked up any longer. (AP Photo/Chautauqua County Sheriff's Dept., File)AP - A sex offender who infected at least 13 women with the AIDS virus should be locked up indefinitely under a civil law meant to keep the most dangerous offenders out of communities even after they complete prison sentences, the state said Wednesday.

Report: Most Americans still live in unclean air (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 01:29 PM PDT

AP - Six in 10 Americans — about 175 million people — are living in places where air pollution often reaches dangerous levels, despite progress in reducing particle pollution, the American Lung Association said in a report released Wednesday.

Pioneering journalist Evelyn Cunningham dies in NY (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 02:57 PM PDT

AP - Evelyn Cunningham, a pioneering journalist who covered the birth of the 1960s civil rights movement and later served as an aide to New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, died Wednesday. She was 94.

Vatican official left abusive priest in pastor job (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 04:11 PM PDT

Jay Seaman kneels in a pew at the Our Lady of the Loretto Catholic Church in Novato, Calif. Tuesday, April 27, 2010. This is the church he attended when he was molested as a 13-year-old child. Cardinal William Levada, the pope's hand-picked replacement to oversee abuse cases at the Vatican, did nothing to restrict California priest Rev. Milton Walsh after learning in 1995 that the priest had molested Seaman, then a 13-year-old boy, a decade earlier. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - The pope's hand-picked replacement to oversee abuse cases at the Vatican did nothing to restrict a California priest after learning in 1995 that the priest had molested a 13-year-old boy a decade earlier.

Too risky to phone ET? Too late — NASA's tried it (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:00 PM PDT

FILE - This undated handout photo shows the design of a plaque that was carried on the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. Stephen Hawking says it is too risky to try to talk to space aliens. Oops. Too late. NASA and others have already beamed several messages into deep space, trying to phone ET. NASA — which two years ago, broadcast the Beatles song 'Across the Universe' across the galaxy _on Wednesday discussed its latest search strategy for life outside of Earth. It is more aimed at looking for simple life like bacteria in our solar system than fretting about potential alien overlords coming here. (AP-Photo/HO)AP - Stephen Hawking says it is too risky to try to talk to space aliens.

Somali suspects ordered held on piracy charges (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:37 PM PDT

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (centre) shakes hands with EU president Herman Van Rompuy (left) and European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso ahead of talks in Tokyo. Japan and the European Union plan to step up joint efforts to help Afghanistan and combat piracy off Somalia and will start talks to improve their trade ties, their leaders said at the annual summit in Tokyo.(AFP/Pool/Franck Robichon)AP - One of 11 suspected Somali pirates entered a not guilty plea Wednesday on U.S. charges related to attacks on two Navy ships off the coast of Africa.

Nearly 2 feet of snow falls in NY, New England (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 12:22 PM PDT

Tulips poke up out of fresh snow in the village center of Montgomery, Vt., Tuesday, April 27, 2010, as heavy wet snow fell across the state. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)AP - A rare late-season snowstorm dumped up to 2 feet of heavy, wet snow on northern New York and northern New England on Wednesday, giving school children an unexpected day off and forcing others to seek refuge from homes darkened by downed power lines.

Bullock is divorcing James, adopting baby (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 7, 2010 file photo, Sandra Bullock and Jesse James arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, Calif. Sandra Bullock won the best actress award for her role in 'The Blind Side.' (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)AP - Sandra Bullock is dumping her two-timing husband and welcoming a new guy into her life — a baby boy she is adopting as a single mother.

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