2010年4月30日星期五

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Choppy seas frustrate effort to contain oil spill (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT

Unprotected stretches of the Chandeleur Islands, home of the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, are seen off the coast of Louisiana, Friday, April 30, 2010. Wildlife in the region are vulnerable to the looming oil spill from last week's collapse and spill of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - High winds and choppy seas frustrated efforts to hold back the oil spill seeping into Louisiana's rich fishing grounds and nesting areas Friday, and the government desperately cast about for new ideas for dealing with the nation's biggest environmental crisis in decades.

After immigration law, Arizona faces boycott calls (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 05:18 PM PDT

FILE - This April 29, 2010 file photo shows Josephine Nevarez, of Phoenix, holding a sign in protest as she attends a news conference where it was announced that The National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, with the support of several other activist groups, had filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction preventing authorities from enforcing the new Arizona immigration law at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. Arizona is facing a backlash over its new law cracking down on illegal immigrants, with opponents pushing for a tourism boycott like the one that was used to punish the state 20 years ago over its refusal to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with a holiday. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)AP - Civil rights leaders are urging organizations to cancel their conventions in Arizona. Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks are encountering protesters on the road. And the AriZona iced tea company wants everyone to know that its drinks are made in New York.

Activists hope Ariz. law opposition boosts rallies (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:57 PM PDT

Kyla Klein, left, and Claudia Galeno hold signs as they protest at Wrigley Field Thursday, April 29, 2010, in Chicago before the Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago Cubs baseball game. Immigrant rights activists chanting 'Boycott Arizona' gathered outside Wrigley Field in Chicago as the Cubs open a four-game series against the Diamondbacks. Protesters are upset over Arizona's tough new immigration law that makes it a crime to be in the United States illegally and lets police question anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. The law is slated to take effect this summer. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP - Immigrant rights activists hope Arizona's controversial immigration law will spark enormous crowds of people to protest in rallies nationwide and add urgency to pleas for federal immigration reform.

Jury convicts on 2 charges in Palin e-mail hacking (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:57 PM PDT

David Kernell, right, leaves the Federal Courthouse with his mother, Lt. Col. Lillian Landrigan, behind left, and attorney Wade Davies, front left, Thursday, April 29, 2010 in Knoxville, Tenn. Kernell was a University of Tennessee student majoring in economics when prosecutors say he hacked into the Yahoo! account Palin sometimes used for state business. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)AP - The son of a Democratic Tennessee lawmaker was convicted Friday on two charges in the hacking of Sarah Palin's e-mail account while she campaigned on the Republican presidential ticket in 2008.

This oil spill 'the bad one' — recipe for disaster (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 02:41 PM PDT

Brown pelicans and gulls fly in front of oil booms along the shoreline at Pass a Loutre, La., where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico Friday, April 30, 2010. Wildlife in the region is vulnerable to the looming oil spill from last week's collapse and spill of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - What makes an oil spill really bad? Most of the ingredients for it are now blending in the Gulf of Mexico.

9 Somalis plead not guilty to US piracy charges (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 02:05 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 - Nine Somali men accused of attacking two U.S. Navy ships off the coast of Africa pleaded not guilty Friday to piracy, plundering and weapons charges.

Man gets life sentence for killing Broncos player (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:59 PM PDT

Tierria Leonard, who had a son and daughter with slain Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams, makes a statement at a sentencing hearing for Williams' convicted killer on Friday, April 30, 2010, in Denver district court. Willie Clark was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,152 years for the drive-by shooting death of Williams on New Year's Day 2007. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - A gang member convicted of killing Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams in a drive-by shooting was sentenced Friday to life in prison plus 1,152 years after family members recounted the devastating impact of the killing.

2 men charged in NYC with supporting terror (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 03:56 PM PDT

AP - A native New Yorker and a former accountant were charged Friday with conspiring to give computer advice, buy wrist watches and do other tasks to help al-Qaida "modernize."

Auto industry gains are lifting Detroit's spirits (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 01:07 PM PDT

Chart shows Ford Motors quarterly earnings for 2009 andAP - It's too soon for parades, but oft-maligned Detroit — hammered with high unemployment, steeped in public corruption and forever connected at the axle to an ever-evolving auto industry — shows small signs of rumbling back to life.

Mich. couple write book about embryo mix-up (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 03:09 PM PDT

AP - On the drive home from the hospital, Shannon Morell peered at her sleeping newborn in his car seat and wondered, what would be the fastest route back to normal?

Doctor: Arsenic helped kill revolutionary Bolivar (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:34 PM PDT

AP - Arsenic helped kill Simon Bolivar, according to a Johns Hopkins doctor who is questioning the tuberculosis diagnosis given as the cause of the Latin liberator's death in 1830.

In Maine, women blow their tops over inequality (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 02:24 PM PDT

University of Maine at Farmington student Andrea Simoneau shrugs her shoulders as Elaine Graham holds a blanket to prevent Simoneau from showing her breasts during a topless protest Friday, April 30, 2010, in Farmington, Maine. The demonstration called attention to the double-standard that it's acceptable for men, but not women, to go bare chested. When it comes to state law, though, there's no discrimination. It's perfectly legal for women to go topless in public. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)AP - A forecast of sunny skies in April seems like the perfect time to put the top down. But a drive in a convertible isn't what some Maine women had in mind Friday.

NY coffee cup creator Leslie Buck dies at 87 (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 02:31 PM PDT

This photo provided by Robert Buck shows his father, Leslie Buck, in August 1991. Leslie Buck, who designed the blue-white-and-gold cardboard cup with an ancient Grecian design for New York's many Greek diners, died on Monday, April 26, 2010 at his home in Glen Cove, Long Island, at 87. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Robert Buck) NO SALESAP - Countless New Yorkers and visitors have warmed their hands on it — a blue, white and gold cardboard cup with an ancient Grecian design, steaming with coffee or tea.

Tests of Army dirigibles to use drones, missiles (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 11:18 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Ratheon Co. shows a 242-foot-long dirigible being inflated in Utah at the U.S. Air Force's Utah Test and Training Range about 80 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah. The military is planning a series of tests of the helium-filled airships in Utah in the coming years. The work is an effort to prove the abilities of unmanned radar-bearing dirigibles, known as aerostats, to give field commanders a bird's eye view of cruise missiles and other nearby threats. (AP Photo/Ratheon Co., File)AP - Proving the capability of high-tech military balloons will require buzzing drones, jets and an occasional unarmed surface-to-air missile.

Gulf spill spells uncertainty for new drilling (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 11:53 AM PDT

Debris and oil from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform float in the Gulf of Mexico after the rig sank, off Louisiana April 22, 2010, in this handout photograph. REUTERS/U.S. Coast Guard/HandoutAP - In the conservative Florida Panhandle, where Sarah Palin's battle cry "Drill, Baby, Drill" is still visible on car bumpers, some are reconsidering their support of offshore drilling as a growing spill in the Gulf of Mexico drifts closer to shore.

NJ teens, lawmakers hope to dump driver decal law (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 01:51 PM PDT

AP - New Jersey teens opposed to the nation's first state law requiring young drivers to display license plate decals that identify them as inexperienced have gained support for their cause from several state lawmakers and a national youth rights advocacy group.

Ind. boys accused of killing stepdad to run away (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:57 PM PDT

AP - Two young friends from a quiet, middle-class neighborhood in northern Indiana wanted to run away to Arizona so badly, prosecutors say, that they gunned down a stepfather who stood in the way of their plans.

Hawaii lawmakers OK civil unions, send bill to gov (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 03:55 AM PDT

FILE -- In an Oct. 16, 2006 file photo Gov. Linda Lingle briefs the media in Honolulu. A bill allowing same-sex civil unions passed Hawaii House of Representative Thursday April 29, 2010 and moves on to the governor. Gov. Linda Lingle hasn't said whether she'll reject it or sign it into law. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia/file)AP - Hawaii is a step closer to joining a small group of other states in allowing same-sex civil unions.

Many endangered turtles dying on Texas Gulf Coast (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 02:22 PM PDT

A rescued Kemp's ridley turtle is readied for release on the beach Monday, April 26, 2010 on the Bolivar Peninsula, Texas. More than 30 dead turtles have been found stranded on Galveston and the Bolivar Peninsula south of Houston this month — an unusually high number that has puzzled researchers, in part because most are so decomposed that there are few clues left about why they died. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Flies buzz everywhere and the stench is overwhelming as biologist Lyndsey Howell stops to analyze the remains of yet another endangered sea turtle washed up from the Gulf of Mexico. "It's been on the beach for a while," Howell says, flipping over the decomposing, dried-out shell.

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