2010年5月17日星期一

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US court grants asylum to Obama's African aunt (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 file photo, President Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, speaks to The Associated Press during an interview in her home in Boston. A U.S. immigration court has granted her asylum allowing her to stay in the country, her attorneys announced Monday, May 17, 2010. in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)AP - A U.S. immigration court has granted asylum to President Barack Obama's African aunt, allowing her to stay in the country and setting her on the road to citizenship after years of legal wrangling, her attorneys announced Monday.

Scientists worry current could carry oil to Keys (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 05:04 PM PDT

Flames rise in a representative drawing as BP America Chairman and President Lamar McKay testifies at the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on AP - With BP finally gaining some control over the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are increasingly worried that huge plumes of crude already spilled could get caught in a current that would carry the mess all the way to the Florida Keys and beyond, damaging coral reefs and killing wildlife.

Atty: Video shows police fired into Detroit home (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 05:05 PM PDT

A family member moves the sofa back into the home in Detroit, Monday, May 17, 2010, where a 7-year-old girl was killed while sleeping on the living room sofa when police officers burst in and an officer's gun went off. The sofa was temporarily placed on the porch. State police will take over the investigation of the fatal shooting of Aiyana Jones by a Detroit police officer during a weekend raid at the girl's home, a prosecutor said Monday. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Police who carried out a raid on a family home that left a 7-year-old girl dead over the weekend were accompanied by a camera crew for a reality television show, and an attorney says video of the siege contradicts the police account of what happened.

Ariz. immigration law divides police across US (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:17 PM PDT

AP - Arizona's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration is dividing police across the nation, pitting officers against their chiefs and raising questions about its potential to damage efforts to fight crime in Hispanic communities.

Air Force: Tests didn't include troubled GPS unit (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:11 PM PDT

AP - The military did no advance testing on a specific type of military GPS receiver that had problems picking up locator signals after a change in ground-control software, the Air Force said Monday.

Airline cockpit fire prompts emergency landing (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 03:24 PM PDT

** CORRECTS SPELLING OF SOURCE TO ADLON NOT ALDON ** In this Sunday, May 16, 2010 photo provided Pamela Adlon, a firefighter stands near the cockpit of a United Airlines Boeing 757 after it made an emergency landing at Washington Dulles International Airport in Sterling, Va. Investigators are looking into whether long-known problems with the heating system in a cockpit window of the Boeing 757 played a role in a fire that forced an airliner to make an emergency landing near Washington, federal safety officials said Monday. United Airlines Flight 27 en route from New York to Los Angeles with 112 people aboard made an emergency landing at Dulles International Airport in Virginia on Sunday night due to a cockpit fire, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration said. (AP Photo/Pamela Adlon) NO SALESAP - Investigators are looking into whether long-known problems with the heating system in a cockpit window of the Boeing 757 played a role in a fire that forced an airliner to make an emergency landing near Washington, federal safety officials said Monday.

Iowa group becoming a conservative power (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 10:59 AM PDT

AP - An Iowa-based group with members who helped produce some of the most effective political ads against Democrats in decades — Willie Horton in 1988 and Swiftboat Veterans for Truth in 2004 — is in the middle of Republican family feuds in Kentucky and California.

US officials begin review of New Orleans police (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 02:03 PM PDT

AP - Federal authorities launched a top-to-bottom review of the troubled New Orleans Police Department on Monday, a probe requested by Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who predicted it will result in court-ordered transformation of a department beleaguered by allegations of sometimes deadly brutality.

Murder trial begins in 1966 police shooting (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 01:57 PM PDT

This courtroom sketch shows William Barnes during jury selection, Monday, May 10, 2010, in Philadelphia. A jury was selected Monday for next week's murder trial of 73-year-old Barnes. He is charged in the 2005 death of Officer Walter Barclay. Barnes shot Barclay during a robbery in 1966, leaving the rookie officer paralyzed. When he died in 2005, a medical examiner ruled Barclay's death a homicide, citing four decades of complications from the shooting. (AP Photo/Miike Pifer)AP - An elderly man went on trial Monday for murder in the 2007 death of a police officer who was wounded in a botched burglary more than four decades ago.

Man held in NY car bomb probe denies suspect link (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 03:57 PM PDT

A NYPD officer in an bomb suit examines a Nissan Pathfinder sport utility vehicle parked in New York's Times Square May 1, 2010. Pakistani authorities have taken into custody at least two men who may have helped provide funding for a botched car-bombing in New York's Times Square, U.S. officials said on Saturday. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/FilesAP - One of three men arrested in the investigation of a failed car-bombing in New York's Times Square denies any connection to the primary suspect, Pakistan's consul general in Boston said.

Spacewalk hit by brief power outage, no danger (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 03:26 PM PDT

In this frame grab taken from NASA television, U.S. astronaut Stephen Bowen works on the International Space Station during a spacewalk on Monday, May 17, 2010. Two astronauts ventured out on a spacewalk Monday, the first of three this week, to install a spare antenna on the International Space Station. Atlantis crewmen Garrett Reisman and Stephen Bowen had to be careful handling the fragile 6-foot dish antenna. The shuttle delivered the antenna and other spare station parts Sunday. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - A partial power outage at the International Space Station briefly interrupted Monday's spacewalk, knocking out robotic camera views of the two astronauts as they worked to install a spare antenna.

Arab-Americans delight in Miss USA victory (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 03:18 PM PDT

Miss Michigan Rima Fakih, left, reacts as she is crowned Miss USA 2010 by Kristen Dalton, Miss USA 2009, Sunday, May 16, 2010 in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - Donald Trump's Miss USA pageant sure knows how to make headlines.

Del. man charged with faking his way into Harvard (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:05 PM PDT

This May 10, 2010 Delaware State Police booking photo released by the Middlesex County, Mass., district attorney's office shows Adam Wheeler, of Deleware, indicted on identity fraud, larceny and falsifying documents from several prestigious schools including Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (AP Photo/Delaware State Police)AP - A Delaware man has been charged with faking his way into Harvard and duping the Ivy League school out of $45,000 in financial aid, grants and scholarships.

Ex-NYC top cop begins federal prison term in Md. (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 02:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 4, 2009 file photo, former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik stands outside the Federal Court in Washington. Kerik is due to report to federal prison to begin his four-year term for tax fraud, lying to the White House and other felonies. The federal Bureau of Prisons says it won't identify Kerik's prison until after he reports Monday, May 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who was proclaimed a hero after the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, reported to federal prison Monday to begin a four-year sentence for tax fraud, lying to the White House and other felonies.

GM roars back to profit, but can it repay gov't? (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 02:55 PM PDT

Nelson Ortiz washes new General Motors Chevrolet brand cars on the sales lot at the Kendall Chevrolet in Miami, Florida. GM said last month it was able to pay off 8.4 billion dollars in government loans ahead of schedule after reporting a post-bankruptcy 2009 loss of 4.3 billion dollars.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AP - In less than a year, General Motors Co. has roared back from bankruptcy to a quarterly profit. Now comes the hard part: Sustaining the income and repaying billions of dollars in government aid.

Moms of 3 US hikers to leave Tuesday for Iran (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 11:29 AM PDT

Laura Fattal, left, mother of Josh Fattal, Cindy Hickey, center, mother of Shane Bauer and Nora Shourd, mother of Sarah Shourd speak to a reporter Sunday, May 16, 2010 in New York. Josh, Shane and Sarah were arrested for illegal entry near the Iraq border and have been in a Tehran prison since July 2009. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - The mothers of three American hikers imprisoned in Iran for 10 months are preparing to show their children a strong front when they are reunited with them.

Fired RI teachers approve deal to get jobs back (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:16 PM PDT

Central Falls High School teachers exit the school after the union approved an agreement that allows the entire staff to be rehired, Monday, May 17, 2010, in Central Falls, R.I. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - The mass firings of teachers at a struggling high school here have been a flashpoint in the national debate over education reform, with President Barack Obama weighing in and endorsing the move as an example of holding failing schools accountable.

Vatican rejects closed Mass. churches' appeals (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 01:29 PM PDT

AP - The Vatican has rejected final appeals by 10 parishes closed by the Archdiocese of Boston in the wake of the clergy sex abuse scandal, leaving parishioners to consider fighting the closings in civilian courts, the leader of a parish advocacy group said Monday.

Deep sea oil plumes, dispersants endanger reefs (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 09:31 AM PDT

A fisherman holds up an oil-stained bouy that washed up on the beach at South Pass near the mouth of the Mississippi River on May 14, near Venice, Louisiana. BP succeeded Sunday in capturing AP - Delicate coral reefs already have been tainted by plumes of crude oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, including a sensitive area that federal officials had tried to protect from drilling and other dangers.

Celebrated World War II flying ace dies in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2010 10:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 21, 1952 file photo released by the U.S. Air Force, Col. Walker Mahurin of Fort Wayne, Ind., looks out from the cockpit of a F-86 Sabrejet at an airbase in Korea. Mahurin, a fighter pilot who shot down two dozen planes in two wars and is regarded as one of the greatest aces in American history died Tuesday May 11, 2010. He was 91. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, File)AP - Walker "Bud" Mahurin, a fighter pilot who shot down two dozen planes in two wars and was regarded as one of America's top aces ever, has died, his wife said Sunday. He was 91.

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