2010年5月25日星期二

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Troops to the Mexican border: Obama to send 1,200 (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 05:15 PM PDT

In this Thursday, April 22, 2010 photo, the American Flag flies along the international border in Nogales, Ariz. President Barack Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border, an administration official and an Arizona congresswoman said Tuesday, pre-empting Republican plans to try to force votes on such a deployment. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Under pressure to take action, President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border, pre-empting Republican efforts to force a congressional vote to send the troops.

Analysis: Gov't has few options, little experience for oil spill (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 07:59 AM PDT

A false-color image created by combining data from Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in this image captured on May 17, 2010, at around 16:40 UTC (11:40 am CDT). This unique image of the Deepwater Horizon oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico was obtained by combining data from the red band of the 26-degree forward-viewing camera (where the oil appears dark) with the blue and green bands of the nadir (vertical-viewing) camera (where the oil appears bright). The Mississippi River Delta is visible in the upper left portion of the image. The red symbol represents the former location of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform. REUTERS/NASA/Goddard/Terra / HandoutAP - Oil spill frustration is rampant.

A snowball's chance: NJ picked for 2014 Super Bowl (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 05:17 PM PDT

New York Jets owner Woody Johnson speaks to a television crew during a break at the NFL meetings, Tuesday, May 25, 2010, in Irving, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - February. Gray skies. Snowflakes. Brrrrrrrr.

5 weeks of gushing oil: 'Top kill' plug readied (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 03:29 PM PDT

Douglas Inkley, left, from the National Wildlife Federation, stands near oil-soaked vegetation on an island impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay just inside the coast of Louisiana, Tuesday, May 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Marking five disastrous weeks, BP readied yet another attempt to slow the oil gushing into the Gulf on Tuesday as a federal report alleged drilling regulators have been so close to oil and gas companies they've been accepting gifts and even negotiating to go work for them.

Ex-Detroit mayor gets up to 5 years in prison (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 02:51 PM PDT

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick addresses Judge David Groner at his sentencing hearing in Detroit, Tuesday, May 25, 2010. Kilpatrick was sentenced to one-and-a-half to five years in prison for violating the terms of his probation on an obstruction of justice conviction. Kilpatrick was ordered to pay the city $1 million after pleading guilty in 2008 to obstruction of justice. Sexually explicit text messages showed he lied under oath about an affair with a staffer. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - Time and again, Kwame Kilpatrick's exceptional oratory skills rallied Detroit voters to his side despite his frequent troubles as mayor.

BP engineers draw up plans for 'top kill' (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 04:27 PM PDT

This undated frame garb image from video provided by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, on May 18, 2010, received from British Petroleum (BP PLC), shows oil gushing from the blown well in the Gulf of Mexico, where the Deepwater Horizon rig sank last month. Questions remained about just how much oil is spilling from the well. (AP Photo/Senate Environment and Public Works Committee)AP - BP is going in for the kill. The trick is to do the job quickly and cleanly.

Space shuttle Atlantis on last leg of last mission (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 09:25 AM PDT

US astronauts take their final spacewalk at the International Space Station on May 21. The crew of the shuttle Atlantis inspected the craft's heat shields Monday ahead of its descent to Earth at the end of its final voyage into space, NASA said.(AFP/NASA/File)AP - Atlantis' homeward-bound astronauts paid tribute Tuesday to their space shuttle, close to winding up its final journey after a quarter-century of flight.

Somber memorial held for oil rig explosion victims (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 12:59 PM PDT

AP - Eleven men who died in the offshore rig explosion that triggered the Gulf oil spill are being honored at a somber memorial service with tributes from country music stars and drilling company executives.

Undercover video shows cows beaten at Ohio farm (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 05:37 PM PDT

AP - Graphic video released to The Associated Press by an animal welfare group shows workers at a dairy farm beating cows with crowbars, stabbing them with pitchforks and punching them in their heads.

Owner of chimpanzee in Conn. mauling dies at 72 (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 05:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2003 photo, Travis, a 10-year-old chimpanzee, sits in the corner of his playroom at the home of Sandy and Jerome Herold in Stamford, Conn. Sandy Herold, whose chimpanzee mauled and blinded her friend last year, died Monday, May 24, 2010, of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, lawyer Robert Golger said. (AP Photo/The Stamford Advocate, Kathleen O'Rourke, File) MANDATORY CREDIT; ONLINE OKAP - The Connecticut woman whose chimpanzee mauled and blinded her friend last year, leading to lawsuits and a national debate over the regulation of exotic pets, has died, her attorney said Tuesday.

BP agrees to show 'top kill' video (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 04:44 PM PDT

A broken boom sits in a puddle of oil on an island impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Barataria Bay, Louisiana May 24, 2010. REUTERS/Lee CelanoAP - BP has agreed at the request of the Obama administration to show video of the "top kill" designed to choke off the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

NJ man admits to vomit assault at Phillies game (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 05:26 PM PDT

Matthew Clemmens, of Cherry Hill, N.J., looks out a car window as he is driven away from a courthouse in Philadelphia, Tuesday, May 25, 2010. Clemmens pleaded guilty Tuesday to intentionally vomiting on a man and his 11-year-old daughter in the stands during a Philadelphia Phillies game. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A 21-year-old New Jersey man pleaded guilty Tuesday to vomiting on another spectator and his 11-year-old daughter in the stands during a Philadelphia Phillies game.

BP had a key role in the Exxon Valdez disaster (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 10:58 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 26, 1989 file photo, the Exxon Baton Rouge, smaller ship on left, attempts to off load crude oil from the Exxon Valdez after the Valdez ran aground in the Prince William sound in Valdez, Alaska, spilling more than 11 million gallons of crude oil. (AP Photo, File)AP - Since a busted oil well began spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico a month ago, the catastrophe has constantly been measured against the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster. The Alaska spill leaked nearly 11 million gallons of crude, killed countless animals and tarnished the owner of the damaged tanker, Exxon.

Lohan's ankle bracelet has Breathalyzer technology (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 06:21 AM PDT

A product image provided by AMS,shows the SCRAMx alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet. (AP Photo/AMS) NO SALESAP - If an alcohol-monitoring bracelet can keep celebrities like Lindsay Lohan from drinking, some parents might wonder, Can I get one for my teen?

Toga! Toga! Pa. college kids do Plato — in public (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 02:44 AM PDT

In this May 7, 2010 photo provided by Carlota Danforth, students participate in The Trivium, an intensive study of grammar, logic and rhetoric on The University of Scranton's campus in Scranton Pa. The Trivium is a requirement of sophomores enrolled in the Special Jesuit Liberal Arts Honors Program, a four-year honors program open to only about 5 percent of the undergraduate population. (AP Photo/Carlota Danforth) NO SALESAP - Reciting Plato is hard enough. Try doing it dressed in a toga, in public, in the middle of a crowded student center at lunchtime.

Teacher in trouble after students don Klan robes (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT

AP - A North Georgia teacher is on administrative leave and could lose her job after she allowed four students to don mock Ku Klux Klan outfits for a final project in a high school class Thursday, administrators said.

A long fall: Conn. GOP Senate candidate drops bid (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 01:58 PM PDT

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Rob Simmons arrives at the Connecticut Republican Convention in Hartford, Conn., Friday, May 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - It was just last fall that former Republican congressman Rob Simmons was in the political driver's seat, enjoying a double-digit lead in opinion polls over veteran Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd in Connecticut's U.S. Senate race.

Would-be Chicago firefighters ponder court ruling (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 11:09 AM PDT

AP - When Aldron Reed took a test in 1995 to try to get into the Chicago Fire Department, he was 25 years old and had been out of the Navy less than a year.

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