2010年6月17日星期四

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BP chief says he wasn't in loop, enraging Congress (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 05:18 PM PDT

BP CEO Tony Hayward is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 17, 2010, prior to before testifying before the Energy and Environment subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Channeling the nation's anger, lawmakers pilloried BP's boss in a withering day of judgment Thursday for the oil company at the center of the Gulf calamity. Unflinching, BP chief executive Tony Hayward said he was out of the loop on decisions at the well and coolly asserted, "I'm not stonewalling."

Utah to execute condemned killer by firing squad (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 05:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, June 10, 2010 picture, Ronnie Lee Gardner raises his restrained hand as he is sworn in before speaking at his commutation hearing at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah. Next to him is his attorney Andrew Parnes. Ronnie Lee Gardner is scheduled to be executed by firing squad at midnight on June 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Trent Nelson, Pool)AP - Utah is set to execute a condemned killer by firing squad shortly after midnight Thursday, reviving a style of justice that hasn't been used for at least 14 years and that many criticize as archaic.

Man convicted of killing 4 says he wants to die (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 03:56 PM PDT

** CORRECTS SPELLING OF DANNIE BOY AND ANTLFINGER ** In this June 16, 2010 photo, Edward Edwards, convicted of killing two young couples in Wisconsin and Ohio decades ago, sits in his wheelchair at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Jefferson, Wis. In a jailhouse interview with the Associated Press, the aging con man admitted to killing his foster son Dannie Boy Edwards near the family's home in Burton, Ohio, in 1996. Edwards said he pressed a 20-gauge shotgun to the man's chest and pulled the trigger twice because he was angry the man had stolen credit cards and other belongings from his children and he wanted to collect on $250,000 worth of life insurance. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)AP - Edward W. Edwards' admission that he murdered two young couples decades ago in Wisconsin and Ohio only netted him a life behind bars. Now he's aiming for a date with the executioner.

Times Square car bomb suspect indicted in NYC (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 03:53 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo originally released by the U.S. Marshal's Service on May 19, 2010, shows Faisal Shahzad. The U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday, June 17, 2010, that Shahzad, 30, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in New York on charges related to the failed May 1, 2010 car bombing in New York City's Times Square. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service, File)AP - Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad was charged Thursday with 10 terrorism and weapons counts in an indictment that accuses him of receiving explosives training and financial help from the Pakistani Taliban.

DA: Mass. man left notes saying he killed family (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 04:57 PM PDT

Thomas Mortimer IV, center, is led from the police station by Police Chief James Palmeri, right, after he was arrested Thursday, June 17, 2010, in Bernardston, Mass. Mortimer is charged with four counts of murder in the death of his wife, two children and mother-in-law, found dead in their home Wednesday in Winchester, Mass. (AP Photo/Paul Franz)AP - Thomas Mortimer IV called his new boss and told him he was too sick to come to work. He called his 4-year-old son's school to say the boy would be absent. When his wife's sister called, he told her it would be a while before she could return the call.

Clinton comment on immigration law riles Ariz. gov (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 05:46 PM PDT

AP - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Thursday she's angry over comments by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that the Obama administration will sue the state over its new immigration law.

Oil rig workers forced to job hunt after drill ban (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 12:25 PM PDT

In this June 14, 2010 photo, Robert Cantrell, of Floydada, Texas, moves cables attached to a crane during an oil rig training exercise in Morgan City, La. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Mr. Charlie has seen the up and downs over the years in the oil patch off Louisiana's coast, but this could be the toughest slump of all.

Toy soldiers run afoul of school's weapons ban (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 03:13 PM PDT

This image made from video provided by WPRI on Thursday, June 17, 2010 shows a hat created by 8-year-old David Morales to honor American troops, for an assignment to decorate a hat in his second-grade class at Tiogue School in Coventry, R.I. School officials told him he could not wear the cap he decorated, saying it violated the district's no-weapons policy because the toy soldiers were carrying tiny weapons. (AP Photo/WPRI) NO SALES, PROVIDENCE OUT, NEW BEDFORD OUT, TV OUTAP - Christan Morales said her son just wanted to honor American troops when he wore a hat to school decorated with an American flag and small plastic Army figures.

Fired Chicago police lt. denies torturing suspects (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 04:24 PM PDT

In this photo taken June 8, 2010, former Chicago Police Lt. Jon Burge arrives at the Federal Courthouse for his obstruction of justice and perjury trial in Chicago. Prosecutors have alleged that Burge and other white officers under his command spent the 1970s and 1980s shocking, beating and suffocating black suspects in order to get murder confessions. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - A former police lieutenant whose name has become synonymous with police brutality in Chicago ended years of silence about allegations that suspects were tortured under his watch, testifying Thursday at his perjury trial that he never beat, shocked or suffocated anyone into giving confessions.

2 accused of training kids for club get new trials (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 03:52 PM PDT

AP - Two men accused of grooming children as young as 5 to perform in sex shows at a small-town swinger's club in Texas will get new trials after a state appeals court Thursday found errors in their original proceedings.

NYC man returns from 3-year sea voyage (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Sailor Reid Stowe, right, smiles after he landed his 70-foot schooner 'Anne' in New York and was reunited with his girlfriend Soanya Ahmad, and their son Darshen, 23 months, whom he'd not yet seen, in New York, Thursday, June 17, 2010. Stowe spent 1152 days at sea on what he refers to as a 'voyage of love,' but the couple hadn't seen each other since Soanya became pregnant with their son and was rescued at sea. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - A sailor who had been cruising around the world finally returned to dry land more than three years after leaving it, arriving to the welcoming arms of loved ones, including a toddler son he had never met.

Ford pickup stolen in LA recovered after 38 years (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 03:56 PM PDT

AP - Harold Voelker tucked away the ownership title and memories of his prized 1956 Ford F-100 pickup after it was stolen in 1972 in Los Angeles.

Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 04:40 AM PDT

A dolphin swims in the Barataria Bay near oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill Wednesday, June 16, 2010, near Grand Isle, La. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water off Florida beaches, like forest animals fleeing a fire. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again.

Israel loosens chokehold on Gaza (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 11:16 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken on Jan. 12, 2009, an Israeli worker moves a bag of UN humanitarian aid bound for Gaza, on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel. Israel agreed on Thursday, June, 17, 2010, to ease its land blockade on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, hoping to quell growing international criticism following a deadly sea raid. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)AP - An Israeli decision Thursday to ease its blockade of Gaza under intense international pressure could spell the beginning of the end of the chokehold that has hurt ordinary Gazans far more than their militant Hamas rulers.

Bishop lawyer says Boston case may help defense (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 10:35 AM PDT

This police booking photograph released by the Huntsville (Ala.) Police Dept., on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Prosecutors are set to hold a news conference to announce the results of an investigation into the 1986 shooting death of 18-year-old Seth Bishop, brother of Amy Bishop, that was originally ruled an accident. Authorities reopened the case after Amy Bishop was charged in February in a shooting rampage at the University of Alabama-Huntsville. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Dept.)AP - The murder charge brought against Amy Bishop for the 1986 shooting death of her brother in Massachusetts will definitely be used in any insanity defense for the killing of three university colleagues in Alabama, her attorney said Thursday.

Texas lawmaker accuses White House of BP shakedown (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 07:36 AM PDT

BP CEO Tony Hayward testifies about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 17, 2010. REUTERS/Larry DowningAP - A leading House Republican accused the White House Thursday of a "$20 billion shakedown" of oil giant BP by requiring the company to establish a huge fund to compensate those hurt by the Gulf Coast oil spill.

Cups runneth over at world beer pong event in NJ (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 02:40 AM PDT

Jake Christie, 26, of St. Louis, Minn., tosses a ping pong ball during a game at the World Beer Pong Tour competition Tuesday, June 15, 2010, in Atlantic City, N.J. What started out as a drinking game has blossomed into a nationwide competition and a $25,000 first prize, all for doing what millions of college kids do when they should be studying. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - There was a time when all you could get from playing beer pong was drunk.

CIA papers show agency struggled in Korean War (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 06:13 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 1951 file photo, President Harry S. Truman delivers his State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C. The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum is hosting the release Wednesday June 16, 2010 of the largest amount of intelligence documents on the Korean War, which began 60 years ago. The release includes more than 1,300 documents on intelligence from 1947 to 1954. More than half of the documents have never been made public, or are being re-released with new information. (AP Photo/File)AP - The young CIA was badly organized and the American military was ill-prepared to cope with the maneuvers of Communist forces during the Korean War, according to intelligence documents released six decades after the conflict began.

Families of 3 jailed Americans criticize Iran (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 03:41 AM PDT

US hikers Shane Bauer (L) Josh Fattal (C) and Sarah Shourd (R) before a meeting with their mothers at the Esteghlal hotel in Tehran, on May 21, 2010. Iran should either prosecute or immediately release three US hikers being held after straying into the country from Iraq, the mothers of the young Americans said Thursday.(AFP/Press TV/Ho/File)AP - The mothers of three Americans jailed in Iran for nearly a year are demanding the immediate release or trial of their children, saying the Iranian government is using them as pawns in a standoff with the U.S.

Countries paying teen's rescue cost defend sea law (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 05:15 AM PDT

This June 15, 2010 photo provided Thursday June 17 2010 by TAAF (Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises), shows Abby Sunderland, the 16-year-old California girl whose dream of sailing solo around the world was dashed by a massive wave, posing at the door of the so-called 'rescued room' in the port of Port aux Francais, on the Kerguelen Islands, Indian Ocean. Sunderland's name will later be engraved on the plaque. In an exclusive interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, Sunderland acknowledged that her adventure 'can look pretty crazy,' but she defended her parents against critics who say she never should have been allowed to attempt it. (AP Photo/Loic Bourc'his/TAAF) NO SALES, MAGS OUT, EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - The first day Abby Sunderland was stranded in the Southern Ocean, Australia's rescue agency chartered a jet to fly over the area where her emergency beacon was activated.

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