2010年6月23日星期三

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

NY judge signs off on deal for 9/11 responders (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:41 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2001 file pool photo, firefighters in New York make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke. Some plaintiffs spoke out in favor of the financial settlement reached with the City Wednesday, June 23, 2010, in New York, during what was called a 'Fairness Hearing.' Many recovery workers fell ill over exposure to the toxic ash and now suffer with debilitating medical conditions. (AP Photo/Stan Honda, Pool, File)AP - Some recounted their days at a smoldering ground zero. Some fought back tears. Some complained that no amount of money would make them whole.

Bin Laden hunter on his way back to United States (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:07 PM PDT

This Jan. 2006 file photo provided Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by the Larimer County, Colo. Sheriff's Office shows Gary Brooks Faulkner, after he was arrested on a Compulsory Insurance charge. Faulkner, armed with a pistol and a 40-inch sword, was detained Tuesday in northern Pakistan as he tried to cross the border into Afghanistan on a mission to avenge the 9/11 attacks and kill Osama bin Laden, police said. Faulkner, a 51-year-old construction worker, also was carrying Christian literature and a small amount of hashish. A relative of Faulkner says the Colorado man is being released by the Pakistani government without charges. (AP Photo/Larimer County Sheriff's Office, File)AP - An American on a solo mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden is headed back to the United States, 10 days after authorities found him in the woods of northern Pakistan with a pistol, a sword and night-vision equipment.

Oil spews again in Gulf after robot bumps cap (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:33 PM PDT

An excavator builds a sand berm near the Chandeleur Islands on the coast of Louisiana, Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is pressuring federal authorities to allow the dredging project to resume in an area that federal authorities say is environmentally sensitive. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Oil spewed uncontrolled into the Gulf of Mexico again Wednesday after an undersea robot bumped the cap being used to contain it, forcing BP engineers to remove the device and then scramble to reattach it.

To lawyers, BP's PR strategy isn't puzzling (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 12:19 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken June 16, 2010, BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, left, and BP Managing Director Bob Dudley, right, arrive with other BP executives at the White House in Washington. BP PLC said Wednesday, june 23, 2010, that Bob Dudley has been appointed to head the new Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, which is in charge of cleaning up the oil spill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file)AP - To a nation frustrated by the Gulf oil spill, BP's attempts at damage control have sometimes been infuriatingly vague. But from a legal standpoint, that's exactly the point.

Chaos at Conn. airport renews tarmac-time debate (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 02:56 PM PDT

A Virgin Atlantic Airways plane sits on the tarmac at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn., Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Passengers on this plane, which was grounded by bad weather en route to Newark, N.J., from London, spent more than four hours stuck on the tarmac. (AP photo/Journal Inquirer, Jim Michaud) MANDATORY CREDITAP - A hot, dark and miserable four-hour stretch spent by hundreds of travelers parked in a diverted trans-Atlantic plane renewed calls Wednesday to add international travel to a months-old federal rule limiting how long airlines can keep passengers trapped on the tarmac.

Ga. death row inmate in rare innocence hearing (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 04:26 PM PDT

**CORRECTS SPELLING OF ANTHONY, NOT ANTONY**Martina Correia, right, holds the arm of her her mother, Virginia Davis as she walks into a U.S. District Court to listen to a hearing for her brother, convicted killer Troy Anthony Davis, Wednesday, June 23, 2010 in Savannah, Ga. The U.S. Supreme Court, in an extraordinary move last summer, ordered the hearing for Davis' lawyers to present evidence that they say will exonerate him of the 1989 slaying of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP - A federal judge heard new testimony Wednesday in the case of a Georgia death row inmate given a rare chance by the U.S. Supreme Court to prove his innocence nearly 20 years after a jury convicted him of killing a police officer.

Idaho tax collectors try to take pay cut but can't (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:48 PM PDT

AP - With a looming state budget gap, Idaho's four top tax collectors wanted to show solidarity with state workers who were having their wages cut. So they took furlough days to reduce their own salaries.

States work together to create new academic tests (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:31 PM PDT

AP - Two big coalitions of states are competing for federal dollars to create a series of new national academic tests to replace the current patchwork system.

Abramoff's hiring doesn't change kosher pizzeria (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 04:14 PM PDT

Ron Rosenbluth, owner of Tov's Pizza in Baltimore, stands in the pizzeria's dining room Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Rosenbluth has hired former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who was released June 8 from a minimum-security prison camp in western Maryland after serving more than 3 years for fraud, corruption and conspiracy. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)AP - A lively mix of regulars and families with small children ate lunch at a kosher pizzeria in northwest Baltimore on Wednesday, and several said they have no problem with the restaurant's new employee: disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Single Asian carp found 6 miles from Lake Michigan (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:41 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2010 file photo, two Asian carp are displayed on Capitol Hill in Washington, during a Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment hearing on preventing the induction of the carp, a aquatic invasive species into the Great Lakes. Officials say an Asian carp has been found for the first time beyond the electric barriers constructed to keep the dreaded invasive species out of the Great Lakes. State and federal officials said Wednesday June 23, 2010 that commercial fishermen found the 3-foot-long, 20-pound carp in Lake Calumet on Chicago's South Side, about six miles downstream of Lake Michigan. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - An Asian carp was found for the first time beyond electric barriers meant to keep the voracious invasive species out of the Great Lakes, state and federal officials said Wednesday, prompting renewed calls for swift action to block their advance.

New Gulf spill cleanup head says job is to listen (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:18 PM PDT

Bob Dudley, CEO of BP, tours the Audubon Nature Institute's turtle rehabilitation center in New Orleans, Wednesday June 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)AP - The man who inherited the Gulf oil spill response from BP's embattled CEO said Wednesday that Americans have been too quick to blame his company for the environmental disaster now in its third month.

Blago trial a distant, unwanted headache for Obama (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 01:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 28, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the Oakley Lindsay Center in Quincy, Ill. The corruption trial of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich — for allegedly trying to sell President Barack Obama's own Senate seat — is a distant but unwelcome headache for the White House. While Obama hasn't been accused of wrongdoing, nor have his allies, top administration aides have now been subpoenaed to testify. And Obama already has many other problems — from the Gulf oil spill to the economy — in what is also a tough congressional election year. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)AP - The corruption trial of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich — for allegedly trying to sell President Barack Obama's own Senate seat — is a distant but unwelcome headache for the White House.

Ex-Detroit mayor in trouble with the law — again (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 04:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 25, 2010 file photo, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick listens to Judge David Groner sentence him to one-and-a-half to five years in prison for violating the terms of his probation on an obstruction of justice conviction. Kilpatrick has been indicted on federal fraud and tax charges Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Federal prosecutors say the alleged scheme is related to the Kilpatrick Civic Fund, a tax-exempt fund that was supposed to pay for voter education and other purposes. Instead, Kilpatrick is accused of using it as a slush fund to take cash payments for himself, friends and relatives. An indictment was filed Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)AP - Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, already in prison for probation violations, was indicted Wednesday on federal fraud and tax charges, accused of a turning a charity into a personal slush fund for cash, travel, yoga, summer camp and even anti-bugging equipment.

Gulf property sales slide further on oil fears (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 10:31 AM PDT

Beachfront condo values had already dropped before BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Now the market is at a standstill. A condo at this Holiday Isle building was selling for $107,000 on June 10, 2010 in Destin, Fla. The water is clear and the sand is still white along much of the Florida Panhandle. But agent Alicia Hollis says her company hasn't had a sale since the disaster started.(AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)AP - This was the year, Alicia Hollis and her fellow real estate agents thought. After a nasty batch of hurricanes and the bursting of the housing bubble, this was the year that condo sales along the Florida Panhandle's brilliant white beaches were going to rebound.

Professor: Rwanda officials wanted me to disappear (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:33 PM PDT

Minnesota lawyer and law professor Peter Erlinder, walks to the luggage area with his wife Masako Usui as a supporter follows, left, at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport upon arriving Tuesday, June 22, 2010, three weeks after he was arrested and jailed in Rwanda, accused of violating Rwandan laws against minimizing the 1994 genocide there. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - A Minnesota law professor said Wednesday he believes Rwandan authorities intended to make him disappear and never planned to prosecute him on allegations that he minimized the country's 1994 genocide.

Ill. parolees disappear after being released early (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 01:52 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows inmate Curtis Nelson, who has disappeared after he was set free as part of a secret early release program called 'MGT Push'. MGT Push lowered the prison population by granting good-conduct credit — or 'meritorious good time' — upfront. More than 50 MGT Push parolees, including Nelson, are currently on the lam. Nelson, 21, was released three months early on a three-year sentence for mob action. Unarmed, he accompanied two armed men in a June 2008 shootout in Sauk Village that killed a 20-year-old man, according to the Cook County State's Attorney's office. Nelson has been missing since April 24, when he bolted a community treatment center where he'd been enrolled because of his continued drug use. (AP Photo/Illinois Department of Corrections)AP - Dozens of parolees, including one imprisoned for his part in a 2008 murder, have disappeared after they were set free as part of a secret early release program, according to documents acquired by The Associated Press.

Far from Gulf, a cloudy picture for oil fund czar (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 02:48 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2009 file photo, Special Master for Executive Compensation Kenneth Feinberg, also known as the Treasury Department's 'pay czar', speaks about TARP at Georgetown Law Center in Washington. He is in charge of a $20 billion fund to compensate people whose livelihoods have been ruined by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Is a strip club that caters to oil-rig workers entitled to a piece of the $20 billion fund for victims of the Gulf of Mexico disaster? How about a souvenir stand on a nearly empty beach? Or a far-off restaurant that normally serves Gulf seafood?

Aide: Blagojevich signaled he wanted Cabinet post (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 04:29 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 8, 2010 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, left, arrives at the Federal Court building with his wife Patti, for his federal corruption trial in Chicago. A defense theme at Blagojevich's racketeering and fraud trial is that he simply didn't know what was going on all around him. Experts say that strategy can work with juries but also present tricky problems. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - Only days after the November 2008 election, Rod Blagojevich told his top advisers he had signaled the president-elect that he would appoint Barack Obama's friend to the U.S. Senate in exchange for a Cabinet position for himself, the ousted governor's former chief of staff testified Wednesday.

Iowa museum aquarium exhibit highlights oil spill (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:26 PM PDT

AP - A new exhibit at an aquarium in Iowa that had intended to showcase the beauty of the Gulf of Mexico will instead be void of life to underline the environmental impact of a massive oil spill in the ocean basin.

Woman who says she was nurse from WWII photo dies (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 02:16 PM PDT

Edith Shain, the nurse in an iconic photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, sits in front of a likeness of the image on the 64th anniversary of V-J Day in Times Square, New York in this August 14, 2009 file photo. Shain, who was photographed kissing a sailor in Times Square on August 14, 1945 to celebrate the end of World War Two, has died at the age of 91, her family said on June 22, 2010. The V-J Day picture of the white-clad Shain by photographer Eisenstaedt captured an epic moment in U.S. history and became an iconic image marking the end of the war after being published in Life magazine. To match Reuters Life! PEOPLE-SHAIN/ REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY SOCIETY)AP - Edith Shain, who claimed to be the nurse who was smooched by a sailor in Times Square in the famous Life magazine photograph marking the end of World War II, has died. She was 91.

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