2010年6月28日星期一

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News


Court lets Vatican-sex abuse lawsuit move forward (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:24 PM PDT

AP - A lawsuit against the Vatican that had been dismissed as a publicity stunt moved forward when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from the Holy See. Monday's development represents a significant advance for what many believed to be a long-shot claim that the Vatican bears legal responsibility for molester priests.

524 Guard soldiers headed to Arizona-Mexico border (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT

AP - Federal officials told Arizona's attorney general and a congresswoman Monday that 524 of the 1,200 National Guard troops headed to the U.S.-Mexico border will be deployed in the state by August or September.

Tropical storm could disrupt oil spill cleanup (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:28 PM PDT

National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen speaks at a press conference in New Orleans, Monday, June 28, 2010. Allen joined  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and White House energy and climate change adviser Carol Browner to deliver a briefing on ongoing response efforts to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Tropical Storm Alex steamed across the Gulf of Mexico on Monday on a path that could keep it away from BP's busted well but could still stir up heavy winds, rain and choppy seas that drive the oil deeper inland and bring much of the cleanup to a standstill.


NY, NJ crack down on alleged mob gambling rings (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:00 PM PDT

AP - Three of New York's five organized crime families came under the microscope for alleged illegal gambling activities Monday, the result of investigations that have produced more than 50 arrests reaching to the top rungs of one organization.

NYPD officer acquitted of assaulting unarmed man (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:43 PM PDT

AP - A police officer seen on videotape repeatedly hitting an unarmed, handcuffed Iraq war veteran with a baton — and accused of lying to cover it up — was acquitted Monday of all charges.

Pork or progress? Either way, Byrd changed WVa (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:20 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009 file photo, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., accompanied by long time staffer and scheduler Martha Anne McIntosh, waves as he arrives back on Capitol Hill in Washington. The West Virginia Democrat's office says the 92-year-old lawmaker has been in the hospital since late last week, Sunday, June 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - There are two ways to look at what Sen. Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. senator in history, has meant to the people and the place that sent him to Washington for 57 years in a row.


Pa. rampage suspect had been sent to anger therapy (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 05:39 PM PDT

Relatives of murder victims speak with Pennsylvania State Trooper Cpl. Greg Emery, outside the home where  police found the bodies of three men and a woman, each stabbed multiple times, in a brick twin house at 1917 Lincoln Avenue in Northampton, Pa., Saturday, June 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Steve Klaver)AP - A convicted murderer charged in the weekend stabbing deaths of four people was released from prison in 2006 but was put back behind bars two years ago for failing to complete anger management therapy.


Ex-Chicago cop convicted of lying about torture (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 24, 2010 file photo, former Chicago police Lt. Jon Burge  leaves the Federal Courthouse after the first day of jury selection in his obstruction of justice and perjury trial. A federal jury on Monday June 28, 2010 convicted  Burge of perjury and obstruction of justice charges of lying about the torture of suspects. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - A decorated former Chicago police lieutenant accused of suffocating, shocking and beating confessions out of scores of suspects was convicted Monday of federal perjury and obstruction of justice charges for lying about the torture.


States struggle to pass budgets without stimulus (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:03 PM PDT

Graphic shows total state budget shortfall during 2002-2005 (last recession) compared to 2009, 2010 and projected years of 2011 andAP - For at least 30 cash-strapped states counting on federal stimulus money, the news was a stunning blow: A deficit-weary Congress had rejected billions in additional aid, forcing lawmakers into a mad scramble to balance their budgets.


Gulf lament: Everything's different now (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:01 AM PDT

In this June 26, 2010 picture, charter fishing captain Kris Hebert laughs while waiting to take officials out to the Gulf of Mexico by boat at Griffin Fishing Charters in Lafitte, La. Hebert has not taken a group out fishing since the end of May, when his boss decided to cancel future fishing excursions due to oil from April's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill approaching Louisiana's coast. Instead, Hebert now calls himself a 'boat chauffeur,' shuttling reporters, politicians and government workers to and from oil mop-up sites. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - In a pretty brick house on a cul-de-sac with a basketball hoop and flowering crape myrtles, a little boy with big blue eyes and hair the color of sand is trying to understand why Daddy is gone so much these days.


W.Va. official: No fall election for Byrd's seat (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:38 PM PDT

AP - The person who gets picked to fill the seat vacated by the death of Democratic U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd won't have to face an election until 2012, a key decision for Democrats nationally trying to hold onto a slim majority in Congress after this November's elections.

Fired NY banker's suit, and suits, raise eyebrows (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:48 PM PDT

Debrahlee Lorenzana, a woman who says she was fired from her banking job after complaining that male colleagues called her curvaceous figure distracting, arrives at the offices of the New York State Division of Human Rights in New York's Financial District,  Monday, June 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - It went viral as the ultimate example of being punished for circumstances beyond one's control: a woman who said she was fired from her banking job because she complained that her male colleagues called her bodacious figure a workplace distraction.


Sen. Byrd's personal touch remembered in W.Va. (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:14 PM PDT

Sophia, W.Va., residents talk about the death of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-WV, on Main St. in Sophia, the town Bydr called home, on Monday, June 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Jon C. Hancock)AP - Robert C. Byrd Drive runs through the rolling hills of southern West Virginia, a 17-mile stretch named after the country's longest-serving senator.


Budget cuts more painful at inner-city LA schools (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 02:58 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Wednesday, May. 26, 2010, A student listens to Algebra teacher LaMar Queen at the Los Angeles Academy in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Unified School District teacher has won two awards for his innovative teaching method, by creating rap songs out of math concepts. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - When state budget cuts imperiled city schools, a group of parents fought back by enlisting Hollywood stars to spread a message targeting one of their own, Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar.


9 in 10 docs blame lawsuit fears for overtesting (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 01:10 PM PDT

AP - Ninety percent of physicians surveyed said doctors overtest and overtreat to protect themselves from malpractice lawsuits.

Witness: Blago was serious about Winfrey in Senate (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 21, 2010 file photo, Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias speaks before The Metropolitan Planning Council in Chicago. Two months ago, federal regulators had taken over his family's Chicago bank, Broadway Bank, which had grown insolvent because of bad loans and a bad economy. Stories about the bank lending money to criminals were resurrected, leading Republicans to start calling Giannoulias a 'mob banker.'  The Giannoulias-Kirk contest is one of the highest-profile Senate races in the country.  Illinois voters now find themselves with one candidate who puffed up his credentials, Mark Kirk, and one with an iffy banking record, both of them seeking a seat that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is accused of trying to sell to the highest bidder.  (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich seriously considered Oprah Winfrey as a candidate to fill President Barack Obama's former Senate seat, calling the talk show host a kingmaker who could influence voters, according to an FBI tape played Monday at his corruption trial.


Flotilla of barges used as La. oil barricade (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 09:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 21, 2010 file photo, Workers walk along a line of barges anchored in Pass Abel on the coast of Louisiana near Grand Isle, La. Mired in a daily battle against the oil soiling Louisiana's shorelines, marshes and wetlands, locals in this barrier island town are pushing ahead with a novel plan to block the crude's path with a flotilla of barges. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)AP - Mired in a daily battle against the oil soiling Louisiana's shorelines, marshes and wetlands, locals in this barrier island town are pushing ahead with a novel plan to block the crude's path with a flotilla of barges.


Bin Laden hunter: I wanted to haul him to US alive (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 05:15 AM PDT

Gary Faulkner speaks with the media at Denver International Airport after arriving in Denver, Colo., on Thursday, June 24, 2010. Faulkner was deported from Pakistan after being discovered in the country with a pistol, a sword and night-vision equipment on a personal mission to hunt down Osama Bin Laden. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider)AP - A Colorado man on a mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden says he wanted to capture him alive and bring him to justice.


NJ's Lautenberg, now oldest senator: Cancer gone (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 01:32 PM PDT

Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ., is shown during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington,Tuesday, June 22, 2010.  Lautenberg announced  Saturday, June 26, 2010 at the Garden State Equality Legends Dinner in Maplewood, N.J., that  he's cancer-free. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who at age 86 became the Senate's oldest member Monday when Robert Byrd of West Virginia died, says he is now free of cancer after undergoing six rounds of chemotherapy.


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