2010年6月30日星期三

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Suspect in Russian spy ring vanishes in Cyprus (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 04:33 PM PDT

A police officer enter the central police station in the southern coastal town of Larnaca, Cyprus, Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Cypriot police say they are looking for an alleged Russian spy wanted in the United States who vanished after being released on bail in the Mediterranean island nation. Spokesman Michalis Katsounotos says 54-year-old Christopher Robert Metsos failed to report to police Wednesday according to the terms of release imposed on him Tuesday by a Cypriot court. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)AP - An alleged member of a Russian spy ring that authorities say operated under deep cover in America's suburbs vanished in Cyprus on Wednesday, a day after being released on bail.

NY suspect dubbed femme fatale of Russian spy case (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:04 PM PDT

This undated image taken from a Facebook page shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday, June 28, 2010 in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. (AP Photo)AP - Anna Chapman is an accused spy who hid in plain sight.

Hurricane Alex threatens Mexico, Texas coasts (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Sand blows across a tiger dam on a beach as the outer edges of Tropical Storm Alex approach the Louisiana coast in Grand Isle, La., Tuesday, June 29, 2010. The dam is expected to protect the island's beaches from oil that washes ashore from April's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - The first Atlantic hurricane of the year has strengthened to a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of near 100 mph (155 kph) as it plows ahead toward a collision with the Mexican Gulf coast and south Texas.

Maggots force plane back to gate in Atlanta (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:15 PM PDT

AP - Maggots falling from an overhead bin from a spoiled container of meat forced a US Airways flight to return to the gate so the bin could be cleaned.

World's largest oil skimmer heads to Gulf spill (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 04:25 PM PDT

Crews aboard vessels around the drillship Discoverer Enterprise continue operations to minimize the impact from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in this June 28, 2010 handout photograph. Thousands of volunteers and vessels are working together on largest oil spill response in U.S. History. REUTERS/Walter Shinn/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENERGY ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP - With hurricane-whipped waves pushing more oil onto the Gulf of Mexico's once-white beaches, the government pinned its latest cleanup hopes Wednesday on a huge new piece of equipment: the world's largest oil-skimming vessel.

LA rave promoter promises review after teen death (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 03:07 PM PDT

AP - The promoter of a giant weekend rave at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum says it is reviewing the event following the suspected overdose death of a 15-year-old girl and dozens of injuries at the party.

Play moves indoors near NYC after 2 coyote attacks (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:41 PM PDT

AP - The wary but tolerant relationship between humans and coyotes is changing in a New York City suburb, where two attacks on little girls have police officers shooting at the animals and parents keeping their kids inside on summer evenings at the urging of authorities.

US judge agrees to grant asylum to ex-Israeli spy (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:53 PM PDT

Mosab Hassan Yousef walks into his deportation hearing held at the immigration detention center in San Diego Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Yousef says he will be killed if he is deported from the United States to the West Bank. The oldest son of one of Hamas' founders, he was an Israeli spy for a decade, and he abandoned Islam for Christianity, further marking him a traitor. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - An immigration judge tentatively granted asylum Wednesday to the son of a Hamas founder who turned his back on his father's terrorist group and became a spy for Israel.

Feds recall more kid jewelry due to toxic cadmium (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 03:41 PM PDT

AP - Federal regulators said Thursday they have found high levels of the toxic metal cadmium in trinkets that were distributed for free to children at some doctor and dentist offices over the past five years.

When is a drug too risky to stay on the market? (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:09 PM PDT

Graphic shows timeline of drugs recently withdrawn from the market from the last decade.AP - The arthritis pill Vioxx was withdrawn but menopause hormones were not, even though both were tied to heart risks. A multiple sclerosis medicine was pulled and later allowed back on.

Individual choices at stake as laws take effect (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 24, 2010 file photo, a waitress walks by as customers eat at the Church Street Cafe in historic Old Town in Albuquerque, N.M. Restaurant owner Marie Coleman plans to post a sign for potential customers at the entrance prohibiting them from bringing a firearm into the restaurant. New state laws taking effect Thursday loosen restrictions on carrying guns and toughen restrictions on smoking, drinking and texting around the country. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)AP - Gun owners with permits can carry concealed weapons into restaurants that serve alcohol in New Mexico and Virginia. Young and old alike must show proof of age when buying alcohol in Indiana. Georgia and Kentucky are hitting the delete key on texting while driving.

Idaho town marks 1 year since soldier captured (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:42 PM PDT

AP - In a solemn procession, dozens of people on Wednesday replaced the now-tattered yellow ribbons that have flanked an Idaho town's streets since a local soldier went missing in Afghanistan.

Employer says Va. spy suspect clumsy, yet smart (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:15 PM PDT

The office of Travel All Russia LLC on Pershing Drive in Arlington, Va., is seen Tuesday, June 29, 2010. On Monday, Michael Semenko, 28, an employee of Travel All Russia, was arrested at his residence in Arlington, Va., and accused of being part of a conspiracy of Russian agents that had infiltrated American society to collect information for Russia's intelligence service, the SVR. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Mikhail Semenko's employer knew he liked to frequent embassy functions and didn't want to work at his small travel agency forever, but he was stunned when the somewhat awkward Russian immigrant was accused of being a spy.

Calif. teen, back home, recounts sailing ordeal (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:07 AM PDT

Abby Sunderland, center, the 16-year-old girl who attempted to sail around the world, and her brother Zac, right, listen as family spokesman Lyall Mercer read a statement from Abby's parents during a news conference in Marina Del Rey, Calif., Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Sunderland was rescued by a French fishing boat after her boat became crippled by storms while trying to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo and nonstop. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Abby Sunderland was below deck repairing the waterlogged engine of her ocean racer Wild Eyes when a monster wave rose up out of the gathering darkness on the Indian Ocean, flipped her vessel, sent her tumbling and dashed her dreams of sailing around the world alone.

Geese behind plane's NY river landing still around (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2009 file photo, passengers in an inflatable raft move away from an Airbus 320 US Airways aircraft that landed in the Hudson River in New York. A National Park Service official told The Associated Press on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 that for now, the government agency won't touch hundreds of birds living in a refuge at the edge of the Kennedy airport runways, even though other branches of the government believe that the birds pose a risk to the flying public. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, FILE)AP - A year and a half after Canada geese forced an airliner to splash down in the Hudson River, officials are rounding them up in almost every part of the city — but flocks are still free to take off around John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Report: Harvard scholar's arrest at home avoidable (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 03:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken by a neighbor July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates Jr. center, the director of Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, is arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass. Police just outside Boston are expected to release results of an independent review of last year's arrest of black Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a white sergeant Wednesday, June 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Demotix Images, B. Carter, File) ** MAGS OUT **AP - A black Harvard scholar and the white police sergeant who arrested him last July after a confrontation outside his home both missed opportunities to "ratchet down" the situation and end it more calmly, according to a review of the case released Wednesday.

BP fined $5.2M for misreporting Colo. gas output (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:56 PM PDT

AP - The Obama administration has fined BP America $5.2 million for allegedly submitting false reports about energy production on an Indian reservation in Colorado.

Some 70,000 turtle eggs to be whisked far from oil (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:41 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 10, 2010 file photo, a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is lifted back to its temporary tank after being weighed, getting its heartbeat and temperature taken, and getting a shot of antibiotics at the Audubon Nature Institute’s Aquatic Centerin New Orleans. An effort to save thousands of sea turtle hatchlings from dying in the oily Gulf of Mexico will begin in the coming weeks in a desperate attempt to keep an entire generation of threatened species from vanishing. (AP Photo/Janet McConnaughey, File)AP - An effort to scoop thousands of turtle eggs from their nests to save them from death in the oily Gulf of Mexico will begin in the coming weeks in a desperate attempt to keep an entire generation of threatened species from vanishing.

Northern NJ fire kills 4, leaves 3 seriously hurt (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 03:02 PM PDT

Firefighters battle a three-alarm blaze on East 31st Street early Wednesday, June 30, 2010, in Paterson, N.J. According to officials, one person is dead and several others are unaccounted for in the fire that swept through three homes. The cause of the fire is under investigation. (AP Photo/Bill Tompkins)AP - Officials says a blaze in northern New Jersey has left four people dead and three people seriously injured.

Blago says on tape Obama is 'all take and no give' (AP)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:51 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. Blagojevich's profanity-laced comment about not giving up his power to appoint Barack Obama's successor in the U.S. Senate for nothing will likely reappear at the former governor's corruption trial. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - An angry Rod Blagojevich is heard grumbling on FBI wiretap tapes played at his corruption trial Wednesday that he is willing to appoint a favorite of Barack Obama to the U.S. Senate, but the newly elected president is "all take and no give."

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