2010年7月9日星期五

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Feds say new cap could contain Gulf leak by Monday (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:20 PM PDT

A worker throws a bag of oiled sand onto a loader on the beach on Grand Isle, La., Friday, July 9, 2010. Hundreds of workers on on the island to clean up oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill about 50 miles away in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Chuck Cook)AP - The BP oil leak could be completely contained as early as Monday if a new, tighter cap can be fitted over the blown-out well, the government official in charge of the crisis said Friday in some of the most encouraging news to come out of the Gulf in the 2 1/2 months since the disaster struck.

New Palin biography aimed at 9- to 12-year-olds (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2009 file photo, Sarah Palin interacts with a customer during a book-signing event in Henrietta, N.Y. A year after her abrupt resignation as Alaska governor, Palin has evolved into a political personality writ large, commanding weeks of headlines for a single Facebook observation — see health care 'death panels' — and six-figure speaking fees from groups clamoring for her words. Going rogue with a best-selling memoir only added to her aura among the conservative faithful and she has easily eclipsed other Republicans as the coveted endorsement this election year. (AP Photo/Don Heupel, File)AP - You might call it Sarah Palin's introduction to the cubs.

Duck boat, 2 bodies pulled from Philadelphia river (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:03 PM PDT

An amphibious craft is salvaged from the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Friday, July 9, 2010. An amphibious sightseeing boat that stalled in the Delaware River was knocked over by an oncoming barge Wednesday, spilling 37 people overboard and leaving two passengers unaccounted for after a frantic rescue effort. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Two days after a barge crashed into a stalled tourist boat, leaving two Hungarian tourists missing, authorities retrieved two bodies from the Delaware River, including a girl identified as one of the victims. Identification of the second body was pending.

Angry protesters eye sentencing in transit killing (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:03 PM PDT

A protestor breaks a window at Sears store during a demonstration in Oakland, Calif., after a guilty verdict for Johannes Mehserle, Thursday, July 8, 2010. Former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle was found guilty in Los Angeles for shooting unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009 at a BART station in Oakland. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - The involuntary manslaughter conviction of a white former transit officer in the death of an unarmed black man set the stage for a sentencing that could be just as explosive as the trial depending on how the judge interprets the verdict.

White House silent on Mass. gay marriage ruling (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 01:37 PM PDT

Gay marriage supporter Steven Webster of Madison, Wis., listens as he and other supporters gather during a debate at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church on Friday, July 9, 2010 in Minneapolis. Delegates to the Presbyterian church's convention in Minneapolis voted Thursday for a more liberal policy on gay clergy but decided not to redefine marriage in their church constitution to include same-sex couples. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - A key part of a law denying married gay couples federal benefits has been thrown out the window in Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage. The ball now lies in the White House's court, which must carefully calculate the next move by an administration that has faced accusations it has not vigorously defended the law of the land.

Google wins permission to keep website in China (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 02:54 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 12, 2006 file photo, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, second left, Kaifu Lee, then Vice President of Google China, left, and Johnny Chou, then President of Google China, right, unveil the Chinese-language Google brand name at a press conference in Beijing. Google said Friday, July 9, 2010 that Beijing has renewed the license it needs to continue operating a website in China. The renewal has been in doubt due to the tense relations between Google and Chinese authorities over censorship of Google search results. (AP Photo/EyePress, File) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Google won permission Friday to maintain its website in China and keep its toehold in the world's most populous nation after bowing to pressure to eliminate a virtual detour around the country's online censorship requirements.

Sea turtle egg evacuations begin along oiled Gulf (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Researchers and biologists harvest sea turtle eggs from the sand in Port St. Joe, Fla., Friday, July 9, 2010. U.S. Fish and Wildlife and other authorities are relocating thousands of sea turtle eggs to a warehouse on the East coast of Florida in an effort to save them from an oily death from the Deepwater Horizon incident. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Biologist Lorna Patrick dug gingerly into the beach Friday, gently brushing away sand to reveal dozens of leathery, golfball-sized loggerhead sea turtle eggs.

Presbyterians: End Israel aid over settlements (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 02:36 PM PDT

Delegates wait to speak at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church as the group took up a recommendation that the U.S. cut off aid to Israel unless that country stops settlement expansions in occupied Palestinian territories during their meeting Friday, July 9, 2010 in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - Presbyterian leaders strongly backed a proposal Friday calling for the U.S. government to end aid to Israel unless the country stops settlement expansions in disputed Palestinian territories. The move was immediately criticized by Jewish groups.

Rio Grande rises in Texas city that bears its name (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 03:38 PM PDT

Max Sosa helps shovel mud from a neighbor's driveway during clean up efforts after their neighborhood was flooded by the Rio Grande, Friday, July 9, 2010 in Laredo, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - Upstream communities began to assess the damage Friday wrought by a Rio Grande that jumped its banks in the Texas city of Laredo, while down river people marveled warily at a river that bore little resemblance to the lazy waterway that usually divides border cities.

Cops to probe cold cases for serial killer ties (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:03 PM PDT

**CORRECTS SOURCE** Lonnie David Franklin Jr. appears for arraignment on multiple charges as the alleged 'Grim Sleeper' killer, in Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday, July 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Al Seib, Pool)AP - Investigators are re-examining more than 30 cold case files to see if they can be tied to a suspect in the "Grim Sleeper" killings, the police chief said Friday.

Spy mystery: Was NY columnist a wife betrayed? (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:07 PM PDT

Waldo Mariscal, left, and his half-brother Juan Lazaro Jr., sons of accused spy Vicky Pelaez, leave their home in Yonkers, N.Y., Friday, July 9, 2010. Lazaro Jr., 17, is a gifted pianist who has lived his whole life in the U.S., although he has spent considerable time in Peru, where his mother was born. Mariscal is an architect. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Vicky Pelaez met her husband, Juan Lazaro — or so he called himself — some 30 years ago in her native Peru. She was a gutsy TV reporter, he a talented photographer and a karate black belt. "To her, he was a hunk," a friend says.

LeBron's breakup with Cleveland is personal (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 03:20 PM PDT

A lone passerby looks up at the giant banner of Cavaliers basketball star LeBron James on Friday, July 9, 2010, in Cleveland, Ohio, the day after James announced that he would be signing a contract for the upcoming season to join the Miami Heat. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - The elimination ceremony boiled down to a single sentence, uttered by the most coveted bachelor of them all.

FDA review spotlights heart risk of diabetes pill (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 02:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 30, 2010 file photo, a pharmacist holds a bottle of Avandia pills at Maximart Pharmacy in Palo Alto, Calif. A review released Friday, July 9, 2010 by federal health scientists reinforces potential ties between the diabetes pill Avandia and heart attack and death, opening the door for government action, including a possible withdrawal of the once blockbuster drug. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)AP - Federal health scientists have panned a GlaxoSmithKline study that the company used to defend the safety of its embattled diabetes drug Avandia, a once blockbuster-seller that has fallen out of favor because of potential ties to heart attacks.

East and West with speed; super-efficient spy swap (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:18 PM PDT

RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP - Two men stand on the gangway of a Russian plane believed to be carrying candidates for a 14-person spy swap as part of the largest spy swap since the Cold War have parked on the tarmac at Vienna's Schwechat airport, on Friday, July 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)AP - It took less than month for the largest U.S.-Russian spy swap since the Cold War to unfold from an idea secretly hatched in the Oval Office to reality on a remote stretch of Vienna airport tarmac.

NM police say father taught son to build bombs (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:41 PM PDT

This image provided by the Las Cruces, N.M., Police Department shows Anthony Stromberg, who allegedly taught his 6-year-old son how to build bombs. Stromberg is now facing a charge of child abuse. He remains jailed in Las Cruces on a $150,000 bond. (AP Photo/Las Cruces Police Department)AP - Investigators have provided disturbing new details about the case of a father accused of teaching his 6-year-old boy how to build and blow up homemade bombs out of items such as empty milk jugs and gunpowder.

Black political leaders to recapture '08 momentum (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 02:40 PM PDT

AP - The head of the nation's largest and oldest civil rights organization, fearing a loss of momentum since the 2008 election, plans to use the group's annual convention to get people "off the couch" and re-energized to fight back against a tea party movement that opposes much of President Barack Obama's agenda.

Former top Russian spy Sergei Tretyakov dies at 53 (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 01:54 PM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by www.PeteEarley.com shows Sergei Tretyakov. Tretyakov, a former top Russian spy who defected to the U.S. after running espionage operations from the United Nations, has died in Florida. He was 53. (AP Photo/www.PeteEarley.com)AP - A former top Russian spy who defected to the U.S. after running espionage operations from the United Nations, Sergei Tretyakov, has died in Florida, his wife and a friend said Friday. He was 53.

APNewsBreak: BLM says survey confirms horse claims (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 01:49 PM PDT

AP - Faced with legal challenges accusing the government of rounding up too many wild horses in the West, federal land managers released a new aerial survey Friday, claiming it confirms that they left as many mustangs as they intended after a contentious roundup last winter.

Fla. man in officer deaths charged in 4 killings (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 01:43 PM PDT

AP - A man already facing charges in the shooting deaths of two Tampa police officers and another man now faces a charge in a fourth killing.

Roy Rogers auction in NYC offers Trigger's remains (AP)

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 04:03 PM PDT

Gil Perez, right, a doorman at Christies auction house, wears an outfit and holds a guitar belonging to Roy Rogers as he stands alongside the preserved remains of Rogers' horse 'Trigger' and dog 'Bullet' at the New York auction house, Friday, July 9, 2010. Christie's held a preview Friday of an upcoming auction of items from the now-closed Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Branson, Mo. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - The smell of horses and hay permeated the marble-floored galleries at Christie's in Manhattan Friday as potential bidders previewed items including the preserved remains of movie cowboy Roy Rogers' famous horse Trigger.

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