2010年8月21日星期六

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

AP Enterprise: Spill bound BP, feds together (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 05:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 12, 2010 file photo, BP employees and members of the U.S. Coast Guard in the command center at the Houma Joint Information Center listen to BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles speak about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Houma, La. For months, the U.S. government talked with a boot-on-the-neck toughness about BP, with the president wondering aloud about whose butt to kick. But privately, it worked hand-in-hand with the oil giant to cap the runaway Gulf well and chose to effectively be the company's banker — allowing future drilling revenues to potentially be used as collateral for a victim compensation fund. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)AP - For months, the U.S. government talked with a boot-on-the-neck toughness about BP, with the president wondering aloud about whose butt to kick.

US golf clubs in the rough as members drop away (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 09:18 AM PDT

In this Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 photo, Greg Schimoler of Mamaroneck, N.Y., drives the ball down a fairway at the Saxon Woods public golf course in Scarsdale, N.Y. The recession and changing family dynamics have taken a toll on both public and private golf courses. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - A few weeds have popped up on the fairways, and summer's heat has scorched the grass here and there, but the golf course at the Hampshire Country Club is still tidy and scenic, its little waterfall still burbling through the rocks.

Rural California county seeks bailout for hospital (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 12:13 PM PDT

In this July 27, 2010 photo, Delinda Gover, the interim director of nursing peeks into the unused operating room at the Modoc Medical Center in Alturas, Calif. The county funded hospital, which has been losing money for years, has reduced staff, ceased delivering babies and stopped performing surgeries to save money. Facing a critical cash shortfall, Modoc County leaders are looking for ways to stop the red ink by cutting local services and possibly closing the rural hospital. The fate of the medical center could be decided August 31st, when area residents will vote in a special election whether to create a special hospital district that would be supported by a parcel tax of $195 per year.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Modoc County is wedged into California's far northeastern corner, a land apart from much of the rest of the nation's most populous state.

Gov't: 23K workers affected by Gulf oil drill ban (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 02:32 PM PDT

The Transocean Development Driller II works on drilling a relief well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil wellhead on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Chuck Cook)AP - A six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would directly put more than 9,000 people out of work and indirectly affect another 14,000 jobs, according to a memo from the nation's top drilling regulator.

Mosque flap tests limits of US tolerance (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 05:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 file photo, Muslims and people of other faiths gather at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., to discuss what they call 'Islamophobia' across the country and concerns for their safety during the holy month of Ramadan. As rancor swirls around the issue of whether a mosque and Islamic cultural center should be built two blocks from the New York site where the destroyed Twin Towers stood, Americans are being forced to examine just how tolerant they are — or are not. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)AP - The word tolerance comes from the Latin "tolerare" — to bear. In our dictionaries, we define it as, among other things, the "freedom from bigotry or prejudice."

GOP candidate in Conn. hammers Democrat on honesty (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 05:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 14, 2010, file photo, U.S. Senate hopeful, Republican Linda McMahon speaks to attendees at a candidate's forum at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, Conn. Name-calling is a winner this campaign season. By a landslide. There is Connecticut, and a statement the Democratic National Committee sent around referring to the Republican Senate candidate as Linda 'crotch-kicker' McMahon.(AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)AP - Richard Blumenthal's words are haunting him again. Already forced to apologize for saying he had served "in" Vietnam in the Marine Reserve rather than stateside, the state attorney general's campaign for U.S. Senate is now being challenged to explain his assertion that he had "never taken PAC money" and has "rejected all special interest money."

Shirley Sherrod to meet with ag secretary Tuesday (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 04:16 PM PDT

Senior Vice President for Advocacy for the NAACP Hilary Shelton, right, and former Georgia Director of Rural Development Shirley Sherrod listen as NAACP president and CEO Ben Jealous speaks during the annual meeting of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund at the Rural Training and Research Center in Epes, Ala. Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. Saturday's meeting was the first time Shirley Sherrod and Ben Jealous have attended a public event together. (AP Photo/Tuscaloosa News, Dusty Compton)AP - Former USDA official Shirley Sherrod says she is meeting with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday to discuss a new job offer.

Police: Fla. congressional candidate robbed (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 04:14 PM PDT

AP - Police in North Miami say a Democratic congressional candidate has been robbed at gunpoint while waiting to make a campaign appearance at a church.

Tropical depression forms in the Atlantic (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 02:03 PM PDT

AP - A new tropical depression has formed in the Atlantic, but the system is far from land.

Moving sale planned at 'Amityville Horror' house (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 08:10 AM PDT

FILE - In this photo provided by Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty, the house made famous in the 1979 film 'The Amityville Horror' is shown in this May 20, 2010 file photo taken in Amityville, N.Y.. Since the house is under contract the current owner of the New York house is holding a moving sale Saturday Aug. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty, Kevin J Wohles) NO SALESAP - The owner of the New York house made famous in the 1979 film "The Amityville Horror" is holding a moving sale.

Bear who mauled caretaker is put to death in Ohio (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 04:21 PM PDT

Sam Mazzola, left, arrives at his exotic animal farm Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, in Columbia Station, Ohio, where a caretaker was mauled by a bear Thursday night. The man, Brent Kandra, of Elyria, Ohio, died later in a Cleveland hospital. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)AP - A bear that mauled to death a caretaker was euthanized Saturday at the request of the family of the victim, whose father said he had told his son to leave the job.

NY candidate: Prison dorms for welfare recipients (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 02:19 PM PDT

AP - Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they could work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in "personal hygiene."

ACLU questions 'enhanced patdown' of air travelers (AP)

Posted: 21 Aug 2010 10:36 AM PDT

AP - The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is questioning the propriety of stepped-up security checkpoint procedures at airports in Boston and Las Vegas.

Wildfire in LA County forest 100 percent contained (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 11:08 PM PDT

AP - A stubborn wildfire that charred 120 acres Friday and spurred some residents to evacuate homes in the Angeles National Forest is fully surrounded, authorities said.

Several inmates stabbed at Maryland prison (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 10:17 PM PDT

AP - Maryland prison officials say several inmates have been stabbed after several fights broke out at the same time at the facility.

NYC imam's goodwill tour comes amid mosque furor (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 11:48 PM PDT

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, center, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, greets worshipers inside a Muharraq, Bahrain, mosque after leading midday prayers Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Rauf, the imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York, is on a U.S.-funded outreach tour to Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to talk about religious tolerance in America. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - The furor over the planned mosque and Islamic center near ground zero has put Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf in a curious position: At the same time he is being vilified in the U.S. for spearheading the project, he is traveling the Mideast on a State Department mission as a symbol of American religious freedom.

New guidelines could rule out many oil claims (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:56 PM PDT

A slick of oil floats near a boat off Grand Isle, Louisiana June 9, 2010. Americans are almost equally divided on whether the Obama Administration should lift the moratorium on offshore oil drilling and on the possibility of BP returning to explore in the area of its massive spill, according to a new Gallup poll. REUTERS/Lee Celano/FilesAP - A flower shop in Florida that saw a drop-off in weddings this summer is probably out of luck. So is a restaurant in Idaho that had to switch seafood suppliers. A hardware store on the Mississippi coast may be left out, too.

Recall expands to more than half a billion eggs (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 07:20 PM PDT

A sign warns customers of the recall of certain lots of eggs that had been previously sold at a supermarket in Los Angeles Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. A salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds and led to the recall of hundreds of millions of eggs from one Iowa firm will likely grow, federal health officials said Thursday. No eggs currently on the shelf at this store were affected by the recall. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - More than a half-billion eggs have been recalled in the nationwide investigation of a salmonella outbreak that Friday expanded to include a second Iowa farm. The outbreak has already sickened more than 1,000 people and the toll of illnesses is expected to increase.

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