2010年10月23日星期六

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Leaked Iraq war files portray weak, divided nation (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:29 PM PDT

Iraqi people surf the internet for the WikiLeaks web site in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. Military documents laid bare in the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history suggest that far more Iraqis died than previously acknowledged during the years of sectarian bloodletting and criminal violence unleashed by the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The enormous cache of secret war logs disclosed by the WikiLeaks website paints a picture of an Iraq burdened by persistent sectarian tension and meddling neighbors, suggesting that the country could drift into chaos once U.S. forces leave.

Questions about accuser surround sex slave case (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 02:10 PM PDT

This photo provided Sept. 28, 2010 by the U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri, shows Edward Bagley's trailer near Lebanon, Mo. Bagley is facing 11 federal charges accusing him of keeping a young woman as a sex slave for years. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney's Office)AP - The allegations in the indictment were shocking: A young woman had been held captive for years as the sex slave of a Missouri couple. She had been locked in a cage and subjected to electrical shocks. Parts of her body had been nailed to wooden planks. When announcing charges last month, U.S. Attorney Beth Phillips called the case one of "the most horrific ever prosecuted in this district."

Migrants unite for better trailer park living (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 11:07 AM PDT

** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, OCT. 24 ** Pasquala Beaza looks on while watering her plants in front of home at an unpermitted mobile home park in Thermal, Calif., Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. Squalid housing for migrant farmworkers has for decades been a depressing reality in many places where crops are grown. But the situation in the cresent-shaped Coachella Valley 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles is unique for both its severity and for the hundreds of hidden and largely unplanned trailer parks that fill the need. At one such encampment, where raw sewage runs in the dirt streets and electricty was off for a month as temperatures reached 115 degrees, six farmworkers, with the assistance of legal aid, had the temerity to sue the landlord. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - In the five years Pasquala Beaza has lived in a squalid trailer park for migrant farmworkers, she has endured the stench of sewage overflows, street flooding and blackouts.

Double Take: Lyndon Johnson Was Nearly Shot By Secret Service? A Day After JFK Died? (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 01:55 AM PDT

Time.com - Hey hey, LBJ, how many times were you almost accidentally shot by the Secret Service today?

The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 07:04 AM PDT

AP - In a clattery, uptown bistro, not far from the studio where he once watched his father paint bold abstract masterpieces, Earl Davis contemplates the greatest loss of his life.

Portland, Maine, weighs letting noncitizens vote (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 08:32 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, October 19, 2010 photo, Claude Rwaganje, a resident of Portland, Maine, for over 13 years, speaks at a news conference. Portland residents will vote in November on a proposal that would give legal residents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in local elections. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)AP - Like his neighbors, Claude Rwaganje pays taxes on his income and taxes on his cars. His children have gone to Portland's public schools. He's interested in the workings of Maine's largest city, which he has called home for 13 years.

ND vote could ban big game hunting on fenced land (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 10:09 AM PDT

AP - Butch and Deb Dick's lifelong dream was to open a big game hunting preserve and after years of preparation, they expected to welcome the first customers to their southeastern North Dakota ranch this month.

Coast Guard checks on discolored water near La. (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 03:38 PM PDT

Men sit on massage chairs in a shop at the Chinese Dragon mall in Dubai May 3, 2010. Across the Gulf, and especially in states where rapid growth is driven by oil and gas, locals rarely have hands-on jobs in health -- or anywhere in the private sector. Gulf Arab rulers have known for more than a decade that this is a problem, not least because it hands day-to-day power over whole sections of the economy to foreigners. In response, governments have introduced 'nationalisation' schemes aimed at pushing their workers into the private sector. Picture taken May 3, 2010. To match Special Report GULF/ REUTERS/Jamal Saidi/Files (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS)AP - The Coast Guard said Saturday that an area of discolored water near a Mississippi River pass south of New Orleans appears to be an algae bloom, but another spot 10 miles away could be oil.

Cops: Ohio shooting victim complained about gunman (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 10:49 PM PDT

AP - A woman was shot to death Friday outside the manufacturing plant where she worked by a man whom she had complained about to police, and the gunman also killed her co-worker, authorities said.

Gone from NPR, Williams begins bigger role on Fox (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 04:28 AM PDT

News analyst Juan Williams appears on the 'Fox & friends' television program in New York, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Williams, who has written extensively on race and civil rights in the U.S., has been fired by National Public Radio after comments he made about Muslims on Fox News Channel's 'The O'Reilly Factor,' on Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - As listeners and angry citizens complained to NPR and public radio stations across the country over the firing of Juan Williams, the news analyst kept up his own criticism of his former employer as he began a bigger role with Fox News Channel.

Blue wave turned red with blood after shark attack (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2010 11:55 AM PDT

AP - Matthew Garcia was surfing two feet away from his friend who was bodyboarding when he heard a desperate cry for help. Within seconds, a shark flashed out of the water, bit into his friend's leg and pulled him under in a cloud of blood off the coast north of Santa Barbara.

Calif. coroner IDs body left in car for months (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 10:49 PM PDT

This Oct. 21, 2010 photo shows a vehicle in Costa Mesa, Calif., in which police say they discovered the mummified body of a homeless woman that could have been in the car anywhere from three to ten months. Costa Mesa Police say the woman who drives the car told police she let the homeless woman sleep in her car and one morning found she had died inside. The driver was afraid to contact police. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Mark Rightmire) NO SALES; MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT mummy.1021 - 10/21/10 - Photo by MARK RIGHTMIRE, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTERAP - Medical examiners have identified a mummified corpse that was left in a car's passenger seat for 10 months in Southern California, a police spokesman said Friday.

U.S. man pleads guilty to spying attempts for China (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 07:26 PM PDT

AP - A Michigan man pleaded guilty Friday to accepting $70,000 from Chinese spies as he attempted to secure jobs with the CIA and U.S. Foreign Service that would have allowed him to expose U.S. government secrets.

Man guilty in death of 'dog trainer to the stars' (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 07:18 PM PDT

AP - A jury convicted a security expert of first-degree murder Friday in the death of a dog trainer whose clients included some of Seattle's most famous residents.

Attorney James Neal, Watergate prosecutor, dies (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 08:07 PM PDT

FILE - Nashville, Tenn., attorney James F. Neal, is shown in an undated photo. Neal, who successfully prosecuted Jimmy Hoffa and Watergate figures and later defended high-profile clients, including Exxon Corp. after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, died Thursday, Oct. 21 in Nashville. He was 81. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey,File)AP - Outside the courtroom, James F. Neal had an amiable, backslapping way with friends and foes alike. Inside the chamber, the face of one of America's greatest trial lawyers often became fixed in a steely gaze.

In Wash., illegal immigrants canvassing for votes (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 08:26 PM PDT

In this photograph taken Sunday, Oct. 16, 2010, Maria Gianni poses for a portrait at a phone bank in Seattle being used by OneAmerica Votes, an organization that has launched a vote drive targeting naturalized citizen voters. Gianni, an illegal immigrant, volunteers with the organization as it tries to steer immigrant voters toward Democratic candidates. (AP Photo/Manuel Valdes)AP - When Maria Gianni is knocking on voters' doors, she's not bashful about telling people she is in the country illegally. She knows it's a risk to advertise to strangers that she's here illegally — but one worth taking in what she sees as a crucial election.

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