2010年10月31日星期日

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Bomb plot just narrowly averted, officials say (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 02:39 PM PDT

Yemeni security forces stand outside the UPS office in the capital San'a, Yemen Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010. Their first suspect in custody, Yemeni police continued to search for those believed responsible for mailing a pair of bombs to the United States. U.S. and Yemeni officials were increasingly seeing al-Qaida's hand in the failed plot. (AP Photo)AP - The mail bomb plot stretching from Yemen to Chicago may have been aimed at blowing up planes in flight and was only narrowly averted, officials said Sunday, acknowledging that one device almost slipped through Britain and another seized in Dubai was unwittingly flown on two passenger jets.

Contraception could be free under health care law (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 11:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 28, 1999 file photo, a new birth control pill container designed to look like a woman's makeup compact for Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc., of Raritan, N.J., is displayed at the manufacturer's assembly line. Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, File)AP - Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.

With images of civil rights, blacks urged to vote (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 02:25 PM PDT

AP - On the Sunday before Election Day, preachers told black churchgoers across the country to get out and vote — and defy predictions that they'll be complacent or uninterested in a year that President Barack Obama isn't on the ballot.

Michelle Obama Moves Markets With Her Wardrobe (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:40 AM PDT

Time.com - Say what you will about Barack Obama's efforts to reinvigorate the economy. Just don't criticize Michelle.

The New GOP Revival of O'Donnell, Paul, Rubio, Whitman (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:40 AM PDT

Time.com - How a new breed of Republican candidates -- including Christine O'Donnell, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Meg Whitman -- tapped into voter rage and upset the Establishment

Top JFK aide Theodore Sorensen dies at 82 in NY (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2008 file photo, Ted Sorensen, speech writer and former adviser to John F. Kennedy, speaks in Lincoln, Neb. Sorensen, the studious, star-struck aide and alter ego to President John F. Kennedy whose crisp, poetic turns of phrase helped idealize and immortalize a tragically brief administration, has died. He was 82. His wife Gillian Sorensen says he died Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 at a New York hospital from complications of a stroke. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)AP - President John F. Kennedy's aide and speechwriter, Theodore C. Sorensen, a symbol of hope and liberal governance, died at a time of contempt for Washington and political leaders.

In election's shadow, rally draws laughs, activism (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 02:16 AM PDT

Comedians Stephen Colbert, right, and Jon Stewart perform in front of the U.S. Capitol during their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010. The 'sanity' rally blending laughs and political activism drew thousands to the mall with Stewart and Colbert casting themselves as the unlikely maestros of moderation and civility in polarized times. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - In the shadow of the Capitol and the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge throng Saturday at a "sanity" rally poking fun at the nation's ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers.

Nation's governor candidates vague on deficits (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 12:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Oct. 17, 2010, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, left, and Republican challenger Bill Brady debate at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Ill. Illinois' gubernatorial candidates, who will face a budget deficit that could top $15 billion when they take office, and candidates in other states faced with enormous deficits are playing tricky political games. They promise to erase the paralyzing deficits but generally avoid the painful details of what it will take to accomplish that. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey, File)AP - The next governor of Illinois will walk into office and find himself staring at a budget deficit that could top $15 billion. In California, the hole will be $12 billion. In larger-than-life Texas, the two-year total is $18 billion or more.

New dioxin rules might force more cleanups (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 08:34 AM PDT

This photo taken on April 25, 2010 shows a sign posted along the Tittabawassee River near Midland, Mich. warning anglers to limit fish consumption because of dioxin contamination. (AP Photo/John Flesher)AP - The government has spent many millions of dollars in recent decades cleaning up sites contaminated with dioxin and, in extreme cases, relocating residents of entire neighborhoods tainted by the toxin.

Trial begins 8 years after Smart kidnapping (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 03:12 PM PDT

AP - Eight years after he's accused of slicing through a kitchen window screen with a knife and whisking away a young girl in the middle of the night, the man charged in the abduction of Elizabeth Smart is headed to trial in federal court.

Generation gap divides troops on gays in military (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 09:20 AM PDT

AP - If you want to know what a member of the armed forces thinks about repealing "don't ask, don't tell," you could start by asking how old they are.

Shuttle leak repairs good, launch on for Wednesday (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 11:52 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2010 file photo, Space shuttle Discovery begins its 3.4-mile journey to Launch Pad 39A after leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Last-minute leak repairs have again pushed back space shuttle Discovery's final launch, this time until Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. NASA delayed Discovery's flight to the International Space Station yet another day because more work was needed than initially thought to replace a pair of leaking pipe hookups near the shuttle's tail, NASA test director Jeff Spaulding said Saturday, Oct. 30.(AP Photo/John Raoux, File)AP - After a two-day delay, NASA's countdown clocks began ticking Sunday toward the final launch of space shuttle Discovery.

ND coach: My decision to have practice (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 08:45 PM PDT

Notre Dame kicker Brandon Walker wears a 'DS' sticker honoring Declan Sullivan before the start of a NCAA college football game against Tulsa, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, in South Bend, Ind. Sullivan, a 20-year-old Notre Dame junior from Long Grove, Ill., was killed Oct. 27 when a scissor lift in which he had been videotaping football practice toppled over in high winds. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said Saturday it was his decision to hold practice outdoors on a windy day when a student videographer died after the lift he was in fell over.

Artist's study of island brings the dead to life (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 09:01 PM PDT

This Aug. 2, 2010 picture shows a few of the photographs Melinda Hunt has acquired while researching people who are buried in New York's Hart Island. The charcoal drawing by Hunt shows Kazimierz Czymanski, who died on Jan. 1, 1998, and was buried in July 1998 on Hart Island. Since 1869, more than 800,000 have been laid to rest at the potter's field on the island that lies in the waters just off the Bronx borough of New York City. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - When the dead are delivered, four mornings a week, the ferry Michael Cosgrove is waiting.

Fox, Cablevision reach deal to end NY blackout (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 02:15 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, a Philadelphia Phillies player practices in front of an advertisement for postseason baseball on Fox in San Francisco. Fox and Cablevision reached an agreement Saturday that will restore programming to more than 3 million New York-area subscribers who have been without some of their favorite shows and baseball playoff games for two weeks. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)AP - Fox and Cablevision reached an agreement Saturday that will restore programming to more than 3 million New York-area subscribers who have been without some of their favorite shows and baseball playoff games for two weeks.

Soldiers say work helped after Fort Hood shootings (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 09:04 PM PDT

Sgt. Kara Kortenkamp, right, Staff Sgt. Dick Hurtig and Maj. Laura Suttinger, left, all of the 467th Combat Stress Control Detachment, reflect on their return home during a press conference Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, in Madison, Wis., after returning home from deployment in Afghanistan. Three soldiers were killed in their unit along with 10 others at Fort Hood, in Killleen, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009, in a shooting rampage by suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - For nearly a year in Afghanistan, a tightly knit Army Reserve unit kept the memories of their comrades killed during a shooting rampage Fort Hood close. But not too close.

Man could face death penalty in Ill. student death (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 06:57 PM PDT

This photo provided Oct. 29, 2010 by the DeKalb County Sheriff's Department shows William Curl, 34, of DeKalb, Ill. Curl was charged Friday, Oct. 29 with first-degree murder in the slaying of 18-year-old Northern Illinois University freshman Antinette 'Toni' Keller. Curl was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Covington, La., and extradited to Illinois. (AP Photo/DeKalb County Sheriff's Department)AP - An Illinois man may face the death penalty if convicted in the slaying of a college freshman who went missing earlier this month.

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