2011年1月23日星期日

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Accused Tucson shooter to appear in federal court (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 07:27 AM PST

Jared Lee Loughner the suspect in the attempted assassination of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, is shown in this U.S. Marshals handout photograph released to Reuters on January 10, 2011. REUTERS/U.S. Marshals/HandoutReuters - Tucson shooting rampage suspect Jared Loughner is due to appear in federal court on Monday on charges of attempting to assassinate Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the attempted murder of two of her staff members.


Woman suspected in NY kidnapping case to face charges (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 04:37 PM PST

Reuters - A woman who raised a child who went missing from a New York hospital 23 years ago will face federal kidnapping charges after she turned herself in to the FBI, law enforcement officials said on Sunday.

Gunman wounds 4 officers in Detroit police station (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 04:52 PM PST

Reuters - A gunman opened fire inside a Detroit police station on Sunday, wounding four police officers, including a commander, before the attacker was shot and killed, Police Chief Ralph Godbee said.

At Obama's midpoint, an altered State of the Union (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 01:04 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington. When Obama first addressed the joint session about two years ago he had big plans, and a Democratic majority in Congress to help him carry them out. At Tuesday's State of the Union he will speak to a radically reshaped Congress, its Democratic ranks slashed by voters last November, and Republicans sworn to slash spending by as much as $100 billion. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Nearly two years ago on a cold February day, President Barack Obama stood for the first time before a joint session of Congress and spoke of a national day of reckoning.


WikiLeaks: 1 percent of diplomatic docs published (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 07:52 AM PST

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives for a news conference with former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, not seen, at the Frontline Club in London, Monday Jan. 17, 2011. Rudolf Elmer blew the whistle on the conduct of Julius Baer Bank in the Cayman Islands for which he is set to stand trial in Zurich, Switzerland, on Jan. 19 for breaching Swiss bank secrecy laws. Elmer claims he has evidence of alleged abuses in the world of offshore financial centres and passed the said documents and information to Assange. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Nearly two months after WikiLeaks outraged the U.S. government by launching the release of a massive compendium of diplomatic documents, the secret-spilling website has published 2,658 U.S. State Department cables — just over 1 percent of its trove of 251,287 documents.


McAuliffe remains vivid to still-grieving NH city (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 01:18 PM PST

FILE - In this 1986 file photo, Christa McAuliffe, left, and Barbara Morgan, right, laugh during training.  A whole generation — including McAuliffe's own students — has grown up since McAuliffe and six other astronauts perished on live TV on Jan. 28, 1986, a quarter century ago on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Now the former schoolchildren who loved her are making sure that people who weren't even born then know about McAuliffe and her dream of going into space. (AP Photo/NASA, File)AP - In the 25 years since the Challenger exploded on liftoff, Felicia Brown has gone to college, become a psychologist, gotten married and had kids. Fresh in her mind, though, is the memory of Christa McAuliffe, a teacher at her high school and family friend who was to be the first teacher in space.


Powell still bullish on Obama, not joining govt (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 07:55 AM PST

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell arrives for the luncheon for China's President Hu Jintao, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday ruled out a return to government service but said he still supports President Barack Obama even though he hasn't yet decided who to vote for in 2012.


Walmart shooting leaves 1 dead, 2 deputies wounded (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 04:54 PM PST

AP - A Washington state sheriff says a shooting at a Walmart has left one person dead and two sheriff's deputies wounded.

Case in Giffords shooting likely to take years (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 04:03 PM PST

The medical ambulance transporting U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords leaves the University Medical Center en-route to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona January 21, 2011. Giffords will be flown to Texas where she will begin her in-patient rehabilitation, two weeks after she was shot through the head. REUTERS/Samantha Sais (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS)AP - Investigators have been poring over surveillance video, interviewing witnesses and analyzing items seized from Jared Loughner's home as they build a case in the assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.


Police: 4 Detroit police officers shot at precinct (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 04:55 PM PST

Detroit police stand outside the precinct 6 building in northwest Detroit where a gunman walked into the police station and opened fire injuring three police officers, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - A gunman opened fire inside a Detroit police precinct on Sunday, wounding four officers including a commander before police shot and killed him, authorities said.


Departures draw curtain on 'Team North Dakota' (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 11:14 AM PST

This photo taken on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011, shows a campaign button depicting North Dakota's three Democratic members of Congress, Sen. Kent Conrad, Sen. Byron Dorgan and Rep. Earl Pomeroy. Dorgan left the Senate after he declined to run for re-election last year, Pomeroy was defeated for re-election by Republican Rick Berg, and Conrad announced last week he would not seek re-election in 2012. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel)AP - On the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River loom two trophies won by North Dakota's congressional muscle — a four-lane bridge honoring the nation's veterans and a gleaming college energy center with a glassy facade and a panoramic view of the water.


FBI: Woman who raised stolen NY baby held in Conn. (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 04:19 PM PST

This poster released by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shows Carlina White as an infant, left, and what she might have looked like as an adult, right.  White, who was kidnapped 23 years ago as an infant from a Harlem hospital bed and raised under a different name, was reunited with her birth mother on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children)AP - A North Carolina woman who raised a child stolen 23 years ago from a New York hospital surrendered to authorities on a probation violation charge Sunday, and she was to appear in federal court to face kidnapping charges, the U.S. attorney's office said.


Brain fluid buildup delays full rehab for Giffords (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 02:42 PM PST

An artist's depiction shows Jared Lee Loughner (L), the Arizona man accused of shooting 20 people while trying to assassinate U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords over the weekend, and his attorney public defender Judy Clarke during a court appearance in Phoenix, Arizona January 10, 2011. REUTERS/Joan AndrewAP - The Houston hospital treating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said Sunday that her condition is improving daily, but gave no update on the buildup of brain fluid that has kept the Arizona congresswoman in intensive care.


House leader Cantor believes Obama is a US citizen (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 04:02 PM PST

In this photo provided by NBC television Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., speaks on NBC's 'Meet the Press' in Washington Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011. The new House Majority Leader said he believes Obama is a citizen and that most Americans are beyond that question. He refused to call people who question Obama's citizenship 'crazy,' saying it's not nice to call anyone crazy. (AP Photo/NBC, William B. Plowman)  NO ARCHIVES. NO SALES.AP - The new Republican House majority leader says he doesn't think questions about President Barack Obama's citizenship should play a role in the discussion of policy matters.


In Montana, a plan to empower local sheriffs (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 01:31 PM PST

AP - The line of people stretched out the door of the committee room, all waiting for their turn to condemn or express their fears about the federal government.

Tiny island school a beacon for wayward teens (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 10:43 AM PST

This photo taken Dec. 13, 2010 on Beaver Island, Mich. shows the lighthouse at Beaver Island Lighthouse School from the air. The Lighthouse School is an alternative high school located on a remote island in northern Lake Michigan. Students who attend here have either dropped out of traditional high school, or are at risk of doing so. Many see it as a last chance to get a diploma. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - This school isn't a place you end up by accident.


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