2011年2月17日星期四

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Former Chrysler dealers sue U.S. over store closures (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:12 PM PST

Reuters - Sixty-four former Chrysler dealers sued the U.S. government on Thursday, saying the Obama administration violated their rights by closing their stores during the automaker's bankruptcy without compensation.

U.S. charges 111 in largest Medicare fraud crackdown (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 12:52 PM PST

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder hold a news conference to announce Medicare Fraud Strike Force law enforcement actions in Washington, February 17, 2011. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - The U.S. government on Thursday charged 111 doctors, nurses and other defendants with Medicare crime schemes that exceeded $225 million in false billings, the largest health care fraud crackdown so far.

NY City to fire teachers, cut capital spending (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:39 PM PST

The moon rises behind the Empire State Building and the skyline of Manhattan at sunset in New York, February 16, 2011. REUTERS/Gary HershornReuters - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday unveiled a $65.6 billion budget plan for fiscal year 2012 that calls for firing 4,666 teachers and reducing capital spending 10 percent over the next decade.

Obama's Sidestep (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 10:30 AM PST

Time.com - Obama said in January that taming the federal budget deficit requires tackling the rising costs of programs like Social Security and Medicare. Why does his 2012 budget proposal ignore reforming them?

Hey, Chicago, Say Hello to Your Next F#@*ing Mayor (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 10:30 AM PST

Time.com - On his best behavior, Rahm Emanuel looks to trade running the White House for running a great U.S. city

Houston police chief defends department after video release (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:53 PM PST

Reuters - In the wake of community outcries over a video showing police beating a 15-year-old African American burglary suspect, Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland on Thursday defended his department and called for an end to "grandstanding" and heated rhetoric.

Iowa wrestling standout refuses to face girl (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:59 PM PST

Cedar Falls' Cassy Herkelman gets her arm raised after winning by default in a Class 3A 112 pound match at the Iowa State Wrestling tournament, Thursday Feb. 17, 2011 in Des Moines, Iowa. Herkelman was one of the first girls to ever qualify for the state tournament and won by default after her opponent Joel Northrup of Linn-Mar High, refused to wrestle a girl. (AP Photo/Steve Pope)AP - After a standout season in which he went 35-4, Joel Northrup had every reason to dream of winning an Iowa wrestling championship this year, but he gave it all up before his first state tournament match Thursday.

Alaska governor refusing to enact health care law (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:28 PM PST

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell addresses the Juneau Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 in Juneau, Alaska. Parnell said he considers a federal judge's decision in Florida, striking down the federal health care overhaul as unconstitutional, to be the law of the land as it pertains to Alaska, a party to the lawsuit. He said he won't pursue implementation of a bill he deems unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)AP - Gov. Sean Parnell took a defiant stand Thursday against the federal health care overhaul Congress passed last year, declaring that he will refuse to implement a law he views as blatantly unconstitutional.

Obama admin. asks judge to clarify health ruling (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:36 PM PST

US President Barack Obama speaks during a rally on healthcare in 2009. A group of 28 Republican governors urged Obama Tuesday to support an expedited US Supreme Court ruling over the constitutionality of his signature health care overhaul.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AP - The Justice Department asked a federal judge in Florida on Thursday to tell states that they must continue to enact the Obama administration's health care overhaul despite the judge's ruling that the law is unconstitutional.

Memos: Firefighter refused call to Tucson shooting (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:50 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2011 file photo, emergency personnel work at the scene where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and others were shot outside a Safeway grocery store in Tucson, Ariz. Veteran firefighter Mark Ekstrum refused to respond to the deadly shooting spree because of 'political bantering,' and it may have delayed his unit's assignment to help, according to internal city memos. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)AP - A veteran firefighter refused to respond to last month's deadly shooting spree that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wounded because he had different political views than his colleagues and "did not want to be part of it," according to internal city memos.

Analysis: Barbour followed by Confederate images (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:59 PM PST

Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant listens as Gov. Haley Barbour says he won't denounce a Southern heritage group's proposal for a state-issued license plate to honor Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan at a news conference following an address before an energy group in Jackson, Miss., Feb. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Does Haley Barbour have a Confederate problem?

Man opens fire on girlfriend along Vegas freeway (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:23 PM PST

AP - Las Vegas police say a man who opened fire near the exit of a busy freeway before officers shot him was shooting at a female acquaintance in a domestic dispute and was not aiming at passing motorists.

Palin rejects new gun laws, vague on 2012 plans (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:50 PM PST

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin covers her heart during the national anthem as she attends a public appearance at a Long Island Association (LIA) meeting and luncheon in Woodbury, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - Sarah Palin, in a rare public appearance at which reporters were allowed, praised lawmakers threatening to vote against raising the federal debt ceiling. She stuck to her guns on "death panels" Thursday and continued tweaking the first lady's efforts to fight childhood obesity, but she chided some of her own supporters for sustaining the "annoying" claims that President Barack Obama is foreign-born and Muslim.

Wis. lawmakers flee state to block anti-union bill (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:10 PM PST

Protestors of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers pack the rotunda at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - Faced with a near-certain Republican victory that would end a half-century of collective bargaining for public workers, Wisconsin Democrats retaliated with the only weapon they had left: They fled.

Feds probe ties between shootout, USPS slayings (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:19 PM PST

An undated photo provided Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department shows Chastain Montgomery Jr., who was killed Monday, Feb. 14, 2011 in Mason, Tenn., in a police shootout. Police say investigators are looking into whether there is a link between the police shootout in western Tennessee that killed Montgomery Jr. this week and the fatal shooting of two postal workers in Henning in October. Mason Police Chief James Paris tells The Associated Press that investigators are checking to see if the gun 18-year-old Chastain Montgomery Jr. fired at police before he was shot and killed Feb. 14 was also used in the post office crime. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Nashville Police Department)AP - Federal investigators are trying to figure out if a police-related shooting in southwest Tennessee this week that left a teenager dead and his father in jail is linked to the fatal shooting of two U.S. postal workers last fall.

111 charged in Medicare scams worth $225 million (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 01:43 PM PST

AP - Federal authorities charged more than 100 doctors, nurses and physical therapists in nine cities with Medicare fraud Thursday, part of a massive nationwide bust that snared more suspects than any other in history.

Poor stacked in mass graves at Illinois cemetery (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

AP - Stillborn babies are buried by the dozens in the same wooden box and the bodies of indigent adults are stacked in mass graves at a Chicago-area cemetery that inters the county's poor and unknown dead, authorities said Thursday.

US rep: Agents ambushed by drug gang in Mexico (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:45 PM PST

In this undated photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday Feb. 16, 2011 is seen ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata. Zapata, on assignment to the ICE Attache in Mexico City from his post in Laredo, Texas, died Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011 when gunmen attacked the agents' vehicle as he and another agent drove through the northern state of San Luis Potosi. The second agent, who wasn't identified, was shot in the arm and leg and was in stable condition, according to statements from the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/ICE)AP - Gunmen from Mexico's ruthless Zetas drug gang carried out a highway ambush that killed one U.S. federal agent and wounded another this week, a Texas congressman said Thursday.

Judge throws out Padilla suit over alleged torture (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:44 PM PST

AP - A federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit brought by a man convicted of plotting terrorism and who alleged he was tortured at a Navy brig in South Carolina, saying a trial would create "an international spectacle."

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