2011年3月3日星期四

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Wisconsin's Walker says layoff notices imminent (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:21 PM PST

Reuters - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker warned on Thursday that unless the state legislature approves a plan to reduce the power of public sector unions he will soon begin preparing layoff notices to state workers.

Judge stays healthcare ruling, gives White House deadline (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 01:44 PM PST

Opponents of the proposed U.S. health care bill are pictured during a rally outside the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, March 21, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - A judge on Thursday put on hold his ruling that President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul was unconstitutional, allowing the White House to continue implementing the landmark legislation for now.

Arizona shooting suspect wants prison conduct confidential (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:29 PM PST

Reuters - Lawyers for Tucson shooting rampage suspect Jared Lee Loughner are seeking to block federal prison officials from furnishing psychological records and information about his behavior to the FBI and prosecutors while he remains in custody.

Don't Bet Against the United States (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 08:20 AM PST

Time.com - Through good times and bad, Americans have always worried about falling behind. That helps explain why the U.S. remains the world's leading nation

The Real Stakes in Wisconsin (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 08:20 AM PST

Time.com - Walker's war on the public unions could change the game across the U.S. in 2012

Navy admirals, others censured over lewd videos (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:30 PM PST

In this undated photo released by the U.S. Navy, Navy Capt. Owen Honors is shown in an official portrait. The top officer aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier broadcast to his crew a series of profanity-laced comedy sketches in which he uses gay slurs, mimics masturbation and opens the shower curtain on women pretending to bathe together, a newspaper reported. The Virginian-Pilot reported in its Sunday editions that Capt. Honors appeared in the videos in 2006 and 2007 while he was the USS Enterprise's second-ranking officer, and showed them across the ship on closed-circuit television. He took over as the ship's commander in May. (AP Photo/US Navy)Reuters - Several past top officers of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, including two rear admirals, have been recommended for censure following an investigation into lewd videos shown on the ship, the Navy announced on Thursday.

Ind. elections chief charged with voter fraud (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:29 PM PST

A signed photo of Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White hangs with those of other public officials at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Thursday, March 3, 2011. A grand jury in Hamilton county has indicted White on seven felony counts, including voter fraud and perjury. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)AP - Indiana's top elections official was indicted Thursday on voter fraud and other charges for allegedly listing his ex-wife's address as his own on voting and loan forms and serving on a town council when he was ineligible, a prosecutor said.

APNewsBreak: Harvard to let ROTC back on campus (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:09 PM PST

AP - Harvard University is welcoming the Reserve Officer Training Corps program back to campus this week, 41 years after banishing it amid dissent over the Vietnam War.

Northwestern U. to investigate class' sex toy demo (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:39 PM PST

AP - Northwestern University found itself at the center of a furor Thursday after a sexuality professor known for racy lessons allowed students to stay after a lecture to witness a couple using a mechanized sex toy.

Nevada family fights for survival in down times (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:55 PM PST

Tera Burbank shops for groceries Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011 in Las Vegas. After two years of living under the veil of long-term unemployment and its risks of foreclosure, hunger and loss, the mother of three has resolved to keep her family whole amid the greatest crisis they’ve ever weathered. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - Tera Burbank pulls a frayed robe tighter across her body as she leans into the refrigerator, her eyes canvassing the modest offerings for something to pack in her daughter's lunch box.

Wis. Dems threatened with police action, layoffs (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:09 PM PST

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker addresses a joint session of the Legislature at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Opponents to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers have been protesting the governor's budget for 14 days at the Capitol. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - Wisconsin's governor threatened Thursday to issue thousands of layoff notices within 24 hours if Senate Democrats who fled to Illinois fail to return for a vote on a measure that would cripple public unions, and their Republican colleagues also stepped up the pressure by authorizing police to round up the missing lawmakers.

Ohio union bill speeds toward passage (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:34 PM PST

Protestors against Senate Bill 5 react to it passing in the Senate Wednesday, March 2, 2011, in Columbus, Ohio. Senate Bill 5 will strip public employees of collective bargaining rights. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)AP - With barely a whimper of the protests that have convulsed Wisconsin, legislation to curb public employee unions is speeding toward passage in Ohio, an even bigger labor stronghold.

Giffords shows more progress in recovery (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:52 PM PST

In this photo taken Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, Ron Barber, aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, is shown at his home in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)AP - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been showing emotion, good memory skills and an impressive grasp of everything from legislative business to song lyrics as she recovers in a Houston hospital from a gunshot wound to the head.

Phoenix police chief reassigned amid stats review (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:48 PM PST

Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris, left, listens during a news conference as Phoenix City Manager David Cavazos, right, talks about the shakeups announced in the police hierarchy at City Hall Thursday, March 3, 2011, in Phoenix, as Harris is reassigned and new Acting Police Chief Joe Yahner, middle, is named. The action came today as the city's police department faces scrutiny for kidnapping statistics that it provided in getting a federal grant. Harris has come under heavy criticism after a police officer had claimed that the kidnapping figures had been inflated to get the grant. U.S. Justice Department auditors are reviewing the statistics that Phoenix police provided in order to get the $1.7 million grant to support the squad that investigates kidnappings. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Phoenix's police chief has been removed from day-to-day operations of the department amid scrutiny over kidnapping statistics that were used to win a federal grant, city officials announced Thursday.

Man convicted in NYC stabbing he called a suicide (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:11 PM PST

AP - A man who said he helped a debt-ridden motivational speaker kill himself was convicted of murder Thursday in a seeming street crime that turned into an unusual framework for questions about the legal limits of assisted suicide.

Man questioned in deaths of kids found in canal (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:09 PM PST

A diver, second right, from the Delray Beach Police Department boards a police boat on the C-15 canal, looking for evidence after two children were discovered dead in the canal, dead in the canal, their bodies stuffed into luggage in Delray Beach, Fla., March 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Jon Way)AP - Police said they were questioning a suspect Thursday in the deaths of two children whose bodies were stuffed into luggage and dumped into a canal.

US teens, young adults 'doing it' less, study says (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:09 PM PST

UPDATES to conform with story; graphic shows percent change in sexual behavior between 2002 and 2006-2008 among ages 15-AP - Fewer teens and young adults are having sex, a government survey shows, and theories abound for why they're doing it less. Experts say this generation may be more cautious than their predecessors, more aware of sexually spread diseases. Or perhaps emphasis on abstinence in the past decade has had some influence.

Some see poetry in Charlie Sheen's `Adonis DNA' (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:41 PM PST

FILE - In a Aug. 2, 2010 file photo, Charlie Sheen waves as he arrives at the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen, Colo., for a hearing in his domestic abuse case. Sheen says Wednesday, March 2, 2011 that after his two young sons were removed from his house overnight, he's 'very calm and focused' but ready to fight to get them back. Interviewed Wednesday live on NBC's 'Today' show, Sheen confirmed the nearly 2-year-old twins, Bob and Max, were removed after a court order was granted to his estranged wife, Brooke Mueller, who is their mother. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - With "tiger blood," "Adonis DNA" and his "fire-breathing fists," Charlie Sheen has practically invented a new language with his rants and ramblings.

Obama to astronauts: Unpack robot in space soon (AP)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:54 PM PST

** ADDIS IDS OF CREW ** In this image taken from video released by NASA, all twelve Discovery and International Space Station crew members wave during a call from President Barack Obama Thursday, March 3, 2011. From top left, Nicole Stott, Paolo Nespoli, Oleg Skripochka, Alexander Kaleri, Dmitry Kondratyev, commander Scott Kelly, Catherine Coleman, and Steve Bowen; from bottom left, Alvin Drew, pilot Eric Boe, commander Steve Lindsey, and Michael Barratt. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - The 12 astronauts on the orbiting shuttle-station complex had to explain to a higher authority Thursday why they hadn't yet unpacked R2, the first humanoid robot in space.

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