2011年3月7日星期一

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Wisconsin's Walker dismisses Democratic overture (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:52 PM PST

A man marches with a Reuters - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker dismissed as "ridiculous" a request on Monday from the leader of absent Senate Democrats to meet and negotiate a compromise in their standoff over Republican plans to limit public sector union powers.

Supreme Court won't review drug patent deal (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 07:35 AM PST

Security guards walk the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington in this October 1, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - The Supreme Court let stand a ruling that drug companies can pay rivals to delay production of generic drugs without violating federal antitrust laws.

Wells Fargo hiring 1,000 for mid-Atlantic retail (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 11:04 AM PST

Reuters - Wells Fargo & Co will by mid-May hire more than 1,000 people for its retail banking operations in the mid-Atlantic region, ahead of a planned fall rebranding of its Wachovia locations.

Eco-Activism: And the Winning Bidder Goes to Jail (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:05 AM PST

Time.com - Tim DeChristopher wanted to disrupt a federal land auction for gas and oil leases. He did and now he is paying the price

The GOP Nomination Race: Will Newt Gingrich Perk Up Iowa? (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:05 AM PST

Time.com - Compared to the 2008 race, the budding political season is a snorer so far, even though lots of wannabes (or is that just Mike Huckabee?) are trudging through

Philadelphia Archdiocese faces new claims of sexual abuse (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 10:35 AM PST

Reuters - Attorneys on Monday said they were filing suit accusing a priest of sexual abuse and the former head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia of failing to stop the abuse.

Police say father beat Florida girl to death (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 05:57 PM PST

AP - A 10-year-old Florida girl and her twin brother sometimes spent days at a time locked in a bathroom, their hands and feet bound, enduring their parents' abuse before the girl's father punched and beat her to death, police said Monday.

Lava spews 100 feet from Hawaii volcano's new vent (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:07 PM PST

Scientists fly in a helicopter above the Pu'u O'o vent on Kilauea Volcano on Sunday, March 6, 2011 in Hawaii. Scientists say the Pu'u O'o crater floor has collapsed and an eruption occurred along the middle of Kilauea Volcano's east rift zone. Scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory say after a fissure broke out around 5 p.m. Saturday, lava was seen erupting up to 65 feet high. (AP Photo/Tim Wright)AP - Glowing, red-orange lava is shooting into the sky, creating fiery rivers from the newest vent at Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.

Video shows NYC police helicopter view on 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:53 PM PST

In this image made from New York Police Department video posted on the Internet of the World Trade Center attack, smoke engulfs the twin towers after being hit by commercial airliners, as videotaped from a NYPD helicopter on Sept. 11, 2001. The video was released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology on March 3 under a Freedom of Information Act request, but it wasn't clear who published the footage online. (AP Photo/NYPD)AP - New video has surfaced from the Sept. 11 attacks from a police helicopter hovering near the burning World Trade Center towers in the hope of rescuing survivors from the rooftops, only to find no one there as the buildings topple and smolder.

Prosecutors seek mental exam for Tucson suspect (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 06:04 PM PST

Jim and Doris Tucker speak with U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) (C) in Tucson, Arizona, in this photograph taken on January 8, 2011 and released on March 5, 2011. Giffords, who was gravely wounded in a mass shooting that day, continues to recover in a Houston hospital. REUTERS/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords/Sara Hummel-Rajca/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSAP - Prosecutors have asked a judge to commit the suspect in the shooting rampage that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to a federal facility where he can be evaluated by psychologists to determine whether he suffers from a mental defect that makes him incompetent to stand trial.

Obama restarts Guantanamo trials (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:50 PM PST

A view of a control tower building for an abandoned airport at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base July 27, 2008. REUTERS/Randall Mikkelsen/FilesAP - President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his once ironclad promise to close the isolated prison look even more distant.

Inside trade trial offers new look at Wall Street (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 03:40 PM PST

In this March 4, 2011 photo, Raj Rajaratnam, former head of the Galleon Group hedge funds, arrives at Federal Court in New York for a pretrial conference. Jury selection starts Tuesday, March, 8, for the securities fraud trial of Rajaratnam, a one-time billionaire who sat atop the hedge fund world until prosecutors said he pocketed more than $50 million illegally as he ran the biggest hedge fund insider trading scam in history.(AP Photo/David Karp)AP - The start of the insider trading trial of a one-time billionaire Tuesday is expected to offer a rare look at the seamier side of Wall Street as prosecutors play taped conversations to try to prove that the powerful hedge fund founder conspired to earn more than $50 million illegally.

Fatal shooting prompts outcry among Sikhs, Muslims (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 05:17 PM PST

Harvinder Singh comforts his daughter, Navi Kaur, during a news conference discussing the murder of his father, Surinder Singh, held in West Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 7, 2011. Singh, 67, and Gurmej Atwal, 78, were shot by a passing vehicle, Friday, while out for a walk near their homes in Elk Grove, Calif. Surinder died at the scene and Atwal, who was shot twice in the chest, is listed in critical condition. There are no suspects in the shootings.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - The daily stroll had become routine for two elderly Sikh men in a Sacramento suburb, as well as for neighbors and friends accustomed to seeing the men walk by with their long beards and turbans.

AP Exclusive: Abusive priests live unmonitored (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:35 PM PST

Rowland Heights, Calif., resident Chitira Zuno comments on her neighbor, retired priest Stephen Hernandez, regarding allegations that he sexually abused children, Saturday, March 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas)AP - The charges of child molestation came too long after the abuse to send Carl Sutphin, a Roman Catholic priest, to prison. Now he is spending his days in a doublewide mobile home, a short walk from day care centers and two elementary schools.

2 charged in slaying, robbery of Texas pastor (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:33 PM PST

This photo provided by the Arlington (Texas) Police Department shows Steven Lawayne Nelson. Nelson was arrested Saturday for allegedly killing a pastor during an apparent robbery at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Arlington Police Department)AP - Prosecutors on Monday charged two men with capital murder in the slaying and robbery of a young Texas pastor in his church.

NTSB: Tug pilot in duck boat crash was on cell (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 05:10 PM PST

AP - The mate piloting a tug boat involved in the deadly collision of a tourist boat and a barge last summer was consumed by a family emergency and on his cell phone at the time, a new government report on the crash revealed Monday.

Autopsies released for victims in Giffords attack (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 04:52 PM PST

This Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 photo provided by the office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, shows the Arizona congresswoman listening intently as she talks with Jim and Doris Tucker, two of her constituents, one of whom also was injured, in Tucson, Ariz. Shortly after the photo was taken, a man walked quickly up to the group and shot Giffords and 18 other people. (AP Photo/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords) NO SALESAP - A medical examiner released autopsy reports Monday for the six people slain in the January shooting rampage that injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, detailing how a gunman killed three of them with gunshots to the head as he opened fire on a crowd at a political event.

Police: Drinking preceded Russian roulette death (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 05:08 PM PST

AP - Authorities say an Alaska-based soldier told police a fellow soldier asked for a bullet to put in a gun's empty chamber before he fatally shot himself during a drunken game of Russian roulette.

Lawsuit filed against Philly archdiocese officials (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 02:32 PM PST

AP - A man suing the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia says clergy covered up sexual assault allegations against a Roman Catholic priest who molested him in the 1990s.

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