2011年3月19日星期六

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Warren Christopher, U.S. negotiator, dies at 85 (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 11:39 AM PDT

Reuters - Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who helped bring peace to Bosnia and negotiated the release of American hostages in Iran, died in California at age 85.

New Mexico governor loses bid to block licenses for illegals (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Reuters - New Mexico's newly elected Republican governor lost her attempt to deny driver's licenses to illegal immigrants on Saturday, when the bill died in the state Senate.

Miniature train derails at park, killing 6-year-old child (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 03:40 PM PDT

Reuters - A miniature train at a South Carolina park derailed and overturned on Saturday, killing a 6-year-old child and injuring at least 18 other people, authorities said.

Super-moon to rise on Saturday (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 01:31 PM PDT

The moon rises over east London March 19, 2011. Saturday will see the rise of a full moon called a Reuters - An especially large moon will appear to rise on Saturday in the most extreme example of a so-called super-moon phenomenon in nearly 20 years, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory.

Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher dies (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 03:24 PM PDT

FILE - President Clinton looks on as outgoing Secretary of State Warren Christopher speaks at the White House in this Nov. 7, 1996 file photo. Christopher died from complications of kidney and bladder cancer at his home in Los Angeles Friday March 18, 2011. He was 85. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin, File)AP - When he took over as secretary of state in the Clinton administration at age 68, Warren M. Christopher said he didn't expect to travel much. He went on to set a four-year mark for miles traveled by America's top diplomat.

At ground zero, the future finally appears (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 01:49 PM PDT

This March 11, 2011 photo shows the World Trade Center site in New York. Rebirth has been slow in coming to ground zero, but with six months remaining until the first portions of the national 9/11 memorial are scheduled to open to the public, the work to turn a mountain of rubble into one of the worldís great urban centers is thundering forward and beginning to produce some of the inspiring monuments designers envisioned nearly a decade ago. The square outlines of the 9/11 Memorial and the rising steel structure of 4WTC, top center, are among visible signs of progress at the site. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - The noise at ground zero is a steady roar. Engines hum. Cement mixers churn. Air horns blast. Cranes, including one that looks like a giant crab leg, soar and crawl over every corner of the 16-acre site.

Judge blocks contentious Wisconsin union law (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 09:15 PM PDT

Judge Maryann Sumi listens to arguments during a hearing Friday, March 18, 2011 in Dane County Curcuit Court in Madison, Wis. Sumi heard a request from Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent the secretary of state from publishing the controversial budget repair bill. Ozanne claims the conference committee meeting that advanced the bill violated state open meetings laws because it was not properly noticed. (AP Photo/Pool, Mark Hoffman)AP - The monthlong saga over Gov. Scott Walker's plan to drastically curb collective bargaining rights for public workers in Wisconsin took a turn Friday that could force a dramatic rebooting of the entire legislative process.

Student in anti-Asian rant says she'll leave UCLA (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 10:42 PM PDT

AP - A student who posted an Internet video of her tirade against the Asian population at the University of California, Los Angeles, said Friday night that she is leaving the school, despite the university's decision not to discipline her.

Man with knife arrested in Staples Center standoff (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 04:44 PM PDT

Basketball fans wait outside Staples Center before an NBA basketball game between Los Angeles Clippers and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 19, 2011. Police engaged in a roughly 20-minute standoff with a knife-wielding man on the floor of Los Angeles' Staples Center. (AP Photo)AP - A steak knife-wielding man held police and security guards at bay for nearly an hour at the Staples Center in a bizarre scene that played out just before the Los Angeles Clippers hosted the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday, authorities said.

Obama: US launches military action against Libya (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 01:42 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement on the ongoing developments in Libya in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, March 19, 2011. Obama authorized limited military action against Libya Saturday, saying Moammar Gadhafi's continued assault on his own people left the U.S. and its international partners with no other choice. 'This is not an outcome US or any of our partners sought,' he said. 'We cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people there will be no mercy.' (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama authorized limited military action against Libya Saturday, saying Moammar Gadhafi's continued assault on his own people left the U.S. and its international partners with no other choice. The Pentagon said 112 cruise missiles were launched from US and UK ships and subs, hitting 20 targets.

Hope and despair in New Jersey's beleaguered city (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 07:27 AM PDT

In this Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 picture, a large group marches through the streets of Camden, N.J. past boarded-up houses during an anti-violence rally remembering Anjanea Williams. The 20-year-old woman was struck down by a bullet while waiting for a sandwich outside a deli. 'Good will come of her death,' cried the priest at her funeral. But many in the weeping throng heard only a cry in the dark. What good, people ask, can rise from this bleak urban landscape where just two days before Williams died, officials laid off half the police force? And yet, there are those who still believe in this city. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - The crackle of gunfire shattered the lunchtime chatter at Frank's Deli, as customers ducked and bullets flew across the street outside.

'Miracle on the Hudson' jet destined for NC museum (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 04:35 PM PDT

As they stand near the wreckage of US Airways flight 1549 Saturday, March 19, 2011, at a storage facility in Kearny, N.J., Stephen Ryan, left, talks with exhibit designer Eve Bartolo, second left, and her assistants Alois Osti, right, and Katherine Burdett as they prepare to move the airplane to an aviation museum in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - To stand inside the cabin of the US Airways jet that crash landed on the Hudson River is to imagine, even briefly, some of the terror that must have overtaken the 155 people aboard as the plane descended onto the icy water.

Testing finds no health threat along West Coast (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 02:18 AM PDT

Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), center, goes up the stairs to the venue of a press conference at the Japan National Press Club, Friday, March 18, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan. The U.N. atomic agency chief flew into Japan to get firsthand information to assess nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - Minuscule amounts of radiation from Japan's stricken nuclear plant have reached the west coast but federal and state officials say it poses no health risk.

Anti-war protesters arrested near White House (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 03:32 PM PDT

Pat Loveless, right, of Takoma Park, Md., protests the 8th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, with other anti-war protesters during a rally near the White House in Washington, on Saturday, March 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - More than 100 anti-war protesters, including the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, were arrested outside the White House on Saturday in demonstrations marking the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

Amid GOP surges, Illinois' Dem governor stands out (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 08:25 AM PDT

AP - As Republican governors across the U.S. gain momentum with conservative agendas, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has stood out for signing a string of laws over the past three months achieving longstanding liberal goals: abolishing the death penalty, legalizing civil unions and raising income taxes.

Texas silver mine gets new life after 1942 closure (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 02:46 PM PDT

This March 9, 2011 photo shows ruins of Shafter, Texas, across U.S. Highway 67 from the site the Shafter Mine Project in Presidio County. A subsidiary of Canadian mining company Aurcana Corp. is reopening the historic Shafter Mining District of West Texas. (AP Photo/Mike Graczyk)AP - A highway sign proclaims "Shafter Ghost Town," and on either side of the two-lane blacktop are ruins of stone and adobe structures amid a handful of houses.

Ceremony for 15 killed in NYC casino bus crash (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:05 AM PDT

Flowers lay amongst a mangled sign post at the site of a tour bus crash Saturday, March 19, 2011 in the Bronx borough of New York. Fifteen people were killed March 12, 2011, when a tour bus returning to New York from Connecticut overturned and was split in two by a sign support pole. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - Relatives of the passengers who died in the crash of a New York City casino bus have returned to the crash site for a Buddhist ceremony.

Co-worker charged in death at Md. yoga shop (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 09:55 PM PDT

This photo provided by the Montgomery County (Md.) Police Department shows Brittany Norwood. Police in an affluent Washington suburb say on Friday, March 18, 2011, Norwood killed a woman found dead inside a yoga clothing store in Bethesda, Md. last week, then made up a story about the two being attacked by masked men. (AP Photo/Montgomery County (Md.) Police Department)AP - Police in an affluent Washington suburb say a co-worker killed a woman found dead inside a yoga clothing store in Bethesda, Md. last week, then made up a story about the two being attacked by masked men.

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