2011年4月4日星期一

Yahoo! News: U.S. News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: U.S. News


Sept. 11 suspects to be tried at Guantanamo Bay (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 03:14 PM PDT

Attorney General Eric Holder gestures during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, April 4, 2011, where he announced plans to try avowed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen before a military commission.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Reuters - President Barack Obama yielded to political opposition Monday, agreeing to try the self-professed mastermind of the September 11 attacks in a military tribunal at Guantanamo and not in a civilian court as he had promised.


Nuclear regulators probe fault at Alabama reactor (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 03:08 PM PDT

Reuters - Tennessee Valley Authority officials met nuclear regulators on Monday to explain the failure last year of a key valve used to operate a reactor cooling system at a nuclear plant in Alabama.

Republican to call for sweeping Medicare changes (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 03:24 PM PDT

Reuters - A Republican proposal for sweeping changes to Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs appears unlikely to pass Congress, but could electrify the debate over the budget going into next year's elections.

For ThinkGeek, April Fool's Profits Are No Laughing Matter (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:25 AM PDT

Time.com - For online novelty retailer ThinkGeek, April Fool's Day is practically Christmas morning

Boehner's Choice: Brace for a Government Shutdown, or Cross the Tea Party (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:25 AM PDT

Time.com - Boehner's Choice: Brace for a Government Shutdown, or Cross the Tea Party

U.S. board sees inadequate maintenance in Tesoro blast (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 03:54 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board said Tesoro Corp had not adequately maintained a heat exchanger at its Anacortes, Washington, refinery, that exploded on April 2, 2010, causing the death of seven workers.

3 more sets of remains found near NY beach (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 01:24 PM PDT

Emergency personnel search in the brush with the help of a ladder on a fire truck near Oak Beach, N.Y., Monday, April 4, 2011.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Investigators scouring dense undergrowth for victims of a suspected serial killer along a remote New York beach area found three more sets of remains Monday, authorities said, bringing the total number of bodies to eight.


Funeral held for Ohio woman found in septic tank (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:46 PM PDT

AP - An Ohio woman was laid to rest Monday almost a week after she was found in a church's septic system with a zip tie pulled tightly around her neck. Her estranged husband and his parents have been charged with kidnapping.

FAA prepares emergency safety order for some B737s (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 03:30 PM PDT

This photo provided by passenger Don Nelson, shows fuselage rupture that happened in-flight on a Southwest Airlines aircraft Friday, April 1, 2011. The plane made an emergency landing at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station/International Airport, some 150 miles southwest of Phoenix and about 40 minutes after takeoff from Sky Harbor. Authorities say the flight from Phoenix to Sacramento, Calif., was diverted to Yuma due to rapid decompression in the plane.  FAA spokesman Ian Gregor says the cause of the decompression isn't immediately known. But passengers aboard the plane say there was a hole in the cabin and that forced an emergency landing. (AP photo/Don Nelson) NO SALESAP - The Federal Aviation Administration plans to issue an emergency safety order on Tuesday requiring special inspections aimed at finding hidden metal fatigue in some older Boeing 737s after a large hole opened in flight in the roof of a Southwest Airlines plane.


Southwest accident prompts FAA inspection order (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT

In this photo provided by passenger Christine Ziegler, shows an apparent hole in the cabin on a Southwest Airlines aircraft Friday, April 1, 2011 in Yuma, Ariz. Authorities say the flight from Phoenix to Sacramento, Calif., was diverted to Yuma due to rapid decompression in the plane.  FAA spokesman Ian Gregor says the cause of the decompression isn't immediately known. But passengers aboard the plane say there was a hole in the cabin and that forced an emergency landing. (AP photo/Christine Ziegler) NO SALESAP - Federal aviation officials readied an order Monday for emergency inspections on 80 U.S.-registered Boeing 737 jetliners like the one on which a piece of fuselage tore open more than 30,000 feet above Arizona last week.


Blagojevich seeks FBI interview notes with Obama (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2010 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, with his wife, Patti, listening at right, talks to the media at the federal building in Chicago after a jury found him guilty on one count of lying to federal agents and were deadlocked on 23 other charges. In the Bonds case in San Francisco, Judge Susan Illston ruled that she would keep the jurors’ names secret until after their verdict on whether the homerun king lied to a grand jury about taking performance-enhancing drugs. Illston cited the decision by federal Judge James Zagel in Chicago last year to withhold the names of the Blagojevich jurors to protect them from media “harassment.”(AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)AP - Rod Blagojevich asked a judge Monday to order prosecutors to hand over written summaries of any FBI interviews with President Barack Obama about the ousted Illinois governor's corruption case.


Unions mark MLK's death with national protests (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:03 PM PDT

Martin Luther King III, right, the son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., lays a wreath at the crypt of his father along with from right, Dr. King's daughter, Rev. Bernice King, granddaughter Yolanda, 2, her mother Arndrea King, and Christine King Farris, sister of Dr. King Jr., on the 43rd anniversary of his assassination, Monday, April 4, 2011, in Atlanta. The eldest son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is calling attention to workers' rights as the civil rights icon's family mourns the 43rd anniversary of his slaying. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP - The eldest son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said Monday if his father had not been killed 43 years ago, the civil rights icon would be fighting alongside the workers rallying to protect collective bargaining rights.


Holder: 9/11 suspects to face military tribunals (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, April 4, 2011, where he announced plans to try avowed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen before a military commission.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Yielding to political opposition, the Obama administration gave up Monday on trying avowed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen in civilian federal court in New York and will prosecute them instead before military commissions.


Unsealed NY indictment reveals case against 5 men (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:32 PM PDT

AP - The details of the criminal charges against the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four other defendants became moot for a civilian jury when they were finally made public Monday, just as Attorney General Eric Holder was announcing the men will be prosecuted at a military tribunal instead of in a courthouse just blocks from the World Trade Center site.

Lawyer expects man to plead guilty in kidnap case (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:57 PM PDT

AP - An attorney in the case of a Northern California girl held captive in a backyard compound for 18 years said Monday he expects defendant Phillip Garrido to plead guilty to all charges and his wife to go to trial unless she gets a better plea deal.

Deadly W.Va. explosion makes big industry change (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 02:14 PM PDT

FILE- In this April 26, 2010 file photo, Massey Energy Co. Chairman and CEO, Don Blankenship, second from right, attends a press conference with board directors, from left,  Robert Foglesong, Bobby Inman, and Stanley Suboleski,  in Charleston, W.Va. When 29 men perished in a single, powerful explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine a year ago, the tragedy stunned the nation — but the aftermath was stunning too, both for its seismic impact on major players in the coal industry and for the absence of any sweeping reforms.  To the people in coal country, what's happened to mine owner Massey Energy is downright mind-boggling: 'King of coal' Don Blankenship has been dethroned — pushed out with a take-it-or-leave it retirement package — and the company he ruled with an iron will for more than a decade may soon vanish in a $7.1 billion buyout.   (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner, File)AP - When 29 men perished in a single, powerful explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine a year ago, the tragedy stunned the nation — but the aftermath was stunning too, both for its seismic impact on major players in the coal industry and for the absence of any sweeping reforms.


Obama opens bid for new term, no longer outsider (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2008 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., and his vice presidential running mate Sen. Joe Biden D-Del. applaud at a campaign stop in Springfield, Ill. President Obama formally launched his re-election campaign Monday, April 4, 2011, urging grass-roots supporters central to his first White House run to mobilize again to protect the change he's brought over the past two years.  (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - No longer the fresh voice of change, President Barack Obama embarked on a bid for re-election Monday by asking a divided, anxious electorate to let him finish the job he won in 2008. He's getting an early start against a Republican field that's still undefined, but he's saddled with an ailing economy that still isn't working for millions of voters


Shuttle Endeavour's last flight delayed 1 1/2 weeks (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:44 PM PDT

Space shuttle Endeavour crew members, from left to right, mission specialists Greg Chamitoff,  Drew Feustel, Roberto Vittori of Italy, Mike Fincke, pilot Greg H. Johnson and commander Mark Kelly pose for a photo after they depart the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Friday, April 1, 2011. The STS-134 crew is at Kennedy Space Center for a practice countdown. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)AP - NASA is delaying its next space shuttle flight — the last voyage of Endeavour with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' astronaut husband in charge.


Experts: Ocean life can handle radioactive leaks (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 02:30 PM PDT

In this Thursday, March 24, 2011, photo available Friday, April 1, 2011, inside of the Unit 4 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan. Steam comes out of debris by a crane device, in green, at the unit, Kyodo reports. The March 11 earthquake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that barreled onshore and disabled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Co. via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEAP - Releases of radioactive water into the ocean near Japan's stricken nuclear complex shouldn't pose a widespread danger to sea animals or people who might eat them, experts say.


Republicans maneuver for cuts as shutdown looms (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 1, 2011, file photo House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama is summoning key lawmakers from both parties to the White House to help speed up budget negotiations and avoid a looming government shutdown at week's end.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Congressional Republicans maneuvered on two fronts Monday in the federal spending showdown, demanding Democrats agree to more than $33 billion in swift cuts and avoid a government shutdown at the same time they readied a separate plan to slash deficits by a staggering $4 trillion over a decade. With little progress evident on the first track, President Barack Obama invited key lawmakers to the White House in search of a deal to avoid a partial shutdown Friday at midnight.


bnzv