2011年5月3日星期二

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U.S. believes it can now destroy al Qaeda (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 07:40 AM PDT

John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, speaks about the killing of Osama bin Laden from the Briefing Room of the White House in Washington May 2, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - The United States will aim to destroy al Qaeda's central organization now that its leader Osama bin Laden has been killed and its capabilities degraded by U.S. operations, a top White House adviser said on Tuesday.

Levee detonation lowers river, triggers new lawsuit (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:40 PM PDT

Reuters - The effort to protect river towns in Illinois and Kentucky from rising floodwaters by blowing open a levee and inundating more than 100,000 acres of Missouri farmland appeared to be slowly working on Tuesday.

Rod Blagojevich aide testifies about ex-governor's greed (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:50 PM PDT

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (R) and wife Patti enter the Dirksen Federal Building for opening arguments in his second corruption trial in Chicago, Illinois May 2, 2011. REUTERS/Frank PolichReuters - Rod Blagojevich's onetime top aide testified on Tuesday that he was asked by the disgraced former Illinois governor how much Barack Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat might be worth.

With bin Laden Dead, Teacher Shaves for First Time Since Sept. 11, 2001 (Time.com)

Posted: 03 May 2011 02:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Razors never looked so good as they did on Monday for Garry Weddle, a middle school teacher in Ephrata, Wash.

Osama bin Laden: How the U.S. Killed Its Most Wanted Enemy (Time.com)

Posted: 03 May 2011 02:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Osama bin Laden's final night began with a group of four helicopters slicing through the night skies over Pakistan, making their way toward Islamabad from a U.S. base in northern Afghanistan. Pakistani officials did not know they were coming

Officials face big visa overstay record backlog (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:52 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. authorities are facing a huge backlog of records involving people who have stayed in the United States after their visas expired, according to a report released on Tuesday, revealing that a security gap has not been fixed since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

NYC taxis to get suburban look, Japanese nameplate (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:30 PM PDT

This photo provided by Nissan, Tuesday May 3, 2011, shows a Nissan NV200 that was selected by New York City to supply the taxi fleet for the next 10 years. The Japanese automaker beat out Ford Motor Co. and Karsan USA in a contest for the rights to anchor the fleet. The anchor of the city's current fleet of more than 13,200 taxis is Ford's Crown Victoria, which was recently discontinued. (AP Photo/Nissan)AP - It looks like something you'd see on a suburban cul-de-sac, not inching through Times Square.

Lawyers say focus on race infected Arpaio's sweeps (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:51 PM PDT

AP - Records show top deputies in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office circulated offensive jokes about Mexicans at a time when the department faces a lawsuit alleging officers in Arizona's Maricopa County routinely racially profile immigrants during traffic stops.

'Closure': Americans find comfort in clear ending (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:16 AM PDT

FILE - In this 1998 file photo, Ayman al-Zawahri, left, holds a press conference with Osama bin Laden in Khost, Afghanistan and made available Friday March 19, 2004. A person familiar with developments said Sunday, May 1, 2011 that bin Laden is dead and the U.S. has the body. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan)AP - To surf American airwaves, to read American comments on the Internet by the thousands, to walk American streets on the day after Osama bin Laden's astonishing demise meant you'd almost certainly hear some variation of a single telling word: "closure."

APNewsBreak: VA to expand caregivers program (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 01:08 PM PDT

AP - The Veterans Affairs Department reversed course Tuesday and said it will make sure more caregivers of severely disabled Iraq and Afghanistan veterans can receive the support they need to help their wounded relatives.

Phone call by Kuwaiti courier led to bin Laden (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:57 AM PDT

This Monday, May 2, 2011 satellite image provided by GeoEye shows the compound, center, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden lived. Bin Laden, the face of global terrorism and mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was tracked down and shot to death at the compound by an elite team of U.S. forces, ending an unrelenting manhunt that spanned a frustrating decade. (AP Photo/GeoEye)AP - When one of Osama bin Laden's most trusted aides picked up the phone last year, he unknowingly led U.S. pursuers to the doorstep of his boss, the world's most wanted terrorist.

Holocaust Museum to digitize vast archive for web (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:33 PM PDT

This handout photo provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, taken earlier this year outside of Philadelphia, shows Sol Finkelstein, 85 of Vineland, N.J., and his son, Joseph Finkelstein of Bala Cynwyd, Pa. They are holding the first photograph Sol Finkelstein has seen of his father, Jakob Finkelstein, since the two were separated in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. With help from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, they learned that Jakob Finkelstein had survived until the camp was liberated, and they found his burial spot in Austria. (AP Photo/Miriam Lomaskin, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)AP - Joseph Finkelstein had never seen a photograph of his grandfather. The family had no idea when he died or where he was buried. Finkelstein's father last saw him on April 28, 1945, when they were separated at Mathaussen Concentration Camp in Austria.

White House: US determined to destroy al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:37 AM PDT

AP - White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan says U.S officials hope to build on the killing of Osama bin Laden to destroy the al-Qaida terrorist organization.

Missouri levee blast eases threat to Illinois town (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:07 PM PDT

Part of the 130,000 acres of farmland flooded by an intentional break in the Birds Point levee is seen Tuesday, May 3, 2011, in Mississippi County, Mo. Army Corps of Engineers' blew a two-mile hole into the levee in southeast Missouri to take pressure off the rising Mississippi and Ohio rivers and try to protect nearby Cairo, Ill. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - The dramatic, late-night demolition of a huge earthen levee sent chocolate-colored floodwaters pouring onto thousands of acres of Missouri farmland Tuesday, easing the threat to a tiny Illinois town being menaced by the Mississippi River.

BP agrees to $25M penalty for 2006 Alaska spills (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:36 PM PDT

AP - BP's subsidiary in Alaska will pay a $25 million civil penalty under a settlement announced Tuesday that comes five years after more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from company pipelines on the North Slope.

US holds photos of slain bin Laden, weighs release (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 11:40 AM PDT

Osama bin Laden sits during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image supplied by the respected Dawn newspaper November 10, 2001. Osama bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. officials said on Sunday. U.S. President Barack Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, had repeatedly vowed to bring to justice the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, but never did before leaving office in early 2009. REUTERS/Hamid Mir/Editor/Ausaf/Newspaper for Daily Dawn (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: DISASTER POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - Osama bin Laden was unarmed when he was confronted by U.S. commandos at his Pakistani hideout, the White House said Tuesday as new details emerged about the audacious raid that killed the world's most wanted terrorist. The White House said it was considering whether to release photos of bin Laden after he was killed but that the photos were "gruesome" and could be inflammatory.

Report sees sharper sea rise from Arctic melt (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 19, 2007 file photo an iceberg is seen off Ammassalik Island in Eastern Greenland. A new assessment of climate change in the Arctic shows the ice in the region is melting faster than previously thought and sharply raises projections of global sea level rise this century. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)AP - The ice of Greenland and the rest of the Arctic is melting faster than expected and could help raise global sea levels by as much as 5 feet this century, dramatically higher than earlier projections, an authoritative international assessment says.

Southern twisters hit an economy already hurting (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:43 PM PDT

Lineman Derrick Heisz of Broadhead, Wis., checks power poles in Pratt City, Ala., Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Utility companies are scrambling to restore services to the hard hit area before heavy rains arrive. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - The tornado that obliterated contractor Robert Rapley's house also swept away his livelihood, destroying his saws, his paint sprayer and his truck. Like thousands of others in a region already struggling with high unemployment, he now faces the prospect of trying to recover with no way to earn a living.

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