2011年5月7日星期六

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River flooding begins to "wrap arms" around Memphis (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2011 03:40 PM PDT

Jonathan White and Leandra Felton wade through slowly rising floodwaters with items from their home in Memphis, Tennessee May 7, 2011. REUTERS/Eric ThayerReuters - Memphis area residents were warned on Saturday that the Mississippi River was gradually starting to "wrap its arms" around the city and rise to record levels as flooding moves south.

Napolitano says U.S. must be vigilant after bin Laden (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2011 12:13 PM PDT

Reuters - Al Qaeda and its allies will keep targeting the West despite the killing of Osama bin Laden and the United States must remain "ever vigilant," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Saturday.

Muslim scholars pulled from Delta plane in Memphis (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2011 11:07 AM PDT

Reuters - Two Muslim scholars headed to a conference on American fears of Islam were pulled from a morning flight on Friday, and were later told that the pilot had refused to fly with them aboard.

Celebrating bin Laden's death (Time.com)

Posted: 07 May 2011 07:05 AM PDT

Time.com - It's morally OK -- and even morally imperative -- to celebrate

Budget Negotations: Biden's Gang Gets Started (Time.com)

Posted: 07 May 2011 07:05 AM PDT

Time.com - So it goes with Washington's byzantine budget negotiations, where progress often means agreeing to get things done some other time

Obama pays tribute to unit in bin Laden raid (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2011 07:08 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama, basking in U.S. public approval for the killing of Osama bin Laden, flew to a military base in Kentucky on Friday to thank special forces who carried out the deadly raid and led a rally filled with cheering troops.

Across US, worldwide, free comics for readers (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 02:18 PM PDT

Ron Bufalini, from Ambridge, Pa., looks over the free comic books available at the New Dimensions Comics store on Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May 7, 2011 in Cranberry, Pa. Bufalini says he likes to take advantage of the annual give away to look into different genres of comic books as well as get a few of his favorites. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - Fans of comics basked in a bounty of free issues as retailers from Los Angeles to London handed out thousands upon thousands of free copies Saturday for the 10th annual Free Comic Book Day.

Woman awaits freedom after 17 years behind bars (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 01:48 PM PDT

This image provided by Ryan Buttars shows a freeway display promoting the release from jail of Debra Brown on Interstate 15 near Salt Lake City in early 2011. Brown is scheduled to be released Monday May 9, 2011 from the Utah State Prison after becoming the first inmate exonerated under a 2008 Utah law that allows convictions to be reconsidered based on new factual — not scientific — evidence. Brown received a life sentence in 1995. 'We're going to celebrate a late Mother's Day, but it will be the best Mother's Day present we could ask for,' said Brown's daughter Alana Williams, who was 11 when Brown was arrested in Logan, Utah, 10 months after the November 1993 shooting death of her longtime friend and employer, Lael Brown, 75. The two were not related. (AP Photo/Ryan Buttars)AP - In her dream, Debra Brown pedals out of a Utah prison on a powder blue bicycle, riding past razor wire that for the last 17 years has kept her from proms and graduations and the birth of seven grandchildren.

Fallen Navy SEAL honored with warship (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 12:33 PM PDT

Maureen Murphy, mother of Medal of Honor recipient and U.S. Navy SEAL, Lt. Michael Murphy, christens the ship baring his name during a ceremony at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine on Saturday, May 7, 2011, what would've been Murphy's 35th birthday. The mother of a Navy SEAL from Maine killed in Afghanistan said 'Happy birthday, baby' before smashing a bottle of Champagne against a Navy ship that bears her son's name. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)AP - The mother of a Navy SEAL killed in a firefight in Afghanistan christened a warship bearing her son's name on Saturday as the leader of the nation's special forces said those who died that day would be comforted to know that the al-Qaida leader who caused the war in Afghanistan was killed by the U.S. military.

In Nevada, search for missing Canadian man resumes (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 01:38 PM PDT

Penticton British Columbia, couple Albert Chretien and wife Rita are shown in this undated Royal Canadian Mounted Police handout photo. The coupe went missing en route to Las Vegas more than a month ago. Rita Chretien has been found alive Friday May 6, 2011 in a remote part of northeastern Nevada police say. Hunters in Elko Country, Nevada, found Rita alive on Friday, RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk announced in a tweet. There is no word yet about the whereabouts of her husband. (AP Photo/Royal Canadian Mounted Police via The Canadian Press)AP - Sheriff's deputies searching for the husband of a Canadian woman who survived for seven weeks on water and trail mix in their stranded van in remote mountains near the Nevada-Idaho line were holding out hope against all odds on Saturday that he too somehow could still be alive.

Automatic budget cuts have spotty record (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 02:10 PM PDT

President Barack Obama salutes as he steps off of Marine One onto the South Lawn to the White House, Friday, May 6, 2011 in Washington, as he returns from Kentucky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Congress and President Barack Obama are proposing ways to automatically trigger budget savings if they can't rein in deficits the old-fashioned way, by enacting laws to cut spending or raise taxes. Similar efforts in the past have a spotty record.

Volunteers flood tornado-tossed Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 01:34 PM PDT

Heavy traffic rolls slowly down McFarland Blvd. past tornado damage in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Saturday, May 7, 2011. Volunteers flooded into the tornado ravaged parts of Alabama in such great numbers that the governor's office warned people to be patient with traffic jams. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - Thousands of volunteers flooded the hard-hit home of the University of Alabama with chainsaws, wrecking bars and food Saturday, offering help and hugs to tornado victims and causing traffic tie-ups reminiscent of a fall football weekend.

50 years later, students retrace 1961 Freedom Ride (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 11:37 AM PDT

FILE - This 1961 file photo released by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History shows the booking photo of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland taken after her arrest in Jackson, Miss., as part of the original Freedom Ride. Forty college students will join a handful of the original Freedom Riders on a 10-day journey from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans. Along the way they will stop in a number of cities, including those where the riders were harassed, physically attacked and arrested. (AP Photo/Mississippi Department of Archives and History)AP - Charles Reed Jr. is skipping his college graduation ceremony to do something much more significant to him: retracing the original 1961 Freedom Ride and paying tribute to those who helped win the civil rights that his generation enjoys.

Wisconsin Republicans rush agenda before recalls (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 11:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 21, 2011 file photo, volunteers deliver petitions to recall Wisconsin Senators Robert Wirch, D-Pleasant Prairie and Jim Holperin, D-Conover, to the Government Accountability Board in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin Republicans plan to ram through years' worth of conservative agenda items in the next eight weeks before recall elections this summer could hand control of the Senate back to Democrats. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal/John Hart, File)AP - Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker and GOP leaders have launched a push to ram several years' worth of conservative agenda items through the Legislature this spring before recall elections threaten to end the party's control of state government.

AP IMPACT: China's spying seeks secret US info (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 08:47 AM PDT

This 2009 picture provided on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 by his family shows Glenn Shriver at a birthday party for a family friend in Grand Rapids, Mich. Shriver is one of at least 57 defendants in federal cases prosecuted since 2008 involving espionage conspiracies with China or efforts to pass secret information, sensitive defense technology or trade secrets to various players within the nation — be them intelligence operatives, state-sponsored research institutes or private-sector businessmen, according to an Associated Press review of U.S. Justice Department cases. (AP Photo/Shriver Family)AP - The young man stood before the judge, his usually neatly trimmed hair now long enough to brush the collar of his prison jumpsuit. Glenn Duffie Shriver had confessed his transgressions and was here, in a federal courtroom with his mother watching, to receive his sentence and to try, somehow, to explain it all.

Candid videos show rare view of unkempt bin Laden (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 03:54 PM PDT

In this undated image taken from video provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, a man who the American government says is Osama bin Laden watches television in a video released on Saturday, May 7, 2011. The videos show bin Laden watching himself on television and rehearsing for terrorist videos. (AP Photo/Department of Defense)AP - From a shabby, makeshift office, he ran a global terrorist empire. The world's most wanted man watched newscasts of himself from a tiny television perched atop a rickety old desk cluttered with wires.

Obama's pledged trip to Pakistan less certain (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 02:23 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks from Marine One across the South Lawn to the White House, Friday, May 6, 2011 in Washington, as he returns from Kentucky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama's promised trip to Pakistan this year, once seen as a reward for a key ally in the fight against terrorism, is now a looming headache for the White House as it tries to determine whether the government in Islamabad was complicit in allowing Osama bin Laden to live for years within the country's borders.

LA police move to stem violence in Venice Beach (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 01:45 PM PDT

Officer Keith Mott issues a warning to a man with an open container of alcohol in pubic as the Los Angeles Police Department patrols Ocean Front Walk in Los Angeles' Venice Beach Thursday, May 5, 2011. With a shooting and a stabbing occurring on the beach weeks ahead of the official start of the summer season on Memorial Day, police are gearing up for many long days as the Southern California heat sets in this year. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Police Sgt. Marc Reina checks the weather on his iPhone every morning to forecast what lies ahead on the job at Venice Beach.

2 killed in small plane crash in Texas (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2011 12:13 PM PDT

AP - Two people — a man and a woman — died Saturday when a small plane crashed shortly after takeoff from an airport north of Houston, officials said.

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