2011年5月16日星期一

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Historic Vicksburg, Mississippi faces flood siege (Reuters)

Posted: 16 May 2011 04:27 PM PDT

Jabari Singleton (L) and Wanya Brown watch as floodwaters rise in Melville, Louisiana May 15, 2011. REUTERS/Eric ThayerReuters - The historic Civil War city of Vicksburg, which withstood a 47-day Union army siege

Coast Guard says 15 miles of Mississippi closed (Reuters)

Posted: 16 May 2011 05:18 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. Coast Guard said 15 miles of the Mississippi River was closed to all traffic near Natchez, Mississippi, to protect ships and protect flood control structures.

Iowa Senate passes measure aimed at abortion doctor (Reuters)

Posted: 16 May 2011 04:36 PM PDT

Reuters - The Iowa Senate on Monday narrowly approved a measure designed to prevent a doctor who specializes in late-term abortions from opening a planned clinic on the western border of the state.

Mississippi River Flooding: Army Corps to Open Morganza (Time.com)

Posted: 16 May 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Time.com - By Saturday night, May 14, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected to partially open the Morganza Spillway, northwest of Baton Rouge, sparing New Orleans from a catastrophic 20 to 40 feet of water

Spillway Opening Fails to Ease Flooding Fears in Louisiana (Time.com)

Posted: 16 May 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Time.com - As the Army Corps moves water away from New Orleans and Baton Rouge, it's clear that concerns about this stretch of river will remain as high as the water levels for the next few weeks.

Endeavour soars off on second-to-last shuttle flight (Reuters)

Posted: 16 May 2011 10:20 AM PDT

The space shuttle Endeavour STS-134 waits to lift off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida May 16, 2011. REUTERS/Scott AudetteReuters - U.S. space shuttle Endeavour blasted off on Monday on the next-to-last flight in NASA's shuttle program, carrying a potentially revolutionary physics experiment to the International Space Station.

'Good stuff,' Giffords says of shuttle launch (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 11:22 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 2010 file photo provided by the office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Giffords poses for a photo. Still recovering from a gunshot wound to the head, Giffords was at Kennedy Space Center on Monday, May 16, 2011, to witness husband Mark Kelly and his five crewmates blast off and head to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, File)AP - Sitting in a wheelchair atop NASA's launch control center with other astronaut families, wounded congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords watched her husband launch into space Monday aboard space shuttle Endeavour. And she smiled.

Rahm Emanuel sworn in as Chicago's new mayor (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 02:37 PM PDT

Chicago mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, left, and his wife Amy Rule acknowledge the crowd during inaugural ceremonies Monday, May 16, 2011 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Rahm Emanuel was sworn in Monday as Chicago's first new mayor in more than two decades, a historic power shift for a city where the retiring Richard M. Daley was the only leader a whole generation had ever known.

Police: Inmate tip leads to search for Wis. woman (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 03:49 PM PDT

AP - Wisconsin authorities searched Monday for the body of a 20-year-old woman who disappeared in 1992 after a convicted child kidnapper who is serving a life sentence admitted his involvement, police said.

Study challenges rural lack of access to surgery (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 01:06 PM PDT

AP - A surprising study of nearly 46 million Medicare patients says older residents in rural areas are more likely to have any of nine common surgeries than people in cities.

IMF chief jailed without bail in NY hotel-sex case (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 04:46 PM PDT

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for an alleged attack on a maid who went into his penthouse suite at a hotel near Times Square Saturday to clean it, in New York. Strauss-Kahn must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges, a judge said Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)AP - Haggard and unshaven after a weekend in jail, the chief of the International Monetary Fund was denied release on bail Monday on charges of trying to rape a hotel maid as allegations of other, similar attacks by Dominique Strauss-Kahn began to emerge.

How to square budget cuts, need for aging research (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 01:15 PM PDT

Graphic shows projected number of people age 65 and over in the U.S. with Alzheimer’s disease; includes percent increase of the disease between 2000-2008 compared to other diseasesAP - A disease standoff may be brewing: How can Alzheimer's research receive more scarce dollars without cutting from areas like heart disease or cancer?

Obama tell Memphis students their success inspires (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 02:03 PM PDT

President Barack Obama congratulates a student as diplomas are presented at the commencement ceremony for Booker T. Washington High School on Monday, May 16, 2011, in Memphis, Tenn. After the school administration implemented educational changes, the graduation rate jumped from 55 percent in 2007 to nearly 82 percent in 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - Offering a lift to a flood beleaguered city, President Barack Obama hailed the transformation of a once struggling but venerable Memphis high school Monday, telling its graduates, "You inspire me, that's why I'm here."

Building collapses in Ark., killing young girl (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 05:07 PM PDT

A building that housed a beauty parlor in downtown Morrilton, Ark. collapsed Monday, May 16, 2011, killing a young girl and injuring at least five other people. According to police, rescue teams are searching the wreckage for possible survivors but they think most people escaped. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)AP - A cosmetic store and a bridal boutique that was undergoing renovations collapsed in central Arkansas on Monday, killing a 2-year-old girl and injuring at least six other people.

Levees, floodwalls require round-the-clock watch (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 04:19 PM PDT

Brenda Hynum, left, hugs her daughter Debra Emery as she watches floodwaters rise around her mobile home in Vicksburg, Miss., Monday, May 16, 2011. A sand berm they built around their trailer failed in the night and floodwaters from the rising Mississippi river rushed in. 'We tried so hard to stop it. It goes from anger to utter disbelief that this could happen. I just want to go home.' Emery said. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - All along the swollen Mississippi River, hundreds of thousands of lives depend on a small army of engineers, deputies and even prison inmates keeping round-the-clock watch at the many floodwalls and earthen levees holding the water back.

4 US service members killed in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 11:48 AM PDT

In this May 10, 2011 photo, Asadullah Daad Mohammad, 12, lays on his bed next to his father at the International Committee of the Red Cross Orthopedic Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. Asadullah, an Afghan shepherd, lost both his legs, left eye and a finger, most likely after he stepped on a land mine while out with his goats and sheep at Paktya province south of Kabul about five months ago. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)AP - A Pentagon official says all four of the service members killed in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan were Americans.

Jury selection begins in Mumbai terror attack case (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 04:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2009 file courtroom sketch, Tahawwur Hussain Rana appears before federal Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan in Chicago. Rana, 50, is accused in the 2008 Mumbai rampage that left more than 160 people dead and planning an attack that was never carried out on a Danish newspaper. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, including material support to terrorism. Jury selection in his trial begins Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock, File)AP - Nearly 100 potential jurors filed one-by-one into a federal courtroom on Monday for the first day of a terrorism trial involving a Chicago businessman at the center of a case that could reveal troubling links between a terrorist group blamed for the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks and Pakistan's largest intelligence agency.

1st report on deadly W.Va. mine blast due Thursday (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 02:31 PM PDT

AP - The first report on the explosion that killed 29 men at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch mine will be released Thursday.

Houston man charged in death of man found headless (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 04:58 PM PDT

The back door of home sits open Monday morning May 16, 2011, at the duplex where a man was shot and dismembered Saturday night, May 14, 2011 in Houston, Texas. Police said officers found the body outside a vacant house, with the head and an arm stuffed into a trash bag, Sunday, May 15, 2011, after receiving a call. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nathan Lindstrom)AP - Police who found a man's dismembered body outside a vacant house, with the head and an arm stuffed into a trash bag and the rest of his remains in a backyard next door, arrested his best friend Monday for murder.

Attorney says Fla. imam will fight terror charges (AP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 02:31 PM PDT

Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, 76, right, and one of his sons, 24-year-old Izhar Khan, left, are shown in this courtroom drawing made Monday, May 16, 2011 in federal court in Miami. The elderly Miami imam and two of his sons are among six people charged with funneling at least $50,000 to the Pakistani Taliban, which violently opposes Pakistan's government and the U.S. Three of those charged remain in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Shirley Henderson)AP - An elderly Muslim cleric charged with supporting Pakistani terrorists will plead not guilty and should not be prejudged simply because of the seriousness of the case, his defense attorney said Monday.

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