2011年5月17日星期二

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Louisiana cities brace for river peak as bayou floods (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2011 12:15 PM PDT

Elise Clair, 8, plays with blades of grass atop a sandbag levee in Pierre Part, Louisiana May 15, 2011. REUTERS/Sean GardnerReuters - Floodwater released from a key Mississippi River spillway surged through the Louisiana bayou on Tuesday, and levees protecting the state's two biggest cities held as river flows neared their peak.

Schwarzenegger fathered child outside marriage (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2011 12:07 PM PDT

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger attends the 63rd Israel Independence Day Celebration at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles May 10, 2011. REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniReuters - Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, newly estranged from his wife of 25 years and seeking to resume his Hollywood career, has acknowledged fathering a child more than a decade ago with a member of his household staff.

Susquehanna tops list of nation's most endangered rivers (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2011 02:50 PM PDT

Birds are seen along the shore of the Susquehanna River near the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, where the U.S. suffered its most serious nuclear accident in 1979, in Middletown, Pennsylvania March 15, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - A national conservation group on Tuesday declared the 444-mile Susquehanna River in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland to be the nation's most endangered due to use of a gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing in the region.

Is College Too Pricey To Pay Off? 57% of Americans Say Yes (Time.com)

Posted: 17 May 2011 10:40 AM PDT

Time.com - A Pew Research Center report released Sunday shows a majority of Americans think colleges fail to deliver enough bang for their buck

Trump Won't Run: GOP Can Return to Regularly Scheduled Programming (Time.com)

Posted: 17 May 2011 10:40 AM PDT

Time.com - He announced his abandonment of his desire to work for the country just minutes before NBC announced his new show to advertisers

Jury to begin deliberating in New York police rape case (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2011 05:06 PM PDT

Reuters - A jury is set to begin deliberations on Wednesday in the trial of two New York City police officers accused in the rape of an intoxicated woman.

Campaigns start to keep 'America's Most Wanted' (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 03:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 12, 2009 file photo, John Walsh, host of the television show 'America's Most Wanted,' is photographed in New York. Fox is cancelling 'America's Most Wanted,' the Saturday night show that has profiled criminals on the lam since 1988, and replacing it on the network's regular schedule with reruns. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, file)AP - Hours after "America's Most Wanted" was canceled, a small, passionate campaign emerged online to save the Saturday night staple that allowed anyone with a television set to become part of a nationwide manhunt.

Yale suspends embattled frat for sexist chants (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:05 PM PDT

AP - A prestigious Yale fraternity is being banned from recruiting and holding activities on campus for five years after pledges were ordered to chant obscenities against women.

Teens in Ga. town hit by tornadoes celebrate prom (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 09:30 AM PDT

In a May 6, 2011 photo, Delana Blevins, 17, Taylor Barton, 20 Blevins' boyfriend, and Marcella Lackey, 18, work on accessories after choosing a dress in Trenton City Hall where Rescue Prom collected thousands of prom items. With their community hobbled by destruction, the prom had to be pushed back two weeks from April 30. The students got their prom, though, thanks to the free dresses from Rescue Prom, and free hairdos and makeup from shops in Chattanooga, just across the state line in Tennessee. (AP Photo / Jenni Girtman)AP - The "Cinderella dress" Delana Blevins had so looked forward to wearing to prom just needed a few alterations when the tornadoes ripped through northwest Georgia late last month, blowing it away along with the rest of the tailoring shop. All she found in the rubble was a scrap of beading from the bodice.

6th Wash. soldier charged in Afghan murder plot (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:13 PM PDT

AP - Army prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against a sixth Washington state-based soldier in a plot to murder Afghan civilians for sport during patrols in Kandahar province last year.

Standing ovation for Winfrey at farewell show (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 05:28 PM PDT

Ella Acker from Forest Park, Ill., left, Rita Young from Summit, Ill., and Valeria Freeman from Chicago show off their tickets to The Oprah Winfrey Show Tuesday, May 17, 2011, outside of the United Center in Chicago. 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is ending its run May 25, 2011, after 25 years, and millions of her fans around the globe are waiting to see how she will close out a show that spawned a media empire. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Oprah Winfrey has received a standing ovation from thousands of her fans packed in Chicago's United Center for a farewell double-taping of her talk show promised to showcase Hollywood's most famous celebrities.

APNewsBreak: Giffords set to undergo skull surgery (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 05:17 PM 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 - Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will undergo surgery on Wednesday to place an implant where a piece of her skull was removed by doctors after she was shot in January.

Perp walks ordinary in US, an outrage in France (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 03:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 15, 2011 file photo, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is lead from a police station in New York where he was being held. While American authorities have condoned, or at least tolerated, such “perp walks” for more than a century, in France it’s been illegal to show images of suspects in handcuffs since 2000. French politicians and citizens alike are upset by the images, which they say make Strauss-Kahn, accused of sexual abuse, appear guilty. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)AP - A sea of cameras captured a rumpled, handcuffed, angry-looking Dominique Strauss-Kahn as plainclothes detectives took the International Monetary Fund head from a police precinct to court. The images weren't unusual for a high-profile criminal case in the U.S., but in his French homeland, they'd be illegal.

IMF chief under suicide watch at NYC jail (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 05:30 PM PDT

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for the alleged attack on a maid who went into his penthouse suite at a hotel near Times Square 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/Andrew Gombert, Pool)AP - IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was placed under a suicide watch in jail, while pressure mounted on him to resign Tuesday and the hotel maid who accused him of attempted rape said through her lawyer that she had no idea who he was when she reported him to the police.

Shriver: It's a 'painful and heartbreaking time' (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 05:37 PM PDT

FILE - This file photo taken Oct. 7, 2003, shows former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, as they celebrate his victory in the California gubernatorial recall election in Los Angeles. Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he fathered a child with a member of his household staff, a revelation that apparently prompted wife Maria Shriver to leave the couple's home before they announced their separation last week. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)AP - He's one of the most famous people on the planet, a two-term governor of California, a movie star and a former world champion bodybuilder with a profile so huge that just one name, Arnold, instantly identifies him to almost everyone.

Coast Guard reopens part of Mississippi River (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 05:39 PM PDT

Floodwaters from the Mississippi River swirl around Diamond Jacks Casino in Vicksburg, Miss., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. The Coast Guard said it closed the Mississippi River at the port in Natchez, Miss., on Tuesday because barge traffic could increase pressure on the levees. Heavy flooding from Mississippi tributaries has displaced more than 4,000 in the state, about half of them upstream from Natchez in the Vicksburg area. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - The Coast Guard reopened the swollen Mississippi River north of New Orleans on Tuesday, allowing cargo vessels on the nation's busiest waterway to pass one-by-one in the latest effort to reduce pressure from rising floodwaters.

Feds unveil plan to combat bat-killing fungus (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 03:33 PM PDT

FILE - This 2010 photo provided by the U.S Geological Survey shows a hibernating little brown bat in Pennsylvania, with white-muzzle typical of white-nose syndrome. The Interior Department is unveiling a national plan to combat a fungus that has killed more than a million bats in the eastern and southern United States and is spreading west. The fungus has caused white-nose syndrome that has spread to 16 states and three Canadian provinces. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Paul Cryan)AP - The Interior Department launched a national plan Tuesday to combat a mysterious disease that has killed more than a million bats in the eastern and southern United States and is spreading west.

Company abandoning pipeline project in Alaska (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 02:44 PM PDT

AP - One of two companies planning to build major natural gas pipelines in Alaska has dropped its bid, saying Tuesday that it didn't secure the support necessary to justify going forward with its project.

NY probe seeks mortgage records, official says (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 11:28 AM PDT

AP - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is seeking records from three major Wall Street banks as part of a broad investigation into the mortgage crisis that fueled the recession, an official familiar with the issue said Tuesday.

US Rep. Giffords picks wake-up song for shuttle (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 02:08 PM PDT

The Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-135 is moved from the orbiter processing facility to the vehicle assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida May 17, 2011. REUTERS/Molly Riley (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCI TECH TRANSPORT)AP - After a poignant wake-up song requested by wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for her astronaut husband, Endeavour and the two other space shuttles each marked milestones Tuesday for the retiring fleet.

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