| U.S. envoys meet Zelaya, de facto leader in Honduras (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 10:35 pm
|
|  Reuters - Honduras' post-coup rulers invited ousted President Manuel Zelaya to fresh talks after a high-level U.S. delegation pressured both sides on Wednesday to resume negotiations to resolve the crisis.
|
| Storm dumps snow on Rockies, plains, more forecast (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 10:22 pm
|
|  AP - A storm bringing the first heavy snows of autumn to a large swath of the Rockies and western plains crippled parts of Colorado and Wyoming Wednesday, forcing road closures and sending students home early as the region battled up to 2 feet of snow but braced for twice that.
|
| Bay Bridge failure stirs fear, anger over new span (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 10:20 pm
|
|  AP - When 5,000 pounds of metal broke off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and rained down on traffic during rush hour, the accident resurrected fears about the safety of a span that millions watching the 1989 World Series broadcast learned had failed during an earthquake.
|
| Utley HRs gives Phillies 2-0 lead in Series opener (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 10:16 pm
|
|  AP - Chase Utley homered off CC Sabathia in the third and sixth innings, and the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies took a 2-0 lead over the New York Yankees in Wednesday night's World Series opener.
|
| House Dems reach deal on key health care elements (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:55 pm
|
|  AP - House Democrats reached agreement Wednesday on key elements of a health care bill that would vastly alter America's medical landscape, requiring virtually universal sign-ups and establishing a new government-run insurance option for millions.
|
| World awaits Iran's response on uranium deal (AFP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:53 pm
|
|  AFP - Iran was widely expected to deliver Thursday its response to a UN-brokered proposal regarding the supply of much-needed fuel for a nuclear research reactor in Tehran.
|
| Feds: Leader of radical Islam group killed in raid (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:46 pm
|
|  AP - Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested several members of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S., killing one of its leaders at a shootout in a Michigan warehouse, the U.S. attorney's office said.
|
| Car bomb in crowded Pakistan market kills 100 (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:44 pm
|
|  AP - Suspected militants exploded a car bomb in a market crowded with women and children Wednesday, killing 100 people and turning shops selling wedding dresses, toys and jewelry into a mass of burning debris and bodies.
|
| UN workers scramble over roofs during Kabul attack (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:39 pm
|
|  AP - Terrified U.N. workers scrambled over the roof or leaped from windows to escape choking smoke and gunfire after being awakened at dawn Wednesday when Taliban militants wearing police uniforms stormed a residential hotel packed with foreigners.
|
| Obama inks defense bill with hate crimes provision (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:38 pm
|
|  AP - Trumpeting a victory against careless spending, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a defense bill that kills some costly weapons projects and expands war efforts. In a major civil rights change, the law also makes it a federal hate crime to assault people based on sexual orientation.
|
| Coyotes kill woman on hike in Canadian park (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:27 pm
|
|  AP - Two coyotes attacked a promising young musician as she was hiking alone in a national park in eastern Canada, and authorities said she died Wednesday of her injuries. The victim was identified as Taylor Mitchell, 19, a singer-songwriter from Toronto who was touring her new album on the East Coast.
|
| Iowa cops nab 'permanent marker' burglary suspects (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:11 pm
|
|  AP - Police had no trouble identifying two men accused of trying to break into a Carroll apartment. Police were responding to a call about an attempted burglary when they pulled over a car matching the alleged suspects' vehicle. Inside the car, officers found two men with their faces blackened with permanent marker. Police said the caller described two men with painted faces attempting to break into an apartment Friday night before driving off.
|
| Madoff right-hand man DiPascali stays in jail (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 6:44 pm
|
|  Reuters - Epic fraudster Bernard Madoff's longtime deputy Frank DiPascali must stay in jail at least until more is disclosed about his cooperation in the government's investigation of Wall Street's biggest investment fraud, a U.S. judge said on Wednesday.
|
| Obama inks defense bill with hate crimes provision (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 6:29 pm
|
|  AP - Trumpeting a victory against careless spending, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a defense bill that kills some costly weapons projects and expands war efforts. In a major civil rights change, the law also makes it a federal hate crime to assault people based on sexual orientation.
|
| Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 6:24 pm
|
|  AP - The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill to finish the day.
|
| Goodell denies head injury-brain disease link (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 6:24 pm
|
|  AP - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell would not acknowledge a connection between head injuries on the football field and later brain diseases while defending the league's policies on concussions before Congress.
|
| Feds: Leader of radical Islam group killed in raid (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 6:21 pm
|
| | AP - Federal authorities in Detroit say they fatally shot the leader of a radical fundamentalist Sunni Islam group after he failed to surrender on several criminal charges. |
| Coyotes kill woman on hike in Canadian park (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 6:21 pm
|
| AP - Two coyotes attacked a promising young musician as she was hiking alone in a national park in eastern Canada, and authorities said she died Wednesday of her injuries.
|
| Iowa cops nab 'permanent marker' burglary suspects (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 6:14 pm
|
| AP - Police had no trouble identifying two men accused of trying to break into a Carroll apartment. Police were responding to a call about an attempted burglary when they pulled over a car matching the alleged suspects' vehicle. Inside the car, officers found two men with their faces blackened with permanent marker. Police said the caller described two men with painted faces attempting to break into an apartment Friday night before driving off.
|
| White House says attackers in Kabul will not win (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 6:00 pm
|
|  Reuters - The United States vowed on Wednesday it would not be intimidated after an attack on a U.N. guest house in Kabul, as the Obama administration dodged reports that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother was being paid by the CIA.
|
| U.S. envoys in Honduras to pressure sides over crisis (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 5:16 pm
|
|  Reuters - An emergency delegation of senior U.S. government officials arrived in Honduras on Wednesday for a last-ditch effort to resolve an impasse between ousted President Manuel Zelaya and the country's de facto leaders since a June coup.
|
| Senators eye extending home credit to end of April (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 4:38 pm
|
|  Reuters - The U.S. Senate's top Democrat and top Republican each voiced support on Wednesday for extension of a soon-to-expire $8,000 tax credit for home buyers, but left unclear when the chamber would act.
|
| House Democrats close in on healthcare bill (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 4:21 pm
|
| | Reuters - Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives have nearly finished a sweeping healthcare reform bill that would include a government-run insurance option and hope to unveil it on Thursday. |
| WHO chief says Fidel Castro "looks wonderful" (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 2:54 pm
|
| | Reuters - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro "looks wonderful," World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan said on Wednesday, after meeting the 83-year-old who resigned the presidency last year due to ailing health. |
| New home sales drop, durable goods orders up (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 2:03 pm
|
|  Reuters - Sales of new U.S. homes unexpectedly tumbled in September, their first drop in six months, underscoring the hazards to an economic recovery even as businesses appeared to be stepping up investment.
|
| New home sales unexpectedly tumble in September (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 1:32 pm
|
|  Reuters - Sales of newly built U.S. single-family homes unexpectedly tumbled 3.6 percent in September in their first drop since March, but the inventory of new homes available at the end of the month shrank to the smallest in 27 years, government data showed on Wednesday.
|
| Taliban kills UN staff in bloody countdown to Afghan polls (AFP)
October 28, 2009 at 1:30 pm
|
|  AFP - Taliban gunmen stormed a UN guesthouse in Kabul Wednesday, killing at least eight people in a suicide attack as the Islamist militia signalled a bloody countdown to new Afghan elections next week.
|
| NASA's new moon rocket makes first test flight (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 1:07 pm
|
|  AP - NASA's newest rocket successfully completed a brief test flight Wednesday, taking the first step in a back-to-the-moon program that could yet be shelved by the White House.
|
| Pakistan bomb kills 92 as Clinton visits (AFP)
October 28, 2009 at 12:54 pm
|
|  AFP - A huge car bomb ripped through a crowded market in Pakistan on Wednesday killing 92 people and underscoring the gravity of the extremist threat destabilising the nuclear-armed Muslim state.
|
| Halloween etiquette: Trick-or-treat but be polite (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:55 am
|
|  AP - Trick-or-treaters beware: Manners count — even on Halloween.
|
| San Francisco bridge closes after rod snaps (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:46 am
|
|  AP - Authorities on Tuesday indefinitely closed the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after a rod and a metal brace erected last month during an emergency repair job fell onto the bridge's westbound lanes, startling a pair of drivers who collided with the debris and leaving hundreds of others stranded in their cars during the evening commute.
|
| Jay-Z's 'Empire' to be clean for World Series (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:39 am
|
|  AP - The lyrics to Jay'z "Empire State of Mind" are sometimes as raw as New York, but it looks like the rapper will clean up that language when he performs his city anthem at the World Series.
|
| Pakistan, Afghan attacks kill 101 as Clinton visits (AFP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:37 am
|
|  AFP - A huge car bomb killed 92 people in Pakistan and Taliban gunmen struck a UN hostel in Afghanistan on Wednesday in a wave of bloodshed as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Islamabad.
|
| Car bomb kills 90 in Pakistan as Hillary Clinton visits (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 9:15 am
|
| | Reuters - A car bomb ripped through a crowded market killing 90 people in Pakistan's city of Peshawar on Wednesday, just hours after Washington's top diplomat arrived pledging a fresh start in sometimes strained relations. |
| Durable goods orders rise 1 percent in September (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:12 am
|
|  AP - Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods rose in September as the biggest jump in demand for machinery in 18 months offset weakness in commercial aircraft and autos.
|
| Agassi admits using crystal meth in autobiography (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 9:12 am
|
|  AP - Andre Agassi's upcoming autobiography contains an admission that he used crystal meth in 1997 and lied to tennis authorities when he failed a drug test — a result that was thrown out after he said he "unwittingly" took the substance.
|
| US eyes 'compromise' strategy in Afghanistan: report (AFP)
October 28, 2009 at 8:46 am
|
|  AFP - Washington is settling on a new-look Afghan strategy to secure 10 major population centers, a newspaper said Wednesday, as President Barack Obama neared a decision on whether to hurl thousands more troops into the fray.
|
| Iran set to respond to atomic deal this week (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 7:50 am
|
|  Reuters - Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency will present Tehran's position on a draft nuclear fuel deal in Vienna on Thursday, the semi-official Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday.
|
| McCain exhorts Obama to make Afghan decision now (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 7:19 am
|
| | AP - Sen. John McCain is exhorting President Barack Obama to make a decision quickly on sending additional troops to Afghanistan, saying U.S allies are nervous and military commanders are frustrated. |
| New defense bill cuts waste, but not enough: Obama (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 6:27 am
|
|  Reuters - President Barack Obama will say on Wednesday there is still too much waste in U.S. defense spending, despite a number of costly projects being terminated in the 2010 defense authorization bill.
|
| Six U.N. foreign staff killed in attack in Kabul (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 5:19 am
|
|  Reuters - Taliban militants killed six U.N. foreign staff in an assault on an international guest-house in Kabul on Wednesday, raising questions about security for a presidential election run-off due in 10 days.
|
| Bomb kills 57 in northwestern Pakistan (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 5:13 am
|
|  AP - A doctor says the death toll in a market bombing in northwestern Pakistan has risen to 57.
|
| More than 50 killed in Pakistan bomb attack: officials (AFP)
October 28, 2009 at 5:04 am
|
|  AFP - A massive bomb killed more than 50 people in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Wednesday, hospital and government officials said. One hospital doctor put the toll at 57.
|
| Six UN staff dead in Taliban raid on Kabul hostel (AFP)
October 28, 2009 at 5:00 am
|
|  AFP - Taliban suicide gunmen stormed a UN hostel in Kabul on Wednesday, killing six foreign staff in an assault the Islamist militia said marked the start of a bloody countdown to new Afghan elections.
|
| Bomb kills more than 30 in Pakistan's Peshawar (Reuters)
October 28, 2009 at 4:47 am
|
| Reuters - A bomb in a crowded market killed more than 30 people and wounded scores on Wednesday in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials said.
|
| Man charged with killing UConn football player (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 4:12 am
|
|  AP - The lawyer for a 21-year-old man charged with killing University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard says his client was trying to break up a fight and was not involved in the stabbing that took the starting cornerback's life.
|
| Souped up Series as Phillies and Yankees get ready (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 4:04 am
|
|  AP - Even before the first pitch, this World Series seems souped up.
|
| US man convicted of scuba death of wife in BVI (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 3:49 am
|
|  AP - A U.S. man faces life in a sweltering Caribbean prison after a jury convicted him of drowning his wife during a scuba-diving trip a decade ago in what prosecutors called a near perfect murder.
|
| Lakers beat Clippers 99-92 in season opener (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 3:30 am
|
|  AP - There was no championship hangover for these Lakers. Kobe Bryant scored 33 points and Andrew Bynum added 26 on his 22nd birthday as the reigning NBA champions opened defense of their title Tuesday night with a 99-92 victory over the Clippers, their Staples Center co-tenants who played without injured No. 1 overall draft pick Blake Griffin.
|
| NFL to aid ex-players who reported mental problems (AP)
October 28, 2009 at 3:14 am
|
|  AP - When a recent study conducted for the NFL suggested that retired pro football players may have a higher rate than normal of Alzheimer's disease or other memory afflictions, the NFL was quick to point out that the study did not prove a link between concussions and memory disorders.
| | | 
|
No comments:
Post a Comment