2012年12月11日星期二

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At least 1 dead in Oregon mall shooting

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 04:58 PM PST

Police: Gunman opens fire at Portland-area mallSeveral others are injured, but the gunman has been "neutralized," police say.


North Korea launches rocket

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 05:07 PM PST

File photo of a soldier in front of a rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, northwest of PyongyangIsolated and impoverished North Korea launched its second long- range rocket of 2012 on Wednesday in what it said was a bid to put a satellite into space.


White House, Boehner quietly swap offers

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 03:29 PM PST

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio leaves his office and walks to the House floor to deliver remarks about negotiations with President Obama on the fiscal cliff, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)They have been negotiating a fiscal cliff compromise behind closed doors as the deadline draws near.


Obama formally recognizes Syrian rebels

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 12:35 PM PST

EXCLUSIVE: Obama Recognizes Syrian Opposition GroupObama Moves to Undercut Assad But Warns of 'Extremist' Ties to Al Qaeda


How to make Christmas shopping not depressing, chumpy or impossible

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 11:19 AM PST

Shoppers walk along Karl Johans Gate, the main shopping street in OsloIt's Hannukah. This is the stretch of the calendar known as "the holidays," famous these days mostly for being a Source of Tremendous Anguish to all who encounter it.


Court strikes down Illinois' concealed carry ban

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 03:19 PM PST

FILE - In this March 7, 2012 file photo, gun owners and supporters participate in an Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day rally at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. In a big victory for gun rights advocates, a federal appeals court on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, struck down a ban on carrying concealed weapons in Illinois _ the only remaining state where carrying concealed weapons is entirely illegal. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)In a major victory for gun rights advocates, a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a ban on carrying concealed weapons in Illinois.


W.Va. natural gas line explosion melts road, burns homes

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 03:22 PM PST

This image provided by the Kanawha County Emergency Services shows flames erupting across Interstate 77 from a gas line explosion in Sissonville, W. Va., Tuesday Dec. 11, 2012. At least five homes went up in flames Tuesday afternoon and a badly damaged section of Interstate 77 was shut down in both directions near Sissonville after a major gas line explosion triggered an hour-long inferno that officials say spanned about a quarter-mile. (AP Photo/Kanawha County Emergency Services)Homes went up in flames and part of I-77 is closed. "It actually cooked the interstate. It looks like a tar pit."


GOP throws Obama's old deficit stands back at him

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 11:18 AM PST

FILE - This Dec. 5, 2012 file photo shows President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about the fiscal cliff at the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers, in Washington. Some of the best Republican arguments against President Barack Obama's proposals to avoid a Some of the best Republican arguments against President Barack Obama's proposals to avoid a "fiscal cliff" come from the president himself, in comments he made months or years before his re-election.


Dollar Store, Inc.: The booming business of being cheap

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 09:49 AM PST

Dollar Store, Inc.: The Booming Business of Being CheapFamily Dollar, Dollar Tree and Dollar General, have quietly become a $56 billion industry and they are opening new locations faster than Starbucks.


Sen. Jenny Sanford? Why it might be a smart pick

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 01:14 PM PST

Judge Grants Sanford DivorceMrs. Sanford is best known as the former wife of former S.C. Governor Sanford, who captivated the nation in 2009, when he mysteriously disappeared for several days.


Hop-on, hop-off tour buses sued in New York for monopoly

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 03:22 PM PST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two companies are driving up prices for tourists in New York City by running an illegal monopoly in the $100 million market for hop-on, hop-off bus tours, state and federal antitrust authorities said in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. Twin America LLC, a joint venture of former rivals Coach USA Inc and City Sights LLC, violates competition laws and should be dissolved, according to the suit filed in Manhattan federal court. Twin America vowed to contest the suit, saying the government ignored improved service to customers since the 2009 joint venture. ...

NYPD suspect man was lured into midtown ambush

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 02:49 PM PST

A video still image of a gunman pulling a weapon behind Brandon Lincoln Woodard in New YorkSecurity video indicates the unidentified shooter had been waiting in a car parked on the same block at least a half hour before the gunfire erupted.


Boehner: 'Let's be honest. We're broke'

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 10:27 AM PST

U.S. House Speaker Boehner speaks to the media outside his office on Capitol Hill in WashingtonThe House Speaker accused the president of slow-walking negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff and urged him to name specific cuts in government spending.


Journalist's family struggles with silence on kidnapping

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 11:52 AM PST

In this image taken from undated video posted to YouTube, American freelance journalist Austin Tice, who had been reporting for American news organizations in Syria until his disappearance in August 2012, prays in Arabic and English while blindfolded in the presence of gunmen. The Associated Press could not independently confirm the origin or the content of the clip, but the Tice family released a statement to several media outlets confirming it was their son in the video. Although the video footage shows a group of captors dressed and behaving like Islamic extremists, the clip lacks the customary form of jihadist videos. Previous reports have indicated that Tice is in Syrian government custody. (AP Photo)The Tice family was in Beirut recently as part of their ongoing quest to find their son, Austin, who was kidnapped in Syria in August.


Unaccounted graves found at former reform school in Fla.

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 10:33 AM PST

White metal crosses mark graves at the cemetery of the former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, FloridaThe Dozier School has been the target of numerous allegations of abuse and mysterious deaths of children during the more than 100 years of its existence.


In Afghanistan, girl's killing stands out – for police response

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 09:54 AM PST

Afghan relatives and villagers prepare to offer funeral prayers over the body of Najia Sediqi, Laghman's head of the women's affairs department in Laghman, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. Gunmen shot and killed the head of the women's affairs department for the eastern Laghman province, said Sarhadi Zewak, a spokesman for the provincial government. (AP Photo/Khalid Khan)Geysina was only one among a dozen young women and girls recorded killed in the last nine months alone, compared to just one in the previous year.


Photos: A roundup of the day's best images

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST

Photos: A roundup of the day's best imagesDressed in a Santa Claus outfit, a diver feeds to sardines at the Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. Christmas is one of the biggest holidays in South Korea, where over half of the population are Christians. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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