2012年9月9日星期日

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Steep price for National Sept. 11 Memorial

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 10:43 AM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2011 file photo, visitors to the National September 11 Memorial in New York walk around its twin pools. The foundation that runs the memorial estimates that once the roughly $700 million project is complete, it will cost $60 million a year to operate. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)With its huge reflecting pools, ringed by waterfalls and skyscrapers, and a cavernous underground museum still under construction, the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center is an awesome spectacle that moved and inspired some 4.5 million visitors in its first year.


President gets a lift from pizza shop owner

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:59 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama is hugged by Scott Van Duzer at a pizza shop in FloridaFlorida pizza shop owner Scott Van Duzer lifted President Barack Obama a solid foot off the ground in a bear hug during an unscripted stop at his Fort Pierce, Fla., store. Literally. So what did the Secret Service think about Van Duzer — a registered Republican who says he'll vote for Obama in November — [...]


Wave of attacks leave 92 dead in Iraq

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:10 PM PDT

Security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. In violence, which struck at least 10 cities across the nation Insurgents killed at least 39 people in a wave of attacks against Iraqi security forces on Sunday, gunning down soldiers at an army post and bombing police recruits waiting in line to apply for jobs, officials said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president was sentenced Sunday to death by hanging on charges he masterminded death squads against rivals in a terror trial that has fueled sectarian tensions in the country. Underscoring the instability, insurgents unleashed an onslaught of bombings and shootings across Iraq, killing at least 92 people in one of the deadliest days this year.


Romney claims he won’t cut taxes on America's wealthy

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 07:44 AM PDT

Romney targets economy in White House bidMitt Romney rejected claims by President Barack Obama that he would sign off on more tax breaks for the wealthy if elected president, but again declined to offer specifics on how exactly he would accomplish his goal of lowering taxes for other Americans while also balancing the budget. In an interview with NBC's "Meet the [...]


Obama: I’ll work with Republicans if they agree to raise taxes

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 08:14 AM PDT

Obama to Use New Study to Attack Mitt Romney on MedicarePresident Barack Obama said in an interview partly broadcast Sunday that he would be "more than happy to work with the Republicans" to trim the swelling national debt — as long as they drop their opposition to raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans. "You can't reduce the deficit unless you take a [...]


Early laptop designer Moggridge dies at 69

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:50 PM PDT

Early laptop designer Moggridge dies at 69Bill Moggridge, a British industrial designer who designed an early portable computer with the flip-open shape that is common today, has died. He was 69.The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design ...


Car bomb kills at least 17 in Syria

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:42 PM PDT

FSA soldiers help a severely wounded colleague after being shot by a Syrian Army sniper in Izaa district in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Sept 8, 2012. On Friday, U.S. Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham, who have toured the volatile Middle East in recent days, urged Washington to help arm Syria's rebels with weapons and create a safe zone inside the country for a transition government. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)A car bomb ripped through Syria's largest city of Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 40 in one of the main battlegrounds of the country's civil war, state-run media said.


Nobel Prize-winning writer says Ryan 'never a man of substance'

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 09:25 AM PDT

Paul Krugman: Paul Ryan 'Was Never a Man of Substance'Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said that GOP presidential nominee Paul Ryan was "never a man of substance" during our "This Week" roundtable discussion about the Romney-Ryan tax plan that I questioned Ryan about earlier on the program. You can read the full exchange...


Former MMA fighter pleads guilty to killing his sparring partner

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 07:45 AM PDT

Mixed-Martial Artist Who Ripped Heart, Tongue Out of Friend Pleads GuiltyMen had Taken Drugs and Thought They Were in a Struggle Between God and Satan


NYC area cleans up after two tornadoes strike

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 04:32 AM PDT

Bill Ryan watches as his wife Janet hangs up a picture in front of their roofless cabana at the Breezy Point Surf Club in the Queens section of New York, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012, after severe weather passed the area. A tornado swept out of the sea and hit the beachfront neighborhood in New York City, hurling debris in the air, knocking out power and startling residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon. Firefighters were still assessing the damage, but no serious injuries were reported and the area affected by the storm appeared small. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)Damaging storms that spawned tornadoes in New York City, darkened tens of thousands of homes in the Washington, D.C., area and flooded New England streets turned a normal day of rest into a day of cleaning up for many East Coast residents on Sunday.


Obama aides mock Romney talk of taking ‘God’ off currency

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 09:35 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigns at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Va., Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)"The president believes as much that God should be taken off a coin as he does that aliens will attack Florida." That's the response from Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki to Mitt Romney's apparent suggestion at a Virginia Beach, Va., rally on Saturday that Democrats hope to take "In God We Trust" off American money. [...]


Romney says he would keep parts of Obama healthcare law

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:21 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney talks to reporters at the airport in Sergeant BluffWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has called for scrapping President Barack Obama's 2010 U.S. healthcare law, said in remarks aired on Sunday that he likes key parts of "Obamacare" despite his party's loathing of it and wants to retain them. Romney, who faces Obama in the November 6 election, has vowed throughout the campaign to repeal and replace the Obama healthcare law. But asked about the Obama healthcare law on NBC's "Meet the Press" program, Romney said, "Well, I'm not getting rid of all of healthcare reform. ...


Parents planning for kids if Chicago teachers strike

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 03:57 PM PDT

Members of the Chicago Teachers Union distribute strike signage at the Chicago Teachers Union strike headquarters on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 in Chicago. The union has vowed to strike on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, should it fail to reach an agreement over teachers' contracts with Chicago Public Schools by that date. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)With Chicago teachers poised to go on strike for the first time in a quarter century, parents spent Sunday worrying about how much their children's education might suffer and where their kids will go while they're at work.


Bicyclist dies in Utah-to-Wyoming race

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:14 PM PDT

A bicyclist competing in a race from Logan, Utah, to Jackson Hole, Wyo., crashed on a bridge in Wyoming and fell about 35 feet to his death into the Snake River.

Tropical Storm Leslie slowly moves past Bermuda

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:58 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Storm Leslie about 180 miles southeast of Bermuda moving north at 8 mph. Max winds are currently at 65 mph and Leslie is forecast to become a hurricane by tonight. Hurricane Michael in the central Atlantic and has max winds of 100 mph. The hurricane is moving north-northwest at 6 mph. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)Tropical Storm Leslie's outer bands buffeted Bermuda with gusty winds and rain Sunday as it slowly edged past the wary British enclave on a path that was expected to take it to Canada's Newfoundland later in the week.


Joe Biden calls GOP a 'different breed of cat'

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:56 AM PDT

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio – Vice President Joe Biden often proclaims how different the Republican Party is from generations ago, but in Portsmouth, Ohio, today, he had a new way to describe them – a "different breed of cat." "They're not bad guys. It's just a different,...

Pakistan ends weeks of fighting; over 100 dead

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 10:40 AM PDT

Pakistani security forces pushed Taliban militants who came from Afghanistan back across the border after more than two weeks of fighting in a mountainous tribal region, spokesmen for both sides said Sunday. The government says over 100 people were killed in the offensive.

Congress returns for short pre-election session

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 06:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2011 fie photo the U.S. Capitol building is seen in Washington. Fresh off a five-week vacation, lawmakers return to Washington on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, for a brief pre-election session in which Congress will do what it often does best: punt its problems to the future. At issue is a six-month temporary spending bill to finance the day-to-day operations of the federal government. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)Fresh off a five-week vacation, lawmakers return to Washington on Monday for a truncated pre-election session in which Congress will do what it often does best: punt problems to the future.


Ryan fires back at Obama over foreign policy criticism

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 06:07 AM PDT

GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan says he has more foreign policy experience than Barack Obama did before he entered the White House.

Dorothy McGuire of McGuire Sisters dies at 84

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:57 AM PDT

FILE - Singer Dorothy McGuire, seen here in a file photo taken Thursday, Oct. 10, 1986, poses outside Radio City Music Hall in New York City. McGuire, of the popular 1950s musical trio, the McGuire Sisters, has died of natural causes at the age of 84 in the Phoenix, Ariz., area Friday. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey, File)Dorothy McGuire Williamson, who teamed with sisters Christine and Phyllis for a string of hits in the 50s and 60s as the popular McGuire Sisters singing group, has died. She was 84.


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