Pages

Friday, September 9, 2011

Officials chase unconfirmed al-Qaida bomb threat (AP)

Officials chase unconfirmed al-Qaida bomb threat (AP)

Officials chase unconfirmed al-Qaida bomb threat (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 10:08 AM PDT

A police officer stands guard in New York's Times Square as the ABC news ticker displays news of an al-Qaida terror threat, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. Just days before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. counterterrorism officials are chasing a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaida threat to use a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington. It is the first 'active plot' timed to coincide with the somber commemoration of the terror group's 9/11 attacks a decade ago that killed nearly 3,000 people. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Counterterrorism officials are chasing a credible but unconfirmed tip that al-Qaida has plans to set off a car bomb in New York City or Washington around the Sept. 11 anniversary, with bridges or tunnels as potential targets. It was the first word of a possible "active plot" timed to coincide with commemoration of the terror group's attacks a decade ago.

Obama promotes jobs plan on GOP turf (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 10:59 AM PDT

President Barack Obama gestures during a speech on his jobs bill at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Va., Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. Obama is urging voters to get behind his new jobs bill and pressure lawmakers to pass it, delivering the message on the home turf of one of his chief GOP antagonists. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP - His sleeves rolled up and his finger stabbing the air, President Barack Obama pitched his newly unveiled jobs plan with campaign-style fervor Friday, urging Americans to pressure their lawmakers to pass his $447 billion initiative. "We're tougher than these times," he declared. "We are bigger than the smallness of our politics."

Libya fighters: We're battling in pro-Gadhafi town (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:34 AM PDT

Rebels unload ammunition from a truck in Wish Tata, Libya, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. Libya's rebels have surrounded the ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and it is only a matter of time until he is captured or killed, a spokesman for Tripoli's new military council said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Libyan fighters launched a two-pronged assault Friday on one of the last towns to resist the country's new rulers, clashing with Moammar Gadhafi's supporters inside Bani Walid as a week-long standoff dissolved into street-to-street battles, the former rebels said.

Austrian incest suspect freed; testimony changes (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 12:52 PM PDT

AP - An 80-year-old Austrian man held for around two weeks on suspicion that he regularly raped his daughters for 41 years was freed Friday after the two women changed their story, prosecutors said.

Power back on for most in Ariz., Calif. and Mexico (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 10:22 AM PDT

A stranded passenger sleeps in the baggage claim area at San Diego's Lindbergh Field after a blackout Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. A power outage is affecting millions of people across southern California, Arizona and Mexico. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - Utility crews brought electricity back to much of California, Arizona and Mexico on Friday, a day after a power outage left millions in the dark, paralyzed freeways and halted flights at San Diego's airport.

Pa. flood mark revised; levees in 'extreme stress' (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 12:33 PM PDT

Rob Hewitt floats in a canoe past partially flooded buildings in Port Deposit, Md., Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, as the Susquehanna River, which is swollen with rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee, continues to rise. Officials ordered a mandatory evacuation of the town, but Hewitt decided to stay behind to protect his home. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Northern stretches of the swollen Susquehanna River began receding Friday after days of rainfall from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee flooded communities from Virginia to New York, leading to evacuation orders for nearly 100,000 people.

Stocks plunge as worries about Europe intensify (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:01 PM PDT

A specialist works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - The problems that weighed down stocks all summer show no sign of letting up.

ESSAY: After 9/11, searching for American optimism (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 04:07 AM PDT

FILE - In this 1990 file photo, New York City skyline with World Trade Center's twin towers in the center. Before the towers crumbled, before the doomed people jumped and the smoke billowed and the planes hit, the collective American memory summoned one fleeting fragment of beauty: a clear blue sky. (AP Photo, File)AP - Before the towers crumbled, before the doomed people jumped and the smoke billowed and the planes hit, the collective American memory summoned one fleeting fragment of beauty: a clear blue sky.

An Iraqi exile gives outlet to Gadhafi's voice (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:27 AM PDT

FILE -- In this April, 26, 2003 file photo, U.S. Maj. Gen. David Petraus, center, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, holds talks with tribal leaders Mishan Al Jabouri, left, and Eyad Hamadani, about the formation of an interim government in Mosul, Iraq. Moammar Gadhafi may be on the run, but he's still talking - the deposed Libyan leader has called a Syrian satellite TV station four times from hiding to rally his dwindling supporters and to insist he will never give up. The station's owner, Mishan al-Jabouri, refuses to divulge much about why Gadhafi calls into the station and whether he knows where Gadhafi and his sons are hiding. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)AP - Moammar Gadhafi may be on the run, but he's still talking — and his outlet is a curious one: clandestine, late-night phone calls to a private Syrian satellite TV station run by an Iraqi exile with a shady past.

Book: Kennedy scorned idea of Johnson as president (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 05:00 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 1960 file photo, Jacqueline Kennedy poses at her typewriter where she writes her weekly 'Candidate's Wife' column in her Georgetown home in Washington. President John F. Kennedy openly scorned the notion of Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson succeeding him in office, according to a book of newly released interviews with his widow, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. (AP Photo/File)AP - President John F. Kennedy openly scorned the notion of Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson succeeding him in office, according to a book of newly released interviews with his widow, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

New York cracks down after "credible" 9/11 threat (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 10:51 AM PDT

Reuters - New York police amassed a display of force on Friday including checkpoints that snarled traffic in response to intelligence about a car or truck bomb plot linked to the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Magnitude 6.7 quake hits off Vancouver: USGS (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 12:57 PM PDT

Reuters - A powerful magnitude 6.7 quake struck off Vancouver Island on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

How to play it: Potential winners on Obama's Jobs Act plan (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:32 AM PDT

Reuters - * THE ISSUE: President Barack Obama called on Congress late Thursday to pass a $447 billion package of spending initiatives and tax cuts to boost economic growth and generate jobs. Here are several investment ideas based on his proposals.

Top German quits ECB over bond-buying row (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:02 AM PDT

European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker Juergen Stark speaks during a dinner function at a hotel in Hong Kong April 12,2011. REUTERS/Tyrone SiuReuters - The top German official at the European Central Bank resigned out of the blue on Friday in conflict with the bank's policy of buying government bonds to combat the euro zone's debt crisis.

Insight: Extreme makeover BofA: An asbestos solution (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 10:04 AM PDT

Reuters - It worked for asbestos so why not for toxic mortgages?

Yields fall to 60-year lows on Europe worries (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 10:04 AM PDT

Reuters - Treasury debt prices rose on Friday, taking benchmark yields to the lowest in at least 60 years as investors looked for a safe haven on revived worries a European debt crisis could have a significant global impact.

Decade after September 11, New Yorkers ready to move on (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 12:51 PM PDT

Reuters - The attacks of September 11, 2001 changed life in the United States forever, but 10 years after the devastating hit, New Yorkers have learned to live in a more dangerous world and are ready to move on.

Obama tries to sell jobs plan and end gridlock (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:20 AM PDT

President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of the United States Congress on the subject of job creation on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 8, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - President Barack Obama began an uphill battle on Friday for support for a $447 billion jobs plan he hopes will rescue a faltering economy and his own re-election prospects.

9/11 lessons not learned: three failed reforms (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 09:05 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Created by Congress in late 2002, the 9/11 commission was mandated to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.

Texas wildfires leave survivors with little but gratitude to be alive (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:26 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - “Pray for rain” reads the sign at a fast food restaurant on the highway six miles west of Bastrop, Texas.
Posted by Anonymous at 1:21 PM

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)