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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Gingrich to quit White House race: US media

Gingrich to quit White House race: US media

Gingrich to quit White House race: US media

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Republican presidential candidate Newt GingrichNewt Gingrich has decided to quit the US presidential race, US media reported Wednesday, paving the way for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney to be crowned the Republican nominee.

Katie Couric to launch new Web show for Yahoo, ABC

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FILE - In this April 23, 2012 file photo, Katie Couric arrives to the Matrix Awards in New York. Couric is launching a weekly Web series for Yahoo and ABC News in which she will discuss health, nutrition, parenting and wellness isues. The series, Katie Couric is launching a weekly Web series for Yahoo News and ABC News about health and lifestyle issues.

After Luck & RGIII, it's anxious time for players

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Robert Griffin III, center right, interacts with children during the NFL Play 60 Youth Football Festival, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)Andrew Luck knows exactly where he's heading and so does Robert Griffin III.

6 reasons it's the Year of Big Money in politics

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FILE - In this June 7, 2011 file photo, Las Vegas Sands Corp. CEO Sheldon Adelson waves in Hong Kong. Sure, there's always handwringing about money in politics. This time really is different _ the first presidential race since the courts pulled out the stops, freeing billionaires and businesses to write multimillion-dollar checks for their pet candidates. It's the Year of Big Money. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)Sure, there's always handwringing about money in politics. This time really is different, though — the first presidential race since the courts changed the rules, clearing the way for secret cash and freeing billionaires and businesses to write multimillion-dollar checks for their favorite candidates. It's the Year of Big Money.

Champions League semi-final: Live Report

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Real Madrid's goalkeeper Iker Casillas fails to catch the penalty shot by Arjen Robben55 mins: Benzema tests Neuer with a fierce shot but the German clasps it with assurance.

Actor Sean Penn receives award for work in Haiti

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Actor Sean Penn addresses the crowd after receiving the 2012 Peace Summit Award from Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, during the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates Wednesday, April 25, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn has accepted an award from a gathering of Nobel Peace Prize laureates for his work in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

France raises prospect of military action in Syria

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France's foreign minister Alian Juppe, right, with Syrian human rights activist Suhair al-Atassi ,center, and Syrian author and activist Rima Flihane, speak to the media after their meeting in Paris Wednesday April 25, 2012. The UN mission to Syria is seen as a last chance for diplomacy to end the bloodshed in the strife-torn country, experts say today, while expressing scepticism about its chances of success.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)France raised the prospect of military intervention in Syria on Wednesday, saying the U.N. should consider harsher measures if an international peace plan that has been shaken by violence ultimately collapses.

Conn. governor signs bill to repeal death penalty

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy quietly signed a new law Wednesday that ends the state's death penalty for future crimes, making Connecticut the 17th state to abolish capital punishment.

TSA screeners charged in LA drug trafficking probe

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Two former and two current Transportation Security Administration employees were accused of allowing large amounts of cocaine and other drugs to pass through X-ray machines at security checkpoints in exchange for cash, authorities said Wednesday.

APNewsBreak: Fireball remnants likely in Calif.

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This image provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows a meteor over Reno Nevada Sunday April 22, 2012. The former space rock-turned-flaming-meteor entered Earth's atmosphere around 8 a.m. PDT. Reports of the fireball have come in from as far north as Sacramento, Calif. and as far east as North Las Vegas, Nev. Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., estimates the object was about the size of a minivan, weighed in at around 154,300 pounds (70 metric tons) and at the time of disintegration released energy equivalent to a 5-kiloton explosion. (AP Photo/Lisa Warren, NASA/JPL)A meteor expert at UCLA says tiny meteorites found in Northern California likely were part of the giant fireball that exploded in daylight over the weekend.

Major players in the 1992 Los Angeles riot

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On April 19, 2012, Henry Keith Watson poses for a portrait on the corner of Florence and Normandie in Los Angeles, where Watson and others dragged truck driver Reginald Denny from his cab and beat him severely on the first night of rioting. The acquittal of four police officers in the videotaped beating of King sparked rioting that spread across the city and into neighboring suburbs. Cars were demolished and homes and businesses were burned. Before order was restored, 55 people were dead, 2,300 injured and more than 1,500 buildings were damaged or destroyed.( (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)DARYL GATES

Supreme Court hints OK on Ariz. immigration law

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks to reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, after the court held a hearing on Arizona's Bucking the Obama administration, Supreme Court justices seemed to find little trouble Wednesday with major parts of Arizona's tough immigration law that require police to check the legal status of people they stop for other reasons.

Marines discharge sergeant for Facebook posts

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FILE - In this April 13,2012 file photo Marine Sgt. Gary Stein speaks with reporters in front of the federal court building in San Diego. The Marine Corps has decided to discharge the sergeant for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook. The Corps said Wednesday, April 25, 2012, that Sgt. Stein will be given an other than honorable discharge for violating Pentagon policy limiting speech of service members. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull,File)A sergeant will be discharged for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook in a case that called into question the Pentagon's policies about social media and its limits on the speech of active duty military personnel, the Marine Corps said Wednesday.

Free kick

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Free kickBayern Munich's Dutch midfielder Arjen Robben takes a free kick during the UEFA Champions League second leg semi-final football match Real Madrid against Bayern Munich at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid.

Senate: Make it tougher to close post offices

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A Senate bill aimed at saving the U.S. Postal Service would make it harder to close thousands of low-revenue post offices and end Saturday mail delivery, even though the struggling agency says those moves are just what's needed to reduce its massive debt and become profitable again.

Draghi says Europe needs growth pact

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European Central Bank President Mario Draghi addresses the committee on economic and monetary affairs at the European parliament in Brussels, Wednesday April 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)European Central Bank head Mario Draghi gave a muted outlook for the European economy and called for a "growth compact" to restore lost competitiveness across Europe.

The '92 riot: Revisiting a dark day in LA history

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FILE - This March 31, 1991 frame from a video tape shot by George Holliday from his apartment in a suburb of Los Angeles shows what appears to be a group of police officers beating a man with nightsticks and kicking him as other officers look on. The April 29, 1992 acquittal of four police officers in the beating sparked rioting that spread across the city and into neighboring suburbs. Cars were demolished and homes and businesses were burned. Before order was restored, 55 people were dead, 2,300 injured and more than 1,500 buildings were damaged or destroyed.(AP Photo/George Holliday/Courtesy of KTLA Los Angeles)Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened just last week. History won't allow him to forget it.

Facebook strengthens security with partnerships

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Facebook is strengthening its security controls in an attempt to protect its 900 million users from spam and malicious content.

Young heart patient taken from hospital found safe

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This image provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shows Porter Stone, 5, who is missing after police say his father, who does not have custody of the boy, took him from a St. Louis hospital where he is on a heart transplant waiting list. St. Louis police Capt. Jim Moran told the newspaper the boy's father, Jeffery Stone, 33, does not have legal custody of the boy and is wanted for A father kidnapped his young son from a St. Louis hospital with precious little of the medicine the boy requires for his failing heart, then called and sent text messages taunting his estranged wife about the abduction, authorities said Wednesday.

House backs bill capping gov't spending on junkets

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FILE - In this April 16, 2012 file photo, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., right, talks with the Committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., on Capitol Hill in Washington. Outraged by lavish government conferences on the taxpayers' tab, the House easily approved a measure Wednesday to impose tough limits on future events and how much agencies can spend as well as to create a one-stop system for Americans to track where federal dollars go. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Outraged by lavish government conferences on the taxpayers' tab, the House easily approved a measure Wednesday to impose tough limits on future events and how much agencies can spend as well as to create a one-stop system for Americans to track where federal dollars go.

African Union: Sudan must stop bombing South Sudan

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In this Tuesday, April 24, 2012 photo, Sudanese armed forces ride a military vehicle at the oil-rich border town of Heglig, Sudan. The African Union says Sudan must stop the aerial bombardment of South Sudan and has called on both countries to cease hostilities immediately. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)The African Union called on Sudan to stop its aerial bombardment of South Sudan and for both countries to cease hostilities, as an uneasy calm settled over the south Wednesday.

House GOP responds with own bill to protect women

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House Republicans determined to show women voters that they have their interests at heart on Wednesday announced plans to renew the Violence Against Women Act, the federal government's main domestic violence program.

El Paso officials seek answers on canceled fight

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Officials demanded more details Wednesday about the security threat that prompted the University of Texas System to block a boxing match in El Paso.

Fed: Economy growing moderately; no policy changes

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The Federal Reserve says the economy is growing moderately while cautioning that risks from Europe remain. It's holding off on taking any further steps to boost the recovery.

Spidey foes to rattle 'Amazing Spider-Man' game

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In this video game image released by Activision Inc., Spider-Man and Felicia Hardy are shown in a scene is shown from Spider-Man must contend with more than just a lizard in his latest video game adventure.

NY woman admits faking cancer in wedding scheme

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Jessica Vega appears in Orange County Court in Goshen, N.Y. on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. An Orange County Grand jury has indicted Vega, 25, with grand larceny and scheme to defraud. According to the indictment, Vega accepted thousands of dollars in donated services and goods after claiming in 2010 that she was dying of leukemia. (AP Photo/Times Herald-Record, Tom Bushey) MANDATORY CREDITA New York woman admitted Wednesday that she faked cancer to con donors out of money and services for her wedding and Caribbean honeymoon.

Teacher says Catholic school fired her over IVF

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An Indiana teacher who says she was fired from a Roman Catholic school for using in vitro fertilization to try to get pregnant is suing in a case that could set up a legal showdown over reproductive and religious rights.

Student loans emerge as economic issue in campaign

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President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Iowa, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)In the state that began his White House march, President Barack Obama looked every bit the campaigner Wednesday as he told supporters that "Iowa always feels like home to me."

AP Interview: Booby traps found by bomb expert

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This photo released on Monday, April 23, 2012 by the Utah County Sheriff's Department shows part of a booby traps found along a hiking trail as part of a crude shelter made of dead tree limbs found in a Provo Canyon, Utah. Two men have been arrested on suspicion of setting the traps and were booked Saturday into the county jail for investigation of misdemeanor reckless endangerment. (AP Photo/Utah County Sheriff Department)U.S. Forest Service Officer James Schoeffler is trained to spot the suspicious.

Bahrain: Jailed hunger striker in good health

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A jailed activist on a hunger strike since early February is in "good health" and receiving medical care, Bahraini officials said Wednesday, responding to opposition groups claiming his condition was sharply deteriorating.

Instant View: Bernanke says Fed prepared to do more for economy

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday said the U.S. central bank "would not hesitate" to launch another round of bond purchases to drive borrowing costs lower if it looked like the economy needed it. COMMENTS: KATHY LIEN, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, GFT FOREX, JERSEY CITY "At the end of the day, there is still not enough consensus inside the Federal Reserve for any major decisions to be made. While Bernanke's dovish comments drove the dollar lower, the reality is that QE3 is not an imminent risk. ...

Bernanke says Fed prepared to do more for economy

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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke attends the IMFC meeting in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday said the U.S. central bank "would not hesitate" to launch another round of bond purchases to drive borrowing costs lower if it looked like the economy needed it. "We remain entirely prepared to take additional balance sheet actions as necessary to achieve our objectives," Bernanke told reporters. "Those tools remained very much on the table and we would not hesitate to use them should the economy require that additional support. ...

Harley-Davidson 1Q profit revs up as sales jump

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FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2012 file photo, Harley-Davidson motorcycles are for sale in the show room of Hall's Harley-Davidson Cycles in Springfield, Ill. Harley-Davidson Inc. said Wednesday, April 25, 2012, that its first-quarter profit jumped 44 percent, as improving economic conditions boosted U.S. sales of its well-known motorcycles. The results beat Wall Street expectations and the company boosted its shipment guidance for the year. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)Harley-Davidson's first-quarter profit jumped 44 percent, as improving economic conditions and early spring weather boosted U.S. sales of its famous motorcycles.

Prosecutors show photos of Hudson's slain nephew

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Amy Thompson, a defense attorney for William Balfour, heads back to court in Chicago, Tuesday, April 24, 2012, following a lunch break on the second day of Balfour's trial. Balfour is charged in the October 2008 murders of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)The otherwise blank-faced defendant accused of killing Jennifer Hudson's family appeared to cry at his trial Wednesday when prosecutors projected photographs onto a large screen of the bloodied body of the youngest victim — the Hollywood star's 7-year-old nephew.

Exxon is top dividend payer after 21 pct. increase

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Exxon is raising its quarterly dividend by 21 percent. In doing so, it becomes the top corporate dividend payer, surpassing AT&T.

Dreams of glory dashed in John Edwards's hometown

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Former Senator John EdwardsThere was a time when people in this historic US college town dared to dream that one of their own could become president. Then John Edwards got caught up in a whirlwind of sex, lies and betrayal -- and now they'd rather forget all about him.

TechBit: Facebook beefs up security

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Facebook is strengthening its security controls in an attempt to protect its 900 million users from spam and malicious content.

Marathon runner's death inspires $1M in donations

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This is an undated handout photo from RAFA of Claire Squires. The death of a runner Claire Squires in the London marathon has inspired a flood of donations to the charity she supported. Squires, who ran to raise money for the Samaritans, which works to prevent suicide, collapsed Sunday April 22, 2012 near the end of the course. The cause of her death has not been determined. (AP Photo/RAFA/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVEDonations to the charity supported by a 30-year-old woman who died during the London Marathon topped $1 million on Wednesday as thousands took up her cause.

Senate Dems ready bill freezing student loan costs

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This photo combo shows President Barack Obama in Chapel Hill, N.C. on April 24, 2012, and Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on April 18, 2012 in Charlotte, N.C. Obama and his likely GOP opponent, Romney, agree on an issue of importance to college students: Keeping the interest rate low on a popular federally subsidized student loan issued to low-and middle-income students. (AP Photo)President Barack Obama is playing politics with his push to prevent interest rates on federal student loans from increasing in an election-year effort to embarrass Republicans, the Senate's GOP leader said Wednesday.

THE RACE: Exiting presidential race can be painful

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Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich greets supporters at an election rally in Concord, N.C., Tuesday, April 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)Dropping out is hard to do. It's been especially hard for Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul.
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