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Friday, September 14, 2012

FDA detains imports of Mexican mangoes

FDA detains imports of Mexican mangoes

FDA detains imports of Mexican mangoes

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:42 PM PDT

The Food and Drug Administration is detaining mango imports from a Mexican packing house after the company's mangoes were linked to salmonella illnesses in 15 states.

Topless tempest: Kate photos spark palace fury

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:42 PM PDT

Prince William and his wife Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge take their shoes off before entering a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)Paparazzi, French media and a British royal: The publication of topless photos of Prince William's wife Kate has reunited the same players whose clash ended with the untimely death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a Parisian car crash.

Federal judge hands Samsung setback against Apple

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:42 PM PDT

FILE-In this Friday, April 22, 2011, file photo, Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S, left, and Apple's iPhone 4 are displayed at the headquarters of South Korean mobile carrier KT in Seoul, South Korea, Friday. In a preliminary move, a federal judge denied Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, Samsung's request for a ban on imports of the iPhone, iPad and iPod. A judge at the International Trade Commission in Washington ruled Friday that Apple doesn't violate four Samsung patents. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)In a preliminary move, a federal judge has denied Samsung's request for a ban on imports of the iPhone, iPad and iPod.

2 dead, 29 injured at US Embassy protest in Tunis

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:40 PM PDT

Demonstrators throw stones during a protest against the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia, as police respond with tear gas Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. Protests against he film spread to their widest extent yet around the Middle East and other Muslim countries Friday, as protesters smashed into the German Embassy in the Sudanese capital and security forces in Egypt and Yemen fired tear gas and clashed with protesters to keep them away from U.S. embassies. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)Violent protests outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunis against an anti-Muslim film were met with tear gas and gunshots Friday, leaving two people dead, 29 others injured and plumes of black smoke wafting over the city.

Panetta called Egyptian to reaffirm defense ties

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:39 PM PDT

Two days after President Barack Obama called Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to express dissatisfaction with reaction to the embassy attack in Cairo, the U.S. defense chief has called his Egyptian counterpart to reaffirm the defense relationship as a cornerstone of the U.S.-Egypt "strategic partnership."

Ky. teen who ID'd attackers on Twitter testifies

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:39 PM PDT

A judge in Kentucky is hearing from a 17-year-old sexual assault victim who identified her attackers despite a gag order because she thought their plea deal was lenient.

Stocks higher for 2nd day after Fed action

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:38 PM PDT

In this Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 photo, a pair of traders work in their booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. Economic data is coming out of Washington on Friday on inflation, retail sales, industrial production and business inventories. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)The stock market rose again Friday because of economic help from the Federal Reserve. But even some of the buyers weren't believers.

Column: Much ado in NFL and England on handshakes

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:38 PM PDT

ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, SEPT. 15-16 - FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2011, file photo, San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh, left, and Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz, right, shout at each other after an NFL football game in Detroit. When the 49ers rallied for a 25-19 win last October to hand the Lions their first loss following a 5-0 start, Harbaugh enraged Schwartz with a firm backslap and handshake _ and the two even had to be separated. The two teams meet on Sunday in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Rick Osentoski, File)handshakes.

U.S. budget cuts would slash $54.7 billion from Pentagon in FY13

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:37 PM PDT

An aerial view of the Pentagon Building in Washington.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Across-the-board spending reductions on January 2 would cut the Pentagon's funding by $54.7 billion in fiscal year 2013, reducing the readiness of non-deployed units, delaying investment in new equipment and weakening research programs, according to a new White House report. A long-awaited report by the White House Office of Management and Budget said that $15.3 billion of that total would come from Pentagon procurement accounts and $7.48 billion from research and development programs. An additional $26. ...

Egan-Jones cuts US debt rating to AA- from AA

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:35 PM PDT

Egan-Jones is downgrading its rating on U.S. debt to AA- from AA, citing Federal Reserve plans to try to stimulate the economy.

Obama honors memory of Libya attack victims

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:32 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walk back to their seats after speaking during the Transfer of Remains Ceremony, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. Behind them at right is one of the flag draped transfer cases of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)President Barack Obama on Friday honored the four Americans killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, recalling their lives in deeply personal terms and declaring the United States will never pull back on its principles or "retreat from the world."

FBI: 'Bucket List Bandit' caught in Oklahoma

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:27 PM PDT

FILE - These surveillance photos provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's St. Louis Division shows a serial bank robber dubbed the Bucket List Bandit on, from left: June 21, June 27 and July 6, 2012. The bank robbery suspect been captured in Oklahoma, an FBI agent said Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. Michael Eugene Brewster, 54, was arrested Thursday night after a traffic stop in Roland, Okla., said Jason Crouse, the acting head of the FBI office in Erie, Pa. Crouse's office is investigating a robbery in the northwestern Pennsylvania city earlier this week. He wouldn't provide details of the arrest because the FBI planned a national announcement later in the day. (AP Photo/FBI)In banks from Arizona to Pennsylvania this summer, a middle-aged man with grayish, thinning hair, glasses and a blue polo shirt has been demanding money from frightened tellers and offering the same sad story: He only had months to live.

Honoring dead from Libya, Obama vows to 'stand fast'

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:25 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton deliver remarks during a transfer ceremony of the remains of U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens and three other Americans killed this week in Benghazi, at Andrews Air Force Base near WashingtonANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Maryland (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Friday to "stand fast" against violent anti-American protests sweeping the Muslim world as he honored the return of the remains of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans killed in an attack in Libya this week. Leading a somber ceremony with the flag-draped caskets of the Libya dead laid out beside him, Obama pledged to do everything possible to protect U.S. diplomats abroad and said he would hold foreign governments responsible for helping to safeguard them. ...

Spain sweeps US in singles for 2-0 Davis Cup lead

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:24 PM PDT

Spain's Nicolas Almagro, left, is congratulated by John Isner of US after winning the second single match at Davis Cup World Group Semi-final tennis match in Gijon, northern Spain, Friday, Sept. 14 , 2012. Almagro won the match 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)Even without facing Rafael Nadal, the United States is on the brink of elimination by the clay-court masters from Spain.

Obama leads homecoming ceremony, GOP attacks

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:18 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, heading to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. to attend the transfer of remains ceremony marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)President Barack Obama led the nation in a somber homecoming Friday for four Americans killed in a brazen attack on a U.S. Consulate, as his election opponents argued they would have done a better job preventing crisis from erupting overseas.

Apple did not violate Samsung patents: U.S. trade judge

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:16 PM PDT

The logo of Apple is seen on a product displayed at a store in SeoulWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Apple did not violate patents owned by Samsung Electronics in making the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad, a judge at the International Trade Commission said in a preliminary ruling on Friday. Apple and Samsung have taken their bruising patent disputes to some 10 countries as they vie for market share in the booming mobile industry. Apple won a landmark victory last month after a U.S. jury found the South Korean firm had copied key features of the iPhone and awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages. ...

Ryan works to sell Romney to social conservatives

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:14 PM PDT

Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R- Wis. gestures while speaking at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said Friday that he's given Mitt Romney some personal advice: talk more about yourself.

Correction: Space Shuttle-Last Stop story

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:14 PM PDT

In a story Sept. 13 about the space shuttle Endeavour's trip to California, The Associated Press reported erroneously the type of shuttle equipment made at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. It made external fuel tanks, not booster rockets.

Negotiators have 'framework' to end Chicago strike

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:12 PM PDT

Following negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Board of Education President David Vitale leaves after speaking to reporters on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 in Chicago. After a week of public school teachers striking over issues that include pay raises, classroom conditions, job security and teacher evaluations, Vitale said the district and teachers union have agreed on a ''framework'' to end the strike. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)The city's nearly weeklong teachers strike appeared headed toward a resolution Friday after negotiators emerged from marathon talks to say they had achieved a "framework" that could end the walkout in time for students to return to class Monday.

Test: Most student writers still not proficient

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:11 PM PDT

Students who have access to computers at home and regularly use them for assignments are more likely to be strong writers, a national exam suggests. But it also says just a quarter of America's eighth- and 12th-grade students have solid writing skills.

NY rape suspect eyed in 2002 murder of W.Va. woman

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:08 PM PDT

A drifter accused of brazenly raping an elderly woman in broad daylight in New York's Central Park was a person of interest in a 2002 slaying in his home state of West Virginia, but investigators never had enough evidence to charge him, police said Friday.

Administration warns of 'destructive' budget cuts

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept., 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)A White House report issued Friday warns that $109 billion in across-the-board spending cuts at the start of the new year would be "deeply destructive" to the military and core government responsibilities like patrolling U.S. borders and air traffic control.

Holiday Gadgets: Apple iPhone orders start

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:04 PM PDT

Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, speaks on stage during an introduction of the new iPhone 5 in San Francisco, Wednesday Sept. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)Makers of consumer electronics have been refreshing their products for the holiday shopping season. Advance orders for Apple's new iPhone began on Friday. Delivery times climbed quickly, suggesting heavy demand.

Czech bans spirit sales amid wave of poisonings

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:02 PM PDT

The Czech Republic has banned the sale of spirits with more than 20 percent alcohol content as it battles a wave of methanol poisonings that has already killed 19 people.

Rising gas prices crimp Americans' spending

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:01 PM PDT

FILE-In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, file photo, gas station attendant Youssouf Soukouna, 42, pumps gas into a vehicle at a LukOil station where all levels of gas were priced at $4.99, in Newark, N.J. Higher gas prices are crimping consumer spending and slowing the already-weak U.S. economy. And they could get worse in the coming months. The Federal Reserve this week took steps to boost economic growth. But those stimulus measures are also pushing oil prices up. If gas prices follow, consumers will have less money to spend elsewhere. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)Higher gas prices are crimping consumer spending and slowing the already-weak U.S. economy. And they could get worse in the coming months.

PSU trustee: No detailed review of Freeh report

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2011 file photo, Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach charged with sexually abusing boys, leaves the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. Penn State's trustees are to receive an update on the status of changes prompted by the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal as they meet at a hotel in State College (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)The head of Penn State's Board of Trustees says the board isn't planning a detailed review of the school's internal investigation into the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal.

Oil rises to $99, still buoyed by Fed

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:58 PM PDT

Oil rose for a second day on the back of the Federal Reserve's aggressive plan to boost the U.S. economy. More gains are expected, but that might not translate into a spike in prices at the gas station.

If you're a top designer, you gotta have a theme

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:54 PM PDT

Dancers perform in the background of the presentation space moments before the Thom Browne Spring 2013 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)The luna moth. Oscar Wilde. Eighteenth-century Japanese scrolls. An obscure Bauhaus artist. Antique porcelain. Quick, what do these things have in common?

Fashion designer Pinto teams with Chicago museum

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2008 file photo, fashion designer Maria Pinto is seen in her boutique in Chicago. Pinto, famous for dressing first lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, used her eye for fashion to curate Field Museum antiquities for a new exhibit that includes a century-old shredded bark Brazilian ceremonial costume and a woven monkey fur necklace. The exhibit "Fashion and The Field Museum Collection: Maria Pinto" opens Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/David Banks, File)Designer Maria Pinto, well-known for dressing first lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, used her eye for fashion to curate antiquities from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago for a new exhibit that includes a century-old shredded bark Brazilian ceremonial costume and a woven monkey fur necklace.

Clinton urges Arab nations to resist tyranny of mob

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:51 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Tunisia, which have all seen attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions this week, must do all they can to restore calm and reject "the tyranny of a mob," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday. "This has been a difficult week," Clinton said as she spoke at a ceremony to mark the return of the remains of four Americans killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Tuesday. "We've seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. ...

Delivery times rise for iPhone 5

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:50 PM PDT

FILE- In this Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, file photo, a line of customers enter an Apple store in Scottsdale, Ariz. Delivery times climbed quickly as Apple Inc. started taking orders for the iPhone 5 on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, suggesting strong demand. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)Delivery times climbed quickly as Apple Inc. started taking orders for the iPhone 5 on Friday, suggesting strong demand.

2 arrested in Colombia after swallowing dollars

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:47 PM PDT

Colombian police on Friday said they had arrested two men at an airport in Medellin after discovering they were smuggling $80,000 in cash hidden in their stomachs.

Arab Winter? Unrest sparks debate on US policy

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:43 PM PDT

Has the Arab Winter arrived?

AdWatch: New GOP ad disputes Obama claims on taxes

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney steps off his campaign charter plane in the rain in Cleveland before traveling to at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)TITLE: "Broke"

First CA sea otter to survive oil spill has a pup

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:39 PM PDT

In this photo taken by the U.S. Geological Survey and provided by the California Department of Fish and Game, a sea otter holds her pup at Seacliff State Beach near Aptos, Calif., on, Sept. 10, 2012. The sea otter, known as Olive, has amazed researchers by becoming the first sea otter not only to survive a dunking in oil but then also go on to deliver a healthy pup. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Joe Tomoleoni)Just three years after she was found covered in oil and near death, a California sea otter called Olive is a new mom — another milestone for the first otter to survive an oiling in the state.

Chicago school board president says 'framework' deal to end strike

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:39 PM PDT

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago school board President David Vitale said on Friday that school negotiators had reached a "framework" agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union on a new contract that will end a strike in the America's third-largest school district. The strike by 29,000 public school teachers and staff has affected more than 350,000 kindergarten, elementary and high school students. It has also caused a damaging confrontation between former Democratic Congressman and top White House aide Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the labor movement. (Reporting By Greg McCune and Karen Pierog. ...

Embassies targeted as anti-film protests spread

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:39 PM PDT

A Sudanese protester stands on a barricade during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Germany's Foreign Minister says the country's embassy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum has been stormed by protesters and set partially on fire. Minister Guido Westerwelle told reporters that the demonstrators are apparently protesting against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.(AP Photo/Abd Raouf)Angry protests over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world Friday, with demonstrators scaling the walls of U.S. embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, torching part of a German embassy and clashing with police in violence that left at least four dead. Amid the turmoil, Islamic militants waving black banners and shouting "God is great" stormed an international peacekeepers base in Egypt's Sinai and battled troops.

Three protesters killed outside U.S. embassy in Sudan: state media

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:37 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Three people were killed on Friday during a demonstration against an anti-Islam film outside the U.S. embassy in Sudan, Sudan's state radio said. The station's brief alert gave no details. Police had fired tear gas and used batons to try to disperse thousands of protesters trying to storm the embassy outside Khartoum. Some of them briefly got inside the embassy compound. (Reporting by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

South Africa vows to halt mining violence

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:34 PM PDT

Striking mine workers armed with machetes, sticks and spears march to a smelter plant at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, Wednesday, Sept, 12, 2012 to deliver a memorandum to mine management and to ensure that workers had not reported for duty. Miners are refusing to return to work until their demands over low pay and working conditions are met. Strikes are spreading to nearby gold mines. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)South African police fired stun grenades to disperse striking miners Friday, acting hours after President Jacob Zuma's government vowed to halt illegal protests and disarm strikers it fears are threatening the country's biggest industry.

New round of quantitative easing biggest yet?

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:32 PM PDT

The Federal Reserve building is seen in WashingtonCHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve's third round of bond-buying could ultimately rival the size of its first huge quantitative easing, which was widely seen as boosting growth. The sheer scale of the program and the radical shift in policy it marks will shape the legacy of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, whose term may end before the buying is through. The Fed initially disappointed some investors on Thursday when it said it would buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities each month. ...
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