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Friday, May 10, 2013

Judge in NYC refuses to suspend his Plan B ruling

Judge in NYC refuses to suspend his Plan B ruling

Judge in NYC refuses to suspend his Plan B ruling

Posted: 10 May 2013 01:05 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Friday refused to delay enforcement of his decision giving women of all ages broad access to morning-after birth control, calling the government's appeal frivolous, a "silly argument" and an insult to the intelligence of women.

4 pit bulls blamed for S. Calif. jogger's killing

Posted: 10 May 2013 01:05 PM PDT

PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — A pack of dogs remained under quarantine at a Mojave Desert shelter on Friday as investigators tried to determine whether they were involved in a mauling that killed a jogger.

Cleveland suspect was a 'monster,' relatives say

Posted: 10 May 2013 01:04 PM PDT

Elida Caraballo talks about the abuse her late sister, Grimilda Figueroa, suffered at the hands of her common law husband, Ariel Castro, during an interview at her home in Cleveland Thursday, May 9, 2013. Castro has been charged with kidnapping and rape for holding three women captive for a decade in his Cleveland home. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)CLEVELAND (AP) — Ariel Castro, the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home in Cleveland, kept a life-size mannequin in the house and liked to use it to scare people.

Major players in Pakistan's May 11 election

Posted: 10 May 2013 01:03 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A look at several key players in Pakistan's national election scheduled for May 11:

Oil down slightly on rising dollar, OPEC output

Posted: 10 May 2013 01:03 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil finished slightly lower Friday, after dropping 3 percent earlier in the day.

Key events in Pakistan's political history

Posted: 10 May 2013 01:03 PM PDT

A chronology of key events in Pakistan's history:

CBS anchor Pelley: Journalism's house is on fire

Posted: 10 May 2013 01:00 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Top CBS News anchor Scott Pelley says a recent rash of mistakes shows journalism's house is on fire.

NYC weighs allowing many immigrants to vote

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:59 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Agha Saleh came to the United States inspired by democratic ideals, but it took him years to achieve a basic one here: voting.

Texas launches criminal probe into plant explosion

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 2, 2013, file photo investigators move and look through the debris of the destroyed fertilizer plant in West, Texas. Texas law enforcement officials launched a criminal investigation Friday, May 10, 2013, into the massive explosion last month that killed 14 people. (AP Photo/LM Otero, Pool)WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.

Palestinians chose a new president _ on reality TV

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:57 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013 photo, A Palestinian contestant Jihad al-Jabari, on the screen live from the Gaza Strip, interacts with the judges during the taping of the program "The President" in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. "The President" is broadcast weekly on Maan TV, a popular independent Palestinian TV station. It offers contestants a chance to address the Palestinian people on what they would do on a variety of subjects if elected president. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinians haven't elected a president since 2005, but now they are finally getting a chance to do so — virtually — thanks to a hit reality TV show.

Boston bomb suspect buried in Virginia cemetery

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2010, photo, Tamerlan Tsarnaev smiles after accepting the trophy for winning the 2010 New England Golden Gloves Championship in Lowell, Mass. Tsarnaev is the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who was killed in a police shootout. His uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, told The Associated Press Friday, May 10, 2013, that the body was buried in Virginia with the help of a DOSWELL, Va. (AP) — Officials say they will examine whether all laws were followed in carrying out the hushed burial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Virginia.

Pennsylvania student charged in nude pope-parody

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:56 PM PDT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Carnegie Mellon University student was charged Friday with indecent exposure by campus police after a Catholic bishop complained about her parading nude from the waist down while dressed as the pope.

Pakistan set for historic, unpredictable election

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:55 PM PDT

Supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf or Moment for Justice party attend an election campaign rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Pakistan is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections on May 11, the first transition between democratically elected governments in a country that has experienced three military coups and constant political instability since its creation in 1947. The parliament's ability to complete its five-year term has been hailed as a significant achievement. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)ISLAMABAD (AP) — Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, Pakistan holds historic elections Saturday pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for power blackouts and inflation.

House to probe IRS targeting conservative groups: Cantor

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:52 PM PDT

U.S. House Majority Leader Cantor takes part in a panel discussion titled "The Awesome Responsibility of Leadership" at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, CaliforniaWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led House of Representatives will investigate the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups during last year's election campaign, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said on Friday. "The IRS cannot target or intimidate any individual or organization based on their political beliefs. The House will investigate this matter," Cantor said. (Reporting By Thomas Ferraro; editing by Christopher Wilson)

White House: Wrong for IRS to target tea party

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:51 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says it was inappropriate for the Internal Revenue Service to target tea party groups for additional reviews during last year's presidential election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.

Nations agree to new chemical ban, export controls

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:51 PM PDT

In this photo provided by Bayer CropScience, a trailer with six tanks holding hydrogen chloride is parked at the Bayer CropScience facility near Lubbock, Texas, in early May 2013. Hazardous materials experts were working Thursday to drain the leaking tank into a recovery tank. The leak forced the evacuation of about 100 families beginning Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The mandatory and voluntary evacuation was lifted late Thursday. An official said it will take up to two days to drain the tank. (AP Photo/Bayer CropScience, Monty Christian) NO SALESGENEVA (AP) — A summit on chemicals and hazardous wastes ended Friday with an agreement to globally phase out a widely used flame retardant and to accept stricter requirements for disclosing information about exports of four other chemicals.

DNA shows Ohio kidnapping suspect fathered girl

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:51 PM PDT

Culema Nevarez adds balloons to a growing tribute outside the home of Gina DeJesus in Cleveland, Friday, May 10, 2013. DeJesus was freed Monday from the home of Ariel Castro where she and two other women had been held captive for nearly a decade. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)CLEVELAND (AP) — A DNA test confirmed another dark twist in the story of three women imprisoned in a house for about a decade: Kidnapping and rape suspect Ariel Castro is the father of a 6-year-old girl who escaped from the house along with the women, a prosecutor said Friday.

MLB acknowledges 2nd umpire mistake in 2 days

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:51 PM PDT

Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia questions the umpires on a Houston Astros pitching change in the seventh inning of a baseball game Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball admitted Friday that umpires made a mistake for the second straight day, this time when they messed up by allowing Astros manager Bo Porter to switch relievers in the middle of an inning.

Search ongoing for dead Kansas woman's daughter

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:48 PM PDT

Law enforcement officials search the surrounding area of a farm in rural Ottawa, Kan., on horseback Thursday May 9, 2013, for a baby belonging to one of the victims of Monday's triple homicide. Authorities in eastern Kansas said Thursday they have arrested a 27-year-old suspect in the deaths of three people whose bodies were found at a farm, and that a fourth victim — an 18-month-old girl — is presumed dead. (AP Photo/The Topeka Capital Journal, Chris Neal)OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) — Crews on foot, horseback and all-terrain vehicles resumed their search Friday for an 18-month-old girl who is presumed dead after the bodies of her mother and two men were found at an eastern Kansas farm.

Republicans slam IRS on 'Tea Party' targeting

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:47 PM PDT

Women walk out of an Internal Revenue Service office in New YorkBy Patrick Temple-West and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers blasted the Internal Revenue Service on Friday after a top IRS official apologized for "inappropriate" targeting by the agency of applications for tax-exempt status from conservative political groups. In a practice that conservatives complained about during the 2012 election campaign, organizations that used the words "patriots" or "Tea Party" in their tax-exempt status filings were flagged by the IRS for further review. ...

Icahn, Southeastern challenge Dell takeover plan

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:46 PM PDT

FILE - Dell founder Michael Dell, left, in a Jan. 26, 2011 file photo, and Carl Icahn, in an Oct. 7, 2007 file photo, are seen in a combination photo. Dell's largest independent shareholder has teamed with activist investor Icahn in another challenge to Michael Dell's $24.4 billion bid to take the struggling computer maker private. Southeastern Asset Management and Icahn said in a letter sent Thursday, May 9, 2013 to the Dell Inc. board that they want to let shareholders keep their stock and give them either $12 per share in cash or additional shares in a deal that keeps the company publicly traded. An investment group led by Michael Dell offered earlier this year to pay $13.65 per share in a deal that would take the company private. Southeastern and Icahn criticized that proposal in a scathing letter to Dell's board outlining their latest offer. (AP Photos/Dell-Virginia Mayo, Icahn-Mark Lennihan)One of the biggest critics of Michael Dell's plan to take the company he founded private has launched a fresh challenge to that $24.4 billion bid and says the slumping PC maker needs new leadership.

FAA to keep 149 air traffic towers open

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:45 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration has sufficient funds to keep 149 low activity contract towers originally slated for closure in June open for the remainder of fiscal year 2013, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement. LaHood said the FAA would also put $10 million towards reducing cuts and delays in a new air traffic control program that is being installed around the country, and planned to use an additional $11 million of its funding to partially restore its support of infrastructure in the national airspace system. ...

Bloomberg bars reporters from client log-in data

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:43 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Financial data and news company Bloomberg LP said Friday that it had cut off its journalists' access to client log-in data on the company's ubiquitous trading information terminals after Goldman Sachs complained about the matter last month.

Calif. jogger killed by pit bulls identified

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:43 PM PDT

PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — Southern California authorities have released the name of a jogger who was killed by pit bulls in a Mojave Desert community.

Obama declared health care law 'is here to stay'

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:41 PM PDT

President Barack Obama tours Applied Materials Inc., with Rick Gesing, left, Mike Splinter, center, and Mary Humiston, right, during a visit to the facilities in Austin, Texas, Thursday, May 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Pool)WASHINGTON (AP) — Caught between nervous Democrats and emboldened Republicans, President Barack Obama on Friday stepped up the sales pitch on his health care overhaul as the final elements of his top domestic achievement go into effect. With his legacy and the law's success at stake, Obama said: "The law is here to stay."

Actavis, Warner Chilcott discussing combination

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:39 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The drugmakers Actavis Inc. and Warner Chilcott PLC say they are holding early discussions about a possible combination of the two companies.

Grandson of Malcolm X dies in Mexico

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:37 PM PDT

FILE - In July 29, 1999 file photo, Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of political activist Malcolm X, leaves Family Court in Yonkers, N.Y., after a detention hearing. In 1997, Shabazz, then 12, set a fire at the Yonkers home of his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, Malcolm Xís widow. She died from severe burns. U.S. officials say Shabazz was killed Thursday, May 10, 2013 in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, File)MEXICO CITY (AP) — A friend says the grandson of political activist Malcolm X died after he was beaten up during a dispute over a bill at a Mexico City bar.

April surplus of $113B lowers US budget deficit

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:37 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government reported a rare surplus of $113 billion for April — the largest in five years and a sign of the nation's improving finances.

U.S. cancels plan to close control towers at smaller airports

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:36 PM PDT

Air traffic control tower is seen through a window as construction workers work on the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International AirportWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday canceled budget-driven plans to close 149 air traffic control towers at smaller U.S. airports, two weeks after Congress passed legislation to end furloughs of air traffic controllers. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said federal officials determined the legislation gave the FAA enough flexibility to keep funding the towers, which had been scheduled to be shut down in June for several months to save money. ...

Prominent youth activist detained in Egypt

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:36 PM PDT

Egyptians chant slogans as a man burns the Israeli flag during an anti-Israel protest held after the Friday noon prayer at Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 10, 2013. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood staged an anti-Israel rally in Cairo on Friday, the first such protest by the main backers of President Mohammed Morsi since they rose to prominence in the wake of the country's 2011 uprising. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's prosecutor general ordered a prominent youth leader to be detained on Friday for four days pending an investigation into accusations he incited anti-government violence, a security official said, in the latest case of a pro-democracy activist being held over similar charges.

Garcia goes 1 up on Tiger at Players Championship

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:31 PM PDT

Tiger Woods pumps his fist as his ball goes in the cup for birdie on the ninth hole during the second round of The Players championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass, Friday, May 10, 2013 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Woods shot 5-under-par for the round, for a two-day score of 10-under par. (AP Photo/John Raoux)PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sergio Garcia had one of those stretches where it felt like every putt was going to drop. He needed every one of them Friday for a 7-under 65 to match his best score on the TPC Sawgrass and take a one-shot lead over Tiger Woods among early starters at The Players Championship.

Greenhouse gas milestone; CO2 levels set record

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:30 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air have hit a milestone of 400 parts per million.

Prince Harry salutes war dead at Arlington

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:24 PM PDT

Wearing his British Army uniform, Britain's Prince Harry visits with wounded warriors undergoing physical therapy at the Military Advanced Training Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., just outside Washington, Friday, May 10, 2013. At right is Staff Sgt. Timothy Payne who lost his legs in an IED explosion in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)WASHINGTON (AP) — Britain's Prince Harry saluted America's war dead in somber remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, pausing, too, to place flowers on the tombstone of President John F. Kennedy and visit the grave of a British World War II hero buried far from home.

America's Cup boat nosedived, broke into pieces

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2008, file photo, gold medalist Andrew Simpson,of Britain, smiles during the medal ceremony for the Star class sailing competition of the 2008 Beijing Olympics in Qingdao, China, about 720 kilometers southeast of Beijing. Simpson died the Thursday, May 9, 2013, when Artemis Racing's AC72 catamaran, an America's Cup entry from Sweden, capsized during training in San Francisco Bay, trapping him underwater. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski, File)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The America's Cup catamaran that capsized in San Francisco Bay, killing an Olympic gold medalist, nosedived during a difficult maneuver and broke into many pieces, an official said Friday.

Benghazi emails put pressure on White House

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:22 PM PDT

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protestBy Paul Eckert and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration denied Republican accusations of a cover-up in last year's deadly attack in Libya, moving on Friday to defuse a renewed political controversy after a news report said memos on the incident were edited to omit references to a CIA warning of an al Qaeda threat. ABC News reported emails between the White House, State Department and intelligence agencies about the Benghazi attack went through 12 extensive revisions and were scrubbed clean of warnings about a militant threat. ...

Slayer: Guitarist Hanneman died of cirrhosis

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:19 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Members of Slayer say Jeff Hanneman died of alcohol-related cirrhosis.

US high school choir will back Rolling Stones

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:13 PM PDT

This May 3, 2013 file photo shows Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones performing on the kickoff of the band's "50 and Counting" tour at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The Green Valley High School choir in Henderson, Nev., will join the Stones at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, May 11, for the encore performance of their hit song, "You Can't Always Get What You Want.'" (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)LAS VEGAS (AP) — You can't always get what you want. Unless, perhaps, you're a member of the Green Valley High School choir and you want a chance to sing onstage with the Rolling Stones.

US forces in Europe on alert due to Libya unrest

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:11 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Marines and other U.S. forces in Europe are on a heightened state of alert in response to a deteriorating security situation in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, a U.S. military official said Friday.

Obama says health care law 'here to stay'

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:05 PM PDT

President Barack Obama tours Applied Materials Inc., with Rick Gesing, left, Mike Splinter, center, and Mary Humiston, right, during a visit to the facilities in Austin, Texas, Thursday, May 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Pool)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is rallying support for his health care law, saying the law has already provided an array of benefits and will now give those without insurance a chance to obtain it.

Some have survived many days after calamities

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:04 PM PDT

Reshma Begum's survival for 17 days without medical assistance in the collapsed eight-floor garment factory building in Bangladesh isn't the only remarkable story of perseverance in recent years:
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