 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| In the News : |
 |
|
Obama plunges into econ talks, predicts approval
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_congress"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.8573e36d70774a8a8d2ccf9ecca8b887.obama_dcgh104.jpg?x=125&y=130&q=85&sig=m1F0ygHQLeIV22tS2uTMuA--" align="left" height="130" width="125" alt="President-elect Barack Obama meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)" border="0" /></a>AP - President-elect Barack Obama plunged into rare pre-inaugural crisis talks with congressional leaders Monday, declaring the national economy was "bad and getting worse" and embracing tax cuts now expected to reach $300 billion. He predicted lawmakers would approve a mammoth revitalization package within two weeks of his taking office.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
Obama's intel picks short on direct experience
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_spy_agencies"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.fd56564ee02e43dca50285d057f3c73f.panetta_cia_wx113.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=tls.W6EcP1YHt46vAM0y4w--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="In this Sept. 27, 1996 file photo, then-White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Barack Obama has selected Panetta to head the CIA, according to an Obama transition official. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - President-elect Barack Obama's decision to fill the nation's top intelligence jobs with two men short on direct experience in intelligence gathering surprised the spy community and signaled the Democrat's intention for a clean break from Bush administration policies.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
Group sues to force EPA to clean up Chesapeake Bay
(AP)
| AP - A conservation group filed a federal lawsuit Monday to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to enforce the law and clean up the polluted Chesapeake Bay, citing 25 years of failure to restore the nation's largest estuary.
more... |
Gaza civilian toll rises; diplomats seek truce
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.d9e2262bbe7a49228fdffbb03a45686b.mideast_israel_palestinians_jrl156.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=9at9UDGZwi5db.utvKsc7Q--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Palestinians carry the bodies of three toddlers Ahmed, Mohamed, and Issa Samouni, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, killing at least seven children as they pressed a bruising offensive against Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)" border="0" /></a>AP - GAZA CITY, Gaza — Israel ignored mounting international calls for a cease-fire Monday and said it won't stop its crippling 10-day assault until "peace and tranquility" are achieved in southern Israeli towns in the line of Palestinian rocket fire.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
Congressmen sound off against SEC in Madoff affair
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_go_co/house_madoff"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.1443ff7d9c1d4bf2a10426ab2fdcd3db.madoff_hearing_wx101.jpg?x=96&y=130&q=85&sig=zlPTT8we1HvyqJEQwIAsLA--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="In this Dec. 17, 2008 file photo, Bernard Madoff, chairman of Madoff Investment Securities, returns to his Manhattan apartment after making a court appearance in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow,File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Republican and Democratic House members said Monday that the alleged $50 billion fraud involving Wall Street figure Bernard Madoff reflects deep, systemic problems at the Securities and Exchange Commission.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
Calls to use oil as weapon in Gaza fight fall flat
(AP)
| AP - The call to use oil as a weapon against Israel's friends once would have echoed in capitals across the Middle East and struck fear in the West's heart. But even as the crisis in Gaza deepens, threats of an embargo by some officials in Iran and Bahrain are falling flat.
more... |
Chrysler sales drop 53 pct; others not much better
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_bi_ge/auto_sales"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.7fcd554ece014e70932f4314b0561460.auto_sales_chyrsler_codz120.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=z87gMa4R2.RqMsHqghKXLg--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Unsold 2008 Compasses and Grand Cherokees sit at a Chrysler/Jeep dealership in the west Denver suburb of Golden, Colo., on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008. Chrysler said Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, its December U.S. sales plunged 53 percent, blaming a tough economy with driving customers from showrooms. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)" border="0" /></a>AP - Chrysler LLC's December U.S. sales plunged by more than half and it sold 30 percent fewer vehicles in 2008, dwarfing the steep declines at the other major automakers as consumers remained uncertain about the economy and their jobs.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
Crystal, china maker Waterford Wedgwood collapses
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_britain_waterford_wedgwood"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20090105/capt.cps.ors46.050109113742.photo00.photo.default-512x331.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=_cvh8BCPlGhpKu_R2N9jpg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="File photo shows a Wedgwood china coffee cup under the weight of a 1.6-tonne Jaguar car during a promotional event. Waterford Wedgwood, the maker of china and glass, said Monday that some of its businesses were close to bankruptcy as trading in the group's shares was suspended here.(AFP/File/Kim Jae-Hwan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Waterford Wedgwood PLC, the maker of classic china and crystal, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday after attempts to restructure the struggling business or find a buyer failed.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
India gives Pakistan evidence over Mumbai attacks
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_india"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20090105/capt.cps.orr82.050109083859.photo00.photo.default-512x335.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=NDbm9V7zel6zbLpXuwHUDQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="India on Monday handed to Pakistan what it said was evidence linking the country to the Islamic militants who attacked Mumbai in November, Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said.(AFP/File/Rouf Bhat)" border="0" /></a>AP - India handed Pakistan detailed evidence on the Mumbai attacks on Monday that included information on interrogations, weapons, and data gleaned from satellite phones that officials said proved Pakistani "elements" were behind the deadly siege.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
US inaugurates $700 million embassy in Iraq
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.f3f5d42311b84044a69b29450c503f01.iraq_us_embassy_bag107.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=QbFRkxw1cmf0WsThqR7wsg--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, right, and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani look on during a ceremony marking the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. The embassy in Baghdad is one of the largest U.S. embassies in the world. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)" border="0" /></a>AP - The United States inaugurated its largest embassy ever on Monday, a fortress-like compound in the heart of the Green Zone — and the most visible sign of what U.S. officials call a new chapter in relations between America and a more sovereign Iraq.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
Diamonds suggest comets caused killer cold spell
(Reuters)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090104/sc_nm/us_diamonds_comet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20090105/2009_01_04t175222_450x450_us_diamonds_comet.jpg?x=130&y=130&q=85&sig=7PvEmLAFqX1CYVJusrooUg--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="A view of a comet shot by the Deep Space 1 spacecraft September 22, 2001. (NASA/JPL/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Tiny diamonds sprinkled across North America suggest a "swarm" of comets hit the Earth around 13,000 years ago, kicking up enough disruption to send the planet into a cold spell and drive mammoths and other creatures into extinction, scientists reported on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
Autopsy completed on Travolta's son
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_bahamas_travolta_s_son"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.24e4b4e64294429989ad9928ef37a9e7.travolta_s_son_nyet643.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=iAVeNMlSvXcZmvQ37eHmVQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this image released by Rogers & Cowan public relations, actor John Travolta is shown with his son Jett in an undated family photo. (AP Photo/Rogers & Cowan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Doctors in the Bahamas conducted an autopsy Monday on John Travolta's 16-year-old son, but authorities did not immediately disclose the results.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
Burris says he's ready to take US Senate seat
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_re_us/senate_burris"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.44afcb21e9fa481e9a110e337a92b537.senate_burris_ilmg107.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=WORUjnn7FD8elYhe94IvDg--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Illinois U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris holds a news conference at Chicago's Midway airport Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, before leaving for Washington for a high-stakes showdown on Capitol Hill about whether he'll succeed President-elect Barack Obama in Congress. Burris was appointed last week by embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)" border="0" /></a>AP - Defiant and upbeat, Illinois U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris said Monday that upon arriving in Washington, he plans to tell Democratic leaders: "I'm here to take my seat." But Burris faces an uphill battle on Capitol Hill, where his fellow Democrats have pledged not to accept anyone appointed by embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich to fill the seat left vacant by Barack Obama's election as president.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
Franken on top in Minn. recount; Coleman to sue
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_el_se/minnesota_senate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.692ebf2477ea445b8ce9433f037e07a2.minnesota_senate_ny108.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=UUAs_EbfyTGn9xJQJe4qqA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="In a Sept. 23, 2008 file photo Democratic candidate for the Minnesota Senate Al Franken makes remarks at the National Jewish Democratic Council in Washington. The Minnesota state Canvassing Board is expected to certify the results of the re-count of the race between Franken and Republican incumbant Norm Coleman, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson/file)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Minnesota board on Monday certified results showing Democrat Al Franken winning the state's U.S. Senate recount over Republican Norm Coleman, whose lawyer promised a legal challenge that probably will keep the race in limbo for months.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
Milky Way — the galaxy — not snack-sized anymore
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_sc/sci_milky_way"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.94b8f6c62a2e4b9581ac32fc40a974a0.milky_way_wx111.jpg?x=127&y=130&q=85&sig=gZs8D3U.T_MGUH5kHa4Pcw--" align="left" height="130" width="127" alt="This undated hand out artist rendering provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows the latest view of the Milky Way's structure. Our Milky Way galaxy may not be the snack-sized collection of stars astronomers have long thought it was. (AP Photo/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Robert Hurt, Mark Reid)" border="0" /></a>AP - Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore. The Milky Way is considerably larger, bulkier and spinning faster than astronomers once thought, Andromeda's equal.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
U.S. seeks to revoke Madoff bail
(Reuters)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090105/bs_nm/us_madoff_bail"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20090106/2009_01_05t165839_450x315_us_madoff_bail.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=i.SKbtxtdi7oS8pTIANBTQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Bernard Madoff is escorted from Federal Court in New York January 5, 2009. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. prosecutors asked a judge to revoke the bail terms for alleged swindler Bernard Madoff and detain him on Monday, claiming he was a flight risk.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
Surprise Star Formation Found Near Black Hole
(SPACE.com)
| SPACE.com - LONG BEACH, Calif. — Two embryonic stars discoveredjust a few light years away from the Milky Way's center show that stars canform in the potentially destructive reach of the powerful black hole at ourgalaxy's center.
more... |
Obama says economy 'getting worse'
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_stimulus"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20090105/i/r959581346.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=7wbLk9CSyTh1bxUzFZSY1g--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Former Illinois attorney general and senate appointee Roland Burris, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's choice to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama, speaks to the media at BWI airport on his way to Washington DC, in Baltimore, Maryland, January 5, 2009. REUTERS/Molly Riley (UNITED STATES)" border="0" /></a>AP - President-elect Barack Obama describes the economy as "bad and getting worse."</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
Obama picks Leon Panetta to head CIA
(AP)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_director"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090105/capt.fd56564ee02e43dca50285d057f3c73f.panetta_cia_wx113.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=tls.W6EcP1YHt46vAM0y4w--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="In this Sept. 27, 1996 file photo, then-White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Barack Obama has selected Panetta to head the CIA, according to an Obama transition official. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Two Democratic officials say President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to run the CIA. Panetta was a surprise pick for the post, with no experience in the intelligence world. An Obama transition official and another Democrat disclosed his nomination on a condition of anonymity since it was not yet public.</p><br clear="all"/>
more... |
Airlines sue FAA over crew rest rules
(AP)
| AP - Several of the nation's largest airlines have joined in a lawsuit to block stronger federal rules on crew rest during the longest international flights.
more... |
|
|
|
|