31 Jul 2010

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Ethics panel to charge California Rep. Waters (AP)

AP - A second House Democrat, Rep. Maxine Waters of California, could be facing an ethics trial this fall, further complicating the midterm election outlook for the party as it battles to hold onto its majority.

31 Jul 2010 9:06am GMT

Ariz. governor considers changing immigration law (AP)

Arizona Republicans Gov. Jan Brewer, left, and Sen. John McCain abruptly end a news conference in Glendale, Ariz., Friday, July 30, 2010. Brewer and McCain held the news conference in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale to applaud a U.S. Air Force decision to base new F-35 combat jets at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, but the event abruptly ended when the barrage of questions were regarding the Arizona immigration law and the next steps the governor was taking in the court battle.. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - A federal appeals court has decided not to step into the controversy over Arizona's tough immigration law until November, leaving state officials to consider other steps they might take in the meantime.


31 Jul 2010 7:39am GMT

Agency weighs skirting Congress on immigration (AP)

Felipa Solario pauses as she cries while telling her story of having her husband, an illegal immigrant, taken away by authorities some months ago, while she joined hundreds at a solidarity rally at St. Matthews Church to protest the provisions of the new Arizona immigration law that went into effect Thursday, July 29, 2010 in Phoenix, the day after portions of Arizona's SB1070 went into effect, but after a federal judge struck down some of the law's provisions. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - The Obama administration, unable to push an immigration overhaul through Congress, is considering ways it could go around lawmakers to let undocumented immigrants stay in the United States, according to an agency memo.


31 Jul 2010 1:30am GMT

30 Jul 2010

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Newman, Hamlin say they were fined by NASCAR (AP)

Drivers Ryan Newman, left, and Jamie McMurray laugh during a break in practice for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pennsylvania 500 auto race, Friday, July 30, 2010, in Long Pond, Pa. (AP Photo/Russ Hamilton Jr.)AP - Asked the amount of his NASCAR fine, Ryan Newman kept quiet.


30 Jul 2010 10:11pm GMT

NM governor considers pardon for Billy the Kid (AP)

Susannah Floyd Garrett, left, and her brother Jarvis Patrick Garrett, grandchildren of frontier lawman Pat Garrett, pose for photos Thursday, July 29, 2010 at the La Posada Hotel in Santa Fe, N.M. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is considering granting a posthumous pardon to Billy the Kid, angering descendants of Pat Garrett who call it an insult to recognize such a violent outlaw. (AP Photo/Sergio Salvador)AP - The showdown between Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid has fascinated the American public for nearly 130 years with its classic, Old West storyline of the frontier lawman hunting down the notorious gunslinger.


30 Jul 2010 9:41pm GMT

Google Cries Wolf as Outage Disrupts China Operations (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - After assuming the worst with its China operations, Google on Thursday evening backed off accusations of censorship in the communist nation. Google said earlier Thursday that the Chinese government was blocking its search engine, Google Mobile, and Google Ad products. Google also said its news and image services were being "partially blocked."

30 Jul 2010 9:01pm GMT

Inmate sues man he's convicted of burglarizing (AP)

AP - A Florida inmate is suing the man he's convicted of burglarizing, claiming the man and two others roughed him up during a citizen's arrest. Michael Dupree is serving a 12-year sentence for burglary and cocaine possession stemming from a 2007 break-in of a van in St. Petersburg. Dupree allegedly stole a bicycle locked inside and was apprehended after the owner, Anthony McKoy, saw him with the bike down the street.

30 Jul 2010 7:13pm GMT

Knicks' Stoudemire in Israel to trace Hebrew roots (AP)

FILE - In this July 8, 2010 file photo New York Knicks' Amare Stoudemire holds up a jersey during a news conference in New York. According to Stoudemire's agent, the five-time All-Star arrived in Israel Wednesday July 28, 2010 for a weeklong visit to learn about the country and explore its religions. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, Files)AP - Amare Stoudemire already knows some Hebrew phrases and sports a Star of David tattoo. Now he's come to Israel to explore what might be his Jewish heritage.


30 Jul 2010 5:49pm GMT

Tea Parties, Glenn Beck Protest Six Flags' Muslim Day (The Atlantic Wire)

The Atlantic Wire - Since 2000, the theme-park chain Six Flags has held an annual "Muslim Family Day" at its Chicago park. The event, co-sponsored with the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), includes halal food and modestly dressed entertainment for local Islamic families. This year, it falls on September 12. The timing, along with the ongoing controversy over the proposed Islamic cultural center planned for lower Manhattan, has made this year's Muslim Family Day a cause célèbre for a handful of Tea Party members and certain Fox News pundits. Here's what they have to say and how observers are reacting.

30 Jul 2010 5:06pm GMT

Priest who blessed Morales found with cocaine (Reuters)

Reuters - The Aymara priest who blessed Bolivian President Evo Morales at an inauguration ceremony four years ago has been arrested in possession of 530 pounds (240 kg) of cocaine, police said Thursday.

30 Jul 2010 4:42pm GMT

US expert: China oil spill far bigger than stated (AP)

In this photo taken on Sunday, July 25, 2010, a worker cleans up the oil at the Nantuo Fishing Harbor after the oil spill in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province. An American oil spill expert says China's worst-known oil spill is far larger than the government has reported. China's government has said 1,500 tons of oil spilled after an explosion two weeks ago near the northeastern city of Dalian. But Rick Steiner estimates that 60,000 to 90,000 tons spilled into the Yellow Sea. He says the spill is at least as large as the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster in Alaska. (AP Photo)**CHINA OUT**AP - China's worst known oil spill is dozens of times larger than the government has reported - bigger than the famous Exxon Valdez spill two decades ago - and some of the oil was dumped deliberately to avoid further disaster, an American expert said Friday.


30 Jul 2010 4:07pm GMT

'Cracking the Code' to Keeping Manufacturing Jobs in America (Huffington Post)

Huffington Post - Read Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com

30 Jul 2010 3:12pm GMT

Peas 'I Gotta Feeling' downloaded 6 million times (AP)

FILE - In this May 5, 2010 file photo, U.S. singer Fergie, right, and Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas performs at the O2 arena in east London. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file)AP - The Black Eyed Peas have more proof of the ubiquity of "I Gotta Feeling."


30 Jul 2010 2:02pm GMT

Sandra Bullock wants out of Gulf restoration video (AP)

FILE - In this March 7, 2010 file photo, Sandra Bullock arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, Calif. A spokeswoman for Sandra Bullock says the actress wants her parts of a video promoting Gulf Coast restoration removed until she learns whether oil companies influenced it. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)AP - A spokeswoman for Sandra Bullock says the actress wants her parts of a video promoting Gulf Coast restoration removed until she learns whether oil companies influenced it.


30 Jul 2010 1:58pm GMT

Kerry says he mishandled furor over yacht taxes (AP)

'Isabel,' the 76-foot yacht owned by Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, is undergoing repairs at the Hinckley shipyard in Portsmouth, R.I., Friday, July 23, 2010. Kerry is docking his family's new $7 million yacht in neighboring Newport, R.I., allowing him to avoid paying roughly $500,000 in taxes to the cash-strapped Bay State. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - Sen. John Kerry said he always intended to pay taxes in Massachusetts on his $7 million yacht but conceded he mishandled the public furor over his decision to dock the vessel in tax-free Rhode Island.


30 Jul 2010 1:52pm GMT

China overtakes Japan as No.2 economy: FX chief (Reuters)

Migrant labourers work at a construction site for a railway in Shanghai July 27, 2010. REUTERS/Aly SongReuters - China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.


30 Jul 2010 1:40pm GMT