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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency took steps Wednesday to control the emissions blamed for global warming from power plants, factories and refineries for the first time. The EPA proposal would require polluters to reduce six greenhouse gases by installing the best available technology and improving energy efficiency whenever a facility is significantly changed or built. The rule applies to any industrial plant that emits at least 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year. These large sources are responsible for 70 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions — mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels — that are released in the U.S., the EPA said. "By using the power and authority of the Clean Air Act, we can begin reducing emissions from the nation's largest greenhouse gas emitting facilities without placing an undue burden on the businesses that make up the vast majority of our economy," EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said. "We know the corner coff ... Read more » |
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The United States and five other world powers went to the table with Tehran Thursday to discuss its nuclear program, but senior administration officials said the U.S. would not push for sanctions against Iran at the Geneva talks and is prepared to talk one-on-one with Iranian negotiators if such engagement appears "useful." The officials also said that
while gaining access to inspect Iran's uranium enrichment facility near Qom is "critically important," the U.S. won't walk
away from negotiations if Iran refuses. The talks were expected to last the full day. If the leader of the U.S. delegation, William Burns, decides direct talks with Iran would move U.S. objectives forward ... Read more » |
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President Obama met with his national security team Wednesday but did not make a decision on America's reshaped military strategy for the Afghanistan war. The meeting -- the first of a series of sessions -- took place in the Situation Room as the White House fended off charges that the president has been stalling on Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for more troops. Obama will not make any decision on an Afghan strategy for at least a few weeks, the White House announced Wednesday night. Obama will reportedly meet again with his national security team to discuss Afghanistan and Pakistan on Oct. 7. Wednesday's closed-door meeting marked the first time the president has had any interaction with McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, since the general made the request for up to 40,000 troops. Obama spent three hours meeting with staff, according to a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The offic ... Read more » |
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When it comes to national security, President Obama has a surprising amount of support from the right. Despite a recent outbreak of conservative-led criticism toward Obama's handling of the Afghanistan war, the Democratic president has won plaudits from Republicans for his leadership on military matters. They roundly reject his economic, environmental, health care and regulatory policies. But until two weeks ago, when Obama demurred at sending more troops to Afghanistan, conservatives largely applauded his conduct of the war -- particularly his early deployment of 17,000 troops and his replacement of Gen. David McKiernan with Gen. Stanley McChrystal. "He moved much more rapidly to replace a commander he was dissatisfied with, who was not performing well, than Bush did in his tenure, and all of that looked very good and very promising," said Frederick Kagan, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Karl Rove, former adv ... Read more » |
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Up against a midnight deadline to avoid a government shutdown, the Senate passed legislation Wednesday that temporarily would extend spending on most federal programs at current levels while raising Congress' budget by 6 percent. The measure, approved by a 62-38 vote that sends it to President Obama's desk, would keep the government open for one more month. Obama is virtually certain to sign it before day's end. The legislation also would patch over problems in the struggling postal service and pay for soon-to-expire highway programs for an additional month as well. The stopgap measure is needed because Congress has failed to complete work on the 11 remaining spending bills for agency budgets. The community activist group ACORN was in line for another hit as Democrats added language saying the organization could not receive federal dollars under the stopgap measure or any prior legislation. ACORN has received federal funds for providing counseling to homeowner ... Read more » |
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Liberal Democrats failed twice on Tuesday to include a government-run insurance option in the legislation before the committee, the last of five congressional panels completing work on the president's top domestic priority. Once touted by Obama as essential in "keeping insurance companies honest," the government plan was blasted by Senate Republicans and moderate Democrats, some of whom argued it would lead to a single-payer system. The vote to strike down two separate amendments underscored the disagreement among Democrats over the necessity of a public option. Whether Obama will continue to fight for it remains to be s ... Read more » |
The fate of a government-run health insurance plan may rest in President Obama's hands after the Senate Finance Committee
rejected amendments that would include the so-called "public option" in its version of health care reform legislation.|
Police on Long Island, N.Y., said it wasn't clear if the boy was building an explosive device or playing with one when it went off Monday night in the basement of his house in North Babylon. The teen's hand was severely injured in the 8 p.m. explosion and he was taken to the hospital. A police arson squad and federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were called to the house and remained there through the night conducting their investigation. The family declined to comment. |
NORTH BABYLON,
N.Y. — A 17-year-old boy was injured in an explosion inside his New
York home after police say he may have been building or playing with a
bomb.|
Sheley made the statement Tuesday to Judge James Stewart while in court for a hearing on a defense request to dismiss 16 of the 17 counts against Sheley in the killing of 65-year-old Ronald Randall of Galesburg in June 2008. The judge responded by asking defense attorney John Hanlon if he wanted to discuss the plea with Sheley now or later. The defense said later. The judge says he'll want proof the defense has discussed the issue with Sheley. Stewart then denied the defense request to dismiss the counts. In addition to Randall, Shele ... Read more » |
GALESBURG, Ill. — Accused spree killer Nicholas Sheley has told a Knox County judge that he wants to enter a guilty plea.
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NORMAN, Okla. — A Norman zoo director says a 3-year-old boy was not seriously injured when he was clawed by a 45-pound European lynx after the child approached a chain link fence enclosing the cat. Janet Schmid, director of the Little River Zoo, said Tuesday the boy suffered superficial wounds on the side of his head in the incident about 3 p.m. Monday. She said the cat has been placed in an inside enclosure, and a solid fence has been erected to keep the public away from its outside area. The outside area is a chain link enclosure, including a fenced-in top. She said the boy was looking at swans when, following his sister, he left a path at the zoo, went through a rope barrier, over a low railroad-tie retaining wall and up to the cat's fence. |
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STOCKTON, Calif. — The family of a retired California policeman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging a doctor abandoned attempts to save the man from a heart attack in order to steal his Rolex wristwatch. The doctor, 32-year-old Cleveland James Enmon of Hermosa Beach, Calif. is also facing grand theft charges in the case. Jerry Kubena Sr, a retired Manteca police lieutenant, died June 1 at St. Joseph's Medical Center. After he died, nurses noticed his watch missing and a watch bulge in Enmon's pocket, according to the 15-page civil lawsuit. The suit, filed by the Kubena's children, alleges that Enmon "formed the intent" to pocket their father's watch while treating him, and at that time the emergency room doctor "abandoned his efforts to resuscitate decedent, leaving decedent to die so that he would not be around to reclaim his wat ... Read more » |
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A body left decomposing in a hospital for four days was the result of "individual human error" rather than a breakdown in procedure, according to The Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia. A man's body was moved to a viewing room within the mortuary at the major teaching hospital and was left there for several days, Fairfax newspapers reported Tuesday. The body was found after staff investigated a bad smell. But the hospital said that, if staff had followed correct procedures, the incident would not have happened. "While the hospital has documented processes for the viewing of deceased persons, in this instance it was individual human error that caused the body to remain, inappropriately, in the viewing area,'' the hospital said in a statement. The worker involved in the incident was reprimanded and policies were being reinforced to staff, the hospital s ... Read more » |
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The towering burger is called the “Super Scooby.” It's 6-inches tall, weighs more than 3-pounds and packs a whopping 2,645 calories — more than the 2,550 recommended for men and much more than the 1,940 recommended for women. Spiros Lomvardos, who co-owns the Jolly Fryer fast food joint with his brother, Andreas, said the idea of the super-sized snack started out as a joke. “A few months ago, me and my brother and another gentleman, Karl Ford, who’s an employee, were sitting at work on a dead quiet night when we saw an ad from a well-known burger chain,” Lomvardos told FO ... Read more » |
Talk about a
super “Scooby” snack! A take-out restaurant in Bristol, England, is
serving up a burger so massive – it packs more calories than the
government recommends a man or woman eat in an entire day.|
Who are the world’s best and worst lovers? A new poll of 15,000 women found German men to be the worst because of their "smelly odor" with English lovers coming in a close second because they "let women do all the work." The poll, done by global research site www.onepoll.com, asked women from 20 countries to rate men on their abilities in bed and give reasons for their answers, the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph reported. Coming in third on the worst lovers list were Swedish men because the ladies said they were "a bit too quick", while men from Holland were deemed "too rough." As for American men, they rounded out the Top 5 on the worst lovers list due to their "dominating" ways in the bedroom. When it came to the best lovers in the world, Spanish men topped the list followed by Brazilians and Italians. |
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BISMARCK, N.D. — Amanda Klinger can remember when Bismarck and Mandan were not connected by a bridge, and people had to use a ferry boat to cross the Missouri River. Klinger celebrated her 105th birthday Monday in a Bismarck nursing home. She rooms with her 84-year-old daughter, Verdell. Her 91-year-old sister, Ruth Lindblum, also lives in the home. Amanda Klinger's parents came to the United States from Norway. She was born in 1904 on a farm near Elbow Lake, Minn., before the family homesteaded in North Dakota the following year, living in a sod house. She remembers growing up on the farm near Voltaire and later Turtle Lake, but farm life wasn't for her. She said she decided, "I'll never marry a farmer because I didn't want to live on a farm." Klinger has 14 great-great-grandchildren. She says she feels great. As for any advice, she says, "Liv ... Read more » |
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KATMANDU, Nepal — Police in Nepal say a church has collapsed in the eastern part of the country, killing at least 24 people and injuring an additional 62. Police official Arjun Khadka says several people were gathered in the eastern town of Dharan for a Christian conference and most of them were sleeping in the building when it collapsed early Wednesday. The area is about 240 miles southeast of the capital, Katmandu. Among those killed were 17 women and four children. |
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WASHINGTON — Georgia claims that an EU-commissioned report concludes that Russian troops were responsible for ethnic cleansing during last year's war with Georgia. A Georgian official briefed by a European Union investigator on the report's findings, said Tuesday that the report also concludes that some Russian combat troops crossed into Georgian territory in South Ossetia before the start of hostilities on the night of Aug. 7, 2008. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the briefing ahead of the report's expected release Wednesday. Both sides want to use the report's findings to bolster their claims about the war. Georgia has claimed— and Russia has denied— that Georgia launched an offensive to repel Russian forces that had crossed into its territory. |
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MADRID — Spanish police say narcotics investigators have found $6.3 million in cash buried in a shanty town on the island of Mallorca. The National Police say authorities trying to break up a drug ring used heavy construction equipment to rip up the concrete floor of a shack in the city of Palma and found seven boxes with the euros, plus 17 pounds of jewelry and gems and $8,000. A police statement issued Tuesday said one of the boxes was buried under a dog house in a patio of the home. The money and other valuables were unearthed during a series of raids that began Sept. 18 in a shanty town called Son Banya. Police also seized undisclosed amounts of heroin, cocaine and marijuana. |
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"Our goal is to ensure the safe return of all our missing and unjustly detained American citizens to the United States as quickly as possible so that they can be reunited with their families," a U.S. official told FOX News. "We would welcome a decision by the Iranian government to grant consular access to Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd, following our repeated requests." The move could be seen as a conciliatory gesture on Iran's part, coming ahead of a meeting between Iran and five world powers seeking to persuade Tehran to abandon any effort to build nuclear weapons. The Swiss gover ... Read more » |
Iran has
notified the Swiss government that it can have access to three
Americans who have been detained in Iran since being arrested for
illegal entry in late July, FOX News confirmed.|
ROME — Italy's foreign minister says his government isn't preparing an exit strategy for Italian troops in Afghanistan but that more money must be spent to help win the trust of the people. Earlier this month some politicians, including a fellow minister in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's government, called for Italy's soldiers to come home soon after six troops were killed in a Kabul bomb blast. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini also told parliament's foreign affairs commission Tuesday that there can be dialogue with Taliban who renounce violence and don't have any ties with Al Qaeda. Italy sent 2,800 troops to help with Afghan reconstruction. Frattini says more reconstruction funds are vital to "conquer the hearts and trust" of Afghanistan's people. |
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