Monday, January 19, 2009

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Salman Rushdie reflects on 20-year-old fatwa (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:28:05 +0800

AP - Nearly 20 years after being driven underground by a religious decree, he is now Sir Salman Rushdie, properly famous and free, yet still burdened by his status as a symbol of persecution.

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Parts of monster truck examined after boy's death (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:20:35 +0800

Phyllis Dwyer, mother of Sebastian Hizey, fights back tears while comforting her children Gabriel, 7, Morgan, 9, and Marissa, 10, the siblings of Sebastian Hizey, on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009 at their home in Puyallup, Wash. Debris flew into the grandstands at a monster truck show in Washington state, killing the 6-year-old boy Hizey and injuring another spectator, witnesses and city officials said Saturday.  (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Drew Perine)AP - Investigators were examining pieces of the drive train from an oversized truck Sunday to learn why parts tore off the truck and struck and killed a 6-year-old boy and injured another spectator at a monster truck show.


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Obamas, Bidens enjoy Lincoln Memorial concert (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:40:57 +0800

Stevie Wonder performs with Usher, right, and Shakira during 'We Are One: Opening Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial' in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Under the gaze of Abraham Lincoln's statue, Bruce Springsteen and a red-robed gospel choir kicked off a spirited preinaugural concert Sunday before tens of thousands on the National Mall.


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Future of abstinence-only funding is in limbo (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:20:11 +0800

In this June 7, 2007, file photo Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y. speaks about the Prevention First Act, on the 42nd anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut decision that guaranteed the right to birth control, at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington. Slaughter says the 2008 elections not only put President-elect Barack Obama in the White House but also increased the ranks of senators and representatives who share her opposition to funding abstinence education.  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - With the exit of the Bush administration, critics of abstinence-only sex education will be making an aggressive push to cut off federal funding for what they consider an ineffective, sometimes harmful program.


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Former slaughterhouse CEO granted new bail hearing (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:57:30 +0800

AP - The former chief executive officer of the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant was granted a new hearing over whether he should remained jail as he awaits a trial on charges stemming from a large immigration raid.

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5 white-knuckled minutes aboard Flight 1549 (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:52:08 +0800

U.S. Airways flight 1549, an Airbus A320 that made an emergency landing Thursday in the Hudson River sits on a barge after being lifted out of the river in New York, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - The birds flew majestically, in perfect formation, and the co-pilot saw them coming.


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Obama dominates 'King Sunday' at black churches (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:44:06 +0800

Lisa Jones, joins the congregation in singing 'We Shall Overcome' during a service celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the First Cathedral Church in Bloomfield, Conn. on January 18, 2009.  (AP Photo/George Ruhe)AP - The third Sunday in January, known as "King Sunday" in Atlanta after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., easily could've been called "Obama Sunday" this year.


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Commuter ferries to rescue in NYC crash landing (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:25:49 +0800

In this Jan. 15, 2009 file photo, passengers and crew aboard US Airways Flight 1549 await rescue by a New York City Fire Department boat and a group of private ferries after the aircraft made and emergency landing on the Hudson River off the coast of New York, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009. After the pilot successfully landed his aircraft in the frigid water, the first rescuers on the scene were not police or the U.S. Coast Guard, but a handful of ferries that offer visitor tours and shuttle commuters between New Jersey and Manhattan. (AP Photo/Steven Day)AP - The first rescuers on the scene when a crippled jetliner landed in the Hudson River were not police or the U.S. Coast Guard, but ferries that offer visitor tours and shuttle commuters between New Jersey and Manhattan.


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Some Little Debbie products join snack food recall (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:13:50 +0800

AP - The company that sells Little Debbie snacks announced a recall Sunday of peanut butter crackers because of a potential link to a deadly salmonella outbreak.

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Mich. dad told to pay for child's birth or wed mom (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:10:00 +0800

AP - The state of Michigan is giving a father a choice: pay the medical cost of his daughter's birth or marry the girl's mother.

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Hudson River plane skirted disaster at many turns (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:57:39 +0800

The wreckage of US Airways Flight 1549 sits on a barge after being lifted out of the Hudson River at the southern tip of Manhattan as seen from Jersey City, N.J., on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009. The Airbus A320, with 150 passengers and five crew aboard, was bound for Charlotte, N.C. from New York's LaGuardia Airport when it was safely ditched by the pilot in the river between New York and New Jersey on Thursday. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - Before it became an unforgettable story of luck and heroism, US Airways Flight 1549 was on course to be a catastrophe. In five minutes of flight, the stricken jetliner sprinted past one nightmare scenario after another.


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Financial burden of homeownership spread unequally (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:17:22 +0800

Heather L. Noble stands in front of her home in Garden City, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. Starting last spring, Noble spent hour after hour on the phone talking to what she describes as 'every human being and division possible' at JPMorgan Chase & Co., before obtaining approval for a loan modification. Effective Feb 1., 2009, her new monthly payment will be a much more affordable $683 a month. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - When it comes to homeownership, Hispanics in New Jersey, single parents in California and senior citizens in Rhode Island all have something in common: More than a third have an unaffordable mortgage.


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Obama's alma mater celebrates his inauguration (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:12:46 +0800

AP - Columbia University is throwing a campus party to celebrate the inauguration of its first graduate to become president: Barack Obama, Class of '83.

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Asian-American political profile rising in US (AP)

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:12:39 +0800

AP - When three newly elected Chinese-American city supervisors climbed on stage in Chinatown, flanked by dragon dancers and lit up by camera flashes, they were hailed for making history in a city their forebears have shaped since the Gold Rush Days.

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