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11 November 2010

Feds propose graphic cigarette warning labels (AP)

Feds propose graphic cigarette warning labels (AP)

Feds propose graphic cigarette warning labels (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST

Three examples of proposed warning graphics that will appear on cigarette packaging as part of the government's new tobacco prevention efforts, seen in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs are among the images the federal government plans for larger, graphic warning labels that would take up half of each pack of cigarettes sold in the United States.

Pa. man lights joint to celebrate child's birth (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST

AP - Police said a new father faces drug charges because he lit up a marijuana joint, instead of a cigar, to celebrate his child's birth at a western Pennsylvania hospital. Police aren't identifying the man found smoking the pot in a designated smoking area of Uniontown Hospital Tuesday morning, but said he'll face marijuana possession charges.

Steele may face challengers for GOP chairmanship (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2010 file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speaks during an election night gathering hosted by the National Republican Congressional Committee, in Washington. GOP activists are making an aggressive push to recruit a challenger to Steele, whose tenure as the central party's chief has been pocked with controversy and has been a period that some leaders are eager to put behind them. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - Republicans are aggressively recruiting a challenger to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, whose tenure as party chief has been marked by ill-chosen comments and questions about finances.

Passengers cheer as hobbled ship heads to Calif. (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST

A Navy Seahawk helicopter from the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier carries supplies towards the Carnival Splendor cruise ship during relief operations Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, in waters off Mexico's Baja Penninsula. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - The food on the disabled cruise ship Carnival Splendor is cold and the lines to get it stretch for hours.

White House edits stain its reliance on science (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST

Oil spill workers continue the process of cleaning tar balls and oil from the beaches of Orange Beach, Ala., Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010. A BP official said deep cleaning operations would continue along the coast for some time. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - The oil spill that damaged the Gulf of Mexico's reefs and wetlands is also threatening to stain the Obama administration's reputation for relying on science to guide policy.

Iraqi PM likely to keep job amid reports of deal (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST

FILE - In this June 27, 2009 file photo, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, left, and President Jalal Talabani, right, react, at a ceremony marking the 2003 death of Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi lawmakers are working furiously to end the country's eight-month political deadlock with reports that a deal may be near to return Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to office. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)AP - Iraqi lawmakers agreed late Wednesday to meet on forming a new government as Kurdish and Shiite officials said an agreement had been reached that would allow Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to keep his job. If confirmed, the deal would break a nearly eight-month impasse that has paralyzed the government and raised fears insurgents were taking advantage of the political deadlock to stoke violence.

Write-in ballot count begins in Alaska Senate race (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST

Alaska Elections Division Director Gail Fenumiai, right, and Assistant Attorney General Sarah Felix look over a ballot Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010, in Juneau, Alaska. Election officials planned to began poring over more than 92,500 write-in ballots in the Alaska Senate race on Wednesday, in spite of a federal lawsuit that's challenging the way the count was to be conducted. Republican nominee Joe Miller sued Tuesday to prevent the state from using discretion in determining voter intent on write-in ballots. But Lt. Gov. Craig Campbell, the Republican overseer of Alaska elections, said the count would go forward on Wednesday as planned. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - Misspellings and poor penmanship took center stage Wednesday in Alaska's contentious U.S. Senate race as teams of election workers began tallying more than 92,500 write-in ballots, with the two candidates' lawyers and observers intently watching the tedious process unfold.

AP-GfK Poll: Palin most polarizing of 2012 crowd (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2010 file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks to supporters at a Republican National Committee rally in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)AP - Sarah Palin is the most polarizing of the potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates, while impressions of Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney lean more positive, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. As for the rest — Pawlenty, Barbour, Thune, Daniels — most Americans say, "Who?"

Deficit panel leaders' plan curbs Social Security (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST

Erskine Bowles, left, accompanied by former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of President Barack Obama's bipartisan deficit commission, gestures while speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The leaders of President Barack Obama's bipartisan deficit commission launched a daring assault on mushrooming federal deficits on Wednesday, proposing reducing annual cost-of-living increases for Social Security, gradually raising the retirement age to 69 and taking aim at popular tax breaks such as the mortgage interest deduction.

Democrats pressing Pelosi to step aside (AP)

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., walks through Statuary Hall, on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010, past the set up for the news conference for House Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner of Ohio. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - In a fresh sign of turmoil among defeated Democrats, a growing number of the rank and file say they won't support House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a politically symbolic roll call when the new Congress meets in January.
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