Archive for April, 2010

Activists hope Ariz. law opposition boosts rallies (AP)

Kyla Klein, left, and Claudia Galeno hold signs as they protest at Wrigley Field Thursday, April 29, 2010, in Chicago before the Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago Cubs baseball game. Immigrant rights activists chanting 'Boycott Arizona' gathered outside Wrigley Field in Chicago as the Cubs open a four-game series against the Diamondbacks. Protesters are upset over Arizona's tough new immigration law that makes it a crime to be in the United States illegally and lets police question anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. The law is slated to take effect this summer. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP – Immigrant rights activists hope Arizona’s controversial immigration law will spark scores of people to protest in rallies nationwide and add urgency to pleas for federal immigration reform.


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Players’ union exec blasts Arizona’s new law

The baseball players’ union took a swing at Arizona’s controversial new immigration law Friday, citing the sport’s huge population of Latino players, many of whom travel to the state for spring training or for regular season games with the Diamondbacks.

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Heavy winds and high tides hamper Gulf oil fight (AP)

Workers load a boat with oil booms in Bay St. Louis, Miss., as they continue preparations to head off damage from an impending oil spill along the Gulf coast Friday, April 30, 2010.  (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP – Heavy winds and high tides complicated efforts to hold back oil that threatened to coat birds and other marine life as it oozed ashore from the Gulf of Mexico on Friday. The White House responded to the massive spill by halting any new offshore oil projects until safeguards are in place to prevent rig explosions like the one that caused it.


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Two New Yorkers charged with plotting to aid Al Qaeda: officials

Two New York men have been charged with plotting to send money, supplies and computer advice to Al Qaeda, officials said today.

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Britain’s candidates agree: This race is wide open (AP)

** CORRECTS TO POOL PHOTO **  Conservative Party leader David Cameron  takes part in Britain's third televised election debate along  Labour's Prime Minister Gordon Brown  and Liberal Democrat Party leader Nick Clegg (unseen)   in Birmingham, England, Thursday, April 29, 2010. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is seeking political redemption in his country's third and final live televised debate after an open microphone caught him dismissing a retired Labour voter as a 'bigoted woman.'  (AP Photo /  Gareth Fuller, Pool)AP – Divided over the country’s ballooning debt, the economy and the contentious issue of immigration, the three front runners in Britain’s general election can still agree on one thing: This race is anyone’s to win.


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Phony track worker rigs subway terror scare in bizarre cyanide suicide try

A phony track worker triggered a terror scare inside a lower Manhattan subway tunnel Friday morning – but he turned out to be a despondent college student who wanted to kill himself by ingesting sodium cyanide, police said.

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Higher consumer spending in Q1 still lacks vigor (AP)

In this photo taken on Monday, Apil 26, 2010, Housewife Joanne Garibay checks the price tag of a leather sofa at the 'Restoration Hardware' store in Pasadena, Calif. The government said Friday, April 30, the economy grew at a solid 3.2 percent pace during the first quarter of this year as consumers boosted their spending by the most in three years.(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP – Consumers spent more and helped lift the economy last quarter but not enough to ignite the recovery and drive down unemployment.


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