Franken wins Minn. Senate race; Coleman concedes (AP)

June 30th, 2009 by admin

Franken wins Minn. Senate race; Coleman concedes
(AP)

Democrat Al Franken, right, with his wife Frannie Franken smile as they meet the media at their house in MInneapolis Tuesday June 30, 2009 after the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Democrat in the Senate race against Republican Norm Coleman. (AP Photo/Andy King)AP – Al Franken ascended Tuesday from the hallowed ranks of former “Saturday Night Live” comedians to an even more exclusive club, outlasting Republican Norm Coleman in an eight-month recount and courtroom saga to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.

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Autopsy planned for TV pitchman Billy Mays (AP)

June 29th, 2009 by admin

Autopsy planned for TV pitchman Billy Mays
(AP)

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2002  file photo,TV pitchman Billy Mays poses with some of his cleaning products at his Palm Harbor, Fla., home. Tampa police say Mays, the television pitchman known for his boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean, has died. He was 50. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)AP – Television viewers knew him as the OxiClean guy: the bearded, boisterous pitchman on commercials airing hundreds of times a week nationwide. “Hi. Billy Mays here,” he would begin, before showing off his latest cleaning product or gadget.

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Calif. man working 3 jobs wins $39M lottery (AP)

June 28th, 2009 by admin

Calif. man working 3 jobs wins $39M lottery
(AP)

AP – A man who works three jobs to support his family — including one as a limousine driver — has won a $39 million jackpot in California’s SuperLotto Plus.

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Obama scoffs at Ahmadinejad’s demand for apology (AP)

June 26th, 2009 by admin

Obama scoffs at Ahmadinejad’s demand for apology
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US President Barack Obama, right,  and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, talk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Friday, June 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Guido Bergmann, Pool)AP – President Barack Obama’s criticism of Iran escalated Friday into an unusually personal war of words. To Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s demand he apologize for meddling, Obama shot back that the regime should “think carefully” about answers owed to protesters it has arrested, bludgeoned and killed.

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‘Charlie’s Angel’ Farrah Fawcett dies at 62 (AP)

June 25th, 2009 by admin

‘Charlie’s Angel’ Farrah Fawcett dies at 62
(AP)

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2004 file photo, Farrah Fawcett arrives for the  MTV Video Music Awards in Miami. Fawcett died, Thursday, June 25, 2009, at a hospital in Los Angeles.  She was 62.  (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, file)AP – A winsome smile, tousled hair and unfettered sensuality were Farrah Fawcett’s trademarks as a sex symbol and 1970s TV star in “Charlie’s Angels.”

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N. Korea threatens US; world anticipates missile (AP)

June 24th, 2009 by admin

N. Korea threatens US; world anticipates missile
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South Korean war veterans wave national flags during a rally denouncing North Korea's nuclear program and former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung's sunshine policy of offering the North aid as a way to facilitate reconciliation, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 24, 2009. An American destroyer was tailing a North Korean ship suspected of transporting weapons toward Myanmar, as anticipation mounted Wednesday that the North could soon conduct short- or medium-range missiles tests. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP – North Korea accused Washington of seeking to “provoke a second Korean War” as the regime prepared to hold maritime military exercises off the eastern coast.

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Obama, citing his smoking woes, signs tobacco law (AP)

June 23rd, 2009 by admin

Obama, citing his smoking woes, signs tobacco law
(AP)

President Barack Obama, surrounded by members of Congress, and others, signs the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, Monday, June 22, 2009, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP – Lamenting his first teenage cigarette, President Barack Obama ruefully admitted on Monday that he’s spent his adult life fighting the habit. Then he signed the nation’s toughest anti-smoking law, aiming to keep thousands of other teens from getting hooked.

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Struggle among Iran’s clerics bursts into the open (AP)

June 21st, 2009 by admin

Struggle among Iran’s clerics bursts into the open
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Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. </p>
<p>Iranian security personnel form up on a street in Tehran in this undated photo uploaded onto Twitter June 21, 2009.  Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi urged his supporters on Sunday to continue their protests over a disputed presidential election, in a direct challenge to the leadership of the Islamic Republic.   REUTERS/Twitter  (IRAN POLITICS ELECTIONS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP – A backstage struggle among Iran’s ruling clerics burst into the open Sunday when the government said it had arrested the daughter and other relatives of an ayatollah who is one of the country’s most powerful men.

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Obama puts critics of financial overhaul on notice (AP)

June 20th, 2009 by admin

Obama puts critics of financial overhaul on notice
(AP)

AP – President Barack Obama said Saturday that current financial rules exploit consumers and he put critics of his proposed overhaul on notice: “While I’m not spoiling for a fight, I’m ready for one.”

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Dead pilot’s wife: He was in ‘perfect health’ (AP)

June 19th, 2009 by admin

Dead pilot’s wife: He was in ‘perfect health’
(AP)

This video image provided by Westwood One/Metro Networks shows a Continental Airlines flight 61 from Belgium taxing at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Thursday, June 18, 2009. The pilot of the plane died over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, but the jet landed safely with two co-pilots at the controls. (AP Photo/Westwood One/Metro Networks)AP – The Continental Airlines pilot who died on a trans-Atlantic flight from Brussels to Newark was in “perfect health” and fellow crew members initially thought he had just fallen asleep, his wife told a Houston television station.

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