American teenager adjusts to new life as a pro
HAIFA, Israel A few months ago, Jeremy Tyler was among the top prospects in American high school basketball, widely seen as a future first-round NBA draft pick. These days, the 18-year-old center spends most of his time languishing on the bench, an...
 5.7K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 119.0 Iranian protest sparks battles
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons today on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover. The counter-demonstrations were the opposition s fir...
5.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 59.0 Israel commandos seize ship loaded with guns
JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli commandos seized a ship today that defense officials said was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons bound for Lebanon s Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas the largest arms shipment Israel has ever commandeered. The Israeli ...
5.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 612.0 Israel: Gaza rockets can reach metro Tel Aviv
JERUSALEM (AP) Hamas militants in Gaza have successfully test-fired an Iranian rocket able to reach Israel s largest urban center, the country s military intelligence chief said today. Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin told parliament s foreign affairs and def...
3.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 565.0 German leader urges U.S. to act on climate
WASHINGTON (AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by exhorting the world in a speech to Congress today to tear down the walls of today and reach a deal to combat global warming. Frequently ...
5.3K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 94.0 After angering Arabs on Israeli settlements, Clinton to meet with Arab foreign ministers
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prepared today to consult with Arab foreign ministers on Obama administration efforts to get Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace negotiations, two days after she raised ...
1.7K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 139.0 Iran doesn't accept U.N. uranium plan
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran today failed to accept a U.N.-drafted plan that would ship most of the country s uranium abroad for enrichment, saying instead it would prefer to buy the nuclear fuel it needs for a reactor that makes medical isotopes. The re...
4.7K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 59.0 Iran backs new enriched uranium deal
VIENNA (AP) Iranian negotiators today expressed support for a deal that if accepted by their leaders would delay Tehran s ability to make nuclear weapons by sending most of its existing enriched uranium to Russia for processing, diplomats said....
4.4K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 59.0 Iran talks stall over French participation
VIENNA (AP) Talks meant to persuade Iran to send most of its enriched uranium abroad and thus delay its potential to make a nuclear weapon bogged down today over fierce Iranian resistance to French participation, diplomats said. Today was the s...
4.6K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 59.0 Coming Soon
The Southwest Oregon Chapter of the Professional Engineers of Oregon invites all active and retired engineers, and those interested in engineering issues in the bay area, to the next meeting of the Professional Engineers of Oregon. The meeting will b...
0.9K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 59.0 Cleric warns against rally in Iran
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) A hard-line cleric sought today to head off an attempt to reinvigorate Iran s anti-government movement, warning against a planned opposition rally next month that would coincide with annual state-sponsored demonstrations against t...
2.8K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 94.0 Bush is gone; media forget caskets
Remember the controversy over the Pentagon policy of not allowing the press to take pictures of the flag-draped caskets of American war dead as they arrived in the United States? Critics accused President George W. Bush of trying to hide the terrible...
4.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 59.0 Palestinians say hopes in Obama 'evaporated'
JERUSALEM The Palestinian president s political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have evaporated, accusing the White House of caving in to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby and backing off a demand to freeze Jewish settlement. Ma...
4.9K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 215.0 Pentagon wants behemoth bunker buster ASAP
WASHINGTON The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground. Call it Plan B for dealing with Iran, which recently revealed a long-suspected nuclear site deep inside a mountain nea...
4.6K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 59.0 Obama wins peace prize
OSLO (AP) President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize today in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilater...
11.2K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 59.0 Palestinian official: We erred over Gaza report
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) The Palestinian leadership made a mistake by suspending action on a U.N. report on Gaza war crimes, a member of President Mahmoud Abbas inner circle said today the first such acknowledgment after days of protests in the ...
4.1K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 190.0 2 Americans, 1 Israeli win Nobel chemistry prize
STOCKHOLM (AP) Two Americans and an Israeli scientist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry today for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories within cells a feat that has spurred the development of antibiotics. The Royal Swedish Acad...
6.7K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 94.0 Hamas swaps video for prisoners
JERUSALEM (AP) In the first video images since he was captured by Palestinian militants in 2006, Israeli Sgt. Gilad Schalit looking thin but healthy, his hair freshly trimmed sent love to his family, appealed for his freedom and held up a newsp...
7.1K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 246.0 Obama the wiser man on missiles
Other views President Obama made a sound strategic decision, scrapping former President George W. Bush s echnologically dubious plan to build a long-range missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. Instead, the Pentagon will deploy a le...
0.8K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 59.0 William Safire, speechwriter, NY columnist, dies at age 79
NEW YORK (AP) William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday at age 79. The Pulitzer Prize winner died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. The cause of death was pancre...
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