Those states are still projected to gain seats in Congress after the 2010 census, while industrial states in the Northeast are likely to lose seats.

But in yet another sign of the recession’s power to reshape established demographic trends, the new figures show that as of July, growth has slowed to a trickle in Arizona, while in Florida, Nevada and California, more Americans moved out than in.

The shooter opened fire inside an apartment on the Upper West Side, shattering the peace at 1:45 p.m.

A man in his 20s and his father were fatally wounded in a bedroom, while the younger victim’s grandfather was shot to death in a bathroom, police said.

The world body has spearheaded a 16-day campaign to eliminate violence against women, which is due to end on December 10, the anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights.

“Violence targeting women and girls is widespread and deeply rooted in Afghan society. It is not adequately challenged and condemned by society and institutions,” said Norah Niland, chief UN human rights officer in Afghanistan.

“The space for women in public life is shrinking. The trend is negative,” she told a Kabul news conference.

Banned from public life under the iron fist of the Taliban regime from 1996 until the 2001 US-led invasion, women still struggle for their rights in the impoverished, deeply conservative and war-torn country.

Shocked customers and staff at the Forza coffee shop looked on as the officers – three men and one woman – were gunned down while they caught up on paperwork before the start of their shift.

Police put up a $10,000 (£6,000) reward for information about the killer and began a manhunt for the male gunman, who fled the scene on foot.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday that 40-year-old Michael Plank of Lomita, Calif., was returning from Australia when U.S. Customs agents found two geckos, two monitor lizards and 11 skinks – another type of lizard – fastened to his body Tuesday.

Plank has been released on $10,000 bond and will be arraigned in federal court on Dec. 21.

Authorities say the lizards’ value totals more than $8,500. All Australian reptiles are strictly regulated and Plank did not have a permit for them.

“We have decided, along with the rest of my comrades in the leadership, from today to formalize the convocation for a Dec. 2 session of the full legislature to analyze the issue,” congressional speaker Alfredo Saavedra told the media on Tuesday.

By then, he said, Congress will have received the advisory opinions lawmakers have requested from several institutions, including the Supreme Court, which has played a leading role in trying to give the June 28 coup a veneer of legality.

The conservative politician said he considers the “preferred approach” to address equality - or rather, gross inequality - is to put the matter of full-blown domestic partnerships before Ocean State voters, who at this time would probably nix the idea. As Carcieri well knows

The very existence of the technology, known as a “two-point implosion” device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according to previously unpublished documentation in a dossier compiled by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian scientists may have tested high-explosive components of the design. The development was today described by nuclear experts as “breathtaking” and has added urgency to the effort to find a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis.