2012年5月2日星期三

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Murdoch's board backs embattled boss

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A British parliamentary report has said Murdoch is A day after the Parliament committee investigating phone-hacking declared Rupert Murdoch "not fit" to lead a major media company, News Corp.'s board of directors announced on Wednesday its full vote of "confidence" in their chairman and chief executive. Here's News Corp.'s full statement: The Board of Directors of News Corporation met today and announced its [...]


Blind Chinese dissident wants out

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In this photo released by the US Embassy Beijing Press Office, blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng is wheeled into a hospital by U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, right, and an unidentified official at left, in Beijing Wednesday May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/US Embassy Beijing Press Office, HO)The blind Chinese dissident who boldly fled house arrest and placed himself under the wing of U.S. diplomats balked Wednesday at a deal delicately worked out between the two countries to let him live freely in China, saying he now fears for his family's safety unless they are all spirited abroad.


NFL star Junior Seau found dead at home

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FILE -In this Jan. 10, 2010 file photo, New England Patriots linebacker Junior Seau (55) warms up on the field before an NFL wild-card playoff football game in Foxborough, Mass. Police say Seau, a former NFL star, was found dead at his home in Oceanside, Calif., Wednesday, May 2, 2012, after responding to a shooting there. He was 43. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)Former NFL linebacker Junior Seau was found dead Wednesday morning at his Southern California home. He was 43 years old.


Gingrich drops out, offers tepid support for Romney

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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich drops out of race for GOP presidential nomination in VirginiaAt an event that is long past his campaign's expiration date, Newt Gingrich is scheduled to suspend his presidential campaign at a press conference Wednesday afternoon in Virginia.


John Edwards' daughter leaves courtroom crying

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Former U.S. Senator John Edwards arrives with his daughter Cate Edwards at the federal courthouse in GreensboroJohn Edwards' daughter left the courtroom crying during testimony on Wednesday about a confrontation between her father and deceased mother over the onetime presidential candidate's extramarital affair.


Amazon jumping into the original TV programming business

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A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in GoldenNetflix and Hulu are about to have some company in their efforts to create original TV series for their streaming video customers — a very big company. Amazon, best known for its retail business and ebook readers, has announced plans to create its own … Continue reading


Gingrich's online alter-egos shut down after he suspends his campaign

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Gingrich alter-egosNewt Gingrich has officially suspended his presidential campaign, and, alas, his hilarious fake online alter-egos will dutifully follow him into the abyss. The blog "Newt Judges You," which features scores of pictures of Gingrich condescendingly glaring down the world around him, will stop posting new photos, Yahoo News has learned. Each shot included pitch-perfect tag [...]


Court rejects torture-related case against Bush lawyer

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FILE - In this Thursday, June 26, 2008 file photo, John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. An appeals court said Wednesday, May 2, 2012, that a former senior Department of Justice lawyer who wrote the so-called A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ruled that John Yoo, a former legal counsel to the Bush administration, is immune from a lawsuit by an American citizen convicted on terrorism charges who said he was tortured at a military jail in South Carolina. Jose Padilla, who was sentenced to 17 years in prison in 2007, had accused Yoo of helping to formulate policies under which those designated as "enemy combatants" by the U.S. government were interrogated and detained. The San Francisco-based U.S. ...


Pro-Romney super PAC begins $4.3M ad buy

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Exhibit Edge building in Chantilly, VirginiaA super PAC that spent millions of dollars to boost Mitt Romney's bid for the Republican nomination is gearing up to spend millions more to help him unseat President Obama. Restore Our Future, a political group operated by several former Romney advisers, is broadcasting $4.3 million worth of political ads in nine key swing states [...]


MIT, Harvard link up with free online courses

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A generic picture of a woman typing in an office on an IBM computer keyboard.Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both academic heavyweights and often neighborly rivals, are joining hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free. The two schools, located near each other in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are teaming up on an initiative called edX only five months after MIT rolled out MITx, its online learning system which allows students to earn certificates for completing course work from a distance. ...


Bachmann endorses Richard Mourdock in Ind. Senate race

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Rep. Bachmann: There is no war on womenClick image to see more photos. (AP/Charlie Riedel) Michele Bachmann on Wednesday afternoon publicly endorsed Richard Mourdock, the candidate who is running against her colleague, Sen. Dick Lugar, in the Indiana Senate primary which takes place next Tuesday. "I am happy to endorse Richard Mourdock for the U.S. Senate today," the Minnesota congresswoman and former [...]


Obama: Bin Laden raid ‘most important day’ of my presidency

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Who benefits from student loan 'bailout'?President Barack Obama calls the killing of Osama bin Laden "the most important single day" of his time in the White House—and the daring Navy SEAL raid that ended the al-Qaida chief's life "the longest 40 minutes of my life." "I did choose the risk," Obama said in an exclusive interview with NBC News' Brian [...]


13 charged in hazing death of FAMU band member

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FAMU Hazing Brings Charges Against 13 in Drum Major Robert Champion's DeathThirteen people were charged Wednesday for their roles in the hazing death of a Florida A&M University drum major who was severely beaten in what appears to be one of the biggest college hazing cases ever.


Trayvon Martin shooter called Mexicans ‘wanna be thugs’

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Trayvon Martin Shooting: George Zimmerman Judge Looks at Donations, Bail AmountGeorge Zimmerman's 2005 MySpace page, unearthed by the Miami Herald on Wednesday, suggests Trayvon Martin's shooter had a history of racial profiling. Zimmerman's lawyer, Mark O'Mara, confirmed that the page--registered under the username "onlytobekingagain"--was real.


Sen. Brown criticized for keeping daughter on health plan

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Sen. Scott Brown Criticized for Keeping Daughter on His Health InsuranceThe hits keep coming in Massachusetts. After facing her own controversy for questions about her Native-American heritage, Elizabeth Warren, the likely Democratic nominee in the Massachusetts Senate race, has accused Sen. Scott Brown of being a hypocrite after he told the Boston Globe that he...


Obama ex-girlfriend recalls ‘sexual warmth,’ charm

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U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House upon his return to WashingtonThe poignant, often intimate recollections come from "Barack Obama: The Story" by David Maraniss. Vanity Fair published excerpts of the book, which will be published in June.


Water guns banned, handguns allowed at GOP convention

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In the politically-charged and likely protest-filled streets of Tampa, Fla., during the Republican National Convention in August, water guns will be strictly prohibited. Concealed handguns, on the other hand, will be perfectly legal. Florida Gov. Rick Scott said this week that banning handguns from downtown...

DEA apologizes for forgetting college student in cell

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The Drug Enforcement Administration extended an apology to a University of California engineering student who was locked in a holding cell for more than four days and forgotten about. The student drank his own urine in desperation and attempted to kill himself, before agents returned four days later and found him, he said in a [...]

Ashton Kutcher's ‘Pop Chips’ video hits nerves on race

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Ashton Kutcher is well known for his acting career, but he's also a very successful Internet entrepreneur. His Twitter account alone has more than 10 million followers. But a recent attempt at combining the two careers appears to be backfiring in some circles. Kutcher has teamed with the snack food company Pop Chips to launch [...]

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