2012年10月27日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Obama hits Romney for ‘cradle-to-grave tax hikes and fees’

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 01:18 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama addresses supporters at a campaign rally at Elm Street Middle School in Nashua, New HampshireMocking Mitt Romney's vow to bring "big change" to Washington, President Barack Obama charged at a campaign rally here Saturday that his Republican rival was actually offering a "big re-run" of George W. Bush's policies. The embattled incumbent also hit Romney's record as governor of nearby Massachusetts, accusing him of imposing "cradle-to-grave [...]

East Coast braces for Hurricane Sandy

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 11:33 AM PDT

In this image taken by NOAA's GOES East at 2:45 GMT on Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, Hurricane Sandy is seen in the center bottom. The hurricane has killed at least 20 people in the Caribbean, and just left the Bahamas. It is expected to move north, just off the Eastern Seaboard. When Hurricane Sandy becomes a hybrid weather monster some call "Frankenstorm" it will smack the East Coast harder and wider than last year's damaging Irene, forecasters said Friday. (AP Photo/NOAA)Hurricane Sandy — upgraded again Saturday just hours after forecasters said it had weakened to a tropical storm — headed north from the Caribbean and was expected to pummel the eastern United States.

Romney cancels Virginia events ahead of Hurricane Sandy

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 11:17 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gets out of his vehicle to board his campaign plane in Akron-Canton Regional Airport, North Canton, Ohio, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, as he travels to Pensacola, Fla., for campaign events. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Mitt Romney is canceling campaign events on Sunday in Virginia as a "precautionary move" as the East Coast braces for Hurricane Sandy, which is expected to make landfall late Sunday night or early Monday morning. Instead, the GOP nominee will travel from Florida, where he's campaigning Saturday, to Ohio on Sunday morning, where he [...]

Spokesman: Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 11:24 AM PDT

President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, heading to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. to attend the transfer of remains ceremony marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)The White House on Saturday flatly denied that President Barack Obama withheld requests for help from the besieged American compound in Benghazi, Libya, as it came under on attack by suspected terrorists on September 11th. "Neither the president nor anyone in the White House denied any requests for assistance in Benghazi," National Security Council spokesman [...]

Romney calls for more cooperation in Washington

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 02:21 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is greeted by Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla., and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., left, as he steps off his plane to attend campaign events in Pensacola, Fla., Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)With the election 10 days away, Mitt Romney is calling for more partisan cooperation in Washington as he rallies supporters in Florida.

Six new cases reported in meningitis outbreak

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 01:02 PM PDT

A sample of Cladosporium species, one of the fungi diagnosed in the fungal meningitis outbreak sweeping the United States, in Nashville, TennesseeSix new cases of fungal meningitis have been reported in an outbreak tied to contaminated steroid injections that has led to 25 deaths in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday. The CDC reported three new cases in Florida, two in Ohio and one in Indiana, raising the total number of meningitis cases attributed to the tainted steroid to 337 in 18 states. This type of meningitis cannot be spread person-to-person. ...

Bombings, clashes leave Syria truce in tatters

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 01:53 PM PDT

In this Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 photo, smoke rises from the Karmal Jabl neighborhood, during clashes between rebel fighters and the Syrian army in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)A Syrian warplane flattened a three-story building, suspected rebels detonated a deadly car bomb and both sides traded gunfire in several hotspots across the country Saturday, activists said, leaving a U.N.-backed holiday truce in tatters on its second day.

Iraq bombings, house raids leave 40 dead

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 04:10 PM PDT

People gather at the scene of a bomb attack in the neighborhood of Bawiya in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. A bombing near a playground and other insurgent attacks killed 18 people including several children in Iraq on Saturday, police said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)Iraqi insurgents unleashed a string of bombings and other attacks primarily targeting the country's Shiite community on Saturday, leaving at least 40 dead in a challenge to government efforts to promote a sense of stability by preventing attacks during a major Muslim holiday.

Study: Quitting smoking before 30 increases women’s lifespan

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 02:18 PM PDT

Women who quit smoking by the age of 30 almost completely avoid the risk of an early tobacco-related death — by more than 97 percent — according to a study of more than a million women in the United Kingdom. Conversely, lifelong smokers on average die 10 years earlier than non-smoking women. The results were [...]

Obama ad hits Romney on Wall Street, Medicare, education

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 09:26 AM PDT

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivers a speech on the U.S. economy and health care in Ames, IowaPresident Barack Obama's re-election campaign released a harsh new ad Saturday that accuses Republican rival Mitt Romney of looking to roll back regulations on Wall Street, turn Medicare into a voucher system, and slash education funding. The 30-second ad cast the incumbent in a defensive light -- someone fighting to hold onto [...]

NYC college president troubled by NYPD spying

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 02:39 PM PDT

The president of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice said he is "deeply troubled" about reports that the New York Police Department sent a paid informant to spy on the school's club for Muslim students.

Latino House candidates set to make history

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 01:16 AM PDT

This photo taken Oct. 19, 2012 shows New Mexico Democratic Congressional candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham, right, talks with Betty Minero, 88, at Barelas Coffee House in Albuquerque, N.M. A total of 49 Latino candidates _ 32 Democrats, 16 Republicans and one without a declared party _ are seeking House seats this year, according to the bipartisan National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. Depending on how many of them win, their numbers in the House could make history. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)It is lunch hour at Barelas Coffee House, in the heart of one of Albuquerque's oldest Latino neighborhoods. Democratic House candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham weaves her way among the tables, searching for votes as waiters shuffle bowls of red chile and plates of enchiladas.

Al-Qaida leader urges kidnapping of Westerners

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 05:57 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 27, 2011 file photo provided by IntelCenter, an American private terrorist threat analysis company, purports to show Al-Qaida's new leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a still image from a web posting by al-Qaida's media arm, as-Sahab. The leader of al-Qaida has urged Muslims to kidnap Westerners to exchange for imprisoned jihadists. Ayman Al-Zawahri also urged support for Syria's uprising and called for the implementation of Islamic Shariah law in Egypt. In an undated two-hour videotape posted this week on militant forums, the Egyptian-born jihadist said that abducting nationals of "countries waging wars on Muslims" is the only way to free "our captives, and Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman," the Egyptian cleric serving a life sentence in U.S. prisons for his masterminding of 1993 bombings in New York City. (AP Photo/IntelCenter, File) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS PICTURE. NO SALES MANDATORY CREDIT, INTELCENTERThe leader of al-Qaida has urged Muslims to kidnap Westerners to exchange for imprisoned jihadists, including a blind cleric serving a life sentence in the United States for a 1993 plot to blow up New York City landmarks.

Young millennials: Fiscal conservatives?

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 12:24 PM PDT

Caroline Winsett, a senior at DePaul University who is president of the school's Student Government Association, works in the SGA office on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, in Chicago. Winsett, 22, is a Republican who considers herself fiscally conservative and socially more liberal _ a political mix that some pollsters say is becoming more common among the youngest voters. It has those pollsters wondering if there is a political "schism" or shift happening when comparing older millennials to younger ones. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)This generation of young Americans has been called many things, from civic-minded to "entitled." But fiscally conservative?

Russian opposition leaders detained in Moscow

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 11:31 AM PDT

Demonstrators hold cutouts of arrested opposition activists with their photos and names during a 'March against Hatred' in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. Russians are protesting against a ongoing crackdown on the opposition which was launched his spring, with arrests of activists and introduction of new harsh legislation. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)Moscow police on Saturday briefly detained several opposition leaders as well as a dozen other activists while they were protesting against the intensifying crackdown on Russian opposition.

Ryan: Obama hasn't made case he deserves new term

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 04:31 PM PDT

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is greeted by his wife Janna and his son Charlie, holding a sign, after his campaign speech at the Gradall Industries plant in New Philadelphia, Ohio, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Phil Long)Starting a two-day bus tour of Ohio's small towns and cities, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan told voters Saturday that President Barack Obama hasn't made the case he deserves a second term.

AP poll: Majority harbor prejudice against blacks

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 08:48 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks to supporters at a campaign event at Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport, in Cleveland Ohio. Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice toward blacks whether they recognize those feelings or not. Those views could cost Obama votes as he tries for re-election, the survey found, though the effects are mitigated by some Americans' more favorable views of blacks. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice toward blacks whether they recognize those feelings or not.

Indonesia: Suspects planned attack on U.S. Embassy

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 09:24 AM PDT

Indonesian police officers stand guard outside a building after a raid in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. Indonesian police say they have arrested 11 people suspected of planning a range of terrorist attacks on domestic and foreign targets including the U.S. and Australian embassies. (AP Photo)Indonesia's anti-terror squad arrested 11 people suspected of planning a range of attacks on domestic and foreign targets including the U.S. Embassy and a site near the Australian Embassy, police said Saturday.

Emails shed light on Ryan, Walker relationship

Posted: 27 Oct 2012 01:17 AM PDT

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and his wife Janna arrive at Huntsville International Airport to attend a fund raising event in Huntsville, Ala Friday morning Oct. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/The Huntsville Times, Bob Gathany)Rising political stars and personal friends, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker worked quietly behind the scenes to coordinate public policy, avoid each other's limelight and steer clear of political minefields that would haunt their campaigns, according to more than 1,000 pages of internal emails obtained by The Associated Press. But there was at least one pointed snub between them, too.

发贴者：iwvck4 时间 17:09 0 条评论

bnzv