2012年11月1日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Exasperation builds on Day 3 in storm-stricken NYC

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 04:45 PM PDT

Dry ice is unloaded from a flatbed truck in Union Square for distribution to residents of the still powerless Chelsea section of Manhattan, Thursday, Nov.1, 2012, in New York. Three days after superstorm Sandy walloped the city, residents and commuters still faced obstacles as they tried to return to pre-storm routines. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)Traffic backed up for miles, crowds waited impatiently for buses into Manhattan and tempers flared in gas lines.

Military deploying rescue swimmers and 'bucket trucks'

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 01:32 PM PDT

Handout photo of Virginia National Guard soldiers rescuing people who were stranded in MearsAs the cleanup continues in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, some 12,000 National Guard troops have been mobilized to active-duty status in more than a dozen states to provide rescue and relief.

Bloomberg: ‘I don’t think we’ve had a murder in two or three days’

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 02:19 PM PDT

New York Mayor Bloomberg speaks to the media during a news conference in New YorkNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg shared what he considers a small ray of light to come out of the darkness left in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. "I don't think we've had a murder in two or three days," Bloomberg said at his daily press briefing on Thursday. "That's some good news." While it [...]

Secret Service agent kills self amid affair probe

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2008 file photo, a Secret Service agent stands near then presidential candidate Barack Obama, background, at a rally in Norfolk, Va. Moving swiftly, the Secret Service forced out three agents Wednesday, April 18, 2012 in a prostitution scandal that has embarrassed President Obama. A senior congressman welcomed the move to hold people responsible for the tawdry episode but warned "it's not over." (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)A senior Secret Service agent who was being investigated by the government for failing to disclose a long-standing relationship with a foreign citizen killed himself last week in Washington, people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

NJ's Springsteen, Bon Jovi join Sting in Sandy concert

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:27 PM PDT

NBC logos are seen on a door with buildings around Rockefeller Center reflected in the background at the home of NBC's studios, in New York,New Jersey natives Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi will join Sting and other top music stars on Friday for a benefit concert to aid victims of Sandy.

U.S. officials claim there were no delays in rescue effort in Libya

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 04:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 file photo, Libyans walk on the grounds of the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack the previous day that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Witness accounts gathered by The Associated Press give a from-the-ground perspective for the sharply partisan debate in the U.S. over the deadly incident. They corroborate the conclusion largely reached by American officials that it was a planned militant assault. But they also suggest the militants may have used a film controversy as a cover for the attack. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri)CIA security officers went to the aid of State Department staff less than 25 minutes after they got the first call for help during the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday as they laid out a detailed timeline of the CIA's immediate response to the attack from its annex less than a mile from the diplomatic mission.

Mass. man sentenced to 17 years in model plane terror plot

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 11:56 AM PDT

FILE - This undated Massachusetts driver license file photo obtained by WBZ-TV in Boston shows Rezwan Ferdaus of Ashland, Mass., arrested Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. Ferdaus was sentenced Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 in federal court in Boston to 17 years in prison in a plot to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Courtesy WBZ-TV Boston, File) MANDATORY CREDIT. TV OUT. TV WEBSITES OUT.A Massachusetts man was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison in a plot to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol.

Obama hits final stretch with message of gravitas

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 04:02 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama waves during a campaign rally in Las Vegas, NevadaGone are the jokes about "Romnesia" and the loose talk of a "campaign marathon extravaganza."

Ex-Penn St. president accused of Sandusky conspiracy

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 09:47 AM PDT

Ex-Penn State President ChargedGraham Spanier was charged today with perjury and child endangerment, accusing him of overseeing a cover-up that allowed convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky to prey on nearly a dozen children.

Ad urges African Americans to vote GOP because Lincoln freed the slaves

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 02:04 PM PDT

Late Super PAC Ad Buy Urges African Americans In Ohio To Vote Republican Because Lincoln Freed The SlavesIn the final days of the campaign in Ohio, the stops have been pulled out in the scramble to eke out a win. And that means one super PAC calling on African Americans to vote against President Obama because Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. Cable viewers in several markets across the state are being treated to ads by an obscure self-described "alternative conservative" super PAC called the Empower Citizens Network. One of the group's ads accuses Obama and Democrats of imploding the economy by forcing mortgage companies to lend to "unqualified borrowers" while the Soviet national anthem plays. ...

Kennedy White House social secretary dies at 86

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 01:47 PM PDT

FILE - This April 1987 black-and-white file photo shows Letitia Baldrige in New York City. Baldrige, the White House social secretary during the Kennedy administration who came to be regarded as an authority on etiquette, has died, she was 86. (AP Photo, File)Letitia Baldrige, the White House social secretary during the Kennedy administration who came to be regarded as an authority on etiquette, has died.

Horses tied to drug cartel auctioned in Oklahoma

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 01:12 PM PDT

More than 300 horses that the federal government says were bought and trained as part of a Mexican drug cartel's money-laundering operation are being auctioned in Oklahoma City.

Judge: Psychiatrist fooled mental health experts

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 12:32 PM PDT

A once-prominent Northern California child psychiatrist is set to be retried on charges that he molested patients after a judge sided with prosecutors who argued that he fooled mental health experts into believing he had dementia to avoid prosecution.

Video: Why (and how) did the salmon cross the road?

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 10:45 AM PDT

In Mason County, Wash., the salmon aren't just swimming upstream—they're also swimming across the street. Due to heavy rains, local rivers are flooding and the confused fish are winding up in some strange places. And that's just fine with at least one local dog. The pooch, who must be thinking that Christmas came early, wanders [...]

Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling turns 500

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 08:24 AM PDT

Perhaps second only in fame to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel opened to the public for the first time 500 years ago this week in St Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Polls: Obama has strong Iowa lead, narrower ones in other battlegrounds

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 06:05 AM PDT

Polls: Obama Stakes Strong Lead In Iowa, Narrower Ones In Other BattlegroundsThe latest slate of swing state polls from NBC News, Marist College and the Wall Street Journal shows Obama earning the support of 50 percent of likely Iowa voters.

Citing climate change, Mayor Bloomberg endorses Obama

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 12:39 PM PDT

Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks to the media at Seward Park High School on the lower east side, the site of one of many public shelters set up in preparation of the storm, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in New York. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people along the most heavily populated corridor in the nation. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday bemoaned President Barack Obama's "disappointing" first term in office. He complained the Democrat "devoted little time and effort" to pragmatic, centrist problem-solving while wielding "partisan attacks." He charged he has "embraced a divisive populist agenda focused more on redistributing income than creating it." And then the billionaire [...]

Interactive: What we search about when we search about politics

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 11:30 AM PDT

Sandy upends final week of presidential raceBy filtering down to search queries that lead to publications with a political slant, we can expose the conspiratorial fringe of political news.

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