2013年8月9日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Obama wants spy program overhaul

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 12:03 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama addresses a news conference at the White House in WashingtonThe president hopes to "build greater confidence" in U.S. surveillance programs.


Prosecutors say Madoff was in 'love triangle' with employee

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 03:42 PM PDT

Bernard Madoff arrives home after a hearing at Federal Court, in New YorkBernard Madoff was in a "love triangle" involving one of five former employees who are about to go on trial for helping him run his multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, prosecutors said. Madoff pleaded guilty in March 2009 to running a fraud of up to $65 billion at his investment firm and is serving a 150-year prison sentence. While Madoff said he acted alone, prosecutors have since charged 13 individuals in connection with the fraud. Five of them - two women and three men - are set to go on trial in federal court in New York on October 7. ...


18 of 19 embassies to reopen after security worries

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 04:20 PM PDT

A policeman and private security personnel stand guard at the entrance of a road leading towards the U.S. consulate in LahoreWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eighteen of the 19 U.S. embassies closed this month due to worries about potential terrorist attacks will reopen on Sunday, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. "Our embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, will remain closed because of ongoing concerns about a threat stream indicating the potential for terrorist attacks emanating from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. The United States will also keep its consulate in Lahore, Pakistan, shuttered, Psaki said, adding it closed on Thursday due to a "separate credible threat. ...


NBC reassures gay employees about Sochi trip

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 01:34 PM PDT

A gay rights activist chant slogans during a demonstration in front of the Russian consulate in New York, Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Russian vodka and the Winter Olympics in Sochi are the prime targets as gays in the United States and elsewhere propose boycotts and other tactics to convey their outrage over Russia's intensifying campaign against gay-rights activism. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)NEW YORK (AP) — NBC is assuring its gay and lesbian employees who may cover the Winter Olympics in Sochi that it will do everything possible to keep them safe following Russia's passage of anti-gay law.


Sheriff Joe Arpaio orders deputies to carry AR-15 style rifles

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 01:04 PM PDT

Arizona deputies to carry assault rifles 24 hours per dayThe controversial sheriff is arming his deputies with AR-15 style rifles. "We live in a violent society," he says.


Postal Service had $740 million third-quarter loss

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 02:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, file photo, U.S. Postal Service letter carrier of 19 years, Michael McDonald, gathers his belongings in the East Atlanta post office before making his delivery run, in Atlanta. The Postal Service said Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, that it trimmed its losses to $740 million over the last three months by consolidating processing facilities, cutting hours for workers and post offices and reducing workers' compensation costs. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Postal Service has trimmed its losses to $740 million over the last three months by consolidating processing facilities, cutting hours for workers and post offices and reducing workers' compensation costs, the agency said Friday.


US: Plenty of sex and romance in Madoff NY offices

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 03:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 10, 2009 file photo, Bernard Madoff exits Manhattan federal court in New York. On Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, prosecutors in New York filed papers in federal court seeking to have evidence of romantic and sexual relationships excluded from the upcoming trial of some of the Ponzi king's subordinates. Prosecutors claim that that four of five defendants and several government witnesses were at times seeing each other romantically or were sexually involved with one another and one defendant was in a love triangle with Madoff himself. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Sex and romance flourished in the offices of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff even if real investing did not, the government has revealed, disclosing among other revelations that even the Ponzi king himself was involved in a love triangle with a subordinate now facing trial.


Car in Calif. missing teen case found in Idaho

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 05:01 PM PDT

Alleged Teen Kidnapper Might Be Carrying Explosives: PoliceSAN DIEGO (AP) — A car belonging to the suspect in the disappearance of a teenage girl in California was found in Idaho after horseback riders reported seeing the man and girl hiking in the wilderness, authorities said on Friday.


Mexico releases drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 04:32 PM PDT

The undated file photo distributed by the Mexican government shows Rafael Caro Quintero, considered the grandfather of Mexican drug trafficking. A Mexican court has ordered the release of Caro Quintero after 28 years in prison for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena, a brutal murder that marked a low-point in U.S.-Mexico relations. (AP Photo/File)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero walked free Friday after 28 years in prison when a court overturned his 40-year sentence for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, a brutal murder that marked a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations.


Plane crashes into Conn. homes, kills at least 2

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 04:51 PM PDT

A firefighter surveys the scene of a small plane crash, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, in East Haven, Conn. The multi-engine, propeller-driven plane plunged into a working-class suburban neighborhood near Tweed New Haven Airport, on Friday. (AP Photo/Fred Beckham)EAST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A small plane crashed in a working-class neighborhood near an airport on Friday and engulfed two houses in flames, killing at least two people and leaving a third feared dead.


Beauty queen in Utah charged with possessing bombs

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 04:34 PM PDT

This photo released by the Salt Lake County Jail shows Kendra McKenzie Gill, who was arrested with three others on Saturday Aug. 3, 2013, after allegedly throwing homemade bombs from her car. Gill was recently crowned Miss Riverton, Utah. (AP Photo/Salt Lake County Jail)SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors filed charges of bomb possession Friday against a recently crowned Utah beauty pageant winner.


CNN's Gupta: I was wrong about marijuana

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 02:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 31, 2013 file photo, Dr. Sanjay Gupta attends a special screening of "Lee Daniels' The Butler" in New York. Gupta says he spoke too soon in opposing the medical use of marijuana in the past, and that he now believes the drug can have very real benefits for people with specific health problems. Gupta, the network's chief medical correspondent and a brain surgeon, detailed his change of heart in an interview Friday and an article for CNN's website titled "Why I changed my mind on weed." He will narrate a documentary on the topic that the network is airing on Sunday. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK (AP) — CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta says he spoke too soon in opposing the medical use of marijuana in the past and that he now believes the drug can have very real benefits for people with specific health problems.


Dufner ties major scoring record with 63 at PGA

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 03:55 PM PDT

Jason Dufner celebrates after a birdie on the 11th hole during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Oak Hill Country Club, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, in Pittsford, N.Y. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Jason Dufner got on quite a roll after he holed out from the fairway for an eagle at the second hole.


Obama signs student loan deal, says job isn't done

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 02:35 PM PDT

President Barack Obama signs the bipartisan bill to cut student loan interest rates, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. The bill has been awaiting Obama's signature since earlier this month, when the House gave it final congressional approval after a drawn-out process to reach a compromise in the Senate. The bill links student loan interest rates to the financial markets. It would offer lower rates for most students now, but higher ones down the line if the economy improves as expected. From left are, Charlotte Etier; Central Connecticut State University; Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii; Sen. Angus King, I-Maine; Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill.; Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn.; and Rep. John Kline, R-Minn. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signed into law Friday a measure restoring lower interest rates for student loans, pledging the hard-fought compromise would be just the first step in a broader, concerted fight to rein in the costs of a college education.


Judge sides with Usher in child custody battle

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 03:02 PM PDT

R&B singer Usher waits for a child custody hearing to begin, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, in Atlanta. A judge in Atlanta is set to hear arguments in the child custody battle between Usher and his ex-wife. Tameka Foster Raymond requested the hearing earlier this week after the former couple's son got caught in a pool drain while in the care of Usher's aunt. (AP Photo/David Goldman)ATLANTA (AP) — A judge in Atlanta on Friday dismissed an emergency request by R&B singer Usher's ex-wife seeking temporary custody of their two children.


Family of missing teen relieved by sighting

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 02:49 PM PDT

FILE - This composite photo provided by the San Diego Sheriff's Department shows: James Lee Dimaggio, 40, left, Ethan Anderson, 8, and Hannah Anderson, 16, whose mother, Christina Anderson, 42, was one of two people found dead in a house fire Sunday night, Aug. 4, 2013. Amber Alerts expanded to Oregon and Washington as authorities searched for Dimaggio, who is suspected of abducting Hannah Anderson and wanted in the death of the girl's mother and possibly her brother Ethan. (AP Photo/San Diego Sheriff's Department, File)SAN DIEGO (AP) — Family members of a California teen who has been missing for nearly a week say they are relieved she was sighted with her possible abductor in the Idaho wilderness.


Plane approaching Conn. airport crashes into homes

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 01:02 PM PDT

Burnt and damaged homes are pictured at the site of a plane crash in East HavenEAST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A small plane crashed in a working-class neighborhood near an airport Friday and engulfed two houses in flames, killing at least two people and leaving a third feared dead.


Obama: Reform ahead for NSA surveillance program

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 02:09 PM PDT

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. The president said he'll work with Congress to change the oversight of some of the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance programs and name a new panel of outside experts to review technologies. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — Responding to critics, President Barack Obama promised Friday to work with Congress on "appropriate reforms" for domestic surveillance programs that were thrust into the public eye by leaker Edward Snowden, saying he understands why Americans are skeptical about the collection of telephone and Internet information.


Officials: Israeli drone strike kills 5 in Egypt

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 01:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 7, 2007, file photo, the Israeli army Heron TP drone, also known locally as the Eitan, flies during a display at the Palmahim Air Force Base in Palmahim, Israel. Egyptian security officials said Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, an Israeli drone fired a missile in the northern Sinai peninsula, killing several suspected Islamic militants and destroying a rocket launcher. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — An Israeli drone strike killed five suspected Islamic militants and destroyed a rocket launcher in Egypt's largely lawless Sinai Peninsula on Friday, two senior Egyptian security officials said, describing a rare Israeli operation carried out in its Arab neighbor's territory.


What Martha's Vineyard means to Democratic presidents

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 10:55 AM PDT

martha.jpgWhat explains the island's allure? For Democrats, it's an idealized version of how the American meritocracy is supposed to work.


Judge puts Amanda Bynes' mother in charge of actress' affairs

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 01:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 9, 2013 file photo, Amanda Bynes, accompanied by attorney Gerald Shargel, arrives for a court appearance in New York on allegations that she chucked a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment. A judge has granted Amanda Bynes' mother a conservatorship over the former child actress. Ventura County Judge Glen Reiser ruled Friday, Aug. 9, that Richard and Lynn Bynes should be allowed to limited control their daughter's personal affairs, including medical treatment.The former star of Nickelodeon shows OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — A judge granted the mother of Amanda Bynes a temporary conservatorship on Friday to make decisions about her daughter's treatment in case the former child actress is released from a facility where she is being treated for mental health issues.


Wisconsin employee fired over rant

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 08:31 AM PDT

Illegal Immigrant Hunting Permit stickerA comparison of unauthorized immigrants to Satan didn't sit well with Gov. Scott Walker.


Olympic committee wants Russia to clarify anti-gay law

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 01:51 PM PDT

Members of the gay rights group "All Out" hold placards before they attempted to publicly deliver a petition against Russia's anti-gay propaganda law to Russia's Ambassador to the U.N. Vitaly Churkin in ManhattanMOSCOW (AP) — The International Olympic Committee is waiting for the Russian government to clarify the anti-gay law that is overshadowing preparations for the Sochi Games.


Obama hopes to rebuild trust on spy programs

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 04:51 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Marine Corps Base-Camp Pendleton in CaliforniaLawmakers are demanding greater accountability after secret surveillance was revealed.


Nagasaki marks 68th anniversary of atomic bombing

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 02:57 AM PDT

TOKYO (AP) — Nagasaki's mayor criticized Japan's government on Friday for failing to back an international nuclear disarmament effort as the country marked the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing of his city.

16 N.J. garage workers have $448M Powerball ticket

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 01:19 PM PDT

A clerk sells lottery tickets to an unidentified woman at Stop & Shop in South Brunswick, N.J. Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013. The supermarket is where one of the three winning Powerball tickets was sold. The two other locations are south Jersey and Minnesota. The jackpot is $448 million and is the third largest ever. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — Sixteen workers from a county garage in a New Jersey shore community hit hard by Superstorm Sandy have one of the three winning tickets in the $448 million Powerball jackpot, and some even came to work for a second straight day after learning they would be multimillionaires, county officials said.


U.S. declares 'unusual mortality event' as dolphin deaths rise

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 06:48 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, July. 3, 2013 photo, an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin named Tanner is shown during a demonstration at the Dolphin Research Center on Grassy Key in Marathon, Fla. Dolphins may be known for their intelligence and playful behavior. But turns out they can also switch on other senses to figure out a problem, just like humans. A new study indicates that when one of their senses is blocked, they can make decisions to use other senses to mimic a human's movements. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)By Francesca Trianni NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal scientists investigating an unusually high number of dead bottlenose dolphins washing up on the East Coast said on Thursday the carcasses are showing up at a rate that is seven times higher than usual. More than 120 dead animals have been discovered since June from New Jersey to Virginia, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service said. Federal scientists have declared it an "unusual mortality event" and are investigating the cause, said Maggie Mooney-Seus of NOAA Fisheries. ...


Deadly flash floods follow staggering rainfall in 16 states

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 04:29 AM PDT

Deadly flash floods follow staggering rainfall in 16 statesDangerous downpours that forced multiple water rescues are making their way to the Northeast.


Obama meets tech executives on surveillance -- in secret

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 01:28 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about home ownership at Desert Vista High School in Phoenix, Arizona August 6, 2013. REUTERS/Larry DowningThe session was not included on Obama's daily public schedule.


The second coming of al Qaeda

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 04:26 AM PDT

Former Homeland Security Secretary on Al Qaeda 2.0Michael Chertoff says the idea the terror group is gone is "overly optimistic."


U.S. evacuates staff from Pakistan consulate

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 09:23 AM PDT

Private security men stand guard at the entrance of a road leading towards the U.S consulate in LahoreThe U.S. also warns Americans not to travel to Pakistan due to "specific threats."


Police warn of booby-trap car in search for teen

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 08:56 AM PDT

FILE - This composite photo provided by the San Diego Sheriff's Department shows: James Lee Dimaggio, 40, left, Ethan Anderson, 8, and Hannah Anderson, 16, whose mother, Christina Anderson, 42, was one of two people found dead in a house fire Sunday night, Aug. 4, 2013. Amber Alerts expanded to Oregon and Washington as authorities searched for Dimaggio, who is suspected of abducting Hannah Anderson and wanted in the death of the girl's mother and possibly her brother Ethan. (AP Photo/San Diego Sheriff's Department, File)A massive search entered a sixth day for a man suspected of abducting a 16-year-old family friend.


Report: NJ workers have ticket for $448M Powerball

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 04:07 AM PDT

Supermarket in Little Egg Harbor sells 1 of winning Powerball ticketsLITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. (AP) — Sixteen workers from a county garage in a New Jersey coastal community hit hard by Superstorm Sandy have one of the three winning tickets in the $448 million Powerball jackpot, officials in Ocean County said.


Al-Qaida’s new general manager

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 07:08 AM PDT

FILE - This file image provided by IntelCenter on Wednesday Dec. 30, 2009, and taken from a video released Jan. 23, 2009, by al-Malahim Media Foundation, the media arm of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, allegedly shows men whom IntelCenter identifies as the senior leaders of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, with from left: military leader Qassim al-Raimi, deputy leader Saeed al-Shihri, leader Nasser al-Wahishi, and Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi. Once Osama bin Laden's aide-de-camp, Wahishi is the top leader of AQAP. In Feb. 2006, Wahishi was among 23 al-Qaida militants who broke out of a detention facility in Sanaa, Yemen's capital. Al-Raimi became the group's military commander and the brains behind a series of foiled attacks in US. In writings and videos, he has vowed to topple the now ousted Saleh's regime and to strike America. (AP Photo/IntelCenter, File) NO CROPPING - MANDATORY CREDIT - NO SALESNasser al-Wuhayshi was once bin Laden's personal secretary.


California wildfire destroys 26 homes

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 10:10 PM PDT

A helicopter drops water over a wildfire on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, in Cabazon, Calif. About 1,500 people have fled and three are injured as a wildfire in the Southern California mountains quickly spreads. Several small communities have evacuated. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)BEAUMONT, Calif. (AP) — A rapidly spreading wildfire chewed through a rugged Southern California mountain range on Thursday, destroying more than two dozen homes, threatening more than 500 other residences and forcing some 1,800 people to flee.


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