2013年4月25日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

'We stand with you and we do not forget'

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 03:56 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at the memorial for firefighters killed at the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Thursday, April 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Pres. Obama consoles a Texas town rocked by a fertilizer plant explosion.

Bombing survivor poised, positive after amputation

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 12:17 PM PDT

Heather Abbott (family photo)Heather Abbott says she's "overwhelmed" by the outpouring of support she's received.

Pot smokers aren't totally off the hook in Colorado

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 04:25 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2012 file photo, Brandon Coats works on his computer at his home in Denver. Coats, a quadriplegic medical marijuana patient, was fired from his job in 2010 as a telephone operator at Dish Network after testing positive for marijuana. The Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday, April 25, 2013, upheld the firing of Coats, saying that there is no employment protection for people who use marijuana. In a split decision issued on Thursday, the court said marijuana use is still barred by the federal government, even though state-licensed marijuana use has been approved by voters and is considered lawful. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)DENVER (AP) — Medical and recreational marijuana may be legal in Colorado, but employers in the state can lawfully fire workers who test positive for the drug, even if it was used off duty, according to a court ruling Thursday.

It's not a movie: Siblings escape sinking boat, swim 14 hours to land

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 03:50 PM PDT

This Nov. 2009 photo courtesy of Dan Suski shows Kate Suski, right, and her brother Dan while on vacation in San Diego, Ca. The brother and sister are recovering in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia after their ship sank on April 21 during a fishing trip, forcing them to swim almost 14 hours to reach land, according to the siblings. The Suskis said they are recovering after being hospitalized with severe dehydration and tendinitis. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dan Suski)What started out as a daylong fishing trip turned into a struggle for survival.

9/11 exhibit brings former president, first lady to tears

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 12:16 PM PDT

Laura Bush: The 9/11 Exhibit at New Bush Museum Brings Her, George W. Bush To Tears"It's very hard to walk through and it's hard to watch this," Laura Bush said.

New York was Boston suspects' next target

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 04:48 PM PDT

New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, left, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg hold a news conference, Thursday, April, 25, 2013 in New York. The two say the Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square. They said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told Boston investigators from his hospital bed that he and his brother had discussed going to New York to detonate their remaining explosives. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)Authorities say they were on their way to Times Square when they had to get gas.

Spain's unemployment rate rockets to 27.2 percent

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 02:12 PM PDT

People enter an office to register for job placement in Madrid, Spain Thursday April 25, 2013. Spain's National Statistics Institute said the country's unemployment rate shot up to a record 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013 taking the total to 6.2 million. Spain is in recession again as it struggles to deal with the collapse of its once-booming real estate sector in 2008. (AP Photo/Paul White)The country's National Statistics Institute says more than 6 million are jobless.

Senators stall Internet sales tax bill

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 01:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that overwhelmingly passed a test vote in the Senate Monday, April 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)The proposed law gives an advantage to foreign retailers, one opponent says.

Rescuers comb Bangladesh rubble for second day

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 01:56 PM PDT

Fire fighters try to rescue garment workers, who are trapped inside the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, in SavarThe death toll at a collapsed garment factory climbs to 260.

Canada train plot suspect had recently traveled to Iran

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 02:15 PM PDT

Raed Jaser arrives to court in the back of a police car in TorontoBy Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators believe one of two suspects charged in Canada with plotting to blow up a railroad track carrying passenger trains traveled to Iran within the past two years, U.S. law enforcement and national security officials said on Thursday. Chiheb Esseghaier, a Tunisian-born doctoral student, traveled to Iran on a trip that was directly relevant to the investigation of the alleged plot, the officials said. ...

Former government lawyer charged with espionage

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 02:17 PM PDT

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday alleged that a former federal government lawyer helped the Cuban intelligence service recruit a woman who was later sentenced to 25 years in prison for spying. An indictment filed in 2004 was unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charging Marta Rita Velazquez with conspiracy to commit espionage for her alleged role in recruiting Ana Belen Montes to the Cuban intelligence service and helping her get a federal government job. ...

Boy in Mensa learned to read while using the toilet

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 12:29 PM PDT

He's one of the youngest members of Mensa, but a 5-year-old boy from Collinsville, Ill., earned his stripes in a pretty conventional manner: learning to read on the toilet. "He started reading when he was 18 months old," Rob Dorman told the Suburban Journal about his son, Gus, whom he found perusing a paper in [...]

Indictment: Prison gang leader fathered 5 children with 4 guards

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 02:25 PM PDT

A Baltimore prisoner is said to have fathered five children with four different corrections officers while incarcerated, according to a recently unsealed federal racketeering indictment. In addition, the Washington Post reports that 13 female corrections officers assisted imprisoned gang members in criminal enterprises including the trafficking of drugs, witness intimidation and money laundering. Guards also [...]

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