2013年5月24日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


‘Heavy but grateful heart’ on Memorial Day

Posted: 24 May 2013 11:55 AM PDT

Remembering Our Fallen Soldiers This Memorial DayFriends and family remember those who gave all to serve their nation.


Paula Broadwell regrets affair with ex-CIA director Patraeus

Posted: 24 May 2013 03:45 PM PDT

Petraeus' former mistress breaks silenceThe biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship and the harm and grief it caused her family.


Cleveland women can adopt alleged captor's dogs

Posted: 24 May 2013 12:05 PM PDT

Cleveland Women Can Decide If They Want Alleged Captor's DogsAriel Castro's Three Dogs Are in Foster Care Until the Women Make a Decision


Obama to visit Oklahoma, tour Jersey Shore

Posted: 24 May 2013 01:34 PM PDT

A battered sign stands outside the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were killed earlier in the week when a tornado hit Moore, Okla., Thursday, May 23, 2013. Cleanup continues three days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)The president will visit the tornado-ravaged area this weekend; then head to N.J. on Tuesday.


Search scaled back for abducted Iowa teenage girl

Posted: 24 May 2013 04:42 PM PDT

FILE - This file photo provided by The Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Kathlynn Shepard, 15. Michael J. Klunder, who police believe abducted 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard and her 12-year-old friend Monday, May 20, 2013, as they walked home from school, committed suicide after the younger girl escaped, but Kathlynn is still missing. (AP Photo/Iowa Department of Public Safety)Authorities are scaling back their search for a missing Iowa teenager abducted from a rural school bus stop this week.


Ariz. Sheriff Arpaio loses racial profiling suit

Posted: 24 May 2013 04:26 PM PDT

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio watches as actor Steven Seagal addresses the media about a simulated school shooting in Fountain HillsA judge ruled the lawman violated rights of Latinos in a crackdown on illegal immigration.


Country moves against restaurants holding wild bears

Posted: 24 May 2013 04:25 PM PDT

Police officers and experts from Four Paws carry brown bear Arina away from zoo in PrizrenKosovo's campaign is a response to concerns over dwindling numbers of the species.


Four girls killed in a civil rights-era church bombing honored

Posted: 24 May 2013 12:52 PM PDT

Obama signs a bill designating the Congressional Gold Medal commemorating lives of four young girls killed in 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church bombing of Birmingham, Alabama, in WashingtonThe president signs a law giving the highest civilian honor to the victims of the 1963 attack.


Illinois judge charged with heroin, gun possession

Posted: 24 May 2013 01:09 PM PDT

This October 2010 photo shows St. Clair County Circuit Judge Michael Cook during his swearing in ceremony in Belleville, Ill. Cook is under federal investigation after a former prosecutor and colleague, Joe Christ, who was found dead at Cook's cabin in rural Pike County, Ill. in March 2013 succumbed to a cocaine overdose. Cook as booted from his docket of hundreds of cases Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Derik Holtmann)Michael Cook, wearing cutoffs and a "Bad is my middle name" T-shirt, pleads not guilty.


Ky. uranium plant closes; 1,000 jobs lost

Posted: 24 May 2013 04:11 PM PDT

The operator of a Cold War-era plant in western Kentucky that supplies enriched uranium to nuclear power plants said Friday it planned to cease production after federal energy officials decided to end ...

Lawsuit alleging ex-QB Favre sent racy texts settled

Posted: 24 May 2013 03:27 PM PDT

NYC lawsuit alleging Favre sent racy texts settledA lawsuit filed by two massage therapists who sued retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre over claims he sent racy text messages has been settled, a lawyer for the women said Friday.


Return to Salvation Mountain

Posted: 20 May 2013 02:22 AM PDT

Return to Salvation MountainLeonard Knight lived alone in the California desert for twenty-eight years, building a mountain to share his message: "Love God, love Jesus, and love the people." When his health failed, his friends rallied to save his life. On Sunday, he returned to the mountain to see how a new generation of caretakers have preserved his life's work.


Toronto mayor denies crack cocaine allegations

Posted: 24 May 2013 04:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, May 23, 2013 file photo, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves city hall in Toronto. Ford denies that he smokes crack cocaine and says he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. Ford did not say whether he has ever used the drug. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young, File)Rob Ford said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug.


Jersey shore opens for summer fun

Posted: 24 May 2013 08:20 AM PDT

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, talks to Carla Pilla, of Seaside Heights, N.J., while Robert Hilton, left, executive director of the Jersey Shore Convention and Visitor's Bureau, holds a sign, Friday, May 24, 2013, in Seaside Heights, N.J. Christie cut a ribbon to symbolically reopen the state's shore for the summer season, seven months after being devastated by Superstorm Sandy. Several beach communities have annual beach ribbon cuttings, announcing they are back in business. But this year's ceremonies are more poignant seven months after a storm that did an estimated $37 billion of damage in the state. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" welcome tourists back.


Train engineer noted 'unusual condition' before Connecticut wreck

Posted: 24 May 2013 12:34 PM PDT

New Video From Commuter Train DerailmentA joint bar, used to hold two sections of rail together, was repaired last month.


Sexual assaults threaten military, Obama says

Posted: 24 May 2013 08:16 AM PDT

A member of the 2013 graduating class of the United States Naval Academy peeks over the shoulder of a fellow graduates to listen to President Barack Obama during the commencement ceremony at the Academy in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 24, 2013. The president urged new graduates to exhibit honor and courage in tackling incidents of sexual assault as they assume leadership positions in the military. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)President Barack Obama on Friday warned that sexual assault in the military amounts to a national security threat as he enlisted graduating Navy ensigns and Marine second lieutenants at the U.S. Naval Academy in a campaign to stamp it out. "Those who commit sexual assault are not only committing a crime, they threaten the trust [...]


UK-bound Pakistan plane diverted, two men arrested

Posted: 24 May 2013 12:28 PM PDT

Passengers disembark from Pakistan International Airlines flight PK709 bound for Manchester from Lahore, Pakistan, after it was diverted to Stansted Airport, north of London, England, Friday May 24, 2013. The passenger plane was diverted following an incident on board, and two men were arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an RAF Typhoon jet was scrambled to escort the passenger plane traveling from Pakistan to the UK, police said. (AP Photo / Chris Radburn, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVESBritain scrambled fighter jets, but the incident does not appear to be terror-related.


After 'catastrophic misfire,' police issue warning on plastic gun

Posted: 24 May 2013 08:48 AM PDT

3-D printed gun test fired: Did it work?The DIY 3-D gun isn't ready for prime time, according to Australian authorities.


Stockholm police call for help as riots worsen

Posted: 24 May 2013 08:04 AM PDT

A bystander checks the debris around a row of burnt cars in the suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around StockholmYouths set cars and a school ablaze in Sweden's worst riots in years.


Western IQs drop 14 points over last century, researchers say

Posted: 24 May 2013 11:06 AM PDT

A new study from researchers in Europe claims that the average IQ in Western nations dropped by a staggering 14.1 points over the past century. "We tested the hypothesis that the Victorians were cleverer than modern populations using high-quality instruments, namely measures of simple visual reaction time in a meta-analytic study," the researchers wrote in [...]

Storm chasers catch Okla. twister as it forms

Posted: 24 May 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Tornado footageViewers can see what the EF5 tornado looked like from the ground as it gains strength.


Oversized load caused I-5 bridge collapse in Washington

Posted: 24 May 2013 08:15 AM PDT

In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, a man is seen sitting atop a car that fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge there minutes earlier Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Francisco Rodriguez)A tractor-trailer hit an upper part of the span across the Skagit River.


Taliban attack U.N. compound in Kabul

Posted: 24 May 2013 10:49 AM PDT

Children run away after an explosion in KabulThere were at least four blasts interspersed by heavy shooting.


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