2013年6月3日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Republicans seek youthful followers

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 12:24 PM PDT

Young RepublicansHere are seven ways the party can appeal to young voters.


New IRS chief: Agency does not need more money

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:06 PM PDT

House Holds Hearing On Internal Revenue Service OversightThe newly appointed acting head of the Internal Revenue Service said Monday that the agency does not need more money to carry out the responsibility of processing applications for tax-exempt status, despite calls during the hearing for increased funding to help the embattled agency's workload. "The solution here is not more money," IRS acting Commissioner [...]


Video captures police officers beating woman

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 01:45 PM PDT

Jasper Police Dept video[Updated at 5:50 p.m. ET] A southeast Texas town with a history of racial unrest on Monday fired two white police officers recently captured on video slamming a black woman's head into a countertop and wrestling her to the ground. "The amount of force used was abominable," the woman's attorney, Cade Bernsen, told Yahoo News. [...]


Gun violence surges in New York City

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 02:37 PM PDT

New York City Police officer is seen in front of a news ticker in Times Square in New YorkA rash of shootings comes amid gun control efforts city and state officials.


Deaths in Oklahoma tornadoes rises to 18

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:48 PM PDT

Mikie Hooper of Tuttle, Oklahoma, collects her belongings from her RV which was destroyed by a tornado in El RenoOfficials added five victims from the tornadoes and from storms that caused severe flooding.


GOP replacement for N.J.'s Lautenberg not assured

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 12:53 PM PDT

FILE - In a May 3, 2012, file photo Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., speaks about student loans on the Rutgers-Camden campus in Camden, N.J. Lautenberg, a multimillionaire New Jersey businessman and liberal who was called out of retirement for a second tour of duty in Congress, died Monday, June 3, 2013, at age 89. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)Whoever Republican Gov. Chris Christie picks, someone's going to be upset.


Ex-NBA's Mookie Blaylock accused of vehicular homicide

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 04:05 PM PDT

File of Golden State Warriors guard Mookie Blaylock in DallasHe was charged after a head-on crash that left a 43-year-old woman dead, police said.


Scalia pens scathing dissent in Supreme Court's DNA ruling

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 11:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2011 file photo, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia looks into the balcony before addressing the Chicago-Kent College Law justice in Chicago. The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with what one of the justices called its most important criminal procedure case in decades, whether to let police take DNA from those arrested, but not convicted, in hopes of using it to solve old cases. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)The high court rules that police don't need a warrant to get a crime suspect's sample.


Obama orders new economic sanctions on Iran

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 04:36 PM PDT

Obama orders new economic sanctions on IranTurning the screw on Iran and its nuclear program, the Obama administration imposed new sanctions Monday on Iran's currency and auto industry, seeking to render Iranian money useless outside the country ...


Grand jury indicts Mississippi man in poisoned letters case

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 03:41 PM PDT

He is suspected of sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other officials.

Red Cross pushing for access to Syria's besieged Qusair

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 11:08 AM PDT

(Blank Headline Received)The organization wants access to help wounded people that may be trapped.


Disney raises theme park prices—just in time for summer

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 11:41 AM PDT

Walt Disney Co raised single-day admission prices as much as 9.6 percent at its theme parks in Florida and California, in a pattern of annual price increases at the company's popular U.S. resorts. As of ...

WikiLeaks suspect dumped info into enemy hands, says prosecutor

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 11:55 AM PDT

U.S. Army Private First Class Manning arrives at the courthouse for a motion hearing at Fort Meade in MarylandPfc. Bradley Manning is on trial for leaking classified documents to the anti-secrecy website.


Chilling trend: More than two dozen shot in NYC violence over hot weekend

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 11:41 AM PDT

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The hottest weekend of the year in New York City was one of the most violent, with 26 people shot, seven of them fatally, over 72 hours, police said on Monday. Among the victims was an 11-year-old girl walking out of an apartment block in Brooklyn on Friday. She was hit in the neck by a bullet intended for two men nearby, according to the New York Police Department. She was recovering at a hospital after surgery, and police said they had arrested a 17-year-old boy for the shooting. ...

Former kidnap victim finally gets her prom

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 09:57 AM PDT

Kidnap victim goes to promTanya Kach is owed some good times—including taking part in this high school tradition.


Biden on mental illness: 'It's OK to ask for help'

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 06:34 AM PDT

Biden too busy on overseas tour to comment on DC scandals?The vice president closes a conference with a message of support to those affected.


Boston fire chief resigns over bomb criticism

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 12:53 PM PDT

In this Nov. 16, 2011 photo, Boston Fire Chief Steve Abraira poses for a photo at a fire station in Boston. In a letter dated Monday, June 3, 2013, Abraira said he is resigning effecting on Friday, saying public criticism from his deputies for the way he responded to the marathon bombings has made it impossible for him to do his job. Thirteen deputies had complained in a letter to Mayor Tom Menino that Abraira's failure to take command of the Boston Marathon bombing scene was indefensible and part of a pattern of shirking leadership. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, Mark Garfinkel) BOSTON GLOBE OUT. METRO BOSTON NEWSPAPER OUT. MAGS OUT.Chief Steve Abraira's deputies complained that his failure to take command of the scene was indefensible.


U.S. 'deeply concerned' over Turkish police crackdown

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 09:32 AM PDT

Riot police fire tear gas against protesters during a demonstration in AnkaraA respect for freedom of expression is critical to democracy, says John Kerry.


Floods swamp central Europe

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 09:56 AM PDT

Czech soldiers erect metal barriers at a bank of Vltava river in central PragueAt least eight die and shipping stops on the Danube and Rhine rivers.


Fort Hood shooting suspect to represent himself at trial

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 04:32 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Bell County Sheriff's Department shows Nidal Hasan the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage that left 13 dead. A report shows that Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage has the mental capacity to represent himself at his murder trial, but more information is needed about his physical condition, a judge said Wednesday, May 29, 2013, in delaying the suspect's request. (AP Photo/Bell County Sheriff's Department, File)Maj. Nidal Hasan's attorneys will remain on the case, but only if he asks for their help.


UK soldier slaying suspect makes court appearance

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 09:32 AM PDT

In this court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook, suspect Michael Adebolajo kisses the Qu'ran, as he appears at Westminster Magistrates Court, London, Monday June 3, 2013. A man accused of killing British soldier Lee Rigby has made his first appearance in court. Michael Adebolajo faces various charges including murder, attempted murder and firearms possession. His suspected accomplice, Michael Adebowale, was expected to make a separate court appearance Monday. Both men were injured and placed under armed guard in hospital after the attack on Rigby, an off-duty soldier who was killed while walking back to his military barracks in southeast London. (AP Photo/ Elizabeth Cook, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUTHe asks that he be referred to by a different name, then blows a kiss to a supporter.


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