2013年6月10日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Father worries over son's NSA confession

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 01:32 PM PDT

Edward Snowden's Father Worried Over Son's NSA Leak ConfessionEdward Snowden, 29, was last spotted leaving a Hong Kong hotel.


New Miss Iowa to advocate for people with disabilities

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 01:21 PM PDT

Newly crowned Miss Iowa hopes to advocate for people with disabilitiesNicole Kelly, the newly crowned Miss Iowa, plans to use her title to help advocate for people with disabilities, reports the DesMoines Register. Kelly, 23, was born without her left forearm, according to her biography at MissIowa.com (note: site has been intermittently down). Photos can be viewed at the Miss Iowa Facebook page. After winning [...]


Records reveal rocky past at Calif. gunman's home

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:02 PM PDT

Akiva Sherman, right, 62, repairs the wall next to a makeshift memorial Sunday, June 9, 2013, where a victim's vehicle crashed during the shootings at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, Calif. The shootings on Friday left six people dead, including the gunman. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — The mother of a gunman who fatally shot five people in Santa Monica once said the shooter's father had threatened to kill her at least twice during years of turmoil in the family, according to court records obtained Monday by The Associated Press.


US spy programs raise ire both home and abroad

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:07 PM PDT

This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. The Guardian identified Snowden as a source for its reports on intelligence programs after he asked the newspaper to do so on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Guardian)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration faced fresh anger Monday at home and abroad over U.S. spy programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world in the hope of thwarting terrorist threats. But a senior intelligence official said there are no plans to end the secretive surveillance systems.


Manning trial resumes as new leak scandal unfolds

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:29 PM PDT

Army Capt. Alexander Von Elton, a member of the Army's prosecution team, exits the courthouse at Fort Meade, Md., on the fourth day of the court martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, Monday, June 10, 2013. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WIkiLeaks. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's court-martial for giving hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents to WikiLeaks entered its second week Monday in a fresh spotlight cast by a brand-new leak by another low-level intelligence employee.


Brazil govt to perform crash tests after AP report

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2012 file photo, rescue workers remove a man from a Ford Ka vehicle after an accident in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Ford Ka hatchback sold in Europe scored a high safety rating of four out of five stars when it was tested by Euro NCAP in 2008; its Latin American version scored one star. Ford acknowledged that particular Ka is built on an outdated platform, and said it cannot be compared with the European version of the same name. The Brazilian government says it's building its first auto crash test facility to try to improve the safety record of cars sold in the country, hoping to have the facility operating by 2017. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File)SAO PAULO (AP) — After a decade of spiking fatalities from passenger car wrecks, the Brazilian government said Monday it plans to build its first auto crash test facility in an effort to improve the poor safety record of vehicles built and sold in the world's No. 4 automobile market.


Senate passes half-trillion dollar farm bill

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:48 PM PDT

Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, speaks to reporters as the Senate votes on a farm bill that sets policy for farm subsidies, food stamps and other farm and food aid programs for the next five years, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 10, 2013. At rear is Sen. John Hoeven, R-ND. Officially known as the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2013, the agriculture policy measure would cost taxpayers $100 billion annually with the bulk of that amount allocated to the federal food stamp program which helps low-income families buy food. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Monday passed a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill that expands government subsidies for crop insurance, rice and peanuts while making small cuts to food stamps.


Apple revamps look of iPhone, iPad software

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:09 PM PDT

Craig Federighi, Apple Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, introduces OS X Mavericks operating system during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2013 in San FranciscoSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software, like the casino-green "felt" of its Game Center app, in what it calls the biggest update since the iPhone's launch in 2007.


German WWII bomber raised from English Channel

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 03:19 PM PDT

The remains of a crashed World War II Dornier bomber, the only surviving German Second World War Dornier Do 17 bomber, rests on a barge after being raised from the English Channel off Deal, southern England, Monday June 10, 2013. The aircraft was shot down off the Kent coast more than 70 years ago during the Battle of Britain and the project is believed to be the biggest recovery of its kind in British waters. Attempts by the RAF Museum to raise the relic over the last few weeks have been hit by strong winds but the operation was finally successful. (AP Photo/PA, Gareth Fuller) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVELONDON (AP) — A British museum on Monday successfully recovered a German bomber that had been shot down over the English Channel during World War II.


'Glee' star Jane Lynch and wife announce divorce

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:34 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2012, file photo, Jane Lynch, left, and Lara Embry arrive at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. Lynch is divorcing her wife of three years, Dr. Lara Embry, who she married in 2010 in Massachusetts. She told People magazine in a statement Monday, June 10, 2013, that splitting up was "a difficult decision for us as we care very deeply about one another." (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)"Glee" star Jane Lynch is divorcing her wife of three years.


AP Source: Tebow to sign with Patriots

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2012, file photo, then-New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow warms up before an NFL football game in Nashville, Tenn. Tim Tebow is joining the New England Patriots, according to a report by ESPN on Monday, June 10, 2013. The high-profile quarterback who spent one season mostly on the sidelines with the New York Jets is expected to attend the start of the Patriots three-day minicamp on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)Quarterback Tim Tebow will be signing with the New England Patriots and joining their minicamp Tuesday, a person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press.


Grandmother says she watched officer shoot girl, 7

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 03:19 PM PDT

FILE - This undated family photo shows Aiyana Stanley-Jones, 7, who was shot and killed Sunday, May 16, 2010, by a shot from a Detroit police officer during a raid to arrest a murder suspect. A man rounding up his puppies late at night says he warned Detroit police that children were inside a house they were about to raid in a hunt for a murder suspect that left a 7-year-old girl dead. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was accidentally shot and killed during the raid by Detroit Officer Joseph Weekley, who is on trial for involuntary manslaughter in Aiyana's death. (AP Photo/Family Photo via The Detroit News) NO SALES; DETROIT FREE PRESS OUTDETROIT (AP) — Beneath a multi-colored quilt of Disney cartoon characters, 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones lay peacefully on the living room couch of her grandmother's first-floor flat on Detroit's east side.


Iraq hit by wave of bomb attacks, killing dozens

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 01:13 PM PDT

Civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack at al-Ameen neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 8, 2013. Iraqi authorities say the car bomb explosion has killed and wounded people in a commercial street in the Shiite neighborhood of al-Ameen, southeastern Baghdad. Several shops were damaged in the attack. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of car bombings rocked central and northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and extending the deadliest eruption of violence to hit the country in years.


Rear slap gets ex-NFL star C. Johnson 30 days jail

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:29 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2012 file photo, Chad Johnson, center, leaves Broward County Jail in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Johnson will serve 30 days in jail after violating probation in a domestic violence case involving his then-wife, TV reality star Evelyn Lozada. A plea deal that called for no jail time fell apart Monday, June 10, 2013 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Photo by Jeff Daly/Invision/AP, File)FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Former NFL star Chad Johnson was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail for a probation violation in a domestic violence case by a judge who angrily rejected a no-jail plea deal after Johnson playfully slapped his attorney on the backside in court.


Calif. gunman studied gaming technology

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 03:11 PM PDT

Akiva Sherman, right, 62, repairs the wall next to a makeshift memorial Sunday, June 9, 2013, where a victim's vehicle crashed during the shootings at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, Calif. The shootings on Friday left six people dead, including the gunman. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — The gunman who killed five people in a rampage that ended on the Santa Monica College campus had sporadically taken electronic game design classes at the Southern California school.


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