2013年7月12日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Republicans defend Texas abortion proposal

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 05:06 PM PDT

Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, left, Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, center, and Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, right, walk into the Capitol rotunda as the Texas Senate takes a break from their debate an abortion bill, Friday, July 12, 2013, in Austin, Texas. The bill would require doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, only allow abortions in surgical centers, dictate when abortion pills are taken and ban abortions after 20 weeks. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans on Friday defended a sweeping abortion proposal against Democratic attempts to show the tough restrictions were not only unnecessary, but also unconstitutional.


Zimmerman deliberations break

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 03:24 PM PDT

George Zimmerman arrives in the courtroom for his trial at the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center, in Sanford, Fla., Friday, July 12, 2013. Zimmerman is charged in the 2012 shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)The jurors adjourn for the evening without reaching a verdict


Third person dies in Asiana air crash: San Francisco hospital

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 04:46 PM PDT

File picture shows an aerial view of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 plane after it crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport in CaliforniaBy Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Chinese girl died in hospital on Friday, becoming the third fatality in the crash of an Asiana Airlines jet at San Francisco airport last Saturday, doctors and Chinese officials said. The child, who died on Friday morning, had been in critical condition, according to a statement from two doctors at San Francisco General Hospital. The girl was a Chinese national, according to the Chinese consulate in San Francisco. The crash landing of the Boeing 777 also killed two Chinese teenage girls and injured more than 180 other people. ...


Snowden says he wants asylum in Russia

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 02:29 PM PDT

In this image provided by Human Rights Watch, NSA leaker Edward Snowden, center, attends a news conference at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport with Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks, left, Friday, July 12, 2013. Snowden wants to seek asylum in Russia, according to a Parliament member who was among about a dozen activists and officials to meet with him Friday in the Moscow airport where he's been marooned for weeks. Duma member Vyacheslav Nikonov told reporters of Snowden's intentions after the meeting behind closed doors in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. (AP Photo/Human Rights Watch, Tanya Lokshina)MOSCOW (AP) — Edward Snowden emerged from weeks of hiding in a Moscow airport Friday, still defiant but willing to stop leaking secrets about U.S. surveillance programs if Russia will give him asylum until he can move on to Latin America.


Tens of thousands march for ousted Egyptian leader

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 02:45 PM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi offer their Friday prayer in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 12, 2013. Thousands of supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood group rallied in a Cairo city square, waving pictures of the ousted president and chanting anti-military slogans, deriding army chief who led Morsi's removal as CAIRO (AP) — Tens of thousands of Islamists rallied Friday in cities across Egypt, vowing to sustain for months their campaign to restore deposed President Mohammed Morsi to power.


Hundreds of new charges filed in Ohio kidnap case

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 03:42 PM PDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Month after month, year after year, the decade-long ordeal of three Cleveland women takes shape in the charges against the man accused of imprisoning them: August 2002, kidnapping. October 2005, rape. November 2006, aggravated murder.

FACT CHECK: Farm bill doesn't end food stamps

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 03:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2010 file photo, Temeka Williams, right, of Detroit, uses her EBT/Bridge Card tokens for a purchase from Elizabeth and Gary Lauber from Sweet Delights at the Farmer's Market in Detroit. House approval of a scaled-back farm bill is setting up what could be an even bigger fight over food stamps and the role of domestic food aid in the United States. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — One after another, angry Democrats took to the House floor to say Republicans would increase hunger in America by stripping food stamps from the farm bill.


Winfrey's OWN announces Lohan post-rehab interview

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 03:49 PM PDT

FILE - This April 11, 2013 file photo shows actress Lindsay Lohan, a cast member in "Scary Movie V," at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles. OWN announced that the network will air an exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey and Lindsay Lohan that will tape and air in August and an eight-part documentary series with Lindsay for 2014. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Lindsay Lohan gets out of rehab this summer, Oprah Winfrey will be waiting to talk to her.


Pierce, Garnett to Nets as blockbuster finished

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 03:35 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Feeling he was close to a deal for Paul Pierce, a thought crossed Billy King's mind.

Texas Democrats question abortion restrictions

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 03:38 PM PDT

Opponents and supporters of abortion rights gather in the State Capitol rotunda in Austin, Texas on Friday afternoon, July 12, 2013. The Texas Senate's leader, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, has scheduled a vote for Friday on the same restrictions on when, where and how women may obtain abortions in Texas that failed to become law after a Democratic filibuster and raucous protesters were able to run out the clock on an earlier special session. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa)AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrats in the Texas Senate on Friday questioned whether proposed abortion restrictions are constitutional and whether they would make it more difficult for women in the state to obtain health care.


Child becomes 3rd casualty of Asiana crash

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 03:41 PM PDT

Asiana flight 214 is dismantled and hauled to a hangar at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, July 12, 2013. Two people were killed and over 180 injured when the Boeing 777 crashed July 6 as it struck the seawall on the approach to runway 28L, knocking off the plane's tail. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, Jane Tyska)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hospital officials say a girl on the Asiana Airlines flight has died from her injuries, becoming the third casualty of the crash in San Francisco.


Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano resigning

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 01:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 25, 2012 file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. U.S. officials say Napolitano is resigning to take a senior posting in the University of California system. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced her resignation Friday to take over the University of California system, leaving behind a huge department still working to adjust to the merger of nearly two dozen agencies after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.


Police: Teen in Asiana crash hit by fire truck

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 02:10 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One of the two Chinese teenagers killed in the Asiana Airlines disaster was hit by a fire truck while covered with firefighting foam, authorities said Friday, revealing a startling detail that suggested she could have survived the crash only to die in its chaotic aftermath.

Woman: 'Visions' led her to dead California boy

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 03:57 PM PDT

A photo released by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department is of Terry Dewayne Smith Jr., 11, an autistic boy who went missing from his Manifee, Calif., home on Saturday, July 6, 2013. Hundreds of people will resume the search today Tuesday July 9,2013, for Smith in Riverside County, where temperatures have topped 100 degrees. (AP Photo/Riverside County Sheriff's Department)SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Pam Ragland was watching a TV report about the search for an 11-year-old California boy missing in a rural town miles away when she felt something wasn't right.


Al-Qaida-linked gunmen kill Syrian rebel commander

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 12:02 PM PDT

This Tuesday, July 9, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian rebels running during heavy clashes with Syrian soldiers loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, in the Salah al-Din neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. Syria is entering its third year of a war that began as an uprising against the rule of President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida-linked gunmen killed a rebel commander in Syria aligned with the Western-backed militias fighting against Bashar Assad's regime, the highest-profile casualty of growing tensions between moderate and jihadi fighters among rebel forces.


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