2013年7月25日星期四

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NTSB says Southwest jet's nose gear landed first

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 04:20 PM PDT

NTSB: Southwest jet's nose gear landed firstSixteen passengers suffered minor injuries during Flight 345's landing Monday.

Prince Harry will watch out for his new nephew — and be the fun uncle

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 12:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 23, 2013 file photo, Britain's Prince William carries his new born son, the Prince of Cambridge, who was born on Monday. into public view for the first time. outside the Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital, in London. Royal officials say Britain's new prince has been named George Alexander Louis. Palace officials said Wednesday, July 24, 2013, that the 2-day-old baby and third-in-line to the throne will be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, Pool, File)LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has laid out his mission as an uncle: protect the newest member of his family, and make sure Britain's little prince has fun.

Muted after 9/11, NSA critics find their voice

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:45 PM PDT

FILE - his June 6, 2013 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. After 9/11, there were no shades of gray. There are plenty now. The vigorous debate over the collection of phone records, and the narrow House vote to maintain the practice, buries any notion that challenging the national security efforts of the government is out of line, even unpatriotic. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — After 9/11, there were no shades of gray. There are plenty now.

Feds charge hedge fund SAC Capital in NY case

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 04:52 PM PDT

A sign is displayed in front of SAC Capital Advisors headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thursday, July 25, 2013. The hedge fund operated by embattled billionaire Steven A. Cohen was hit with white-collar criminal charges Thursday that accused the fund of making hundreds of millions of dollars illegally, and a related government lawsuit said insider trading was pervasive and unprecedented at the firm. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — One of Wall Street's biggest and most successful hedge fund companies was a hotbed of insider trading and its embattled billionaire owner wanted to hear no evil, prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed Thursday that claimed the firm earned hundreds of millions of dollars illegally.

Feds: Halliburton agrees to plead guilty in spill

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 04:45 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Halliburton Energy Services has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence in connection with the 2010 Gulf oil spill, the Department of Justice said Thursday.

Prosecutors: Manning abused his country's trust

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 04:10 PM PDT

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse at Fort Mead, Md, Thursday, July 25, 2013. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WikiLeaks. He faces up to life in prison. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was a traitor with one mission as an intelligence analyst in Iraq: to find and reveal government secrets to a group of anarchists and bask in the glory as a whistleblower, a prosecutor said Thursday during closing arguments.

Report: Teen HPV vaccination rate still lagging

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 04:47 PM PDT

FILE - A nurse holds up a vial and box for the HPV vaccine, brand name Gardasil, at a clinic in Kinston, N.C. on Monday March 5, 2012. In 2012, only about half of U.S. teenage girls have gotten a the cervical cancer vaccine - a rate that's changed little in three years. (AP Photo/Daily Free Press, Charles Buchanan)ATLANTA (AP) — Only about half of U.S. teenage girls have gotten a controversial cervical cancer vaccine — a rate that's changed little in three years.

Fire out on Gulf well that 'snuffed itself out'

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 03:23 PM PDT

A fire is seen on the Hercules 265 drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Natural gas spewed uncontrolled from the well on Tuesday after a blowout that forced the evacuation of 44 workers aboard the drilling rig, authorities said. No injuries were reported in the blowout. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A drilling rig that caught fire after a natural gas blowout in the Gulf of Mexico appears stable now that the fire is out, and there was no sign of any oil sheen on a fly-over Thursday morning, a rig company executive said.

Lobsterman survives night in sea, thanks to boots

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 03:23 PM PDT

John Aldridge describes Thursday, July 25, 2013, in Oakdale, N.Y., how he was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard off the coast of Montauk, N.Y., a day earlier after falling off a lobster fishing boat. Aldridge spent about 12 hours in the water clinging to a pair of rubber boots to keep him afloat. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman)OAKDALE, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island lobsterman who spent 12 hours floating in the Atlantic Ocean after falling off his boat joked Thursday that he may have the two rubber boots that kept him afloat bronzed.

Officials: Cafe bombings, attacks kill 42 in Iraq

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Civilians inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A bomb exploded near a Sunni mosque in Baghdad's southern Dora neighborhood on Tuesday, killing four and wounding 12, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — Emboldened militants in Iraq set up their own checkpoint to kill drivers and bombed crowded cafes Thursday in the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed at least 42 people, authorities said.

Photos show Aaron Hernandez apparently holding gun

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 04:20 PM PDT

Former New England Patriots NFL football tight end Aaron Hernandez, left, appears at Attleboro District Court on Wednesday, July 24, 2013, in Attleboro, Mass. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of Odin Lloyd. Hernandez was in court for what was supposed to be a probable cause hearing, but prosecutors said the grand jury is still considering the evidence against him. A judge rescheduled the probable cause hearing for Aug. 22, after considering defense objections to a delay. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye)ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is holding what authorities have said is a gun in several surveillance photos that were released Thursday and had been recorded hours before — and minutes after — his friend was shot to death.

Egypt braces for day of rival rallies

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 04:12 PM PDT

A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi reads Quran in a tent at a camp near Cairo University in Giza, Egypt, Thursday, July 25, 2013. The Muslim Brotherhood's leader on Thursday made an unusually harsh attack on Egypt's military chief, saying his ouster of President Mohammed Morsi was a worse crime than even destroying the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — Political allies of Egypt's military lined up behind its call for huge rallies Friday to show support for the country's top general, pushing toward a collision with Islamist opponents demanding the return of the nation's ousted president.

4 Russians, 1 Ukrainian charged in massive hacking

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:54 PM PDT

U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman talks about the arrest of four Russian nationals and a Ukrainian, who have been charged with running a sophisticated hacking organization that over seven years penetrated computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations, during a news conference, Thursday, July 25, 2013, in Newark, N.J. The group, according to Fishman, is connected with stealing and selling at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers, resulting in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars. Princeton-based Heartland Payment Systems Inc., which processes credit and debit cards for small to mid-sized businesses, was identified as taking the biggest hit in a scheme starting in 2007 — the theft of more than 130 million card numbers at a loss of about $200 million. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Four Russian nationals and a Ukrainian have been charged with running a sophisticated hacking organization that penetrated computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations over seven years, stealing and selling at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers, resulting in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Source: Yankees plan A-Rod discipline over doctor

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 02:54 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2012, file photo, New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez watches from the dugout during Game 4 of the American League championship series against the Detroit Tigers in Detroit. Injuries have kept him off the field for more than half the season and now A-Rod faces discipline from Major League Baseball in its drug investigation, possibly up to a lifetime ban.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Already in trouble with Major League Baseball, Alex Rodriguez now faces a penalty from his own team.

Juror says she owes Martin's parents apology

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 02:19 PM PDT

This image released by ABC shows host Robin Roberts, left, with Juror B29 from the George Zimmerman trial, center, and attorney David Chico on "Good Morning America," in New York on Thursday, July 25, 2013. Portions of Roberts' interview with the only minority juror from the Zimmerman trial, will air on "World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer," and "Nightline" on Thursday and the full interview will air on "Good Morning America," on Friday. (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennevik)ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The second juror to speak publicly told ABC News in an interview made available Thursday that she feels George Zimmerman got away with murder for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, but that there wasn't enough evidence at trial to convict him under Florida law.

Reid: Hillary would be better president than Bill

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:22 AM PDT

ClintonTop Senate Democrat Harry Reid says not only will Hillary Clinton win in 2016, she'll also be a better president than Bill Clinton.

Senate wants sanctions on nations that help Snowden

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 12:11 PM PDT

A television screen shows former U.S. spy agency contractor Snowden during a news bulletin at a cafe at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airportWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. sanctions against any country offering asylum to Edward Snowden advanced in Congress Thursday as the 30-year-old National Security Agency leaker remained in a Moscow airport while Russia weighed a request for him to stay permanently.

Report: Plea deal offered to accused Cleveland kidnapper

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 09:58 AM PDT

Ariel Castro walks into the court room with his head down for a pre-trial hearing on charges including rape, kidnapping and murder in ClevelandA plea deal has been offered to the man accused of kidnapping three Cleveland women and raping them repeatedly while he held them in captivity at his home during the past decade, according to a Cleveland TV station.

Weiner admits sexting more women; polls shows declining popularity

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 10:11 AM PDT

AP10ThingsToSee - New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner leaves his apartment building in New York on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. The former congressman acknowledged sending explicit text messages to a woman as recently as last summer, more than a year after sexting revelations destroyed his congressional career. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)BROOKLYN, N.Y.—Anthony Weiner admitted that he exchanged sexual messages with at least three more women after a sexting scandal forced him out of Congress two years ago.

'Slum pope' tells residents not to lose hope

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 03:28 PM PDT

People greet Pope Francis, center, as he visits the Varginha slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, July 25, 2013. Francis on Thursday visited one of Rio de Janeiro's shantytowns, or favelas, a place that saw such rough violence in the past that it's known by locals as the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Pope Francis, dubbed the "slum pope" for his work with the poor, received a rapturous welcome Thursday from one of Rio's most violent shantytowns and demanded the world's wealthy end the injustices that have left the poor on the margins of society. He received an even more frenzied welcome as he opened a rain-soaked World Youth Day in a far different setting: Rio's upscale Copacabana Beach.

Iodized salt made Americans smarter: Study

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 07:06 AM PDT

Morton Salt CompanyA new study suggests that the addition of iodine to salt in 1924 might have improved the average IQ in some areas by as many as 15 points.

UN chief says over 100,000 people killed in Syria

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 08:02 AM PDT

Smoke rises after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in central HomsUNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday raised the death toll in Syria's civil war to more than 100,000, up from nearly 93,000 just over a month ago.

Wrigley Field's $500M facelift includes hotel, Jumbotron

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 05:51 PM PDT

FILE -This file photo shows an artist rendering provided May 1, 2013 by the Chicago Cubs showing planned renovations at Wrigley Field. On Wednesday, July 24, 2013, Chicago City Council aldermen are set to vote on proposed renovations at the historic ballpark. Under the deal, the Chicago Cubs agreed not to erect outfield signs in addition to a Jumbotron in left field and another sign in right. (AP Photo/Courtesy the Chicago Cubs, File)The Chicago Cubs, who have clung to the past the way ivy clings to Wrigley Field's outfield walls, won final approval Wednesday for a $500 million renovation project at the 99-year-old ballpark — including a massive Jumbotron like the ones towering over every other major league stadium.

Admiration, puzzlement over Weiner's loyal spouse

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:39 PM PDT

New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, left, listens as his wife, Huma Abedin, speaks during a news conference at the Gay Men's Health Crisis headquarters, Tuesday, July 23, 2013, in New York. The former congressman says he's not dropping out of the New York City mayoral race in light of newly revealed explicit online correspondence with a young woman. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)NEW YORK (AP) — When Huma Abedin first started getting media attention years ago, some people couldn't help but wonder what this beautiful, ambitious woman with high-fashion sense and a world-class Rolodex saw in Anthony Weiner.

The least 'honest' city in America is... you guessed it

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 06:25 PM PDT

Bipartisan groups push to limit NSA surveillance programsFor the second year in a row, residents of our nation's capital have proven themselves the most likely to steal a dollar from your pocket. Or, at least a bottle of tea.

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