2013年10月24日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Ex-NSA chief allegedly spills 'secrets' on train

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 02:29 PM PDT

In this Sunday, June 30, 2013, photo provided by CBS News former CIA and and National Security Agency director Michael Hayden speaks on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Hayden called for more transparency on secret US surveillance program to reassure Americans that their privacy rights are being protected. He said people would be more comfortable with the programs if they knew more about how and why they are carried out. Hayden defended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, that approves government requests together records. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)Michael Hayden is also overheard demanding anonymity.


Congress setting a low bar in budget negotiations

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 03:06 PM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., walk to a news conference after voting on a measure to avert a threatened Treasury default and reopen the government after a partial, 16-day shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. The bill moves next to the Republican-controlled House. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Formal budget negotiations are under way for the first time since 2009, and lawmakers are on both sides are taking great pains to keep expectations very, very low.


Photos: A ghost town on Staten Island

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 01:21 PM PDT

Photos: A ghost town on Staten Island1A boarded-up house displays several inspection stickers requiring repairs at 88 Foxbeach Ave. in Oakwood, Staten Island, Thursday, October 17, 2013. Many residents of Oakwood Beach received emergency money from New York State and FEMA. Others are unable to rebuild without aid. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

Obama calls for immigration law by end of the year

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 04:47 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden applauds at left as President Barack Obama urges Congress to take back up comprehensive immigration reform during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. Obama said now that the partial government shutdown is over, Republicans and Democrats should be able to work together to fix what he called "a broken immigration system." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama made a plea for Republican cooperation on immigration Thursday, seeking common ground by year's end in the aftermath of the divisive partial government shutdown. Yet prospects for success this year remain a long shot even as a handful of House GOP lawmakers push for more limited measures.


Portugal reopens missing Madeleine case, new leads

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 12:18 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo made available by the London Metropolitan Police, shows missing British girl Madeleine McCann before she went missing from a Portuguese holiday complex on Thursday, May 3, 2007. Portuguese prosecutors have ordered the reopening of the police investigation into the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann, after a review of evidence found new leads in the case, Portugal's public broadcaster and British police said Thursday Oct. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/London Metropolitan Police)LISBON, Portugal (AP) — More than six years after British girl Madeleine McCann vanished from her bedroom during a family vacation in Portugal and five years after Portuguese police gave up trying to find her, authorities reopened the case Thursday, citing new evidence.


Behind the wheel, Saudi women hope for new gains

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 11:55 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, June 17, 2011 file image made from video released by Change.org, a Saudi Arabian woman drives a car as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It's been a little more than two years since the last time women in Saudi Arabia campaigned for the right to drive. Since then, the monarchy has made incremental but key reforms, and activists hope that has readied the nation for greater change as they call for women to get behind the wheel in a new campaign Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. Ultraconservatives are pushing back with protests, threats and even a cleric's warning that driving a car damages a woman's ovaries.(AP Photo/Change.org, File)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — It's been a little more than two years since the last time women in Saudi Arabia campaigned for the right to drive. Now activists are calling for women to get behind the wheel again Saturday, and they hope reforms made by the monarchy since then have readied the deeply conservative nation for change.


Former Ohio doctor guilty in expectant mom's death

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 02:54 PM PDT

FILE-In this May 1, 2013 file photo shows Lori Ballman holding a tribute to her late daughter, Deanna, at her home in Pataskala, Ohio. Ali Salim, a former Ohio doctor pleaded guilty Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 in the heroin death of Deanna, an expectant mother who died after answering a Craigslist ad. Salim pleaded guilty to two counts of involuntary manslaughter, one count of tampering with evidence and one count of abuse of a corpse. Datko says Salim also entered a type of guilty plea to a count of rape where he maintains his innocence but acknowledges prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins, File)COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio doctor accused of killing a pregnant woman last year by injecting her with heroin after she answered a Craigslist ad pleaded guilty Thursday in her death and that of her nearly full-term unborn child.


FDA wants limits on most prescribed painkillers

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 05:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2013 file photo, hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen pills, also known as Vicodin, are arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 recommended new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is recommending new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S.


Twitter sets $17 to $20 per share range for IPO

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 03:37 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 18, 2013, file photo shows a Twitter app on an iPhone screen in New York. Twitter Inc. said in a regulatory filing Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, that it is putting forth 70 million shares in the initial public offering. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has set a price range of $17 to $20 per share for its initial public offering and says it could raise as much as $1.6 billion in the process. The pricing is relatively conservative considering that Twitter is poised to pull off the year's hottest IPO.


No replay yet: World Series umps reverse bad call

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 02:57 PM PDT

Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell argues a call with umpire Dana DeMuth during the first inning of Game 1 of baseball's World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, in Boston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)BOSTON (AP) — Just think how much we like to watch wild arguments in baseball, when a manager flaps his arms, throws his hat and hollers nose-to-nose at the umpire while the spit flies.


FDA wants limits on most prescribed painkiller

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 04:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2013 file photo, hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen pills, also known as Vicodin, are arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 recommended new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is recommending new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S.


2 shot at Nat'l Guard armory; gunman in custody

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 04:33 PM PDT

A patient believed to be one of the National Guardsmen injured near the naval base in Millington, Tenn., was taken to The Med in Memphis, Tenn., early Thursday afternoon, Oct. 24, 2013. Two ambulances arrived carrying two injured men shortly after the shooting ocurred. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Karen Pulfer Focht)MILLINGTON, Tenn. (AP) — A member of the National Guard opened fire at an armory outside a U.S. Navy base in Tennessee, wounding two soldiers before being subdued and disarmed by others soldiers, officials said Thursday.


Classmate: Accused Mass. teen stayed after school

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 04:32 PM PDT

Parents and Danvers High School students hold candlelight vigil to mourn the death of Colleen Ritzer, a 24-year-old math teacher at Danvers High School, on Wednesday, Oct 23, 2013, in Danvers, Mass. Ritzer's body was found in woods behind the school, and Danvers High School student Philip Chism, 14, who was found walking along a state highway overnight, was charged with killing her. (AP Photo/ Bizuayehu Tesfaye)DANVERS, Mass. (AP) — A teacher who was allegedly killed by one of her students had asked him to stay after school the day she was killed, a classmate said Thursday, as students met with grief counselors and tried to come to grips with the slaying of the popular teacher.


Student: Accused Mass. teen stayed after school

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 01:29 PM PDT

Parents and Danvers High School students hold candlelight vigil to mourn the death of Colleen Ritzer, a 24-year-old math teacher at Danvers High School, on Wednesday, Oct 23, 2013, in Danvers, Mass. Ritzer's body was found in woods behind the school, and Danvers High School student Philip Chism, 14, who was found walking along a state highway overnight, was charged with killing her. (AP Photo/ Bizuayehu Tesfaye)DANVERS, Mass. (AP) — A teacher who was allegedly killed by one of her students had asked him to stay after school the day she was killed, a classmate said Thursday, as students met with grief counselors and tried to come to grips with the slaying of the popular teacher.


WTC concourse opens in area shut since 9/11

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 01:21 PM PDT

ADDS THAT THE AREA HAD BEEN CLOSED SINCE 9/11 - People view the newly opened commuter concourse, an underground passageway linking the World Trade Center PATH station with Brookfield Place, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 in New York. The passageway, which had been closed since 9/11, is part of a nearly $4 billion redevelopment of the World Trade Center site that includes a new transportation hub scheduled to be completed in 2015. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)NEW YORK (AP) — The first piece of a nearly $4 billion redevelopment of the World Trade Center transportation hub debuted Thursday with the official opening of an underground concourse that passes through an area that has been closed since 9/11.


Dallas officer who shot mentally ill man fired

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 02:49 PM PDT

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police say an officer who shot a mentally ill man in a disputed incident caught on tape has been fired.

'Fogmageddon' rolls through Seattle

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 12:46 PM PDT

FogmageddonA dense fog has been blanketing Seattle for the past week, but is this odd weather pattern a record breaker?


Germany: 'Spying among friends, that cannot be'

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 12:52 PM PDT

German Chancellor Merkel waits for start of constitutional meeting of Bundestag in BerlinBRUSSELS (AP) — European leaders united in anger Thursday as they attended a summit overshadowed by reports of widespread U.S. spying on its allies — allegations German Chancellor Angela Merkel said had shattered trust in the Obama administration and undermined the crucial trans-Atlantic relationship.


HealthCare.gov pushed too soon, say contractors

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 10:44 AM PDT

Cheryl Campbell, senior vice president of CGI listens at left as Andy Slavitt, representing QSSI's parent company, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government's responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)HealthCare.gov was pushed too soon, say contractors who built it.


Two shot at Nat'l Guard armory; shooter in custody

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 12:19 PM PDT

Generic ShootingMILLINGTON, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a member of the National Guard opened fire at an armory outside a U.S. Navy base in Tennessee, wounding two soldiers before being taken into custody.


Red Cross releases more Sandy funds

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 09:33 AM PDT

'Rising Waters: Photographs from Hurricane Sandy' unvieled at Museum of the City of New YorkThe group has come under fire for allegedly denying aid to survivors.


Shooting at Navy facility in Tenn.; 1 in custody

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 11:48 AM PDT

Generic ShootingMILLINGTON, Tenn. (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a U.S. Navy facility in Tennessee before being taken into custody Thursday, wounding two service members and prompting a lockdown, the military said.


Satellite detects mysterious moving lights in the Atlantic Ocean

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 08:38 AM PDT

Moving lights spotted in the Atlantic (image: NASA)Those weird lights in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean — what are they?


Former Indiana trooper cleared in family's deaths

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 12:36 PM PDT

In this Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, file photo, former Indiana State Police trooper David Camm, second left, arrives at the Boone County Courthouse in Lebanon, Ind., for his trial for the September 2000 murders of his wife and children. Jurors in Boone County on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 cleared Camm in the Sept. 28, 2000, deaths of 35-year-old Kimberly Camm and their children, 7-year-old Brad and 5-year-old Jill. All three were found fatally shot in the garage of the family's home in the southern Indiana community of Georgetown. The deaths occurred about four months after Camm had resigned from the Indiana State Police force to take a job with his uncle. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Charlie Nye, File) NO SALESLEBANON, Ind. (AP) — A former Indiana state trooper who has maintained his innocence in the slayings of his wife and two young children for 13 years finally found a jury that agrees with him.


Pirates kidnap two American sailors in Nigeria

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 02:37 PM PDT

Pirates Singled Out Americans in Ship Attack Off Nigeria, Official SaysUS-Flagged Ship Attacked, 2 Americans Likely Taken to Land


Teen stabbed Mass. teacher then went to movie, police say

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 01:51 PM PDT

A girl lights a candle at a makeshift memorial for teacher Colleen Ritzer outside the high school where she taught in DanversBOSTON (Reuters) - The Massachusetts teenager charged in the murder of a 24-year-old math teacher at his high school used a box cutter to stab the woman, then disposed of her body and went to the movies, local media reported on Thursday. Philip Chism, 14, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to the charge of murdering Colleen Ritzer, whose body was found in the woods behind his high school in Danvers, Massachusetts, some 20 miles north of Boston. ...


Online abuse victims reach out to parents—and get results

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 10:14 AM PDT

Sarah Ball, a victim of cyber bullying during her high school years, sits for a portrait at her home on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, in Spring Hill, Fla. Ball, now a student at a nearby community college, maintains a Facebook site called "Hernando Unbreakable", an anti-bullying page and mentors local kids identified by the schools as victims of cyberbullying. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco)WASHINGTON (AP) — Sarah Ball was a 15-year-old high school sophomore at Hernando High School in Brooksville, Fla., when a friend posted on Facebook: "I hate Sarah Ball, and I don't care who knows."


HealthCare.gov fixes will meet deadlines, contractors say

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 08:23 AM PDT

Witnesses are pictured during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in WashingtonThe glitch-ridden Obamacare website will be ready by Dec. 15.


Hillary Clinton silences a heckler — and presses for civility in D.C.

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 08:15 AM PDT

Former U.S. Secretary of State and former first lady Hillary Clinton speaks during a Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) conference in New York September 25, 2013.Hillary Clinton solves the deadlock in Washington while silencing a heckler.


Burned, flooded Breezy Point tries to rebuild

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Hurricane Sandy - Then and nowA year after Sandy about half of the community is back—and a sense of uncertainty.


French, UN forces in 'large-scale' operation against Mali extremists

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 09:36 AM PDT

French soldiers man their positions while clashes erupt in the city of Gao on February 21, 2013Paris (AFP) - French, UN and Malian forces were engaged in a major operation aimed at preventing a resurgence of Islamist rebels in Mali, the French military said Thursday.


Obamacare 101: Enroll by March 31 to avoid penalty

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 06:06 AM PDT

A man looks over the Affordable Care Act signup page on the HealthCare.gov website in New York in this photo illustrationThe Obama administration has clarified the deadline.


Madeleine McCann probe reopens in Portugal

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 08:13 AM PDT

Kate and Gerry McCann pose with an artist's impression of how their missing daughter Madeleine might look now, at a press conference in central London on May 2, 2012Lisbon (AFP) - Portuguese authorities said Thursday they are reopening their probe into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from an Algarve beach resort in 2007, news hailed by the British girl's parents.


Germany summons US ambassador over spying

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 03:12 AM PDT

La canciller de Alemania, Angela Merkel, al centro, conversa con representantes de los socialdemócratas en Berlín, Alemania, el miércoles 23 de octubre de 2013, al comenzar las negociaciones para la coalición de gobierno. En el ámbito externo, Merkel se ha abstenido de censurar el espionaje de Estados Unidos a los aliados europeos de Washington. (AP Foto/Michael Sohn)The move follows allegations that the NSA may have tapped Chancellor Merkel's cellphone.


Tests suggest baby born with HIV may be cured

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 04:06 AM PDT

First child 'functionally cured' of HIV remains in remission, scientists announceDoctors now have convincing evidence that they put HIV into remission, hopefully for good, in a Mississippi baby born with the AIDS virus — a medical first that is prompting a new look at how hard and ...


Self-driving cars would be great, study claims

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 04:23 AM PDT

,FILE -This Sept. 3, 2013, file photo shows a videographer photographing the Google self-driving car during a news conference at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute's Smart Road in Blacksburg Va. A new study that attempts to quantify the benefits of self-driving cars and trucks says they hold the potential to transform driving by eliminating the majority of traffic deaths, significantly reducing congestion and providing tens of billions of dollars in economic benefits. (AP Photo / The Roanoke Times, Matt Gentry, File)Computers would be safer, cheaper, and faster.


California police 'kill boy carrying pellet gun'

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 02:31 AM PDT

A BB gun modeled on an assault rifle at a gun buyback at Sayre Woods Bible Church on September 27, 2013 in Old Bridge, New JerseyWashington (AFP) - Californian police have shot dead a 13-year-old boy who was carrying a pellet gun that looked like an assault rifle, police and media reports said.


Red Sox rout Cardinals in Game 1 of World Series

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JonBenet grand jury docs to be released

Posted: 23 Oct 2013 07:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 24, 2000 file photo, Patsy Ramsey and her husband, John, parents of JonBenet Ramsey, look on during a nws conference in Atlanta regarding their lie-detector examinations for the murder of their daughter. A Colorado judge on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 ordered the release of the 1999 grand jury indictment in the killing of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, possibly shedding light on why prosecutors decided against charging her parents in her death. Patsy Ramsey died in 2006. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)The documents could shed light on why the girl's parents were never charged in her death.


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