2013年10月25日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


White House targeting young, uninsured

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 12:43 PM PDT

Ashley Hentze, left, of Lakeland, Fla., gets help signing up for health care from Kristen Nash, a volunteer with Enroll America, a private, non-profit organization running a grassroots campaign to encourage people to sign up for health care, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, Tampa, Fla. After months of build up, Florida residents can start shopping for health insurance on government-run online marketplaces as the key component of President Barack Obama's signature health care law. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)The health exchanges need them to offset the costs of older, sicker people.


Things you probably didn’t know about Ted Cruz

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 01:43 PM PDT

U.S. Senator Cruz answers questions during the Reuters Washington Summit in WashingtonLove him or hate him, it's safe to say Ted Cruz is currently the most compelling figure in U.S. politics today. Here are some fun facts about the influential Texas lawmaker.


JPMorgan paying $5.1B in Fannie, Freddie deal

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 03:30 PM PDT

A Twitter banner is seen inside JP Morgan headquarters, before Twitter's IPO in New YorkJPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $5.1 billion to resolve claims that it misled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac about risky home loans and mortgage securities it sold them before the housing market collapsed. ...


Syria claims al-Qaida linked group's leader killed

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 04:22 PM PDT

In this photo made from video released late Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a chemical weapons expert works at a chemical weapons plant at an unknown location in Syria. Norway has turned down a U.S. request to receive the bulk of Syria's chemical weapons for destruction because it doesn't have the capabilities to complete the task by the deadlines given, the Norwegian foreign minister said Friday. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state-run TV reported Friday that the leader of a powerful al-Qaida-linked rebel group has been killed — a claim that if confirmed would be a huge blow to fighters trying to topple President Bashar Assad. At least one rebel commander denied the report.


Tests prove Roma couple are mystery girl's parents

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:43 PM PDT

Mother Sasha Ruseva holds two-year-old Penka, one of her ten children, whom she claims is albino talks to journalists in the town of Nikolaevo , Bulgaria, Thursday Oct. 24, 2013. DNA tests have confirmed that a Bulgarian Roma couple living in the impoverished village with their nine other children are the biological parents of the girl found in Greece with another Roma couple, authorities said Friday. Genetic profiles of Sasha Ruseva, 35, and her husband, Atanas, matched that of Maria, Interior Ministry official Svetlozar Lazarov said Friday. Ruseva says she gave birth to a baby girl four years ago in Greece while working as an olive picker but gave the child away because she was too poor to care for her. She since has had two more children after Maria. Maria has been in a charity's care since authorities raided a Roma settlement in Greece last week and found she was not related to the Greek Roma couple she was living with. (AP Photo/BGNES) BULGARIA OUTNIKOLAEVO, Bulgaria (AP) — The mystery is solved — but the future of the young girl known only as Maria is still uncertain.


7.3-magnitude quake rocks Japan; no damage reports

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 01:42 PM PDT

Map locates where a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan; 1c x 3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76 mm;TOKYO (AP) — An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck early Saturday off Japan's east coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said, triggering small tsunamis but causing no apparent damage.


Patients, firms shop for better health care deals

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 10:37 AM PDT

Dr. Keith Smith, right, an anesthesiologist who started Surgery Center of Oklahoma, looks on as Dr. Don McGinnis, left, and physician's assistant Steve Popielec, right, perform a surgery at the center in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013. Through a website called Medibid, some patients who pay out of pocket for their care are soliciting doctors, hospitals and medical centers, including this one, to bid to perform non-emergency procedures. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)Paul Freeman drove 600 miles last year to save himself — and his employer — thousands of dollars on his surgery.


ND bishop exposes churchgoers to hepatitis A

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:28 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Catholic Diocese of Fargo, N.D., shows John Thomas Folda, bishop of the Fargo Catholic Diocese. Folda contracted the hepatitis A virus from contaminated food while attending a conference for newly ordained bishops in Italy in September, 2013. After returning home, he exposed potentially hundreds of churchgoers at four churches in Fargo and Jamestown, N.D., to the liver disease in late September and early October. The state Health Department has issued an advisory of exposure for anyone who was served communion at services attended by Bishop Folda during that time. (AP Photo/Catholic Diocese of Fargo, File)BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The bishop of the Fargo Catholic Diocese exposed some parishioners at North Dakota churches in Fargo, Grand Forks and Jamestown to the hepatitis A virus in late September and early October.


Conan O'Brien calls horse race at Santa Anita

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 04:30 PM PDT

Television host Conan O'Brien comments on the binoculars of long-time track announcer Trevor Denman, after O'Brien called a horse race at Santa Anita Park, the host track for next month's Breeders' Cup, the richest event in thoroughbred racing in Arcadia, Calif., Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. O'Brien hosts "Conan" weeknights on TBS. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Conan O'Brien brought his humor to the announcing booth on Friday at Santa Anita, calling a race that likely left fans wondering exactly which horse had won.


Black actor: NY Macy's stopped me because of race

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 03:59 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A black actor on the HBO drama series "Treme" said in a lawsuit on Friday that he was stopped because of his race while buying sunglasses at Macy's — the third discrimination allegation made this week by a black shopper against a department store.

Tenn. Guard recruiter held in superiors' shooting

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 03:19 PM PDT

Police vehicles and an ambulance block a road near a Tennessee National Guard armory where two Guard members were shot on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, in Millington, Tenn. A member of the National Guard opened fire at the armory outside a U.S. Navy base in Tennessee, wounding two soldiers before being subdued and disarmed by others soldiers, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee National Guard recruiter was charged in federal court on Friday, accused of shooting three of his superiors at an armory after he was told he would be relieved of duty and dismissed from active service.


Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr announce split

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2013 file photo, Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom arrive at the InStyle and Warner Bros. Golden Globe After Party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Bloom and Kerr confirmed the end of their marriage Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, saying they have been NEW YORK (AP) — The marriage of actor Orlando Bloom and model Miranda Kerr has ended — even as Bloom tackles one of the most romantic roles in history, Romeo.


Suspect slain in Mojave Desert shooting spree

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:42 PM PDT

RIDGECREST, Calif. (AP) — A man shot two people, one fatally, and then led police on a wild chase through the Mojave Desert with two hostages in his trunk before being killed in a gunbattle with police.

Jury sought child abuse charges against Ramseys

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 10:32 AM 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)BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A grand jury that reviewed evidence in the death of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey believed her parents were involved in the crime but didn't say who killed the beauty queen, according to documents released Friday, 14 years after the grand jury made its recommendation.


Syria says al-Qaida linked group's leader killed

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:04 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, dead bodies of Syrian rebels are seen on the ground after fighting with Syrian government forces according to SANA, near the Otaiba area, near Damascus, Syria, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. Syrian government troops on Friday ambushed rebels near the capital, Damascus, killing at least 40 opposition fighters, state media reported. The ambush was part of the military's offensive against rebel strongholds around President Bashar Assad's seat of power. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state-run TV claims the leader of the powerful al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra has been killed.


Black actor: NYC Macy's stopped me because of race

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 01:48 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A black actor on the HBO drama series "Treme" (treh-MAY') says he was stopped because of his race while buying sunglasses at a New York City Macy's department store and has filed a lawsuit against it.

Study: N.J. needs $28 billion to recover fully from Sandy

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 11:31 AM PDT

FILE - In a Feb. 25, 2013 file photo, the sun rises in Seaside Heights, N.J., behind the Jet Star Roller Coaster which has been sitting in the ocean after part of the Casino Pier was destroyed during Superstorm Sandy. Work is expected to start Tuesday afternoon, May 14, 2013 to remove the Jet Star coaster from the surf in Seaside Heights. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)A study by Rutgers University shows New Jersey needing another $28.4 billion to recover from Hurricane Sandy


Extra security as Mass. students return to school

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 03:30 PM PDT

Slain Teacher Colleen Ritzer Tweeted Her Students Tips, Jokes and EncouragementDANVERS, Mass. (AP) — Students at the Massachusetts school where a classmate allegedly killed a teacher returned Friday, surrounded by extra safety measures as well as tributes to the victim, including trees adorned with pink ribbons, her favorite color.


7.3-magnitude quake rocks Japan

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 11:31 AM PDT

File photo of a temple destroyed by an earthquake in Namie town, FukushimaTOKYO (AP) — An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck Saturday morning off Japan's east coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Japan's emergency agencies declared a tsunami warning for the area.


HealthCare.gov needs dozens of fixes

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 12:05 PM PDT

A man looks over the Affordable Care Act signup page on the HealthCare.gov website in New York in this photo illustrationBut most of the issues will be fixed by next month, says a consultant.


Ecuador threatens to sue Britain over Assange status

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 10:17 AM PDT

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange addresses members of the media and supporters from the window of the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge, west London on December 20, 2012Quito (AFP) - Ecuador threatened Friday to sue Britain in international venues over the status of Julian Assange if it rejects a proposal to submit the matter to a bilateral commission.


Nearly 300 N. Dakota oil spills not reported

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 10:12 AM PDT

In this Oct. 8, 2013 photo provided by the North Dakota Health Department, a vacuum trucks cleans up oil in near Tioga, N.D. The North Dakota Health Department says more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil have spewed out of a Tesoro Corp. oil pipeline in a wheat field in northwestern North Dakota. Officials say the 20,600-barrel spill, among the largest recorded in the state, was discovered on Sept. 29 by a farmer harvesting wheat about nine miles south of Tioga. (AP Photo/North Dakota Health Department)BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota, the nation's No. 2 oil producer behind Texas, recorded nearly 300 oil pipeline spills in less than two years, state documents show. None was reported to the public, officials said.


Sandy's sometimes forgotten victim

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 09:18 AM PDT

Hurricane Sandy FairfieldLike New York and New Jersey, a year later, Connecticut is still recovering.


Grand jury in 1999 indicted Ramseys in JonBenet's death

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 10:21 AM PDT

File photo of John and Patsy Ramsey addressing the media after completing two days of police interviews regarding the death of their daughter JonBenet Ramsey at their lawyer's office in AtlantaJurors found the girl's parents put her in a situation that resulted in her slaying.


DNA tests show Bulgarian Roma couple are parents of 'Maria'

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 10:10 AM PDT

Bulgarian Roma Sashka Ruseva holds her son Atanas as she speaks to media outside her house in the town of NikolaevoBy Tsvetelia Tsolova and Angel Krasimirov SOFIA (Reuters) - A Bulgarian Roma couple are the biological parents of a four-year-old blonde girl found in Greece last week, DNA tests showed on Friday, clearing some of the mystery around a case that has captured global attention. Bulgarian prosecutors are investigating whether the mother, Sasha Ruseva, 35, sold her child. Ruseva denies this, but admits leaving a seven-month-old baby in Greece - where she was working as an olive-picker - in 2009 because she could not look after the child and had to return to Bulgaria. ...


Meghan McCain dishes about her 'pain in the ass' dad

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 04:06 AM PDT

Meghan McCain Dishes About Her 'Pain in the Ass' Dad"Republicans are giving young people no reason to join their party right now."


Test proves Bulgarian woman mother of mystery girl

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 07:17 AM PDT

A video image taken by BGNES shows Bulgarian Roma mother Sasha Ruseva answering journalists' questions on October 24, 2013 in Nikolaevo, BulgariaSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — DNA tests have confirmed that a 35-year-old Bulgarian Roma woman is the mother of a mysterious girl in Greece known as Maria, authorities said Friday.


Hundreds of migrants rescued at sea near Italy

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 06:17 AM PDT

A video image released by the Guardia Costiera on October 25, 2013 shows immigrants inside an Italian coast guard boat after their rescue near LampedusaROME (AP) — The Italian coast guard says more than 700 migrants have been rescued near Sicily in less than 24 hours.


Jurors wanted abuse charges against Ramseys

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 08:11 AM 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)A 1999 grand jury indicted John Ramsey and Patsy Ramsey for child abuse.


A laugh at the expense of Merkel and Obama

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 07:18 AM PDT

Germany's Chancellor Merkel addresses a news conference during a EU leaders summit in BrusselsThe spying affair spawns good fodder for comedians.


UK police cast doubt on 3D-printed 'gun parts'

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 09:38 AM PDT

ADDS POLICE STATEMENT INDICATING DOUBTS - Undated handout photo made available by Greater Manchester Police in northern England Friday Oct. 25, 2013 of a component made with a 3D printer which was found by officers during a raid on suspected gang members in the Bagley area of Manchester. Police initially claimed the item was part of a plastic printed firearm but later Friday issued a statement that they "cannot categorically say" it was a gun. (AP Photo/Greater Manchester Police)LONDON (AP) — Police in northern England thought they'd made a major discovery, but they may have jumped the gun.


Unnamed diplomats worry Snowden docs could harm U.S. relations

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 07:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. Two Western diplomats say U.S. officials have briefed them on documents obtained by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that might expose the intelligence operations of their respective countries. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)Leaked NSA documents could expose the intelligence operations, they claim.


Mystery girl's suspected family lives in poverty

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 05:54 AM PDT

In this undated photo released by charity ''The Smile of the Child'' shows a 4-year-old girl at an unknown location. Greek authorities on Friday, Oct. 18, 2013 have requested international assistance to identify the four-year-old girl found living in a Gypsy camp with a couple arrested and charged with abducting her from her birth parents. A police statement says the child was located Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2013 near the town of Farsala, central Greece, during a nationwide crackdown on illegal activities in Gypsy camps. (AP Photo/The Smile of the Child)NIKOLAEVO, Bulgaria (AP) — Attempts to track down the biological parents of a blue-eyed blond girl found living with a Roma couple in Greece have led authorities to an impoverished Roma camp in neighboring Bulgaria, where a couple with several other children says the child might be theirs.


DNA confirms Bulgarian Roma couple as Maria's parents

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 08:56 AM PDT

A photo released by Greek police on October 18, 2013 shows an unidentified 4-year-old blonde girl who was found on October 17, 2013 near Farsala in central GreeceSofia (AFP) - DNA tests confirmed Friday a Bulgarian Roma couple living in dire poverty as the biological parents of Maria, a mystery blonde girl discovered last week in a Greek Roma camp.


Open season: 3D-printed gun parts seized by UK police

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 03:53 AM PDT

Undated handout photo made available by Greater Manchester Police in northern England Friday Oct. 25, 2013 of a plastic gun trigger made with a 3D printer which was found by officers during a raid on suspected gang members in the Bagley area of Manchester. Police said Friday that if the gun were viable it would be the first such seizure in Britain. (AP Photo/Greater Manchester Police)LONDON (AP) — British police said Friday they have seized components of a gun made from plastic on a 3-D printer and are testing to see whether it was a viable weapon.


A Biden 'comeback'? He never left

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:26 AM PDT

President Barack Obama, center, and Vice President Joe Biden, center left, meet with Democratic Leadership in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, in Washington. Sitting with them are from left to right, Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y. The partial government shutdown is in its third week and less than two days before the Treasury Department says it will be unable to borrow and will rely on a cash cushion to pay the country's bills. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Is there a Biden-shaped hole in your life? Fret not.


Greek police arrest 2 suspected of buying baby

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:59 AM PDT

In this undated photo released by charity ''The Smile of the Child'' shows a 4-year-old girl at an unknown location. Greek authorities on Friday, Oct. 18, 2013 have requested international assistance to identify the four-year-old girl found living in a Gypsy camp with a couple arrested and charged with abducting her from her birth parents. A police statement says the child was located Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2013 near the town of Farsala, central Greece, during a nationwide crackdown on illegal activities in Gypsy camps. (AP Photo/The Smile of the Child)The couple allegedly paid a Roma woman 4,000 euros ($5,500) for the baby.


Cleaning Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 10:45 AM PDT

File photo shows a man walking among temporary housing structures erected for workers battling Japan's nuclear disaster, near tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima prefectureBy Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito IWAKI, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Tetsuya Hayashi went to Fukushima to take a job at ground zero of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. He lasted less than two weeks. Hayashi, 41, says he was recruited for a job monitoring the radiation exposure of workers leaving the plant in the summer of 2012. Instead, when he turned up for work, he was handed off through a web of contractors and assigned, to his surprise, to one of Fukushima's hottest radiation zones. He was told he would have to wear an oxygen tank and a double-layer protective suit. ...


Frustrated by Healthcare.gov, some consumers buy off exchange

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 10:16 PM PDT

A man looks over the Affordable Care Act signup page on the HealthCare.gov website in New York in this photo illustrationBy Caroline Humer NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans hitting roadblocks on the new U.S. government-run healthcare website have been contacting insurers directly and enrolling in plans away from the federal marketplace, representing a lost opportunity for President Barack Obama's landmark reform. Since its launch on October 1, technical problems have stalled Healthcare.gov, the website meant to help millions of uninsured Americans sign up for coverage as part of the biggest U.S. social program since Medicare plans for the elderly launched in the 1960s. ...


Merkel: U.S. spying has shattered allies' trust

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 09:52 PM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, is greeted by Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, right, as French President Francois Hollande, left, walks by during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. A two-day summit meeting of EU leaders is likely to be diverted from its official agenda, economic recovery and migration, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel complained to U.S. President Barack Obama that U.S. intelligence may have monitored her mobile phone. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)European leaders united in anger over reports of widespread U.S. spying on its allies.


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