2013年12月10日星期二

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Bye, sequestration! (For now. Maybe.)

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 04:14 PM PST

Murray and Ryan depart after a news conference to introduce The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 at the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonBipartisan budget negotiators reached a compromise Tuesday. Will Congress agree?


China: Smog is good for you

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 09:46 AM PST

Smog in ChinaChinese government says smog also makes you funnier, assists in national defense.


On eve of Newtown anniversary, $100 million in mental health aid

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:46 PM PST

A banner bearing the names of the victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy hangs before family members arrive to give a statement just before the one year anniversary of the disaster in Sandy HookBy Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a new push to increase access to mental health services with $100 million in new government funding nearly a year after a school shooting rampage in Newtown, Connecticut. Biden, who spearheaded a failed Obama administration campaign for stronger gun control measures following the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, met with families of the victims and mental health advocates. "The fact that less than half of children and adults with diagnosable mental health problems receive the treatment they need is unacceptable," he said in a statement. President Barack Obama has said the worst day of his presidency was December 14, 2012, the day a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at the school before turning a gun on himself.


Obama-Castro handshake draws criticism

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 10:09 AM PST

US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cuban President Raul Castro at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, South Africa, in the rain for a memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela, Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013. The handshake between the leaders of the two Cold War enemies came during a ceremony that's focused on Mandela's legacy of reconciliation. Hundreds of foreign dignitaries and world heads of states gather Tuesday with thousands of South African people to celebrate the life, and mark the death, of Nelson Mandela who has became a global symbol of reconciliation. (AP Photo) SOUTH AFRICA OUTSen. John McCain likens the greeting with the Cuban leader to shaking hands with Hitler.


Mystery 'Tips for Jesus' tipper identified in NYC

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 08:25 AM PST

Jack SelbyThe generous mystery tipper who has been leaving waiters and waitresses across the country thousands of dollars in "Tips for Jesus" was identified by a New York City waiter as Jack Selby, former PayPal vice president.


Bipartisan budget deal reached

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 04:37 PM PST

FILE - This Oct. 17, 2013, file photo shows House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., on Capitol Hill in Washington. Bipartisan budget negotiators are working toward a modest budget agreement to replace tens of billions of dollars in spending cuts this year and next with longer-term savings and revenue from increased fees. Ryan and Murray are hopeful of striking an agreement as early as Tuesday afternoon. (AP Photo/ Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Shedding gridlock, key members of Congress reached a modest budget agreement Tuesday to restore about $63 billion in automatic spending cuts from programs ranging from parks to the Pentagon.


Obama scrutinized at memorial

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 09:28 AM PST

US President Barack Obama (R) and British Prime Minister David Cameron pose for a picture with Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt (C) next to US First Lady Michelle Obama (R) in Johannesburg on December 10, 2013An unexpected handshake. A selfie. A seat change. Obama was under the microscope Tuesday.


Study: Good looks mean good grades

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 11:12 AM PST

Students taking an exam. (Thinkstock)If you have a symmetrical face. If you have nice teeth. If you can be accurately described as "pretty darn good looking, all things considered" then good news — you have yet another advantage you might not have known about. You're more likely to get good grades.


Will anyone care if Congress fails to pass a budget resolution?

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 11:36 AM PST

The morning sun illuminates the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, as the government teeters on the brink of a partial shutdown at midnight unless Congress can reach an agreement on funding. U.S. stock futures fell sharply Monday morning as the government careened toward closures that would force 800,000 federal workers off the job without pay. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Failing to pass a budget won't ruin anyone's Christmas.


Six, including four kids, found alive in northern Nevada

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 12:15 PM PST

Some of the area being searched for two adults and four children missing in Nevada's Pershing County is shown Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. Rescue teams racing against the clock and the bitter cold are working into the night and are hoping to resume an aerial search Tuesday for a couple and four children who have been missing since Sunday when they went to play in the snow in the remote mountains of northwest Nevada. (AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Marilyn Newton) NO SALES; NEVADA APPEAL OUT; SOUTH RENO WEEKLY OUTRENO, Nev. (AP) — A member of a search team on Tuesday found two adults and four children who had been missing in the frigid mountains of northern Nevada for the past two days.


Snowstorm cripples travel, closes schools and government

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 12:59 PM PST

Photos of the day - December 10, 2013PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A snowstorm pushed into New England on Tuesday, making for messy travel conditions after causing widespread school and government closures in the nation's capital and elsewhere along the Eastern seaboard.


Regulators seek to curb risky Wall Street trades with new rule

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:23 PM PST

A Wall Street sign outside the New York Stock ExchangeBy Emily Stephenson and Douwe Miedema WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. banks will no longer be able to make big trading bets with their own money after regulators on Tuesday finalized the Volcker rule and shut down what was a hugely profitable business for Wall Street before the credit crisis. After struggling for more than two years to craft the complex rule, five regulatory agencies signed off on the nearly 900-page reform that included new tough sections narrowing carve-outs for legitimate trades. The rule is expected to eat into revenues at large investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, even if many have already wound down some of their trading desks in anticipation of the rule's release, and may spark legal challenges. That's going to be a really important document," said Bradley Sabel, a lawyer at Shearman and Sterling in New York.


Obama: Make Mandela's life work your own

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 11:22 AM PST

People hold a portrait of former South African President Mandela during his Memorial Service in JohannesburgThe U.S. president urged the world to carry on his legacy.


Nobel Peace laureate urges holdouts to join chemical weapons pact

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 08:28 AM PST

Uzumcu, director general of the OPCW delivers a speech during the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony at the City Hall in OsloThe head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today, appealed to the remaining six countries outside the Chemical Weapons Convention to join the organization's quest to rid the world of chemical weapons.   OPCW director general Ahmet Üzümcü said that there was no longer any "reasonable defense" for Angola, Egypt, Israel, Myanmar, North Korea, and South Sudan not to ratify the convention after the recent international reaction to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. "It is my fervent hope that this award will spur on efforts to make the Chemical Weapons Convention a truly universal norm," Mr. Üzümcü told the hundreds of Nobel Lecture attendees at Oslo City Hall. "We cannot allow the tragedy that befell the people of Ghouta [site of the Aug. 21 chemical attack in Syria] to be repeated."


Obama shakes hands with Cuba's Raul Castro

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:41 PM PST

In this image from TV, U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cuban President Raul Castro at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, South Africa, in the rain for a memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela, Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013. The handshake between the leaders of the two Cold War enemies came during a ceremony that's focused on Mandela's legacy of reconciliation. Hundreds of foreign dignitaries and world heads of states gather Tuesday with thousands of South African people to celebrate the life, and mark the death, of Nelson Mandela who has became a global symbol of reconciliation. (AP Photo/SABC Pool)HAVANA (AP) — It was the briefest of moments, just seconds, two presidents shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries amid a gaggle of world leaders together to honor the late Nelson Mandela.


GM executive to be 1st woman to head major car co.

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 04:19 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013, file photo, General Motors Senior Vice President Mary Barra is seen during presentation of the North American Car & Truck of the Year at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Barra was named GM CEO on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, making her the first woman to lead a U.S. car company. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)DETROIT (AP) — Mary Barra has spent the past three years as General Motors' product chief, making cars that drive better, last longer and look good in showrooms.


6 missing adults, children found alive in Nevada

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 04:25 PM PST

Officials wheel in two of the children after a group of six people arrive at Pershing General Hospital after being lost for two days in the frigid mountains near Lovelock, Nev., Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)RENO, Nev. (AP) — A desperate search for a couple and four children missing for two days in the below-zero cold of Nevada's rugged mountains turned jubilant Tuesday when rescuers guided in part by cellphone signals and footprints in the snow found them alive and well near their overturned Jeep.


AP Interview: Egypt's Moussa defends draft charter

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 12:31 PM PST

Amr Moussa, the chairman of Egypt's 50-member panel tasked with amending its Islamist-drafted constitution, talks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Shoura Council in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. Egypt's veteran diplomat and liberal politician Moussa said a constitution drafted by a 50-member panel he chaired will offer unprecedented guarantees for democracy, individual freedoms and gender equality. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — The chairman of a panel that wrote Egypt's draft constitution defended the document Tuesday as guaranteeing democracy and freedoms, but he offered cautious criticism of a recent law restricting street protests.


Suit: Marine's body sent home to Pa. without heart

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 03:07 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the family via attorney Aaron J. Freiwald shows U.S. Marine Brian LaLoup who died in 2012 while stationed in Greece. LaLoup's parents, Coatesville Pa. residents said when his body arrived home in Pennsylvania his heart was missing, and they've sued the Department of Defense. On Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, his mother, Beverly LaLoup, said a heart was later sent to them, but it wasn't her son's. (AP Photo/LaLoup Family)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The parents of a Marine sergeant who died while stationed in Greece say that they discovered weeks after his funeral that his body had been sent home without a heart — and that the Department of Defense later gave them somebody else's heart in its place.


Figure skating champ Lysacek out of Sochi Games

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 03:37 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2013, file photo, Olympic figure skating champion Evan Lysacek poses for a portrait at the 2013 Team USA Media Summit, in Park City, Utah. Lysacek,the reigning Olympic figure skating champion, announced Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 that a torn labrum in his left hip will keep him from competing in the winter Olympics in Sochi. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, File)Evan Lysacek woke up every morning praying this would be the day the excruciating pain in his left hip — "like you're being electrocuted" — would subside. And every day when he stepped on the ice, the searing throb of pain reminded him that passion alone can't fuel a dream.


Modest Eastern snowstorm brings closures, delays

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:57 PM PST

A woman walks past Independence Hall during a winter snowstorm Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, in Philadelphia. Accumulations of 3 to 6 inches were expected as the National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for the Eastern Seaboard, including Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A modest snowstorm pushed through New England on Tuesday, causing messy travel conditions and widespread school and government closures along the Eastern seaboard despite bringing less accumulation than expected.


GM names Mary Barra CEO, 1st woman to head car co.

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 03:28 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013, file photo, General Motors Senior Vice President Mary Barra is seen during presentation of the North American Car & Truck of the Year at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Barra was named GM CEO on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, making her the first woman to lead a U.S. car company. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)DETROIT (AP) — Mary Barra has spent the past three years as General Motors' product chief, making cars that drive better, last longer and look good in showrooms.


Ukraine's leader makes offer; critics say no deal

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:08 PM PST

Riot police block an opposition tent camp while displacing pro-European Union activists from their barricades at the Ukrainian presidential administration building in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. Heavily armed riot troops broke into the offices of a top Ukrainian opposition party in Kiev and seized its servers Monday, the party said, as anti-government protests crippled the capital for yet another day. Elsewhere police dismantled or blocked off several small protest tent camps set up near key national government buildings in the city. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Aiming to defuse a political standoff that threatens his leadership, President Viktor Yanukovych called Tuesday for the release of the demonstrators arrested in the massive protests sweeping Kiev and vowed that Ukraine is still interested in integrating with Europe.


Gunmen abduct Syria's leading human rights lawyer

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:07 PM PST

This image made on a government-organized media tour for local journalists shows people returning to the western town of Nabek, which Syrian troops took full control of a day earlier after taking the nearby highway that links the capital, Damascus, with the central city of Homs, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. State media said that the capture of the town comes as the government forges ahead with a punishing offensive in a mountainous region near the border with Lebanon. (AP Photo)NABEK, Syria (AP) — Masked gunmen abducted a leading Syrian human rights lawyer and three other prominent activists in a rebel-held Damascus suburb Tuesday in a new sign that al-Qaida linked militants who have joined the fight against President Bashar Assad are trying to silence rivals in the opposition movement.


2 French troops die disarming C. African rebels

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:52 PM PST

French President Francois Hollande, left, addresses the troops during a stopover from South Africa in Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013. Two French soldiers were killed in combat overnight since France stepped up its presence to restive the former French colony to help quell inter-religious violence. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — More than 500 people have been killed over the past week in sectarian fighting in Central African Republic, aid officials said Tuesday, as France reported that gunmen killed two of its soldiers who were part of the intervention to disarm thousands of rebels accused of attacking civilians.


Local leaders planning for climate effects

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:36 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2013, file photo, a guardrail hangs away from a closed canyon road, which links Boulder with the mountain town of Nederland, and which is washed out in places by recent flooding, up Boulder Canyon, west of Boulder, Colo. When it comes to climate change, local officials have a message for Washington: Lead or get out of the way. Matthew Appelbaum, mayor of Boulder, Colo., says the first thing the federal government should do is not make things worse. He says officials should reconsider policies that encourage rebuilding in flood zones and forested areas vulnerable to wildfires.(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to climate change, local officials have a message for Washington: Lead or get out of the way.


Weapons watchdog receives Nobel Peace Prize

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 02:22 PM PST

Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjorn Jagland speaks during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in City Hall Oslo Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013 The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is to receive the 2013 Peace Nobel Prize for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Cornelius Poppe / NTB scanpix) NORWAY OUTOSLO, Norway (AP) — Recalling the "burning, blinding and suffocating" horrors of chemical weapons, the head of a watchdog trying to consign them to history accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, as prize winners in medicine, physics and other categories also took bows for their awards.


Snow blankets U.S. East; Washington offices, many schools closed

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:15 PM PST

People make their way during the arrival of a snowstorm in Jersey City, New JerseyThe East Coast's first significant snowfall of the season dumped as much as 6 inches on northern Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and southern New England, according to the National Weather Service. By midday the storm had blown through Washington, D.C., where federal government offices were shut for the day, the Office of Personnel Management said. In neighboring Delaware, Governor Jack Markell announced state offices were shut and urged residents to stay off dangerously slick roads. "People were just sliding into one another." In Oklahoma, the medical examiner said winter weather was responsible for 11 deaths ranging from traffic accidents on icy roads to falling into icy waters.


Oregon football player suspended for snowball fight

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Obama, Cuba's Raul Castro shake hands

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World leaders, South Africans honor Mandela

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 07:12 AM PST

U.S. President Obama greets the crowd at the memorial service for Mandela in JohannesburgObama received a warm welcome from the crowd as addressed Mandela's legacy.


World leaders gather to honor Mandela

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:04 AM PST

EXCLUSIVE MANDELA MEMORIALWATCH LIVE: Some 100 heads of state join tens of thousands of South Africans.


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