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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Another snowstorm snarls life in Northeast

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 04:36 PM PST

A UPS delivery man struggles to push a cart through Columbus Circle as snow falls in New YorkSwirling storm stretching 1,000 miles grounds thousands of flights, closes D.C. offices.

Obama and Putin talk Olympics, Iran and Syria in phone call

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:48 PM PST

Obama and Putin's Testy RelationshipPresident Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed in a phone call on Tuesday how best to have a "safe and secure" Winter Olympics in Sochi, the White House said. Amid rising concerns about threats from militants to disrupt the Sochi games, the U.S. military is making two ships in the Black Sea available should American support be required during the Olympics. A White House statement about the phone call gave few details about what exactly was discussed by Obama and Putin. But it said the two leaders talked about how best to advance shared U.S.-Russian interests, "including a safe and secure Sochi Olympics, for which the United States has offered its full assistance." Reuters reported on Sunday that U.S. military and intelligence officials have been studying contingency plans for evacuating Americans from the games in case of a crisis.

Toronto's Rob Ford admits to new rambling, drunk video

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Toronto's Rob Ford admits to new rambling, drunk video

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 12:32 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, file photo, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford arrives for a news conference at City Hall in Toronto. Ford has put his name on the ballot to run for another term and was the first candidate to show up at City Hall when registration opened Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, for the city's municipal election Oct. 27. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young, File)If you're the type of person who wants to see more video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford apparently drunk, slurring and swearing in public, look no further. A new video of an inebriated Ford has appeared on YouTube.

One dead in shooting at Purdue University

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:58 PM PST

Purdue University shootingA suspect has been taken into custody, according to the Indiana school.

Ex-Virginia Gov. McDonnell indicted

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 03:22 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2013 file photo, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, center, accompanied by Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, left, and Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, right, speaks in Richmond, Va. Virginia is conducting nothing short of a grand political experiment, testing whether a tea party favorite can carry a closely divided state. If Ken Cuccinelli succeeds, he will undercut Republican moderates' claims that hard-right ideologies are hurting the party, and undoubtedly intensify a debate already roiling the GOP. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, once viewed as a rising star in the GOP, and his wife were indicted Tuesday on federal corruption charges accusing the couple of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in loans, shopping sprees, money for their daughter's wedding — and even a joyride in a Ferrari — from the owner of a company that makes health supplements.

Pope tells global elite at Davos forum: Prioritize poverty

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 11:29 AM PST

Pope Francis speaks in Rome on January 19, 2014Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) - Pope Francis on Tuesday called on the world's political and business elite gathered in Davos to use their spirit of entrepreneurship to alleviate crushing global poverty. Ahead of the annual meeting of the global elite that ends Saturday, the charity Oxfam issued a report that said inequality had run so out of control, that the 85 richest people on the planet "own the wealth of half the world's population."

Polar vortex, Part II? Nah, It's just winter

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 10:57 AM PST

Two women walk their dogs along a frozen snow covered beach in ChicagoFace it — "polar vortex" is fun to say. "It's always there and always will be there," said Bob Oravec, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in College Park, Md. "There's always a polar vortex." The polar vortex is a winter weather pattern that circles the Arctic, spinning west to east, trapping cold air in the high latitudes. Researchers named the polar vortex in the 1950s (there is a similar vortex over Antarctica, just FYI).

Russia's 'black widows' tied to decade of terror

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 11:20 AM PST

A photo of a police leaflet seen in a Sochi hotel on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, depicting Dzhannet Tsakhayeva, right, and Zaira Aliyeva. Russian security officials are hunting down three potential female suicide bombers, one of whom is believed to be in Sochi, where the Winter Olympics will begin next month. Police leaflets seen by an Associated Press reporter at a central Sochi hotel on Tuesday contain warnings about three potential suicide bombers. The police leaflet reads: "Please remember those faces, terrorists may be among us now. If you happen to know anything about them please call 02....". (AP Photo/Natalya Vasilyeva)MOSCOW (AP) — The search for three women suspected of planning terrorist attacks at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics has raised one of Russia's most feared specters — the female suicide bombers known as "black widows." For more than a decade, women have committed many of Russia's worst terror attacks, downing airliners, blowing up subway cars and killing people going to a rock concert.

Republican Sen. David Vitter will run for La. governor in 2015

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:52 AM PST

Why are Republicans unhappy with immigration reform?"This will be my last political job, elected or appointed," Vitter says. "Period."

Obama's pot comments could help legalization efforts in states

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:05 AM PST

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)President Barack Obama's comments on marijuana, published in the New Yorker magazine over the weekend, could help legalization efforts in several states, including Oregon.

New mass grave discovered in Central African Republic

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:26 AM PST

In this Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014 photo, a French soldier looks on as the body of a lynched Muslim man is burned by a crowd, in Bangui, Central African Republic. Residents of the Sango neighborhood, who said they were acting in revenge for the lynching of a taxi driver from Sango a day earlier, killed two Muslim men on Sunday, burning their bodies at a central roundabout. Two other Muslim passerbys escaped to the protection of French and African peacekeeping forces. (AP Photo/Herve Serefio)PARIS (AP) — French intelligence services have reported the discovery of a new mass grave in Central African Republic, France's defense minister said Tuesday.

Winter storm halts travel, closes schools

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:39 AM PST

A woman pulls a cart as she walks across the street covered with snow, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, in Jersey City, N.J. A storm is expected to hit the northern New Jersey region throughout the day. Because of hazardous driving conditions New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's inauguration party at Ellis Island was cancelled. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)The latest blast brings bitter cold and to up 12 inches of snow to the eastern U.S.

'Why wasn't the church looking out for us?'

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 03:26 PM PST

FILE - In this March 14, 2013, file photo, Chicago Cardinal Francis George speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Rome, Italy. Internal documents showing how officials from the Archdiocese of Chicago handled allegations of child sexual abuse by priests are about to become public when victims' attorneys post the documents to a website Tuesday morning, Jan. 21, 2014, after receiving them from the archdiocese last week as part of legal settlements. The documents are for 30 of 65 priests for whom the archdiocese says it has credible allegations. George says the disclosures are an attempt at transparency and to help victims heal. He's also apologized to victims and area Catholics for the abuse. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)Documents detail church's indifference to sexual abuse by Chicago priests.

Japan dolphin slaughter draws unusual U.S. rebuke

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 06:54 AM PST

In this Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 photo provided by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, a rare albino calf swims with its mother as bottlenose dolphins are confined in nets by fishermen in Taiji, western Japan. Japanese fishermen have finished killing some of the 250 dolphins trapped recently in what activists say was the biggest roundup they have witnessed in the last four years. Sea Shepherd, best known for its anti-whaling activities, said the fishermen first selected 52 dolphins to keep alive for sale to aquariums and other customers. (AP Photo/Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) NO SALESFishermen in Japan have begun slaughtering dozens of bottlenose dolphins, ignoring protesters' calls to spare the animals and a rare public show of concern by the US government. The annual hunt in Taiji, a picturesque whaling town on the Pacific coast, began early Tuesday morning, according to activists from the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group who are monitoring the fishermen.

Christie takes oath amid scandal, touts mandate

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 12:13 PM PST

As wife Mary Pat Christie holds the Bible, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is sworn in for his second term by New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, right, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, in Trenton, N.J. Mired in a scandal, Christie sought to turn back the clock Tuesday and focus on the mandate he said he got in November to "stay the course" and put aside differences, even as Democrats ramped up an investigation into whether his administration abused its power. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie sought to turn back the clock as he was sworn into a second term Tuesday, saying voters gave him a mandate in November to "stay the course" and put aside partisan differences, even as Democrats ramped up an investigation into whether his administration abused its power.

Obama, Francis to meet amid shared economic view

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:10 PM PST

FILE - This Dec. 8, 2013 file photo shows Pope Francis as he arrives at the Spanish Steps to pray at the statue of the Virgin Mary, in central Rome on the occasion of the Immaculate Conception feast. President Barack Obama will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican as part of a European trip scheduled for March. The White House says Obama WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama meets Pope Francis in the Vatican in March, both men will speak a common economic language rooted in similar views about poverty and income inequality, giving prominence to an issue that the U.S. president wants to be a central theme of his second term.

New videos of Toronto mayor emerge

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 04:40 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday Dec. 10 2013, file photo, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford attends a news conference at City Hall in Toronto. A new video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford emerged Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, that shows him swearing and slurring his words while apparently trying to imitate a Jamaican accent. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press Chris Young, File)TORONTO (AP) — A new video of Mayor Rob Ford emerged Tuesday that shows him swearing and slurring his words while apparently trying to imitate a Jamaican accent.

Officials identify remains of missing NYC teen

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 03:21 PM PST

David Perecman, the attorney for Vanessa Fontaine, Avonte Oquendo's mother, speaks during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The human remains found last week along the East River belong to Avonte, an autistic teen who walked out of his school more than three months ago and vanished, the medical examiner's office said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — Human remains found along the East River last week are the body of an autistic teen who vanished more than three months ago after walking out of his school in the middle of the day, the city's medical examiner confirmed Tuesday.

Psych screening for Md. women held in kids' deaths

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 03:06 PM PST

This photo released by the Montgomery County Police Dept shows Zakieya Latrice Avery, 28. Montgomery County Police charged 21-year-old Monifa Denise Sanford and Avery with murder in the deaths of two of Avery's children, a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old. The women are also facing attempted murder charges for injuring the children's siblings, ages 5 and 8. (AP Photo/Montgomery County Police Dept.)ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — Two women who police say killed two young children while performing what they thought was an exorcism will remain held without bond and will have psychiatric evaluations to determine if they are competent to stand trial, a judge said Tuesday.

AP source: Players wanted A-Rod out of union

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 04:09 PM PST

Alex Rodriguez speaks during a news conference at his gym in Cancun, Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Alex Rodriguez says his season-long suspension could be a benefit, allowing him to rest and return to the Yankees for the final three years of his contract. Rodriguez was suspended for violating baseball's drug agreement and labor contract. (AP/Israel Leal)NEW YORK (AP) — Several angry major league players wanted Alex Rodriguez kicked out of their union after he sued it last week, but staff lawyers told them expulsion was not allowed.

New videos of Toronto mayor emerges

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 04:36 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday Dec. 10 2013, file photo, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford attends a news conference at City Hall in Toronto. A new video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford emerged Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, that shows him swearing and slurring his words while apparently trying to imitate a Jamaican accent. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press Chris Young, File)TORONTO (AP) — A new video of Mayor Rob Ford emerged Tuesday that shows him swearing and slurring his words while apparently trying to imitate a Jamaican accent.

New video of Toronto mayor emerges

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 03:36 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday Dec. 10 2013, file photo, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford attends a news conference at City Hall in Toronto. A new video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford emerged Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, that shows him swearing and slurring his words while apparently trying to imitate a Jamaican accent. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press Chris Young, File)TORONTO (AP) — A new video of Mayor Rob Ford emerged Tuesday that shows him swearing and slurring his words while apparently trying to imitate a Jamaican accent.

Thailand declares state of emergency for protests

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 03:16 PM PST

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's government on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding areas to cope with protests that have stirred up violent attacks, adding to the country's monthslong sense of crisis.

Goodell suggests ditching the PAT kick

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 03:55 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2014, file photo, Denver Broncos kicker Matt Prater (5) kicks an extra point as Broncos punter Britton Colquitt (4) holds during the fourth quarter of an AFC divisional playoff NFL football game against the San Diego Chargers in Denver. NFL Commissions Roger Goodell doesn't want to stand pat with the PAT. He's suggesting potential changes in the extra point that, well, might have some legs.(AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)Roger Goodell doesn't want to stand pat with the PAT. He's suggesting potential changes in the extra point that, well, might have some legs.

Brutality of Syria war casts doubt on peace talks

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 11:52 AM PST

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's conflict was sparked by an act of brutality — the detention and torture of schoolchildren who spray-painted anti-government graffiti in a southern city. In the three years since, the conflict has evolved into one of the most savage civil wars in decades.

Old Man Winter knocks again: Storm threatens eastern U.S.

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 05:52 AM PST

Winter Storm Targets East CoastAnother batch of heavy snow and frigid temperatures hits eastern U.S.

U.S. offers to send envoy to North Korea to free jailed missionary

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 10:50 PM PST

By Jack Kim and David Chance SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States has offered to send a special envoy to North Korea to win the release of a jailed missionary, but signaled that any meaningful talks with Pyongyang will require it to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons. Kenneth Bae, 45, has been held for more than a year by the North, which has convicted him of trying to overthrow the state and sentenced him to 15 years hard labor. Bae, a Korean American, was paraded in front of a group of foreign and local reporters on Monday and asked Washington to help him get home, the North's state news agency and foreign media based in Pyongyang reported.

2 nabbed at Texas border in credit card fraud case

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 12:06 PM PST

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Two Mexican citizens who were arrested at the border used account information stolen during the Target security breach to buy tens of thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise, according to a South Texas police chief.

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