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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

NYC mayor: 'More could have been done' on snow

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 03:37 PM PST

The sun illuminates windblown snow as a man walks under elevated train tracks, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, in Philadelphia. A winter storm stretched from Kentucky to New England and hit hardest along the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor between Philadelphia and Boston. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)NEW YORK (AP) — Northeasterners scraped and shoveled Wednesday after a snowstorm grounded flights, shuttered schools and buried roads with a surprising amount of snow, leaving biting cold in its wake. The atmosphere was particularly frosty in New York, where the new mayor acknowledged flaws in the cleanup and some residents complained that schools remained open while children elsewhere in the region stayed home.

Lawyers: Case against ex-Va. governor no slam dunk

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 04:21 PM PST

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell makes a statement as his wife, Maureen, listens during a news conference in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. McDonnell and his wife were indicted Tuesday on corruption charges after a monthslong federal investigation into gifts the Republican received from a political donor. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife are accused of taking at least $165,000 in loans and gifts to help the chief executive of a health supplement company peddle his products. But proving the couple broke the law may be difficult.

Ukraine opposition sets 24-hour deadline

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 02:17 PM PST

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian opposition leaders issued a stark ultimatum to President Viktor Yanukovych on Wednesday to call early elections within 24 hours or face more popular rage, after at least two protesters were killed in confrontations with police in a grim escalation of a two-monthlong political crisis.

Woman shot at Nev. hospital dies; husband charged

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 05:02 PM PST

This photo provided by the Carson City Sheriff 's Departmentshows William Dresser. Dresser was arrested Sunday Jan. 19, 2014, after firing one shot with small-caliber semi-automatic handgun that struck his wife in the chest at Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center in Carson City. Dresser was placed on suicide watch at a local jail. (AP Photo/Carson City Sheriff Department)CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — An 86-year-old Nevada woman shot by her husband while hospitalized died Wednesday and her spouse of more than six decades was charged with murder, authorities said.

Internet community helps crack grandma's code

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 05:04 PM PST

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When a brain tumor took away Dorothy Holm's ability to speak, she picked up index cards and began filling them, edge to edge, with seemingly random, indecipherable sequences of letters. Her grandchildren saw her scribbling and thought she was leaving them a code — but it was one the preteens couldn't crack.

NY boy killed in fire hailed as hero for saving 6

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 05:04 PM PST

PENFIELD, N.Y. (AP) — An 8-year-old boy who died while trying to rescue his disabled grandfather from a burning mobile home had saved the lives of six relatives after being awoken by a burning blanket, authorities said.

California couple welcomes identical triplets

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 12:51 PM PST

This photo taken Jan. 17, 2014 released by Miller Children's Hospital Long Beach, shows April and Brad Dooley holding their newly born identical triplets, from left to right, Patrick, Owen and Liam at the Long Beach Memorial, Miller Children's Hospital in Long Beach, Calif. Dooley's three sons were born in roughly 4-minute intervals on Jan.13, 2014 at a combined weight of 14 pounds, 9 ounces. (AP Photo/ Miller Children's Hospital Long Beach)LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California woman has given birth to identical triplets, instantly doubling the size of her family.

Obama targets college sexual assault epidemic

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 12:58 PM PST

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, center, meet with, from left, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls, Tina Tchen, who is also the Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, to discuss the Council on Women and Girls. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama shone a light Wednesday on a college sexual assault epidemic that is often shrouded in secrecy, with victims fearing stigma, police poorly trained to investigate and universities reluctant to disclose the violence.

Court won't stop execution of Mexican national

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 01:45 PM PST

This handout image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Edgar Tamayo. Attorneys for the Mexican national on Texas death row for the slaying of a Houston police officer hoped a civil suit, challenging what they argued is an unfair and secretive clemency process in the nation's most active capital punishment state would block the inmate's scheduled execution this week. Tamayo, 46, was set for lethal injection Wednesday evening, Jan. 22, 2014, in Huntsville. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Mexican national moved a step closer to lethal injection Wednesday when a federal appeals court rejected a claim that he was mentally impaired and ineligible to be put to death for the fatal shooting of a Houston police officer 20 years ago.

Script in the works for possible new Cosby sitcom

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 02:07 PM PST

FILE - This Nov. 18, 2013 photo shows actor-comedian Bill Cosby in New York. NBC is confirming that Cosby is developing a possible new sitcom he would star in. The deal brings the 76-year-old entertainer together with a writing staff to create a script for a comedy that casts Cosby as the patriarch of a multigenerational family. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK (AP) — NBC is confirming that Bill Cosby is developing a possible new sitcom he would star in.

'Idol,' football score week's Nielsen win for Fox

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 04:19 PM PST

Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman holds up the George Halas Trophy after the NFL football NFC Championship game against the San Francisco 49ers Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014, in Seattle. The Seahawks won 23-17 to advance to Super Bowl XLVIII. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)NEW YORK (AP) — Last week, it was Fox's turn to shine.

Yanks, Masahiro Tanaka agree to $155M, 7-year deal

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 01:28 PM PST

FILE - In this March 12, 2013, file photo, Japan's Masahiro Tanaka pitches against the Netherlands in the fifth inning of a World Baseball Classic second round game at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. The New York Yankees and Tanaka agreed on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, to a $155 million, seven-year contract. In addition to the deal with the pitcher, the Yankees must pay a $20 million fee to the Japanese team of the 25-year-old right-hander, the Rakuten Golden Eagles. (AP Photo/Toru Takahashi, File)NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees and prized Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka agreed Wednesday to a $155 million, seven-year contract.

Telescope spies water plumes on dwarf planet Ceres

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 12:59 PM PST

This artist rendering released by IMCCE (Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides) shows water plumes spewing from the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres. Scientists led by the European Space Agency observed the plumes and reported their findings in the Jan. 23, 2014 issue of the journal Nature. (AP Photo/ IMCCE, Paris Observatory, CNRS)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The largest object in the asteroid belt just got more attractive: Scientists have confirmed signs of water on the dwarf planet Ceres, one of the few bodies in the solar system to hold that distinction.

Ex-Cowboy convicted in teammate's death

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 02:04 PM PST

Former Dallas Cowboys NFL football player Josh Brent arrives at court for closing arguments in his intoxication manslaughter trial Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, in Waco, Texas. Lawyers wrapped up their closing arguments Tuesday morning before the case went to the jury for deliberations. Prosecutors accuse the former defensive tackle of drunkenly crashing his Mercedes near Dallas during a night out in December 2012, killing his good friend and teammate, Jerry Brown. (AP Photo/LM Otero)Josh Brent convicted of intoxication manslaughter for crash that killed close friend Jerry Brown.

Israel says it foiled al-Qaida plot on U.S. Embassy

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 03:06 PM PST

U.S. embassy in Tel AvivJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Wednesday said it had foiled an "advanced" al-Qaida plan to carry out a suicide bombing on the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and bomb other targets, in what analysts said was the first time the global terror network's leadership has been directly involved in plotting an attack inside Israel.

Wacky Wednesday: Average temp in Lower 48 colder than Alaska

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 12:54 PM PST

A commuter exhales in freezing tempters in the aftermath of a snowstorm Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, in Philadelphia. The average temperature for the Lower 48 US Wednesday morning was 22. The average Alaska temperature at the same time was 24. While Washington and other cities are looking at forecast highs in the 20s, Anchorage is looking at the mid 40s and a ski slope closure. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)WASHINGTON (AP) — The weather seems more than a bit upside down.

Gitmo prisoners use yoga to battle feelings of ‘hopelessness’

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 11:31 AM PST

Inside the Gitmo Media TourGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Exactly five years after President Barack Obama signed an executive order shutting down the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, 155 men are still detained there, most without charge.

Family-owned marijuana shop plans to become 'Costco of weed'

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 09:05 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2014 file photo, employees help customers at the crowded sales counter inside the Medicine Man marijuana retail store, in Denver. A group of marijuana activists want another pot vote in Colorado, to loosen restrictions on who can have it. A proposed ballot measure up for state review Wednesday Jan. 14, 2014 would end criminal penalties for cannabis possession. If approved, the measure would effectively discard Colorado's 1-ounce possession limit and 21-and-over restriction. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)The pot business is booming in Colorado, and the owners of one of the state's largest marijuana dispensaries have big plans: to become the "Costco of weed."

Miss. biodiesel plant fire could burn for days

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 01:34 PM PST

A fire at a biodiesel facility near New AlbanyHighway Patrol says agencies are assessing any possible environmental danger to the public.

Video: Dramatic standoff in Kiev

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Syrian peace talks stuck on Assad's future

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 10:01 AM PST

File photo of mural of Syria's President Assad riddled with holes on the facade of the police academy in Aleppo after it was captured by Free Syrian Army fightersThe dispute cast a pall over the international conference to end the nation's civil war.

Ukraine prosecutors: 2 dead men killed by live ammo

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 08:20 AM PST

A police officer beats a protester during clashes in central Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. Police in Ukraineís capital on Wednesday tore down protester barricades and chased demonstrators away from the site of violent clashes, hours after two protesters died after being shot, the first violent deaths in protests that are likely to drastically escalate the political crisis that has gripped Ukraine since late November. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Two people were shot to death early Wednesday in anti-government protests in Ukraine, the first fatalities in the increasingly heated clashes with police in the streets of the Ukrainian capital, raising concerns that the movement is spiraling into a more dangerous phase of violence.

Fire rages at Mississippi biodiesel plant

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 09:05 AM PST

a fire at a biodiesel facility near New Albany, Miss.The blaze was so hot, firefighters could not get close enough to fight it, police say.

Despite Sochi security, Homeland Security panel chief still worries

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 06:16 AM PST

U.S. Congressman, Rep. Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, stands of a balcony of his hotel which overlooks the Olympic Park, in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. Michael McCaul who was in Sochi on Tuesday to assess the situation said he was impressed by the work of Russian security forces but troubled that potential suicide bombers had gotten into the city despite all of the extraordinary security measures. (AP Photo/Nataliya Vasilyeva)WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says safety measures undertaken by the Russian government at the Sochi site of the Olympics are the "most impressive" in the history of the Games.

U.S. slams Syrian diplomat for 'inflammatory' speech at peace talks

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 03:54 AM PST

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem listens during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. Syria's Foreign Minister said Friday that his country is prepared to implement a cease-fire in the war-torn city of Aleppo and exchange detainees with the country's opposition forces as confidence building measures ahead of a peace conference opening next week in Switzerland. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) — The United States is criticizing Syria's top diplomat for his "inflammatory" speech at an international peace conference aimed at ending the country's brutal conflict.

Syria foes clash over Assad, atrocities at first meeting

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 11:42 AM PST

By John Irish and Stephanie Nebehay MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - Syria's government and opposition, meeting for the first time at a U.N. peace conference, angrily spelled out their hostility on Wednesday as world powers also offered sharply divergent views on forcing out Bashar al-Assad. Opposition leader Ahmed Jarba accused the president of Nazi-style war crimes and demanded the Syrian government delegation at the one-day meeting in Switzerland immediately sign up to an international plan for handing over power. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem insisted Assad would not bow to outside demands and painted a graphic picture of "terrorist" rebel atrocities supported by Arab and Western states who back the opposition and were present in the room. The United States and Russia, co-sponsors of the conference which U.N. officials hope will lead to negotiations in Geneva from Friday, also revealed their differences over Assad during a day of formal presentations at Montreux on Lake Geneva.

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