2014年2月24日星期一

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Ariz. gov. urged to veto religious freedom bill

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 03:38 PM PST

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer walks towards the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, after the National Governors Association met with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Critics line up against bill that would allow businesses to deny service to gays and lesbians.


'Microbial Pompeii' found on 1,000-year-old human teeth

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 03:33 PM PST

'Microbial Pompeii' Found on Teeth of 1,000-Year-Old SkeletonsA "microbial Pompeii" has been found on the teeth of 1,000-year-old human skeletons. Just as volcanic ash entombed the citizens of the ancient Roman city, dental plaque preserved bacteria and food particles on the skeletons' teeth. Researchers analyzed dental plaque from skeletons in a medieval cemetery in Germany, and found that the mouths of these aged humans were home to many of the same bacterial invaders that cause gum disease in the mouths of modern humans. "One thing that is clear about the population we studied is that they didn't brush their teeth very often, if at all," said study leader Christina Warinner, an anthropologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and the University of Oklahoma in Norman.


Polar vortex redux?

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 10:37 AM PST

Winter Comes Back: Return of the Polar Vortex?Frigid Arctic air on its way to the northern U.S. could create coldest event of the season.


New link between common pain reliever and risk of ADHD

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 01:27 PM PST

Acetaminophen, a common pain reliever considered safe for pregnant women, has been linked for the first time to an increased risk of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder in children, said a studyAcetaminophen, a common pain reliever considered safe for pregnant women, has been linked for the first time to an increased risk of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder in children, said a study Monday. More studies are needed to confirm the findings, but experts said the research points to a new potential cause for the worldwide rise in cases of ADHD, a neuro-behavioral condition which has no known cause and affects as many as five percent of US children. Women who took acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol, while pregnant had a 37 percent higher risk of having a child who would be later given a hospital diagnosis of hyperkinetic disorder, a particularly severe form of ADHD, said the study in February 24 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics.


Governors get into on-camera dispute outside White House

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 12:54 PM PST

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, center, speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, following a meeting between President Barack Obama and members of the National Governors Association (NGA). From left are, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, NGA Chair, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, Jindal, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's governors emerged from a meeting with President Barack Obama on Monday claiming harmony, only to immediately break into an on-camera partisan feud in front of the West Wing.


Epic spelling bee is stopped after organizers run out of words

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 10:50 AM PST

Spelling Bee Runs Out of WordsHow do you spell a spelling bee that goes 66 rounds in more than four hours and causes the organizers to run out of words? The answer is T-I-E, for now. Sophia Hoffman, a fifth-grader at Highland Park Elementary School in the Kansas City suburb...


Defense secretary seeks big cuts to Army

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 10:43 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2014 file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon. A U.S. official says that as part of the proposed 2015 defense budget, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel is recommending shrinking the Army to its smallest size in decades. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Facing new priorities, Hagel says military must adjust to reality of smaller budgets.


Harold Ramis, known for 'Ghostbusters,' 'Groundhog Day,' dies at 69

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Climate case has Supreme Court divided on EPA's power

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 09:35 AM PST

FILE - This Oct. 15, 2013, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington the day the court's justices said they would be reviewing whether or not the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its authority in developing rules aimed at cutting emissions of six heat-trapping gases from factories and power plants. Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, the Court will hear arguments on the unanimous federal appeals court ruling that upheld the government's unprecedented regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)The justices on take on a politically-charged issue of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.


Big thud: Record-breaking meteorite crashes into moon

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 08:39 AM PST

Record-Breaking Meteorite Crash on Moon Sparks Brightest Lunar Explosion Ever"At that moment I realized that I had seen a very rare and extraordinary event," Jose Madiedo, a professor at the University of Huelva, said in a statement. The space rock hit at a staggering speed of 37,900 mph (61,000 km/h), gouging out a new crater roughly 131 feet (40 meters) wide in an ancient lava-filled lunar basin known as Mare Nubium, Madiedo and colleagues said. If a space rock this size hit the Earth, it might create some spectacular fireball meteors, but it likely would not pose a threat to people on the ground, researchers explained. During that crash, a space rock hit at an estimated 56,000 mph (90,000 km/h), carving a new crater 65 feet (20 meters) wide.


New Uganda anti-gay law provides for prison sentences

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 12:34 PM PST

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signs a new anti-gay bill that sets harsh penalties for homosexual sex, in Entebbe, Uganda Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Museveni on Monday signed the controversial anti-gay bill into law, with penalties including 14 years in jail for first-time offenders and life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for "aggravated homosexuality", saying it is needed to deter what he called the West's "social imperialism" promoting homosexuality in Africa. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie)ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's president on Monday signed an anti-gay bill that punishes gay sex with up to life in prison, a measure likely to send Uganda's beleaguered gay community further underground as the police try to implement it amid fevered anti-gay sentiment across the country.


APNewsBreak: Aid group: Afghan medical needs unmet

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 03:32 PM PST

Afghan women and their newborns rest in the maternity ward of Ahmad Shah Baba District Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Cassandra Vinograd)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gaping holes in Afghanistan's health care system are being obscured by misleading narratives of success ahead of the international troop withdrawal in 2014, aid organization Medecins Sans Frontieres warns in a new report published Tuesday.


Getting a clearer picture on Netflix-Comcast deal

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 03:25 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2009 file photo, the Comcast logo is displayed on a TV set in North Andover, Mass. After years of bickering, Netflix and Comcast are finally working together to provide their subscribers with a more enjoyable experience when they're watching movies and old television shows over high-speed Internet connections. The new partnership is part of a breakthrough announced Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, that requires Comcast's Internet service to create new avenues for Netflix's video to travel on its way to TVs and other devices. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After years of bickering, Netflix and Comcast are working together to provide their subscribers with a more enjoyable experience when they're watching movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections.


Drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman charged in Mexico

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 04:45 PM PST

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted to a helicopter in handcuffs by Mexican navy marines at a navy hanger in Mexico City, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. A senior U.S. law enforcement official said Saturday, that Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, was captured alive overnight in the beach resort town of Mazatlan. Guzman faces multiple federal drug trafficking indictments in the U.S. and is on the Drug Enforcement Administration's most-wanted list. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have set in motion a legal process that makes it unlikely drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will soon face U.S. cases also pending against him.


Madoff's ex-secretary testifies at NY trial

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 02:54 PM PST

Annette Bongiorno leaves federal court in New York, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Bernard Madoff's longtime secretary says she was in the dark about her boss' epic Ponzi scheme. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — Imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff's longtime secretary defended herself from the witness stand Monday, telling a Manhattan jury about a 40-year career working unwittingly alongside a historic Ponzi scheme that began when she recognized through Madoff's stutter on her first day that he wanted a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch.


Hosts' real Olympic challenge: after the games

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 11:21 AM PST

In this Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014 photo, a view of the construction site in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London. The Games' Velodrome is seen left. London continues to bask in the success of the most recent Summer Games, but the Olympic legacy is difficult to determine. The flagship venue, renamed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, is being converted into a massive park as big as London's famous Hyde Park, complete with wildlife habitats, woods and sports facilities. The first part of the ambitious project will begin to open to the public in April. The 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium at the center of the park has been troubled by controversy since even before the games, and its post-games use was the subject of months of legal wrangling. The stadium is now being converted into a soccer venue and the home of the West Ham soccer club, with an expected price tag of $323 million. Many argue taxpayers should not have to fund a Premier League club, though officials insist that the stadium will continue to host other major sporting events, including the Rugby World Cup in 2015. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)LONDON (AP) — For athletes and spectators at Sochi, it's time to pack up. But for the host cities, the real challenge begins with the end of the Olympics. How do they continue to use the expensive stadiums after the party's over? What happens to the athletes' villages? What is the legacy of the games?


Comedy father figure Harold Ramis dies

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 03:31 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2009 file photo, actor and director Harold Ramis walks the Red Carpet as he arrives to celebrate The Second City's 50th anniversary in Chicago. An attorney for Ramis said the actor died Monday morning, Feb. 24, 2014, from complications of autoimmune inflammatory disease. He was 69. Ramis is best known for his roles in the comedies "Ghostbusters" and "Stripes." (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)"Caddyshack." ''National Lampoon's Animal House." ''Ghostbusters." ''Groundhog Day." ''Stripes."


Ukraine issues arrest warrant for missing leader

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 01:59 PM PST

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — With Viktor Yanukovych on the run, Ukraine's interim government drew up a warrant Monday for the fugitive president's arrest in the killing of anti-government protesters last week, while Russia issued its strongest condemnation yet of the new leaders in Kiev, deriding them as "Kalashnikov-toting people in black masks."

'Ghostbuster' writer, actor Harold Ramis dies

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 01:19 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2009 file photo, actor and director Harold Ramis walks the Red Carpet as he arrives to celebrate The Second City's 50th anniversary in Chicago. An attorney for Ramis said the actor died Monday morning, Feb. 24, 2014, from complications of autoimmune inflammatory disease. He was 69. Ramis is best known for his roles in the comedies "Ghostbusters" and "Stripes." (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)CHICAGO (AP) — Harold Ramis, the bespectacled "Ghostbusters" sidekick to Bill Murray whose early grounding in live comedy led to blockbuster movies such as "National Lampoon's Animal House," ''Caddyshack" and "Groundhog Day," died Monday. He was 69.


Egypt's Cabinet resigns, sets stage for presidency

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 12:10 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 20, 2013 file photo, Egypt's Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi, right, and army's Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Sedki Sobhi, left, attend the funeral of Giza Police Gen. Nabil Farrag in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's interim prime minister Hazem el-Beblawi announced Monday the resignation of his Cabinet, a surprise move that could be designed in part to pave the way for the nation's military chief to leave his defense minister's post to run for president. El-Beblawi has often been derided in the media for his perceived indecisiveness and inability to introduce effective remedies to the country's economic woes. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interim Cabinet resigned Monday in a surprise move that could pave the way for the nation's military chief to announce his widely anticipated plans to run for president in the spring.


Hagel proposes big cuts in Army in 2015 budget

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 10:54 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2014 file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon. A U.S. official says that as part of the proposed 2015 defense budget, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel is recommending shrinking the Army to its smallest size in decades. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday proposed shrinking the Army to its smallest size in 74 years, closing military bases and making other military-wide savings as part of a broad reshaping after more than a decade of war.


Calif. kids hit with mysterious illness

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 06:33 AM PST

In this Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014 photo, a nurse prepares to give an injection to a tuberculosis patient at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Government Hospital at Ram Nagar in Varanasi, India. India has the highest incidence of TB in the world, according to the World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Report 2013, with as many as 2.4 million cases. India has made important strides in health in recent years, most recently by launching a successful polio vaccination campaign. But tuberculosis has remained a stubborn problem in the country, which has more than a quarter of the world's new TB cases. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)As many as 25 children suffer from the polio-like virus that leaves them with paralyzed limbs.


High court declines challenge of gun laws

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST

Demonstrators yell and hold up signs during a rally at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Thousands of people turned out to call on lawmakers to toughen gun laws in light of the December elementary school shooting in Newtown that left 26 students and educators dead. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)The Supreme Court opted to not wade into the politically volatile issue of gun control.


Ukraine seeks ex-leader on murder warrant

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 11:55 AM PST

TV grab provided by Ukraine's Presidential Press Service shows Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych speaking to the local TV in the city of Kharkiv on February 22, 2014The nation also appeals for $35 billion in Western aid to pull it from economic collapse.


Egypt's military-backed government resigns

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 06:13 AM PST

.CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interim prime minister announced Monday the resignation of his Cabinet, a surprise move that could be designed in part to pave the way for the nation's military chief to leave his defense minister's post to run for president.


Pope overhauls Vatican bureaucracy, appoints finance chief

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 07:44 AM PST

Pope Francis poses with Haiti's President Martelly and his wife Sophia during a meeting at the VaticanVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday announced the first major overhaul of the Vatican's outdated and inefficient bureaucracy in a quarter-century, creating an economics secretariat to control all economic, administrative, personnel and procurement functions of the Holy See.


Uganda's Museveni signs anti-gay bill

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 03:05 AM PST

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni signs an anti-homosexual bill into law at the state house in EntebbeENTEBBE, Uganda (Reuters) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed into law on Monday an anti-gay bill that toughens already strict legislation against homosexuals, defying warnings from the United States that relations could be complicated by the new rules. Museveni's signature will please a staunchly conservative local constituency that is vehemently opposed to homosexuality, but risks alienating Western aid donors. Museveni signed the bill during a press conference at State House in Entebbe, close to the capital Kampala. ...


Earnhardt Jr. wins 2nd Daytona 500 a decade later

Posted: 23 Feb 2014 10:24 PM PST

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Through rain and wrecks, on Daytona's longest day, this was a drought Dale Earnhardt Jr. was determined to end.

Collins takes court as first openly gay NBA player

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 12:18 AM PST

Jason Collins of the Brooklyn Nets warms up prior to the start of the game against the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center on February 23, 2014 in Los Angeles, CaliforniaJason Collins took another trailblazing step as the first openly gay man in a major US pro sports league when he took the court for the NBA's Brooklyn Nets. Hours after the Nets inked Collins to a 10-day contract, he came in as a substitute in the second quarter of the Nets' game against the Los Angeles Lakers, receiving the kind of warm welcome from the Staples Center crowd more usually reserved for their own players. It was the 13-year NBA veteran's first appearance in the league since he went public in April about his homosexuality, a revelation that came after his contract with the Washington Wizards had expired.


Split in Maduro's ranks amid Venezuela turmoil

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 12:02 PM PST

A Venezuelan ruling party governor called for the release of all jailed protesters Monday in a rare public split within President Nicolas Maduro's ranks after nearly three weeks of deadly anti-government demonstrations. Jose Gregorio Vielma Mora, the governor of the western state of Tachira where the student-led protests began February 4, also criticized the use of the military in response to the protests, calling it "a grave error" and an "unacceptable excess." The development came as Maduro was preparing to meet with the nation's governors and his call Sunday for a national dialogue. At least 14 people have been killed and 140 others injured in the protests, which have posed the greatest challenge to Maduro's government since he was narrowly elected president last year to succeed the late leftist icon Hugo Chavez.

Ukraine: Arrest warrant for President Yanukovych

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 01:25 AM PST

People lay flowers at the barricades in memory of the victims of the recent clashes in central KievThe warrant accuses fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych of mass crimes against protesters.


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