2014年2月28日星期五

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Obama issues blunt warning to Russia

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 01:48 PM PST

President Barack Obama arrives to speak about Ukraine in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Obama's statement comes as his administration is expressing growing concern over Russian intentions in Ukraine. Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a blunt warning Friday to Moscow against military moves in the country's southern Crimea region that could further inflame tensions. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)President says 'there will be costs' for any military intervention in Ukraine.


Has Wall Street finally beat 'The Oracle of Omaha'?

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 03:07 PM PST

Buffett, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, poses for a portrait in New YorkBy Luciana Lopez NEW YORK (Reuters) - A five-year bull market may have finally outdueled one of the U.S. stock market's biggest bulls, and Warren Buffett will probably tell investors on Saturday that his 43-year run of beating the Street has come to an end. By his own benchmark for performance, Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc almost certainly lagged a red-hot stock market in 2013 and probably also fell short over the previous five years, his favored timeframe for measuring the firm's return for its investors. Using the gain in Berkshire's book value per share after taxes, which Buffett traditionally contrasts with the pre-tax total return, including dividends, on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, Berkshire will be hard pressed to match the S&P's 128.2 percent gain in the five years ended December 31, 2013. The whopping 32 percent total return on the S&P last year only makes it more likely that Berkshire's book value did not match the index's five-year performance.


Scam tricks caller ID to show real tech support numbers

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 09:31 AM PST

New Scam Tricks Caller ID to Show Real Tech Support Phone NumbersHow Fraudsters Are Using a Clever Scheme to Appear as Real Tech Support


Under the Rock: Secret tunnels found under Alcatraz

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 12:01 PM PST

Old Military Fortress Found Underneath Alcatraz PrisonJust when you thought you knew everything there is to know about the island of Alcatraz, a group of scientists comes along and discovers tunnels buried under the former prison's walls that experts had thought were destroyed long ago.


Woman receives FedEx box of strangers' sensitive documents

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 10:29 AM PST

File photo of Federal Express delivery truck in San Diego, CaliforniaPaging Sherlock Holmes. Your talents of deduction are needed to help solve the mystery of a woman who says she received a FedEx box full of strangers' credit card information and medical records.


Official: Toxic mix of drugs caused actor's accidental death

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 03:02 PM PST

File photo of U.S. actor Hoffman on the red carpet at the 69th Venice Film Festival in VeniceNEW YORK (AP) — A toxic mix of heroin and other drugs killed Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, New York City officials said Friday.


Chinese gov't media calls departing U.S. envoy a plague -- and worse

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:13 AM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, file photo, Gary Locke, the outgoing U.S. ambassador to China, speaks during a farewell news conference held at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. A major Chinese government news service used a racist slur to describe Locke in a mean-spirited editorial on Friday that drew widespread public condemnation in China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool, File)BEIJING (AP) — A major Chinese government news service used a racist slur to describe the departing American ambassador in a mean-spirited editorial on Friday that drew widespread public condemnation in China.


U.S. eyeing Ukraine crisis with concern

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 01:32 PM PST

Unidentified gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms block the road toward the military airport at the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Heightened security is evident with Russian military around Sevastopol, the location for Russia military bases, military airport and Naval Base, while unidentified armed men wearing uniforms without insignia were patrolling another airport serving the regional capital, Ukraine's new Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Friday. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)Fresh reports suggest Moscow is moving military to intervene in former Soviet satellite.


Mud flows hit fire-scarred California

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 01:50 PM PST

A man places sandbags at the top of a street lined with K-rail and sandbags in Glendora, Calif., as the city and residents prepare for possible flooding Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. The first wave of a powerful Pacific storm spread rain and snow early Friday through much of California, where communities endangered by a wildfire just weeks ago now faced the threat of mud and debris flows. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)Weather forces authorities to close roads, but no property has been damaged—yet.


Documents show Clinton health care strategy

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:28 AM PST

461051561AB076_BILL_DE_BLASPreviously confidential papers shed light on presidency, give insight into a Hillary run.


Ousted Yanukovych urges Russia's Putin to take firm line on Ukraine

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 09:47 AM PST

Ukraine's fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych speaks at a news conference in Rostov-on-Don, a city in southern Russia about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from Moscow, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Yanukovych, making his first public appearance since fleeing Ukraine, said he was forced to leave the country after his family received threats. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)By Denis Pinchuk ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) - Viktor Yanukovich urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to take a bolder line with Ukraine's new rulers who had ousted him, telling him on Friday that Russia could not remain indifferent to what had happened in the former Soviet republic. Appearing in southern Russia where he has taken refuge since fleeing Ukraine on February 21, Yanukovich said: "I think that Russia should act and is obliged to act. "Knowing Vladimir Putin's personality, I am surprised that he is still saying nothing. Russia cannot be indifferent, cannot be a bystander watching the fate of as close a partner as Ukraine," the 63-year-old Yanukovich said.


Kid plays amazing piano recital for warehouse store audience

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 07:43 AM PST

Keep Your Kid Musically Engaged At CostcoWhat, no tip jar? A young boy entertains shoppers at what looks like a Costco store by showing off his incredible skills at the piano, playing a Hungarian folk song titled "Csardas."


Feds point to winter weather for sluggish economy

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 12:42 PM PST

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' President and CEO James Bullard speaks during the "Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and World Economies," in New YorkBy Jason Lange NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve should be willing to let inflation temporarily run above its target level so as to more quickly bring the economy back to health, a top Fed official said on Friday, even as a second policymaker signaled the very idea left him cold. The debate, between Chicago Fed President Charles Evans and Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser, underscored a fundamental disagreement over the central bank's optimal approach to policy under new Fed Chair Janet Yellen. To Evans, one of the Fed's most dovish policymakers, allowing inflation to run above the Fed's 2-percent target would be a small price to pay for bringing the U.S. economy back to full employment quickly, and could even signal the Fed's commitment to making good on its goals. To Plosser, an ardent policy hawk, letting inflation rise above the target would call into question the Fed's commitment to its goals, undermining its policy effectiveness.


Reds and greens galore: U.K. treated to fantastic northern lights display

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 07:01 AM PST

In this photo taken late Thursday Feb. 27, 2014, the aurora borealis, or northern lights, illuminate the night sky at Embleton Bay in Northumberland, England, Thursday Feb. 27, 2014. The northern lights is a fantastical natural light display with fast moving light effects caused by particles charged by the sun colliding with particles in Earth's upper atmosphere. (AP Photo / Tom White, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVESTheir act hasn't changed that much over the past several thousand years, but the northern lights still put on a dazzling show whenever they take the stage.


'I intend to keep fighting'

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 07:36 AM PST

Ukraine's fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych gives a news conference in Rostov-on-Don, a city in southern Russia about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from Moscow, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Making his first public appearance since fleeing Ukraine, fugitive Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych pledged Friday to fight for his country's future but said he will not ask for military assistance. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych says he was forced from power by "gangsters."


Kerry Kennedy acquitted of drugged driving in New York

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 08:28 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, Kerry Kennedy leaves Westchester County courthouse in White Plains, N.Y. Deliberations are due to resume Friday, Feb. 28 in Kennedy's drugged-driving trial. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Kerry Kennedy was acquitted Friday of drugged driving after she accidentally took a sleeping pill and then sideswiped a truck in a wild highway drive she said she didn't remember.


GAO report: Too few pilots or too little pay?

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:28 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2011, file photo, two pilots from Cathay Pacific walk in the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong. The U.S. airline industry will need to hire 1,900 to 4,500 new pilots annually over the next 10 years due to an expected surge in retirements of pilots reaching age 65 and increased demand for air travel, the Government Accountability Office said in the report obtained late Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's regional airlines are having trouble hiring enough pilots, the government says, suggesting one reason may be that they simply don't pay enough.


Storm lashes California, but not a drought buster

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 04:19 PM PST

A man places sandbags at the top of a street lined with K-rail and sandbags in Glendora, Calif., as the city and residents prepare for possible flooding Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. The first wave of a powerful Pacific storm spread rain and snow early Friday through much of California, where communities endangered by a wildfire just weeks ago now faced the threat of mud and debris flows. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)LOS ANGELES (AP) — California was lashed Friday by heavy rains that the parched state so desperately needs, though with the soaking came familiar problems: traffic snarls, power outages and the threat of mudslides.


Primaries offer 1st major test of voter ID laws

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:54 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site, in Austin, Texas. In elections that begin next week, voters in 10 states will be required to present photo identification before casting ballots _ the first major test of voter ID laws after years of legal challenges arguing that the measures are designed to suppress voting. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)WASHINGTON (AP) — In elections that begin next week, voters in 10 states will be required to present photo identification before casting ballots — the first major test of voter ID laws after years of legal challenges arguing that the measures are designed to suppress voting.


RFK daughter acquitted in drugged driving case

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 02:53 PM PST

Kerry Kennedy, second from left, walks with her mother, Ethel Kennedy, third from left, as she leaves the Westchester County Courthouse, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 in White Plains, N.Y. Kerry Kennedy was acquitted Friday of driving while impaired. after she accidentally took a sleeping pill on July 13, 2012 and then sideswiped a truck in a wild highway drive she said she didn't remember. The trial centered on whether or not she realized she was impaired and should have stopped. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Kerry Kennedy was swiftly acquitted Friday of drugged driving in a case that her lawyers said would never have been brought if she were simply "Mary Housewife" rather than a member of one of America's most glamorous political families.


NYC official: Hoffman died from toxic mix of drugs

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 04:45 PM PST

In this Jan. 19, 2014 file photo, Philip Seymour Hoffman poses for a portrait at The Collective and Gibson Lounge Powered by CEG, during the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah. A spokesperson for the New York City Medical Examiner announced on Friday, Feb. 28, that Hoffman's death an accident. The Oscar-winning actor's body was found on Feb. 2 with a needle still in his arm. Officials say he died from a toxic mix of heroin and other drugs. (AP Photo/Victoria Will/Invision/AP)NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Seymour Hoffman died from taking a combination of heroin, cocaine and other drugs, the New York City medical examiner ruled Friday, a toxic mix that addiction specialists say is not uncommon in the tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the U.S. each year.


Group says new evidence in Texas arson-murder case

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 03:21 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2010, file photo, Scott Cobb, right, joins about 15 members of The Campaign to End the Death Penalty at a protest before a hearing about the Cameron Todd Willingham case outside the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center in Austin, Texas. The Innocence Project said Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, that newly discovered documents undermine the credibility of a key witness against Willingham who was controversially executed on Feb. 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Statesman.com, Jay Janner, File) MAGS OUT; INTERNET AND TV MUST CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND STATESMAN.COMAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Innocence Project argued Friday that newly discovered documents undermine the credibility of a key witness against a Texas man executed for the deaths of his three children based in part on arson evidence that has since been deemed faulty.


From Riyadh to Beirut, fear of Syria blowback

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 01:08 PM PST

This picture taken on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 shows the burned car of Hisham al-Mughayar, 45, the father of the suicide bomber Nidal al-Mughayar, which was torched as well as the family's grocery shop and four vehicles by angry residents after the news spread in the village that Nidal was one of the two suicide attackers who carried out an attack in Beirut near the Iranian culture center, in the southern village of Bisariyeh, Lebanon. Nidal al-Mughayar renewed his travel document last year and told his family he will be leaving Lebanon to settle in Venezuela where there are more opportunities but it turned out later that the young Palestinian man called his family from Syria and it was only then that they knew he has joined jihadis fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad's government. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)BISARIYEH, Lebanon (AP) — The once-tranquil, religiously mixed village of Bisariyeh is seething: Two of its young men who fought alongside the rebels in Syria recently returned home radicalized and staged suicide bombings in Lebanon.


Ukraine official: 8 Russian cargo planes in Crimea

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 02:50 PM PST

Unidentified gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms guard the entrance to the military airport at the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Russian troops took control of the two main airports in the strategic peninsula of Crimea, Ukraine's interior minister charged, as the country asked the U.N. Security Council to intervene in the escalating conflict. Russian state media said Russian forces in Crimea denied involvement. No violence was reported at the civilian airport in Crimea's capital of Simferopol or at the military airport in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, also part of Crimea. At the Simferopol airport, a man claiming to speak for the camouflage-clad forces patrolling the airport described them as Crimean militiamen. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Armed men took control of key airports in Crimea on Friday and Russian transport planes flew into the strategic region, Ukrainian officials said, an ominous sign of the Kremlin's iron hand in Ukraine. President Barack Obama warned Moscow there will be costs if it intervenes militarily in Ukraine.


Ukraine gets look at fugitive leader's documents

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 02:58 PM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, Feb, 22, 2014, file photo, a protester waves an EU flag at Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's country residence in Mezhyhirya, Ukraine. Ukrainians are getting an unfiltered look at the opulent lifestyle and alleged machinations of fugitive Yanukovych and his top officials from thousands of documents being posted online by journalists who say it's more important to record their country's history _ and document possible crimes _ than hold them back for their own scoops. Visitors to the YanukovychLeaks.org website can browse what appear to be the expense payments for running the sprawling compound just outside Kiev that reportedly was the Yanukovych's home. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians are getting an unfiltered look at the opulent lifestyle and alleged machinations of fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych and his top officials from thousands of documents being posted online by journalists who say it's more important to record their country's history — and document possible crimes — than hold them back for their own scoops.


Obama warns Russia of 'costs' in Ukraine

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 03:13 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about the ongoing situation in Ukraine in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Obama warned Russia "there will be costs" for any military intervention in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama expressed deep concern Friday over reported military activity inside Ukraine by Russia and bluntly warned "there will be costs" for any intervention.


Tokyo bitcoin exchange files for bankruptcy

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 10:57 AM PST

Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles speaks at a news conference at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo, Friday night, Feb. 28, 2014. The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Tokyo filed for bankruptcy protection, acknowledging that a significant amount of the virtual currency had gone missing. Karpeles appeared before Japanese TV news cameras Friday, bowing deeply for several minutes. He said a weakness in the exchange's systems was behind the massive loss of the virtual currency. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDITTOKYO (AP) — The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Tokyo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday and its chief executive said 850,000 bitcoins, worth several hundred million dollars, are unaccounted for.


Hollywood movie titles lost in translation

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 09:22 AM PST

I this Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014 photo, workers stands next to a movie poster for the movie "American Hustle" translated to Hebrew as JERUSALEM (AP) — David O. Russell's crime drama "American Hustle" could be a big winner at Sunday's Academy Awards. But for the movie's many international fans, it may take a little longer to realize it. In their country, there is simply no word that captures the true essence of "Hustle."


Obama to preach unity to Democrats at winter meeting

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 07:35 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at Organizing for Action's "National Organizing Summit" in WashingtonBy Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday will lay out his approach to electing fellow Democrats in congressional campaigns this year as his party tries to overcome stiff headwinds brought about at least in part due to his signature healthcare law. The president will address the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Washington with the aim of maintaining a spirit of unity among party activists. Democrats are trying to face down emboldened Republicans who see a chance of capturing the Senate and building on their majority in the House of Representatives. Obama will make the case that there are still items on his agenda that he would like to see approved in an election year.


Nuclear dump leak raises questions about cleanup

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 10:42 AM PST

In this Feb. 24, 2014 photo, a member of the community speaks of the Feb. 14, 2014 radiation leak during a community meeting in Carlsbad, N.M. New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall says he will ask the Environmental Protection Agency to send air monitors to southeastern New Mexico following a radiation release from the federal government's underground nuclear waste dump near Carlsbad. Udall says he will send a letter Thursday requesting the portable monitors. Udall says the health and safety of the community and workers at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant are his top priority. The EPA has regulatory authority over the site and any airborne radiation releases. (AP Photo/Jeri Clausing)CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — For 15 years the trucks have barreled past southeastern New Mexico's potash mines and seemingly endless fields of oil rigs, hauling decades worth of plutonium-contaminated waste to what is supposed to be a safe and final resting place a half mile underground in the salt beds of the Permian Basin.


Library releasing documents from Clinton years

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 09:52 AM PST

.WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives plans to release about 4,000 pages of previously confidential documents involving former President Bill Clinton's administration. Some of the topics include the president's health care task force and the 9/11 Commission Report.


Ousted Ukraine president vows to fight

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 05:36 AM PST

Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich takes part in a news conference in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-DonViktor Yanukovych host a press conference in Russia in his first public appearance.


Christie allies joke about another traffic jam: documents

Posted: 27 Feb 2014 06:46 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2014 file photo, David Wildstein, who was Christie's No. 2 man at the Port Authority, speaks during a hearing at the Statehouse in Trenton. The Christie administration stands accused of closing lanes on the George Washington Bridge, linking New York and New Jersey, in order to create a huge traffic backup as retribution against a local mayor for not endorsing the governor's reelection. Documents released Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, by a New Jersey legislative committee looking into the scandal surrounding Gov. Chris Christie show two figures, Wildstein and Bridget Anne Kelly, Christie's Deputy Chief of Staff, at the heart of the case making running jokes about the idea of creating traffic jams as a way to strike at enemies. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)By Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two people at the heart of a traffic scandal dogging New Jersey Governor Chris Christie joked weeks earlier about causing traffic problems in front of the home of a rabbi, documents released on Thursday show. Christie's former deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly and David Wildstein, an ally to the governor at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, lost their jobs over their involvement in the "Bridgegate" scandal last September that is threatening Christie's White House aspirations. Documents released by Wildstein to a state legislative committee probing the incident, in which lanes were shut near the busy George Washington Bridge, causing a huge traffic jam, reveal that on August 19 he and Kelly discussed another traffic scheme. "Flights to Tel Aviv all mysteriously delayed," Wildstein wrote in reply.


Ukraine accuses Russia of 'armed invasion'

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 01:06 PM PST

Armed men stand guard at the airport in SimferopolMoscow denies involvement in the seizure of two airports in Ukraine's Crimea region.


S. Korea calls North missile tests calculated provocation

Posted: 27 Feb 2014 08:13 PM PST

North Korea displays its Taepodong-class missile during a military parade in Pyongyang, on July 27, 2013South Korea on Friday labelled North Korea's test firing of four short-range missiles a calculated, provocative act timed to coincide with South-US joint military exercises. North Korea test-fired the missiles into the Sea of Japan on Thursday, three days after the joint drills kicked off in the face of vocal opposition from Pyongyang. "With the exercises underway, we see the firings as a calculated, provocative act," defence ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told journalists.


Lawsuit alleges 'sadistic violence' at sprawling Chicago jail

Posted: 27 Feb 2014 04:48 PM PST

Lawsuit Claims Cook County Jail Inmates Were Abused By GuardsCHICAGO (AP) — Guards at one of the nation's largest jails systematically engage in "sadistic violence and brutality" against inmates, according to a federal class-action lawsuit filed on Thursday.


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