2014年3月6日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Recruit describes being quizzed by bin Laden

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 04:01 PM PST

In this courtroom sketch, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, left, listens as U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan stands to speak Monday, March 3, 2014 during jury selection at the start of Abu Ghaith's trial in New York on charges that he conspired to kill Americans and support terrorists in his role as al-Qaida's spokesman after the Sept. 11 attacks. Abu Ghaith is Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and is the highest-ranking al-Qaida figure to face trial on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11 attacks. Seated next to Abu Ghaith is a translater, next to defense attorney Stanley Cohen, right. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)American testifies about safe house encounter with terror leader in spring of 2001.


Man revealed in report as bitcoin creator denies story

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 02:59 PM PST

A man widely believed to be Bitcoin currency founder Satoshi Nakamoto is surrounded by reporters as he leaves his home in Temple City, CaliforniaA reclusive Japanese American man thought to be the father of Bitcoin emerged from his Southern California home and denied any involvement with the digital currency, before leading reporters on a car chase leading to the headquarters of the Associated Press. Satoshi Nakamoto, a name known to legions of bitcoin traders, practitioners and boosters around the world, appeared to lose his anonymity on Thursday after Newsweek published a story that said Nakamoto lived in Temple City, California, just east of Los Angeles, and included a photograph. In the afternoon, Nakamoto stepped outside and told reporters he had nothing to do with bitcoin but was looking for someone who understood Japanese, to buy him a free lunch. According to a Los Angeles Times reporter, who followed his car, Nakamoto was driven to the Associated Press offices in downtown Los Angeles, where he again denied any involvement with bitcoin.


Why the SAT had to change

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 06:42 AM PST

SAT Overhaul ComingEarlier this week, high school students were given a surprise gift — the dreaded essay portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test would be going optional in spring 2016.


Despite the name calling, Putin is not crazy

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 09:49 AM PST

Putin, shirtless on a horseThe Russian president may be calculating, sources say, even miscalculating.


Senate blocks military sexual assault bill

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 03:34 PM PST

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, center, talks with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 6, 2014, during a news conference following a Senate vote on military sexual assaults. The Senate blocked a bill that would have stripped senior military commanders of their authority to prosecute rapes and other serious offenses, capping an emotional, nearly yearlong fight over how best to curb sexual assault in the ranks. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. is at left. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Defeats effort to move prosecution of serious cases out of the chain of command.


Enigmatic bitcoin creator Nakamoto's true identity revealed

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 04:03 PM PST

A man walks out of a shop displaying a bitcoin sign during the opening ceremony of the first bitcoin retail shop in Hong Kong on February 28, 2014After years of speculation, the true identity of "Satoshi Nakamoto," the mysterious person or group behind the Bitcoin revolution, appeared to have been revealed by Newsweek on Thursday. It turns out it is a Japanese-American model train enthusiast whose name is, indeed, Satoshi Nakamoto. A reporter tracked down the 64-year-old, a physicist, living under the name Dorian S. Nakamoto in a modest two-story house in suburban Los Angeles. Nakamoto did not admit to being behind the phenomenon that, since its 2009 launch, has been hailed as a financial revolution despite scandals over its use in the drugs trade and money-laundering.


Estimate puts bill to repair old public schools at $200 billion

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 12:29 PM PST

This Thursday, July 5, 2012 photo shows the exterior of the 88 year-old Charles E. Gorton High School in Yonkers, N.Y. The Yonkers school district is looking for investors to pay for a $1.7 billion overhaul of dozens of schools, including Gorton, built in 1924 and 43% over-enrolled, according to school district officials. To replace the building would cost $128 million and to overhaul it with repairs would cost $428 million, according to John Carr, who heads up the Yonkers Public Schools Facilities division. Across the country, innovative deals are now being discussed that would put essential pieces of public infrastructure in the hands of global investment firms, the latest effort to cope with a lingering fiscal crisis that has left some communities unable to pay for their needs. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half the nation's public schools need to be repaired, renovated or modernized, a survey released Thursday found.


Army's top sex crimes prosecutor faces groping allegation

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 03:36 PM PST

The US Army's top prosecutor overseeing sexual assault cases has been suspended over allegations he groped a female lawyer working for him and tried to kiss her, officers saidThe US Army's top prosecutor overseeing sexual assault cases has been suspended over allegations he groped a female lawyer working for him and tried to kiss her, officers said Thursday. The suspension of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Morse marks the latest embarrassing setback for the US military as it battles a sexual assault crisis that has sparked calls for a radical overhaul of its judicial system. No charges have been filed against Morse, who supervises the army's special victim prosecutors that handle sexual assault, domestic abuse and crimes against children cases. The alleged incident took place in 2011 in a hotel room at a sexual assault legal conference in Alexandria, Virginia, officials said, before Morse was named to his current job.


Victim who fought Illinois concealed carry ban declares 'victory'

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 10:16 AM PST

This Feb. 26, 2013 photo shows Mary Shepard, who survived a brutal attack in 2009 by an intruder while working at her church in Anna, Ill., receiving a standing ovation during a concealed carry meeting in Cobden, Ill. Shepard, who fought the state's ban on carrying concealed weapons after she was attacked, now has her permit to have a handgun in public. Shepard sued to have the state's ban thrown out, and her efforts contributed to the concealed carry law passed last July. She argues that had she not been barred from carrying a gun, she could have thwarted the attack. (AP Photo/The Southern, Aaron Eisenhauer)ST. LOUIS (AP) — A southern Illinois retiree whose legal fight helped bring about an end to the state's last-in-the-nation ban on concealed carry has become among the state's first to get her permit to have a handgun in public.


Pistorius weeps as witness recalls shooting scene horror

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 10:54 AM PST

South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius (left) covers his ears with his hands while a witness recounts the night of the crime during the trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at Pretoria court on March 6, 2014A weeping Oscar Pistorius shielded his ears as a witness in his murder trial on Thursday gave harrowing evidence about desperate attempts to save Reeva Steenkamp's life after she was shot. Rocking back and forth in the dock, Pistorius put his hands over his ears as neighbour and radiologist Johan Stipp recounted how he entered his house to find the distraught Paralympian bent over, attempting to resuscitate his girlfriend. Stipp noticed a wound on Steenkamp's right thigh, right upper arm, and "blood and hair and what looked like brain tissue intermingled with that" on top of the skull. Amid the scene of horror, Stipp said he quickly realised the 29-year-old model would not survive the injuries.


Ukrainian leader declares Crimea referendum illegal

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 09:18 AM PST

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 5, 2014, pro-russian supporters chant slogans during a rally at a central square in Simferopol, Ukraine. Ukraine is facing a potentially crippling geographic and cultural divide, a growing gulf between supporters of Russia who dominate the east and south of the country, and western Ukrainians who yearn for closer ties to Western Europe. One side of that divide is even starker in Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula. For much of the past 200 years, Crimea was under Russian and Soviet control, and today most Crimeans see themselves as only nominally Ukrainian and Russian is, by far, the dominant language (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)Parliament will take steps to block the referendum and dismiss lawmakers behind it.


Sleepless in Kiev: Anderson Cooper talks shop from the Ukraine

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 10:57 AM PST

Anderson CooperCNN's prime-time host talks to Yahoo News about the situation on the ground in the Ukraine capital, his approach to storytelling, and the time he slipped into Burma with a fake press pass — and found his calling.


General admits guilt on 3 counts; denies assault

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 03:27 PM PST

Brig. Gen. Paul Wilson leaves the courthouse after testifying in pretrial motions in the case of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Less than a month before Sinclair's trial on sexual assault charges, the lead prosecutor broke down in tears Tuesday as he told a superior he believed the primary accuser in the case had lied under oath. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson)FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army general accused of sexual assault is pleading guilty to three lesser charges, but maintains his innocence on five remaining counts.


What you should hear at CPAC—but won’t

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 04:00 AM PST

U.S. Sen. Marco RubioExpect lots of chatter about taxes, Russian expansionism and a spineless president, says Matt Bai.


State Dept. considers adding Russians to sanctions list over human right violations

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 06:55 AM PST

Russian soldiers guard a peer where two Ukrainian naval vessels are moored, in Sevastopol, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Ukraine's new prime minister said Wednesday that embattled Crimea must remain part of Ukraine, but may be granted more local powers. Since last weekend, Russian troops have taken control of much of the peninsula in the Black Sea, where Russian speakers are in the majority. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)The United States is "actively considering" adding names of Russians involved in the incursion in Ukraine to the "Magnitsky list" of human rights offenders subject to visa bans and asset freezes, a U.S. State Department official said on Thursday. "We are actively considering adding new names," Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Eric Rubin said at a House of Representatives committee hearing on the crisis in Ukraine. Under a 2012 U.S. law named after Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in prison, the United States targeted Russian officials involved in human rights abuses with visa bans and asset freezes. The State Department placed 18 Russian individuals on a public list of those affected, and a handful of other senior officials are on a list that was not made public.


Museum's sculpture may be idol stolen in India

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 06:43 AM PST

GaneshaTOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An 11th-century Indian statue owned by an Ohio art museum may have been stolen before the institution purchased it.


Crimea parliament votes to join Russia

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 01:35 PM PST

Uniformed men walk near a Ukrainian military base in the village of PerevalnoyeThe Moscow-backed government sets a referendum on the decision within 10 days.


General to admit guilt on 3 counts; denies assault

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 06:23 AM PST

Brig. Gen. Paul Wilson leaves the courthouse after testifying in pretrial motions in the case of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Less than a month before Sinclair's trial on sexual assault charges, the lead prosecutor broke down in tears Tuesday as he told a superior he believed the primary accuser in the case had lied under oath. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson)RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. Army general accused of sexual assault was set to plead guilty to three lesser charges Thursday in a move that his lawyer says will strengthen his position going into trial.


Pope very popular in U.S., but no 'Francis effect': poll

Posted: 05 Mar 2014 09:09 PM PST

Pope Francis blesses the altar during Ash Wednesday at Santa Sabina Basilica in RomeOne year after his election, Pope Francis is "immensely popular among American Catholics," a survey said on Thursday, but there is no sign of a "Francis effect" inspiring more to attend Mass or do volunteer work. The Washington-based Pew Research Center said 85 percent of Catholics in the United States viewed the Argentine-born pontiff favorably, with 51 percent reporting a "very favourable" view of him, while only 4 percent expressed a negative opinion. Among Catholics, 68 percent thought he represented "a major change for the better," a view shared by 51 percent of the non-Catholics responding to the poll in telephone interviews of 1,340 Americans from February 14 to 23. "Nor has there been a statistically significant change in how often Catholics say they go to Mass." Forty percent of Catholics said they were now praying more often and 26 percent were "more excited" about their faith, but their frequency of going to confession or volunteering at church has not changed.


Congress rushes to put in place Russia sanctions

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 05:09 AM PST

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, right, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing focusing on the Defense Department's budget request for fiscal year 2015. The proposed $496 billion budget reflects what Sec. Hagel calls a choice to field a smaller but more modern force rather than a larger one less prepared for combat. Some in Congress, however, see that as an approach that weakens U.S. capabilities in a period of growing uncertainty in Europe and Asia. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Lawmakers hope Europe will follow the U.S. lead in upping the pressure on Vladimir Putin.


GOP presidential hopefuls vie for clout with base

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 04:42 PM PST

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walks onto the stage holding a rifle before speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference at National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 6, 2014. Thursday marks the first day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings together prospective presidential candidates, conservative opinion leaders and tea party activists from coast to coast. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Republicans vying for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016 auditioned Thursday before some of the nation's most ardent conservative leaders, calling for the party to unite behind a clear agenda and draw contrasts with Democrats.


Here comes El Nino; good news for US weather woes

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 03:15 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 25, 1998 file photo, Enrique Lagunas digs a trench to redirect water toward a street in Laguna Beach, Calif. after heavy rains from an El Nino storm hit Southern California. On Thursday, March 6, 2014, the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric and Administration announced their prediction of an El Nino warming of the central Pacific Ocean in 2014 that will change weather worldwide. It is expected to trigger fewer Atlantic hurricanes, more rain next winter for drought-struck California and southern states and even cause a milder winter for the nation's cold-struck northern tier next year, meteorologists say. For the world it can mean an even hotter year coming up and food crop losses. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Bruce Chambers)WASHINGTON (AP) — Relief may be on the way for a weather-weary United States with the predicted warming of the central Pacific Ocean brewing this year that will likely change weather worldwide. But it won't be for the better everywhere.


APNewsBreak: Many NYC inmates report 'head shots'

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 02:14 PM PST

FILE - In this May 17, 2011 file photo, a bus drives past the the entrance to Rikers Island in New York. Nearly a third of Rikers Island inmates who said their visible injuries came at the hands of a correction officer last year had suffered a blow to the head, a tactic that is supposed to be a guard's last resort because it is potentially fatal, according to an internal report obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly a third of Rikers Island inmates who said their visible injuries came at the hands of a correction officer last year had suffered a blow to the head, a tactic that is supposed to be a guard's last resort because it is potentially fatal, according to an internal report obtained by The Associated Press.


Girl Scouts asked to end partnership with Barbie

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 12:54 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 14, 2014 file photo, a mock-up cover of Barbie on a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is displayed at the Mattel booth at the American International Toy Fair in New York. A few weeks after her foray into the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, Barbie is entangled in controversy again, this time over her ties with the Girl Scouts. Two advocacy groups often critical of corporate advertising tactics _ the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the Center for a New American Dream _ on Thursday, March 6, 2014 urged the Girl Scouts of USA to end its partnership with the doll's manufacturer, the Mattel toy company. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)NEW YORK (AP) — America's top doll, Barbie, finds herself in controversy once again, this time over a business partnership between her manufacturer, Mattel, and the Girl Scouts.


5 things to know about Google's mystery barge

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 01:16 PM PST

The Google barge is seen moored at the Port of Stockton Thursday, March 6, 2014, in Stockton, Calif. Google's mystery barge has arrived at its new home in the California delta after the Internet company was ordered to move it from San Francisco. The odd-looking, four-story vessel made of recycled shipping containers departed from Treasure Island to comply with a Jan. 31, regulatory order concluding that Google Inc. didn't have the proper permits to build it there. Construction stopped on the project late last year. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Google barge built with recycled shipping containers proved its seaworthiness Thursday as it cruised from the San Francisco Bay to Stockton. But many other details about the odd-looking vessel remain a mystery. Here are five things that we do know so far:


Iditarod: 5 things to know about trail conditions

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 03:24 PM PST

Kristy Berington mushes down the Iditarod Trail in the middle of the Farewell Burn during the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen)ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Punishing conditions along the early part of Alaska's nearly 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race have brought many mushers literally to their knees, knocking some out of the running altogether.


Crimea sets vote to break away from Ukraine

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 02:20 PM PST

A Ukrainian Navy officer looks at the scuttled decommissioned Russian vessel "Ochakov" from the Black Sea shore outside the town of Myrnyi, western Crimea, Ukraine, Thursday, March 6, 2014. In the early hours of Thursday Russian naval personnel scuttled the decommissioned ship, blockading access for five Ukrainian Naval vessels now trapped inside of the Southern Naval Headquarters located in Myrnyi in Western Crimea as Russian war vessels patrolled just of the coast. The vessel was brought by Russian naval forces on the 4th of March towed by a tug boat while escorted by a warship and several gun boats. Marines from the Ukrainian navy heard a loud explosion in the early hours of last night coming from the vessel blocking a channel leading to the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine lurched toward breakup Thursday as lawmakers in Crimea unanimously declared they wanted to join Russia and would put the decision to voters in 10 days. President Barack Obama condemned the move and the West answered with the first real sanctions against Russia.


EU slaps initial sanctions on Russia

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 12:31 PM PST

British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, March 6, 2014. European Union leaders held an emergency summit on Thursday to decide on imposing sanctions against Russia over its military incursion in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)BRUSSELS (AP) — BRUSSELS — The European Union suspended talks with Russia on a wide-ranging economic pact and a visa agreement Thursday in response to its military incursion into Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, threatening tougher sanctions unless Moscow swiftly defuses the crisis.


Judge: Texas man can be tried in childhood crime

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 12:08 PM PST

CORRECTS TO JUDGE HAMILTON, NOT COLLINS IN SECOND SENTENCE - Colleen and Boby Middleton, the parents of victim Robert Middleton, speak to the media after hearing regarding Don Willburn Collins at the 359th Judicial District Court with Judge Kathleen Hamilton on Thursday, March 6, 2014, in Conroe, Texas. Collins, now 28, accused of dousing Middleton with gasoline and setting him on fire in 1998 when he was a teenager, can be tried as an adult for murder after the victim died from his burns nearly 13 years later, Judge Hamilton ruled Thursday. (AP Photo/ The Courier, Jason Fochtman) MANDATORY CREDITCONROE, Texas (AP) — In the years that followed the 1998 attack that horribly burned her then-8-year-old son, Colleen Middleton felt fear and frustration over the possibility that the person she believed was responsible would never be taken to trial.


Conservatives: GOP needs to stand on principle

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 11:42 AM PST

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walks onto the stage holding a rifle before speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference at National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 6, 2014. Thursday marks the first day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings together prospective presidential candidates, conservative opinion leaders and tea party activists from coast to coast. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Republican leaders implored conservatives to offer a stark contrast to President Barack Obama's policies and stand firm on principles as a way to win back Senate control in the fall elections and prepare for the 2016 presidential campaign.


Russian power play: Crimea vote on joining Russia

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 12:45 PM PST

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine lurched toward breakup Thursday when lawmakers in Crimea unanimously declared they wanted to join Russia and would put the decision to voters in 10 days — and Russian lawmakers pushed a bill to facilitate a handover. President Barack Obama condemned the moves and the West answered with the first real sanctions against Russia.
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