2014年4月3日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Argument may have set off Fort Hood shooter

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 04:07 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by Glidden Lopez shows Army Spc. Ivan Lopez. Authorities said Lopez killed three people and wounded 16 others in a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, before killing himself. Investigators believe his unstable mental health contributed to the rampage. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Glidden Lopez)Officer confirms "strong possibility" gunman argued with another soldier moments before killings.


Serial killer executed with Texas' new drug from secret supplier

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 04:58 PM PDT

This handout image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows convicted killer Tommy Lynn Sells, who is scheduled to die Thursday, April 3, 2014. On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, a federal appeals court threw out a ruling requiring the Texas prison system to disclose more information about where it gets lethal-injection drugs, reversing a judge who had halted the upcoming execution. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A serial killer was put to death Thursday in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers' demand that the state release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug.


Space station sidesteps space junk — again

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 03:16 PM PDT

NASA photo of Solar array panels on the Russian segment of the International Space Station and a blue and white part of EarthWASHINGTON (AP) — The International Space Station had to dodge space junk again — the second time in less than three weeks.


Threat to pharmacies debated in execution drug disclosure fight

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 04:53 PM PDT

FILE - The gurney in the death chamber is shown in this May 27, 2008 file photo from Huntsville, Texas. Anti-death penalty advocates believe, Texas and other states are trumping up the possibility of violence to avoid having to disclose their name of suppliers, ensuring they can keep buying the drugs they need to put condemned inmates to death. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)DALLAS (AP) — Texas prison officials have offered scant evidence to support their claim that pharmacies that supply the state with execution drugs would be in danger of violence if their identities were made public.


David Letterman announces he'll retire next year

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 01:34 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 16, 2013 file photo, host David Letterman smiles on the set of the And another late-night icon gets ready to say goodbye.


$5.15 billion environmental settlement largest ever in US

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 04:09 PM PDT

Anadarko Announces Settlement of Tronox Adversary ProceedingWASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government on Thursday reached a $5.15 billion settlement with Anadarko Petroleum Corp., the largest ever for environmental contamination, to settle claims related to the cleanup of thousands of sites tainted with hazardous chemicals for decades.


On Politics: An urgent appeal to the richest Congress ever!

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 03:08 AM PDT

Campaign MoneyYahoo News' political columnist Matt Bai makes a request to lawmakers seeking reelection this fall.


Mystery man emerges in effort to ID mudslide remains

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 11:19 AM PDT

Dennis Peterson, Snohomish County Medical Examiner's office deputy director, talks about the tented area behind him used for decontaminating bodies just outside an intake area at the office, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Everett, Wash. The ME's office is processing the remains of victims from the March 22 mudslide in nearby Oso, Wash., that has killed at least 29. Another 13 people are unaccounted for. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — As medical examiners painstakingly piece together the identities and lives of the people killed when a mudslide wiped out a small Washington community, a mystery troubles them.


Portrait emerges after Fort Hood attack

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 09:52 AM PDT

Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, commanding general of III Corps and Fort Hood, speaks with the media outside of an entrance to the Fort Hood military base following a shooting that occurred inside on April 2, 2014 in Fort Hood, TX. Four people died, including the gunman, and 16 were wounded in the attack. (AP Photo/ Tamir Kalifa)Officials investigating shooter, a 34-year-old father, hint at precipitating on-base event.


Firefighters race to return fallen comrade's wedding ring to widow

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 08:43 AM PDT

Firefighters salute as Kristen Walsh watches the casket of her late-husband Boston Fire Lt. Edward Walsh is lifted onto Engine 33 as the funeral procession prepares to depart St. Patrick's Church in Watertown, Mass., Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Walsh and his colleague Michael Kennedy died after being trapped while battling a nine-alarm apartment fire in Boston on March 26. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)Firefighters who worked with Lt. Edward Walsh sifted through the rubble of the building in which he died to find his wedding ring and then rushed to the wake to present it to his widow, Kristen.


Senate panel votes to release parts of classified CIA torture report

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 02:15 PM PDT

FILE - This March 27, 2014, file photo shows Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate Intelligence Committee's expected vote to approve declassifying part of a secret report on Bush-era interrogations of terrorism suspects puts the onus on the CIA and a reluctant White House to speed the release of one of the most definitive accounts about the government's actions after the 9/11 attacks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to release parts of a hotly contested, secret report that harshly criticizes CIA terror interrogations after 9/11, and the White House said it would instruct intelligence officials to cooperate fully.


Photos from the end of Kurt Cobain's painful road

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 09:03 AM PDT

Kurt CobainTwo photographers who captured some of the final images of the rock star before his suicide reveal the stories behind their historic photo shoots.


Twitter uncaged in Turkey after ban is lifted

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 08:40 AM PDT

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his son Bilal Erdogan and daughter Sumeyye Erdogan salute supporters from the balcony of his ruling party headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, early Monday, March 31, 2014. Erdogan on Sunday hailed what appeared to be a clear victory for his party in local elections, providing a boost that could help him emerge from a spate of recent troubles. Erdogan was not on the ballot in the countrywide polls, but with about half of the votes counted, Turkish newswires suggested that his party was significantly outstripping its results in the last local elections in 2009 and roundly beating the main opposition party. (AP Photo)By Ozge Ozbilgin and Orhan Coskun ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's telecoms authority lifted a two-week-old ban on Twitter on Thursday after the constitutional court ruled the block breached freedom of expression, an official in Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's office said. Access to Twitter was blocked on March 21 in the run-up to local elections last Sunday to stem a stream of leaked wiretapped recordings of senior officials that had appeared on the site, prompting Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to say he would "root out" the network. Turkey's Official Gazette on Thursday morning published the Constitutional Court's ruling from Wednesday, further piling pressure on the telecoms authorities to lift the ban, which had faced widespread international condemnation. "The ban has been lifted" the official from Erdogan's office told Reuters by telephone minutes after TIB removed court orders blocking the site from its webpage.


Pope gives Queen Elizabeth a gift for future king Prince George

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Fort Hood gunman sought mental health treatment

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 05:53 AM PDT

Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, commanding general of III Corps and Fort Hood, speaks with the media outside of an entrance to the Fort Hood military base following a shooting that occurred inside, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Fort Hood, Texas. Four people were killed, including the gunman, and 16 were wounded in the attack, authorities said. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa)Investigators also are exploring if an argument might have started the attack.


Fort Hood gunman showed no risk of violence

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 10:19 AM PDT

Army Secretary John M. McHugh, left, and Army Chief of Staff Gen Raymond Odierno update members of the Senate Armed Services Committee about the deadly shooting rampage by a soldier yesterday at Fort Hood in Texas, Thursday, April 3, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. An Iraq War veteran being treated for mental illness was the gunman who opened fire at Fort Hood, killing three people and wounding 16 others before committing suicide, in an attack on the same Texas military base where more than a dozen people were slain in 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The soldier had been deployed to Iraq, but saw no action, Army officials say.


7.6 aftershock rattles Chile's far-northern coast

Posted: 02 Apr 2014 09:56 PM PDT

White barricade tape that reads in Spanish; "Danger," blocks off damage caused overnight in the port of Iquique, Chile, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Chilean authorities discovered surprisingly light damage Wednesday from a magnitude-8.2 quake that struck in the Pacific Ocean, Tuesday evening, near the mining port of Iquique, a northern coastal city of nearly 200,000 people. Six deaths have been reported. (AP Photo/Cristian Vivero) NO PUBLICAR EN CHILEIQUIQUE, Chile (AP) — A powerful 7.6-magnitude aftershock hit Chile's far-northern coast late Wednesday night, shaking the same area where a magnitude-8.2 earthquake hit just a day before causing some damage and six deaths.


Meet 19-year-old Yahya—the millionth Syrian refugee in Lebanon

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 05:56 AM PDT

Syrian refugee Yahya, speaks to journalists at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration center in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Thursday, April 3, 2014. The teenager from central Syria became the one millionth Syrian refugee to register in Lebanon on Thursday, a "devastating milestone" for the tiny Arab country with about 4.5 million people of its own, the U.N. refugee agency said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — A teenager from central Syria became the one millionth Syrian refugee to register in Lebanon on Thursday, a "devastating milestone" for the tiny Arab country with about 4.5 million people of its own, the U.N. refugee agency said.


U.S. secretly built 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 12:43 PM PDT

In this March 11, 2014 photo, a woman uses her cellphone as she sits on the Malecon in Havana, Cuba. The U.S. Agency for International Development masterminded the creation of a "Cuban Twitter," a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks, The Associated Press has learned. The project, which lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers, sought to evade Cuba's stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government masterminded the creation of a "Cuban Twitter" — a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks, The Associated Press has learned.


4 dead, 16 wounded in Fort Hood shooting

Posted: 02 Apr 2014 10:32 PM PDT

Lucy Hamlin leans on her husband's foot, Specialist Timothy Hamlin, as they wait to be allowed back onto Fort Hood, Texas, where they reside on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. A shooting occurred on the base with at least four dead and 14 injured according to the officials. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Deborah Cannon)An Iraq veteran opens fire on fellow service members before committing suicide.


Miss. governor signs religious practices bill

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 03:54 PM PDT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill Thursday that supporters say will assure unfettered practice of religion without government interference but that opponents worry could lead to state-sanctioned discrimination against gays and lesbians.

David Letterman to retire from 'Late Show' in 2015

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 03:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 23, 2012 file photo provided by CBS, host David Letterman appears during a taping of his show NEW YORK (AP) — David Letterman is retiring next year as host of "Late Show."


Aftershocks rattle Chile as military keeps order

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 03:44 PM PDT

Heavy machinery is used in the clearing of debris on the road leading to the town of Camarones, in Arica, Thursday Apr. 3, 2014. The road was cut off due to the magnitude-8.2 quake that struck Chile's Northern coast on Tuesday. Authorities discovered surprisingly light damage from the quake. As strong aftershocks continue, power remains out in many areas, and hospitals were handling only emergencies. Schools were closed, and large supermarkets and gas stations coordinated their reopenings Thursday with police and military to avoid problems with long lines of customers. (AP Photo/ Luis Hidalgo)IQUIQUE, Chile (AP) — Coastal residents of Chile's far north spent a second sleepless night outside their homes as major aftershocks continued Thursday following a magnitude-8.2 earthquake that damaged several thousand homes and caused six deaths.


Malaysia vows: We will give plane families closure

Posted: 03 Apr 2014 03:52 PM PDT

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, right, greets a Royal Australian Air Force P-3 Orion captain Lt. Russell Adams and his crew involved in the search for wreckage and debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 in Perth, Australia, Thursday, April 3, 2014.Najib was in Australia to meet with Australian Prime Minister Tonny Abbott to hold bilateral talks about the missing plane and to attend briefings with crew members. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, Pool)PERTH, Australia (AP) — Leaders of the two countries heading multinational efforts to solve the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 pledged Thursday that no effort would be spared to give the families of those on board the answers they need.


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