2014年5月5日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Egypt's el-Sissi: Muslim Brotherhood is over

Posted: 05 May 2014 04:43 PM PDT

In this image made from video broadcast on Egypt's State Television, Egypt's retired Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi listens to a question during an interview in a nationally televised program in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 5, 2014. Former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said that he decided to run for president of Egypt because of the "threats" facing the country, speaking in the first TV interview of his campaign. (AP Photo/Egypt's State Television)Former military chief says group will no longer exist under his presidency.


FAA: One plane's data glitch grounded all L.A.-area flights

Posted: 05 May 2014 03:40 PM PDT

An4 American Airlines Boeing 767 awaits to take off at the Los Angeles International airport in Los Angeles on Wednesday, April, April 30, 2014. Flights from airports in the Los Angeles area were grounded for more than an hour Wednesday afternoon due to computer failure at an air traffic control facility in the region. (AP Photo)The failure of the primary air traffic control system around Los Angeles last week happened because electronic data from a single plane's flight plan confused the system's software, according to the Federal ...


Critics say shooting simulator creates bias on Texas grand juries

Posted: 05 May 2014 01:43 PM PDT

In this Feb. 27, 2014 photo, a television reporter uses a specially modified gun to try to shoot a hostage taker during a demonstration of the Harris County district attorney's shooting simulator, in Houston. The interactive way of illustrating the legal concept of deadly force is part of the unique training that Houston-area grand jurors can receive before they begin hearing cases. But critics argue that it puts grand jurors in a pro-law enforcement mindset. One Houston defense attorney recently unsuccessfully challenged the simulator's use, calling it mind manipulation. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)HOUSTON (AP) — The armed carjacker projected on a large screen threatens to kill you if you don't give up your keys. Holding a modified gun that emits a beam, you pull the trigger when he draws his weapon, and seconds later fire again at another person who jumps in front with something in his hand.


Crackdown on U.S. nuns goes forward under Pope Francis

Posted: 05 May 2014 02:24 PM PDT

Supporters of The Leadership Conference of Women Religious participate in a vigil Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 in St. Louis. The largest U.S. group for Roman Catholic nuns meet to decide how they should respond to a Vatican rebuke and order for reform. The LCWR, represents most of the 57,000 American nuns. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)NEW YORK (AP) — The Vatican official overseeing the crackdown on the largest umbrella group for U.S. nuns is pressing forward with the overhaul under Pope Francis.


Woman rescued 6 days after car crash wrote notes on umbrella

Posted: 05 May 2014 02:03 PM PDT

Woman Found After Being In Crashed Car For Days Remains In Critical ConditionDENVER (AP) — Kristin Hopkins wrote pleas for help on a red-and-white umbrella that she managed to push through a broken window of her crashed car and open, hoping to attract the attention of drivers on a scenic highway above.


Oklahoma residents survey burned-out homes

Posted: 05 May 2014 04:58 PM PDT

The charred remains of a trailer home are left on Monday, May 5, 2014 in Guthrie, Okla., the day after a wildfire tore through the area. Firefighters worked through the night and into early Monday to battle the large wildfire that destroyed at least six homes and left at least one person dead after a controlled burn spread out of control in central Oklahoma.(AP Photo/Nick Oxford)Forecasters say fire danger will grow after controlled burn goes awry, killing one.


Fed study: Skipping college adds up to $800,000 in lost earnings

Posted: 05 May 2014 10:01 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 10, 2013, file photo, prospective students tour Georgetown University's campus in Washington. The nation's college and university endowments, often used to fund scholarships and professorships, had strong growth in 2013, according to a report released Jan. 28, 2014. That's a bit of good news for higher education institutions under pressure to hold down tuition costs amid some enrollment declines. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)Over a lifetime, the average U.S. college graduate will earn at least $800,000 more than the average high school graduate, a study published Monday by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco shows. That's after accounting for the high cost of college tuition and the four years of wages lost during the time it takes to complete a typical undergraduate degree, the researchers found. "Although there are stories of people who skipped college and achieved financial success, for most Americans the path to higher future earnings involves a four-year college degree," wrote Mary Daly, the San Francisco Fed's associate director of research, and Leila Bengali, a research associate, in the latest Economic Letter from the regional Fed bank. In short, they found, "college is still worth it." A college student who pays $21,200 in yearly tuition will recoup that investment by age 38, the researchers found.


Putin secretly honors more than 300 journalists

Posted: 05 May 2014 11:21 AM PDT

Russian President Putin speaks during an awards ceremony in Moscow's KremlinAs Russia's propaganda war heats up, media fight between Moscow and Kiev is mis-matched.


Infamous shipwreck off S.C. yields more than 60 lbs. of gold

Posted: 05 May 2014 07:25 AM PDT

TREASURE HUNTINGMore than 60 pounds of gold were recovered from an infamous 157-year-old shipwreck 160 miles off the coast of South Carolina last month, and the deep-sea exploration company that retrieved it says there is plenty more down there.


Man who went to prison 13 years late set free

Posted: 05 May 2014 04:47 PM PDT

Cornealious "Mike" Anderson walks out of the Mississippi County Courthouse along with his wife, LaQonna Anderson, daughter Nevaeh, 3, and grandmother Mary Porter, left, after being released from custody, Monday, May 5, 2014, in Charleston, Mo. A judge ordered the release of Anderson who was convicted of robbery in 2000 but never sent to prison until a clerical mistake was discovered last year when he was put behind bars. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)A clerical mistake led Cornealious Anderson, convicted of robbery in 2000, to avoid prison


Suspect held in Ohio VA clinic shooting

Posted: 05 May 2014 03:39 PM PDT

Veterans Administration medical center in DaytonDayton complex remains on lockdown after one person was shot in the leg in basement.


Ukraine moves elite national guard to Odessa, helicopter downed in east

Posted: 05 May 2014 04:22 PM PDT

A Pro-Russian gunman wearing an "Operation Iraqi Freedom - Coalition Forces" jacket guards the barricades on a road leading into Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, May 5, 2014. Ukrainian troops fought pitched gun battles Monday with a pro-Russia militia occupying an eastern city, an apparent escalation of their efforts to bring the region back under government control. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)Ukrainian officials say the Odessa force, based on "civil activists," would replace local police who had failed to tackle rebel actions at the weekend.


Nigeria group threatens to sell abducted girls

Posted: 05 May 2014 11:45 AM PDT

Femi Falana, a lawyer and human rights activist, centre, leads a mass-demonstration calling on the government to increase efforts to rescue the hundreds of missing kidnapped school girls of a government secondary school Chibok, in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, May 5, 2014. Leader of a protest march Saratu Angus Ndirpaya of Chibok town, said that Nigeria's First Lady ordered her and another protest leader to be arrested Monday, and expressed doubts there was any kidnapping and accused them of belonging to the Islamic insurgent group blamed for the abductions. Police say more than 300 girls and young women were abducted mid-April from Chibok Government Girls Secondary School, of whom some 53 girls are known to have escaped. (AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba)Nigeria's Islamic extremist leader is threatening to sell the more than 300 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast three weeks ago, in a new videotape received Monday.


JPMorgan $280M mortgage accord gets preliminary court approval

Posted: 05 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 11, 2012 file photo, people stand in the lobby of JPMorgan Chase headquarters in New York. JPMorgan, one of the nation's biggest banks and the largest U.S. investment bank, reports its first-quarter earnings before the market opens on Friday April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)The accord marks the third-largest settlement in a U.S. class action against banks that packaged and sold mortgage securities at the center of the 2008 financial crisis.


Gunfire reported at Ohio VA clinic

Posted: 05 May 2014 10:21 AM PDT

Veterans Administration medical center in DaytonClinic reports 'developing situation,' and employees say at least part of complex locked down.


Survivors struggle after Afghan mudslide

Posted: 05 May 2014 11:25 AM PDT

Photos of the day - May 5, 2014Three days after landslide, search continues for displaced family members.


High court ruling favors prayer at council meeting

Posted: 05 May 2014 11:57 AM PDT

The exterior of the U.S. Supreme Court is seen in WashingtonPrayers that open town council meetings do not violate the Constitution even if they routinely stress Christianity, a divided Supreme Court ruled Monday.


UN: Spread of polio a world health emergency

Posted: 05 May 2014 11:29 AM PDT

A Somali child receives a polio vaccine.Disease's growth could unravel the nearly three-decade effort to eradicate it, WHO reports.


1,000 flee, 1 dead, as Oklahoma wildfire spreads

Posted: 05 May 2014 10:23 AM PDT

A firefighter walks past a burning mobile home at a mobile home park near Prairie Grove Rd. and Douglas during Oklahoma wildfires in south Logan County, Sunday, May 4, 2014. Firefighters worked through the night and into early Monday to battle a large wildfire that destroyed at least six homes and left at least one person dead after a controlled burn spread out of control in central Oklahoma. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Nate Billings) LOCAL STATIONS OUT (KFOR, KOCO, KWTV, KOKH, KAUT OUT); LOCAL WEBSITES OUT; LOCAL PRINT OUT (EDMOND SUN OUT, OKLAHOMA GAZETTE OUT) TABLOIDS OUTFirefighters worked Monday to battle a large wildfire in central Okla. that destroyed at least six homes and left one person dead.


Earthquake cracks walls, roads in north Thailand

Posted: 05 May 2014 08:42 AM PDT

A man points a big crack on a damaged road following a strong earthquake in Phan district of Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand, Monday, May 5, 2014. A strong earthquake shook northern Thailand and Myanmar Monday evening, and some light damage was reported. (AP Photo)A strong earthquake shook northern Thailand and Myanmar on Monday evening, smashing windows, cracking walls and roads and damaging Buddhist temples. No casualties were reported.


Greece: Smuggling boats capsize, 22 migrants drown

Posted: 05 May 2014 02:43 PM PDT

GREECE MIGRANTS ACCIDENTA yacht and a dinghy crammed with immigrants trying to enter Greece capsized Monday in the eastern Aegean Sea, leaving at least 22 dead, including four children, and potentially several more missing in one of the deadliest such accidents in Greek waters in recent years.


Schools seek changes to healthier lunch rules

Posted: 05 May 2014 11:43 AM PDT

Biden Arias-Romers, 5, left, and Nathaniel Cossio-Boatwright, 6, right, eat lunch at the Patrick Henry Elementary School in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, April 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Becky Domokos-Bays of Alexandria City Public Schools has served her students whole-grain pasta 20 times. Each time, she said, they rejected it.


4 killed, 30 injured in east Ukraine fighting

Posted: 05 May 2014 06:03 AM PDT

TENSIONS IN UKRAINE FLARESlovyansk has been the heart of an uprising against the central government in Kiev.


Nigeria police arrest protest leader for abducted girls

Posted: 05 May 2014 05:03 AM PDT

People hold signs during a protest demanding the release of abducted secondary school girls from the remote village of Chibok, in LagosNigerian authorities have arrested a leader of a protest last week in the capital Abuja that called on them to do more to find more than 200 girls abducted by Islamist rebels, a presidency source and another organizer of the protest said on Monday.


Authorities: Clamp snapped in circus accident

Posted: 05 May 2014 08:56 AM PDT

ACROBATS SURVIVE MID-SHOW FALLInvestigators looking into why eight circus acrobats plummeted to the ground during an aerial hair-hanging stunt have found that a clamp snapped, a public safety official said Monday.


Syria clashes kill 21 rebels in Aleppo province

Posted: 05 May 2014 09:28 AM PDT

This Sunday, May 4, 2014 photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian men carrying the body of a man who was killed by a government forces airstrike, in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian state media say on Monday, May 5, 2014 rockets have slammed into a government-held district in the northern city of Aleppo, killing many people. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)BEIRUT (AP) — Fierce fighting in Syria's contested northern province of Aleppo killed at least 21 rebels on Monday as rockets slammed into a government-held district in the provincial capital, killing nine people.


Target CEO Steinhafel out in wake of data breach

Posted: 05 May 2014 05:18 AM PDT

File of Target President and CEO Gregg Steinhafel speaking in New YorkTarget's massive data breach has now cost the company's CEO his job.


Gary Becker, economics Nobel Laureate, dies at 83

Posted: 05 May 2014 04:02 AM PDT

GARY BECKER, ANCIEN NOBEL D'ECONOMIE, EST MORTGary Becker, a University of Chicago professor who received the Nobel Prize in economic sciences and is credited with pioneering the approach to economics as the study of human behavior, died Saturday ...


Acrobats injured in fall as circus stunt goes awry

Posted: 05 May 2014 02:52 AM PDT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine what caused a support frame to collapse during an aerial hair-hanging stunt during a circus performance, sending eight acrobats crashing to the ground.

Ukraine sends elite force to Odessa due to unrest

Posted: 05 May 2014 02:39 PM PDT

Mourners and family members cry next the coffin of regional parliament member Vyacheslav Markin, in Odessa, Ukraine, Monday, May 5, 2014. Markin, who was known for speaking out against the government in Kiev, was buried as about 300 pro-Russia supporters shouted "Hero, hero!" Markin died Sunday from burns sustained Friday in a fire that followed clashes in Odessa. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)ODESSA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine sent an elite national guard unit to its southern port of Odessa, desperate to halt a spread of the fighting between government troops and a pro-Russia militia in the east that killed combatants on both sides Monday.


Clip suspected in circus accident; 2 critical

Posted: 05 May 2014 03:29 PM PDT

In this photo provided by Rosa Viveiros, first responders work at the center ring after a platform collapsed during an aerial hair-hanging stunt at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Sunday, May 4, 2014, in Providence, R.I. At least nine performers were seriously injured in the fall, including a dancer below, while an unknown number of others suffered minor injuries. (AP Photo/Rosa Viveiros) MANDATORY CREDITPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Investigators suspect that a snapped clip sent eight aerial acrobats plummeting 20 feet or more during a daring act in which performers dangle from their hair. One injured performer told her father she didn't notice anything amiss before her "plunge into darkness."


AP IMPACT: Deadly side effect to fracking boom

Posted: 05 May 2014 12:04 PM PDT

In this Saturday, March 1, 2014 photo, William Saum stands near his front porch in Clarksburg, W. Va. In March 2013, a truck carrying drilling water overturned onto a car carrying his wife and two young sons. Both children, 7-year-old Nicholas Mazzei-Saum and 8-year-old Alexander, were killed. An analysis of traffic fatalities in the busiest new oil and gas-producing counties in the U.S. shows a sharp rise in deaths that experts say is related to the drilling boom. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Booming production of oil and natural gas has exacted a little-known price on some of the nation's roads, contributing to a spike in traffic fatalities in states where many streets and highways are choked with large trucks and heavy drilling equipment.


AP ENTERPRISE: US to unleash IRS on Russian banks

Posted: 05 May 2014 02:04 PM PDT

FILE - This March 22, 2013, file photo, shows exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. As the United States attempts to punish Russia for its actions in Ukraine, the Treasury Department is deploying an economic weapon that could prove to be more costly than sanctions: the Internal Revenue Service. This summer, the U.S. plans to start using a new anti-tax evasion law that will make it much more expensive for Russian banks to do business in America. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — As the United States attempts to punish Russia for its actions in Ukraine, the Treasury Department is deploying an economic weapon that could prove more costly than sanctions: the Internal Revenue Service.


Target's CEO is out in wake of big security breach

Posted: 05 May 2014 01:28 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Target Corp. shows the company's chairman, president and CEO Gregg Steinhafel. Target said Monday, May 5, 2014, that Steinhafel is out, nearly five months after the retailer disclosed a massive data breach that hurt its reputation. The nation's third-largest retailer says Steinhafel has agreed to step down as the company's chairman, president and CEO, effective immediately. He also has resigned from its board of directors. (AP Photo/Target Corp., Johansen Krause, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Target's CEO has become the first boss of a major corporation to lose his job over a breach of customer data, showing how responsibility for computer security now reaches right to the top.


Ohio kidnapping survivors say they're thriving

Posted: 05 May 2014 04:51 PM PDT

FILE - This Monday Feb. 24, 2014 file photo shows from left, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight introduced at the Performing Arts Center in Medina, Ohio. The three women held captive in a Cleveland house before escaping a year ago Tuesday have spent their first year of freedom learning to drive, taking boxing lessons and cherishing time with their families. Berry and DeJesus both said in statements released Monday, May 5, 2014 that they are thankful and growing in many ways. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)CLEVELAND (AP) — The three women held captive in a Cleveland house before escaping a year ago Tuesday have spent their first year of freedom in nearly a decade learning to drive, taking boxing lessons and cherishing time with their families.


U.S. watches while Ukraine burns

Posted: 04 May 2014 01:05 PM PDT

U.S. Watches While Ukraine BurnsAs violence worsened in Ukraine over the weekend, U.S. lawmakers appeared on the Sunday talk shows to call for new and harsher sanctions on Russia.


Exclusive: CIA Fires Its Terror-Fighters

Posted: 04 May 2014 06:45 PM PDT

Exclusive: CIA Fires Its Terror-FightersThe intelligence agency's irregular forces have been key to the fight against the Taliban since 2001. Now they're being withdrawn—just as a bloody fighting season heats up.


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