2014年10月2日星期四

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Mishandling of U.S. Ebola patient prompts CDC alert to hospitals

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 01:59 PM PDT

Texas Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Ebola (Jason Sickles, Yahoo News0More than 100 people might have been in recent contact with Thomas Eric Duncan.


Who is Joseph Clancy, interim director of the Secret Service?

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 08:19 AM PDT

Meet the acting Secret Service chiefThe 58-year-old led presidential detail for President Barack Obama and the first family before retiring in 2011 to become director of corporate security for Comcast.


Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBA player to appear on U.S. postage stamp

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Dallas Ebola patient vomited outside apartment on way to hospital

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 04:23 PM PDT

Students disembark from a school bus outside The Ivy Apartments, where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in DallasBy Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - Two days after he was sent home from a Dallas hospital, the man who is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was seen vomiting on the ground outside an apartment complex as he was bundled into an ambulance. The Dallas Ebola case, involving a man who flew back to the United States last month from Liberia, has prompted national concern over the potential for a wider spread of the deadly virus from West Africa, where at least 3,338 people have died in the worst outbreak on record. U.S. ...


More than 800 flights canceled in Chicago due to weather, fire issues

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 04:30 PM PDT

A Spirit Airlines airplane sits at a gate at the O'Hare Airport in Chicago, IllinoisBy Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Incoming stormy weather and operational problems caused by a fire last week at a Chicago-area air traffic control facility forced the cancellation of more than 800 flights on Thursday at Chicago airports. More than 525 flights at O'Hare International Airport, one of the world's busiest, have been canceled and delays are averaging 45 minutes, according to the city's department of aviation. Nearly 300 flights were canceled at Chicago Midway International Airport and some flight delays were averaging 40 minutes or more. ...


Interim Secret Service head has been a familiar figure beside U.S. presidents

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 12:50 PM PDT

File photo of U.S. President and Mrs. Obama under the watchful eye of then-Secret Service Agent Clancy in TucsonBy Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As a member of the U.S. Secret Service's most elite detail, Joseph Clancy guarded the lives of three U.S. presidents and now will try to repair the agency's damaged credibility after a spate of embarrassments and failures. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Clancy's appointment as interim director shortly after Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigned on Wednesday. Clancy rejoins the service after leaving his job as head of security for the Comcast media corporation in the Philadelphia area where he grew up. ...


As midterms loom, Obama shifts spotlight to economy

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 01:11 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama talks about the economy, in Northwestern University in EvanstonBy Roberta Rampton EVANSTON Ill. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama tried on Thursday to turn the spotlight on the economy, the issue U.S. voters care about most ahead of November midterm elections, making the case that his policies have steered the country away from the brink of collapse and laid a foundation for growth. It's the second take for a strategy that the White House rolled out in June, only to have its optimistic message drowned out by crises in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine and western Africa. ...


Man who brought Ebola to U.S. may be prosecuted

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 10:39 AM PDT

Texas Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Ebola (Jason Sickles, Yahoo News0Thomas Duncan is suspected of lying about not having any contact with an infected person.


At nation's oldest Episcopal seminary, 8 of 10 professors fired

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 09:14 AM PDT

Seminarians gather outside the chapel on the grounds of The General Theological Seminary after morning prayers, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, in New York. More than two-thirds of the faculty at the seminary, one of the nation's oldest, most venerable religious institutions that trains ministers of America's Episcopal Church, say they were fired earlier this week after going on strike to protest their dean's leadership. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)NEW YORK (AP) — The lid has been lifted on a fierce internal battle at the nation's oldest Episcopal seminary, which has lost most of its faculty over what they say is their dean's intimidating, disrespectful leadership.


White Ohio woman sues over sperm from black donor

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 12:53 PM PDT

Woman sues sperm bank, claims she received wrong specimenCLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio woman has sued a Chicago-area sperm bank after she became pregnant with sperm donated by a black man instead of a white man as she and her partner had intended.


'I will not resign'

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 09:23 AM PDT

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying gestures during a press conference after his 2014 policy address in Hong Kong on January 15, 2014Hong Kong's embattled leader Leung Chun-ying won't step down, but did agree to send underling to talk to protesters.


Jeb Bush 2016?

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 02:36 AM PDT

Matt Bai - Republican candidatesThe former Fla. governor (and W.'s brother) could be the GOP nominee.


India PM Modi invokes Gandhi himself in effort against filth problem

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 09:40 AM PDT

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleans a roadOutside of New Delhi's largest train station heaps of garbage lie in the streets and in front of nearby shops and restaurants. In one corner, a sign reads "Deluxe Toilet," which is actually a filthy public bathroom.


Dose of reality for 'Real Housewives' couple facing fraud sentencing

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 03:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 30, 2013 file photo, "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" stars Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice, 43, left, and his wife, Teresa Giudice, 41, of Montville Township, N.J., walk out of Martin Luther King, Jr. Courthouse after an appearance in Newark, N.J. Teresa and Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice are scheduled to be sentenced Thursday Oct. 2, 2014 on conspiracy and bankruptcy fraud charges in federal court in Newark. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The married stars of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" are trading the drama of reality TV for prison.


Photos: Millions make Haj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia

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The nine lives of Boko Haram 'leader' Abubakar Shekau

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 06:56 AM PDT

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is seen in a video obtained by AFP on October 2, 2014Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is an elusive figure whose whereabouts are unknown, but he makes himself heard each time the military proclaims him dead.


Hong Kong protests show signs of escalation

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 08:28 AM PDT

A student protester gets emotional while pleading for a peaceful resolution, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 in Hong Kong. The student leaders of the protests are warning that if the territory's top official doesn't resign by tomorrow, they will step up their actions -- including occupying several important government buildings. They'd be risking another round of confrontations with police, who are unlikely to let government buildings be stormed. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)Police seen unloading tear gas and rubber bullets; authorities warn to disperse immediately.


U.S. citizen joins Syria Kurds in fight against Islamic State

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 06:59 AM PDT

Jordan MatsonBy Tom Perry and Fiona Ortiz BEIRUT/CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen has joined Kurdish forces fighting against Islamic State militants in northern Syria, a spokesman for the main Kurdish armed group in the country said on Thursday. The Kurdish official said that Jordan Matson had joined the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), who are mainly battling advances by Islamic State close to Syria's borders with Turkey and Iraq. "Yes it is true," YPG spokesman Redur Xelil said in an online message. "He is fighting in the Jazaa area. ...


How Kentucky's struggling miners view most expensive Senate race

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 03:00 AM PDT

Clay County Kentucky coal cultureOnce the linchpin of Kentucky's economy, the coal industry has deteriorated beyond recognition. While the miners of Clay County feel the pinch, the 2014 Senate race over Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's seat has emerged as a $100 million contest, the most expensive Senate race in American history.


Dozens feared exposed to Dallas Ebola patient

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 09:17 AM PDT

A health worker puts on protective gear in Liberia, where Ebola has spread across the entire countryHealth officials: Lapse in diagnosis, quarantine should be a lesson in what not to do in future.


Hong Kong leader won't quit, offers talks instead

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 02:29 PM PDT

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's embattled leader refused demands by pro-democracy protesters to resign Thursday, and instead offered talks to defuse a week of massive demonstrations that have grown into the biggest challenge to Beijing's authority since China took control of the former British colony in 1997.

Why did ER send Ebola patient home?

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 03:17 PM PDT

A man walks up the stairway leading to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. A patient in the hospital is showing signs of the Ebola virus and is being kept in strict isolation with test results pending, hospital officials said Monday. (AP Photo/LM Otero)A Texas hospital initially released him even though he said he had been in West Africa.


Protesters to pack meeting on education changes

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 04:40 PM PDT

In this Sept. 23, 2014 photo, protesting Pamona High School students, left to right, Ciana Vrtikapa, Tori Suyak, and Becca Ferris engage with passing motorists in a busy intersection near their school, during a multi-school protest against a Jefferson County School Board proposal to emphasize patriotism and downplay civil unrest in the teaching of U.S. history, in Arvada, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — Students and teachers fighting a plan to promote patriotism and downplay civil disobedience in some suburban Denver U.S. history courses are expected to pack a school board meeting Thursday where the controversial changes could face a vote.


Using 'contact tracing' to halt Ebola spread

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 05:19 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file image made available by the CDC shows the Ebola Virus. U.S. health officials have warned for months that someone infected with Ebola could unknowingly carry the virus to this country, and on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, came word that it had happened: A traveler in a Dallas hospital became the first patient diagnosed in the U.S. (AP Photo/CDC, File)CDC tries to determine if U.S. Ebola patient exposed others in Dallas area.


W.H. fence-jumping suspect pleads not guilty

Posted: 01 Oct 2014 03:11 PM PDT

This courtroom artist rendering shows U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson, left, presiding during Omar J. Gonzalez's , center, case in court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014. Gonzalez, accused of jumping a fence at the White House pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he ran into the presidential mansion while carrying a knife. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren)A man accused of jumping a fence at the White House pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he ran into the presidential mansion while carrying a knife.


Mexico arrests Beltran Leyva cartel chief

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 10:39 AM PDT

Hector Beltran Leyva, leader of the Beltran Leyva's drug cartelMexico City (AFP) - The suspected heir of Mexico's family-run Beltran Leyva drug cartel was swept up by soldiers as he ate at a seafood restaurant in a colonial town popular with American retirees.


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