2014年10月9日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Mom of U.S. hostage tweets letter to IS

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 06:31 AM PDT

Vigil Held For American Aid Worker Peter Kassig Held Captive By ISISPaula Kassig tries to reach the Islamic State's leader, hoping he'll spare her son.


Group asks for probe into shooting range that refuses to cater to Muslims

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 09:03 AM PDT

Jan MorganA Muslim civil rights group is asking the Department of Justice to investigate an Arkansas shooting range whose owner recently declared it a "Muslim-free zone."


Prosecutors want Adrian Peterson arrested again after marijuana admission

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Fears grow in United States over Ebola's spread outside West Africa

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 02:13 PM PDT

A sign asks patients to inform staff if they have various symptoms and have recently traveled internationally or have had contact with someone who recently traveled internationally at Bellevue Hospital in ManhattanBy Laila Kearney and Patricia Zengerle NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fears are growing in the United States about Ebola with about 200 airline cabin cleaners walking off the job in New York and some lawmakers demanding the government ban travelers from the West African countries hit hardest by the virus. "The nation is frightened, and people are frightened of this disease," the U.S. cabinet secretary for health, Sylvia Burwell, said on Thursday, a day after the death in Texas of the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. U.S. ...


St. Louis braces for weekend of protests over Michael Brown killing

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 01:50 PM PDT

A demonstrator confronts a St. Louis Metropolitan Police officer in St. LouisBy Carey Gillam (Reuters) - The St. Louis area on Thursday was bracing for more racial unrest over the August killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer, and another police killing of a black teenager on Wednesday was expected to add fuel to the fire. Several civil rights organizations and protest groups, including Hands Up United, planned to mark the weekend with marches and rallies in St. Louis and the suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, where Brown was killed two months ago. ...


Gay marriage foes in Nevada drop challenge; some states push back

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 03:44 PM PDT

Jim Derrick and Alfie Travassos exchange rings as they get married at the Salt Lake County Government Complex in Salt Lake City, UtahBy Sandra Chereb and Harriet McLeod CARSON CITY Nev./CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) - Nevada came a step closer to issuing marriage licenses to gay couples on Thursday when a conservative group withdrew last-ditch motions that sought to block an appeals court decision allowing same-sex matrimony in the state. But even as momentum appeared to favor gay marriage in Nevada, county clerks in the state's urban centers said they were refraining from issuing licenses out of an abundance of caution until any last remaining legal questions were resolved. ...


Ben Affleck's 'Islam' statements make him target

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Ben Affleck's 'Islam' statements make him target


1901 time capsule finally opened. What's inside?

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 01:28 PM PDT

The contents of a 113-year-old time capsuleWOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A 113-year-old, shoebox-sized time capsule was removed Thursday from the head of a lion statue where it had long sat, hidden in plain sight, atop one of Boston's most famous landmarks.


Mom: Teen killed by St. Louis cop was unarmed

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 02:17 PM PDT

Crowds confront police near the scene in in south St. Louis where a man was fatally shot by an off-duty St. Louis police officer on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. St. Louis Police Lt. Col. Alfred Adkins said the 32-year-old officer was working a secondary security job late Wednesday when the shooting happened. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Carson)Authorities allege the teen shot three times before the officer returned fire.


Ebola victim's heartbreaking story of love and loss

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 08:54 AM PDT

Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan diesDALLAS — Love, not Ebola, drove Thomas Eric Duncan from his native Liberia.


Startling effects of voter ID laws

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 08:38 PM PDT

election worker Dorothy Davis checks a voter's ID at a polling place in Little Rock, Ark.WASHINGTON (AP) — States that toughened their voter identification laws saw steeper drops in election turnout than those that did not, with disproportionate falloffs among black and younger voters, a nonpartisan congressional study released Wednesday concluded.


Arizona landscaper killed by swarm of bees

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:16 AM PDT

KILLER BEE ATTACKDOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — Thousands of swarming bees have left one landscaper dead and another critically injured after the men were stung in southern Arizona.


Ebola's devastating effect on tourism

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Just as Africa's travel industry had picked up, the deadly virus has cast a gloomy shadow.


Woman's tweets over pilot gets her booted from flight

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 09:20 AM PDT

An A320 Jet Blue plane taxis at JFK airport in New YorkMANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman says she was removed from a JetBlue flight after tweeting about the flight's delays, which included a pilot having to take a sobriety test.


Activist investor Icahn urges action on Apple's undervalued stock

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 04:51 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 2, 2014 photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks about iOS 8 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Apple has stopped providing an update to its new iOS 8 mobile operating software, following complaints by some users who said Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, that the update interferes with their ability to make phone calls. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)In a new letter to the Apple CEO, Carl Icahn lays out an aggressively bullish case for Apple's new iPhone models and the company's growth prospects. He says he won't sell any of his stock in any future tender offer Apple might undertake.


Americans: Ban flights from Ebola nations

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 05:19 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2014, file photo, a Nigerian health official wearing a protective suit waits to screen passengers for the Ebola virus at the arrivals hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. Six months into the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, scientists say they've learned more about how the potentially lethal virus behaves and how future outbreaks might be stopped. The first cases of Ebola were reported in Guinea by the World Health Organization on March 23 before spreading to Sierra Leone, Liberia and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)But health experts say such a move would be counterproductive.


Prolific 1990s graffiti artist 'Cost' nabbed with brushes, arrested in NYC

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 06:47 AM PDT

Revs Cost graffitiNEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say they have arrested a high-profile graffiti artist.


Police-citizen unrest erupts St. Louis again

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Police say an off-duty officer shot and killed a teen who opened fire during a chase.


Airline workers strike over Ebola concerns

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Matt Bai: Why an independent win in Kansas would matter

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 12:56 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2014 file photo Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, left, and independent candidate Greg Orman shake hands after a debate at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, Kan. The veteran Kansas Senator is struggling to win re-election and turn back a strong challenge from Orman, a suburban businessman running as an independent who is capitalizing on sentiment that the 78-year-old incumbent is out of touch. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)A month out from the midterm elections, Kansas is the most interesting state on the map. Greg Orman, who is running for Senate as an independent against the state's powerful Republican incumbent, Pat Roberts, has opened up a surprising lead; according to one analysis, Orman is the only Senate candidate in the country who keeps getting more popular, rather than less.


Where is Kim Jong Un?

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 04:41 AM PDT

WHERE IS KIM JONG UN?TOKYO (AP) — As North Korea's ruling party prepares to mark its 69th anniversary on Friday, the world will be watching to see if leader Kim Jong Un will make his first public appearance in more than a month.


Airport screening for Ebola: 5 things to know

Posted: 09 Oct 2014 12:32 PM PDT

Bellevue Hospital nurse Belkys FortuneThe Obama administration announced Wednesday that airline passengers arriving from the three West African countries experiencing an unprecedented Ebola outbreak will now be screened for potential exposure ...


Day of legal confusion leaves gay couples in limbo

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 06:14 PM PDT

Thomas Topovski, left, and his partner Jefferson Ruck, right, wait in line at the Marriage License Bureau, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, in Las Vegas. The two were waiting for an hour and a half to see if they would be able to obtain a same-sex marriage license. (AP Photo/John Locher)LAS VEGAS (AP) — County clerks in Nevada turned away gay couples eager to marry Wednesday amid a flurry of conflicting court decisions, including a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that blocked partners in Idaho moments before they would have picked up marriage licenses.


U.S., allies chafing at Turkish inaction on Syria

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 07:35 PM PDT

A Turkish Kurd uses binoculars in Mursitpinar, on the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, as he watches the intensified fighting between militants of the Islamic State group and Kurdish forces in Kobani, Syria, background, Wednesday, Oct. 8 Oct. 7, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab and its surrounding areas have been under attack since mid-September, with militants capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)ISTANBUL (AP) — As U.S. generals and Secretary of State John Kerry warn that a strategic Syrian border town could fall to Islamic State militants, the Turkish military has deployed its tanks on its side of the frontier but only watched the slaughter.


Obama claims progress in war against Islamic State

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 04:45 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, flanked by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, speaks to the media at the conclusion of a meeting with senior military leadership, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a stubborn enemy, President Barack Obama professed confidence Wednesday that the U.S. will keep making progress against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, as the reality set in of a lengthy military conflict with limited prospects for success.


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