2014年11月20日星期四

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Obama to transform immigration policy

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 03:00 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014, during a ceremony to award the National Medals of Science, and the National Medals of Technology and Innovation. The awards are the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government upon scientists, engineers, and inventors. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The president will lay out details of his executive order in a prime-time address.

Ferguson police officer remains out of sight as ruling looms

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 11:10 AM PST

In this Feb. 11, 2014 file image from video provided by the City of Ferguson, Mo., officer Darren Wilson attends a city council meeting in Ferguson. Police identified Wilson, 28, as the police officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9, 2014 in Ferguson. Police departments across the country are bracing for large demonstrations when a grand jury decides whether to indict Wilson. (AP Photo/City of Ferguson, File)The Ferguson police officer remains out of sight as the grand jury decision looms.

California man may walk free after 36 years in prison

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 10:21 AM PST

This 1974 photo provided by California Western School of Law shows Michael Hanline with his then girlfriend, now wife Sandee. Prosecutors in Southern California say Hanline, who has spent 36 years behind bars for murder, was wrongly convicted and could be released next week. The Ventura County District Attorney's office announced Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014 that new evidence resulted in a judge overturning the conviction of the 69-year-old Hanline. (AP Photo/California Western School of Law)DNA evidence and the discovery of suppressed documents have exonerated Michael Ray Hanline in the 1978 murder case that landed him in prison for over three decades, authorities said.

Obama says his immigration plan is lawful

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 04:51 PM PST

U.S. President Obama holds up a SanDisk data storage card at the National Medal of Technology and Innovation ceremony in WashingtonBy Roberta Rampton and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama planned on Thursday to impose the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation, easing the threat of deportation for about 4.7 million undocumented immigrants and setting up a clash with outraged Republicans. In excerpts ahead of his 8 p.m. (0100 GMT Friday) speech, Obama rejected Republican critics who say his actions are tantamount to amnesty for illegal immigrants and urged them to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation. The real amnesty, he said, was "leaving this broken system the way it is. ...

Alumnus shot dead after wounding three at Florida State University

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 02:30 PM PST

Crime scene tape is seen in front of the library at Florida State University, in TallahasseeBy Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) - Brandishing a semi-automatic handgun and carrying extra ammunition in his pockets, a Florida State University graduate opened fire early on Thursday at his alma mater's main library, wounding two students and an employee as hundreds were studying for exams. The shooter, identified by authorities as Myron May, 31, was fatally shot by police near the entrance to Florida State's Strozier Library, the latest in a string of shootings on U.S. campuses, which left one victim critically wounded. ...

New York patient tests negative for Ebola, Missouri patient awaits results

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 04:14 PM PST

A view of Bellevue Hospital in the Manhattan borough of New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - A traveler who returned from Mali tested negative for Ebola at a New York City hospital on Thursday, and a patient who recently came back from West Africa awaited test results at a Missouri hospital, health officials said. Preliminary test results showed the traveler who returned to the United States from a trip to Mali does not have the disease, but the patient will remain in isolation at Bellevue Hospital Center for further testing, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation said in a statement. ...

Supreme Court allows gay marriage to proceed in South Carolina

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 02:41 PM PST

Jennifer Rose, a county government employee and Sara Meadows, a teacher, file a marriage license application in CharlestonBy Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for South Carolina to become the 35th U.S. state where gay marriage is legal, denying a request to block same-same weddings from proceeding. The order was another victory for gay marriage advocates after a federal judge in Montana on Wednesday struck down that state's ban on same-sex marriage. "We're really thrilled," said Jeff Ayers, board chairman of South Carolina Equality. "This proves that all the way to the highest court, these were our rights from the beginning. ...

CIA's plan to erase emails comes under fire

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 06:43 AM PST

BUSH CIAA CIA plan 'could allow for the destruction of crucial documentary evidence...'

Mary Landrieu against the GOP wave

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 01:36 AM PST

On the morning after the Senate rejected approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the bills's sponsor, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, walks through a corridor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Landrieu had hoped that passage of the Keystone bill would improve the chances of retaining her Senate seat in a runoff Dec. 6 against Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The Louisiana senator's every move has garnered unusual amounts of attention.

Matt Bai: Uber, Gruber and underlying truth

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 01:47 PM PST

Uber and GruberSocial media routinely ruins good reputations by magnifying a few clumsy words beyond all proportion. Except, you know, when it doesn't really do that at all.

Texas judge approves execution of mentally ill man

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 09:34 AM PST

The Wynne Unit in Huntsville, one of the seven prison units in Walker County, Texas, on May 21, 2013Washington (AFP) - A Texas judge on Wednesday refused to postpone the scheduled execution of a convicted killer who suffers from mental illness and is set to face lethal injection on December 3.

Oscar-winning director dies at 83

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 02:40 PM PST

Entertainment icon Mike Nichols has died at age 83NEW YORK (AP) — A legend of film, theater and comedy in nearly equal measure, Mike Nichols was an unquestioned fixture of smart, urbane American culture across a relentlessly versatile, six-decade career that on stage or screen, reliably coursed with crackling intelligence.

Gunman killed by police after FSU shooting

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 02:52 PM PST

Police investigate a shooting at Strozier Library on Florida State campus on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)Three students were also wounded in the shooting at a campus library.

Police arrest protesters as Ferguson awaits grand jury decision

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 03:24 PM PST

By Scott Malone and Daniel Wallis FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Police in Ferguson, Missouri, kept alert on Thursday for signs of tension after arresting five people for blocking a street the night before in a protest demanding the criminal indictment of a white police officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in August. The St. Louis suburb has been bracing for months to learn whether a St. Louis County grand jury will charge police officer Darren Wilson in the slaying of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a case that has become a flashpoint for often-troubled U.S. race relations. ...

Immigrants wait, hope, plan for Obama order

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 12:41 AM PST

Attorney Alex Galvez poses for a photo in his office in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Immigrants in the country illegally already are flooding attorneys' offices with calls to see if they can qualify under President Barack Obama's yet-to-be-announced plan to shield as many as 5 million immigrants from deportation. Galvez, an immigration lawyer in Los Angeles, said he's going to need to add phone lines to keep up with the demand. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Immigrants in the country illegally already are flooding attorneys' offices with calls to see if they can qualify under President Barack Obama's yet-to-be-announced plan to shield as many as 5 million immigrants from deportation.

Kasich steals show at governors' meeting

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 04:29 PM PST

Ohio Governor John Kasich speaks to supporters at the Ohio Republican Party celebration Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)The wily 62-year-old former congressman butts heads with Wisconsin's Scott Walker during a heated exchange.

Racial divide in U.S. arrest rates is 'staggering,' study finds

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 10:43 AM PST

Ferguson awaits Grand Jury decisionAccording to USA Today — which compared arrests reported by local police departments to the FBI in 2011 and 2012 with data from the 2010 U.S. census — at least 1,581 police departments arrest black people at a higher rate than Ferguson, Mo., where blacks are arrested nearly three times more than people of other races.

Top Obama aide won’t rule out unilateral easing of Cuba policy

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 03:37 PM PST

Deputy National Security Adviser Tony BlinkenA year after President Barack Obama said the United States must "update our policies" on Cuba, his pick for the No. 2 job at the State Department, Tony Blinken, refused to rule out unilateral steps by the president in the next two years — provided Alan Gross goes free.

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