2015年10月30日星期五

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Romanian nightclub explosion leaves 26 dead, dozens injured

Posted: 30 Oct 2015 04:15 PM PDT

Emergency services work outside a nightclub in BucharestAt least 26 people died and 88 were injured in an explosion and fire in a Bucharest, Romania, nightclub where hundreds of people had gathered late on Friday, government officials said, in one of the capital's worst incidents in decades. The death toll may still climb at the club, which hosted a rock concert attended by up to 400, Deputy Interior Minister Raed Arafat said. Deputy Prime Minister Gabriel Oprea said an investigation into the causes of the incident was already underway.


US escalates involvement in Syria amid talks on Assad future

Posted: 30 Oct 2015 03:45 PM PDT

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Earnest commented on President Obama's decision to deploy fewer than 50 commandos to northern Syria to work with local group forces in the fight against Islamic State militants. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States escalated its fight against the Islamic State in Syria on Friday, pledging the first open deployment of military boots on the ground, even as U.S., Russian and other diplomats pressed a new peace effort that America hopes will hasten the departure of Bashar Assad.


Republicans suspend partnership with NBC News following debate

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RNC Chairman Reince Priebus says the candidates weren't given a fair opportunity to outline their visions for the future.


Taking on the banks, $5 at a time: Clinton, Sanders target ATM fees

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Senate OKs budget and debt deal, sends measure to Obama

Posted: 30 Oct 2015 12:53 AM PDT

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, walk to talk to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, about the passage of a budget by the House. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)The bill averts the threat of a catastrophic national default for the rest of Obama's term.


Police: Kentucky fugitive dies in shootout after manhunt

Posted: 30 Oct 2015 11:24 AM PDT

Manhunt Intensifies for Fugitive in Kentucky, TennesseeA man accused of firing at police in two states was killed in a shootout with authorities.


Two dead as torrential rains, tornadoes lash central Texas

Posted: 30 Oct 2015 03:48 PM PDT

A car washed up against a tree in Cyprus Creek, a tributary of the Blanco River, in WimberleyAt least two people were killed when a storm with high winds and heavy rains pelted central Texas on Friday, flooding highways, causing evacuations after rivers overflowed and spawning tornadoes that ripped through buildings outside San Antonio. The body of one man swept away by raging waters when his vehicle was caught southeast of Austin has been recovered, a Travis County emergency official said, adding one elderly woman was still missing. Near San Antonio, U.S. Army officials said the body of an individual, who was washed downstream when a vehicle was picked up by fast moving flood waters, was found on Friday afternoon on Camp Bullis.


One killed in partial building collapse in New York

Posted: 30 Oct 2015 12:12 PM PDT

A New York City firefighter works on the scene where a building undergoing demolition work partially collapsed, in New YorkBy Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A building undergoing demolition in New York partially collapsed on Friday, killing one construction worker and temporarily trapping another in the rubble, authorities said. Some 65 firefighters responded to the collapse, which occurred at about 10:30 a.m. in the rear of a multistory building on West 38th Street in midtown Manhattan, a fire department spokesman said. After three hours of digging, firefighters wielding pickaxes and saws freed the trapped man.


Mass release of U.S. prisoners spells deportation for hundreds

Posted: 30 Oct 2015 01:10 PM PDT

Chris Willis, 34, works out in the exercise yard at San Quentin state prisonAlmost a third of 6,000 federal prisoners scheduled to be freed between Friday and Tuesday, part of a push to reduce America's soaring incarceration rate, will immediately be turned over to U.S. immigration authorities for deportation proceedings. While this weekend will be a happy occasion for the thousands of inmates who are U.S. citizens and will reunite with their families, many of the roughly 1,780 foreign inmates to be put on the deportation track will leave family members behind in the United States. Despite Obama administration assurances that the transfer of ex-convicts into the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a routine occurrence, immigrant advocates worry they may not receive due process as they leave.


The end of John Boehner’s House and the beginning of the Paul Ryan era

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Republicans hope the young lawmaker can mend the splintered party and woo voters in 2016.


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