2015年1月5日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Police union pushes for cop killings to be included in federal hate crimes law

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 10:37 AM PST

Second slain NYPD officer laid to restThe nation's largest police union is arguing for a change in the law.


Temperatures plummeting across the U.S.

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 06:46 AM PST

Betsy Ranum, who is from Minn., but now lives in New York bundled up while walking down Lyndale Ave S after having breakfast, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, in Minneapolis. Sunday begins a week of polar vortex bone-chilling weather. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Richard Tsong-Taatarii) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES LOCAL TELEVISION OUTBrace yourself for the year's first blast of arctic air.


Bad news for Speaker Boehner

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 01:55 PM PST

Boehner holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonBy David Lawder and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Boehner is expected to be re-elected as House of Representatives Speaker on Tuesday, but a vocal and growing pocket of conservative opposition could hamper his ability to pass difficult legislation this year. Representative Steve King of Iowa and Marlin Stutzman of Indiana on Monday became the latest prominent conservatives to announce they would vote against Boehner for a third term as speaker. ...


U.S. ends special Ebola screening for travelers from Mali

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 09:52 AM PST

Coast Guard Corpsman checks the temperature of a traveler at Washington Dulles International AirportWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Travelers from Mali will no longer face enhanced screening upon arrival in the United States, U.S. officials said on Monday, in a move reflecting the West African nation's gains over Ebola. Starting on Tuesday, passengers from Mali will not have to travel to the United States through five specified airports or be subjected to additional screening or monitoring for the virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. Officials said the last Ebola patient in Mali tested negative on Dec. ...


Thousands of NYPD cops turn backs on de Blasio

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 04:28 PM PST

A lone police officer stands front as other colleagues turn their backs while Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during the funeral of New York Police Department Officer Wenjian Liu at Aievoli Funeral Home, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Liu and his partner, officer Rafael Ramos, were killed Dec. 20 as they sat in their patrol car on a Brooklyn street. The shooter, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, later killed himself. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said it was "disrespectful" for some New York Police Department officers to turn their backs to him during a pair of funerals for slain police officers.


Jury selection begins in trial of accused Boston bomber

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 06:56 AM PST

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is shown in a courtroom sketch during a pre-trial hearing at the federal courthouse in BostonDzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect, could get the death penalty if he's convicted.


Political stories to watch in 2015

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 03:06 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wave good bye before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Hickam in HonoluluIs this the years the Washington logjam finally breaks?


Chill, snow and rain bring taste of winter to much of US

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 02:41 PM PST

Snow will stretch through the Plain into the northern Rocky Mountains along a frontal boundary over the area. Showers and mountain snow will be likely through the Northwest. The Great Lakes region will see additional lake-effect snow showers. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)CHICAGO (AP) — A year after a brutal cold spell was blamed on something called the polar vortex — which was treated like a northern invasion by the media and as a conquering hero by children impressed by its power to close schools — this week's chill is little more than what meteorologists like to call winter.


Exclusive: CIA says its inspector general is resigning at end of month

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 12:48 PM PST

The lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in McLean, VirginiaBy Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA inspector general David Buckley, who investigated a dispute between the agency and Congress over the handling of records of the CIA's detention and interrogation activities, is resigning effective Jan. 31, the CIA said on Monday. The agency said in a statement that Buckley, who has served as the agency's internal watchdog for more than four years, was leaving the agency to "pursue an opportunity in the private sector." Officials at both the CIA and on Capitol Hill said his departure was unrelated to politics or anything he had investigated. ...


Two killed in train collision with school bus in North Dakota: reports

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 04:53 PM PST

(Reuters) - Two people were killed and at least 11 were injured on Monday when a train struck a school bus in northeastern North Dakota, local media reported. The collision occurred at about 3:45 p.m. local time, when the bus failed to yield to an oncoming train at a crossing in Grand Forks, according to the Grand Forks Herald. The newspaper said the 62-year-old bus driver and a 17-year-old student were killed. Altru Hospital in Grand Forks said in a statement it had received nine patients from the collision but did not disclose the extent of their injuries. ...

Jury selection begins for trial of accused Boston bomber

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 12:20 PM PST

Former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis leaves the federal courthouse on the first day of jury selection in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in BostonBy Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Monday began the process of selecting the jury that will hear the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, telling the first of some 1,200 prospects to read no more news accounts about the deadly blasts.Tsarnaev could get the death penalty if convicted of killing three people and injuring more than 260 others by detonating a pair of homemade bombs placed amid a crowd of thousands of spectators at the race's finish line on April 15, 2013. The 21-year-old ethnic Chechen and naturalized U.S. ...


Face to face: Jury selection starts in Boston Marathon case

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 12:58 PM PST

FILE - In this April 15, 2013, file photo, medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston. Jury selection for bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial is scheduled to begin Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, in federal court in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)One of the nation's most closely watched federal death penalty cases in two decades is set to begin.


Indonesia orders air officials' suspension as crash probed

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 10:46 AM PST

Indonesia on Monday ordered the suspension of aviation officials as it investigates the crash of AirAsia Flight 8501, also promising action against any domestic airlines violating their flying permits. The crackdown came as a major search in the Java Sea entered its ninth day, struggling in bad weather to find more bodies or the "black box" flight data recorders which are crucial to determining the cause of the disaster. A total of 162 passengers and crew were aboard the Airbus A320-200 on December 28 when it crashed en route from Indonesia's second city Surabaya to Singapore. Indonesia alleges the plane was flying on an unauthorised schedule.

Divers resume search for victims and fuselage of AirAsia jet

Posted: 04 Jan 2015 04:54 PM PST

Members of Mawar Sharon church attend a prayer service for the relatives of lost loved ones aboard the AirAsia Flight 8501, in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015. About 40 members of the church were aboard the plane which crashed into the Java Sea a week ago. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)At least five ships with equipment that can detect the plane's black boxes are deployed.


7-year-old plane crash survivor may help probe

Posted: 04 Jan 2015 02:18 PM PST

Map locates Eddyville, Kentucky.EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Sailor Gutzler, the 7-year-old girl who survived a plane crash, walked a mile through the cold, dark woods to safety and then helped authorities locate the wreckage and remains of her family, may not be done helping investigators.


Police chief's anti-racism sign lauded, criticized

Posted: 04 Jan 2015 02:29 PM PST

Police chief's anti-racism sign lauded, criticizedPITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh's new police chief is being praised by the mayor but criticized by a police union president for being photographed on New Year's Eve holding a sign that says: "I resolve to challenge racism @ work."


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