2015年5月16日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Amtrak told to expand speed control at deadly crash site

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:17 PM PDT

Amtrak says it will immediately abide by an order by federal regulators to expand use of a speed restriction system in the area of Tuesday's deadly train derailment that killed eight people and injured more than 200 others.

What we know about Abu Sayyaf: The Islamic State leader killed by U.S. forces

Posted: 16 May 2015 01:52 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks at a news conference in WashingtonBefore Saturday, most Americans had never heard of Abu Sayyaf. But according to the Department of Defense, the senior Islamic State leader wielded the kind of power worthy of sending U.S. Special Operations forces into eastern Syria on a rare and risky mission to capture him.


Bush's tough week exposes challenges for his likely 2016 bid

Posted: 16 May 2015 12:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 14, 2015 file photo, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks at the Republican National Committee spring meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz. For more than four hours, Bush worked his way through the dimly lit hallway of an Arizona resort, shuttling from one room to the next, meeting with dozens of Republican officials, many for the first time. After days of offering confusing answers to questions about the war in Iraq, disappointing Republicans in the leadoff state of Iowa and momentarily forgetting that he's not yet a candidate, he was in need of a political reset. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Jeb Bush worked his way through the dim hallway of an Arizona resort for hours, shuttling from room to room and meeting with dozens of Republican officials, many for the first time.


Condemned Boston Marathon bomber may spend years in prison during appeal

Posted: 16 May 2015 04:39 PM PDT

Judy Clarke, defense attorney for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, walks out of the federal courthouse in BostonBy Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Condemned to die for his part in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is likely to await his fate over the course of years, if not decades, locked up in grim prisons under extreme conditions while his lawyers appeal his sentence. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has not yet decided where Tsarnaev will go, but he is likely end up in one of two high-security detention facilities, Colorado's ADX or Indiana's Terre Haute, according to U.S. District Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz. First the judge will hold a hearing where he will formally pronounce the sentence, Ortiz said after a jury decided on Friday that Tsarnaev, 21, deserved the death penalty. He will then pass into the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which will determine where he should be held.


Philadelphia train may have been hit by projectile before wreck

Posted: 15 May 2015 10:00 PM PDT

Emergency workers and Amtrak personnel inspect a derailed Amtrak train in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaBy Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia and a separate commuter train in the vicinity may have been hit by projectiles of some kind shortly before the wreck, a U.S. transportation official said on Friday, after investigators interviewed members of the Amtrak crew. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was called in to examine a remnant of the Amtrak locomotive's shattered windshield with a circular damage pattern, Sumwalt said. The revelation that Amtrak train No. 188 might have been struck by a bullet, rock or other object added an unexpected twist to a crash probe that initially focused on why the train had accelerated to over 100 miles per hour (160 km per hour) in the minute before it barreled into a curved track segment where the authorized speed limit was just 50 mph (80 kph). An assistant conductor told NTSB investigators on Friday that the train run that day had been unremarkable until a few minutes after pulling out of Philadelphia's 30th Street station, the last stop before the accident, Sumwalt said.


Notre Dame senior dies after falling from roof a day before graduation

Posted: 16 May 2015 09:43 AM PDT

A 21-year-old graduating senior at the University of Notre Dame died early on Saturday after falling from the roof of the school's sports arena in South Bend, Indiana, the university said. The medical examiner will work to determine a cause of death.

Clintons report $30M from speeches, book in past 16 months

Posted: 15 May 2015 06:52 PM PDT

'Clinton Cash' Author: Evidence Against Them Is TroublingWASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton reported Friday that they earned more than $30 million combined in speaking fees and book royalties since January 2014, putting them firmly within the upper echelon of American earners as the former secretary of state seeks the White House again.


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