2015年8月21日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Watch live: Trump draws huge crowd at rally in Alabama

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A surprise surge in supporters forced the presidential candidate's team to find a bigger venue.


Two dead in shooting at New York federal building

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 04:46 PM PDT

Police investigate the scene of a shooting at a federal office building in Lower Manhattan, New YorkA gunman shot and killed a private security guard at a US federal building in downtown New York by the metal detector on Friday before killing himself, police said. "He proceeded through the security area and headed towards the elevator, where he encountered another employee.


France: 2 Americans subdue gunman on high-speed train

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 04:57 PM PDT

French judicial police stand on the train platform near gun cartridges and a backpack in Arras after shots were fired on a Thalys high-speed trainA gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris Friday, wounding three people before being subdued by two American passengers, officials said.


US stocks tumble on global slowdown fears

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 04:01 PM PDT

Investors monitor stock prices at a brokerage in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. Asian stocks fell further Friday after a survey showed Chinese manufacturing weakened this month. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)NEW YORK (AP) — Growing concerns about a slowdown in China shook markets around the world on Friday, driving the U.S. stock market to its biggest drop in nearly four years.


Nashville hotel cancels reservations for hate group CCC, cited by Dylann Roof

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 08:42 AM PDT

Conservatives fight Gov Hodges wish to remove flagThe Guesthouse Inn says that it canceled the reservations for members of the Council of Conservative Citizens white supremacist group, which had scheduled an event at the hotel for this weekend.


Black teen killed by St. Louis police shot in back: autopsy

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:34 PM PDT

The father of Mansur Ball-Bey stands in front of the steps where police shot his son as a photo of Mansur hangs on the fence in St. LouisNews of the preliminary results of an autopsy escalated tensions that had flared after Wednesday's killing of Mansur Ball-Bey, as protesters and family of the slain 18-year-old questioned police accounts that he pointed a gun at officers. St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said additional officers would be available for the weekend in anticipation of further protests. Less than two weeks ago the St. Louis area was flooded with protesters from across the country marking the anniversary of the Aug. 9, 2014, killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in nearby Ferguson, Missouri.


Mistrial for North Carolina policeman who shot unarmed black man

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:49 PM PDT

The mother of Jonathan Ferrell, who was shot and killed in September 2013, looks on during a news conference in CharlotteBy Greg Lacour CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) - A North Carolina judge declared a mistrial on Friday when a jury deadlocked in the trial of a white police officer charged in the death of an unarmed black man. Randall Kerrick, 29, faced a charge of voluntary manslaughter in the September 2013 death of Jonathan Ferrell, 24, a former Florida A&M football player who had wrecked his car on a dark road and was seeking help when he encountered officers. Ferrell ran and Kerrick opened fire at point-blank range and killed him.


Gunman slays guard at NYC federal building, then kills himself

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 04:41 PM PDT

A gunman opened fire at a federal building in Lower Manhattan on Friday, fatally wounding a security guard before killing himself, officials said. A police official identified the gunman as Kevin Downing, a man in his late 60s from Fort Lee, New Jersey, according to media reports.

North Korea orders troops on war footing

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 02:51 PM PDT

South Korean soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint on the Grand Unification Bridge which leads to the truce village Panmunjom, just south of the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, in PajuKim Jong Un declares a "quasi-state of war" after an exchange of fire with South Korea.


Shaun King: ‘White man on my birth certificate is not my biological father’

Posted: 20 Aug 2015 08:51 PM PDT

Shaun King: 'White man on my birth certificate is not my biological father'Prominent Black Lives Matter activist accused this week of misrepresenting his race breaks his silence, says mother had affair with "a light-skinned black man."


Federal workers with sensitive jobs used cheating website

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 08:25 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 10, 2015 photo, Ashley Madison's Korean website is shown on a computer screen in Seoul, South Korea. Hackers claim to have leaked a massive database of users from Ashley Madison, a matchmaking website for cheating spouses. In a statement released Tuesday, Aug. 18, a group calling itself Impact Team said the site's owners had not bowed to their demands. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. government employees with sensitive jobs in national security or law enforcement were among hundreds of federal workers found to be using government networks to access and pay membership fees to the cheating website Ashley Madison, The Associated Press has learned.


Florida woman says she secretly recorded Jared Fogle

Posted: 20 Aug 2015 06:35 PM PDT

Nov. 19 change-of-plea, sentencing hearing set for FogleA Florida woman says former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle told her years ago about his interest in having sex with minors and that she went to authorities who told her to record the conversations. Rochelle ...


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