2015年9月13日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Kentucky clerk case divides religious liberty advocates

Posted: 13 Sep 2015 11:13 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015, file photo, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, with Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee at her side, greets the crowd after being released from the Carter County Detention Center, in Grayson, Ky. Having failed to ban same-sex marriage, many religious conservatives are now working to carve out protections for business owners and others who object to it on religious grounds. To some of them, Davis is a hero for her willingness to go to jail rather than issue marriage licenses. But others think Davis' position as a government official makes her exactly the wrong figure to rally around. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has become a hero to many conservative Christians who see her refusal to issue marriage licenses after the Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage as a litmus test for religious liberty in an increasingly secular culture.


Texas officials under scrutiny for biker shootout case

Posted: 13 Sep 2015 11:00 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 17, 2015 file photo, authorities investigate a shooting in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant, in Waco, Texas. Bikers and public watchdogs have criticized authorities here for how they've handled the shooting investigation, citing the mass arrests of more than 170 people held for days or weeks on $1 million bonds without sufficient evidence to support those arrests four months after the shootings. No formal charges have been made, and it remains unclear whose bullets, including police bullets, struck the dead and injured, or when cases will be presented to a grand jury, which is currently led by a Waco police detective. (AP Photo/Jerry Larson, File)The secrecy that enshrouds the investigation into a biker shootout in May that left nine people dead and led to the mass-arrest of 177 people is hardly surprising in this city, where public scrutiny is rare and unwelcome.


Ben Carson Says He Fears for Future of US Without Change in Direction

Posted: 13 Sep 2015 11:05 AM PDT

Ben Carson Says He Fears for Future of US Without Change in DirectionSurging Republican presidential Ben Carson, who has been feuding with rival Donald Trump this week, expressed his concern for the future of the United States today, saying he fears the country "may not survive the future" without a change of direction.The retired neurosurgeon said his comments were not directly aimed at supporters of Trump, but rather voters all across the country. Carson is second to Trump in several polls in national and early-voting states."I'm going after everybody in America because, you know, we live in very perilous times," he said on ABC's "This Week. ...


India police hunt for explosives' owner after deadly blast

Posted: 13 Sep 2015 09:27 AM PDT

People look at the buildings that were partially damaged due to a powerful explosion in Petlawad town, Jabua district of central India's Madhya Pradesh state, on September 12, 2015Police were hunting Sunday for the owner of an illegal cache of explosives blamed for a massive blast in a crowded restaurant in central India that left more than 80 people dead. The explosion, one of the worst such accidents in recent years, on Saturday morning tore through the restaurant building complex in central Madhya Pradesh state, packed with office workers and school children having breakfast. Some 100 people were also injured, the official said, as rescue workers wrapped up their search for more victims buried in the steel and concrete wreckage.


Insider vs. Outsider Matchup Finds Clinton, Trump Near Even

Posted: 13 Sep 2015 10:49 AM PDT

Insider vs. Outsider Matchup Finds Clinton, Trump Near EvenHillary Clinton and Donald Trump run essentially evenly among registered voters in a head-to-head matchup for president in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, testament to the strength of party loyalty as well as to Trump's anti-establishment profile and anti-immigration views. The biggest by far is whether or not registered voters support Trump's positions on immigration.


GOP leaders' complex fight to avoid federal shutdown

Posted: 13 Sep 2015 04:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2013 file photo, despite signs stating that the national parks are closed, people visit the World War II Memorial in Washington. No government shutdown this year, Republican congressional leaders say. But with Congress, it's never easy. Conservatives are demanding a cutoff of Planned Parenthood's federal funds as their price for keeping agencies functioning beyond Sept. 30. A look at what's complicating the effort to avoid a shutdown. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)No government shutdown this year, Republican congressional leaders say. But with Congress, it's never easy.


The migrant crisis explained

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 03:32 PM PDT

A young boy smiles into the camera as they wait for a bus in a temporary holding center for migrants behind the border between Serbia and Hungary in Roszke, southern Hungary in Roszke, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015. At least four countries Friday firmly rejected a European Union plan to impose refugee quotas to ease a worsening migrant crisis that Germany's foreign minister said was "probably the biggest challenge" in the history of the 28-nation bloc. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)The current migrant crisis is being called the worst since World War II, with hundreds of thousands of people flooding to Europe. Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric explains.


Trump criticizes Ben Carson, says he doesn't have 'energy'

Posted: 13 Sep 2015 04:39 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump poses for a photo with Iowa State fans before an NCAA college football game between Iowa State and Iowa, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015, in Ames, Iowa. (Rodney White/The Des Moines Register via AP) MAGS OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDITBOONE, Iowa (AP) — With Rick Perry out of the Republican race for president, Donald Trump on Saturday focused his barbs on another opponent in the crowded field of primary candidates, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.


Northern California wildfire destroys hundreds of structures

Posted: 13 Sep 2015 04:36 PM PDT

Burned out remains of vehicles and homes scorched by the Valley fire line Wardlaw St. in MiddletownBy Noah Berger MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (Reuters) - A rapidly spreading wildfire destroyed hundreds of homes and other buildings as it roared through the northern California village of Middletown and several nearby communities, chasing thousands of residents from their homes, fire officials said on Sunday. The so-called Valley Fire, now ranking as the most destructive among scores of blazes that have raged across the drought-stricken Western United States this summer, came amid what California fire officials described as "unheard of fire behavior" this season. Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in areas ravaged by the blaze, and officials expanded mandatory evacuations as shifting winds sent flames and ash toward a number of towns in the hills north of Napa Valley wine country.


No active shooter on MIT campus in Massachusetts: officials

Posted: 13 Sep 2015 02:36 PM PDT

Students were initially warned about an active shooter on the MIT campus and told to take shelter in a tweet from the school's alert system, which texts students about emergencies on campus. About 15 minutes later, at 4 p.m. local time (ET), the system posted a message on its website that police were investigating a shooting but that the assailant was not believed to be on campus. Police in Cambridge, Massachusetts and at MIT declined to comment.

Ad invokes Reagan to attack Republicans' hard line on immigration

Posted: 13 Sep 2015 02:26 PM PDT

Nancy Rosales Hernandez, 23, protests outside the Luxe Hotel, where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was expected to speak in Brentwood, Los AngelesDays before a Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Library, an immigration advocacy group invoked the former president to attack the tough immigration rhetoric of certain candidates, including front-runner Donald Trump. A television ad launched on Sunday by the National Immigration Forum Action Fund contrasts Reagan's call for the United States to welcome all people with the stances of Trump, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who have proposed an end to birthright citizenship and urged other crackdowns.


Report: Hillary Clinton's private emails may be recoverable

Posted: 12 Sep 2015 04:17 PM PDT

Democratic presidential candidate Clinton looks into the crowd before she speaks at a "Women for Hillary" meeting in MilwaukeeThe company that managed Hillary Clinton's private email server said it has "no knowledge of the server being wiped," indicating that tens of thousands of emails Clinton said were deleted could be recovered, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, and her aides have said she deleted her personal emails from her time as secretary of state, but unless the server has been "wiped" experts say those 31,000 emails could be recovered, the Post reported. A representative of the Clinton campaign could not immediately be reached for comment on the report.


Thousands flee 2 fast-moving California wildfires

Posted: 12 Sep 2015 09:10 PM PDT

A car destroyed by the Butte Fire sits on tireless rims at a home in Mountain Ranch, Calif., Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015. Firefighters gained some ground Saturday against the explosive wildfire that incinerated buildings and chased hundreds of people from mountain communities in drought-stricken Northern California. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)ANGELS CAMP, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of people rushed to escape a massive wildfire charging across the tinder-dry Sierra Nevada foothills and another out-of-control fire that broke out in Northern California on Saturday, sending four firefighters to the hospital with second-degree burns.


Indian police look for man blamed for blast that killed 90

Posted: 13 Sep 2015 05:50 AM PDT

Cranes clear the remains at the site of en explosion at Petlawad, in central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015. Several people were killed at a restaurant in central India on Saturday when a cooking gas cylinder exploded and triggered a second blast of mine detonators stored illegally nearby, police said. (AP Photo/Ritesh Trivedi)NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in central India were looking Sunday for a man who was being blamed for a massive explosion at a restaurant that killed 90 people, as angry residents protested the way the authorities were handling the case.


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