2016年1月21日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Brockovich: Criminal charges for Flint crisis

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The famed environmentalist talks to Yahoo News about the Michigan city's contaminated water.


Snyder emails reveal state's role in evolution of Flint water crisis

Posted: 21 Jan 2016 10:44 AM PST

In an effort to offer answer mounting questions about who is at fault for the contamination of Flint's drinking water, Governor Rick Snyder broke with his exemption from Michigan's Freedom of Information Act and released emails he sent and received regarding Flint during 2014 and 2015.

Former U.S. Marine, released from Iran, back home in Michigan

Posted: 21 Jan 2016 01:58 PM PST

Amir Hekmati waves after arriving on a private flight at Bishop International Airport, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Flint, Mich. The 32-year-old Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine who was released from an Iranian prison as part of a deal with Iran is returning to home to Michigan. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A former U.S. Marine recently released from Iran in a prisoner-swap deal returned to his home state of Michigan on Thursday and thanked those who "traveled this road with me."


Will Smith backs wife Jada, won't attend Oscars

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Bob Dole: A Ted Cruz nomination would be ‘cataclysmic’ for the GOP

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Slick roads wreak havoc in D.C. area

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Political fallout from Flint, Michigan water crisis spreads

Posted: 21 Jan 2016 01:45 AM PST

The top of a water tower is seen at the Flint Water Plant in Flint, MichiganBlame is swirling after a switch in the water supply led to elevated levels of lead.


Putin 'probably approved' Litvinenko killing: UK inquiry

Posted: 21 Jan 2016 12:41 PM PST

Russian President Vladimir Putin "probably approved" the killing of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in London, a British inquiry into his agonising death by radiation poisoning found Thursday. Litvinenko, a prominent Kremlin critic, died in 2006 aged 43, three weeks after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium at an upmarket London hotel. Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun, two Russians identified as prime suspects by British police, are likely to have carried out the poisoning on the instructions of the Russian security services, the inquiry reported.

Major winter storm to hit East Coast this weekend: Here's what to expect

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The Trump supporter who matters more to Iowa conservatives than Palin

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'Ninth planet' may exist in solar system: US scientists

Posted: 20 Jan 2016 11:38 AM PST

This picture received from the European Southern Observatory on January 11, 2012 is an artist's impression which shows how common planets are around the stars in the Milky WayA previously unknown giant planet may have been discovered lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system, US scientists announced on Wednesday. Nicknamed Planet Nine, the object "has a mass about 10 times that of Earth" and follows a "bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the distant solar system," said a statement by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Researchers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown say have not yet observed the object directly.


20 dead after gunmen open fire at Pakistan university

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Kerry, Lavrov try to settle differences over Syrian talks

Posted: 20 Jan 2016 07:57 AM PST

ZURICH (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met on Wednesday in hopes of resolving differences over who is eligible to join U.N.-mediated peace talks for Syria due to begin next week. Those differences have threatened to delay the start of the negotiations.
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