2012年7月27日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Photos: Queen declares London Olympics open

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 01:55 PM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth declares the Olympic Games open during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic StadiumPhotos: Olympics Opening Ceremony under way


Shooting suspect was seeing psychiatrist

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 12:35 PM PDT

Colorado shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes makes his first court appearance in AuroraShooting suspect James Holmes was seeing a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado-Denver, where he was a first-year graduate student in neuroscience, according to court documents released Friday. His psychiatrist Lynne Fenton, a professor at CU's medical school and the director of student mental health services, specializes in [...]


Surgeons banned from human research

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 04:04 PM PDT

2 UC Davis Surgeons Banned From Conducting Human ResearchTwo University of California at Davis surgeons have been banned from doing human research after they injected bacteria into the head wounds of consenting terminally ill patients without university authorization, according to a letter sent from the school to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.


Obama budget office lowers economic forecast

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 12:34 PM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listens at left as President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media during a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July, 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)President Barack Obama's budget office on Friday revised downward its previous forecasts for economic growth in 2012 and 2013 and projected a $1.211 trillion deficit through the end of the year, slightly down from earlier predictions. "The economy is not growing fast enough and there are still too many people out of work. Most troubling, [...]


Obama, Clinton cross paths on way to fundraisers

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 01:14 PM PDT

Former President Bill Clinton greets President Barack Obama to speak at a campaign event at the Waldorf Astoria, Monday, June 4, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)This probably won't appear in Craigslist's "Missed Connections:" You: Husky-voiced two-term Democratic president, famously sharp political instincts, married to my secretary of state. Me: History-making victory in 2008, but struggling now. You were going to headline a fundraiser, so was I. Re-election pointers sometime? But on Friday, President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton [...]


D.C. tops list of cities where people curse at work

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 10:46 AM PDT

Jay Bryant, left, of the MilkPEP (Milk Processor Education Program) board of directors, injured war veteran Army Sgt. Robert Laux, center, and, Vivien Godfrey, right, CEO of MilkPEP, stand in front of the U.S. Capitol with an adaptive bicycle presented to Laux by the REFUEL I A new survey finds that employees who swear frequently on the job are less likely to get a promotion. And the worst offenders are workers in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C. The CareerBuilder study found some interesting and often conflicting results in their survey of 2,298 hiring managers and 3,892 nongovernment employees. For example, 81 [...]


Obama signs Israel military aid bill on eve of Romney visit

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:52 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama signs the U.S.-Israel cooperation act in WashingtonOn the eve of Mitt Romney's visit to Israel, President Barack Obama signed into law a military aid bill for that staunch American ally at a much-publicized White House ceremony that highlighted the political advantages of incumbency.


New 'joker' massacre foiled by Maryland police

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 07:43 AM PDT

Picture of weapons (PGPDNews)A man with 25 firearms told his employer he was going to "blow everyone up," authorities say.


TARP bailout was worse than you think, former inspector says

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 09:56 AM PDT

TARP failed says Barofsky.Most Americans have a sense TARP was a badly managed program that bailed out "fat cat" bankers at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. Well, it's even worse than you think, according to Neil Barofsky, former special inspector general for TARP (SIGTARP).


Bill Clinton endorses Tarryl Clark in Minnesota’s 8th District

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 12:02 PM PDT

Former President Bill Clinton took sides Friday in the contentious Democratic primary for Minnesota's 8th District, voicing support for former state Sen. Tarryl Clark. "From her work with the Children's Defense Fund and Legal Services' Senior Law Project, to her commitment to coalition building while leading the state's Community Action Partnership, Tarryl's focus for almost [...]

Not even Mitt Romney can escape London’s crippling traffic

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 08:08 AM PDT

LONDON—Even Mitt Romney is not immune from the traffic gridlock crippling city streets here ahead of Friday's Opening Ceremony of the Summer Olympics. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was forced to abandon his motorcade and walk to his only public meeting of the day, a sit-down with Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny. Along the way, he [...]

Chick-fil-A VP of public relations dies of heart attack

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 12:22 PM PDT

Chick-fil-A's Vice President of Public Relations Don Perry died "suddenly" Friday morning, the company confirmed. Perry was based in the Atlanta area and worked in Chick-fil-A's corporate communications department. Perry's death comes amid controversy this week over comments that Chick-fil-A's CEO Dan Cathy made against...

Video: Returning military dad throws surprise party for son

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 02:07 PM PDT

U.S. Air Force Col. Rob Kiebler had been in Afghanistan for 14 months, serving a tour of duty and performing training exercises. The Portland, Oregon, native was not scheduled to come home to visit his wife and young son, Danny, until the end of the summer. But Kiebler was able to schedule an early return [...]

Olympians in hot water over pictures posted on Twitter

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 10:48 AM PDT

Like us on Facebook and follow Trending Now on Twitter:  @YahooTrending. Social media has played a key role in drumming up excitement for the 2012 London Olympic Games, but just what kind of information and observations athletes are allowed to post and not post is getting, well, complicated. One day after a Greek triple jumper [...]

Cast your vote for the dumbest political quote of the week

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 10:32 AM PDT

Each week, the Daily Caller picks the dumbest political statements and ranks them (just for Yahoo! readers) on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being the worst). Who do you think said the dumbest thing? Vote in our poll below!

Health care law may stick hospitals with the bill for illegal immigrants

Posted: 27 Jul 2012 08:48 AM PDT

Hospital leaders told The New York Times they're wary of terms in the health care reform law that will eventually halve the amount of money they receive for caring for uninsured people without addressing the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, most of them lacking insurance. Emergency rooms are required to take in [...]

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