2012年9月20日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Mass. Senate debate begins with discussion of Warren’s Cherokee heritage

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 05:03 PM PDT

Scott Brown Thanked Elizabeth Warren for Keeping Her Clothes OnBrown devoted his opening remarks to accuse Warren, a Harvard Law School professor who says she is part Cherokee Indian, of using her background to give her an advantage when competing for jobs throughout her career.

U.S. officials: All 33,000 surge troops have left Afghanistan

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 04:39 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Thursday, July 14, 2011 file photo, U.S. soldiers board a U.S. military plane, as they leave Afghanistan, at the U.S. base in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The United States is not alone in pulling combat troops off the Afghan battlefield. More than a dozen other countries have draw down plans that combined with the U.S. withdrawal will shrink the foreign military footprint in Afghanistan by more than 40,000 troops by the close of next year. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)Nearly two years after President Barack Obama ordered 33,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to tamp down the escalating Taliban violence, the last of those surge troops have left the country, U.S. officials said Thursday.

Clinton: 'No information' Amb. Stevens was on al-Qaida 'hit list'

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:11 PM PDT

Clinton: 'No Info' Amb. Stevens Was on al Qaeda 'Hit List'Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today there is "no information" the American ambassador killed in a brazen attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya was on an al Qaeda hit list.

Romney rips Obama on ‘can’t change Washington’ comment

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:46 PM PDT

Mitt Romney Fundraising Video Fallout: Obama Lead Grows in PollsMitt Romney pounded President Barack Obama for saying, "You can't change Washington from the inside" at a rally in the sweltering Sarasota heat on Thursday. And he proudly promised Florida voters that he would "get the job done" where the Democrat did not. "We face a Washington that's broken, that can't get the job done," [...]

Clinton forms panel to investigate Libya attack

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:39 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Hillary Clinton speaks at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in DakarThe panel is generally required by law when someone is killed or seriously injured at a U.S. mission abroad.

Billy Gillispie resigns, likely ending his head coaching career

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 05:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2012, file photo, Texas Tech coach Billy Gillispie watches during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Iowa State in Ames, Iowa. Gillispie has been hospitalized for an undisclosed medical issue. Athletic department spokesman Blayne Beal said the 52-year-old coach was admitted to University Medical Center early Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. He declined to provide further details. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)In the two years between his abrupt firing at Kentucky and his celebrated arrival at Texas Tech, Billy Gillispie was always one of the most intriguing coaches on the market.

Shuttle in Calif. after Tucson flyby to honor Gabrielle Giffords

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:07 PM PDT

Shuttle Endeavour Lands in California on Final Ferry FlightSpace shuttle Endeavour returned to its California roots Thursday after a wistful cross-country journey that paid homage to NASA workers and former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband.

New Jersey bans smiling in driver's license photos

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:01 PM PDT

New Jersey Bans Smiling in Driver's License PhotosGoing to the department of motor vehicles can put a frown on anyone's face, but for New Jersey residents,  smiling is officially against the rules. The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission has cracked down on drivers smiling in their driver's license photos because their smiles...

Mitt Romney and the 'macaca' trap

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:05 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney talks to former U.S. Senator George Allen while eating a hotdog at the Federated Auto Parts 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in RichmondFrom Yahoo's Jeff Greenfield: A six-year old incident in a Va. town had a huge impact on the presidential prospects of Mitt Romney that still resonates today -- to his distinct disadvantage.

Obama to Latinos: Romney ‘uncertain’ about immigration reform plans

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:36 PM PDT

Obama talks to co-anchors Ramos and Salinas at town hall hosted by Univision at University of Miami in Coral GablesPresident Barack Obama, under tough questioning at a Univision-hosted forum in Miami on Thursday, defended his failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform during his first term in office. "My first priority was making sure that we prevented us from going into a Great Depression," Obama said after Univision host Jorge Ramos bluntly told the president he [...]

Census data another sign economy has bottomed out

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 13, 2012, file photo, a job seeker talks to a recruiter at a job fair expo in Anaheim, Calif. The U.S. economy is showing signs of finally bottoming out: Americans are on the move again after record numbers had stayed put, more young adults are leaving their parents' homes to take a chance with college or the job market, once-sharp declines in births are leveling off and poverty is slowing. Not all is well. The jobless rate remains high at 8.1 percent. Home ownership dropped for a fifth straight year to 64.6 percent, the lowest in more than a decade, hurt by more stringent financing rules and a shift to renting. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)New 2011 census figures offer glimmers of hope in an economic recovery that technically began in mid-2009.

Video: Hero pig saves baby goat from drowning

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:54 PM PDT

In this video, a small pig becomes a hero when it dives into a petting zoo pond to save a drowning baby goat. This video made our day, though no one will credit the cameraman with being a hero. At the beginning of the tape, he simply says, "goat in the water," and then continues [...]

$10 million worth of art, wine and watches stolen from house

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:29 PM PDT

A man returned to his home in Santa Monica, Calif., after a trip and found that his house had been burglarized. But this wasn't just an ordinary "They took my TV!" type of crime. In this case, the crooks made off with more than $10 million in cars, jewelry, paintings and cash. The victim, investment [...]

U.S. Postal Service asks Floridians to stop crashing into post offices

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:35 PM PDT

The U.S. Postal Service has taken the unusual step of releasing a set of helpful tips to help reduce the number of drivers in Florida who have been crashing their cars into post offices. This year so far, eight drivers have crashed into post offices in Central Florida alone. Local ABC affiliate WWSB7 reports that [...]

Hawk flies into car, lands in driver’s lap

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:56 PM PDT

A red-tailed hawk that flew into a car traveling on a highway in Connecticut—landing on the driver's lap—has been released back into the wild. Dan Caitlin was driving along the Merritt Parkway in Trumbull, Conn., last week when the hawk flew into the windshield of his car, bounced off the side window and fell into [...]

Obama 'redistribution' audio clip truncated by GOP?

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:47 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally at Eden Park in CincinnatiThe 14-year-old audio clip circulated by the Romney campaign this week to attack Obama was 'deceptively edited,' Democrats say.

GOP senators take to the floor to hammer Obama

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 12, 2012 file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lawmakers headed home for a five-week break with a laundry list of uncompleted work and little to show for the past year and a half except an eye-popping amount of dissatisfaction _ nearly 80 percent of Americans are unhappy with them. The Republican-controlled House and Democratic-led Senate have set record lows for production and record highs for dysfunction. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)The back-to-back Senate speeches covered a range of topics from the budget, to debt, to high unemployment and foreign policy.

Prosecutors end fight for Colorado shooting suspect’s notebook

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 07:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, July 23, 2012 file photo, James Holmes, accused of killing 12 people in Friday's shooting rampage in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, appears in Arapahoe County District Court with defense attorney Tamara Brady in Centennial, Colo. A court hearing Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012 will examine Holmes' relationship with a University of Colorado psychiatrist to whom he mailed a package containing a notebook that reportedly contains violent descriptions of an attack. His attorneys say Holmes is mentally ill and that he sought help from psychiatrist Lynne Fenton at the school, where he was a Ph.D. student, until shortly before the July 20 shooting. Prosecutors allege Holmes may have been angry at the failure of a once promising academic career. (AP Photo/Denver Post, RJ Sangosti, Pool, File)The notebook reportedly contains descriptions of a violent attack. Prosecutors considered it potential evidence, but Holmes' defense team had maintained it fell under doctor-client privilege.

Mars rover has pet rock named Jake

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:42 AM PDT

NASA handout image of a Martian rockMeet Jake: He's about 10 inches tall and 16 inches wide, and, truth be told, he's not much to look at. But NASA's Curiosity Rover is getting up close and personal with Jake as it begins to explores the Red Planet.

Leader guilty of hate crimes in Ohio Amish attacks

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:30 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2011 file photo, Sam Mullet Sr. stands in the front yard of his home in Bergholz, Ohio. In the stern, self-regulating world of the Amish, those who act out time and again by wearing the wrong clothing, going to movies or otherwise flaunting the church's doctrine can find themselves utterly alone. At the root of Amish hair-cutting attacks in Ohio and the federal hate crime trial that followed, prosecutors say, was a dispute over religious differences and a decision by Amish bishops to overrule Mullet, the leader of a breakaway group who had shunned his former followers. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)The leader of an Amish breakaway group in Ohio has been found guilty of hate crimes by orchestrating the beard- and hair-cutting attacks against members of his own faith in a dispute over religious differences.

Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured Americans

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 28, 2012 file photo, supporters of health care reform rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on the final day of arguments regarding the health care law signed by President Barack Obama. Congressional budget analysts are now estimating that nearly 6 million Americans, most of them in the middle class, will have to pay a tax penalty for not getting health insurance once Obama's health care law is fully in place. That's 2 million more than a previous estimate found, or a 50 percent increase. Starting in 2014, the new health care law requires virtually every legal resident of the U.S. to carry health insurance, or face a tax penalty. The Supreme Court upheld Obama's law as constitutional after finding that the penalty fell within the power of Congress to impose taxes. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)The new estimate amounts to an inconvenient fact for the administration, a reminder of what critics see as broken promises.

Ga. couple building indoor gun range ... with a full bar

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:22 PM PDT

A Georgia couple is building a $3.5 million indoor shooting range that will feature a full bar, serving alcohol to its patrons. So is this the start of a potentially dangerous new business model where intoxicated firearm enthusiasts will literally be shooting from the hip? Well, not exactly. WSB-TV reports that Lakeside Guns Shop owner [...]

Mystery man spells out heartbreak on van

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:10 AM PDT

In an age of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube videos, one man took an old-fashioned approach to making an appeal for love, spelling out his heart on the side of his van. "Linda, I'm sorry," the message, written in bright orange capital letters on the side...

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