2012年9月8日星期六

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Two tornadoes strike NYC within minutes of each other

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 05:03 PM PDT

This photo provided by Joey Mure, shows a storm cloud over the Breezy Point area of Queens section of New York, on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. A Fire Department spokesman said there were power lines down and possibly other damage in the Point Breeze section of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens. The general manager of the Breezy Point Surf Club tells the Associated Press the storm ripped up cabanas and even picked up industrial-sized metal trash bins. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Queens and Brooklyn as a line of strong thunderstorms moved through the city. The service said radar detected a "strong rotation" in the storm, but there was no immediate confirmation that a twister actually formed. (AP Photo/Joey Mure)Two tornadoes struck New York City on Saturday, one swept out of the sea and hit a beachfront neighborhood and the second, stronger twister hit moments later, hurling debris in the air, knocking out power and startling residents who once thought of twisters as a Midwestern phenomenon.


Romney praises Clinton for elevating the Democratic convention

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 02:53 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, campaigns at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Va., Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Mitt Romney says Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention "really did elevate" that gathering and that the former two-term president might even be able to win another four years in the White House "if the Constitution weren't in his way." Romney's comments, in an excerpt of an interview with Meet the Press, came [...]


'Secretary of Explaining Stuff' to campaign with Obama in Florida

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 12:32 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama joins former President Clinton onstage after Clinton nominated Obama for re-election during the second session of the Democratic National Convention in CharlotteBill "Secretary of Explaining Stuff" Clinton will campaign for President Barack Obama's reelection next week in Florida, a swing state vital to Mitt Romney's hopes of capturing the White House in November. Clinton will headline rallies on Tuesday in the Miami area and Wednesday in the Orlando area, the incumbent's campaign announced in a terse [...]


McCain: The U.S. approach to Iran is a 'train wreck'

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 12:26 PM PDT

US Senator John McCain answers reporters' questions during a meeting on World Economy in Cernobbio, Italy, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Experts and leaders gathered in Italy to discuss the prolonged crisis in a structurally flawed Europe, political dysfunction pushing America off a 'fiscal cliff' and the emerging economies slowdown drying up the last engine of global growth. (AP Photo/Giuseppe Aresu)U.S. Sen. John McCain says he is disappointed with his party's presidential candidate for sidestepping world affairs in his campaign for the White House but reserves his most scathing words for the current dweller, blaming Barack Obama for inaction while the situation in Syria and elsewhere "cries out for American leadership."


Poll: Obama widens lead over Romney despite jobs data

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 02:08 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama poses with crowd members at a campaign event in FloridaWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, picking up support following the Democratic National Convention, widened his narrow lead over Republican U.S. presidential challenger Mitt Romney in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Saturday. The latest daily tracking poll showed Obama, a Democrat, with a lead of 4 percentage points over Romney. Forty-seven percent of 1,457 likely voters surveyed online over the previous four days said they would vote for Obama if the November 6 elections were held today, compared with 43 percent for Romney. "The bump is actually happening. ...


Joe Biden challenges press to 'fact check me'

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 11:58 AM PDT

Joe Biden Challenges Press to 'Fact Check Me'ZANESVILLE, Ohio — Vice President Joe Biden extended an invitation to the media to check the veracity of his claims on Medicare, telling the press to "fact check me." "What they're proposing, and this is a fact.  I say to the press, 'Fact check me,'"...


Mitt Romney vows God will stay in GOP platform

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 01:49 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in CincinnatiVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Making reference for the first time to the Democrats' about-face on having the word "God" in their party's platform, Mitt Romney said here today that if he is elected, God will not be removed from the Republican platform. "I will not...


Nicaragua evacuates 3,000 as volcano spews ash

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 02:38 PM PDT

A Nicaraguan National Police officer patrols on a road blanketed with volcanic ash spewed from the San Cristobal volcano, near Chinandega, Nicaragua, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. Nicaragua's tallest volcano, located about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northwest of Managua, near the Honduran border, has let off a series of explosions, spewing gases and showering ash on nearby towns, prompting an evacuations of residents. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)The San Cristobal volcano spewed out a column of ash and gas 2½ miles high Saturday, leading Nicaraguan authorities to evacuate about 3,000 people from nine communities around the country's tallest mountain.


Captive U.S. soldier safe, Haqqani commander says

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT

FILE - This file image provided by IntelCenter on Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010 shows a framegrab from a video released by the Taliban containing footage of a man believed to be Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, left. A U.S. soldier held by Afghan militants will not be harmed, a senior member of the Pakistan-based Haqqani network told The Associated Press on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. However, the United States and NATO can expect stepped up attacks as a result of the Obama administration's decision to declare the network of fighters a terrorist body, he said. He denied an earlier report that the only U.S. prisoner of war, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl would be harmed as a result of the administration's decision.(AP Photo/IntelCenter, File) MANDATORY CREDIT: INTELCENTER; NO SALES; EDS NOTE: "INTELCENTER" AT LEFT TOP CORNER ADDED BY SOURCEA U.S. soldier held by Afghan militants will not be harmed despite the Obama administration's decision to declare his alleged captors a terrorist group, a senior member of the Pakistan-based Haqqani network told The Associated Press on Saturday. However, the United States and NATO can expect stepped up attacks, he said.


Police search U.K. home of family slain in France

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 08:35 AM PDT

Annecy prosecutor Eric Maillaud speaks during a news conference in Annecy, France, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Maillaud said that the 4-year-old girl who survived the slaying of her family in Annecy couldn't help their investigation since she hid under her mother's legs during the killings. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)French and British police on Saturday searched the U.K. home of a British-Iraqi couple brutally slain while vacationing in the French Alps, while investigators looked into a possible family dispute as a potential motive for the attack.


Two bodies recovered on Mount Rainier glacier

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 12:01 PM PDT

FILE -- Mount Rainer is seen at dawn in this Jan. 2, 2012, file photo, from Seattle, some 50 miles away from the national park. As the search for four people on the slopes of Mount Rainier stretches into its second week, experts say the rewards for the hearty few who attempt the summit of the 14,411-foot heavily glaciated volcano in winter are great, as are the dangers. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)Park rangers returned to a glacier on Mount Rainier Saturday to search for a fourth victim of a series of winter storms, a day after recovering what they presume to be the second and third bodies.


Tropical storm approaches Bermuda, likely missing direct hit

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 12:25 PM PDT

Hurricane Leslie and Hurricane Michael are seen in this NOAA handout satellite imageHAMILTON, Bermuda (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Leslie swirled over the Atlantic on a track likely to pass east of Bermuda on Sunday as the outer wind and rain bands approached the island, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported on Saturday. A wealthy British overseas territory and global reinsurance center, Bermuda is not expected to take a direct hit from Leslie, which could re-strengthen by late Sunday to a Category 1 hurricane, the lowest on the Saffir-Simpson scale of wind intensity. ...


Chicago teachers resume negotiations to avoid major strike

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 03:05 PM PDT

Thousands of Chicago Public School teachers rally before marching to the Board of Education's headquarters in ChicagoCHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Teachers Union resumed "intense" negotiations on Saturday with the nation's third-largest school district to avert what would be the biggest U.S. labor strike in a year over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's demand for sweeping school reforms. Some 29,000 teachers and support staff have threatened to strike on Monday, setting up an awkward confrontation between Emanuel, President Barack Obama's former top White House aide, and organized labor in the president's home city. ...


Man held in abduction of children, stealing boat

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 04:07 PM PDT

This image provided by the South San Francisco Police Department shows Christopher Maffei who was arrested Sept. 7, 2012, after abducting his children and fleeing on a sailboat in California. (AP Photo/South San Francisco Police Department)A Northern California man arrested after allegedly abducting his two children and trying to evade authorities by stealing a sailboat and sailing along the Northern California coast was being held on $200,000 bail, authorities said.


Pakistan frees Christian girl accused of blasphemy

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 07:16 AM PDT

Pakistani police officers stand guard at the main entrance of central prison on the outskirts of Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. In a rare move, a Pakistani judge granted bail to a young, mentally challenged Christian girl accused of insulting Islam by burning pages of the religion's holy book. Activists who had pressed for the girl's release welcomed the rare decision to grant bail in a blasphemy case. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)A young Christian girl accused of burning pages of Islam's holy book was freed Saturday from a jail near the capital where she had been held for three weeks, a Pakistani jail official said.


Teen bomber kills six near NATO headquarters in Kabul

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 06:19 AM PDT

(Blank Headline Received)A 14-year-old suicide bomber detonated explosives near the heavily barricaded NATO headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, killing six civilians including children, NATO and local officials said. The bomber wore a vest packed with explosives and rode right up to the NATO gates on a bicycle, underscoring the insurgents' ability to strike deep inside the Afghan capital, ahead of the withdrawal of most foreign combat forces by the end of 2014. Pieces of flesh and splattered blood lay on the street near the base, where the small bodies of children were lifted into ambulances. ...


Syrian troops storm Damascus refugee area, chase rebels

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 10:29 AM PDT

Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Sermeen, near Idlib, in this handout photo provided by Shaam News NetworkBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government troops stormed an area of Damascus populated by Palestinian refugees on Saturday after a four-day artillery assault on the southern suburb where rebels have been sheltering, opposition activists said. President Bashar al-Assad's forces have largely preferred to use air power and artillery to hit areas where rebels are dug in, deploying infantry only once many have fled. Activists said the new ground onslaught put civilians at risk. ...


Shark bites surfer in waters off northeast Florida

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 11:48 AM PDT

A surfer is recovering from surgery on his foot after being bitten by a shark in the waters off a northeast Florida beach.

Infant, 3 others killed in northeast Oklahoma storms

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 10:07 AM PDT

Authorities say a couple and their grandchild had no time to reach a shelter before winds from a severe thunderstorm flung their mobile home into a creek in northeast Oklahoma, killing them.

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