2012年12月22日星期六

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Obama starts Hawaiian vacation, leaving Washington on ice

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 03:35 PM PST

US President Obama waves next to first lady Michelle Obama at Joint Base Andrews outside WashingtonTaking what promised to be a very brief Christmas break from the ongoing struggle to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts, President Barack Obama relaxed with his family on Saturday at a beach retreat in Hawaii. Congress was to return to Washington next Thursday and Obama has pledged to work with lawmakers to strike a deal to avoid the economic shock from tax and spending measures set to take effect on January 1 if a deal can't be reached, which many economists say could push the U.S. economy back into recession. ...


Final day of funerals for Newtown shooting victims

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 08:23 AM PST

Newtown Funerals 'A Constant Reminder' To ResidentsThe final three victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School will be laid to rest today, ending a somber week. A mass will take place today at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church for Josephine Gay, who had celebrated her 7th birthday...


Netanyahu lauds Kerry nomination for U.S. secretary of state

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 11:18 AM PST

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu meets with Senators in WashingtonIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday welcomed the appointment of his personal friend John Kerry as U.S. secretary of state and described him as "a known supporter of Israel's security". President Barack Obama nominated Kerry on Friday, calling the veteran U.S. senator the "perfect choice" as America's top diplomat. Netanyahu said in a statement: "I congratulate John Kerry on being chosen for the position of U.S. Secretary of State. Kerry is very experienced and is a known supporter of Israel's security. ...


Wintry weather could mean white Christmas in Northeast

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 01:56 PM PST

A Christmas wreath is covered with snow on West 4th Street in WaterlooPowerful winds and snow whipped parts of the eastern United States on Saturday, carrying the promise of a white Christmas while threatening to cause problems for the many Americans traveling for the holidays, meteorologists said. The storm moving in from the Midwest was sending strong winds into the mid-Atlantic states and southern New England. It buried parts of Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin in more than a foot of snow earlier this week. The high winds threatened to delay flights at busy airports in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, meteorologists said. ...


Fiscal cliff spooks shoppers in last lap of holiday race

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 01:30 PM PST

A woman shops for jeans at a J.C. Penney store in New YorkRetailers may not see a sales surge this weekend as ho-hum discounts and fears about imminent tax hikes and cuts in government spending give Americans fewer reasons to open their wallets in the last few ...


India police use water cannon, tear gas to turn back protesters

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 07:39 AM PST

Police use water canons to disperse demonstrators near the presidential palace during a protest rally in New DelhiIndian police used batons, tear gas and water cannon to turn back thousands of people marching on the presidential palace on Saturday in intensifying protests against the gang-rape of a woman on the streets and on social media. The 23-year-old victim is battling for her life in hospital after she was beaten, raped for almost an hour and thrown out of a moving bus on a busy New Delhi street last Sunday. Five people have been arrested. The protesters, largely college students, are demanding the death penalty for the accused and safety assurances for women. ...


Police probe why man fatally shot 3 in rural Pa.

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 03:52 PM PST

Emergency responders block Juniata Valley Road on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 in Geeseytown, Pa. A man fatally shot a woman decorating for a children's Christmas party at a tiny church hall and killed two men elsewhere in the rural central Pennsylvania township Friday before he was fatally shot in a gunfight with state troopers. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)Authorities say the shooting of the gunman in a rampage in central Pennsylvania that left three people dead was a justifiable homicide.


FBI questions Benghazi consulate attack suspect

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 07:45 AM PST

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protestAli Harzi, a Tunisian, was detained in Turkey and extradited to Tunisia in October where authorities have said he is "strongly suspected" of being involved in the attack.


Rolling Stones guitarist Wood reportedly ties knot

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 10:33 AM PST

Ronnie Wood es un hombre casadoTwo British newspapers say Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has married his fiancee Sally Humphreys at a ceremony at London's Dorchester Hotel.


Leagues poised to challenge NJ over sports betting

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:14 PM PST

Super Bowl TrophyFour major professional sports leagues and the NCAA are poised to move forward with their legal fight over New Jersey's plans to allow sports gambling.That comes after a judge on Friday rejected arguments ...


Conn. town in mourning inundated with gifts, money

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 03:21 PM PST

Volunteer Anthony Vessicchio of East Haven, Conn., helps to sort tables full of donated toys at the town hall in Newtown, Conn., Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Newtown's children were showered with gifts Saturday — tens of thousands of teddy bears, Barbie dolls, soccer balls and board games — and those are only some of the tokens of support from around the world for the town in mourning.


Russia welcomes any offer to give refuge to Syria's Assad

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 01:04 PM PST

In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter takes cover during fighting with the Syrian Army in Azaz, Syria. (AP Photo/Virginie Nguyen Huang)Russia would welcome any country's offer of safe haven for Syrian President Bashar Assad, but has no plans to make one of its own, Moscow's foreign minister said in the latest comments to suggest a growing distance between the two allies.


Analysis: GOP policies led to fiscal cliff blowup

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:11 AM PST

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, joined by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., left, speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff negotiations at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Hopes for avoiding the "fiscal cliff" that threatens the U.S. economy fell Friday after fighting among congressional Republicans cast doubt on whether any deal reached with President Barack Obama could win approval ahead of automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts kick in Jan. 1. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans seem shocked by their party's meltdown on the so-called fiscal cliff. They shouldn't be.


Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 11:41 AM PST

In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 photo, an American bittern hides in the grass during an annual 24-hour Christmastime ritual to count birds along the Texas Gulf Coast in Mad Island, Texas. The data collected, with the help of more than 50 other volunteers spread out into six groups across the 7,000-acre Mad Island preserve, will be regionally and nationally analyzed, landing in a broad database that includes results from hundreds of other bird counts going on nationally during a two week period. What began 113 years ago as an Audobon Society protest to annual bird hunts that left piles of carcasses littered in different parts of the country now helps scientists understand how birds react to short-term weather events, such as drought and flooding, and seek clues on how they might behave as temperatures rise and climate changes. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)MAD ISLAND, Texas (AP) — Armed with flashlights, recordings of bird calls, a small notebook and a stash of candy bars, scientist Rich Kostecke embarked on an annual 24-hour Christmastime count of birds along the Texas Gulf Coast. Yellow rail. Barn owl. Bittern. Crested Cara-Cara. Kostecke rattled off the names and scribbled them in his notebook.


Predicting who's at risk for violence isn't easy

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:34 AM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 file photo, parents leave a staging area after being reunited with their children following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where Adam Lanza opened fatally shot 27 people, including 20 children. People figure there surely were signs of impending violence. But experts say predicting who will be the next mass shooter is virtually impossible _ partly because as commonplace as these calamities seem, they are relatively rare crimes. Still, a combination of risk factors in troubled kids or adults including drug use and easy access to guns can increase the likelihood of violence, experts say. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)CHICAGO (AP) — It happened after Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Colo., and now Sandy Hook: People figure there surely were signs of impending violence. But experts say predicting who will be the next mass shooter is virtually impossible — partly because as commonplace as these calamities seem, they are relatively rare crimes.


Parents hesitant about NRA armed schools proposal

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 07:43 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2012 photo, Officer Rick Moore of the Oakland school district police patrols Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, Calif. The National Rifle Association on Friday, Dec. 21 2012 called for the placement of an armed police officer in every school, but parents and educators questioned how safe such a move would keep kids, whether it would be economically feasible and how it would alter student life. Their reactions ranged from supportive to disgusted. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)MIAMI (AP) — The nation's largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for the placement of an armed police officer in every school, but parents and educators questioned how safe such a move would keep kids, whether it would be economically feasible and how it would alter student life. Their reactions ranged from supportive to disgusted.


Bionic suit helps paralyzed patients walk again

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 09:44 AM PST

Patients paralyzed by spinal cord injuries are taking their precious first steps at a Southern California hospital with the help of a battery-powered bionic suit that was first designed to help soldiers carry heavy loads. "Mentally it's a wonderful feeling to be upright and moving,"...

Judge OKs $7.8 billion settlement for BP oil spill

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 05:38 PM PST

First arrest in BP Gulf oil spill investigationBP has estimated it will pay $7.8 billion to resolve more than 100,000 claims by businesses and individuals from the nation's worst offshore oil spill. The settlement has no cap.


John Kerry a familiar face on the world stage

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 12:09 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2009 file photo, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, whispers with the U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, left, as Kai Eide head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan is seen, center, during a press conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009. Kerry, President Barack Obama's choice for secretary of state, is a familiar face to the world leaders vital to American interests. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John Kerry, President Barack Obama's pick for secretary of state, is a familiar face to the world leaders vital to American interests.


Pope pardons ex-butler who stole, leaked documents

Posted: 22 Dec 2012 07:49 AM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, May 2, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI, right, arrives in St. Peter's square at the Vatican for a general audience as his then-butler Paolo Gabriele, bottom, and his personal secretary Georg Gaenswein sit in the car with him. The Vatican has summoned journalists for a briefing on Saturday Dec. 22, 2012, for what Italian media report is expected to be the announcement of a pardon for the former butler, Gabiele, who was convicted in October 2012 of aggravated theft after steeling the pontiff's personal papers and leaking them to the media in a bid to expose the "evil and corruption" in the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI granted his former butler a Christmas pardon Saturday, forgiving him in person during a jailhouse meeting for stealing and leaking his private papers in one of the gravest Vatican security breaches in recent times.


Authorities: 3 set deadly Ind. blast for insurance

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 05:28 PM PST

This combo made from photos provided by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department shows from left, Mark Leonard, 43, his wife, Shirley Leonard, 43, and his brother, Bob Leonard, 54, all of Indianapolis, who were arrested Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 and charged with murder, arson and other counts in a Nov. 10 gas explosion that killed two people. Authorities say the explosion in the Richmond hill subdivision in Indianapolis was deliberately set up so the three could collect a big insurance payout. (AP Photo/Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department)Three people charged in a gas explosion that devastated an Indianapolis neighborhood deliberately set up the deadly blast to collect a big insurance payout, authorities said Friday.


Iron Butterfly bassist Lee Dorman dies at age 70

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 10:17 PM PST

This April 9, 1969 photo shows members of Iron Butterfly, from left, Erik Brann, Ron Bushy, Lee Dorman, and Doug Ingle. Dorman, the bassist for psychedelic rock band, has died at age 70. (Copyright Bettmann/Corbis/AP Images)Lee Dorman, the bassist for psychedelic rock band Iron Butterfly, has died at age 70.


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