2012年12月25日星期二

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Newtown celebrates Christmas amid signs of mourning

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 02:30 PM PST

Daily Edit_28Residents celebrated Christmas amid piles of snow-covered teddy bears and heaps of flowers as volunteers manned a 24-hour candlelight vigil in memory of the 20 children and six adults shot to death in the second-largest school shooting in U.S. history.

Egypt constitution passes with 63.8 percent

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 11:16 AM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012 file photo, an elderly Egyptian man shows his inked finger after casting his vote on the second round of a referendum on a disputed constitution drafted by Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi in Fayoum, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Cairo , Egypt. When election-time rolls around, this impoverished rural province has proven one of Egypt's most die-hard bastions of support for Islamists, handing them lopsided victories. The referendum that approved Egypt's Islamist-backed constitution was no exception, with nearly 90 percent of voters here supporting the charter. But even here, voices of discontent with the Muslim Brotherhood are emerging, something the liberal and secular opposition is hoping to build on in upcoming parliament elections.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)The head of Egypt's election commission says the new constitution has passed with a 63.8 percent "yes" vote in a referendum.

Firemen's killer left chilling note, deaths at 3

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 03:01 PM PST

This 2006 image provided by the Monroe County Sheriff's Department shows William H. Spengler Jr. Authorities say Spengler, 62, set a house and car ablaze Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 in Webster, N.Y., and then opened fire, killing two firefighters and wounding two others. Spengler, who served 17 years in prison for the 1980 slaying of his grandmother, later killed himself after a shootout with police. (AP Photo/Monroe County Sheriff's Department )WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) — An ex-con killed two firefighters with the same caliber and make military-style rifle used in the Connecticut school massacre after typing a note pledging to burn down his neighborhood and "do what I like doing best, killing people," police said Tuesday as another body, believed to be the gunman's missing sister, was found.

Whither the birthplace of Jesus?

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 10:40 AM PST

A Catholic pilgrim touches a column inside the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. Thousands of Christian worshippers and tourists arrived in Bethlehem on Monday to mark Christmas at the site many believe Jesus Christ was born. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)For centuries, Christians have been making the pilgrimage to Bethlehem to pay their respects to Jesus — except they may have been making a wrong turn.

Storm brings white Christmas, tornado threat to central U.S.

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 03:51 PM PST

NASA handout image shows storm clouds on the east coast of the United StatesWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A major winter storm brought a rare white Christmas to the southern U.S. plains on Tuesday, contributing to a 21-vehicle pile-up that shut down a major highway in Oklahoma, thousands of power outages and the death of a Texas man. The storm system surging east from Kansas and the Texas Panhandle included tornados and severe thunderstorms along its southern fringe, from southeastern Texas to Alabama, the National Weather Service said. The service reported a tornado warning for the Mobile, Alabama area late Tuesday afternoon. ...

Affleck won't be running for Senate

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 10:54 AM PST

Handout photo of Ben Affleck talking about his new movie "Argo" and his latest cause in eastern Congo with Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, in WashingtonThose hoping the United States Senate may get a little less gray and a bit more celebrity-studded won't be getting their Christmas miracle today. Despite speculation, Ben Affleck announced late Monday he would not go after John Kerry's Senate seat.

Ex-President Bush spends Christmas in hospital

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 01:38 PM PST

FILE - In a Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush, and his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, arrive for the premiere of HBO's new documentary on his life near the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. The 41st president will spend Christmas in a Houston hospital after developing a fever and weakness following a monthlong, bronchitis-like cough. Bush's spokesman Jim McGrath said Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, that doctors remain Former President George H.W. Bush spent Christmas in a Houston hospital with his wife, Barbara, and other relatives who planned to treat him to a special holiday meal.

Lost, blind dog finds way back to Alaska owners

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 01:52 PM PST

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Blind and alone in Alaska winter temperatures that dipped 40 degrees below zero, a lost 8-year-old Fairbanks dog wasn't given much of a chance to make it home.

One in 12 in military has clogged heart arteries

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 01:59 PM PST

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Just over one in 12 U.S. service members who died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars had plaque buildup in the arteries around their hearts - an early sign of heart disease, according to a new study. None of them had been diagnosed with heart disease before deployment, researchers said. "This is a young, healthy, fit group," said the study's lead author, Dr. Bryant Webber, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. "These are people who are asymptomatic, they feel fine, they're deployed into combat," he told Reuters Health. ...

Philadelphia high schools to welcome students back with free condom dispensers

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 03:07 PM PST

The Philadelphia Health Department will install clear plastic dispensers brimming with free condoms at 22 of Philadelphia's public high schools over winter break.

Sierra Nevada ski resort avalanche victim dies

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 04:13 PM PST

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — A member of a Sierra ski resort's patrol team who was injured after being caught in an avalanche has died — the second death connected to avalanches that occurred in the area on Monday.

Syrian rebels capture town, attack air base in new gains in north

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 02:30 PM PST

A young Free Syria Army fighter holds his gun during a clash with Syria forces loyal to President Bashar al Assad at the front line in AleppoBEIRUT - Syrian rebels fully captured a northern town near the Turkish border on Tuesday after weeks of heavy fighting and attacked a regime air base in a neighbouring province, activists said.

Netflix says video streaming service hit by outage

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 05:58 AM PST

Filer of the headquarters of Netflix is shown in Los GatosFamilies across the United States will have to rely on other sources of entertainment after Netflix's video streaming service was hit by a Christmas Eve outage.

Pope decries slaughter of 'defenseless' Syrians

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:30 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the City and to the World) speech from the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI has wished Christmas peace to the world, decrying the slaughter of the "defenseless" in Syria and urging Israelis and Palestinians to find the courage to negotiate. Delivering the Vatican's traditional Christmas day message from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, a weary-looking and hoarse-sounding Benedict on Tuesday also encouraged Arab spring nations, especially Egypt, to build just and respectful societies. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)Pope Benedict XVI wished Christmas peace to the world, decrying the slaughter of the "defenseless" in Syria and urging Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate.

U.S. gun support runs far deeper than politics

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 10:21 AM PST

In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, a customer checks out a shotgun at Burdett & Son Outdoor Adventure Shop in College Station, Texas. More civilians are armed in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world, with Yemen coming in a distant second, according to the Small Arms Survey in Geneva. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)Adam Lanza's mother was among the tens of millions of U.S. gun owners. She legally had a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle and a pair of handguns, which her 20-year-old son used to kill 20 children and six adults in 10 efficient minutes inside a Connecticut school.

Afghanistan: Woman who killed American is Iranian

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 06:41 AM PST

Afghan policemen stand guard outside of Kabul police headquarters, where a an American advisor was killed, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 24, 2014. An Afghan policewoman killed an American adviser at the Kabul police headquarters on Monday, a senior Afghan police official said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The policewoman who killed an American contractor in Kabul is a native Iranian who came to Afghanistan and displayed "unstable behavior" but no known links to militants, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.

Many share Newtown's mourning during holidays

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 05:58 AM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 file photo, Christmas stockings with the names of shooting victims hang from railing near a makeshift memorial near the town Christmas tree in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Conn. In the wake of the shooting, the grieving town is trying to find meaning in Christmas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — As residents prepared to observe Christmas less than two weeks after a gunman killed 20 children and six educators at an elementary school, people sharing in the town's mourning brought offerings of cards, handmade snowflakes and sympathy.

West Coast girds for more tsunami debris in winter

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:47 AM PST

FILE -In this file photo from Wednesday, June 6, 2012, a man looks at a 70-foot-long dock with Japanese lettering that washed ashore on Agate Beach in Newport, Ore. The West Coast is anticipating more debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami to wash ashore this winter. Scientists expect the bulk of the tsunami debris to end up in the Pacific Northwest. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Volunteers who patrol California beaches for plastic, cigarette butts and other litter will be on the lookout this winter for flotsam from last year's monstrous tsunami off Japan's coast.

NORAD says record number of calls to track Santa

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 12:40 AM PST

Volunteers take phone calls from children asking where Santa is and when he will deliver presents to their house, during the annual NORAD Tracks Santa Operation, at the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, at Peterson Air Force Base, in Colorado Springs, Colo., Monday Dec. 24, 2012. Over a thousand volunteers at NORAD handle more than 100,000 thousand phone calls from children around the world every Christmas Eve, with NORAD continually projecting Santa's supposed progress delivering presents. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — Most of the thousands of children who call the annual Santa-tracking operation at a Colorado Air Force Base on Christmas Eve ask the usual questions: "Where's Santa, and when will he get here?"

Over the fiscal cliff: How hard a landing?

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 05:55 AM PST

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, 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) — Efforts to save the nation from going over a year-end "fiscal cliff" were in disarray as lawmakers fled the Capitol for their Christmas break. "God only knows" how a deal can be reached now, House Speaker John Boehner declared.

Health care tax hikes for 2013 may be just a start

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:59 AM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, June 28, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington after the Supreme Court ruled on his health care legislation. New taxes are coming Jan. 1, 2013 to help finance Obama's health care overhaul. Most people may not notice. But they will pay attention if Congress decides to start taxing employer-sponsored health insurance, one of the options in play if lawmakers can ever agree on a budget deal to reduce federal deficits. (AP Photo/Luke Sharrett, Pool)WASHINGTON (AP) — New taxes are coming Jan. 1 to help finance President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Most people may not notice. But they will pay attention if Congress decides to start taxing employer-sponsored health insurance, one option in play if lawmakers can ever agree on a budget deal to reduce federal deficits.

TV star Jack Klugman dies at age 90

Posted: 24 Dec 2012 03:36 PM PST

Jack Klugman Dies at Age 90The longtime character actor died peacefully, with his wife, Peggy, at his side

Gulf Arabs decry Iran "interference" in region

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 07:39 AM PST

Dignitaries pose for a group photo prior to the start of the GCC Summit at Sakhir Palace in Sakhir south of ManamaMANAMA (Reuters) - Six U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states demanded on Tuesday that Iran end what they called interference in the region, reiterating a long-held mistrust of their main rival. The Islamic Republic denies trying to subvert Saudi Arabia and its wealthy Gulf neighbors. A communique issued at the end of a two-day summit of the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) also urged action to halt mass killings and violations of international law in Syria. ...

Israel to build 942 more homes in east Jerusalem

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 11:17 AM PST

Israeli police cordon off the area next to the site of an attempted attack outside a police station in Jabel Mukaber, in east Jerusalem, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012. According to Israeli police spokesman and Palestinian sources an Arab taxi driver tried to drive into the police station and was prevented by border policemen who fired shots to stop the vehicle. Both the driver and a police officer were lightly injured in the incident. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Ilean)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has advanced the process of building 942 more settler homes in east Jerusalem under a new fast-track plan to tighten its grip on the territory, which the Palestinians claim as the capital of a future state.

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