2013年2月4日星期一

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Alabama hostage standoff ends

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 04:34 PM PST

Police trying to make Alabama hostage suspect feel safeAuthorities kill the gunman holding a 5-year-old boy inside an underground bunker.


Obama's new favorite phrase to woo the public

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 03:37 PM PST

Obama pushing for tax changes again?In these early days of his second term, President Obama isn't just promoting legislation on guns and immigration. The president and his surrogates are promoting "common-sense proposals" to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, and a revamped, "common-sense" immigration system.


Great debate: Best Super Bowl ever?

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 03:30 PM PST

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs (55), linebacker Ray Lewis (52) and defensive end Haloti Ngata (92) face San Francisco 49ers running back Frank Gore (21), defensive back C.J. Spillman (27) and linebacker Patrick Willis (52) before the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)It shaped up as a one-sided game, threatened to become a farce once the lights went out and eventually turned into a Super Bowl that was proclaimed as the greatest of them all.


Eerie rock towers provide clues about past earthquakes

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 03:12 PM PST

Eerie Rock Towers Are Earthquake SensorsResearchers studied rusty spires of rock called hoodoos 120 miles north of Los Angeles.


Tagg Romney says no thanks to Senate race

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 02:46 PM PST

Tagg Romney speaking on behalf of his father in Augusta, Maine, on Feb. 4, 2012.Mitt Romney's son says he's not interested in running for John Kerry's now-open seat.


Permission to wear pants? Odd laws still on the books

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:58 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 22 2013 file photo, models wear creations by French fashion designer Alexandre Vauthier as part of his Women's Spring/Summer 2013 Haute Couture fashion collection, in Paris. If it isn't already daunting enough to pack for a trip to fashionable Paris, female visitors, beware: It's illegal to wear pants. So says a law dating from 1800 that has never been taken off the books _ only relaxed to allow women the comfort of two legs when riding bicycles or horses. (AP Photo/ Jacques Brinon, File)Paris is so fashion-forward, right? Maybe not. Women are technically banned from wearing pants.


Photos: Malala's journey to recovery

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 06:30 AM PST

Photos: Malala's journey to recoveryA Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban has made her first video statement since she was nearly killed. Speaking clearly but with the left side of her face appearing rigid, 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai said she is "getting better, day by day." (Feb. 4)

Oldest known spider crabs discovered in fossil reef

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 03:20 PM PST

Oldest Spider Crabs Discovered in Fossil ReefScientists found new species of crustaceans, including spider crabs that lived 100 million years ago.


Post-Super Bowl, Twitter becomes home for tasteless tweets

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 02:27 PM PST

On Monday—a day that should have been dominated by talk of the Super Bowl blackout, Beyoncé's electric halftime performance and, oh yeah, the Baltimore Ravens' victory—the personal Twitter accounts of at least four current and former political figures sparked some understandable backlash. During the Super Bowl power outage on Sunday, Michael Brown, former director of [...]

Stock market suffers worst day this year

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:17 PM PST

Traders work the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New YorkThe stock market is closing out its worst day so far this year, bringing the Dow average back below 14,000.


What happens to your Facebook page after you die?

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:20 PM PST

Facebook After Death: Who Owns Your Pages When You Die?Most people can't live without Facebook -- but what happens to your Facebook page when you are no longer living? New Hampshire and other states are trying to figure that out.State Rep. Peter Sullivan has introduced legislation to allow the executor of an estate control over the social networking pages of the dead. Last week, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted 222-128 to give Sullivan more time to write an amendment that begins a study of the issue. ...


Al-Qaida group back on Twitter after ban

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 04:49 PM PST

Al Qaeda Group on Twitter After BanJust two weeks after Twitter shut down its account, the Somali-based terror group al Shabaab has set up a new Twitter account and resumed tweeting out propaganda in English.


FBI investigating NYC woman's death in Istanbul

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:22 PM PST

Betzaida Jimenez, mother of 33-year-old Sarai Sierra who was found dead on Saturday in Turkey, pauses before a news conference at a friend's home in Staten Island, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, in New York. Sierra went missing while vacationing alone in Istanbul on Jan. 21, the day she was due to board her flight back home. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI is playing a significant role in the investigation into the death of a New York City woman in Istanbul while on a solo vacation, a U.S. congressman said Monday.


Super Bowl F-bomb could put FCC in a bind

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:28 PM PST

After another obscenity incident involving CBS and a Super Bowl broadcast, the Federal Communications Commission is under pressure to fine the TV network after Joe Flacco used a forbidden word on broadcast TV.

Video of blind skateboarder wows the Web

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 11:37 AM PST

Skateboarding is an extreme sport that takes a tremendous amount of skill, balance, coordination, and fearlessness. Now the world is being introduced to skateboarder Tommy Carroll who has all of that, and then some. Carroll was born with retinal cancer, which left him blind at the age of 2. His lack of sight didn't keep [...]

Scottish library offering free pole-dancing class

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:39 PM PST

Libraries always look for new ways to engage readers through cultural enrichment. But one branch in Scotland took an unconventional approach by hosting a pole dancing class—at the library. STV reports that pole dancing teacher Nikki Clark hosted the class at the Mayfield Library in Dalkeith, Midlothian, as part of "Love Your Library Day." The [...]

Cantor: House GOP policies will focus on 'most vulnerable'

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 11:40 AM PST

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. leaves a Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. Squarely in the spotlight, House Republicans began deciding their next move Tuesday after the Senate overwhelmingly approved compromise legislation negating a fiscal cliff of across-the-board tax increases and sweeping spending cuts to the Pentagon and other government agencies. Cantor says he opposed the Senate bill. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)The House Majority Leader is laying out his party's agenda on Tuesday.


Clinton on Koch: Big brain, even bigger heart

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 09:40 AM PST

Bill ClintonThe former president revealed that he and the late NYC mayor were avid pen pals.


Ex-FEMA director mocks Superdome blackout

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 10:35 AM PST

Fans and members of the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers wait for power to return in the Superdome during an outage in the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Remember Brownie? He's back. This time, cracking Katrina jokes on Twitter.


'No legislation to eliminate all guns'

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 08:43 AM PST

Obama takes part in a round table discussion on ways to reduce gun violence during a visit to the Minneapolis Police Department Special Operations Center in MinneapolisObama met with Minnesota officials to discuss local gun-control efforts.


Curiosity rover drills into first Mars rock

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 11:20 AM PST

NASA's Curiosity Rover Hammers Into 1st Mars RockNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has pounded into a Red Planet rock with its drill for the first time, bringing the 1-ton robot a big step closer to initiating its first full-bore drilling operations.


Ex-sniper spoke of legacy days before his death

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 10:52 AM PST

In this April 6, 2012, photo, former Navy SEAL and author of the book Chris Kyle spoke of the legacy he wanted to leave just days before being shot dead by a fellow soldier.


Photos: Snakes mesmerize in 'Serpentine' series

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 11:00 AM PST

Photos: Snakes mesmerize in 'Serpentine' series

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