2013年4月18日星期四

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FBI releases photos of bombing suspects

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 04:38 PM PDT

Boston suspectsThe bureau is now asking for help in identifying the two men.


Storm wreaks havoc from Rockies to Rust Belt

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 03:59 PM PDT

Officials survey a gaping sinkhole that opened up a residential street on Chicago's South Side after a cast iron water main dating back to 1915 broke during a massive rain storm, Thursday, April 18, 2013, in Chicago. The hole spanned the entire width of the road and chewed up grassy areas abutting the sidewalk. Two of the cars that disappeared inside had been parked, but a third was being driven when the road buckled and caved in. Only the hood of one of the vehicles can be seen peeking from the chasm.(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)A powerful spring storm system stretching from southern Texas to northern Michigan unleashed a wave of weather extremes on the Midwest Thursday and threatened to bring its mix of hard rains, high winds and severe thunderstorms to the East by the weekend.


‘Gang of Eight’ rolls out immigration proposal

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 01:16 PM PDT

U.S. Senator Schumer, part of the U.S. Senate's "Gang of Eight", speaks during a news briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington"This isn't perfect, but it's a good faith common sense approach to fix a badly broken system," says one senator.


Texas plant previously fined for safety violations

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 11:10 AM PDT

Firefighters use flashlights early Thursday morning, April 18, 2013 to search a destroyed apartment complex near a fertilizer plant that exploded Wednesday night in West, Texas. The massive explosion killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160, shaking the ground with the strength of a small earthquake and leveling homes and businesses for blocks in every direction. (AP Photo/LM Otero)The facility exploded Wednesday night, killing as many as 15 and injuring over 160.


Venezuela crackdown called worst in years

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 04:01 PM PDT

A 'Chavista' demonstrator shouts as supporters of President-elect Nicolas Maduro march in front of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Caracas,Venezuela, Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles has presented a series of allegations of vote fraud and other irregularities to back up his demand for a vote-by-vote recount for the presidential election. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)Troops beat opposition supporters for refusing to accept election results.


Traveling this summer? Expect delays

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 11:13 AM PDT

Daija Walker, left, and Andrea Clarke sit next to their luggage at the Miami International Airport, Tuesday, April 16, 2013, in Miami, as they tried to get back home to Barbados. A computer system used to run many daily operations at American Airlines failed Tuesday, forcing the nation's third-largest carrier to ground all flights across the United States for several hours and stranding thousands of frustrated passengers at airports and on planes. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)Flight operations will slow as furloughs kick in for air traffic controllers.


Police find nothing after Cal State L.A. evacuation

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 04:05 PM PDT

A sign is posted on a police car to inform students of a bomb threat the Cal State University Los Angeles campus, after a mandatory evacuation on a report of a suspicious item, according to the Los Angeles Police Department in Los Angeles Thursday, April 18, 2013. Two telephoned bomb threats prompted officials at Cal State Los Angeles today to cancel afternoon classes and evacuate the campus. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Students were told there was a bomb scare and the campus was being evacuated.


Gabby Giffords 'angry' over gun vote

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 10:48 AM PDT

Mark Kelly on Gun Vote: 'Gabby Is Angry Today'"Passing that bill into law was the right thing to do," says her husband, Mark Kelly.


Sanford hit with ‘Appalachian Trail’ ad

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 11:32 AM PDT

Mark Sanford Accused of Trespassing at Ex-Wife's HomeDemocrats attack the S.C. Republican for disappearing to visit his former mistress.


Baghdad suicide bomb blast at Internet cafe kills 27

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 02:21 PM PDT

By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself inside a Baghdad cafe popular with young people using the Internet, killing a least 27 and wounding dozens more in one of the worst single attacks in the Iraqi capital this year. The late evening blast in west Baghdad came just two days before provincial elections that will be a major test of Iraq's political stability more than a year after the last American troops left the country. ...

Abortion clinic worker saw babies breathe

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 04:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the Philadelphia District Attorney's office, Dr. Kermit Gosnell is shown. Eight former employees of a run-down West Philadelphia abortion clinic now face prison time for the work they did for Gosnell. Three have pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. And Gosnell, 72, is on trial in the deaths of a patient and seven babies allegedly born alive. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department via Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, File)A witness in the murder trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell was so upset that she called authorities.


Elvis impersonator charged with threatening Obama

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 09:59 AM PDT

This undated photo obtained from the facebook page of Paul Kevin Curtis, shows, according to neighbors, Paul Kevin Curtis, 45. Curtis was arrested Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at his home in Corinth, near the Tennessee state line. He is accused of mailing letters with suspected ricin to to national leaders. (AP Photo)Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, faces 15 years in prison and $500,000 fine.


From Boston to Newtown: Obama plays national grief counselor

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 12:37 PM PDT

Grief counseling is not mentioned in the Constitution nor does it ever come up in presidential debates. But part of the job of any president in this already tear-stained century is to channel our collective sadness, to speak for all Americans at a time of national tragedy.

Nurse pleads guilty in murder-for-hire case

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 12:13 PM PDT

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A former Cleveland Clinic nurse accused of trying to hire an emergency room patient to kill a woman pleaded guilty Thursday in a murder-for-hire plot.

Woman sentenced to 22 years in prison for killing grandson

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 02:42 PM PDT

FILE- In a March 13, 2013 file photo, Sandra Layne testifies in the Oakland County Circuit Courtroom of Judge Denise Langford Morris in Pontiac, Mich. The 75-year-old, convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of her teen grandson was sentenced to at least 22 years in prison Thursday, April 18, 2013, despite her desperate plea to a judge to spare her from dying behind bars. Layne got a minimum sentence of 20 years for second-degree murder, along with a mandatory two-year sentence for using a gun to kill 17-year-old Jonathan Hoffman. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, FILE)PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A 75-year-old Detroit-area woman who killed her grandson expressed remorse Thursday but repeatedly accused his parents of dumping a troubled boy at her doorstep during a desperate, emotional plea to avoid a prison sentence that likely means death behind bars.


Food poisonings up from raw milk, poultry bacteria

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 11:57 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Bacteria commonly linked to raw milk and poultry is causing more and more food poisonings, health officials said Thursday.

Airshow organizers nix atomic bomb re-enactment

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 10:43 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 1945 file photo released by the U.S. Army, a mushroom cloud billows about one hour after an atomic bomb was detonated above Hiroshima, western Japan. Hiroshima will mark the 67th anniversary of the atomic bombing on Aug. 6, 2012. Clifton Truman Daniel, a grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman, who ordered the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II, is in Hiroshima to attend a memorial service for the victims. (AP Photo/U.S. Army via Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, HO, File) NO SALES, CREDIT MANDATORYCINCINNATI (AP) — A popular southwest Ohio air show has canceled plans to stage a re-enactment of the devastating World War II atomic bomb attack on Japan after protests, officials said Thursday.


How a student took on eminent economists on debt issue - and won

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 10:54 AM PDT

Harvard Professor and Economist Rogoff speaks during Sohn Investment Conference in New YorkBy Edward Krudy NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Thomas Herndon, a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's doctoral program in economics, spotted possible errors made by two eminent Harvard economists in an influential research paper, he called his girlfriend over for a second look. As they pored over the spreadsheets Herndon had requested from Harvard's Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, which formed the basis for a widely quoted 2010 study, they spotted what they believed were glaring errors. ...


Boston, 'you will run again'

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 07:13 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during an interfaith memorial service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing in BostonThe president plays consoler-in-chief at a service for bombing victims.


Experts unclear how China bird flu infects humans

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 06:13 AM PDT

A vendor stands outside her store as the Chinese character for poultry is seen covered with a red cloth after it was prohibited from being sold in Naidong village, where a boy tested positive for the H7N9 virus, in Beijing Monday, April 15, 2013. The new case of bird flu in China's capital, a 4-year-old boy who displayed no symptoms, is adding to the unknowns about the latest outbreak that has caused 63 confirmed cases and 14 deaths, health officials said Monday. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTBEIJING (AP) — Almost three weeks after China reported finding a new strain of bird flu in humans, experts are still stumped by how people are becoming infected when many appear to have had no recent contact with live fowl and the virus isn't supposed to pass from person to person.


Malala Yousafzai takes the cover of Time’s ‘Most Influential’ issue

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 08:23 AM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old girl who was shot at close range in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan, reads a book as she continues her recovery at the hospital. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban, is writing a memoir. Publisher Weidenfeld and Nicolson said Thursday March 28, 2013 it will release "I am Malala" in Britain this fall. Little, Brown will publish it in the United States.A Taliban gunman shot Malala on Oct. 9, while she was on her way home from school in northwestern Pakistan. (AP Photo/Queen Elizabeth Hospital, File)President Obama and Rand Paul shared the honor with LeBron James and Jay-Z.


How Broken Is the Senate? The Gun Bill Blockers Only Represent 38% of America

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 08:18 AM PDT

The Senate's failure to end a filibuster of stronger gun legislation yesterday prompted the president to lash out against the "continued distortion of Senate rules" that allows 41 senators to block the will of their 59 counterparts. The problem is even more stark when you consider the population those senators could represent: Just over ten percent of Americans can block any federal legislation from moving forward. That's fewer people than live in the state of California alone.

Stories of casualties in Boston Marathon bombing

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 09:10 AM PDT

The twin bombs at the Boston Marathon killed Lu Lingzi, a 23-year-old Boston University student from China; 8-year-old spectator Martin Richard; and 29-year-old spectator Krystle Campbell. But it also injured more than 170 people: runners, couples, spectators, children. Some are in grave condition; some lost limbs or senses; all their lives will be forever touched by the bombings. Here are some of their stories.

Hagel, Dempsey Warn of Involvement in Syria

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 03:15 AM PDT

Hagel, Dempsey Warn of Involvement in SyriaDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey both warned Congress on Wednesday about the unintended consequences of a U.S. military intervention in Syria.  Hagel also provided the first details of the Pentagon's efforts in assisting Jordan's military...


Teens pleads not guilty in Ga. baby slaying

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 08:23 AM PDT

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A coastal Georgia teenager has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the slaying of a baby that authorities say was shot in the face during an attempted robbery on a street.

Frantic search ongoing after deadly Texas blast

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 07:21 AM PDT

WEST, Texas (AP) — Rescue workers searched the smoldering ruins of a fertilizer plant Thursday for survivors of a monstrous explosion that leveled homes and businesses in every direction across the Texas prairie. As many as 15 people were feared dead and more than 160 others injured.

Iraqi forces hunt Saddam's former deputy

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 05:54 AM PDT

Iraqi Defence Ministry says top Saddam aide Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri has been captured.By Suadad al-Salhy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi special forces are closing in on the most senior member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle still on the run since the 2003 invasion, security sources said on Thursday. Troops backed by helicopters were searching for Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, head of Saddam's now-outlawed Baath party, in villages around the former ruler's hometown of Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad. ...


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