2013年4月29日星期一

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FBI seeks DNA of Tsarnaev's widow

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 04:29 PM PDT

Did Boston bomb suspect's wife tip him off?Agents walked out of Katherine Russell's family home with bags of samples.


Abortion doc's trial fuels pro-life movement

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 01:10 PM PDT

Pro-life advocates march in DC for 40th yearProtesters demand tougher laws as the murder trial of Kermit Gosnell ends.


Superstorm Sandy: Six months later

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Superstorm Sandy: Six months later(New Jersey Governor's Office)

Obama taps Charlotte mayor for cabinet post

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 02:22 PM PDT

President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx as his new Transportation Secretary, a White House official says. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Anthony Fox is the first black nominee for open spots in his second-term.


Rand Paul to endorse Mark Sanford in S.C. race

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 03:11 PM PDT

Senator Paul of Kentucky speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, MarylandThe Kentucky Republican will support the GOP nominee in a special election.


President calls gay basketball player and offers support

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 04:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 17, 2013 file photo, Washington Wizards center Jason Collins, right, battles for a rebound against Chicago Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Chicago. Jason Collins has become the first male professional athlete in the major four American sports leagues to come out as gay. Collins wrote a first-person account posted Monday on Sports Illustrated's website. The 34-year-old Collins has played for six NBA teams in 12 seasons. He finished this past season with the Washington Wizards and is now a free agent. He says he wants to continue playing. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)Obama reached out to Jason Collins after the NBA veteran announced he was gay.


White House election commission goes to work—next month

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:52 PM PDT

Frank Puzzo sets up a voting booth at Memorial Elementary School in Little Ferry, N.J., on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. The school is hosting the all districts in town because the nearby Washington Elementary School is still without power following Superstorm Sandy. Most of the town is still without power. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)Obama declared on Election Night: We "have to fix" long lines at the polls.


Florida lawmakers hope to speed up executions

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:46 PM PDT

Florida Governor Rick Scott holds a news conference at the State Emergency Operations CenterState senators send Gov. Rick Scott a package of capital-punishment reforms.


Automatic spending cuts nix $90m in college aid

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 03:13 PM PDT

Schools near military bases and tribal lands will face a $60 million shortfall between now and September and aid to college students will be cut by almost $90 million, according to the Education Department's plan to carry out the automatic spending cuts mandated by Congress.

Syrian prime minister survives Damascus bombing

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 03:04 PM PDT

Firefighters work at the site of an explosion at al-Mezze neighbourhood in DamascusSix others died in the rebel attack in the heart of President Bashar al-Assad's capital.


Netherlands' Queen Beatrix bids adieu

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:40 PM PDT

Dutch Queen Beatrix and her son Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander pose for photographers as they arrive for a banquet hosted by the Dutch Royal family at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Monday, April 29, 2013. Queen Beatrix has announced she will relinquish the crown on April 30, 2013, after 33 years of reign, leaving the monarchy to her son Crown Prince Willem-Alexander. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)The popular monarch urges her people to support her son, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander.


McConnell tweets an ‘Eastwood’ from a Kentucky bar

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 01:29 PM PDT

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is ready to take President Barack Obama up on that drink. Unfortunately, he's nowhere near the president. The Kentucky Republican posted a picture of himself Monday at a Kentucky bar, nestling a glass of beer next to an empty chair and a glass of wine, both presumably meant for Obama. [...]

3 dead in Mich. school golf team van crash

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 03:11 PM PDT

Michigan police say a minivan carrying a high school golf team broadsided another van, killing the coach, a player and a passenger in the other vehicle.

CFTC holds Twitter #HackCrash hearing tomorrow

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 11:35 AM PDT

It was one week ago this Tuesday that a hacked AP account tweeted, "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured" to its 1.9 million followers.

Obama shares a moment with 7-year-old cancer patient

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 01:11 PM PDT

Jack Hoffman, a 7-year-old whose 69-yard touchdown at a University of Nebraska-Lincoln football game exploded on the Internet, found himself in the Oval Office Monday. The Atkinson, Neb., star, who is battling brain cancer, met President Barack Obama and received a signed football from the president, according to the caption on a photo of their [...]

Michael Jackson death trial begins

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 27, 2011 file photo, Katherine Jackson poses for a portrait in Calabasas, Calif. Opening statements are scheduled to begin Monday April 29, 2013, in Jackson's lawsuit against concert giant AEG Live over her son Michael's 2009 death. Katherine Jackson claims the company failed to properly investigate the doctor who was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter for the singer's death, but the company denies all wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Concert giant AEG Live failed in its duty to properly investigate the doctor who treated Michael Jackson because it was concerned about its own fortunes, an attorney for the singer's mother told a jury Monday morning.


Obama 'appreciates' Russia's help after bombing

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:35 PM PDT

Chilly relations between Obama, Putin at G20?The president spoke by phone with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.


Mississippi man makes court appearance in ricin case

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 09:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday April 23, 2013 file photo, Everett Dutschke stands in the street near his home in Tupelo, Miss., and waits for the FBI to arrive and search his home. Dutschke, charged with making and possessing ricin as part of the investigation into poison-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and others was expected to appear in court Monday April 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Thomas Wells, File) MANDATORY CREDITJames Everett Dutschke made poison sent to President Obama, authorities say.


Karzai’s ‘ghost money’—he warned us in 2008

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 09:17 AM PDT

Afghan President Karzai speaks during a news conference in KabulThat the CIA gave him millions is a weird blend of shocking and entirely unsurprising.


Piece of 9/11 plane was from wing

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 09:31 AM PDT

Police cordon off possible 9/11 debris in New York CityAuthorities initially thought the 5-foot piece was landing gear from one of the jetliners.


Christie: Obama kept every Sandy promise

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 11:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2012 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gives 9-year-old Ginjer Doherty a pep talk outside the Port Monmouth fire station in Port Monmouth, N.J., where he visited residents and first responders a week after Superstorm Sandy devastated New Jersey. In an essay Ginjer recently had published in Time magazine she wrote, But the N.J. governor has had his political disagreements with the president.


Three get jail time in Kosovo organ trafficking case

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:27 PM PDT

Kosovo Albanian doctor Lutfi Dervishi, center, flanked by defense councils, sits in a court room, in Pristina, Kosovo, Monday, April 29, 2013. A Kosovo court has found two ethnic Albanians guilty of human trafficking and organized crime in a highly publicized trial against seven people suspected of running an international organ trafficking ring. A panel of two European Union and one Kosovo judges sentenced Lutfi Dervishi to eight years in prison and his son Arban Dervishi to seven years and three months in prison on Monday for extracting kidneys from poor donors who were lured by financial promises. ( AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A court in Kosovo found two citizens guilty of human trafficking and organized crime Monday in a major trial against seven people suspected of running an international organ trafficking ring that took kidneys from poor donors lured by financial promises.


Court: UK mother forced teen daughter to inseminate herself

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 09:26 AM PDT

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - A mother who persuaded her adopted teenage daughter to become pregnant by artificial insemination because she wanted a baby for herself has been jailed for five years in Britain, in a case that raises concern over how easily donor sperm can be obtained. Previously secret court documents showed that the daughter, a virgin, was made to inseminate herself alone in her bedroom seven times over a two-year period starting in 2008 when she was 14, using syringes of semen bought online by the mother from sperm bank Cryos in Denmark. ...

Pa. abortion clinic no 'house of horrors,' says defense attorney

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:02 PM PDT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A defense lawyer asked a jury Monday to transcend both the politics and unpleasant reality of abortion when it weighs murder charges against a doctor charged with killing a patient and four babies.

Explosion shakes Prague

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 02:31 AM PDT

Explosion shakes PragueParamedics help injured people after an explosion in downtown Prague, Czech Republic, Monday, April 29, 2013. Police said a powerful explosion has damaged a building in the center of the Czech capital and they believe some people are buried in the rubble. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

NBA player makes historic announcement

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 10:15 AM PDT

File photo of Washington Wizards' Jason Collins going to the basket against Chicago Bulls' Taj Gibson during the first half of their NBA basketball game in Chicago, IllinoisJason Collins shares his secret after the recent Supreme Court hearings.


High school student shoots himself in classroom

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:44 PM PDT

Police and firefighters gather outside LaSalle High School, Monday, April 29, 2013, in Cincinnati, after a high school student pulled out a gun and shot himself in a classroom. The Hamilton County sheriff's office says the youth was taken to a hospital with a self-inflicted wound. They say there apparently was no threat to other students at the private school. (AP Photo/Cincinnati Enquirer, Glenn Hartong)The youth is taken to a hospital, and there appeared to be no threat to other students.


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