2013年5月4日星期六

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NRA lauds 'armed and fabulous' women

Posted: 04 May 2013 03:10 PM PDT

NRA Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre speaks during the leadership forum at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting Friday, May 3, 2013 in Houston. (AP Photo/Steve Ueckert)The group is emphasizing that it's not just men who own firearms and oppose gun-control efforts.

9/11 museum officials say admission fee needed

Posted: 04 May 2013 03:42 PM PDT

FILE- In this Dec. 16, 2004 artist rendering released by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the Memorial Hall looking at the South Footprint is shown. Faced with hefty operating costs, the foundation building the underground 9/11 museum at the World Trade Center has decided to charge a mandatory admission fee of $20 to $25 when the site opens in 2014. (AP Photo/Lower Manhattan Development Corp., File)The foundation building the museum has decided to charge an admission fee of $20 to $25.

Calm, moist air aids fight against California wildfire

Posted: 04 May 2013 12:08 PM PDT

Firefighters from Riverside, Calif. work to extinguish a brush fire at Point Mugu, Calif., Friday, May 3, 2013. A Southern California wildfire carving a path to the sea grew to more than 15 square miles and crews prepared Friday for another bad day of gusting winds and searing weather. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)A major change in weather calmed a huge wildfire burning in Southern California coastal mountains Saturday, and firefighters were hopeful that a predicted chance of rain would become reality during the weekend.

Supremacist gets 26 to life in killing of molester

Posted: 04 May 2013 03:50 PM PDT

This photo provided by the Sacramento Sheriff's Dept. shows Charles Francis Gaskins. Charles Francis Gaskins a Northern California white supremacist convicted of killing a child molester has been sentenced to 26 years to life in prison, while his wife, convicted of being an accessory will be released from jail in about two months, Friday, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Sacramento Sheriff's Dept.)His wife — convicted of being an accessory — will be released from jail in about two months, The Sacramento Bee reports.

Solar plane lands in Ariz., 1st leg of major trip

Posted: 04 May 2013 02:52 PM PDT

Solar Impulse co-founder, pilot and CEO Andre Borschberg, left, greets pilot Bertrand Piccard at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, early Saturday, May 4, 2013, after completing the first leg of its coast-to-coast flights across the United States. It is the first time that a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel, will attempt to fly across America. Solar Impulse began its journey Friday in San Francisco in its attempt to reach New York. (AP Photo/Scuteri)The plane is powered by about 12,000 cells that cover massive wings and charge its batteries.

American service members killed in Afghanistan

Posted: 04 May 2013 02:07 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 4, 2013. Karzai says the director of the CIA assured him that regular funding his government receives from the agency will not be cut off. He says Afghanistan has been receiving such funding for more than 10 years and expressed hope at a Saturday news conference that it will not stop.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)Seven U.S. service members were killed on Saturday in one of the deadliest days for Americans in Afghanistan in recent months and the latest of attacks against international troops since the Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive.

Collector keeps his 29 boa constrictors, for now

Posted: 04 May 2013 02:57 PM PDT

Thomas Cobb lets his young son Daiden hold one of his snakes as he shows off several of his exotic reptile that he keeps in a special basement room of his home, Friday, April 26, 2013 in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. Cobb has been ordered by police to get rid of all but one of his 29 exotic boa constrictor snakes because he doesn't have an exotic pet permit. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Scott G. Winterton) SALT LAKE TRIBUNE OUT; MAGS OUTA man who says his rare snakes are getting a bad rap has won a temporary reprieve.

What's happening at Buffett's annual meeting?

Posted: 04 May 2013 04:03 PM PDT

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, right, is watched by Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, left, as he is assisted by Harlem Globetrotter Chris Dubbed "Woodstock for Capitalists," the annual shareholder meeting revolves around the company's CEO.

FBI shifts focus on Boston bomb suspect's wife

Posted: 04 May 2013 12:47 PM PDT

Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are pictured in this combination photoFeds question Katherine Russell and other witnesses to try to piece together exactly how and where the devices were made and what people knew about the brothers' beliefs and plans.

Why the U.S. economy is taking so long to recover

Posted: 04 May 2013 10:29 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, April 3, 2013 file photo, people fill out applications at the Green Mountain Flagging table at the annual Central Vermont Job Fair in Montpelier, Vt. The American economy and job market are moving in the right direction, just not very quickly. The news Friday, May 3, 2013, that U.S. employers added a solid 165,000 jobs in April and unemployment fell to a four-year low 7.5 percent came as a relief. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)The American economy and job market are moving in the right direction, just not very quickly.

Toys R Us appeals $20M award in Mass. slide death

Posted: 04 May 2013 11:00 AM PDT

This undated family photo provided by Michael Aleo via his attorney shows his Robin Aleo, of Colorado, who died in July 2006 in Andover, Mass., when a pool slide partially collapsed and she slammed her head on the concrete pool deck, causing fatal injuries. Five years later, a jury awarded Aleo's family more than $20 million, finding the slide sold by Toys R Us did not comply with federal safety standards. Toys R Us will go before the highest court in Massachusetts, on Monday, May 6, 2013, to appeal the ruling. (AP Photo/Aleo Family Photo)On a warm summer day in July 2006, Robin Aleo climbed to the top of a 6-foot inflatable pool slide and slid down head first. As she neared the bottom, the slide partially collapsed and Aleo slammed her head on the concrete pool deck, causing fatal injuries.

Beach bonfire spat gets hot in Southern California

Posted: 04 May 2013 10:11 AM PDT

Pamela Abderhalden, from left, and her husband Joe and James and Maria Bleemers, relax around a fire pit at Bolsa Chica State Beach Saturday, April 27, 2013 in Huntington Beach, Calif. Air quality regulators are considering a proposal to ban beach bonfires in Southern California due to health concerns. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)Anna Abderhalden and her siblings woke before dawn to stake a claim to a coveted beachfront spot where bonfires blaze each night as a rite of summer in this surf-crazy Southern California city.

Attorney: Texas plant that blew up carried $1M policy

Posted: 04 May 2013 11:29 AM PDT

A lawyer says that the Texas fertilizer plant that exploded last month, killing 14 people, injuring more than 200 others and damaging or destroying property for blocks in every direction was only insured for up to $1 million in liability.

Bangladesh toll 547; search becomes more gruesome

Posted: 04 May 2013 06:38 AM PDT

A young lady wails over the phone as she tells her family that she had identified one of the many bodies at a morgue to be her relative, Saturday, May 4, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. In the aftermath of a building collapse that killed more than 530 people, Bangladesh's garment manufacturers may face a choice of reform or perish. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)Ten days after the horrifying collapse of a garment-factory building, life has become still more gruesome for crews working to recover bodies at the site. The death toll rose to 547 on Saturday and the stench of decaying flesh was sickening evidence that the work is not yet done.

Bodies of two U.S. crew found at Kyrgyzstan crash site

Posted: 04 May 2013 05:13 AM PDT

A Kyrgyz policeman investigates a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker aircraft wreckage as a local citizen speaks to The Associated Press photographer on a field near the village of Chaldovar, about 100 miles (160 kms) west of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, Friday, May 3, 2013. The emergencies ministry in Kyrgyzstan says a US military plane has crashed in the country. Kyrgyzstan hosts a US base that is used for troops transiting into and out of Afghanistan and for C-135 tanker planes that refuel warplanes in flight. (AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin)Search teams on Saturday found the bodies of two American crew members near where their military refueling plane crashed in the rugged mountains of Kyrgyzstan, while the third crew member was still missing.

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