2013年8月20日星期二

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Obama, aides to discuss cutting aid to Egypt

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 11:51 AM PDT

White House denies report of US cutting aid to EgyptBut the White House denies secretly freezing assistance.

School gunman took hostages and car may have bombs

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:43 PM PDT

Elementary School Clerk Says She Convinced Gunman to Put His Weapons Down and Surrender: ExclusiveNo Students Were Injured in Shooting at Decatur, Ga., Elementary School

Lack of hurricanes doesn't signal tame season

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 10:59 AM PDT

Tropical Storm Andrea reached the U.S. in June. (NWS)Since the season began on June 1, the Atlantic has produced five named tropical storms but no hurricanes. On average, the first hurricane forms by Aug. 10 and the second by Aug. 28. As of Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center was reporting no activity on the radar and "tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next five days."

Officials: Ga. school suspect fired assault rifle

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 04:32 PM PDT

Sparkle Potts, left, cries upon seeing her nephew Cameron Bell pull up in a school bus from Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy while waiting with his grandmother Arvis Potts, right, in a Wal-Mart Inc., parking lot after students were evacuated when a gunman entered the school, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, in Decatur, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman)DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A teen opened fire with an assault rifle Tuesday at officers who shot back at an Atlanta-area elementary school, the police chief said, with dramatic overhead television footage capturing the young students racing out of the building, being escorted by teachers and police to safety. No one was injured.

Pakistan court indicts Musharraf in Bhutto killing

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 20, 2013, file photo, Pakistan's former President and military ruler Pervez Musharraf arrives at an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad, Pakistan. A Pakistani court Tuesday indicted Musharraf on murder charges in connection with the 2007 assassination of iconic Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, deepening the fall of a once-powerful figure who returned to the country this year in an effort to take part in elections. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — In an unprecedented ruling that tests the military's aura of inviolability, a court indicted former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf Tuesday on murder charges stemming from the 2007 assassination of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Afghan massacre victim takes stand, curses gunman

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 04:29 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 23, 2011, file photo, provided by the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System shows Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales during an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Bales, a U.S. soldier charged in the killing of 16 Afghan villagers, pleaded guilty in June in a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. His sentencing is scheduled to begin Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 with the selection of a military jury. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Washington (AP) — An Afghan farmer shot during a massacre in Kandahar Province last year took the witness stand Tuesday against the U.S. soldier who attacked his village, cursing him before breaking down and pleading with the prosecutor not to ask him any more questions.

3 teens charged after Australian player slain

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 03:14 PM PDT

A memorial to Christopher Lane is shown Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, along the road where he was shot and killed, in Duncan, Okla. Lane, an Australian who was on a baseball scholarship at East Central University in Ada, Okla., was in Duncan visiting his girlfriend, when he was shot and killed Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) — With the simplest of motives — breaking up the boredom of an Oklahoma summer — three teenagers followed an Australian collegiate baseball player who was attending school in the U.S. and killed him with a shot to the back for "the fun of it," prosecutors said Tuesday as they charged two of the teens with murder.

Judge to announce Manning's sentence Wednesday

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:52 PM PDT

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A military judge said she'll announce on Wednesday the sentence for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who gave reams of classified information to WikiLeaks.

9/11 defendant: US withholds food at Guantanamo

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2012 file photo reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, towers overlooking a U.S. detention facility are silhouetted against a morning sunrise at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Two U.S. federal agents on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, defended their interrogation of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of providing assistance to the Sept. 11 hijackers as a pretrial hearing resumed in the slowly unfolding war crimes proceedings for the five men charged in the attacks. (AP Photo/Toronto Star, Michelle Shephard, File)GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — A defendant in the Sept. 11 terror attack case alleged Tuesday that guards at Guantanamo Bay have been withholding food when he is in court or meeting with his lawyers. Military officials denied that has happened.

British paper details confrontation with UK spies

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 03:42 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by Janine Gibson of The Guardian, Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, right, and his partner David Miranda, are shown together at an unknown location. Miranda, the partner of Greenwald, a journalist who received leaks from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, was detained for nearly nine hours Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, under anti-terror legislation at Heathrow Airport, triggering claims that authorities are trying to interfere with reporting on the issue. (AP Photo/Janine Gibson, the Guardian) CREDIT MANDATORYLONDON (AP) — A British newspaper released new details of its confrontation with the country's intelligence service on Tuesday, saying it destroyed hard drives containing material leaked by Edward Snowden in order to insulate the former American intelligence worker from potential prosecution and to keep reporting on his leaks.

Best-selling author Elmore Leonard dies at 87

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 file photo, Author Elmore Leonard, 86, smiles during an interview at his home in Bloomfield Township, Mich. Leonard, a former adman who later in life became one of America's foremost crime writers, has died. He was 87. His researcher says he passed away Tuesday morning, Aug. 20, 2013 from complications from a stroke. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)DETROIT (AP) — He was the master of his genre, the Dickens of Detroit, the Chaucer of Crime.

Dempster suspended 5 games for hitting A-Rod

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 04:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2013 file photo, New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, center, is tended to by a trainer at first base after being hit by a pitch in the second inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Boston. Rodriguez got hit by a fastball from Boston starter Ryan Dempster. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Boston's Ryan Dempster was suspended for five games and fined by Major League Baseball for intentionally hitting Yankees star Alex Rodriguez with a pitch last weekend.

Egypt questions Brotherhood's top leader in prison

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:03 PM PDT

In this image taken from Egypt State TV, Mohammed Badie, the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, is seen after being detained by Egyptian security in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. Egypt's military-backed rulers are pressing on in their crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood with the arrest early Tuesday of the group's spiritual leader who had been in hiding near the huge sit-in in support of the country's ousted Islamist president, which security forces violently dispersed a week ago, leaving hundreds dead. (AP Photo/Egypt State TV)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military-backed authorities arrested the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme leader on Tuesday, dealing a serious blow to the embattled movement at a time when it is struggling to keep up street protests against the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi in the face of a harsh government crackdown.

Leonard's cool inspired generation of writers

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:26 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 31, 1983 file photo, writer Elmore Leonard sits by his typewriter at his home in Birmingham, Mich. Leonard, a former adman who later in life became one of America's foremost crime writers, has died. He was 87. His researcher says he passed away Tuesday morning, Aug. 20, 2013 from complications from a stroke. (AP Photo/Rob Kozloff)Peter Leonard first figured out his father was cooler than most anyone else at an early age, when he was crawling around under the church pew and noticed Elmore Leonard's ultra-mod ankle boots — you know, the kind with the zipper on the side — back in the 1960s.

Officials: Ga. school suspect had assault rifle

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:10 PM PDT

Nicole Webb cries as she talks on a phone in the parking lot of a store while waiting for her 9-year-old son, a student at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Ga., on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. Superintendent Michael Thurmond says all students at the school east of Atlanta are accounted for and safe and that he is not aware of any injuries. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A police chief says the suspect in a Georgia elementary school shooting fired from inside the school and officers returned fire.

Official: Ga. school suspect had assault rifle

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:44 PM PDT

Nicole Webb cries as she talks on a phone in the parking lot of a store while waiting for her 9-year-old son, a student at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Ga., on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. Superintendent Michael Thurmond says all students at the school east of Atlanta are accounted for and safe and that he is not aware of any injuries. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A sheriff's official says a gunman carrying an assault rifle fired shots into the air outside an Atlanta-area elementary school and was taken into custody a short time later.

Suspect in custody after reports of gunfire at Ga. school

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 11:29 AM PDT

Shots fired at Georgia schoolDECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A suspect was in custody after reports of gunfire at an Atlanta-area elementary school Tuesday, the school chief said, with television footage showing young students running out the school being escorted by teachers and police. Michael Thurmond told The Associated Press he had no reports of injuries and that all students and teachers are accounted for and safe.

Detroit, 4 other Michigan cities get $100M in federal aid

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:17 PM PDT

A worker removes trees and brush from front of a house during a blight removal project in the Brightmoor neighborhood in DetroitMichigan is getting $100 million in federal aid to demolish abandoned buildings and fight blight in Detroit and four other cities, Gov. Rick Snyder said Tuesday. Snyder said the U.S. Treasury Department ...

'Gerrymandering' may shorten wait for transplant patients

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 08:56 AM PDT

Need Liver Transplant? Much Depends on Zip CodeWhere you live can affect your chances of getting a liver transplant, and your risk of dying while waiting. The nation's transplant network says it's time to make the system fairer — and it may take a ...

Is Egypt bringing back the police state?

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 07:59 AM PDT

Egyptians security forces escort an Islamist supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood out of the al-Fatah mosque, after hundreds of Islamist protesters barricaded themselves inside the mosque overnight, following a day of fierce street battles that left scores of people dead, near Ramses Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. Authorities say police in Cairo are negotiating with people barricaded in a mosque and promising them safe passage if they leave. Muslim Brotherhood supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president are vowing to defy a state of emergency with new protests today, adding to the tension. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)'It was not like this even under Mubarak,' says a scholar.

Best-selling author Elmore Leonard dies at 87

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 10:06 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 31, 1983 file photo, writer Elmore Leonard sits by his typewriter at his home in Birmingham, Mich. Leonard, a former adman who later in life became one of America's foremost crime writers, has died. He was 87. His researcher says he passed away Tuesday morning, Aug. 20, 2013 from complications from a stroke. (AP Photo/Rob Kozloff)NEW YORK (Reuters) - American author Elmore Leonard, whose ear for gritty, realistic dialogue helped bring dozens of hard-bitten crooks, cops and cowboys to life in nearly 50 novels, died on Tuesday several weeks after a stroke. He was 87. "Elmore passed away this morning at 7:15 a.m. at home surrounded by his loving family," according to an announcement on his website, elmoreleonard.com. It did not provide other details. Leonard, who first wrote Westerns when he gave up his advertising agency job in the 1950s before moving on to crime and suspense books, suffered a stroke on July 29. ...

Prosecutors rest in Fort Hood shooting trial

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 01:47 PM PDT

Bell County Sheriff's Office photograph of Nidal HasanFORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Military prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, but whether the soldier plans to do anything to defend himself remains to be seen.

Meet the top 10 richest members of Congress

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 08:08 AM PDT

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., right, joined by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., left, the ranking member, to hear from Inspector General Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's internal watchdog, the day after he issued a report faulting the department for disregard of public safety in "Operation Fast and Furious," the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' program that allowed hundreds of guns to reach Mexican drug gangs, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Issa and House Republicans have pursued Attorney General Eric Holder in their oversight investigation but the IG's findings absolve Holder of wrongdoing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)California Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican, tops the new list, but Democrats hold most of the top spots.

White House denies report it secretly froze Egypt aid

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 08:17 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi, pictured, hold up four fingers, a sign that protesters say symbolizes the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo that was cleared last week by Egyptian security forces, as they march in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Arabic on posters reads, "Yes to legitimacy, no to the coup." (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)The government said "no policy decisions" had been made, which leaves a lot of room.

Judge approves force-feeding California inmates

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 06:29 AM PDT

FILE -- In this Aug. 17, 2011 file photo, a pair of inmates are seen in their cell in the Secure Housing Unit at the Pelican Bay State Prison near Crescent City, Calif. California prison officials with the backing of a federal health care receiver are seeking court permission to force-feed inmates who have been participating in a hunger strike that is entering its seventh week. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,file)SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge approved a request from California and federal officials to force-feed inmates if necessary as a statewide prison hunger strike entered its seventh week.

The real-life “Butler” who served Eisenhower and Obama

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 04:37 AM PDT

Real-Life 'The Butler': The White House Employee Who Served From Eisenhower Through ObamaTop Line  The president and administration changes every four to eight years, but behind the scenes at the White House, there is a staff of employees who serve the presidents and their families through the years, regardless of who wins the election.  Lee Daniels' new movie, "The Butler," shines a spotlight on the less-told story [...]

Egypt arrests Brotherhood's spiritual leader

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 06:17 AM PDT

This image released by Egypt's Interior Ministry shows Mohammed Badie the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood after being detained by Egyptian security in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. Egypt's military-backed authorities on Tuesday arrested the supreme leader of the country's Muslim Brotherhood, dealing a serious blow to the Islamist group at a time when it is struggling to keep up its street protests against the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi in the face of a harsh government crackdown. The Brotherhood's spiritual guide, Badie, was arrested in an apartment at the eastern Cairo district of Nasr City, close to the location of the six-week sit-in protest by supporters of Morsi, who also hails from the Islamist group. (AP Photo/Egyptian Interior Ministry)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military-backed authorities on Tuesday arrested the supreme leader of the country's Muslim Brotherhood, dealing a serious blow to the Islamist group at a time when it is struggling to keep up its street protests against the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi in the face of a harsh government crackdown.

Wrecked Fukushima storage tank leaking highly radioactive water

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 07:26 AM PDT

A radiation monitor indicates 131.00 microsieverts per hour at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in FukushimaIt's the most serious setback in the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

Sen. Cruz says he'll renounce Canadian citizenship

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 12:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 19, 2013 file photo, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to local residents during a fundraising picnic for the Iowa Republican Party in Des Moines, Iowa. Potential presidential candidates' recent burst of Iowa visits belies this reality: No one has started to do the serious spadework of preparing for a 2016 White House run in this important state. Lesser-known Republicans, on the other hand, are looking to position themselves from the outset. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has released his birth certificate showing he was born in Canada but says he will renounce citizenship from that country.

Pakistan's Musharraf charged in Bhutto murder

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 09:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 20, 2013, file photo, Pakistan's former President and military ruler Pervez Musharraf arrives at an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad, Pakistan. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Monday, June 24, 2013, Musharraf, who ousted him in a coup over a decade ago should be tried for treason. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)The former army chief is indicted in the 2007 death of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

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