2013年8月5日星期一

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to buy Washington Post

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:58 PM PDT

Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon, speaks at the introduction of the new Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite in Santa Monica, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)The Graham family is selling the storied newspaper for $250 million.

Al-Qaida chief's secret message spurred embassy shutdowns

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:28 PM PDT

A Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a ``significant threat'' of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)Two officials say a secret message that was intercepted between al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and his deputy in Yemen led to the shutdown of U.S. embassies.

Fort Hood survivors to face gunman at trial

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:37 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, June 4, 2013, photo, retired Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford describes one of his wounds from the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage, at his home in Lillington, N.C. Nearly three dozen soldiers wounded in the deadly attack on the Texas Army post are facing the prospect of being approached and questioned in court by the man many witnesses have identified as the gunman: Maj. Nidal Hasan. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)LILLINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Alonzo Lunsford has trouble getting out of chairs and warns his family to wake him gently. Kathy Platoni can't shake the image of the man who died in a pool of blood at her knees. Shawn Manning still has two bullets in his body and gets easily unnerved by crowds.

Bulger lawyer says underworld witnesses told lies

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:22 PM PDT

FILE - This June 23, 2011, booking photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows James "Whitey" Bulger, who fled Boston in 1994 and wasn't captured until 2011 in Santa Monica, Calif., after 16 years on the run. Prosecutors and defense attorneys are expected to present lengthy closing arguments to jurors as they lay out their cases in the racketeering trial of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger on Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/ U.S. Marshals Service, File)BOSTON (AP) — James "Whitey" Bulger's lawyers tried to put the government itself on trial during closing arguments Monday, accusing federal prosecutors of making sweetheart deals with ruthless killers to put the reputed Boston crime boss behind bars.

Republicans want NBC, CNN to pull Clinton programs

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:07 PM PDT

FILE - This July 16, 2013 file photo shows former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during the 51st Delta Sigma Theta National Convention in Washington. The Republican National Committee wants NBC and CNN to cancel upcoming programs on Hillary Rodham Clinton and is threatening to blackball the television networks from future Republican presidential debates if they fail to comply. NBC has announced a miniseries "Hillary" starring Diane Lane. It's expected to be released before the 2016 presidential election. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee charged Monday that NBC and CNN are promoting a potential presidential candidacy by Hillary Rodham Clinton, threatening to blackball them from future GOP primary debates if they air upcoming programs on the former secretary of state.

Transient with jail record held in beach rampage

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 05:01 PM PDT

Mustafa, left, and his wife, Yesim Balci pose at their stand along the Venice, Calif., beach boardwalk Sunday Aug. 4, 2013 near where a Saturday incident involving a driver who accelerated through a crowd of beachgoers, hitting one person after another as bystanders tried desperately to get out of the way. The hit-and-run killed an Italian woman on her honeymoon and hurt 11 others. Yesim shows her injured right leg where she was struck by the driver. Theirs was the first stand hit. (AP Photo/Tami Abdollah)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man suspected of being behind the wheel of a sedan that careened down the crowded Venice Beach boardwalk last weekend, killing an Italian newlywed on her honeymoon and injuring 16, is a transient who served brief stints in jail in Colorado, authorities said Monday.

Taste test: Lab-grown hamburger short on flavor

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:18 PM PDT

A new Cultured Beef Burger made from cultured beef grown in a laboratory from stem cells of cattle, is held by the man who developed the burger, Professor Mark Post of Netherland's Maastricht University, during a the world's first public tasting event for the food product in London, Monday Aug. 5, 2013. The Cultured Beef could help solve the coming food crisis and combat climate change according to the producers of the burger which cost some 250,000 euros (US dlrs 332,000) to produce. (AP Photo / David Parry, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVESLONDON (AP) — The food of the future could do with a pinch of seasoning — and maybe some cheese.

Autopsy: Condemned Ohio man apparently hanged self

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:51 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Billy Slagle, who was found hanged in his death row cell just three days before his execution on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. An autopsy is expected Monday, Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation, File)COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A condemned inmate used an item he was permitted to have to apparently hang himself days before his execution — a rare, but not unprecedented, death row suicide.

AP PHOTOS: Muslims worldwide celebrate Ramadan

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:33 AM PDT

A man stands as Iranian worshippers perform prayers during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 26, 2013. Muslims throughout the world are marking the month of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar during which devotees fast from dawn till dusk. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)Iranian women place copies of the Quran on their heads during a religious ceremony at a cemetery outside Tehran. A Pakistani boy arranges plates of food for the meal that breaks the day's fast in Islamabad. Prayers are offered at mosques from India to Indonesia.

US embassies in 4 African countries also closed

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo of Monday, March 3, 2003, the new U.S. Embassy on the outskirts of Nairobi. The largest U.S. diplomatic mission in sub-Saharan Africa replaces the earlier mission that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Aug 7, 1998, killing 219 people. Wednesday will mark 15 years since that explosion. During a week of heightened security concerns at U.S. embassies the East African countries of Rwanda, Burundi, Mauritius and Madagascar were added to the U.S. embassy closures list on Sunday. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.S. State Department closed its embassies in four sub-Saharan African nations as part of a heightened security alert, days before the 15th anniversary of al-Qaida's bombings of American diplomatic missions in Kenya and Tanzania.

Former Colorado resident held in beach rampage

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:07 PM PDT

Mustafa, left, and his wife, Yesim Balci pose at their stand along the Venice, Calif., beach boardwalk Sunday Aug. 4, 2013 near where a Saturday incident involving a driver who accelerated through a crowd of beachgoers, hitting one person after another as bystanders tried desperately to get out of the way. The hit-and-run killed an Italian woman on her honeymoon and hurt 11 others. Yesim shows her injured right leg where she was struck by the driver. Theirs was the first stand hit. (AP Photo/Tami Abdollah)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who spent time in jail for shoplifting in Colorado was in custody Monday for investigation of running down a dozen people along the Venice Beach boardwalk, including an Italian tourist who was living her dream of honeymooning in California.

A-Rod gets 211-game ban, 12 others get 50 games

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:17 PM PDT

New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez arrives at U.S. Cellular Field before an MLB baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees in Chicago, Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez was suspended through 2014 and All-Stars Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta and Everth Cabrera were banned 50 games apiece Monday when Major League Baseball disciplined 13 players in a drug case — the most sweeping punishment since the Black Sox scandal nearly a century ago.

Embassies still shut, US tries to pinpoint targets

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:03 PM PDT

A Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a ``significant threat'' of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)WASHINGTON (AP) — American spies and intelligence analysts on Monday scoured email, phone calls and radio communications between al-Qaida operatives in Yemen and the organization's senior leaders to determine the timing and targets of a potentially spectacular attack that officials said they came across in monitoring militants' "chatter."

Alex Rodriguez, others suspended by MLB for drugs

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2013, file photo, New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez answers questions from reporters during a news conference following a Class AA baseball game with the Trenton Thunder against the Reading Phillies, in Trenton, N.J. Three MVP awards, 14 All-Star selections, two record-setting contracts and countless controversies later, A-Rod is the biggest and wealthiest target of an investigation into performance-enhancing drugs, with a decision from baseball Commissioner Bud Selig expected on Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez was suspended through 2014 and All-Stars Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta and Everth Cabrera were banned 50 games apiece Monday when Major League Baseball disciplined 13 players in a drug case — the most sweeping punishment since the Black Sox scandal nearly a century ago.

Weiner dodges scandal talk, shifts focus to ideas, rivals

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:20 PM PDT

New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner attends a campaign event in the Rockaways section in the Queens borough of New YorkIn a bid to revive his campaign, the candidate announced the release of an 'ideas' book.

Will fast-food protests spur higher minimum wage?

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:29 PM PDT

Fast-food worker Michelle Osborn, 23, of Flint, Mich. shouts out chants as she and a few dozen others strike outside of a McDonald's restaurant on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 in Flint. A few thousand fast-food workers in seven cities took to the streets demanding better pay, the right to unionize and a more than doubling of the federal minimum hourly wage from $7.25 to $15. (AP Photo/The Flint Journal, Jake May)Terrance Wise has two jobs in Kansas City — one at a burger joint, a second at a pizza restaurant — but he says his paychecks aren't enough to buy shoes for his three daughters and insure his 15-year-old car. So he decided to draw attention to his plight: He walked off work in protest.

Boston bomber followed conspiracy theories on 9/11, Oklahoma City

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:37 AM PDT

FILE - This Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo provided by Bob Leonard shows bombing suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, center right in black hat, and his brother, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, center left in white hat, approximately 10-20 minutes before the blasts that struck the Boston Marathon. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's legal defense is in the hands of Miriam Conrad, the chief federal public defender for Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Conrad has asked a judge to appoint two additional lawyers with experience in death penalty cases. (AP Photo/Bob Leonard, File)Tamerlan Tsarnaev had an article about "the rape of our gun rights," the BBC says.

RNC threatens to cut CNN, NBC from debates over Clinton 'ads'

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 09:05 AM PDT

Republican National Committee Chairman Priebus leaves the stage after addressing the Faith and Freedom Coalition "Road to Majority" conference in WashingtonNBC is airing a Hillary Clinton miniseries, while CNN Films is producing a documentary.

Closing arguments in trial of 'vicious' Boston mobster

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:48 PM PDT

Former mob boss and fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger is seen in a booking mug combination photoBy Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Monday told jurors that James "Whitey" Bulger was the "vicious, violent and calculating" Boston mob boss his former gang mates had described at his murder and racketeering trial, while defense attorneys urged jurors not to trust career criminals who had cut plea deals. Each side's closing statement focused on testimony of three former members of Bulger's "Winter Hill" gang who described 19 murders the defendant was charged with committing or ordering in the 1970s and '80s. ...

New JFK book claims details on affairs, drug use

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:43 AM PDT

Marilyn Monroe thought JFK would marry her, book claimsA new book about President John F. Kennedy's last year alive alleges details of his affair with Marilyn Monroe and his drug use. Excerpts from "These Few Precious Days," which was written by Christopher Andersen, a Kennedy biographer and journalist, asserts that first lady Jacqueline Kennedy knew about her husband's infidelities, but was bothered by his alleged romance with Marilyn Monroe the most.

Cleanup underway at derailment site in Louisiana

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:23 AM PDT

Potentially deadly chemicals on-board derailed train forces La. evacuationsAbout 100 homes remained evacuated.

Obama to take your housing questions in Zillow roundtable

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:01 AM PDT

Zillow Zestimate for the White HousePlus: How much would the White House cost?

Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an 'emergency'

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 10:38 AM PDT

View of destroyed roof of No.3 reactor building of TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is seen in Fukushima prefectureContaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier.

Terror threat to keep U.S. embassies closed in 19 countries

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 05:48 AM PDT

A Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a ``significant threat'' of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid online "chatter" about terror threats, U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Muslim world will be closed at least through the end of this week, the State Department said.

U.S. embassies stay closed amid 'serious threat'

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 09:28 PM PDT

A flag flutters outside the U.S. embassy in Tel AvivEmbassies in the Middle East and Africa will remain shut through the end of the week.

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