2013年9月17日星期二

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Police: Navy Yard shooter experienced paranoia

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:19 PM PDT

Navy Yard Shooter, Aaron Alexis, Information EmergesAaron Alexis blamed PTSD from 9/11 clean-up for his problems.


U.S. court says no violation of rights in collecting phone data

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:44 PM PDT

Retro-style The Brick mobile phones are pictured at booth of Binatone at the IFA consumer electronics fair in BerlinBy David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The surveillance court that oversees the U.S. government's massive collection of telephone data gave its fullest defense to date on Tuesday of why it considers the program lawful, despite the uproar after its existence was made public in June. In an opinion dated August 29 and released on Tuesday, Judge Claire Eagan of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court wrote that the program did not violate the basic privacy rights of Americans and was authorized under the 2001 law known as the Patriot Act. ...


Home care workers declare victory on minimum-wage fight

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 12:37 PM PDT

Thomas E. Perez, President Barack Obama's nominee for Labor Secretary, speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday March 18, 2013, where the president made the announcment. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Home care workers scored a victory on Tuesday after the Department of Labor announced that they will qualify for minimum wage and overtime.


Senate, House ensnared in health care controversy

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:59 PM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to reporters following a Democratic caucus at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Reid claims that Republican opposition to the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, has become obsessive, causing Congress to veer closer to gridlock. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Implacable Republican opposition to Obamacare has Congress once more veering closer to gridlock.


As air rescues wind down, some refuse to leave

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:47 PM PDT

At sunrise, the St. Vrain creek flows past a bridge destroyed in flooding days earlier, in Longmont, Colo., Tuesday Sept. 17, 2013. Meanwhile elsewhere, searches continue for those missing in isolated Colorado mountain towns. The rains finally stopped, allowing many Colorado flood evacuees to return home to toppled houses and upended vehicles with the realization that rebuilding their lives will take months. Search crews, meanwhile, rescued hundreds more people stranded by floodwaters. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — In the days right after floodwaters rushed through the Rocky Mountain foothills, the helicopter crews that lifted stranded people to safety were greeted like heroes. Nearly a week later, they are often being waved away by stubborn mountain residents who refuse to abandon their homes.


NJ boardwalk fire linked to Sandy-damaged wiring

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:29 PM PDT

This aerial photo shows aftermath of a massive fire that burned a large portion of the Seaside Park boardwalk, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, in Seaside Park, N.J. The fire, which apparently started Thursday in an ice cream shop and spread several blocks, hit the recently repaired boardwalk, which was damaged last year by Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/The Asbury Park Press, Bob Bielk)TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — The massive fire that destroyed part of a Jersey shore boardwalk and dozens of businesses began accidentally in wiring damaged in Superstorm Sandy, and should prompt coastal property owners to get their own equipment inspected for similar danger, officials said Tuesday.


Man gets nearly 27 years in Mass. child porn case

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:08 PM PDT

This undated booking photo released in a document by the U.S. District Court shows Geoffrey Portway, scheduled for sentencing in federal court Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, in Worcester, Mass. Portway, of Worcester, pleaded guilty in April to solicitation to commit a crime of violence, and possession and distribution of child pornography. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court)WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man who chatted online with other men about their desire to kidnap, rape, kill and eat children was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 27 years in prison after prosecutors showed photos of a basement dungeon he built, a child-sized coffin, butchering tools and metal restraints.


Russia opposes use of force in resolution on Syria

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:19 PM PDT

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, left, and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov arrive for a news conference after their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Moscow is insisting that a new United Nations resolution on Syria not allow the use of force, but Russia's foreign minister appears to suggest the issue could be reconsidered if Syria violates an agreement on abandoning its chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Russia insisted Tuesday that a U.N. Security Council resolution governing Syria's handling of its chemical weapons not allow the use of force, but it suggested that could change if Damascus reneges on the deal to give up its stockpile.


'Hiccup Girl' on trial on murder charge in Florida

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:09 PM PDT

Jennifer Mee, center, looks at potential jurors as jury selection begins her murder trial, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, at the Pinellas County Justice Center in Clearwater, Fla. Mee, 22, who found fame in 2007 as a teen because of her uncontrollable hiccupping, is charged with first-degree murder in the 2010 death of Shannon Griffin. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Scott Keeler, Pool)CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman who appeared on several national television programs as a teen because of her uncontrollable hiccupping went on trial on a murder charge on Tuesday.


Conn. man gets 27 months for priest's meth sales

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:38 PM PDT

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A man who helped a priest sell methamphetamine was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to 27 months in prison.

FACT CHECK: Food stamp debate has empty calories

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:02 PM PDT

Chart shows federal food stamp participation since 1969; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm;WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders say food stamps serve too many Americans and the almost $80 billion-a-year program needs to be slimmed down.


'Mad Men' to wrap its run with 2-part final season

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 12:10 PM PDT

This TV publicity image released by AMC shows Jon Hamm as Don Draper, left, and Jessica Pare as Megan Draper in a scene from "Mad Men." AMC is keeping "Mad Men" around an extra year, expanding the final season of this acclaimed drama series to 14 episodes and portioning them equally in 2014 and 2015. The network said Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, that seven episodes will air next spring and another seven in 2015. (AP Photo/AMC, Michael Yarish, File)NEW YORK (AP) — AMC is keeping "Mad Men" around an extra year, expanding the final season of this acclaimed drama series to 14 episodes and portioning them equally in 2014 and 2015.


Acapulco tourists stranded; Mexico death toll 47

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:01 PM PDT

A small chapel is engulfed in rock and mud from a landslide triggered by heavy rains brought on by Tropical Storm Manuel on the outskirts of Acapulco, Mexico, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Tropical Storm Ingrid and remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel drenched Mexico's Gulf and Pacific coasts, flooding towns and cities in a national emergency that federal authorities say has caused at least 34 deaths. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — The death toll rose to 47 Tuesday from the unusual one-two punch of a tropical storm and a hurricane hitting Mexico at nearly the same time. Authorities scrambled to get help into, and stranded tourists out of, the cutoff resort city of Acapulco.


Concordia success boosts pride for shamed Italy

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 10:18 AM PDT

A detail of the previously submerged side of the Costa Concordia is seen after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. The crippled cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday after a complicated, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany, with officials declaring it a "perfect" end to a daring and unprecedented engineering feat. (AP Photo/Andrea Sinibaldi, Lapresse) ITALY OUTGIGLIO ISLAND, Italy (AP) — The extraordinary righting of the Costa Concordia from its watery Tuscan graveyard has given Italy a boost of sorely needed pride, helping erase the shame many felt after an Italian captain took the cruise ship off course in an apparent stunt, crashed it and then abandoned ship before everyone was evacuated.


Internet blocks return in Iran after brief opening

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 12:27 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Monday, May 27, 2013 file photo, Iranians surf the web at an Internet cafe, in Tehran, Iran. Iranian authorities have restored blocks on Facebook and Twitter after a "technical glitch" briefly removed filters from the social networks overnight. The glitch could point to increasing internal struggles between groups seeking to reopen Facebook and other social networking sites and hard-liners in the establishment, who remain in control of Internet access. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Word of the opening of Iran's blocked social media sites was spread, of course, by social media itself: in celebratory tweets and breathless Facebook posts. Hours later, the same sites Tuesday chewed over the sobering reality that the four-year-old firewalls were back in place.


Gunman in Navy Yard rampage was hearing voices

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 12:27 PM PDT

This booking photo provided by the Fort Worth Police Department shows Aaron Alexis, arrested in September, 2010, on suspicion of discharging a firearm in the city limits. The FBI has identified Alexis, 34, as the gunman in the Monday, Sept. 16, 2013 shooting rampage at at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington that left thirteen dead, including himself. (AP Photo/ Fort Worth Police Department)WASHINGTON (AP) — The former Navy reservist who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard had been hearing voices and was undergoing treatment in the weeks before the shooting rampage, but was not stripped of his security clearance, officials said Tuesday.


Navy Yard gunman did not have assault rifle

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 11:35 AM PDT

The FBI unloads boxes from a large truck on September 17, 2013 in Washington, DCAaron Alexis had a valid pass and a legally bought shotgun, the FBI said.


Chaos as floods submerge Acapulco, death toll rises

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:37 PM PDT

A young man carrying a stolen computer wades through a flooded street in Acapulco on September 16, 2013By Alberto Fajardo and Luis Enrique Martinez ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's famous beach resort of Acapulco was in chaos on Tuesday as hotels rationed food for thousands of stranded tourists and floodwaters swallowed homes and cars after some of the most damaging storms in decades killed at least 55 people across the country. Television footage showed Acapulco's international airport terminal waist deep in water and workers wading out to escape floods that have prevented some 40,000 visitors from leaving and blocked one of the main access routes to the city with mud. ...


'When will enough be enough?'

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT

Three women embrace near Nationals Park where family members waited to greet loved ones that were at the Washington Navy Yard, Monday Sept. 16, 2013, in Washington. At least one gunman launched an attack inside the Washington Navy Yard, spraying gunfire on office workers in the cafeteria and in the hallways at the heavily secured military installation in the heart of the nation's capital, authorities said. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)The Navy Yard shooting may spur the gun debate, but little action is likely.


Activists mark 2nd anniversary of Occupy Wall Street

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 09:54 AM PDT

Occupy Wall Street protesters stand on the steps of Federal Hall, across the street from the New York Stock Exchange in New York2 years after encampment was born in NYC, Occupy Wall Street activists march, hold rallies        


Live: FBI, police update on Navy Yard shooting

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Russia: No proof Assad behind chemical attack

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:01 PM PDT

A U.N. chemical weapons expert meets a person affected by an apparent gas attack, at a hospital where she is being treated in Damascus' suburb of ZamalkaBy Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and France sharply disagreed on Tuesday over a report by U.N. investigators into a chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people in Syria, underscoring the difficulties in reaching agreement on action at the U.N. Security Council. Sitting beside French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at a news conference in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the report had produced no proof that President Bashar al-Assad's troops carried out the August 21 attack and that Russia still suspected rebel forces were behind it. ...


Audit: Navy cost-cutting making facilities less safe

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:09 PM PDT

A police boat patrols near the scene of a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, in Washington. At least one gunman opened fire inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)Hours after a yearlong audit of safety procedures slammed the Navy for penny-pinching on security clearances, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel was reportedly readying a top-to-bottom review of all American military facilities around the world.


Stricken Costa Concordia raised upright

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 06:05 AM PDT

The capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen at the end of the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbourAm upbeat spirit of international teamwork was on full display off the Italian island of Giglio early this morning after the successful raising of the Costa Concordia, the giant cruise ship that rammed into a nearby reef last January and collapsed onto its side.


As waters recede, Colorado worries about another problem: tourism

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 07:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2013 file photo, cars lay mired in mud deposited by floods in Lyons, Colo. Little more than a year after Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper assured the world his wildfire-ravaged state was still DENVER (AP) — A little more than a year after Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper insisted his wildfire-ravaged state was still "open for business," he may have to throw another lifeline to the state's billion-dollar tourism industry as the world takes in the startling images of dramatic flood rescues and washed-out roads.


FRONTLINE: The inside story of Egypt's revolution gone wrong

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:06 AM PDT

File picture of Egyptian military helicopters trailing national flags circling over Tahrir Square during a protest demanding that Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi resign in CairoLess than three years after the popular uprising that led to President Hosni Mubarak's ouster, and just one year after Egypt's first free and fair elections, the democratically elected government has been overthrown and the Egyptian military is running the state.


Navy Yard gunman's access questioned

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:43 PM PDT

This booking photo provided by the Fort Worth Police Department shows Aaron Alexis, arrested in September, 2010, on suspicion of discharging a firearm in the city limits. The FBI has identified Alexis, 34, as the gunman in the Monday, Sept. 16, 2013 shooting rampage at at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington that left thirteen dead, including himself. (AP Photo/ Fort Worth Police Department)Aaron Alexis had brushes with the law, but still was able to enter a Navy base.


Shipwrecked Concordia hauled upright off Italy

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 07:54 AM PDT

The Costa Concordia rests upright on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, early Tuesday morning, Sept. 17, 2013. The crippled cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday after a complicated, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany, with officials declaring it a "perfect" end to a daring and unprecedented engineering feat. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy (AP) — Engineers declared success Tuesday as the crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled completely upright during an unprecedented, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany.


'This is a horrific tragedy'

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 05:37 AM PDT

Suspected gunman Aaron Alexis reported to be among 13 deadInvestigators are still looking for the motive behind a deadly Navy Yards shooting spree.


'Technical glitch' allows for social media in Iran

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 09:31 AM PDT

Iranians use computers at a cybercafe in Tehran, on May 14, 2013A technical glitch allowed some Iranians temporary access to banned social networking websites Facebook and Twitter, an Iranian Internet official said on Tuesday.


Motive a mystery in D.C. shooting rampage

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:43 AM PDT

This booking photo provided by the Fort Worth Police Department shows Aaron Alexis, arrested in September, 2010, on suspicion of discharging a firearm in the city limits. The FBI has identified Alexis, 34, as the gunman in the Monday, Sept. 16, 2013 shooting rampage at at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington that left thirteen dead, including himself. (AP Photo/ Fort Worth Police Department)The suspect, a former Navy reservist, killed 12 people before he was slain by police.


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