2013年9月27日星期五

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Obama makes historic call to Iranian president

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 01:08 PM PDT

President Barack Obama talks with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran during a phone call in the Oval Office on September 27, 2013He also scolded GOP demands in a deal to avoid a gov't shutdown.

Iranian President Rouhani takes to Twitter after chat

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 02:45 PM PDT

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations in New York, September 26, 2013Describing his phone conversation with President Obama as "historic," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took to Twitter on Friday with a series of a fascinating messages that stunned and encouraged many foreign policy observers.

Pop quiz: What’s wrong with the tea party?

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 11:31 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 19, 2013, file photo, Tea Party activists rallying in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The movement's top strategists concede the tea party is quieter today, by design. It has matured, they said, from a protest movement to a political movement. Large-scale rallies have given way to strategic letter-writing and phone-banking campaigns to push or oppose legislative agendas in Washington and state capitals. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Twenty-two percent of Americans, Gallup says, back the tea party. That's down from 32 percent shortly after the 2010 midterm elections, when the GOP captured the U.S. House. Half of respondents said they neither support nor oppose the tea party, or simply have no opinion.

Senate passes bill to avert shutdown

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 11:03 AM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, confers with Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, as Senate Democratic leaders told reporters that conservative Republicans are to blame for holding up a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running. Senate passage of the spending bill — stripped of the "Obamacare" provision — was expected no later than Saturday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)With a shutdown looming, House Republicans must respond before Tuesday.

Kenyan hero's harrowing tale of rescues in mall massacre

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Car bomb kills 30 in town north of Syrian capital

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:16 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, file photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens gather at the scene of a car bomb exploded in the residential al-Tadhamon neighborhood in Damascus, Syria. Car bombs, shelling and airstrikes have become common in Syria's civil war, which has killed more than 100,000 people and driven another 7 million _ around a third of the country's pre-war population _ from their homes since March 2011. (AP Photo/SANA, File)BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb exploded near a mosque north of the Syrian capital as worshippers emerged from Friday prayers, killing at least 30 people, causing part of the building's roof to collapse and littering the street with smoldering debris, activists said.

Climate panel: warming 'extremely likely' man-made

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 08:47 AM PDT

A fuel refinery in foreground with Table Mountain in backdrop near the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. Scientists are more certain than ever that humans are causing the majority of climate change - with significant impact for the planet, a key report has shown. The first part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) fifth assessment report shows that global warming is "unequivocal" and human influence on the climate is clear. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists now believe it's "extremely likely" that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming, a long-term trend that is clear despite a recent plateau in the temperatures, an international climate panel said Friday.

Clinton meeting showcases a political family

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:13 AM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 24, 2013 file photo shows former President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. On its face, the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting here provided a platform for Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton to announce a series of financial commitments from corporations, non-governmental organizations and philanthropists to address intractable problems around the globe. Perhaps more than any other year, however, the New York gathering of Clinton loyalists and luminaries offered a vivid look at the past, present and future of one of America's most dominant political families. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)NEW YORK (AP) — On its face, the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting provides a platform for Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton to announce a series of financial commitments from corporations, nongovernmental organizations and philanthropists to address intractable problems around the globe.

8 dead, dozens missing in India building cave-in

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:54 AM PDT

Rescue workers carry a girl out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The apartment building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai early Friday, killing people and sending rescuers racing to reach dozens of people trapped in the rubble. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)MUMBAI, India (AP) — Rescuers pulled a small girl alive from a collapsed apartment building in India's financial capital nearly 12 hours after the structure caved in Friday, killing at least eight people and leaving dozens trapped under the rubble.

Colo. immigrants face uncertainty after floods

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:49 AM PDT

In this Sept. 24, 2013 photo, immigrant Rosi Derma views the flood damage inside her home, which was declared uninhabitable due to permanent damage, at a trailer park in Evans, Colo. The majority of the residents in the trailer park are immigrants who didn't have flood insurance, and because some are not citizens or legal residents, they can't get government help. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)EVANS, Colo. (AP) — Immigrants living in the U.S. illegally returned to their mobile home parks in flood-ravaged Colorado to find that there was little left to salvage — not the water-damaged cars, not the old family pictures and not the sheds carried away by the rushing waters.

NSA watchdog details surveillance misuse

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:10 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal watchdog for the National Security Agency has disclosed embarrassing details about misuse of surveillance data by its employees.

In heart of the Rim Fire, regeneration has begun

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 25, 2013, a trail cuts through some of the forest land of the Stanislaus National Forest, destroyed by the Rim Fire, near Tuolumne City, Calif. Just three weeks after the Rim Fire burned as much as 30,000 acres of forest land, and destroyed an estimated 1 billion board feet of potential lumber, man and nature have begun working to return life to the forest. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)TUOLUMNE CITY, Calif. (AP) — In the midst of a foreboding canyon scorched bare by the Sierra Nevada's most destructive fire in centuries, tiny ferns unfurl along a spring, black oaks push through charred soil normally blanketed with pine needles and a hawk soars above towering dead and denuded trees.

Watchdog hopes Syrian inspections begin by Tuesday

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:26 AM PDT

In this image taken from Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, video obtained from the Sham News Network, Syrian opposition fighters fire at government forces near Daraa customs in Daraa al-Balad, Syria. Russia offered on Thursday to provide troops to guard facilities where Syria's chemical weapons would be destroyed, as U.N. inspectors prepared to continue their probe on the use of such agents in the country's civil war. (AP Photo/Sham News Network via AP video)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The inspectors responsible for tracking down Syria's chemical arms stockpile and verifying its destruction plan to start in Syria by Tuesday. They will face their tightest deadlines ever and work right in the heart of a war zone, according to a draft decision obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

Miss World drama fueled by host country Indonesia

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 08:49 AM PDT

In this Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 photo, Muslim women hold posters reading: Indonesia is not America, left, and Reject Miss World, during a protest demanding the cancellation of the Miss World pageant, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Beauty queens and backstage drama may seem inevitable, but at this year's Miss World competition, something more serious than hair-pulling and name-calling has come from host country Indonesia: Muslim hardliners have threatened to hijack the competition despite major concessions from the government and organizers. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Beauty queens and backstage drama may seem inevitable, but at this year's Miss World competition, something more serious than hair-pulling and name-calling has come from host country Indonesia: Muslim hardliners have threatened to hijack the competition despite major concessions from the government and organizers.

Cuba lets athletes compete in foreign leagues

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:15 AM PDT

Los Angeles Dodgers' Yasiel Puig follows through on a solo home run off San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain during the fifth inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)HAVANA (AP) — Cuba announced Friday that its athletes will be allowed to sign contracts to compete in foreign leagues, a shift from decades of policy that held professional sports to be anathema to socialist ideals.

Iran, UN agency nuclear probe talks positive

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:33 AM PDT

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses a high-level meeting on Nuclear Disarmament during the 68th United Nations General Assembly on Thursday Sept. 26, 2013 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mike Segar,Pool)VIENNA (AP) — Iranian and U.N. officials held a "constructive" meeting on resuming a probe of allegations that Tehran has worked on atomic arms, officials said Friday after talks seen as an encouraging test of pledges by Iran's new president to reduce nuclear tensions.

Syrian arsenal inspections to begin by Tuesday

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 06:47 AM PDT

CORRECTS DATE TO THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 2013 FROM WEDNESDAY - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attend a meeting of the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany during the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The inspectors responsible for tracking down Syria's chemical arms stockpile and verifying its destruction plan to start in Syria by Tuesday. They will face their tightest deadlines ever and work right in the heart of a war zone, according to a draft decision obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

FAA to weigh easing limits on electronic devices

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 06:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 18, 2013 file photo, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Airline passengers may get some relief from restrictions on use of personal electronic devices during takeoffs and landings, but probably not for at least months and maybe longer, industry insiders say. A special advisory committee is expected to deliver recommendations Monday to FAA calling for gate-to-gate use of some devices on some planes. But the soonest FAA is likely to implement new regulations is early 2014. McCaskill says she'll introduce legislation to force FAA's hand if the agency doesn't act swiftly. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — With the blessing of an influential advisory panel, federal regulators are closer to letting airline passengers use their smartphones, tablets, e-readers and other electronic gadgets during takeoffs and landings.

'If you build it, they will come'?

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:32 AM PDT

Get Covered America buttons are seen during a training session in ChicagoA poll shows nearly half of Americans have never heard of health care exchanges.

Watch live: Obama statement on gov't shutdown fight

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The president comments after the Senate rolled back Obamacare funding cuts.

10 things to waste your time with this weekend

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:41 AM PDT

Procrastinaut logoThe Procrastinaut is back, with a level-headed chicken and nine decades of Bigfoot sightings!

'Faces of Facebook' displays all 1.2 billion profile pics in one screen

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:55 AM PDT

Faces of FacebookFind out what your FACE # is with this Facebook web project.

Countdown to the shutdown

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:12 AM PDT

With four days to go before the federal government is due to run out of money, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., center, points to a countdown clock during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, as Senate Democratic leaders blame conservative Republicans for holding up a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running. From left are, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., Schumer, Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., and Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The Senate is set to OK a budget bill, but the fight is just beginning in the House.

Eight held over Nairobi mall attack, al Shabaab issues new threat

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 03:55 PM PDT

Dawn breaks over the still-smoldering Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Working near bodies crushed by rubble in a bullet-scarred, scorched mall, FBI agents began fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis Wednesday to help determine the identities and nationalities of victims and al-Shabab gunmen who attacked the shopping center, killing more than 60 people. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)By James Macharia and Matthew Mpoke Bigg NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan authorities are holding eight people in connection with an attack by Islamist militants on a Nairobi shopping mall and have released three others after the assault that killed 67 civilians and soldiers, the interior minister said on Friday. Somali Islamist group al Shabaab said Saturday's attack, which ended after a four-day siege by soldiers and police, was "just the premiere of Act 1" and suggested it would be followed by other actions by its "warriors". ...

Why 'lap kids' deserve a seat of their own

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 06:21 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 2, 2010, file photo, a man watches a JetBlue airplane take off from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Dozens of JetBlue Airways flights were delayed Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, after a computer failure limited the airline's ability to dispatch planes. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)An airline safety advocate makes a case to end the practice.

NSA workers spied on significant others, says watchdog

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:06 AM PDT

An undated aerial handout photo shows the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, MarylandBy Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least a dozen U.S. National Security Agency employees have abused secret surveillance programs in the past decade, most often to spy on their significant others, according to the latest findings of the agency's internal watchdog. In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Republican, Charles Grassley, NSA Inspector General George Ellard outlined 12 instances of "intentional misuse" of the agency's intelligence gathering programs since January 1, 2003. ...

In the Bronx, Rivera steps from the mound for the last time

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Rights groups say 50 dead after Sudanese protests

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 06:12 AM PDT

Sudanese men pick through debris after rioters torched a fuel station in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Sudanese authorities have deployed troops around vital installations and gas stations in Khartoum following days of deadly rioting over gas price hikes. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)By Khalid Abdelaziz and Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of Sudanese demanding the resignation of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir after rights groups accused security forces of shooting dead at least 50 people in the worst unrest in Sudan's central region for years. Around 3,000 people, angered by a police crackdown on protests against the lifting of fuel subsidies, took to the streets after Friday prayers in Khartoum's twin-city Omdurman across the Nile, shouting "freedom, freedom" and "the people want the fall of the regime". ...

Obama knocks his 'desperate' fat-cat critics

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 04:04 AM PDT

Second term slump for Obama, or worse?The president also says they watch too much Fox News.

Get 'em some coffee

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 05:33 AM PDT

New Rules Require More Rest For Airline PilotsA disturbing number of British pilots admit to falling asleep in the cockpit.

Kenyan forces caused mall collapse, official says

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:20 AM PDT

This photo released by the Kenya Presidency shows the collapsed upper car park of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Working near bodies crushed by rubble in a bullet-scarred, scorched mall, FBI agents continued fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis to help determine the identities and nationalities of victims and al-Shabab gunmen who attacked the shopping center, killing more than 60 people. (AP Photo/Kenya Presidency)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's military caused the massive collapse of three floors of Nairobi's Westgate Mall during the terrorist siege in which at least 67 people died, a top-ranking government official said Wednesday.

Baby rescued hours after Mumbai building collapse

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 04:54 AM PDT

A local and Indian Fire officials look for survivors from the debris of a collapsed building in Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The multi-story residential building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai early Friday, killing at least three people and sending rescuers racing to reach dozens of people feared trapped in the rubble. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)MUMBAI, India (AP) — Rescuers have pulled a baby alive from the rubble of a building 11 hours after it collapsed in Mumbai, India's financial capital.

Iran, U.N. nuclear agency to meet again after "constructive" talks

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:47 AM PDT

IAEA chief nuclear inspector Nackaerts arrives for a meeting about Tehran's disputed nuclear programme at the Iranian embassy in ViennaBy Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran and the U.N. nuclear agency held "constructive" talks on Friday and made plans to meet again in one month, adding to momentum for a negotiated end to a standoff that could otherwise potentially flare into war. The discussions in Vienna, home of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), took place as new President Hassan Rouhani was telling world powers in New York he wanted a deal within months to end the long-running dispute. ...

Building collapse kills four in India's Mumbai, scores trapped

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 04:16 AM PDT

By Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI (Reuters) - A five-storey apartment block collapsed on Friday in the Indian financial centre of Mumbai, killing at least four people and trapping scores in the latest accident to underscore shoddy building standards in Asia's third-largest economy. The building collapsed at about 5:45 a.m. (0015 GMT) and more than 110 people were still trapped by early afternoon, said Ram Barot, a official of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. The corporation's employees were housed in the building. ...

Ahead of talks, feds find $100M for broke Detroit

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 04:34 AM PDT

A young man walks in front of a row of abandoned houses in Detroit, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Four of President Barack Obama's top advisers will converge on Detroit Friday to meet privately with state and local leaders about ways the federal government can help the bankrupt city short of a bailout. The White House said Thursday that top economic adviser Gene Sperling will join U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan in the closed meeting. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)DETROIT (AP) — The federal fingerprint in efforts to fix Detroit is growing larger as the Obama administration has found millions of dollars in grant money to help the bankrupt city hire more police and firefighters, and clear out blighted neighborhoods.

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