2013年10月28日星期一

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WH grants extension on health law sign-up

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 03:36 PM PDT

This photo taken Oct. 25, 2013 shows Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius takes part on a panel to answer questions about the Affordable Care Act enrollment, in San Antonio. Misreading the health care law she is responsible for administering, Sebelius has wrongly asserted that the law required health insurance signups to start Oct. 1, whether the system was ready or not. In fact, the decision when to launch the system was hers. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)The administration is granting a six-week extension to sign up for coverage.


Yemen police: Fireworks spurred rumours of U.S. embassy attack

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 03:50 PM PDT

A general view of the U.S. Embassy compound in SanaaSANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni police moved in to halt a firework display at a wedding party near the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa on Monday that triggered rumors of an attack on the mission, a security guard and a Yemeni diplomat in Washington said. They said security guards around the mission in Sanaa fired some shots in the air. "The U.S. Embassy in Sanaa was not attacked, nor was there any bombing in the vicinity of the Embassy," said Mohammed al-Basha, a spokesman for the Yemeni embassy in Washington in a twitter message. He said some people who had set off the fireworks were arrested. ...


In interview, Obama won't say if he knew of spying on Merkel

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Fed judge: Texas abortion limits unconstitutional

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 03:14 PM PDT

File - In this June 25, 2013 file photo, Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, speaks as she begins a filibuster in an effort to kill an abortion bill, in Austin, Texas. Davis is expected to announce her bid for Texas governor on Thursday, Oct. 3 2013. When she does, she'll be speaking not only to Texans but also national Democratic fundraisers she'll need to compete in the predominantly Republican state. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge determined Monday that new Texas abortion restrictions place an unconstitutional burden on women seeking to end a pregnancy, a ruling that keeps open dozens of abortion clinics across the state while officials appeal.


Some troops turn to liposuction to pass fat test

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 02:12 PM PDT

In a Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013 photo, a group of sailors and Marines who failed the so-called "tape test'' are led by an instructor on a three mile run as they work to improve their fitness and remain in the military, at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. Doctors say a number of military personnel are turning to liposuction to remove excess fat from around the waist so they can pass the Pentagon's body fat test. Some service members say they have no other choice because the Defense Department's method of estimating body fat is weeding out not just flabby physiques but bulkier, muscular builds. A number of fitness experts and doctors agree, and they're calling for the military's fitness standards to be revamped. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)SAN DIEGO (AP) — Soldiers often call plastic surgeon Adam Tattelbaum in a panic. They need liposuction — fast.


Chemical weapons inspectors in Syria miss deadline

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 01:28 PM PDT

U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, center right, and Deputy Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad arrive to a hotel surrounded by security Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 in Damascus, Syria. Brahimi is on his first trip to the country in almost a year. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)BEIRUT (AP) — International inspectors overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile have missed an early deadline in a brutally tight schedule after security concerns prevented them from visiting two sites linked to Damascus' chemical program.


White House OKs limited waiver on health penalty

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 04:10 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — With website woes ongoing, the Obama administration Monday granted a six-week extension until March 31 for Americans to sign up for coverage next year and avoid new tax penalties under the president's health care overhaul law.

Business, GOP establishment: Tea party is over

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 03:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2012 file photo, then-Michigan Republican House candidate Kerry Bentivolio speaks at his election night party in Novi, Mich. Business thinks tea partyers have overstayed their welcome in Washington and wants to show them the door in next year's congressional elections. In Michigan, longtime businessmen Brian Ellis and David Trott are challenging hard-line Reps. Justin Amash and Kerry Bentivolio in Republican primaries as three years of frustration over GOP insurgents roughing up the business community's agenda came to a head with the 16-day partial government shutdown and the near financial default. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A slice of corporate America thinks tea partyers have overstayed their welcome in Washington and should be shown the door in next year's congressional elections.


Hurricane-force gusts batter UK, Europe; 13 dead

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 11:47 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — A savage coastal storm powered by hurricane-force gusts slashed its way through Britain and western Europe on Monday, felling trees, flooding lowlands and snarling traffic in the air, at sea and on land. At least 13 people were reported killed.

Chris Brown released on assault charge in DC court

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 04:13 PM PDT

Singer Chris Brown is surrounded by bodyguards as he departs the H. Carl Moultriel courthouse Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, with one of his attorney's, Danny Onorato, center,, in Washington. A charge against the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer has been reduced to a misdemeanor and he was ordered released after his arrest Sunday following an altercation outside a Washington hotel. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Chris Brown was freed from custody Monday after facing a judge on a charge that he punched a man who tried to pose in a photograph with him.


Charge against Chris Brown reduced to misdemeanor

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 03:31 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A charge against Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Chris Brown has been reduced to a misdemeanor and he has been ordered released.

NYC Marathon returns after Boston attack

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 03:35 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Marathon's security budget has doubled to about $1 million after the bombings at this year's race in Boston.

DC police: Chris Brown, companion threw punches

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 11:46 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2013 file photo, Chris Brown arrives at the 55th annual Grammy Awards, in Los Angeles. Brown was arrested early Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013 in Washington after a fight broke out near the W Hotel near the White House. District of Columbia Police spokesman Officer Paul Metcalf says 24-year-old Brown was arrested and charged with felony assault. Metcalf says 35-year-old Chris Hollosy also was arrested on felony assault charges after the incident. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Chris Brown is accused of punching a man who says he tried to get into a photo with the singer outside a hotel, according to police, the latest legal trouble for the Grammy Award-winning artist.


Egypt's satirist to be investigated over program

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 01:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 file photo, Egyptian television satirist Bassem Youssef, known as Egypt's Jon Stewart, waves to his supporters as he enters Egypt's state prosecutors office to face charges for allegedly insulting Islam and the country's leader, in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's top prosecutor has ordered an investigation into a complaint that alleges Youssef, harmed national interests by ridiculing the country's military. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's top prosecutor on Monday ordered an investigation into a complaint that satirist Bassem Youssef, known as the country's "Jon Stewart," harmed national interests by ridiculing the country's military in his first program of the season.


UK phone-hacking trial opens for top Murdoch aides

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 09:28 AM PDT

Rebekah Brooks arrives at The Old Bailey law court in London, Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. Former News of the World national newspaper editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are due to go on trial Monday, along with several others, on charges of hacking phones and bribing officials while at the now closed tabloid paper.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)LONDON (AP) — The trial of two former top editors of Rupert Murdoch's defunct News of the World began Monday with the selection of a jury to hear the complex and high-profile case sparked by a tabloid phone-hacking scandal that has shaken Murdoch's media empire and tarnished the image of British journalism.


Police: Crash at Beijing's Forbidden City kills 5

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 12:20 PM PDT

Cleaners walk past an area shielded by green nets in front of Tiananmen Gate following a car fire in Beijing, China, Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. A sport-utility vehicle veered into a crowd in front of Beijing's Forbidden City and then crashed and caught fire Monday, killing three people and injuring several, police said. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)BEIJING (AP) — A sport utility vehicle plowed through a crowd in front of Beijing's Forbidden City before crashing and catching fire Monday, killing the three occupants and two tourists and injuring 38 visitors and security officers, police said.


Nursing students revive teacher who 'died' during class

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 07:20 AM PDT

CPRWhen Amy Hunter, who has a congenital heart condition, collapsed in front of her class, she had seconds to live. Quick thinking by her students saved her life.


States hit by Sandy to get next $5 billion of funding

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 01:26 PM PDT

This Nov. 29, 2012 photo shows a devastated oceanfront neighborhood in the Ortley Beach section of Toms River N.J. Residents told a state Senate panel on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013 that insurance woes and bureaucracy are doing as much damage to them as the storm did as they try to recover from Superstorm Sandy a year later. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal officials on Monday unveiled plans for a second round of Superstorm Sandy disaster relief totaling $5 billion for five states and New York City, and they pledged that the pace of spending would pick up after a slow start. Announced just a day shy of the anniversary of the storm's New York-area landfall, the funds will come from nearly $48 billion in federal funds earmarked for disaster recovery. As of August, just under a quarter of that package had been obligated to areas hit by the storm. ...


Michigan governor defends Detroit bankruptcy filing approval

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 02:57 PM PDT

Protesters demonstrate against cuts in Detroit city workers' pensions and healthcare, in DetroitBy Joseph Lichterman and Bernie Woodall DETROIT (Reuters) - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder defended Detroit's bankruptcy filing on Monday, stating in court that he followed the state and federal constitutions while addressing fiscal issues that had built up in Detroit for more than half a century. Snyder said the Michigan and U.S. constitutions do not prevent actions that he took, even though the Michigan constitution prohibits diminishing pension payments to retired employees. ...


How science saved NYC's subways from Sandy

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 09:58 AM PDT

This Oct. 30, 2012, photo provided by New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) shows a flooded escalator in the South Ferry station of the No. 1 subway line, in lower Manhattan, after Superstorm Sandy passed through New York. Floodwaters that poured into New York's deepest subway tunnels may pose the biggest obstacle to the city's recovery from the worst natural disaster in the transit system's 108-year history but on Wednesday Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced limited subway service will resume on Thursday. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Transportation Authority)The water just kept flowing. It streamed through the streets of lower Manhattan, pouring into subway entrances, cascading into ventilation grates and pooling inside tunnels.


White House: NSA doesn't spy on allies for economic warfare

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 10:49 AM PDT

Mobile phone simulating call to German Chancellor Merkel next to a tablet showing the logo of NSA is seen in picture illustration taken in FrankfurtBut former Vice President Dick Cheney says U.S. snooping helps on "economic matters."


Penn State paying $59.7M to 26 men

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 01:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2012 file photo, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, is taken from the Centre County Courthouse by Centre County Sheriff Denny Nau, left, and a deputy, after being sentenced in Bellefonte, Pa. Sandusky's challenge to his child molestation conviction goes before a state appeals court on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, as the former Penn State assistant football coach seeks to overturn a sentence that could keep him behind bars for life. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)The claims resulted from the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse case.


Lou Reed died of liver disease

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U.S. may place 'constraints' on intel gathering

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 10:51 AM PDT

Mobile phone simulating call to German Chancellor Merkel next to a tablet showing the logo of NSA is seen in picture illustration taken in FrankfurtWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday there may need to be additional constraints placed on America's spy agencies after a series of embarrassing disclosures about the broad scope of U.S. intelligence gathering. President Barack Obama has full confidence in the director of the National Security Agency, General Keith Alexander, and other NSA officials, said White House spokesman Jay Carney. He added that there should be a balance between the need to gather intelligence and the need for privacy. ...


Graham says he'll block nominations over Benghazi

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 03:04 PM PDT

Was Washington told about Benghazi warning signs?WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham is threatening to hold up all nominations for federal government positions until survivors of last year's deadly attack on the diplomatic post in Libya appear before Congress.


Chelsea Clinton makes sure Sandy’s devastation is remembered

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 04:30 AM PDT

Chelsea Clinton leads volunteers in a "Day of Action" to aid Sandy victimsChelsea Clinton makes Sandy recovery a priority for her family's foundation.


Two senior Shabab members reported killed in Somalia

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 10:17 AM PDT

A member of Shabab Al-Huda' brigade, operating under Free Syrian Army, walks past boxes at Tameko pharmaceutical factory, after FSA claimed to have taken control of factory, in eastern al-Ghouta,MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A military strike hit a vehicle carrying senior members of an al-Qaida-linked militant group in Somalia on Monday, killing at least two people including the group's top explosives expert, a militant and a government intelligence official said.


Drone strike kills at least two in Somalia: residents

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 08:51 AM PDT

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone strike killed at least two Islamist al Shabaab insurgents driving in a car south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, residents said on Monday. The drone fired a missile at the car in the outskirts of Jilib town in the Middle Jubba region, some 120 km to the north of the port of Kismayu to the south. Although the United States does not report its activities in Somalia, drones have been used in recent years to kill Somali and foreign al Shabaab fighters. ...

Soliders take extreme measure to meet Pentagon's body fat test

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 07:22 AM PDT

FILE This Nov. 14, 2002 file-pool photo shows a US soldier, a members of the 82nd Airborne Division, securing an area from the top of an armored vehicle on the sunset near the town of Yayeh Kehl, Paktia province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, POOL)SAN DIEGO (AP) — Doctors say a number of military personnel are turning to liposuction to remove excess fat from around the waist so they can pass the Pentagon's body fat test.


'Will I be next?'

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 08:20 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. Amnesty International calls on the U.S. to investigate reported civilian casualties from CIA drone strikes in Pakistan and compensate victims in a report providing new details about innocent citizens allegedly killed in the attacks. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)A new documentary reveals the story of drones as told by the people who live under them.


Doctors: Kids should get only two hours a day on social sites

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 06:59 AM PDT

In this Oct. 24, 2013 photo, Mark Risinger, 16, checks his smartphone at home in Glenview, Ill. Risinger is allowed to use his smartphone and laptop in his room, and says he spends about four hours daily on the Internet doing homework, using Facebook and YouTube and watching movies. An influential pediatrician's group is recommending strict limits on texting, tweeting and other media use, including banning smart phones, iPods and other Internet access from kids' bedrooms. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)CHICAGO (AP) — The American Academy of Pediatrics has new advice many kids will find hard to swallow: It wants limits on tweeting, texting and other social media.


Killing an endangered rhino will save others, Texas club says

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 06:24 AM PDT

Texas Hunting Club Auctioning off Permit to Hunt Endangered RhinoThe Dallas Safari Club Says Hunt Will Actually Benefit the Rhino


Hurricane-force gusts batter UK, France, the Dutch

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 08:03 AM PDT

Hurricane-force gusts batter UK, France, the DutchEngineers look at the damage as a crane working on redevelopment at the Cabinet Office in Whitehall, near to Downing Street in London, was brought down by high winds, Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. A major storm with hurricane-force gusts is lashing southern Britain, parts of France and Netherlands, causing flooding and travel delays with the cancellation of many flights and trains. Weather forecasters say it is one of the worst storms to hit Britain in years. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Syria’s breaking bad: Are amphetamines funding the war?

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 10:30 PM PDT

Smoke rises behind a Free Syrian Army fighter as he walks in Maysaloun neighborhood in AleppoFifteen days into his job as Lebanon's top drug-enforcement official, Colonel Ghassan Chams Eddine got a tip-off that something big was going down at the Beirut shipping port this summer. How big? Nearly 5.5 million tablets of a locally produced amphetamine expertly hidden inside an industrial water heater destined for Dubai. His men had to use acetylene torches to remove the white tablets, each embossed with an off-kilter yin-yang symbol and packed into 1,000-piece units in heat-sealed plastic bags. ...


Is Ted Cruz a natural-born citizen eligible to serve as president?

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 07:00 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2013 file photo, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington and said Republicans lost the government shutdown budget battle because some members of his own party in Congress turned on their colleagues. The bigger worry for many GOP party leaders is the growing rift between business-oriented Republicans and the GOP's more ideological wing. Each accuses the other of bungling the debt ceiling and government shutdown dramas, widely seen as a major Republican embarrassment. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)Sarah Helene Duggin from the Catholic University of America looks at potential foreign-born presidential candidates like Ted Cruz and a possible emerging consensus among scholars about their eligibility for the White House.


'Lost world' discovered in remote Australia

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 11:00 PM PDT

Image provided by Conrad Hoskin of James Cook University Queensland on October 28, 2013 shows the Cape Melville Leaf-tailed Gecko discovered in Australia's Cape York PeninsulaSydney (AFP) - An expedition to a remote part of northern Australia has uncovered three new vertebrate species isolated for millions of years, with scientists Monday calling the area a "lost world".


Report: NSA tracked 60 million calls in Spain

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 08:00 AM PDT

A satellite dish is seen in the former monitoring base of the National Security Agency in Bad AiblingThe Spanish media report follows recent allegations of U.S. spying in France and Germany.


Cyberattack shuts Israeli road

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 10:51 PM PDT

Israeli tunnel hit by cyberattack, experts sayWhen Israel's military chief delivered a high-profile speech this month outlining the greatest threats his country might face in the future, he listed computer sabotage as a top concern, warning a sophisticated ...


Goodbye to Lou Reed, the godfather of punk

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He was a giant among rock stars, and a good deal of the punk and indie bands that followed in his wake were happy to be orbiting objects.


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