2013年10月3日星期四

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Police: Suspect in Capitol chase is dead

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:14 PM PDT

A black Infiniti coupe is pictured after its involvement in police shootout on Capitol Hill in WashingtonTwo officers were injured 'just doing their job,' officials say.


Can immigration reform survive the shutdown?

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:31 PM PDT

Immigration rallies in the USAdvocates of immigration reform just can't catch a break. First it was Syria. Now the entire federal government is shut down. And an all but inevitable fight over the debt ceiling in two weeks is likely to push reforms even further out of the spotlight.


TWTR makes IPO filing public, looks to raise $1B

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:10 PM PDT

Twitter's Founders Re-unite In Advance Of Expected IPO FilingIn line with earlier reports, Twitter on Thursday made its IPO filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission public. Twitter filed an S-1 confidentially earlier this year, and it was able to do so because its annual revenue was less than $1 billion in 2012. The company's S-1 is now public, shedding light on Twitter's financials for the first time ahead of its upcoming initial public offering. The company will look to raise $1 billion with its IPO, and it will be underwritten by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and several other banks. Twitter shares will trade under the ticker TWTR. The company's S-1 states that Twitter pulled in $316 million in revenue in 2012, and it posted a


Her shoes were made for running; Wendy Davis bids for governor

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:28 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)HALTOM CITY, Texas (AP) — Democrat Wendy Davis promised a more populist and bipartisan state government in Texas as she declared her long-anticipated candidacy for governor Thursday, but she didn't mention abortion rights, the subject that brought her to national attention.


Ship capsizes off Italy; 114 African migrants die

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:03 PM PDT

Bodies of drowned migrants are lined up in the port of Lampedusa Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Tens of people died when a ship carrying African migrants toward Italy caught fire and sank off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, spilling hundreds of passengers into the sea, officials said Thursday. Many migrants have been rescued, but the boat is believed to have been carrying as many as 500 people. It is one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks in recent times and the second one this week off Italy: On Monday, 13 men drowned while trying to reach southern Sicily when their ship ran aground just a few meters (yards) from shore at Scicli. (AP Photo/Nino Randazzo, Health Care Service, HO)ROME (AP) — The rickety fishing boat was the third of the night to head toward the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, overloaded with African migrants seeking a better life in Europe. Most never reached shore.


Twitter unseals IPO papers, hopes to raise $1B

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2013, file photo, a smartphone display shows the Twitter logo in Berlin, Germany, Twitter unsealed the documents Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, for its planned initial public offering of stock and says it hopes to raise up to $1 billion. (AP Photo/dpa, Soeren Stache, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has unsealed the documents for its planned initial public offering of stock and says it hopes to raise up to $1 billion in one of the year's most eagerly awaited stock market debuts.


Ex-official pleads no contest to Bell corruption

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:09 PM PDT

FILE - This March 9, 2011 file image shows former Bell City Administrator Robert Rizzo listens in court in Los Angeles. Rizzo, who masterminded a corruption scheme that paid exorbitant salaries to city officials, pleaded no contest, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, to all 69 charges brought against him. (AP Photo/Irfan Khan, Pool, file)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A disgraced former city manager accused of masterminding a brazen municipal corruption scandal that drove a modest Los Angeles suburb to the brink of bankruptcy pleaded no contest Thursday to 69 counts of fraud, misappropriation of public funds and other charges.


NY mom who killed 3 kids wants cut of their estate

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:45 PM PDT

FILE - This combination of photos provided by the Nassau County Police Department shows Leatrice Brewer in 2003, and her children, Jewell Ward, and Michael Demesyeux, right. Jewell, 6, Michael, 5, and their brother Innocent Demesyeux, 1, were found dead Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008 in the same bed in their New Cassel, N.Y., home after their mother, Leatrice Brewer, 27, called police claiming she killed them. On Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, a judge ruled that Leatrice Brewer, found not guilty because of mental disease or defect, will be taken from a psychiatric facility to testify about her request for a cut of the children's $350,000 estate in November 2013. (AP Photo/Nassau County Police Department)MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A mentally disturbed woman who drowned her three young children in a bathtub is going to court to ask a judge for a cut of their $350,000 estate.


Chicago burger garnished with communion wafer

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:44 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by Kuma's Corner Restaurant shows the restaurant's October burger of the month Ghost, named after the Swedish heavy metal band who's members dress in religious robes and wear skeleton face makeup Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, in Chicago. The Chicago restaurant has cooked up this controversial burger garnishing it with an unconsecrated communion wafer and a red wine reduction sauce. Luke Tobias, Kuma's Corner director of operations, said the restaurant never wanted to offend anyone. He said reaction has been a "mixed bag," but more positive than negative. (AP Photo/Kuma's Corner)CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago restaurant has cooked up a controversial burger of the month for October, garnishing it with an unconsecrated communion wafer and a red wine reduction sauce.


Pills made from poop cure serious gut infections

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 08:32 AM PDT

Dr. Thomas Louie, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Calgary, holds a container of stool pills in triple-coated gel capsules in his lab in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Half a million Americans get Clostridium difficile, or C-diff, infections each year, and about 14,000 die. A very potent and pricey antibiotic can kill C-diff but also destroys good bacteria that live in the gut, leaving it more susceptible to future infections. Recently, studies have shown that fecal transplants - giving infected people stool from a healthy donor - can restore that balance. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jeff McIntosh)Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections — a less yucky way to do "fecal transplants." Canadian researchers tried this on 27 patients and cured them all after strong antibiotics failed to help.


60 possible new species found in Suriname forest

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:04 PM PDT

In this handout photo released by Conservation International on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, a sleek chocolate-colored frog dubbed the "cocoa frog," that may be new to science, is seen in Suriname. Biologists with the U.S.-based Conservation International say six frogs, 11 fish and numerous insects found in remote sections of Suriname's rainforest are among 60 creatures that may be new species. (AP Photo/Conservation International, Stuart V. Nielsen)KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Braving perilous river rapids in Suriname's rainforest, international scientists found six frogs and 11 fish that are among 60 creatures that may be new species, a tropical ecologist with a U.S.-based conservation group said Thursday.


California gives immigrants driver's licenses

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:33 PM PDT

Ipolito Nurez celebrates outside City Hall after California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill AB 60, which allows immigrants in the country illegally to obtain driver licenses. Immigrant advocates have long lobbied for the change in the nation's most populous state so immigrants can drive without fearing being pulled over for a ticket, which could wind up getting them deported. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)LOS ANGELES (AP) — California on Thursday joined the growing list of states that allow immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally to obtain driver's licenses — a measure supported not only by Latino activists but by police chiefs and insurance authorities.


NBC show will send someone into space

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:31 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 25, 2013 file photo shows British entrepreneur Richard Branson at the Virgin Galactic hangar at Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, Calif. NBC says it will air a competition show with an out-of-this-world prize: a ride into space. The network said Thursday, Oct. 3, that TV producer Mark Burnett is teaming with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic on "Space Race," a game where the winner will get a ride on Virgin's aircraft atop the Earth's atmosphere. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)NEW YORK (AP) — NBC is planning a competition show with a grand prize that's out of this world: a ride into space.


Police: Suspect killed in Capitol Hill chase

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:24 PM PDT

A damaged Capitol Hill police care is surrounded by crime scene tape after a car chase and shooting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. A woman driving a black Infiniti with a young child inside tried to ram through a White House barricade Thursday, then led police on a chase that ended in gunfire outside the Capitol, witnesses and officials said. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia's police chief says the suspect who led police on a chase from the White House to the Capitol is dead.


Police shoot driver outside Capitol after chase

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:06 PM PDT

A damaged Capitol Hill police care is surrounded by crime scene tape after a car chase and shooting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. A woman driving a black Infiniti with a young child inside tried to ram through a White House barricade Thursday, then led police on a chase that ended in gunfire outside the Capitol, witnesses and officials said. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman driving a black Infiniti with a young child inside tried to ram through a White House barricade Thursday, then led police on a chase toward the Capitol, where police shot and killed her, witnesses and officials said.


Gulf Coast braces for Tropical Storm Karen

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Workers pump water from the parking lot of the Dadeland Plaza shopping center, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, after heavy rains in Pinecrest, Fla., a suburb of Miami. Preparations began Thursday along the central Gulf Coast as newly formed Tropical Storm Karen threatened to become the first named tropical system to menace the United States this year. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)NEW ORLEANS (AP) — From a tiny, vulnerable island off the Louisiana coast to the beaches of the Florida Panhandle, Gulf Coast residents prepared Thursday for a possible hit from Tropical Storm Karen, which threatened to become the first named tropical system to menace the United States this year.


Ex-MLB player Chad Curtis sentenced to 7-15 years

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 02:23 PM PDT

Former major league baseball player Chad Curtis appears in court for his sentencing on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, in Hastings, Mich. Curtis was sentenced Thursday to seven to 15 years in prison for inappropriately touching teenage girls. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press- MLive.com, Chris Clark)HASTINGS, Mich. (AP) — Former major league outfielder Chad Curtis was sentenced Thursday to seven to 15 years in prison for inappropriately touching teenage girls.


Calif. city official pleads no contest in high-profile corruption case

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:38 PM PDT

FILE - This March 9, 2011 file image shows former Bell City Administrator Robert Rizzo listens in court in Los Angeles. Rizzo, who masterminded a corruption scheme that paid exorbitant salaries to city officials, pleaded no contest, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, to all 69 charges brought against him. (AP Photo/Irfan Khan, Pool, file)By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The former city manager of the California city of Bell, who became an emblem of local government corruption when it was revealed in 2010 that he was earning a salary of nearly $800,000, abruptly pleaded no contest on Thursday to charges ranging from perjury to misappropriating public funds. Robert Rizzo, 56, entered his pleas less than a week before jury selection was scheduled to begin in his high-profile public corruption trial and without cutting a deal with prosecutors, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said. ...


Tropical Storm Karen headed for Gulf Coast states

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:45 PM PDT

A man walks on the beach as clouds form on the horizon in CancunBy Jane Sutton MIAMI (Reuters) - The first cyclone to threaten the U.S. coast this year formed over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday and was forecast to sweep through offshore oil installations before hitting the mainland between Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Some oil industry workers in the Gulf were evacuated from offshore platforms as Tropical Storm Karen approached a region that produces nearly a fifth of daily U.S. oil output. Three days after much of the U.S. ...


Obama: Boehner keeping government shut

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:26 AM PDT

U.S. President Obama delivers remarks on the government funding impasse at a local small business in MarylandHe also issued dire warnings on the upcoming debt-ceiling deadline.


NY SUV driver's wife: We were in 'grave danger'

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:24 PM PDT

In this frame grab from video provided by the New York Police Department, motorcyclists ride alongside a sport utility vehicle, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013, in New York. Police say that a man driving with his family along a New York City highway was attacked and beaten by a large group of motorcyclists who first surrounded his sport utility vehicle and stopped it on the road, then chased him for miles after he plowed through the blockade of bikes in an attempt to escape. (AP Photo/New York Police Department)NEW YORK (AP) — The driver of an SUV involved in a bloody weekend confrontation with a throng of motorcyclists was put in "grave danger" and feared for the life of his family when he drove through the crowd, striking a biker on the street, his wife said Thursday.


All clear after shots fired at U.S. Capitol

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A police car was seen chasing a vehicle when the shots rang out.


'We need only caskets': More than 100 dead in shipwreck off Italy

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:14 AM PDT

Bodies of drowned migrants are lined up in the port of Lampedusa Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Tens of people died when a ship carrying African migrants toward Italy caught fire and sank off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, spilling hundreds of passengers into the sea, officials said Thursday. Many migrants have been rescued, but the boat is believed to have been carrying as many as 500 people. It is one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks in recent times and the second one this week off Italy: On Monday, 13 men drowned while trying to reach southern Sicily when their ship ran aground just a few meters (yards) from shore at Scicli. (AP Photo/Nino Randazzo, Health Care Service, HO)ROME (AP) — A ship carrying African migrants to Europe caught fire and capsized Thursday off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 114 people as hundreds were dumped into the sea, officials said. Over 150 people were rescued but about the same number were still unaccounted for.


'You're beautiful but you have to be honest'

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 07:44 AM PDT

Carol Costello, Rep. Todd RokitaRep. Todd Rokita prefaced a response to CNN's Carol Costello during a debate over shutdown pay by praising her beauty.


Officials scramble to provide access to Obamacare sites

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:50 PM PDT

A man looks over the Affordable Care Act signup page on the HealthCare.gov website in New York in this photo illustrationBy David Morgan and Curtis Skinner WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans trying to find out how much health coverage will cost under Obamacare endured a third day of limited access to new online health insurance exchanges on Thursday, leading to a growing backlog of people waiting to enter the system. Health clinics and other nonprofit groups that offer in-person assistance reported unexpectedly high numbers of walk-in visits and phone calls from potential enrollees, who were unable to enter federal and state marketplace websites that were overwhelmed by millions of online hits. ...


Shutdown, Day 3: No signs of a way out

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 08:43 AM PDT

Shutdown in 3rd day with Obama, Hill at impasseMeanwhile, a bigger problem looms -- the debt ceiling.


Over 100 dead, 200 missing as migrant boat sinks off Italy

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:33 AM PDT

Bodies of drowned migrants are lined up in the port of Lampedusa Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Tens of people died when a ship carrying African migrants toward Italy caught fire and sank off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, spilling hundreds of passengers into the sea, officials said Thursday. Many migrants have been rescued, but the boat is believed to have been carrying as many as 500 people. It is one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks in recent times and the second one this week off Italy: On Monday, 13 men drowned while trying to reach southern Sicily when their ship ran aground just a few meters (yards) from shore at Scicli. (AP Photo/Nino Randazzo, Health Care Service, HO)"It's horrific, like a cemetery, they are still bringing them out," Lampedusa's mayor said.


Overflowing tank cause of new leak at Fukushima

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:46 AM PDT

This aerial photo shows the storage tank, fifth from left at left plot, which workers detected the water dripping from the top, at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Japan's crippled nuclear plant has a new leak of highly radioactive water entering the Pacific Ocean after a storage tank overflowed. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDITTOKYO (AP) — Another day, another radioactive-water spill. The operator of the meltdown-plagued Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant says at least 430 liters (110 gallons) spilled when workers overfilled a storage tank without a gauge that could have warned them of the danger.


'Killer hornets' kill 42 in China

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:03 AM PDT

Chinese firefighters in full protective suits spray hornets' nests at a park in Xian, on October 19, 2002Beijing (AFP) - Swarms of hornets have killed 42 people in northwestern China in recent months, state media said Thursday, as temperatures rise and development drives the stinging insects into cities.


Army ranger remembers ‘Black Hawk Down’ 20 years later

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 04:23 AM PDT

Return to Mogadishu: Retired Army Ranger Revisits Black Hawk Down 20 Years LaterPower Players Twenty years after retired U.S. Army Ranger Jeff Struecker led a squad of elite forces into Mogadishu on a failed rescue mission that inspired the film "Black Hawk Down," he returned to the site of the battle in Somalia and said the memories of the 17-hour-long firefight came rushing back. "When I went [...]


No end in sight as shutdown enters day three

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:14 AM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. The Republican-run House has rejected an effort by Democrats to force a quick end to the partial government shutdown. By a 227-197 vote Wednesday, the House rejected a move by Democrats aimed at forcing the House to vote on immediately reopening the government without clamping any restrictions on President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)White House talks between President Obama and top lawmakers yield no signs of progress.


NSA reveals more about its spying efforts at home

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:14 AM PDT

National Intelligence Director James Clapper listens at left, as National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act . U.S. intelligence officials say the government shutdown is seriously damaging the intelligence community's ability to guard against threats. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. intelligence officials are revealing more about their spying in an effort to defend the National Security Agency from charges that it has invaded the privacy of Americans on a mass scale. Yet the latest disclosure — the NSA tried to track Americans' cellphone locations — has only added to the concerns of lawmakers.


Kerry: 'Diplomatic malpractice' not to engage Iran

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:42 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, right, attend their joint news conference with U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Japan's Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera after the Japan-U.S. security talks in Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Issei Kato, Pool)TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday it would be "diplomatic malpractice of the worst order" not to test Iran's willingness to comply with international demands over its nuclear program.


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