2013年11月21日星期四

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Top consumer cop wary of over-regulation

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 01:57 PM PST

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Cordray answers questions at the Reuters Washington Summit in WashingtonRichard Cordray says sometimes Americans must live with their choices.


Brave U.S. soldier fights new battle

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 10:00 PM PST

Brave U.S. soldier fights new battleU.S. Army soldier Sgt. Matt Krumwiede, from the 5-20 Infantry Regiment attached to 82nd Airborne Division, walks while on patrol in Zharay district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan June 11, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

What happened to 975k Obamacare applicants?

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 10:56 AM PST

30-40 percent of ObamaCare website yet to be builtMany people were unable—or chose not to—finish their applications. Why is that?


Democrats vote to curb filibusters on appointees

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 03:12 PM PST

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. The Senate is nearing a potential showdown on curbing the power that the Republican minority has to block President Barack Obama's nominations, as Democrats edge toward muscling a rewrite of filibuster rules through the chamber. Reid was expected to force a vote as soon as Thursday on requiring only 51 votes to end filibusters, or delaying tactics, against nominees for high-level judgeships and agency officials. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — Sweeping aside a century of precedent, Democrats took a chunk out of the Senate's hallowed filibuster tradition on Thursday and cleared the way for speedy confirmation of controversial appointments made by President Barack Obama and chief executives in the future.


News media protest White House press access limits

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 04:27 PM PST

FILE - This May 11, 2010 file photo by an Associated Press photographer shows President Barack Obama talking on the phone with British Prime Minister David Cameron, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Twice from 2008-2013, White House-based photographers have been given access to President Obama working at his desk alone in the Oval Office. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of leading news organizations protested to the White House on Thursday against restrictions that sometimes keep journalists from taking pictures and video of President Barack Obama performing official duties. At the same time, two press groups urged their members to stop using official photos and video handed out by the White House, dismissing them as little more than "government propaganda."


Iran nuke talk issues: Enrichment, sanctions

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 02:54 PM PST

Michael Mann, Spokesperson of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton, briefs the media outside a hotel where closed-door talks on Iran's nuclear program are taking place in Geneva Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone,Martial Trezzini)GENEVA (AP) — Iran nuclear talks entered a delicate phase Thursday as negotiators tried to fine-tune a draft agreement that would limit Tehran's atomic program in return for easing some sanctions. Iran's ability to produce nuclear fuel and relief for Iran's oil and banking sectors appeared to be among the sticking points.


6,000 Arizona child abuse reports not investigated

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 04:05 PM PST

PHOENIX (AP) — About 6,000 cases of suspected child abuse or neglect that were reported to a statewide Arizona hotline over the past four years were never investigated, officials disclosed Thursday, calling it reason for "grave alarm."

UK police: 3 women held captive for 30 years

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 02:43 PM PST

Kevin Hyland, head of the Metropolitan Police's human trafficking unit speaks to the media outside New Scotland Yard's headquarters in London in this image taken from TV Thursday Nov. 21, 2013. London police say three women were held for at least 30 years against their will in a south London home. Metropolitan Police revealed Thursday the women had been rescued and announced the arrests of two people as part of an investigation into slavery and domestic servitude. (AP Photo/ Sky TV, via Associated Press Television) UNITED KINGDOM OUT TV OUT NO ARCHIVELONDON (AP) — Three women have been freed after spending 30 years held captive in a south London home, including one woman believed to have spent her entire life in domestic slavery, police announced Thursday.


Solemn events to mark JFK's assassination

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 01:05 PM PST

DALLAS (AP) — Loose gatherings of the curious and conspiracy-minded at Dallas' Dealey Plaza have marked past anniversaries of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, featuring everything from makeshift memorials to marching drummers to discussions about who else might have been in on the killing.

Attacks around US probed for link to knockout game

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 04:33 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — In New York, a 78-year-old woman strolling in her neighborhood was punched in the head by a stranger and tumbled to the ground. In Washington, a 32-year-old woman was swarmed by teenagers on bikes, and one clocked her in the face. In Jersey City, a 46-year-old man died after someone sucker-punched him and he struck his head on an iron fence.

After mistaken landing, cargo pilot was confused

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 04:43 PM PST

A Boeing 747 "Dreamlifter" takes off Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, the day after it mistakenly landed at Col. James Jabara Airport in Wichita, Kan. The jet landed Wednesday evening at the airport, about 8 miles (13 kilometers) north of its intended destination, McConnell Air Force Base. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Moments after touching down, the pilot of a cargo-hauling jumbo jet seemed confused in his exchanges with air traffic controllers who had guided his Boeing 747 toward a Kansas Air Force base.


Fla. congressman enters rehab after cocaine charge

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 03:31 PM PST

This photo taken with a cellphone shows Rep. Henry "Trey" Radel, R-Fla. leaving court in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, leaving court after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of cocaine possession and was sentenced to a year's probation. (AP Photo/Jessica Gresko)FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Florida Republican Rep. Henry "Trey" Radel, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of cocaine possession and received a year's probation, said Thursday he has checked himself into a rehabilitation center.


Death of a Honduran Taxi Driver

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 03:20 PM PST

In this Nov. 19, 2013 photo, people watch forensic workers carry away the body of taxi driver Benjamin Alvarez Moncada in downtown Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The 68-year-old taxi driver known as TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Benjamin Alvarez Moncada pulled his cab to the front of the taxi stand behind Los Dolores church and half a block from the capital's main police station. He was the first in line, so he was the one to die, the other drivers said.


'Monster' cosmic blast zipped harmlessly by Earth

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 01:13 PM PST

This image provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center shows an artists rendering on how a gamma ray burst occurs with a massive star collapsing and creating a black hole and beaming out focused and deadly light and radiation bursts. Astronomers and space telescopes in April 2013 saw the biggest and brightest cosmic explosion ever witnessed, a large gamma ray burst. (AP Photo/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)WASHINGTON (AP) — Astronomers call it the monster. It was the biggest and brightest cosmic explosion ever witnessed. Had it been closer, Earth would have been toast.


Iran: Difficult differences at nuke talks

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 01:32 PM PST

A general view shows participants before the start of three days of closed-door nuclear talks in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi)GENEVA (AP) — Iran nuclear talks entered a delicate phase Thursday as negotiators tried to fine-tune a draft agreement that would limit Tehran's atomic program in return for easing some sanctions. Iran's ability to produce nuclear fuel and relief for Iran's oil and banking sectors appeared to be among the sticking points.


APNewsBreak: Companies may help destroy Syria arms

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 11:41 AM PST

FILE - This is a Friday Oct. 11, 2013. file photo of Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Ahmet Uzumcu as comments on the organization being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, during a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is posting a request for THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog is inviting private companies to bid to get involved in destroying Syria's stockpile of toxic agents and precursor chemicals.


United States gives Afghanistan year-end deadline for crucial security deal

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 03:58 PM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during the first day of the Loya Jirga in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. Karzai has told a gathering of elders that he supports signing a security deal with the United States if safety and security conditions are met. Karzai spoke as the 2,500-member national consultative council of Afghan elders known as the Loya Jirga started in Kabul on Thursday. The four-day meeting will discuss the bilateral security pact that defines the role of thousands of U.S. troops who will remain after the NATO combat mission ends in 2014. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)By Hamid Shalizi and Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) - President Hamid Karzai triggered uncertainty about a vital security pact with the United States on Thursday by saying it should not be signed until after Afghanistan's presidential election next April, prompting the White House to insist on a year-end deadline. Karzai's surprise move, which came just a day after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the pact's language had been agreed upon, suddenly threw its future into question and seemed certain to reignite tensions with Washington. The Afghan leader spoke to about 2,500 tribal elders and political leaders from across Afghanistan gathered in the capital for a Loya Jirga, or grand council, to debate whether to allow U.S. troops to stay after the planned 2014 drawdown of foreign forces. Without an accord on the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), the United States says it could pull out all its troops at the end of 2014 and leave Afghan forces to fight the Taliban insurgency on their own.


U.S. building standards too flimsy to reduce tornado deaths

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 01:35 PM PST

A funnel cloud is spotted moving east over Highway 5 near RosebudBy Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - National standards should be set for building construction, storm shelters and emergency communications to reduce death and damage from tornados, a federal agency that studied the deadly 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, recommended on Thursday. The National Institute of Standards and Technology said 135 of the 161 deaths from the May 22, 2011 tornado resulted from building failure. The Joplin tornado, late on a Sunday afternoon, damaged more than 8,000 homes and other buildings. About 82 percent of Joplin homes do not have basements because of soil conditions.


American life in November 1963, before and after JFK

Posted: 19 Nov 2013 06:47 AM PST

JFK and Jackie -"It really was Camelot. And in a single instant, it all came to an end."


$50 million cocaine-laden ship seized

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 02:27 PM PST

Criminology specialists test cocaine seized in Venezuela, on April 25, 2013Ghanaian authorities have impounded a South American ship carrying 400 kilogrammes (880 pounds) of cocaine and arrested its crew, the nation's anti-narcotics agency said Thursday. "It has a street value of about US$50 million," said the statement by the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) seen by AFP. "The vessel had been monitored at the high seas and when she got into the Ghanaian waters the Ghana navy and NACOB officers arrested and escorted her to the Sekondi Naval Base," it said. Ghana was investigating the case, it added.


'Gears of government have to work'

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 11:19 AM PST

U.S. President Obama makes a statement about the U.S. Senate's efforts to confirm his Administration's nominees in WashingtonObama endorses a move by Senate Democrats to confirm his nominees.


'Batkid' caper costs San Francisco $105K

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 04:03 AM PST

AP10ThingsToSee - Miles Scott, dressed as Batkid, right, walks with Batman before saving a damsel in distress in San Francisco, Friday, Nov. 15, 2013. San Francisco turned into Gotham City on Friday, as city officials helped fulfill Scott's wish to be "Batkid." Scott, a leukemia patient from Tulelake in far Northern California, was called into service on Friday morning by San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr to help fight crime, The Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation says. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)The city of San Francisco spent $105,000 in public funds to honor a 5-year-old boy with leukemia who captivated the nation with his exploits as "Batkid," and it hopes to recoup the money through ...


Palin cancels 'Today' interview over Bashir slur

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 08:48 AM PST

When will Martin Bashir be disciplined?Sarah Palin has canceled a holiday interview with the "Today" show in protest over NBC News not taking action against MSNBC host Martin Bashir, who last week suggested on air the former Alaskan governor be defecated on for comparing the federal debt to slavery.


Senate votes to curb filibusters on many nominees

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 09:35 AM PST

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. The Senate is nearing a potential showdown on curbing the power that the Republican minority has to block President Barack Obama's nominations, as Democrats edge toward muscling a rewrite of filibuster rules through the chamber. Reid was expected to force a vote as soon as Thursday on requiring only 51 votes to end filibusters, or delaying tactics, against nominees for high-level judgeships and agency officials. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — In a victory for Democrats, the Senate has voted to weaken filibusters and make it harder for Republicans to block confirmation of the president's nominees for judges and other top posts.


Kennedy cousin Skakel is freed on bail in 1975 murder

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 02:28 PM PST

Michael Skakel listens to Judge Trial Referee Thomas Bishop's ruling during a hearing in Rockville Superior court Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, in Vernon, Conn., to determine if he can be released while awaiting a new trial in the 1975 slaying of neighbor Martha Moxley. Judge Thomas Bishop ordered a new trial for Skakel last month, saying his trial attorney, Michael Sherman, failed to adequately represent him in 2002 when Skakel was found guilty. The judge said Skakel cannot be released immediately while he awaits a new trial, but he did lift a stay, which could clear the way for Skakel to seek bail later. (AP Photo/Fred Beckham, Pool)By Richard Weizel STAMFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, who spent 11 years in prison for the 1975 murder of a teenage neighbor in Greenwich, Connecticut, walked free on Thursday after a judge granted him bail ahead of a new trial. Skakel, 53, was convicted in 2002 of murdering neighbor Martha Moxley when they were both 15. Dressed in a dark suit, Skakel stood quietly in court in Stamford, Connecticut, on Thursday as Judge Gary White set his bail at $1.2 million, sparking a round of applause from supporters who had packed the courtroom. "There were two tragedies we are addressing today," his new attorney, Hubert Santos, told reporters after Skakel emerged from court.


Accused Colo. theater gunman's trial postponed

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 10:39 AM PST

James Holmes sits in court for an advisement hearing at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in CentennialA judge vacates James Holmes' February trial date for mental health evaluations.


'Scottsboro Boys' pardoned in 1931 rape case

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 09:59 AM PST

FILE - In this 1937 file photo, the Scottsboro defendants go back to the cells they have occupied for six years in Birmingham, Ala., following arraignment proceedings in Decatur, Ala. (AP Photo)The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles posthumously exonerates three men.


Democrats seek to curb filibusters on appointees

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 09:19 AM PST

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. The Senate is nearing a potential showdown on curbing the power that the Republican minority has to block President Barack Obama's nominations, as Democrats edge toward muscling a rewrite of filibuster rules through the chamber. Reid was expected to force a vote as soon as Thursday on requiring only 51 votes to end filibusters, or delaying tactics, against nominees for high-level judgeships and agency officials. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — Accusing Republicans of unprecedented obstruction, Senate Democrats launched a bid Thursday to confirm President Barack Obama's stalled nominees by curbing the ability of opponents to block a final vote.


How Obama can save himself from Obamacare

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 02:33 AM PST

AP10ThingsToSee - President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about his signature health care law, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Bowing to pressure, President Barack Obama intends to permit continued sale of individual insurance plans that have been canceled because they failed to meet coverage standards under the health care law, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)An improving economy will help, but his campaigning skills could work in his favor.


Warlord Kony may be willing to surrender

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 05:18 AM PST

Warlord Joseph Kony May Be Willing to SurrenderA government official says Kony has been located in the Central African Republic.


US drone strike kills senior Haqqani leader in Pakistan

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 07:31 AM PST

Pakistani Islamic students gather at a destroyed religious seminary belonging to the Haqqani network after US drone strike in Hangu district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on November 21, 2013Hangu (Pakistan) (AFP) - A US drone killed six people in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, including a senior leader of the ruthless Haqqani network, officials said, in only the second such strike outside the country's lawless tribal districts. The missile attack hit a religious seminary that militants and security officials said belonged to the terror outfit -- blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan -- in the Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Haqqani sources told AFP that the network's spiritual leader, Maulana Ahmad Jan, was among those killed at the seminary, which they said was a rest base for militants fighting NATO forces in Afghanistan.


The Kennedy legacy for the Secret Service 50 years later: ‘We failed’

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 04:21 AM PST

First agent to reach JFK recounts assassinationSecret Service Deputy Director A.T. Smith says the anniversary is a time for reflection


U.S. drone kills senior militant in Pakistan

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 04:50 AM PST

Students gather at the site of a suspected U.S. drone strike on an Islamic seminary in Hangu districtIt was the first drone strike in the country since a Taliban chief was killed Nov. 1.


Volcano raises new island south of Japan

Posted: 20 Nov 2013 09:55 PM PST

Smoke billows from a new island off the coast of Nishinoshima, a small, uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain, far south of Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. The Japan Coast Guard and earthquake experts said a volcanic eruption has raised the new island in the seas to the far south of Tokyo. The coast guard issued an advisory Wednesday warning of heavy black smoke from the eruption. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDITThe new island might be eroded away, an expert says, "but it also could remain permanently."


North Korea detains US war veteran, 85, son says

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 04:09 PM PST

This 2005 photo provided by the Palo Alto Weekly shows Merrill Newman, a retired finance executive and Red Cross volunteer, in Palo Alto, Calif. An 85-year-old American veteran of the Korean War has been detained in North Korea since last month. The son of Merrill Newman told the San Jose Mercury News on Wednesday his father was taken off a plane set to leave North Korea on Oct. 26. Jeffrey Newman said no reason was given. (AP Photo/Palo Alto Weekly, Nicholas Wright)PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Despite strong warnings from the U.S. State Department, hundreds of Americans like the 85-year-old Korean War veteran apparently being detained in North Korea travel to the communist nation each year. Many go as part of humanitarian efforts or to find long-lost relatives. Some, like the war vet, simply want to see a closed society shrouded in mystery.


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