2013年11月8日星期五

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Are electronic devices really safe on planes?

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:22 PM PST

JetBlue Becomes the First U.S. Airline to Implement Personal Electronic Device Use Gate-to-GateFAA ruling may have favored public opinion over safety. Yahoo News exclusive.


Few options for Obama to fix cancellations problem

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:26 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about the economy, Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, at the Port of New Orleans. The president says he'll do everything he can to help people coping with health insurance cancellations, but legally and practically his options appear limited. That means the latest political problem engulfing Obama's health care overhaul is unlikely to be resolved quickly, cleanly or completely. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he'll do everything he can to help people coping with health insurance cancellations, but legally and practically his options appear limited.


Russian report stirs new confusion in Arafat death

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 11:41 AM PST

A Palestinian child works at a shop across from a poster of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. The writing on the poster, part of a quote from one of Arafat's speeches, reads, "Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand." Israel is the only suspect in the 2004 death of Yasser Arafat, Tawfik Tirawi, the chief Palestinian investigator in the case, said Friday, a day after Swiss scientists said the Palestinian leader was probably poisoned by radioactive polonium. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Four investigations, hundreds of testimonies and stacks of medical reports on Yasser Arafat's unexplained death in 2004 have failed to produce hard evidence of what killed him — and findings presented Friday only created more confusion.


CBS admits error in Benghazi '60 Minutes' story

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 04:22 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — CBS says it was misled by a "60 Minutes" source who claimed he was on the scene of a 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, when it turns out now that he was not there.

Jury convicts husband in Ohio hospital shooting

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 03:57 PM PST

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who said he fatally shot his hospitalized wife out of love because of her debilitated condition that left her unable to speak, was convicted by a jury on Friday and could face life in prison.

Height of 1 World Trade Center debated in Chicago

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 04:49 PM PST

This combination made from file photos shows Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, in Chicago on March 12, 2008, left, and One World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 5, 2013. Soaring above the city at 1,776 feet, 104-story One World Trade Center is in contention with Willis Tower for the title of America's tallest building. A committee of architects recognized as the arbiters on world building heights is meeting Friday Nov. 8, 2013 in Chicago to decide whether a design change affecting One World Trade Center's needle disqualifies its hundreds of feet from being counted, which would deny the building the title of nation's tallest giving the title to the 110 story Willis Tower at 1,450 feet. (AP Photo)CHICAGO (AP) — Rising from the ashes of 9/11, the new World Trade Center tower has punched above the New York skyline to reach its powerfully symbolic height of 1,776 feet and become the tallest building in the country. Or has it?


New York, Chicago claim 5 of tallest US buildings

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:08 PM PST

This Tuesday, April 30, 2013 photo shows New York's Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan. New York and Chicago are home to five of the tallest buildings in the U.S. Once the world's tallest building, the Empire State Building held that title until 1972, when the World Trade Center went up. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)New York and Chicago are home to five of the tallest buildings in the U.S. But ranking them — and the rest of the world's tallest structures — is more mind-bending than one might think. Lists can vary depending, for example, on whether you count the broadcast antennas on top or whether you're judging them by highest usable floor. Below is a by-the-numbers rundown on five of the tallest buildings in the U.S.


AP source: Martin to meet with NFL investigator

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 04:21 PM PST

FILE - In this July 22, 2013, file photo, Miami Dolphins tackle Jonathan Martin in interviewed after an NFL football practice in Davie, Fla. In the stadium program sold at the Miami Dolphins' game on Halloween, Richie Incognito was asked who's the easiest teammate to scare. His answer: Jonathan Martin. The troubled, troubling relationship between the two offensive linemen took an ominous turn Monday, Nov. 4, 2013, with fresh revelations: Incognito sent text messages to his teammate that were racist and threatening, two people familiar with the situation said.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins tackle Jonathan Martin will meet late next week in Los Angeles with the NFL's special investigator to discuss allegations in the team's harassment scandal, a person familiar with the situation said Friday.


Local fight with Mexican cartel a small victory

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:55 PM PST

In this Nov. 5 photo, armed men from to a self-defense group create a checkpoint in the town of Las Colonias, Mexico. Several communities have created their own self-defense groups after a pseudo-religious cartel, known as the "Knights Templar," has for years demanded protection payments from cattlemen, lime growers and other businesses. The groups say they are free of the cartel in several municipalities of the Tierra Caliente, or TEPALCATEPEC, Mexico (AP) — For lime grower Hipolito Mora, it was time to organize and pick up arms when a packing company controlled by a brutal drug cartel refused to buy his fruit. For Bishop Miguel Patino Velazquez, it was seeing civilians forced to fight back with their own guns that made him speak out. For Leticia, a lime picker too afraid of retribution to give her last name, it was the day she saw a taxi driver kidnapped in front of his two young children that convinced her to join those taking the law into their own hands.


SAC Capital pleads guilty in NY in $1.8B deal

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:42 PM PST

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara speaks at a press conference, Monday, Nov. 4, 2013, in New York. Federal prosecutors in New York say hedge fund giant SAC Capital Advisors has agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges and to pay a $1.8 billion financial penalty. AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)NEW YORK (AP) — SAC Capital Advisors pleaded guilty to criminal fraud charges Friday, satisfying a deal with the government that requires the Connecticut-based hedge fund to pay a record $1.8 billion to settle charges that it allowed, if not encouraged, insider trading to occur for more than a decade.


Q&A: More lenient lice policies bug some parents

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 03:02 PM PST

Over the counter products for controlling head lice are photographed in Washington, Monday, Nov. 4, 2013. Some parents are scratching their heads over less restrictive head lice policies that allow children with live bugs in their hair to return to the classroom for the rest of the day. Some school nurses are no longer sending home "lice notes" to parents of other children in the classroom. The policy shift is designed to help keep children from missing class, shield children with lice from embarrassment and protect their privacy. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)WASHINGTON (AP) — Some schools are letting kids with live lice in their hair back in the classroom, a less restrictive policy that has parents scratching their heads.


Rickets making a comeback in the UK, doctors say

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:52 PM PST

FILE - In this June 3, 1943 file photo, physical therapist Estrid Dane carefully supports two-year-old Anthony Bull, seen here walking up a corrugated ladder during exercises which are designed to strengthen his legs in East London. Rickets, the childhood disease that once caused an epidemic of bowed legs and curved spines during the Victorian era, is making a shocking comeback in 21st-century Britain. Derived from the Old English word LONDON (AP) — Rickets, the childhood disease that once caused an epidemic of bowed legs and curved spines during the Victorian era, is making a shocking comeback in 21st-century Britain.


One of world's strongest storms hits Philippines

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:13 PM PST

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — One of the strongest storms on record slammed into the central Philippines on Friday, killing at least four people, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and knocking out power and communications in several provinces. But the nation appeared to avoid a major disaster because the rapidly moving typhoon blew away before wreaking more damage, officials said.

Home Depot apologizes for racist tweet

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:18 PM PST

Home DepotNEW YORK (AP) — Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc. on Thursday apologized for a tweet that showed a picture of two African-American drummers with a person in a gorilla mask in between them and asked: "Which drummer is not like the others?"


Stop, strip, search, probe. Got a warrant?

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:14 PM PST

Hidalgo County Sheriff and Edinburg Police advise parents to get in their cars to drive into Carmen Elementary to pick up their children after a shooting at Harwell Middle School Monday Dec. 12, 2011 in Edinburg, Texas. Authorities suspect hunters may have shot two South Texas middle school students who were wounded by gunfire Monday afternoon while trying out for a basketball team. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Delcia Lopez) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; AP MEMBERS ONLYComplaints increase of police conducting invasive searches. Liz Goodwin reports.


Rare snow leopard cubs make zoo debut

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:14 PM PST

Rare snow leopard cubs make zoo debutSnow leopard cub Little Boy tackles a pumpkin while playing in the Central Park Zoo on Thursday. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)

This week's Best of Flickr: Surf, solar eclipse, Dia de los Muertos

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:28 AM PST

This week's Best of Flickr: Surf, solar eclipse, Dia de los Muertos(Photo © Butch Cordero) 12-year-old surfer Noah Hill rides a wave in the National Scholastic Surfing Association competition on Nov. 3 in Newport Beach, Calif.

Santorum stumps in Iowa—for a movie

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:38 AM PST

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during the family leadership summit in Ames, Iowa Saturday Aug. 10, 2013. Republican presidential hopefuls are hoping to impress conservative voters at the conference organized by an influential Christian group. The daylong event will be one of many candidate cattle calls in the grueling run-up to the 2016 presidential election. None of the potential contenders appearing Saturday has declared candidacy. Conservative voters could be key to a 2016 victory in Iowa's caucuses, the nation's first presidential nominating event. (AP Photo/Justin Hayworth)The former Pennsylvania senator has not said if he'll run for president in 2016, but his new job is helping him maintain important contacts.


Crude oil train derailment, explosions prompt talk of tougher regulations

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 03:32 PM PST

A train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in Aliceville, Alabama, on Friday, Nov. 8.A 90-car train carrying North Dakota crude derailed and exploded in a rural area of western Alabama early on Friday, leaving 11 cars burning and potentially bolstering the push for tougher regulation of a boom in moving oil by rail. Those cars, which threw flames 300 feet into the night sky, are being left to burn out, which could take up to 24 hours, according to the train owner, Genesee & Wyoming. A local official said the crude oil had originated in North Dakota, home of the booming Bakken shale patch. If so, it may have been carrying the same type of light crude oil that was on a Canadian train that derailed in the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic this summer, killing 47 people.


Photographers document war and its aftermath in new exhibit

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 09:07 AM PST

'WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath' comes to the Brooklyn MuseumAn expansive new photography exhibit looks at war through images from the battlefield and beyond.


Freed after two decades in prison, innocent man says he's blessed

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Some Americans log more than 24 hours a day on gadgets

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:05 AM PST

Some Americans Log More than 24 Hours Daily on DevicesMuch of that increase is due to the rise of multitasking and the use of multiple media devices at once, said James Short, study co-author and the director of the Information Storage Industry Center at the University of California San Diego. "From the point of view of Nielsen, their data says that the television is on, but I'm not paying attention to it."


Photographers document war and its aftermath in new exhibit

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 09:01 AM PST

'WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath' comes to the Brooklyn MuseumAn expansive new photography exhibit looks at war through images from the battlefield and beyond.


Twitter stock slides on second trading day

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:15 PM PST

Trader Jeffrey Vazquez, right, and specialist Glenn Carell, center, work at the post that trades Twitter on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. Stocks edged higher in early Friday trading as investors reacted to an unexpectedly strong October jobs report. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter's stock slid more than 7 percent on its second trading day Friday, after the popular short messaging service saw a huge first-day pop in what turned out to be a smooth public debut.


Ortiz gets Boston mayor votes but didn't place 3rd

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:29 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2013 file photo, Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz laughs after being named the MVP after Game 6 of baseball's World Series, in Boston. Ortiz, fresh off his third World Series championship with the team, received several write-in votes in Boston's Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013 mayoral election. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)BOSTON (AP) — Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz is apparently so popular in the city that some residents think he should be mayor.


Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:10 AM PST

File photo of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, an analyst with a U.S. defence contractor, being interviewed by The Guardian in his hotel room in Hong KongBy Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sources said. A handful of agency employees who gave their login details to Snowden were identified, questioned and removed from their assignments, said a source close to several U.S. government investigations into the damage caused by the leaks. Snowden may have persuaded between 20 and 25 fellow workers at the NSA regional operations center in Hawaii to give him their logins and passwords by telling them they were needed for him to do his job as a computer systems administrator, a second source said. The revelation is the latest to indicate that inadequate security measures at the NSA played a significant role in the worst breach of classified data in the super-secret eavesdropping agency's 61-year history.


At least four die after typhoon hits Philippines

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:47 AM PST

Boys play next to strong waves in a coastal village as strong winds from Typhoon Haiyan battered Bayog town in Los Banos, Laguna, south of ManilaMANILA, Philippines (AP) — One of the strongest storms on record slammed into the central Philippines on Friday, killing at least four people, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and knocking out power and communications in several provinces. But the nation appeared to avoid a major disaster because the rapidly moving typhoon blew away before wreaking more damage, officials said.


Obama’s secret Iran détente

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:33 AM PST

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani takes questions from journalists during a news conference in New YorkLong before a nuclear deal was in reach, the U.S. was quietly lifting some of the financial pressure on Iran, according to a Daily Beast investigation. How the sanctions were softened.


U.S. jobs market dodges blow from government shutdown

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:06 PM PST

Job seeker fills out forms at career fair in New York CityThe department said there had been no "discernible" impact on payrolls.


Why did Deep Throat leak? Revisiting the Watergate leaks and the garage where it all began

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 04:16 AM PST

Why Did Deep Throat leak? Revisiting the Watergate LeaksWatergate expert Max Holland says Deep Throat was leaking as part of a plot to become FBI Director


Israeli PM 'utterly rejects' emerging Iran deal

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:43 AM PST

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu delivers statement to media after meeting U.S. Secretary of State Kerry near Tel AvivJERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that he "utterly rejects" the emerging nuclear deal between western powers and Iran, calling it a "bad deal" and promising that Israel will do everything it needs to do to defend itself.


Obama apologizes to people losing health coverage

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 08:01 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall about the federal health care law. Obama says he's sorry Americans are losing health insurance plans he repeatedly said they could keep under his signature health care law. But the president stopped short of apologizing for making those promises in the first place. "I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me," he said in an interview Thursday, Nov. 7 with NBC News. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Bowing to intense criticism, President Barack Obama apologized to Americans who are losing health insurance plans he had repeatedly said they could keep and pledged to find fixes that might allow people to keep their coverage.


'Super typhoon' complete coverage

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Historically severe storm pummels Philippines. Photos and more.


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