2013年9月2日星期一

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McCain: Vote against Syria strike would be 'catastrophic'

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 01:33 PM PDT

US Senator John McCain in Tokyo on August 21, 2013Senator McCain said inaction by Congress would undermine U.S. credibility.

With eye on Iran, Israelis seek US action in Syria

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 11:41 AM PDT

In this citizen journalism image provided by the Local Comity of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian children hold signs as they pose for a photograph during a demonstration in Arbeen town, suburb of Damascus, Syria, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. More than 100,000 Syrians have been killed since an uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad erupted in 2011. (AP Photo/Local Comity of Arbeen)JERUSALEM (AP) — Behind an official wall of silence, Israel is signaling it wants the U.S. to strike Syria sooner rather than later, fearing that continued inaction could hurt American credibility in the region.

Nyad 1st to swim to Florida from Cuba without cage

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 01:43 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Diana Nyad, positioned about two miles off Key West, Fla., Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, is escorted by kayakers as she swims towards the completion of her approximately 110-mile trek from Cuba to the Florida Keys. Nyad, 64, is poised to be the first swimmer to cross the Florida Straits without the security of a shark cage. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Andy Newman)KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Looking dazed and sunburned, U.S. endurance swimmer Diana Nyad walked ashore Monday, becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the help of a shark cage.

AP PHOTOS: Nyad completes swim from Cuba

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 04:54 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Diana Nyad, positioned about two miles off Key West, Fla., Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, swims towards the completion of her approximately 110-mile trek from Cuba to the Florida Keys. Nyad, 64, on Monday became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the help of a shark cage. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Andy Newman)Diana Nyad is flanked by kayakers about two miles off Key West, Fla. Spectators wade into waist-high water, taking pictures and cheering her on. The 64-year-old endurance swimmer, looking dazed and sunburned, greets the crowd after walking ashore on Monday.

Sandy's 'freaky' path may be less likely in future

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 12:27 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 22,2013 file photo shows Two heavily damaged homes on the beach in Mantoloking, N.J., from Superstorm Sandy. Man-made global warming may decrease the likelihood of the already unusual steering currents that pushed Superstorm Sandy due west into New Jersey in a freak 1-in-700 year path, researchers report. While that may sound like the rare good climate change news, it's probably not, according to the study's authors, because they only looked at steering currents and other factors, including stronger storms, and sea level rise can and likely will outweigh any benefit from changing air patterns. The study is disputed by other scientists who have been vocal about the meteorological factors behind Sandy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Man-made global warming may further lessen the likelihood of the freak atmospheric steering currents that last year shoved Superstorm Sandy due west into New Jersey, a new study says.

Iraq promises probe into Iranian exile killings

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 12:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this April. 8, 2011 file photo, Iraqi Army soldiers stand guard near burned trailers at Camp Ashraf north of Baghdad, Iraq. Members of an Iranian dissident group have been killed inside a contested camp in Iraq, according to the opposition organization and the Iraqi government, though their accounts of the circumstances differ. The deaths occurred at Camp Ashraf, a Saddam Hussein-era community that is home to about 100 members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister ordered an investigation Monday into the slaying of half of the roughly 100 remaining residents at an Iranian dissident camp north of Baghdad, where a U.N. team got its first look at the aftermath of the large-scale bloodshed.

CBS on air in NY, LA, Dallas with Time Warner deal

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 04:59 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) —

Lava lamps: 50 years old and still groovy

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 03:05 PM PDT

In this Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, Anthony Voss, lava lamp expert and collector, poses for the photographer in a shop in London with some of the lava lamps in his collection. The lava lamp, an iconic piece of British design and social trends, is celebrating its fiftieth birthday. Since its launch in 1963, Mathmos lava lamps have been in continuous production at their factory in Poole, Dorset. The company founder and eccentric inventor Edward Craven-Walker originally developed the lava lamp from an egg timer design he saw in a Dorset pub. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)LONDON (AP) — Call them '60s relics or hippy home accessories, lava lamps have been casting their dim but groovy light on interiors for half a century, having hit British shelves 50 years ago on Tuesday.

Cops: Dad of NY tot shot in stroller likely target

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 02:34 PM PDT

Mourners visit a memorial for Antiq Hennis, in the Brownsville neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, where a day earlier, the 1-year-old boy was shot and killed in his stroller during a walk with his parents. New York Police Department investigators believe the boy's father may have been the intended target and are pursuing leads. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)NEW YORK (AP) — Police investigating the death of a 1-year-old boy shot in the head in his stroller said Monday they believe his father was the target.

Unlikely Salinger detective spent decade on trail

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 07:47 AM PDT

This undated image provided by The Story Factory, shows J.D. Salinger working on "Catcher in the Rye" during World War II. Shane Salerno, a screenwriter, has taken on a surprising and news-making identity: the latest, and, apparently, greatest seeker of clues about J.D. Salinger.(AP Photo/The Story Factory, Paul Fitzgerald)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shane Salerno's phone never stops ringing.

Verizon reclaims US wireless stake for $130B

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 03:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, July 28, 2008, file photo, Eric Roden speaks on his cell phone as he walks past a Verizon store in Portland, Ore. Verizon says, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, it has agreed to buy Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless for $130 billion. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon will own its wireless business outright after agreeing Monday to pay $130 billion for the 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless owned by British cellphone carrier Vodafone.

NYC mayor hopefuls march in West Indian Day Parade

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 02:43 PM PDT

Dressed in costume, Kelva Joseph makes her way along Eastern Parkway in the Brooklyn borough of New York during the West Indian Day Parade, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)NEW YORK (AP) — The city's West Indian Day Parade rolled through the streets on Monday with politics in the air and a child's death on marchers' minds.

Obama tries persuading the skeptical on Syria

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, accompanied by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks with reporters outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, following a closed-door meeting with President Barack Obama to discuss the situation with Syria. President Barack Obama, working to persuade skeptical lawmakers to endorse a U.S. military intervention in civil war-wracked Syria, hosted the two leading Capitol Hill foreign policy hawks for talks and directed his national security team to testify before Congress in a determined effort to sell his plan for limited missile strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama worked on Monday to persuade skeptical lawmakers to endorse a U.S. military intervention in civil war-wracked Syria, winning conditional support from two leading Senate foreign policy hawks even as he encountered resistance from members of his own party after two days of a determined push to sell the plan.

Verizon buying Vodafone's wireless stake for $130B

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 11:19 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, July 28, 2008, file photo, Eric Roden speaks on his cell phone as he walks past a Verizon store in Portland, Ore. Verizon says, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, it has agreed to buy Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless for $130 billion. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon will own its wireless business outright after agreeing to a $130 billion deal to buy the 45 percent stake of Verizon Wireless owned by British cellphone carrier Vodafone.

'Don't be afraid': Final words from Seamus Heaney

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT

FILE - Sunday, Dec. 10, 1995 photo from files showing Irish poet Seamus Heaney, center, displaying his Nobel literature prize medal, surrounded by his family, from left: his son Michael, daughter Catherine, his wife Marie and son Christopher, after receiving it from the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden. Seamus Heaney, Ireland's foremost poet who won the Nobel literature prize in 1995, has died after a half-century exploring the wild beauty of Ireland and the political torment within the nation's soul. He was 74. Heaney's family and publisher, Faber & Faber, say in a statement that Heaney died Friday in a Dublin hospital. (AP Photo/Eric Roxfelt, File)DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland mourned the loss of its Nobel laureate poet, Seamus Heaney, with equal measures of poetry and pain Monday in a funeral full of grace notes and a final message from the great man himself: Don't be afraid.

USS Nimitz carrier group sails into Red Sea in 'prudent' move

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT

The USS NimitzBy Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and four other ships in its strike group moved into the Red Sea early on Monday, U.S. defense officials said, describing the move as "prudent planning" in case the ships are needed for military action against Syria. The officials said the Nimitz entered the Red Sea around 6 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT), but the strike group had not received any orders to move into the Mediterranean, where five U.S. destroyers and an amphibious ship, the USS San Antonio, remain poised for possible cruise missile strikes against Syria. ...

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