2013年9月19日星期四

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What voters think of GOP bill to fund government

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:08 PM PDT

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, returns to his office after speaking with reporters about the deadline to fund the government and the fight among House Republicans, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. House Republicans vowed Wednesday to pass legislation that would prevent a partial government shutdown and avoid a default while simultaneously canceling out President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, inaugurating a new round of political brinkmanship as critical deadlines approach. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Constituents voice their thoughts ahead of a proposed House vote on Friday.

GOP senator may have accidentally made Dems' point

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:19 AM PDT

Sen. Mike Lee talks budget battles, 'phony scandal'Utah Sen. Mike Lee: "This law is not worth causing a shutdown over."

Once Wonderland: A photographer's quest ends in abandoned beauty

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:25 AM PDT

Wonderland HotelGreat Smoky Mountains National Park on a quest to find the site of the once vibrant summer neighborhood and hotel known as the Wonderland Club.

Pope criticizes church emphasis on abortion, gays

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:21 PM PDT

Pope Francis waves to faithful as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Signaling a dramatic shift in Vatican tone, Pope Francis said the Catholic Church had become obsessed by "small-minded rules" about how to be faithful and that pastors should instead emphasize compassion over condemnation when discussing divisive social issues of abortion, gays and contraception.

Climate report struggles with temperature quirks

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday Aug, 16, 2005 file photo an iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland near the arctic circle. Scientists who are fine-tuning a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even as greenhouse gas emissions keep rising. Leaked documents show there is widespread disagreement among governments over how to address the contentious issue in Sept. 23-26 stock-taking report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists working on a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling over how to address a wrinkle in the meteorological data that has given ammunition to global-warming skeptics: The heating of Earth's surface appears to have slowed in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising.

House votes to cut $4B a year from food stamps

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 04:45 PM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks vote on the House floor on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 in Washington. House Republican leaders scrambled Thursday to line up support in advance of a late-afternoon vote on legislation that would cut nearly $4 billion a year from the food stamp program, now used by 1 in 7 Americans. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to cut nearly $4 billion a year from food stamps, a 5 percent reduction to the nation's main feeding program used by more than 1 in 7 Americans.

Al-Qaida militants capture town in northern Syria

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:10 PM PDT

This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows damaged buildings due to heavy fighting between government forces and Free Syrian Army fighters in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. A Syrian activist group says al-Qaida-linked gunmen have captured a town near the Turkish border after heavy fighting with a rebel group. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida militants seized a town near the Turkish border Thursday after expelling Western-backed rebels from the area, demonstrating the growing power of jihadis as they seek to expand their influence across opposition-held Syrian territory.

Minnesota DQ manager's good deed gets attention

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:48 PM PDT

In this screen grab provided by WCCO TV is Dairy Queen employee Joey Prusak in Hopkins, Minn. Prusak is winning praise for his treatment of a visually impaired customer who unwittingly dropped a $20 bill on the floor. After another customer pocketed the bill, Prusak asked her to return it, and when she didn't, told her to leave the store. He then gave the visually impaired customer $20 from his own wallet. (AP Photo/Courtesy WCCO TV)MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Joey Prusak was appalled when he saw a customer at the suburban Minneapolis Dairy Queen store where he works pick up someone else's $20 bill and slip it into her purse.

NASA rover finds no hint of methane in Mars air

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:28 PM PDT

This Sept. 7, 2013 image provided by NASA, taken by NASA's Curiosity rover shows a view of Gale Crater near the Mars equator. Experiments by Curiosity found no trace of methane gas in the Martian atmosphere, according to a study released on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/NASA)LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA's Curiosity rover hasn't discovered any signs of methane in the atmosphere of Mars, a finding that does not bode well for the possibility that microbes capable of producing the gas could be living below the planet's surface, scientists said Thursday.

Pa. town seeks to fire police chief in gun videos

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 04:55 PM PDT

A member of the Constitution Security Force walks ahead of Gilberton Police Chief Mark Kessler, background left, as he makes his way back into a closed disciplinary hearing in the borough building Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 in Mahanoy Plane, Pa. Kessler, a suspended police chief who posted videos online in which he shot borough-owned automatic weapons while shouting obscenities about liberals and the Second Amendment fought to keep his job Thursday. (AP Photo/Republican-Herald, Jacqueline Dormer) MANDATORY CREDITGILBERTON, Pa. (AP) — Town officials said Thursday they intend to fire a police chief suspended after he posted online videos of himself shooting automatic weapons and going on profanity-laced tirades about liberals and the Second Amendment.

NJ 'joking judge' resigns after losing ruling

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:47 PM PDT

FILE - Vince A. Sicari, a South Hackensack, N.J., Municipal Judge, performs at Carolines on Broadway comedy clubin New York. taken in New York. New Jersey's Supreme Court on Thursday, Sept.19, 2013, ordered Sicari, a part-time municipal judge, to step down from the bench if he wants to continue moonlighting as a comedian and actor. Sicari said in an email that he would respond to the decision later Thursday. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Vince Sicari can tell all the lawyer jokes he wants — he just can't play a judge in real life.

Mexico victims recount horror; toll rises to 97

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 04:30 PM PDT

A car lays buried in mud after flooding triggered by Tropical Storm Manuel as residents try to clean up their neighborhood in Chilpancingo, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Manuel, the same storm that devastated Acapulco, gained hurricane force and rolled into the northern state of Sinaloa on Thursday before starting to weaken. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — With a low, rumbling roar, an arc of dirt, rock and mud tumbled down the hillside in the remote mountain village of La Pintada, sweeping houses in its path, burying half the hamlet and leaving 68 people missing in its mad race to the river bed below.

Conviction of ex-US House leader DeLay tossed

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2011, file photo, Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay leaves the Travis Co. Jail after posting an appeals bond in Austin, Texas. A Texas appeals court tossed the criminal conviction of DeLay on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, saying there was insufficient evidence for a jury in 2010 to have found him guilty of illegally funneling money to Republican candidates. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court tossed the criminal conviction of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Thursday, saying there was insufficient evidence for a jury in 2010 to have found him guilty of illegally funneling money to Republican candidates.

Rising Alzheimer's creates strain on caregivers

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 02:01 PM PDT

Retired physician David Hilfiker, of Washington, leaves the National Press Club on his bike after talking about his life with Aalzheimer's in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Hilfiker, was diagnosed in September 2012, and has been writing about the experience of losing his mental capacity in his blog "Watching the Lights Go Out." Nearly half of all seniors who need some form of long-term care, from help at home to full-time care in a facility, have dementia, the World Alzheimer Report said Thursday. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)WASHINGTON (AP) — David Hilfiker knows what's coming. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's so early that he's had time to tell his family what he wants to happen once forgetfulness turns incapacitating.

House defeats $4 billion annual cut to food stamps

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:12 PM PDT

Chart shows federal food stamp participation since 1969; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm;WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has rejected a bill that would cut food stamps by $4 billion a year as Republican moderates said the reduction is too high.

Pope warns church must find new balance or fail

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:48 AM PDT

Pope Francis waves to faithful as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. At left, a faithful waves an Argentine flag. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has warned that the Catholic Church's moral structure might "fall like a house of cards" if it doesn't balance its divisive rules about abortion, gays and contraception with the greater need to make it a merciful, more welcoming place for all.

Navy Yard shooter cursed woman in wheelchair days before rampage

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Navy Yard Shooter Cursed Woman in Wheelchair in Days Before RampageGlynda Boyd Said Aaron Alexis Accused the Family of Laughing at Him

Kerry: U.N. council must act on Syria next week

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:37 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry speaks at a news conference after a meeting regarding Syria, at the Quai d'Orsay in ParisHe asks the international community to speak out "in the strongest possible terms."

Pope discusses role of church, women in first interview

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:42 AM PDT

Pope Warns Church Must Find New Balance Or FailFrancis also touched on topics including abortion, gay rights, and contraception.

Mexico storm victims recount horror of mudslide

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT

A man uses a makeshift zip line to cross a river after a bridge collapsed under the force of the rains caused by Tropical Storm Manuel near the town of Petaquillas, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. The death toll from devastating twin storms climbed to 80 on Wednesday as isolated areas reported to the outside world. Mexican officials said that a massive landslide in the mountains north of Acapulco could drive the number of confirmed dead even higher. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — With a low, rumbling roar, an arc of dirt, rock and mud swept down the hillside in the remote mountain village of La Pintada, sweeping houses in its path, burying half the hamlet and leaving 58 people missing in its mad race to the river bed below.

5.3-magnitude quake hits near Japan's Fukushima plant

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:44 AM PDT

An aerial view shows TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its contaminated water storage tanks in FukushimaDENVER (AP) — A 5.3-magnitude earthquake has hit the Japanese prefecture that is home to the nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Syrian rebel infighting: Civil war within a civil war?

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:44 AM PDT

Syrian rebels rush a wounded man to Bab al-Hawa hospital near the rebel-controlled border with Turkey on July 1, 2013 A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Hurricane Manuel slams Mexico, thousands stranded

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:28 AM PDT

Remnants of a collapsed bridge litter the Papagayos River, south of Acapulco, near Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. Mexico was hit by the one-two punch of twin storms over the weekend, and the storm that soaked Acapulco on Sunday - Manuel -re-formed into a tropical storm Wednesday, threatening to bring more flooding to the country's northern coast. With roads blocked by landslides, rockslides, floods and collapsed bridges, Acapulco was cut off from road transport. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)By Lizbeth Diaz and Anahi Rama MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane Manuel lashed Mexico's northwest coast with heavy rains on Thursday, prompting evacuations amid the threat of fresh flash floods that storms have unleashed across Mexico, killing at least 81 people. Storms have inundated vast swathes of Mexico since late last week, wrecking roads, destroying bridges, and triggering landslides that buried homes and their occupants. Roads became raging rapids in the Pacific resort of Acapulco, stranding some 40,000 tourists. ...

Ex-House leader DeLay's convictions overturned by Texas court

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 12:29 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay speaks about his upcoming appeal on a money laundering conviction at his attorney's office in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)By Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2010 convictions of former House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay for money laundering and conspiracy, citing insufficient evidence. Dubbed "the Hammer" for his hard-driving, partisan style, DeLay had been accused of conspiring to illegally funnel $190,000 in corporate campaign donations to Republican candidates for the Texas Legislature in the 2002 elections. ...

Syria chemical attack a 'sly' rebel provocation, says Putin

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:27 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks during the final plenary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in the Novgorod Region, on the banks of Lake Valdai, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, pool)VALDAI, Russia (AP) — Russia has strong grounds to believe that Syrian rebels were responsible for the country's chemical attack, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday — a claim almost universally disputed by Western governments.

Move over NYC, we have a new murder capital

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 07:21 AM PDT

Uptick In Chicago Gun Violence Continues To Coincide With Hot WeatherThe Second City is no longer No. 2 in the homicide category, according to new crime stats.

Caroline Kennedy seeking to be next Japan ambassador

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 01:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2013, file photo, Caroline Kennedy speaks at the Let Freedom Ring ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, in Washington. Kennedy is preparing to testify before a Senate panel weighing her nomination to be U.S. ambassador to Japan. President Barack Obama chose the attorney and best-selling book editor for the diplomatic job.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)WASHINGTON (AP) — Former first daughter Caroline Kennedy coasted through a Senate confirmation hearing to be the next U.S. ambassador to Japan, promising to carry forward John F. Kennedy's legacy with humility.

McCain: I am more pro-Russian than Putin

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 06:35 AM PDT

US Senator John McCain in a column for Russian media, tells Russians President Putin, pictured, "doesn't believe in you"In an op-ed piece to Pravda, he also defends that punk rock band—you know the one.

Creepy Obamacare campaign hits college campuses

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 04:16 AM PDT

Uncle Sam in Generation Opportunity Obamacare adGroup hopes to convince young people not to sign up for Obamacare

JPMorgan to pay $920M for 'Whale' probes

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:02 PM PDT

A U.S. and JPMorgan flag fly in front of the headquarters of JPMorgan Chase & Co bank in New YorkThe biggest U.S. bank will settle some potential liabilities from its $6.2B derivatives loss.

Russia has no plans yet to destroy Syrian chemical arms on its own soil

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 05:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 29, 2005, file photo provided by the U.S. Army workers at Pine Bluff Arsenal in White Hall, Ark., watch as a container holding M-55 rockets laced with sarin nerve gas is unloaded at the facility's incinerator. U.N. inspectors have confirmed Monday Sept. 16 2013 they found "clear and convincing evidence" of a sarin nerve gas attack in Syria last month, adding urgency to moves to neutralize the country's stock of chemical weapons. Only seven countries worldwide have formally admitted stockpiling chemical weapons and all are in the process of destroying them or have completed destruction. (AP Photo/U.S. Army-Pine Bluff Arsenal, File)MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has no current plans to destroy Syrian chemical weapons on its own territory under a Russia-U.S. deal to eliminate President Bashar al-Assad's stockpiles, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday. Asked whether Russia had such plans, Shoigu told Interfax news agency, "No. A decision needs to be taken for this." "We have factories for the destruction of chemical weapons, but there is a big difference between 'ready' and 'willing'. ...

Colorado rainfall was a once-in-a-millennium event

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 03:37 AM PDT

Colorado Flooding AerialsBy Alex Dobuzinskis (Reuters) - The downpour that inundated parts of Colorado this month was a once-in-a-millennium event for those areas, according to an analysis by the National Weather Service. Colorado residents are coping with widespread destruction from floods unleashed by torrential rains that began on September 9 and lasted for several days. The flooding killed at least eight people, forced thousands from their homes and caused nearly $2 billion in property damage. ...

Winning Powerball ticket sold in S. Carolina

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 06:14 AM PDT

Karen Morales prints out a Powerball lottery ticket for sale to a customer at the Fuel City in Dallas on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. For Wednesday's drawing, Powerball's estimated $400 million jackpot will be the nation's fifth-largest ever. (AP Photo/LM Otero)COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Officials with the South Carolina Education Lottery say a $400 million winning ticket in the latest Powerball drawing was sold in Lexington in central South Carolina.

Navy Yard reopens after massacre

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 10:44 AM PDT

A member of the Navy checks vehicles at a gate to the Washington Navy Yard, as some employees return, many to retrieve their vehicles, two days after a gunman killed twelve people and was killed himself inside the Navy Yard in Washington, on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. The rampage Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, at the Washington Naval Yard shocked the military, just as the attack at Fort Hood did. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered a review of base security worldwide, and the issuing of security clearances that allow access to them, vowing: "Where there are gaps, we will close them." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Workers return to the Washington facility three days after a gunman's rampage killed 12.

Iran's president: We will never seek nuclear bomb

Posted: 18 Sep 2013 04:58 PM PDT

File photo of Iranian President-elect Rouhani in TehranWASHINGTON (AP) — Iranian President Hasan Rouhani said Wednesday that his country has never sought and will never seek a nuclear bomb, telling NBC News in an interview that he has full authority to resolve a standoff with the West.

One winning ticket in $400M Powerball drawing

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 09:50 AM PDT

Karen Morales prints out a Powerball lottery ticket for sale to a customer at the Fuel City in Dallas on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. For Wednesday's drawing, Powerball's estimated $400 million jackpot will be the nation's fifth-largest ever. (AP Photo/LM Otero)The winning ticket for the fifth-largest US. lottery prize ever was sold in South Carolina.

Former heavyweight boxing champion Ken Norton dies at 70

Posted: 18 Sep 2013 09:01 PM PDT

Former heavyweight champion Ken Norton dies at 70LAS VEGAS (AP) -- He was the second man to beat Muhammad Ali, breaking Ali's jaw and sending him to the hospital in their 1973 heavyweight fight.

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