2013年10月2日星期三

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Meeting yields no breakthrough in shutdown

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 09:24 AM PDT

U.S. House Speaker Boehner speaks to media following his meeting with U.S. President Obama, outside West Wing of White House in WashingtonObama will not negotiate, Boehner told reporters after their talk.

Veterans swarm ‘closed’ WWII memorial, knock politicians

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 01:06 PM PDT

Veterans tour the World War Two Memorial in WashingtonBreak the political gridlock, try "good whiskey and bad women."

Jury sides with concert promoter in Jackson trial

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 04:33 PM PDT

Jackson arrives for MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2006 in TokyoBy Eric Kelsey and Dana Feldman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles jury cleared concert promoter AEG Live of liability on Wednesday in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Michael Jackson in a trial that offered a glimpse into the private life and final days of the so-called King of Pop. The unanimous verdict, which concluded that the doctor the company hired for the singer was not unfit for his job, capped a sensational five-month trial that threatened to shake up the way entertainment companies treat their most risky talent. ...

Best-selling author Tom Clancy has died at age 66

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 08:38 AM PDT

This 2010 image released by G.P. Putnam Sons shows author Tom Clancy in Huntingtown, Md. Clancy, the bestselling author of "The Hunt for Red October" and other wildly successful technological thrillers, has died. He was 66. Penguin Group (USA) said Wednesday that Clancy died Tuesday in Baltimore. The publisher did not disclose a cause of death. (AP Photo/G.P. Putnam Sons, David Burnett)NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Clancy, whose high-tech, Cold War thrillers such as "The Hunt for Red October" and "Patriot Games" made him the most widely read and influential military novelist of his time, has died. He was 66.

A bumpy first day for new insurance marketplaces

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 12:45 AM PDT

Doug Carmichael, worksite coordinator for Marketplace Nebraska, a health insurance broker under the new Affordable Care Act, explains to citizens the health insurance enrollment process and the options available to them at a seminar at the Willa Cather Omaha Public Library in Omaha, Neb., Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)CHICAGO (AP) — For millions of Americans trying to log in, the online insurance marketplaces created by the new health care law began with a stalled website, an error message or a menu that didn't work.

No. of attackers at Kenya mall may have been fewer

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:03 AM PDT

Bullet-holes pepper the glass door of a shop in the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta says Kenya will keep its troops in Somalia to help that country's beleaguered government battle the armed Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which attacked the mall in Nairobi on Sept. 21 claiming at least 67 lives. (AP Photo/Rukmini Callimachi)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A top Kenya government official says four armed assailants can be seen on closed circuit television footage during the terrorist attack on an upscale mall in which at least 67 people were killed, an indication that there may not have been as many attackers as initially believed.

Some in GOP not heeding old big business allies

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 08:37 AM PDT

In this Oct. 1, 2013, photo, The Ohio Clock outside the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill shows the time of 12:01 a.m., in Washington. Having failed to persuade their traditional Republican allies in Congress to avert a government shutdown, business leaders fear bigger problems ahead, and they're taking sides with a Democratic president whose health care and regulatory agenda they have vigorously opposed. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — Having failed to persuade their traditional Republican allies in Congress to avert a government shutdown, business leaders fear bigger problems ahead, and they're taking sides with a Democratic president whose health care and regulatory agenda they have vigorously opposed.

Authorities: Man at Fla. airport said he had bomb

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 06:32 AM PDT

Police block the road to the Jacksonville International Airport terminal as a shuttle used to move people out of the airport drives by Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Jacksonville, Fla. The airport was evacuated after authorities found two suspicious packages. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Bruce Lipsky)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a man arrested at Jacksonville International Airport told security screeners he had a bomb in his backpack but they only found an electronic scale and batteries.

New sanctions likely despite thaw in US-Iran ties

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 02:26 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2013, photo, President Barack Obama makes a statement in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, after he spoke with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Congress generally backs Obama's new outreach to Iran, but with tougher U.S. economic sanctions against Tehran on the way, the president's diplomatic task will only get harder if he doesn't make quick progress. Obama's phone call last week to Rouhani was the first contact in more than 30 years between the leaders of the two countries. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. lawmakers from both parties have expressed a willingness to give President Barack Obama's outreach to Iran a chance to end to Tehran's nuclear standoff with the West, but at the same time they are crafting tough new U.S. economic sanctions to further isolate the Islamic republic.

Italy PM survives vote after Berlusconi about-face

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 06:18 AM PDT

People of Freedom party leader Silvio Berlusconi covers his face as he speaks on a mobile phone after delivering his speech at the Senate, in Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. Berlusconi acknowledged defeat Wednesday and announced he would support the government of Premier Enrico Letta, a stunning about-face on the Senate floor after defections in his party robbed him of the backing he needed to bring down the left-right coalition government. It was a major setback for Berlusconi, who had demanded his five Cabinet ministers quit the government and bring it down, incensed at a vote planned Friday that could strip him of his Senate seat following his tax fraud conviction and four-year prison sentence. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi made a stunning about-face Wednesday and threw his support behind the government of Premier Enrico Letta in a confidence vote, acknowledging defeat on the Senate floor after defections in his party robbed him of the backing he needed to bring down the government.

Weapons experts begin Syria mission amid clashes

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:02 AM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — As deadly clashes raged on the edge of Damascus, international inspectors left their hotel on Wednesday to start work on the task of destroying Syria's chemical arsenal under the tightest of deadlines in the midst of a civil war.

Lawmakers feeling heat from government shutdown

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 08:18 AM PDT

Visitors to Independence National Historical Park are reflected in the window of the closed building housing the Liberty Bell, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Philadelphia. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800, 000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers locked in a political stare-down Wednesday were buffeted by rising anger from across the nation about a partial government shutdown that ruined vacations, sapped businesses and closed military cemeteries as far away as France. Some on Capitol Hill ominously suggested the impasse might last for weeks, but a few Republicans seemed ready to blink.

AP PHOTOS: Gaza tunnels idle amid Egypt crackdown

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 05:37 AM PDT

In this Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 photo, a Palestinian worker smokes a cigarette inside a smuggling tunnel along the border with Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Gaza's tunnel smugglers along the border with Egypt are mostly idle these days. Some rest on cots in the dank underground pathways, stretching out for a smoke. Others pass the time cleaning the small carts on wheels that are normally pulled through the tunnels carrying cement or consumer goods from Egypt. Since the summer, Egypt's military has tried to destroy or seal off most of the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border, a consequence of the heightened tensions between Cairo and the Hamas government in Gaza. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza's tunnel smugglers along the border with Egypt are mostly idle these days.

Stop being so stupid, voters tweet to Congress

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 11:55 AM PDT

People take pictures in front of the steps of the closed Lincoln Memorial, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Washington. The museums that draw millions of visitors to the National Mall closed their doors Tuesday, memorials were barricaded and trash will go uncollected in the nation's most-visited national park due to the first government shutdown in 17 years. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)WASHINGTON (AP) — The roiling debate over the U.S. government shutdown is extending to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram as fed-up Americans turn to social media to register their disgust with federal lawmakers for shutting down the government.

Pirates move on to NLDS after beating Reds 6-2

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 12:48 AM PDT

Pittsburgh Pirates' Russell Martin (55) is greeted by on-deck batter Clint Barmes (12) after hitting a home run in the second inning of the NL wild-card playoff baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)PITTSBURGH (AP) — Andrew McCutchen was in mid-answer when teammate A.J. Burnett stuck a bottle of champagne inside the jersey of the star Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder and turned it upside down.

22 dogs will get lucky on new CBS television show

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:34 AM PDT

In this Aug. 14, 2013 photo provided by CBS Entertainment, Animal expert Brandon Mcmillan, host and animal trainer of the show "Lucky Dog" picks up a dog at an animal shelter. McMillan swoops into animal shelters across the U.S., rescuing untrained and unadoptable dogs. Then, back at his training facility known as the Lucky Dog Ranch, he trains them for a lucky family to adopt them. Mcmillan will rescue, train and place 22 dogs in 22 weeks for CBS's 'Lucky Dog," which airs Saturday, at 9:30 a.m. EDT. (AP Photo/Bryan Curb, CBS Entertainment)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brandon McMillan has trained as many as 10,000 dogs for television, movies, commercials, videos and people. Then he started saving dogs from animal shelters, training them and finding homes for them.

Jury rejects wrongful death claim in Michael Jackson case

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A jury has reached a decision in the famiy's case against promoter AEG

Numbers detail which agencies are most essential

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 02:39 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 7, 2009 file photo shows a NASA tent is erected on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington in preparation of an event with the President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama who will be joined by local area middle school students as the use telescopes to star gaze. NASA may have the Right Stuff, but it's not essential. In fact, of all the larger government agencies, NASA is sending the largest percentage home in the government shutdown because they are considered not essential. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Veterans Administration, which usually doesn't grab attention unless something goes wrong, has one of the highest percentage of workers considered essential and staying on. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)NASA may have the Right Stuff, but it's not essential.

Photo shows where walruses go when there are no ice floes

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 09:09 AM PDT

This Sept. 27, 2013 image provided by NOAA Fisheries shows thousands of walruses hauling out on a remote barrier island in the Chukchi Sea near Point Lay, Alaska. An estimated 10,000 Pacific walrus have gone ashore on Alaska's northwest coast and are bunched along a beach near the village of Point Lay. The National Marine Fisheries Service says 1,500 to 4,000 walrus were counted Sept. 12 and numbers had swollen to 10,000 on Friday. (AP Photo/NOAA Fisheries, Stan Churches)The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released this stunning photo of an estimated 10,000 walruses crammed onto a tiny Alaskan beach.

Silk Road website shut down, owner 'Dread Pirate Roberts' arrested

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 04:38 PM PDT

An illustration picture shows a projection of binary code around the shadow of a man holding a laptop computer in an office in Warsaw June 24, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper PempelBy Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement authorities have shut down "Silk Road," an anonymous Internet marketplace for illegal drugs such as heroin and cocaine, and criminal ...

Fearing blind spots, spy agencies to recall some workers

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 10:49 AM PDT

The Times said the Americans were CIA employees sent to Mexico as part of an interagency US task forceBy Mark Hosenball and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fearing they could miss important intelligence, U.S. spy agencies are planning to call back to work some of the thousands of civilian workers who have been temporarily laid off as a result of this week's federal government shutdown. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has already authorized chiefs of the 16 U.S. spy agencies he supervises to make revisions in their furlough arrangements, Clapper's spokesman Shawn Turner said. ...

Tale of two patients: Barriers for poor women with breast cancer

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:17 AM PDT

Tale of Two Patients: Survival Barriers for Poor Women with Breast CancerDee Dee Ricks was only 38 when she found out she had Stage 2 breast cancer. A divorced mother of two young sons, she had pulled herself out of poverty and made a fortune on Wall Street. "I was told my chances are better by having a double mastectomy," said Ricks. "I'm like you do [...]

Shutdown puts food program for low-income mothers at risk

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:47 AM PDT

WIC program at riskNearly 9 million low-income mothers and children receive benefits under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Congress' inability to pass a funding bill forced the USDA, which oversees the $7 billion program, to shutter support for WIC's clinical services, food and administrative costs.

Twitter co-founder exchanges tweets with Iranian president

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 08:28 AM PDT

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani takes his chair before a news conference at the Millennium Hotel in midtown Manhattan, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)In an unusual public display involving a world leader, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey exchanged tweets with Iranian President Hasan Rouhani on Tuesday, asking him when his country's people would have greater access to social media.

Celebrated author Tom Clancy dies at 66

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'If anyone is not essential, it's Congress'

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:21 AM PDT

The U.S. Capitol building is seen on Tuesday morning after the federal government was shutdown when the House and Senate failed to pass a budget in WashingtonRepublican Rep. Michael Grimm has harsh words for the 'far-right faction.'

A soldier’s-eye view of the shutdown

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:25 AM PDT

Troops in AfghanistanMilitary pay is protected, but the impasse is impacting operations.

Man in custody after device found at Fla. airport

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 06:02 AM PDT

Police block the road to the Jacksonville International Airport terminal as a shuttle used to move people out of the airport drives by Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Jacksonville, Fla. The airport was evacuated after authorities found two suspicious packages. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Bruce Lipsky)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities arrested a suspect after finding two suspicious packages — including one they described as destructive — at the Jacksonville International Airport.

Graffiti art from Banksy shows up in NYC

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:22 AM PDT

Graffiti art from Banksy shows up in NYCBanksy launches New York City street art show, starting with this image, with satirical cellphone audio tour. (banksy.co.uk via Yahoo News)

Wife: Biker husband is victim in NYC altercation

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 03:15 AM 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) — Shaky camera footage depicts the gory scene: A driver who police say was frightened when a group of motorcyclists swarmed his Range Rover plowed through them, striking a rider in a purple T-shirt and black helmet.

Greenpeace activists charged with piracy for protest

Posted: 02 Oct 2013 03:34 AM PDT

Russia: 5 Greenpeace activists charged with piracyGreenpeace said Wednesday that five of its activists who were detained after protesting at a Russian oil platform have been charged with piracy and could face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty. ...

Louisiana prisoner freed after 41 years of solitary

Posted: 01 Oct 2013 07:21 PM PDT

This undated image courtesy of Herman's House, shows inmate Herman Wallace at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in AngolaNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 71-year-old Louisiana prisoner who spent 41 years in solitary confinement and is now dying of cancer was released late Tuesday from prison, his attorneys said.

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