2013年12月9日星期一

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More snow, ice and cold to blanket East

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 03:03 PM PST

Cold snap felt across the nationA deadly winter storm kept a tight grip on much of the United States on Monday.

Newtown: Stay away on anniversary

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 02:25 PM PST

A sign expressing displeasure with the media is tacked on a pole in Newtown"Please respect our need to be alone," a Newtown official told the media on Monday.

Girlfriend wants charges dropped against George Zimmerman

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 04:09 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, file photo, George Zimmerman, acquitted in the high-profile killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, listens in court, in Sanford, Fla., during his hearing on charges including aggravated assault stemming from a fight with his girlfriend. Zimmerman is asking a judge to change the terms of his bond so he can have contact with his girlfriend. Zimmerman on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, filed an affidavit from his girlfriend that says she doesn't want him charged with aggravated assault, battery and criminal mischief. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool, File)ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman asked a judge on Monday to change the terms of his bond so he can have contact with the girlfriend he's accused of assaulting.

Vet: North Korea confession coerced

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 03:38 PM PST

Merrill Newman, center, walks beside his wife Lee, left, and his son Jeffrey after arriving at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. Newman was detained in North Korea late October at the end of a 10-day trip to North Korea, a visit that came six decades after he oversaw a group of South Korean wartime guerrillas during the 1950-53 war. He was released from North Korea early Saturday. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The 85-year-old U.S. Korean War veteran who was detained for weeks by North Korea said Monday that the videotaped confession in which he apologized for killing North Koreans during the war was given involuntarily and under duress.

Uphill fight as Kerry defends Iran deal

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 12:10 PM PST

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the Presidential Compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, following the conclusion of his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Kerry is visiting Jerusalem and Ramallah to discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace and to consult Israeli officials about Iran. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)Will Congress shrug off President Barack Obama's warning that imposing new sanctions on Iran will derail fragile diplomatic efforts to ensure Tehran does not get the ability to build a nuclear weapon?

Bay Area gentrification battle boils

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 03:16 PM PST

FILE-In this Monday, May 12, 2008, file photo, a row of historical Victorian homes, underscore the San Francisco skyline in a view from Alamo Square,Calif. Apartment rents in San Francisco have soared beyond the lofty levels of the original Internet boom more than a decade ago. This time, it's being driven by well-paid software engineers and Web designers who are flocking to Silicon Valley. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, FIle)By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Google San Fran gentrification battle heats up Inc commuter bus was blocked in San Francisco's Mission district for about a half hour Monday morning, highlighting many residents' growing concern that an influx of affluent technology workers is driving up costs in the city. "San Francisco, not for sale" and "Stop evictions now" numbered among the slogans yellow-vested protesters chanted as they surrounded the double-decker bus. Google's offices are in Mountain View, about 34 miles away from the incident. The protest, organized by an advocacy group called Heart of the City, took aim at private commuter buses which whisk thousands of employees from stops around San Francisco to jobs at technology companies south of the city such as Apple Inc, Facebook Inc and Google.

Coming to a TV near you: Sarah Palin to host new outdoors show

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 10:59 AM PST

Sarah PalinSarah Palin is giving unscripted cable television another chance. Or perhaps it's the other way around.

Guitar-playing Detroit bankruptcy judge is all ears

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 09:08 AM PST

In this March 22, 2012 photo is Judge Steven Rhodes in Detroit. Rhodes, overseeing Detroit's bankruptcy case, is making sure that the impact on people is front and center in his courtroom. Friends and colleagues say the veteran judge didn't have to invite residents and retirees into his court to hear their stories. But they say he showed sensitivity to the pensioners' plight in the largest public bankruptcy in U.S. history when he did that earlier this year. (AP Photo/Detroit Legal News, John Meiu)Veteran judge Steven Rhodes takes residents' concerns to heart, colleagues say.

Brrr! Antarctica set record of -135.8

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 04:23 PM PST

The Lemaire Channel on the Antarctic Penisula

Newtown families honor victims, ask for privacy

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 11:48 AM PST

Family members of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting listen to a statement about the formation of the website mysandyhookfamily.org created for victim's families in Sandy HookOn the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings, the town asks the media to stay away.

'Rainbow Nation' mourners gather outside Mandela's mansion

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 11:11 AM PST

A crowd of people stand in front of the flowers to pay tribute to of former South Africa President Nelson Mandela outside of his house in Johannesburg, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. Along a street lined with walled mansions shaded by graceful jacaranda trees, mourners black and white by the thousands rubbed shoulders Monday outside the villa where Nelson Mandela died, placing flower bouquets and condolence notes on top of piles already knee-high. Others danced while singing praise for the anti-apartheid leader _ a vivid example of the JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Along a street lined with walled mansions shaded by graceful jacaranda trees, mourners, black and white, by the thousands rubbed shoulders Monday outside the villa where Nelson Mandela died, placing flower bouquets and condolence notes on top of piles already knee-high. Others danced while singing praise for the anti-apartheid leader — a vivid example of the "Rainbow Nation" unity of race-blind multiculturalism championed by Mandela for South Africa.

Newtown asks for privacy on anniversary

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 12:05 PM PST

A bus drives past a sign reading Welcome to Sandy Hook, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, in Newtown, Conn. The 911 calls from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings released Wednesday show town dispatchers urged panicked callers to take cover, mobilized help and asked about the welfare of the children as the boom of gunfire could be heard at times in the background. The recordings are released under court order after a legal challenge from The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)At the one-year mark, Sandy Hook families ask others to consider "acts of kindness."

Ukrainian police move against Kiev protesters

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 01:38 PM PST

Pro-EU protesters stand in front of riot policemen outside the presidential office in Kiev on December 9, 2013Ukrainian security forces on Monday moved in on pro-EU demonstrators to end a week-long blockade of the government headquarters, prompting Washington to urge Kiev to "immediately de-escalate the situation". With the authorities apparently keen to regain control of the city centre, the party of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko said that armed police had raided their offices although this was denied by police. Upping the stakes after more than two weeks of protests over the government's rejection of a pact with the European Union, the protesters a day earlier symbolically toppled the statue of the Soviet Union's founder Vladimir Lenin in Kiev. President Viktor Yanukovych announced he would meet former Ukrainian presidents on Tuesday in a bid to find a way out of the crisis and was also backing the idea of roundtable talks with the opposition.

Man wakes up in locked plane, but insists he's not an unusually deep sleeper

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 07:16 AM PST

Whoops! Man left on plane"No, I'm really not," Tom Wagner says. "I just sleep, you know?"

The Docket: The year's most searched trials online

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:56 PM PST

Deputies Found Guns, Ammo During Zimmerman ArrestCourtroom junkies, 2013 was your year. High-profile cases stuffed dockets across the country and around the world. There were trials that tested Americans' morals and values, judgments that ended political careers and celebrity cases that provided fodder for tabloids.

Man who amputated arm arrested on assault charges

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 09:49 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2010 file photo, Aron Ralston, author and subject of the film "127 Hours," attends the film's premiere at Chelsea Clearview Cinema in New York. Authorities say Ralston, who gained widespread attention when he cut off his forearm to free himself after becoming trapped by a dislodged boulder in a Utah canyon, was arrested Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013 in Denver for domestic violence. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)DENVER (AP) — Aron Ralston, the Colorado adventurer who cut off his forearm to free himself from a dislodged boulder in a Utah canyon — an ordeal made into the movie "127 Hours," was arrested in Denver on allegations of domestic violence after police say he and his girlfriend got into an altercation.

Report: NSA spying on virtual worlds, online games

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 01:12 PM PST

"Warlords of Draenor," the fifth extension of "World of Warcraft," was released in early November by Blizzard Entertainment.LONDON (AP) — American and British intelligence operations have been spying on gamers across the world, media outlets reported, saying that the world's most powerful espionage agencies sent undercover agents into virtual universes to monitor activity in online fantasy games such as "World of Warcraft."

Riot Police Deploy Near Protest Sites in Kiev

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 05:21 AM PST

Riot police officers prepare to block Pro-European Union activists gathered at the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. The policemen, wearing helmets and holding shields, formed a chain across Kiev's main street outside the city building. Organizers called on protesters to vacate the city hall and the other building which the opposition had used as its headquarters. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)Riot police deploy near protest strongholds in Ukraine's capital, stoking fears of a crackdown        

Live report: Newtown prepares for anniversary

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Families unveil website to recall deadly school shooting.

Congress renews undetectable gun ban for decade

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 03:29 PM PST

This photo taken May 10, 2013 shows Cody Wilson holding what he calls a Liberator pistol that was completely made on a 3-D-printer at his home in Austin, Texas. Congress is extending a ban on plastic firearms that can slip past airport and school metal detectors and X-ray machines, a bittersweet moment for gun control advocates just before the first anniversary of the mass killing at a Connecticut elementary school. (AP Photo/Austin American Statesman, Jay Janner) AUSTIN CHRONICLE OUT, COMMUNITY IMPACT OUT, INTERNET MUST CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND STATESMAN.COMWASHINGTON (AP) — Narrowly beating a midnight deadline, Congress voted Monday to renew an expiring ban on plastic firearms that can evade airport detection machines. But Republicans blocked an effort to toughen the restrictions — the latest defeat for gun-control forces in the year since the grade school massacre in Newtown, Conn.

18 LA sheriff's deputies face federal charges

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 04:25 PM PST

Andre Birotte, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, at podium, and Bill Lewis, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Division, right, take questions on the five criminal cases filed against 18 current and former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies as part of an FBI investigation into allegations of civil rights abuses and corruption in the nation's largest jail system, during a news conference in Los Angeles, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. The FBI has been investigating allegations of excessive force and other misconduct at the county's jails since at least 2011. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal officials say 18 current and former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies saw themselves as being "above the law," engaging in corruption and civil rights abuses that included beating inmates and visitors, falsifying reports, and trying to block an FBI probe of the nation's largest jail system.

Health care debate has trust, politics themes, too

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 02:16 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., holds up a checklist related to the preparation for the implementation of the Obamacare healthcare program, and specifically, the HealthCare.gov website, on Capitol Hill in Washington. For two months, the talk was all about computer code. About response times. About glitches and bugs. Issa, who misses no opportunity to investigate perceived shortcomings in the health care program, devoted a full hearing to the "limitations of Big Government" when it comes to health care. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, the talk was all about computer code. About response times. About glitches and bugs.

Torre, La Russa, Cox elected to baseball Hall

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 12:40 PM PST

Retired managers, from left, Tony La Russa, Joe Torre and Bobby Cox gather for a photo after it was announced that they were unanimously elected to the baseball Hall of Fame, at a news conference during MLB winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/John Raoux)LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Joe Torre, Tony La Russa and Bobby Cox spent decades trying to beat each other, no holds barred. On this day, however, they were a mutual admiration society.

Study says many lung cancer tumors prove harmless

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 01:35 PM PST

FILE - In this June 3, 2010, file photo, Dr. Steven Birnbaum works with a patient in a CT scanner at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua, N.H. A national study suggests the world's top cancer killer isn't always as deadly as doctors once thought, finding that more than 18 percent of lung cancers detected in screening scans are likely so slow growing that they'd never cause problems. But the provocative results are unlikely to change how doctors treat lung cancer. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)CHICAGO (AP) — Harmless lung cancer? A provocative study found that nearly 1 in 5 lung tumors detected on CT scans are probably so slow-growing that they would never cause problems.

LA sheriff: Troubled by charges against deputies

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 03:54 PM PST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca says he's troubled by the charges against 18 current and former deputies who have been arrested as part of an FBI investigation into allegations of civil rights abuses and corruption in the nation's largest jail system.

Officials seek sanctuary for Iowa alligator

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 01:27 PM PST

In this Dec. 5, 2013 photo provided by Pawsitive Pet Care is a baby alligator at their veterinary center in Waterloo, Iowa. Animal control officials say a resident bought the alligator after spotting an online advertisement but later learned Iowa law doesn't allow people to keep alligators or other exotic animals. The alligator acquired the name Chompey during a short stay at a pet care center before being quarantined in Des Moines while officials seek a permanent home at a sanctuary in a warmer climate. (AP Photo/Pawsitive Pet Care)WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Animal control officials in the Iowa city of Waterloo are seeking a new home for a baby alligator named Chompey.

18 LA sheriff's deputies face US charges

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 03:26 PM PST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal officials say 18 current and former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies saw themselves as being "above the law," engaging in corruption and civil rights abuses that included beating inmates and visitors, falsifying reports and trying to block an FBI probe of the nation's largest jail system.

Congress renews expiring ban on undetectable guns

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 03:01 PM PST

This photo taken May 10, 2013 shows Cody Wilson holding what he calls a Liberator pistol that was completely made on a 3-D-printer at his home in Austin, Texas. Congress is extending a ban on plastic firearms that can slip past airport and school metal detectors and X-ray machines, a bittersweet moment for gun control advocates just before the first anniversary of the mass killing at a Connecticut elementary school. (AP Photo/Austin American Statesman, Jay Janner) AUSTIN CHRONICLE OUT, COMMUNITY IMPACT OUT, INTERNET MUST CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND STATESMAN.COMWASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has approved a 10-year extension of a ban on plastic firearms that can evade metal detectors and X-ray machines. But it has defeated gun-control advocates' push for tougher restrictions.

World leaders to speak at massive Mandela memorial

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 02:58 PM PST

Retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, center, arrives at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. Scores of heads of state and government and other foreign dignitaries, including royalty, are beginning to converge on South Africa as the final preparations for Tuesday's national memorial service for liberation struggle icon Nelson Mandela are put in place.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An eclectic mix of world leaders including President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will eulogize Nelson Mandela before a crowd of nearly 100,000 mourners at a massive memorial service Tuesday in the World Cup soccer stadium where the anti-apartheid champion made his last public appearance.

Accusations dog U.S.-Russian copter deal

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 12:11 AM PST

AP Exclusive: Accusations dog Russian copter dealU.S. military officials insisted a top-secret Pentagon study proved the need to buy Russian helicopters for Afghanistan's security forces. But the study actually recommended an American-made rotorcraft, ...

Massive winter storm heads east

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 06:36 AM PST

Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz walks the sidelines as snow falls during the first half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)A mix of snow, freezing rain and sleet could make travel dicey in the northeast.

Protesters fell Lenin statue, tell Ukraine's president 'you're next'

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 03:54 AM PST

By Gareth Jones and Alissa de Carbonnel KIEV (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters toppled a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine's capital and attacked it with hammers on Sunday in a symbolic challenge to President Viktor Yanukovich and his plans for closer ties with Russia. The gesture rejecting Moscow's historic influence over Ukraine came after opposition leaders told hundreds of thousands of demonstrators on Kiev's Independence Square to keep up pressure on Yanukovich to sack his government.

Pentagon chief Hagel in Pakistan for talks on security, drones

Posted: 09 Dec 2013 08:03 AM PST

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks to U.S. troops at the Kandahar Air BaseBy David Alexander ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had a frank exchange on Monday about U.S. drone strikes against militants in remote areas of Pakistan, in the first visit by a Pentagon chief to the South Asian ally in almost four years. The United States has a complicated relationship with Pakistan and ties have been further soured by a dispute over unmanned military aircraft the United States uses to target militants in Pakistan's tribal areas on the Afghan border. Protests by anti-drone activists prompted the United States to suspend ground shipments of NATO cargo leaving Afghanistan via Pakistan last week. "The prime minister ... conveyed Pakistan's deep concern over continuing U.S. drone strikes, stressing that drone strikes were counterproductive to our efforts to combat terrorism and extremism on an enduring basis," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

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