2014年1月2日星期四

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Storm comes knocking on Northeast's door

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 04:48 PM PST

A man holds a coffee while cycling during a winter nor'easter snow storm in LawrencePunishing cold and more than a foot of snow expected, with blizzard warnings along coast.


Gun magazine maker leaving Colorado in protest of new laws

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 03:38 PM PST

Company makes good on leaving Colo. over gun lawsOne of the country's largest producers of ammunition magazines for guns is leaving Colorado and moving operations to Wyoming and Texas because of new state laws that include restrictions on how many cartridges ...


Body found in ruins of Minneapolis apartment fire

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 03:44 PM PST

Firefighters work the scene where a fire engulfed several apartment units in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood, in Minneapolis, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. Authorities say at least 13 people have been hurt. (AP Photo/Star Tribune, McKenna Ewen)MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities said Thursday they have discovered a body in the ruins of a Minneapolis apartment fire, as investigators were honing in on natural gas as a potential cause of the explosion and blaze that left 14 other people injured.


Long lines at Colorado shops send 'pot stocks' higher

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 01:21 PM PST

Tyler Williams of Blanchester, Ohio selects marijuana strains to purchase at the 3-D Denver Discrete Dispensary on January 1, 2014 in Denver, ColoradoStocks of companies involved in the marijuana industry -- medical or otherwise -- hit fresh highs Thursday after Colorado launched the first legal US sale of recreational pot. Investors took the huge lines outside pot retailers in Colorado as a harbinger of potential growth in the still-new industry. In October the company launched a cooperative in Colorado to work with licensed marijuana industry participants, most of them too small to afford quality financial processing systems on their own. The company makes high-security storage and dispensing machines for controlled medicines, equipment used by marijuana distributors.


Female Marines get pullup test delay after more than half fail

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 02:08 PM PST

FILE - This Feb. 21, 2013 file photo shows female recruits at the Marine Corps Training Depot on Parris Island, S.C. More than half of female Marines in boot camp can't do three pull-ups, the minimum standard that was supposed to take effect with the new year. So the Corps is delaying the requirement. All the service branches are working on devising standards, training and other policies needed to open thousands of combat roles to women in 2016. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of female Marines in boot camp can't do three pullups, the minimum standard that was supposed to take effect with the new year, prompting the Marine Corps to delay the requirement, part of the process of equalizing physical standards to integrate women into combat jobs.


Police name suspect in California priest killing

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 01:24 PM PST

Church members mourn the murder of Father Eric Freed outside of St. Bernard Church in Eureka, CaliforniaEUREKA, Calif. (AP) — Police identified a suspect Thursday in the killing of a respected priest who was found dead in a church rectory in Northern California on New Year's Day.


Warning issued about oil shipped from N. Dakota, Montana

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 03:27 PM PST

A fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment Monday, Dec 30, 2013, in Casselton, N.D. The train carrying crude oil derailed near Casselton Monday afternoon. Several explosions were reported as some cars on the mile-long train caught fire. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy)BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Following a string of explosive accidents, federal officials said Thursday that crude oil being shipped by rail from the Northern Plains across the U.S. and Canada may be more flammable than traditional forms of oil.


Mystery deepens in Palestinian envoy's death

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 11:54 AM PST

Firefighters search an area after an explosion in PragueDaughter rejects official's accounts after booby-trapped safe explodes at Prague embassy.


California grants law license to immigrant

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 01:37 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, photo, Sergio Garcia poses for photographs in San Francisco. Garcia arrived in Northern California illegally 20 years ago and and has been there since. On Wednesday, he will ask the state Supreme Court to license him as an attorney_but the U.S. Department of Justice is trying to block his request. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)Sergio Garcia earned a law degree and passed the bar exam while living illegally in the U.S.


Seattle museum celebrates silver ball revival

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 06:25 AM PST

Pinball revivalFor $13, you can play pinball until your arms fall off at Seattle's working pinball museum. The two-story storefront in Seattle's International District is filled with games from every era from the 1960s ...


Ga. banker accused of $21M fraud in custody after traffic stop

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 11:09 AM PST

Combination photo of Aubrey Lee PriceBy David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - A former Georgia bank director who left a suicide note and vanished while under suspicion he embezzled $21 million has been captured 18 months after he disappeared. Sheriff's deputies arrested Aubrey Lee Price, 47, during a traffic stop on Interstate 95 near Brunswick, Georgia, on Tuesday after noticing the windows of his Dodge pickup appeared to be tinted too darkly to comply with state law, Glynn County Sheriff E. Neal Jump said. Price disappeared soon before his indictment in Georgia on one count of bank fraud in July 2012 and left behind a written confession and a note for family and friends saying he planned to kill himself, authorities said.


Newspapers call for Snowden clemency

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 07:34 AM PST

Demonstrators hold signs supporting former NSA contractor Snowden as they march at "Stop Watching Us: A Rally Against Mass Surveillance" near the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonObama should find a way to end the "vilification" of the ex-NSA contractor, N.Y. Times says.


Report: Spike in mass shootings means police need new approach

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 05:26 AM PST

bomb threatAmerica's angst over shootings in public places is growing, and with good reason. According to a study obtained by Yahoo News, rampages like the Washington Navy Yard and Los Angeles airport shootings have tripled in recent years.


Grab your shovel: Fierce winter storm bears down on northeast U.S.

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 10:16 AM PST

First fierce winter storm of 2014HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Light snow was falling Thursday in parts of the Northeast, making commutes hazardous for the first work day of the new year and giving some students an extra day off school following Christmas break, as a winter storm promising significant snowfall, strong winds and frigid temperatures bore down.


2 newspapers call for clemency for Edward Snowden

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 03:51 PM PST

FILE - In this file image made from video released by WikiLeaks on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden speaks during a presentation ceremony for the Sam Adams Award in Moscow, Russia. Snowden was awarded the Sam Adams Award, according to videos released by the organization WikiLeaks. The award ceremony was attended by three previous recipients. (AP Photo, File)LONDON (AP) — The New York Times and Guardian newspapers have called for clemency for Edward Snowden, saying that the espionage worker-turned-privacy advocate should be praised rather than punished for his disclosures.


Blast in Hezbollah-run area of Beirut kills 5

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 11:51 AM PST

A Lebanese man carries an injured woman away from the site of a car bomb explosion in a Shiite area and stronghold of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah at the southern suburb of Beirut, Thursday Jan. 2, 2014. A large explosion has rocked a stronghold of the Shiite Hezbollah group in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)BEIRUT (AP) — An explosion tore through a crowded commercial street Thursday in a south Beirut neighborhood that is bastion of support for the Shiite group Hezbollah, killing at least five people, setting cars ablaze and sending a column of black smoke above the Beirut skyline.


Kerry: Mideast peace still possible despite rifts

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 01:43 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands before a meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. Kerry arrived Thursday in Israel to broker Mideast peace talks that are entering a difficult phase aimed at reaching a two-state solution between the Israelis and Palestinians. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted his Palestinian partner in peace-making efforts on Thursday, accusing him of embracing terrorists "as heroes," harsh words that clouded the start of Secretary of State John Kerry's tenth trip to the region to negotiate a peace deal he claims is "not mission impossible."


Passengers rescued off ship stuck in Antarctic ice

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 01:54 PM PST

In this photo provided China's official Xinhnua News Agency, the first group of passengers of the trapped Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy arrive at a safe surface off the Antarctic Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. A helicopter rescued all 52 passengers from the research ship that has been trapped in Antarctic ice, 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart, Australia, since Christmas Eve after weather conditions finally cleared enough for the operation Thursday. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhang Jiansong) NO SALESCANBERRA, Australia (AP) — All 52 passengers trapped for more than a week on an icebound Russian research ship in the Antarctic were rescued Thursday when a Chinese helicopter swooped in and plucked them from the ice a dozen at a time.


Snapchat suffers security breach

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 02:42 PM PST

This Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 file photo shows Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel in Los Angeles. Snapchat, the disappearing-message service, has been quiet following a security breach that allowed hackers to collect the usernames and phone numbers of millions of its users. Snapchat said Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 that it is assessing the situation, but did not have further comment. Earlier in the week, hackers reportedly published 4.6 million Snapchat usernames and phone numbers on a website called snapchatdb.info, which has since been suspended. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)NEW YORK (AP) — Snapchat, the disappearing-message service popular with young people, has been quiet following a security breach that allowed hackers to collect the usernames and phone numbers of some 4.6 million of its users.


NY judge nixes 50 Cent's bid to toss video lawsuit

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 04:50 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper 50 Cent has lost a bid to end a Florida woman's lawsuit over a sex video posted online with him edited into it as a wig-wearing narrator.

After year of stock records, a weak start to 2014

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 01:37 PM PST

Stock trader Gregory Rowe works at the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, in New York. Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street as the market comes off of its biggest annual gain in nearly two decades. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)NEW YORK (AP) — Investors may already feel a little nostalgic for 2013.


Egypt: Revolution, turmoil impact on pop culture

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 11:31 AM PST

In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013 photo, Egyptian youths dance, to "Mahraganat," Arabic for "festivals," music, a rapid-fire electronic beat, mixed with hypnotic rhythms, during a bachelors party, in El-Marg, a suburb northeast of Cairo, Egypt. Mahraganat singers emerged before the 2011 revolution, but the trend has spread rapidly because of the loosening of societal restrictions attributed at least in part to the uprising. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's dizzying ride over the past three years since the toppling of autocratic Hosni Mubarak has not only shaken up the country's politics. It has revolutionized its pop culture scene, from language to music and art, bringing in a vibe of rebellion and voices from the urban poor.


Relief, confusion as new health benefits begin

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 11:01 AM PST

Howard Kraft looks over healthcare information in his Lincolnton, N.C. home Monday, Dec. 30, 2013. All things good, bad and unpredictable converge Jan. 1 for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul as the law's major benefits take effect, along with an unpopular insurance mandate and a real risk of more nerve-wracking disruptions to coverage. For some, the changes bring big improvements, including Kraft. A painful spinal problem left him unable to work as a hotel bellman. But he's got coverage because federal law now forbids insurers from turning away people with health problems. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — After a troubled rollout, President Barack Obama's health care overhaul now faces its most personal test: How will it work as people seek care under its new mandates?


Fierce winter storm pushes into the Northeast

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 01:49 PM PST

BOSTON (AP) — A storm expected to bring more than a foot of snow, stiff winds and punishing cold pushed into the Northeast on Thursday, extending Christmas break for some students while posing the first test for New York's new mayor and perhaps the last challenge for Boston's outgoing one.

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 09:16 AM PST

AP10ThingsToSee - Displaced people who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor, South Sudan prepare to sleep in the open at night in the town of Awerial, South Sudan on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. The International Red Cross said Wednesday that the road from Bor to the nearby Awerial area "is lined with thousands of people" waiting for boats so they could cross the Nile River. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.


Scandal-plagued Toronto mayor launches re-election campaign

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 08:21 AM PST

By Andrea Hopkins TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who won global ridicule last year after admitting to having used crack cocaine, registered on Thursday for the October mayoral election, saying he was the best mayor Canada's largest city has ever had and would be re-elected. Supporters and opponents alike have urged him to enter rehab, but Ford has insisted he is not an addict.

Cheerful passengers live Tweet their Antarctic rescue

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 06:50 AM PST

Cheerful Passengers Live Tweet Their Antarctic Ice RescueAll of the 52 passengers aboard a ship that's been stranded in the Antarctic ice for the last week were safely transferred by helicopter to a nearby Australian icebreaking vessel on Thursday. The Chinese Xue Long — the "Snow Dragon" — and the Australian Aurora Australis both abandoned attempts to approach the stranded ship through unusually dangerous conditions — risking becoming stuck in the ice themselves. Fortunately, Xue Long had a helicopter on board. The ship's passengers, a mix of tourists, journalists, and scientists, created a makeshift landing spot for the Chinese helicopter just before the New Year.


Car bomb kills at least five in Hezbollah district of Beirut

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 01:04 PM PST

Fire and smoke is seen at the site of the explosion in Beirut's southern suburbsThe blast hit in a Hezbollah neighborhood days after a political adversary died by bomb.


All passengers confirmed rescued from icebound Antarctic ship

Posted: 01 Jan 2014 04:45 PM PST

Passengers from the stranded Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy wait for a helicopter from the nearby Chinese icebreaker Xue Long to pick them up on January 2, 2014All 52 people were airlifted Thursday from a Russian research vessel.


The New York Times calls for Snowden to be allowed back

Posted: 01 Jan 2014 09:41 PM PST

The New York Times Wants Snowden to Be Allowed Back"When someone reveals that government officials have routinely and deliberately broken the law," the Times editorial board writes, "that person should not face life in prison at the hands of the same government."  Considering the enormous value of the information he has revealed, and the abuses he has exposed, Mr. Snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight. "Why didn't he just bring the NSA's activity to the attention of superiors?" He did. Presenting another angle on the ongoing Snowden fiasco is The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus, who describes the man as "insufferable" as well as "smug, self-righteous, egotistical, disingenuous, megalomaniacal, overwrought." She just doesn't like that guy's personality, and that detail is definitely the right thing to focus on here.


2014's first big storm bears down on northeast US

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 03:46 AM PST

Winter Storm Targets NortheastHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A winter storm was bearing down on the Northeast on Thursday, promising heavy snow, strong winds and frigid temperatures that will make commutes hazardous for the first work day of the new year.


Hospital: Former Israeli PM Sharon is critical

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 02:34 AM PST

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in a coma for eight years, was in critical condition on Thursday, clinging to life after a decline in the functioning of various bodily organs, his doctors said.

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