2014年1月26日星期日

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US forces launch missile strike against Shebab leader in Somalia

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 04:46 PM PST

Shebab recruits walk down a street on March 5, 2012 in MogadishuSuspected Shebab militant leader is the target, defense officials said.


Brain-dead pregnant woman taken off life support

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 01:52 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 file photo, Erick Munoz stands with an undated copy of a photograph of himself, left, with wife Marlise and their son Mateo, in Haltom City, Texas. John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, issued a statement Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014 that said the hospital it will remove life support from Marlise Munoz, following a judge's order that it was misapplying state law to disregard her family's wishes. The statement did not say when the hospital would pull life support. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Ron T. Ennis, File) MANDATORY CREDITThe family of a brain-dead, pregnant Texas woman said Sunday afternoon that she has been removed from life support following a judge's ruling that a Fort Worth hospital was misapplying state law in the case.


Md. mall gunman was avid skater, no criminal past

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 04:42 PM PST

Howard County police chief William McMahon speaks to reporters at the parking lot of the Mall in Columbia, Md., after a shooting at the mall on Saturday Jan. 25, 2014 in Howard County, Md. Police in Maryland say three people died Saturday in a shooting at a mall in suburban Baltimore, including the presumed gunman. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)The gunman was a teenage skateboarding enthusiast who had no criminal record.


Macklemore & Ryan Lewis win 3 rap Grammys

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 04:47 PM PST

Recording artist Macklemore performs onstage at The 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards Salute to Industry Icons with Clive Davis, on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Though the rap committee at the Grammy Awards almost ousted Macklemore & Ryan Lewis from its categories, the breakthrough act won three rap Grammys on Sunday.


Syria talks yield narrow deal, Assad 'red line'

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 11:43 AM PST

Haitham al-Maleh, senior member of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), Syria's main political opposition group, leaves a meeting with U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014. Syrians on opposite sides of their country's civil war tried again Sunday to find common ground, with peace talks focusing on an aid convoy to a besieged city that once more came under mortar attack from the government. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)GENEVA (AP) — Two days of face-to-face peace talks yielded a narrow and tentative agreement Sunday for women and children trapped in a besieged Syrian city, and the government said President Bashar Assad had no intention of giving up "the keys to Damascus."


Brutal cold returns to Midwest for extended stay

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 04:33 PM PST

An SUV ventures past the St. Augusta, Minn., city limits sign on Stearns County Road 136 in near white-out conditions Sunday afternoon, Jan. 26, 2014 south of St. Cloud, Minn. An unusual weather pattern driving bitterly cold air from the Arctic Circle south across a huge swath of the Midwest is expected to send temperatures plummeting Monday from Minneapolis to Louisville, Ky., the latest punch from a winter that is in some areas shaping up as one of the coldest on record. (AP Photo/St. Cloud Times, Kimm Anderson) MANDATORY CREDITCHICAGO (AP) — A persistent weather pattern driving bitterly cold air south out of the Arctic will cause temperatures from Minnesota to Kentucky to plummet Monday, turning this winter into one of the coldest on record in some areas.


Want to get the flu? Volunteers sneeze for science

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 07:47 AM PST

In this Jan. 14, 2014, photo, Daniel Bennett, 26, of College Park, Md., has live flu virus sprayed into his nose as part of a study at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Government researchers are deliberately giving dozens of volunteers the flu by squirting the virus straight up their noses. The rare type of experiment is part of the quest to improve flu vaccines. It turns out that how best to fend off influenza remains something of a mystery. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Forget being sneezed on: Government scientists are deliberately giving dozens of volunteers the flu by squirting the live virus straight up their noses.


Frozen Big Apple on menu for Broncos, Seahawks

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 03:16 PM PST

Denver Broncos' Peyton Manning arrives at Newark Liberty International Airport for the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII football game, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — An icy wind made its way through the Meadowlands, cut across the Hudson River and into frigid Manhattan. Looks like Mother Nature is taking seriously the NFL's slogan for the upcoming Super Bowl: Best Served Cold.


Rangers score 6 straight, top NJ in cold and snow

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 03:55 PM PST

Fans wait for the start of an outdoor NHL hockey game between the New Jersey Devils and the New York Rangers Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)NEW YORK (AP) — Too much sun forced the boys of winter to wait to play at the ballpark in the Bronx.


Adele, Buble, Lauper early Grammy winners

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 03:25 PM PST

Musician Macklemore performs during a concert presented by T-Mobile at The Belasco Theatre, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adele dominated the Grammys two years ago, and she won another trophy Sunday.


Killed protester mourned in Kiev amid crisis

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 03:43 PM PST

Protesters carry the coffin of Mikhail Zhiznevsky, 25, one of two protesters who died of gunshot wounds on Wednesday, during commemorate service in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday Jan. 26, 2014. Ukraine's opposition called off a massive rally planned for Sunday because of the funeral for a protester killed in clashes with police last week, underscoring the rising tensions in the country's two-month political crisis. The opposition contends they were shot by police in an area where demonstrators had been throwing rocks and firebombs at riot police for several days. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of Ukrainians chanted "Hero!" and sang the national anthem on Sunday, as a coffin carrying a protester who was killed in last week's clashes with police was carried through the streets of the capital, underscoring the rising tensions in the country's two-month political crisis.


Owner of fire-ravaged Quebec home speaks out

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 03:27 PM PST

An emergency worker walks past a sign that reads "Look out for our residents" as they search through the icy rubble of a fire that destroyed a seniors' residence Friday, Jan. 24, 2014, in L'Isle-Verte, Quebec. Five people are confirmed dead and 30 people are still missing, while with cause of Thursday morning's blaze is unclear police said. Authorities are using steam to melt the ice and to preserve any bodies that are buried. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Ryan Remiorz)L'ISLE-VERTE, Quebec (AP) — The owner of a Quebec seniors' residence that burned to the ground offered his condolences Sunday to the families of the 32 people feared dead as search crews had trouble recovering any more bodies in the ice-covered rubble due to the frigid temperatures and swirling snow. Officials have so far have recovered 10 bodies from the massive fire.


Buble, Alpert, Marley, Colbert win early Grammys

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 01:42 PM PST

Musician Macklemore performs during a concert presented by T-Mobile at The Belasco Theatre, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Buble has won his fourth best traditional pop vocal album Grammy.


Egypt set to have presidential elections first

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 01:30 PM PST

In this image made from video broadcast on Egyptian State Television, Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour speaks at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014. Egypt's interim president says he is amending the country's transitional plan to allow for presidential elections before parliamentary polls. According to Egypt's new constitution, the presidential vote is to be held before the second half of April, 2014. (AP Photo/Egyptian State Television)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's interim leader on Sunday said the country will pick a president before parliament, a widely expected change in a political transition plan as public support for army chief and July coup leader Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi grows stronger. But Egypt remains dangerously divided, as seen in clashes that killed at least 49 people a day earlier and militant attacks in the country's restive Sinai Peninsula that left several soldiers dead.


Gunman in mall shooting had no criminal record

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 01:02 PM PST

Howard County police chief William McMahon speaks to reporters at the parking lot of the Mall in Columbia, Md., after a shooting at the mall on Saturday Jan. 25, 2014 in Howard County, Md. Police in Maryland say three people died Saturday in a shooting at a mall in suburban Baltimore, including the presumed gunman. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) — The gunman who shot two people to death at a Maryland shopping mall had no criminal record, police said Sunday, but little else was known about the 19-year-old and whether he knew his victims.


Carney: Obamacare worth it, no matter political consequences

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 10:29 AM PST

Carney: Obamacare Worth It, No Matter Political ConsequencesDays before President Obama is set to deliver the annual State of the Union during, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told ABC News that passing and implementing the president's signature health care law is worth any political consequences, including losing the Democratically-controlled Senate to...


Christie speaks, and looks for lessons

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST

New Jersey Governor Christie makes an education announcement involving a new after-school dinner program for students in need at Dudley Family School in Camden"I will learn things from this," Chris Christie told me last Friday, a little more than a week after he gave the News Conference to End All News Conferences, and a few days after the cable channels covered his annual address to the Legislature in Trenton as if it were Nixon waving from the helicopter.


Wawrinka defeats injured Nadal to win Australian Open

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 04:14 AM PST

Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland poses with Norman Brookes Challenge Cup after defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain in their men's singles final match at the Australian Open 2014 tennis tournament in MelbourneStanislas Wawrinka held firm in a match of high drama to defeat an injured Rafa Nadal 6-3 6-2 3-6 6-3 and win the Australian Open on Sunday.


Thousands mourn in Ukraine as rebellion spreads

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 09:35 AM PST

Anti-government protesters gather around the fire to get warm at the flashpoint Grushevsky Street in central Kiev late January 25, 2014The Ukrainian opposition vowed to press on with protests despite an offer of top posts made by President Viktor Yanukovych.


Egyptian soldiers killed in Sinai as protest toll rises to 49

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 02:03 AM PST

Supporters of Egypt's army and police gather at Tahrir square in Cairo, on the third anniversary of Egypt's uprisingGunmen killed three Egyptian soldiers in an attack on a bus in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, the military said.


'Whiplash' wins audience, jury awards at Sundance

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 12:42 AM PST

Damien Chazelle, director of "Whiplash," accepts the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic award for his film during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)The dramatic story of a drummer who pursues excellence at all costs won top honors at the Sundance Film Festival


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