2014年4月10日星期四

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Health secretary Sebelius resigning from post

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 05:04 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sebelius talks before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the President's budget proposal for FY2015, on Capitol Hill in WashingtonMove follows end to rocky enrollment period for President Obama's health care law.


Energy co. offers $250,000 reward in startling Silicon Valley grid attack

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 04:58 PM PDT

Gregg Lemler, vice president of transmission operations for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., listens to questions at a news conference in San Francisco, Thursday, April 10, 2014. PG&E offered a $250,000 reward on Thursday for information leading to an arrest and conviction in an attack nearly a year ago on phone lines and the power grid in Silicon Valley. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. offered a $250,000 reward Thursday for information leading to an arrest and conviction in a startling attack mounted nearly a year ago on telephone lines and the power grid in Silicon Valley.


Who is Stephen Colbert, really?

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 04:19 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 10, 2012 file photo shows Stephen Colbert, host of "The Colbert Report," onstage during StePhest Colbchella '012 Rocktaugustfest at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. CBS announced Thursday, April 10, 2014, Colbert will succeed David Letterman as the host of When CBS announced Stephen Colbert as David Letterman's successor on the "Late Show," speculation immediately surfaced over what that meant.  Mr. Colbert quickly answered the question with a  release through his publicist, stating, "I won't be doing the new show in character, so we'll all get to find out how much of him was me. But the question now is: Will his core fans – passionate members of the Colbert nation, a cohort that skews younger than the 50-year-old Colbert and one that CBS dearly wants to woo – be as eager to find out as well? "CBS is taking an incredible risk," says Paul Levinson, a professor at Fordham University in New York and author of "New New Media." "The only reason Colbert is successful and people love him is because they love the satirical character he plays on Comedy Central."


More than 100 get virus on California cruise

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 04:01 PM PDT

Cruise Ship With Sick Passengers Making It`s Way To San DiegoPrincess Cruises says most passengers have recovered quickly from highly contagious norovirus.


U.S. ambassadors court the world in campaign-style videos

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 10:02 AM PDT

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline KennedyThe State Department introduces newly confirmed ambassadors with slick videos that would not be out of place in a presidential campaign. The target: people, not governments.


Driver in deadly Fla. day care crash in custody

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 04:29 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Robert Corchado. Authorities are looking for Corchado in connection with an incident Wednesday, April 9, 2014, where a car smashed into an Orlando, Fla.-area day care, killing a girl and injuring 14 others, at least a dozen of them children, authorities said. (AP Photo/Florida Department of Corrections)WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — A manhunt across Florida ended Thursday with the surrender of a driver blamed in a deadly crash at a day care that injured 14 and killed a 4-year-old girl who was sitting in a classroom awaiting her afternoon snack.


New findings suggest 'Gospel of Jesus's Wife' not modern forgery

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 06:56 AM PDT

'Gospel of Jesus' Wife' Faces Authenticity TestsAccording to a newly published study in the Harvard Theological Review, the controversial fragment known as the Gospel of Jesus's Wife dates to between the sixth and ninth centuries and could possibly date back as early as the second to fourth centuries.


Ebola fears spread as outbreak worsens

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 01:22 PM PDT

Two members of the Guinean Red Cross, in protective gear, arrive on March 31, 2014 to evacuate the bodies of two people who died from the Ebola in Conakry, GuineaEmergency measures taken across west Africa to contain one of worst-ever outbreaks, threatening every country in region.


When illness, medical bills overwhelmed, couple turned to crowdfunding

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 12:31 PM PDT

Blake Britton and his wife Vicki (The Britton Project)Blake Britton has cancer, and he and his wife, Vicki, are expecting their first child in May. Their friends have launched an online fundraiser to help cover the couple's significant medical expenses.


DOJ: Albuquerque police used 'patterns of excessive force'

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 10:01 AM PDT

Albuquerque police face off with protesters Sunday, March 30, 2014, in downtown Albuquerque, N.M. during a protest against recent police shootings. Hundreds of protesters marched past riot police in Albuquerque on Sunday, days after a YouTube video emerged threatening retaliation for a recent deadly police shooting. The video, which bore the logo of the computer hacking collective Anonymous, warned of a cyberattack on city websites and called for the protest march. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)Officers need more training and tools to ensure they can protect the community.


What did Russia know about Boston attack?

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 03:43 PM PDT

Marathon Medical Tent Volunteers Reflect On Boston BombingInformation Russia withheld from U.S. could have made difference in marathon bombing, report says.


Lawyer: Pa. stabbing suspect 'confused, scared and depressed'

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Alex Hribal does not understand the gravity of the charges against him, his attorney says.


Obama: More work ahead on civil rights

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 04:38 PM PDT

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking at the LBJ Presidential Library, Thursday, April 10, 2014, in Austin, Texas, during the Civil Rights Summit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)On 50th anniversary of Civil Rights Act, president cautions, "story of America is a story of progress."


5 charged after FBI rescue of NC prosecutor's father

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 03:27 PM PDT

In this photo taken from video and made available to The Associated Press, residents watch as federal agents stand at an apartment complex in Atlanta, Wednesday, April 9, 2014, where the agents rescued Frank Arthur Janssen, of Wake Forest. N.C. John Strong, FBI special agent in charge in North Carolina, said the kidnapping of Janssen was related to his daughter's prosecution of North Carolina prisoner Kelvin Melton, who is serving a life sentence for his 2012 conviction for being a habitual felon. (AP Photo)WAKE FOREST, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man whose daughter prosecutes violent crimes was rescued by an elite FBI team after he was kidnapped and terrorized for five days in what authorities described as act of retaliation involving the Bloods street gang.


Stephen Colbert to replace Letterman on late show

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 04:49 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 23, 2012 file photo shows TV personality Stephen Colbert at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards Governors Ball in Los Angeles. CBS on Thursday, April 10, 2014, announced that Colbert, the host of NEW YORK (AP) — CBS moved swiftly Thursday to replace the retiring David Letterman with Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, who will take over the "Late Show" next year and do battle with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel for late-night television supremacy.


Statewide manhunt for suspect in fatal Fla. day care crash

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 01:37 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Robert Corchado. Authorities are looking for Corchado in connection with an incident Wednesday, April 9, 2014, where a car smashed into an Orlando, Fla.-area day care, killing a girl and injuring 14 others, at least a dozen of them children, authorities said. (AP Photo/Florida Department of Corrections)WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — As mourners trickled by Thursday to honor the 4-year-old girl who was killed and 14 others injured in a crash at a Florida day care, authorities scoured the state for the driver they said fled in the vehicle that caused the fatal wreck.


Prosecutor calls Pistorius's version 'impossible'

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 01:54 PM PDT

In a pummelling cross-examination, the prosecution called Oscar Pistorius's account of killing his girlfriend "impossible" on Thursday, zeroing in on apparent inconsistencies in key parts of his testimony. "Your version is so improbable that nobody would ever think it's reasonably, possibly true it's so impossible," Prosecutor Gerrie Nel thundered during his second day interrogating the Olympian. Under intense questioning, Pistorius said police moved fans, put the duvet on the floor and opened the curtains when they came to his villa, implying they had tampered with the crime scene.

Possible fifth ping heard in Malaysia jet search

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 07:37 AM PDT

NARROWING FLIGHT 370 SEARCH AREAPERTH, Australia (AP) — An Australian aircraft Thursday detected what may be the fifth signal coming from a man-made device deep in the Indian Ocean, adding to hopes that searchers will soon pinpoint the object's location and send down a robotic vehicle to confirm if it is a black box from the missing Malaysian jet.


The Koch brothers' 'secret bank' steps out of the shadows

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 03:26 AM PDT

A once-secretive Koch-backed group that bankrolls conservative causes puts its name on ads against Democrats for the first time. But donors remain undisclosed.

Matt Bai: Scott Brown shouldn’t worry about carpetbagger label

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 02:30 AM PDT

Scott BrownThe real reason modern politics so often seems to surprise those of us who practice or follow it closely isn't because we lack for reams of granular data culled from the research of political scientists, or because we're locked away in Washington and have no idea what's going on in the rest of the country. It's because we apply the wrong context to the question.


Samsung Galaxy S5: When a committee builds a smartphone

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Why do all the new, hotly awaited phones produce global sighs of disappointment?


Russia withheld intel on Boston bomb suspect

Posted: 09 Apr 2014 08:27 PM PDT

FILE - This combination of file photos shows brothers Tamerlan, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with police several days later, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured and is held in a federal prison on charges of using a weapon of mass destruction. The FBI has denied a claim made by lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that his brother and fellow suspect was asked by the FBI to be an informant. The Boston FBI office declined to comment on claims made in a court filing Friday, March 28, 2014. But the agency cited a statement it released in October in which it said the Tsarnaev brothers were never sources for the FBI, "nor did the FBI attempt to recruit them as sources." (AP Photos/Lowell Sun and FBI, File)Russia failed to provide key details to the FBI before the attack, reports the N.Y. Times.


New possible sound detected in hunt for lost jet

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 03:21 AM PDT

U.S. Navy P-8 PoseidonAn Australian aircraft picks up a new possible underwater signal.


Police seek motive of school stabbing rampage

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 04:45 AM PDT

MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — It was just before the start of class and the hallways were packed as usual with students at their lockers or chatting with friends.

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