2014年5月1日星期四

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Report details how Oklahoma execution faltered

Posted: 01 May 2014 02:56 PM PDT

This April 29, 2014 photo shows the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. after Robert Patton stopped the execution of Clayton Lockett. Lockett died 43 minutes after his execution began Tuesday night as Oklahoma used a new drug combination for the first time in the state. Autopsy results are pending but state prison officials say Lockett apparently suffered a massive heart attack. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, John Clanton) KOTV OUT; KJRH OUT; KTUL OUT; KOKI OUT; KQCW OUT; KDOR OUT; TULSA OUT; TULSA ONLINE OUTConvicted killer in botched execution had fought state's new lethal injection cocktail.


Deadly Nigeria bombing bears hallmarks of Islamic extremists

Posted: 01 May 2014 04:00 PM PDT

People gather at the site of a car bomb explosion in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, May 1, 2014. A car bomb exploded on a busy road in Nigeria's capital late Thursday, killing at least nine people days before the city is to host a major international economic forum. (AP Photo/Gbemiga Olamikan)ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A car bomb exploded on a busy road in Nigeria's capital late Thursday, killing at least nine people days before the city is to host a major international economic forum.


Seattle mayor proposes phased-in $15 minimum wage

Posted: 01 May 2014 02:36 PM PDT

Council To Study Hiking Minimum Wage Without Public VoteSEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray on Thursday proposed a phased-in increase of the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next seven years — a compromise endorsed by both business and labor.


Remains of Vietnam vet missing since 1980 ignite murder probe

Posted: 01 May 2014 01:52 PM PDT

Storey County Sheriff Gerald Antinoro speaks to reporters at Washoe County sheriff's headquarters in Reno on Thursday, May 1, 2014, about the opening of an investigation into the apparent 1980 homicide of George Benson Webster of Sun Valley, who is pictured in the background.The highly decorated Vietnam veteran had been missing since then. His remains were found last summer in a septic tank at a home on the edge of the historic Comtock mining town of Virginia City about 20 miles from Reno. Detectives traced his identity with the help of a partial serial number on a medallion with the remains. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)RENO, Nev. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies in northern Nevada are investigating the suspected murder of a highly-decorated Vietnam veteran whose remains were found last summer in a septic tank near the historic Comstock mining town of Virginia City nearly 34 years after he disappeared.


Explosion kills at least 9 in Nigeria

Posted: 01 May 2014 02:20 PM PDT

Youths and workers carrying signs protest at a rally marking May Day outside an open field in LagosSecond bombing in 3 weeks comes as Islamic extremist network steps up brutal insurgency.


Cuba keeps spot on U.S. terror list

Posted: 01 May 2014 01:21 PM PDT

The US State Department, seen on September 12, 2012 in Washington, DCBy Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba labeled as absurd and manipulative an annual U.S. State Department report that once again designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, a setback for advocates hoping for a change in Washington's Cuba policy this year. The annual Country Reports on Terrorism issued on Wednesday continued to list Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria as countries that have "repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism." Cuba has been on the list since 1982. Cuba's Foreign Ministry "energetically rejects the manipulation of a matter as sensitive as international terrorism by turning it into an instrument of policy against Cuba and it demands that our country be definitively excluded from this spurious, unilateral and arbitrary list," the Cuban government said in a statement late on Wednesday. Opponents of Washington's Cold War-era policy on Cuba had hoped it would drop Cuba from the list this year in a sign U.S. President Barack Obama might want to normalize relations with the communist-ruled island 90 miles from Florida.


Colombian shaman dismisses role in UK teen's death

Posted: 01 May 2014 03:13 PM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 23, 2014, police officers and forensics look at the body of British citizen Henry Miller, 19, on a road outside Mocoa, in Colombia's southwestern state of Putumayo. Miller died after he drank a hallucinogen during a tribal ritual, his body left by the side of the road by two frightened young local men, said Saturday local police commander Ricardo Suarez. (AP Photo/Jose Horacio Villarreal)BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A Colombian shaman is showing no remorse and taking no responsibility for the death of a British teenager who drank a hallucinogen during a tribal ritual.


Appeal of cheerleader's suit seen as major test of online speech

Posted: 01 May 2014 12:05 PM PDT

FILE-This Monday, July 30, 2012 file photo shows Sarah Jones, a former Dixie Heights High School teacher and Cincinnati Ben-Gal cheerleader, arriving at the Kenton County Justice Center, in Covington, Kentucky. An appeals court is considering whether an Arizona-based gossip website should have been allowed to be sued for defamation by Jones, convicted of having sex with a teenager. Attorneys for both sides argued their case Thursday, May 1, 2014 before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/The Enquirer, Patrick Reddy, File) NO SALESCINCINNATI (AP) — An appeals court heard arguments Thursday over whether a gossip website should have been immune from a defamation lawsuit brought by a former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader, a case that Internet giants such as Google and Facebook are watching closely.


Explosion kills at least 9 in Nigeria

Posted: 01 May 2014 01:50 PM PDT

Youths and workers carrying signs protest at a rally marking May Day outside an open field in LagosSecond bombing in 3 weeks comes as Islamic extremist network steps up brutal insurgency.


3 missing prisoners located after Florida blast

Posted: 01 May 2014 12:36 PM PDT

Escambia County jailOfficial says three were unaccounted for in chaos after explosion but didn't escape system.


Matt Bai: The time has come to make you vote

Posted: 01 May 2014 02:03 AM PDT

Voting BoothWord is that Sean Parker, the 34-year-old Web visionary who built Napster and then helped grow Facebook, is the latest billionaire with an idea to save the political system, or at least a lot of money in search of an idea to save the political system. Parker and other investors are said to be planning a startup aimed at organizing disaffected voters. They've hired some well-connected Washington consultants, because that's what you do when you really want to stick it to the status quo.


Ukraine renews military draft as unrest deepens

Posted: 01 May 2014 01:36 PM PDT

Pro-Russian activists clash with police in front of the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Thursday, May 1, 2014. Anti-government demonstrators in Donetsk have stormed the local prosecutor's office. The clash came after a march by several hundred people carrying flags of the Donetsk People's Republic, a movement that seeks either greater autonomy from the central government, or independence and possible annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Move comes after Putin says withdrawal of units fighting insurgents is his "main thing."


Heartbreaking video shows students as ferry sinks

Posted: 01 May 2014 09:40 AM PDT

In this April 16, 2014 photo taken with a mobile phone by deceased South Korean high school student Park Su-hyeon and released by his father Park Jong-dae, students are shown inside the sinking ferry Sewol on waters near Jindo, South Korea. Soon after the ferry begins to tilt, nervous laughter can be heard from the high school students huddled below deck. In video clips from the cellphone of Park Su-hyeon, a victim of the disaster that has shaken South Korea, the teenagers talk of taking selfies, wonder if they'll make the news and discuss posting about the excitement later on Facebook. (AP Photo/Park Su-hyeon courtesy of the Park Family)Soon after the ferry begins to tilt, nervous laughter can be heard from the high school students huddled below deck. In video clips from the cellphone of a victim of a disaster that has shaken South Korea, the teenagers talk of taking selfies, wonder if they'll make the news and discuss posting about the excitement later on Facebook.


55 schools face U.S. federal sex assault probe

Posted: 01 May 2014 12:14 PM PDT

Money Saver: Avoid student loan debtThe Dept. of Education investigates institutions' handling of sexual abuse complaints.


Malaysia releases preliminary report into MH370

Posted: 01 May 2014 09:18 AM PDT

FILE- In this April 19, 2014 file photo, Malaysian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hamzah Zainudin, left, listens as Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein answers a question from a journalist during a press conference on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Air traffic controllers did not realize that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was missing until 17 minutes after it disappeared from civilian radar, according to the preliminary report on the plane's disappearance released Thursday, May 1, 2014, by Malaysia's government. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)Brief reveals 17-minute lapse between jet's disappearance from radar and ATC's response.


Pro-Russian protesters storm prosecutor's office in Ukraine's Donetsk

Posted: 01 May 2014 07:23 AM PDT

Pro-Russian protesters stormed the prosecutor's office in the separatist-held city of Donetsk on Thursday, lobbing stones and smashing windows after accusing the office of working for the Western-backed government in Kiev. Donetsk, a city of about 1 million people in Ukraine's industrial east, is at the center of an armed uprising across the steel and coal belt by mainly Russian-speakers threatening to secede from Ukraine. "The prosecutor's office was issuing criminal orders from Kiev against its own people, charging them with separatism and other fake crimes," said one protester, a 43-year-old man from Donetsk who gave his name as Igor. Interfax-Ukraine news agency said the protesters had allowed security officers inside the building to leave, but that some were wounded.

China points to suicide blast in Urumqi attack

Posted: 01 May 2014 06:53 AM PDT

Heavily armed Chinese paramilitary policemen march past the site of the Wednesday's explosion outside the Urumqi South Railway Station in Urumqi in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Thursday, May 1, 2014. Chinese President Xi Jinping has demanded 'decisive actions" against terrorism following the attack at the railway station in the far west minority region of Xinjiang that left three people dead and 79 injured. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Chinese authorities said Thursday that two religious extremists carried out a terror attack at a train station in far-western Xinjiang region by detonating explosives, in an apparent suicide bombing that also killed one other person and wounded 79.


Florida jail blast kills 2, injures 150

Posted: 01 May 2014 08:55 AM PDT

Escambia County jailThree inmates were unaccounted for after explosion on Thursday, police said.


Toronto mayor takes leave of absence

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, December 10 2013 file photo, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford speaks in Toronto. Rob Ford's lawyer said on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, that Ford will take a leave of absence to seek help for substance abuse. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young File)Rob Ford acknowledges that he has a problem with alcohol and says he will be seeking help.


When the White House hates your tweet

Posted: 01 May 2014 03:34 AM PDT

For Pres. Obama, reporters' tweets are a kind of early warning system. Find out who sounds the alarm.

100,000 march as Moscow revives May Day tradition

Posted: 01 May 2014 02:23 AM PDT

People holding Russian flags and posters march during the May Day celebration at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, May 1, 2014. According to official reports about one hundred thousand people took part in the first May Day demonstration at the Red Square since the fall of the Soviet Union. The placards read: "We Believe in Putin, foreground," and "We will spend vacation in Crimea, background,." (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)It's the first time the parade has been held on Red Square since the fall of the Soviet Union.


A race against wind in California wildfire fight

Posted: 01 May 2014 01:42 AM PDT

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling a smoky blaze in the foothills east of Los Angeles hoped to take advantage of a brief respite from the fierce, hot winds that initially pushed the fire into the path of more than 1,500 homes.

New video emerges from inside South Korean ferry as ship sank

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 06:34 PM PDT

Photos of the day - April 30, 2014A 15 minute video taken from inside the sinking ferry reveals that the student passengers were instructed to stay inside their cabins even as the ship's captain and crew fled the vessel.


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