2014年5月14日星期三

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At least 30 homes torched in S. Calif. wildfires

Posted: 14 May 2014 02:55 PM PDT

A woman is evacuated from her building during a wildfire Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in Carlsbad, Calif. More wildfires broke out Wednesday in San Diego County — threatening homes in Carlsbad and forcing the evacuations of military housing and an elementary school at Camp Pendleton — as Southern California is in the grip of a heat wave. (AP Photo)Firefighters scramble to control multiple blazes on Day 2 of sweltering heat wave.


Why did firm with big Ukraine holdings hire Joe Biden’s son?

Posted: 14 May 2014 12:54 PM PDT

U.S. Vice President Biden waves as he walks out of Air Force Two with his granddaughter Biden and son Biden at the airport in BeijingIn the span of a few weeks, an energy firm little-known inside the United States added two members to its board of directors — scoring connections to Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden in the bargain.


Smithsonian gets clearance to fly drones at D.C. festival

Posted: 14 May 2014 11:13 AM PDT

People enjoy warm weather at Constitution Gardens on the National Mall in Washington, Friday, May 2, 2014. For years, the mall's grounds and facilities have fallen into disrepair, even though it's is the most-visited national park. Visitors often find dead grass, broken sidewalks and fetid pools of water. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is getting some competition from the Smithsonian Institution in testing personal delivery drones for the future.


Burst pipe in Jerusalem reveals murals of medieval crusades

Posted: 14 May 2014 11:47 AM PDT

Burst Water Pipe Reveals Century-Old Crusader Murals in JerusalemWall murals portraying Crusader knights and symbols of medieval military orders have been rediscovered in a Jerusalem hospital thanks to a burst water pipe and a storeroom reorganization. These paintings were the works of a French count, Comte Marie Paul Amédée de Piellat, who believed himself to be a descendant of Crusaders. The count was a frequent visitor to Jerusalem and had the Saint-Louis Hospice built between 1879 and 1896, naming it after St. Louis IX, a king of France and leader of the Seventh Crusade between A.D. 1248 and 1254. The count returned to Jerusalem to restore his murals, but died in the hospital in 1925, his work undone.


Christie: Bridge scandal 'will be a footnote' by 2016

Posted: 14 May 2014 12:05 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday that he is thinking about running for president and that by the time 2016 arrives the controversy over last year's George Washington Bridge lane closures "will be a footnote."

White House dusts off old playbook to handle new Benghazi panel

Posted: 14 May 2014 09:30 AM PDT

File photo of U.S. Rep. Gowdy during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee session in WashingtonThe House of Representative's select committee on Benghazi has had a rough rollout. When it's finally up and running, here's how the White House plans to respond.


California wildfires torch at least 30 homes

Posted: 14 May 2014 02:23 PM PDT

A Firefighter puts water on a house fence during a wildfire Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in Carlsbad, Calif. More wildfires broke out Wednesday in San Diego County — threatening homes in Carlsbad and forcing the evacuations of military housing and an elementary school at Camp Pendleton — as Southern California is in the grip of a heat wave. (AP Photo)San Diego County firefighters battling several fires amid hot, dry and windy conditions.


11,000 flee new Southern California wildfire

Posted: 14 May 2014 02:57 PM PDT

Home burns in the city of Carlsbad, CalforniaLocal TV images show what appear to be a number of homes burning in San Diego area.


Group: Gov't fails kids on U.S. tobacco farms

Posted: 14 May 2014 11:51 AM PDT

Report highlights child labor on US tobacco farmsReport claims children as young as 7 toil long hours harvesting chemical-laced crops.


Frugal Americans challenge food companies' bottom line

Posted: 14 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT

FILE - This Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, file photo, shows the door at a Chipotle Mexican Grill in Robinson Township, Pa. On Tuesday, April 29, 2014, Chioptle Chief Financial Officer Jack Hartung noted that the chain doesn't currently charge a whole lot more for its steak filling, even though beef costs have climbed considerably. He says Chipotle will widen the price gap between steak and chicken. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)By Lewis Krauskopf and Lisa Baertlein NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rebecca Sumrow is one of the customers food and restaurant company executives have in mind when they consider raising prices to offset higher costs as meat and milk soar to record highs. The 30-year-old from San Clemente, California, was out of work for a short time last year and saved money by moving in with her boyfriend and cutting back on clothes shopping and dining out. Consumers \"have gotten really good over these last four years at stretching a penny,\" said Pat Conroy, leader of the U.S. consumer products practice at Deloitte LLP. So far, we've been right.\" According to Deloitte's annual survey of food shoppers released last week, 94 percent agreed they would remain cautious and keep spending at the same level even if the economy improves.


Violent protests in Turkey following coal mine catastrophe

Posted: 14 May 2014 10:42 AM PDT

Violent protest in Turkish town where miners diedAt least 245 coal miners died in a mine explosion in Soma, Turkey, officials said. Nearly 450 other miners were rescued.


For artist, homeless signs are works of art

Posted: 14 May 2014 08:53 AM PDT

Dallas artist Willie Baronet at one of his gallery showings.Collector aims to buy more signs and raise awareness on cross-country journey.


Vigilantes kill rebels near Boko Haram base

Posted: 14 May 2014 12:06 PM PDT

Christians pray during a service to support the release of kidnapped girls in Nigeria, at a church in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Boko Haram, the militant group that kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria, said the girls will only be freed after the government releases jailed militants. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)Nigerian official: Villagers killed, detained militants suspected of forging a new attack.


Heart-wrenching artifacts fill new Sept. 11 museum

Posted: 14 May 2014 05:26 AM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 10, 2012 file photo shows electronic images of victims of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, destined to be a part of the future 9/11 Memorial Museum, during a news conference in New York. The museum will be dedicated in a ceremony attended by President Barack Obama on Thursday, May 15, 2014. It will open to the public May 21. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)The structure, a monument to how that day shaped history, is set to be dedicated Thursday.


Factories burned, looted as China-Vietnam tensions grow

Posted: 14 May 2014 07:59 AM PDT

ACAMA, a Chinese owned factory, burns following unrest at an industrial park in Di An Town, Binh Duong province, Vietnam, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Mobs burned and looted scores of foreign-owned factories in Vietnam following a large protest by workers against China's recent placement of an oil rig in disputed Southeast Asian waters, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jeff Nesmith)Mobs burned and looted scores of foreign-owned factories in Vietnam following a large protest by workers against China's recent placement of an oil rig in disputed Southeast Asian waters, officials said Wednesday.


Suspect in Md. TV station attack faces attempted murder

Posted: 14 May 2014 07:59 AM PDT

This photo provided by Baltimore County Police shows Vladimir Baptiste. Police on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 announced that Baptiste, 28, is charged with three counts of second-degree attempted murder after he slammed a stolen landscaping truck into a Baltimore-area television station and barricaded himself inside for hours. He is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $750,000 bail. (AP Photo/Baltimore County Police)Baltimore police say Vladimir Baptiste slammed a stolen truck into a TV station on Tuesday.


U.S. experts urge focus on ethics in brain research

Posted: 14 May 2014 08:12 AM PDT

A patient wears a cap with electrods next to a computer during a presentation of brain-machine interface on January 23, 2013 in Sion, SwitzerlandEthics must be considered early and often as the field of modern neuroscience forges ahead, to avoid repeating a dark period in history when lobotomies were common, experts said Wednesday. President Barack Obama sought the recommendations of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, as part of his $100 million Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative announced last year. It is "absolutely critical... to integrate ethics from the get-go into neuroscience research," and not "for the first time after something has gone wrong," said Amy Gutmann, Bioethics Commission Chair. Instead, it called for institutions and individuals engaged in neuroscience research, as well as government agencies and other funders, to integrate ethics early in research.


FBI: Pals of marathon suspect had to be questioned

Posted: 14 May 2014 08:04 AM PDT

This courtroom sketch shows defendants Azamat Tazhayakov, left, Dias Kadyrbayev, center, and Robel Phillipos, right, college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, during a hearing in federal court Tuesday, May 13, 2014, in Boston. Judge Douglas Woodlock ruled the three men will be tried separately, but their trials do not need to be moved out of Massachusetts. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov are Kazakhstan nationals charged with tampering with evidence for removing Tsarnaev's laptop and a backpack containing fireworks from his college dorm room shortly after last year's fatal bombing. Phillipos, of Cambridge, Mass., is charged with lying to investigators. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins)BOSTON (AP) — An FBI agent says that two friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) would have been arrested if they did not come to a police station voluntarily.


Pakistan police arrest teacher for gang rape

Posted: 14 May 2014 06:48 AM PDT

Pakistani suspects of a gang rape, center, leave a court after outraged citizens pelted the suspects with ink and tomatoes, in Mansehra, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Pakistani police have arrested a seminary teacher and two of his friends on charges of gang raping a college girl in a city in the northwest, a police official said Wednesday. The case is unusual since rape cases are rarely prosecuted in Pakistan and women who complain are often stigmatized. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmad)MANSEHRA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police arrested a teacher at a Quranic school and his two friends on charges of gang raping a college student in the country's northwest, alleging he filmed the attack and may have blackmailed other victims, authorities said Wednesday.


238 dead in Turkish mine disaster

Posted: 14 May 2014 07:02 AM PDT

Miners carry a rescued miner after an explosion and fire at a coal mine killed at least 17 miners and left up to 300 workers trapped underground, in Soma, in western Turkey, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. An explosion and fire at the mine killed at least 232 workers, authorities said, in one of the worst mining disasters in Turkish history. Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said 787 people were inside the coal mine at the time of the accident. (AP Photo/Depo Photos)Rescuers raced to reach more than 100 others who remained trapped on Wednesday.


MERS isn't an emergency, WHO says

Posted: 14 May 2014 06:14 AM PDT

A Muslim pilgrim wears a surgical maskThe spread of a puzzling respiratory virus in the Middle East and beyond is not a global health emergency despite a recent spike in cases, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.


Samsung apologizes to sickened chip workers

Posted: 14 May 2014 05:26 AM PDT

Samsung offers 'deep apology' and compensation to workers who've contracted incurable diseasesSamsung Electronics Co. apologized and promised compensation to chip factory workers who suffered cancers linked to chemical exposure, a rare win for families and activists seven years after the death ...


San Diego wildfires have grow calm, authorities say

Posted: 14 May 2014 05:26 AM PDT

Flames grow as a wild fire burns out-of-control in the north county area of San Diego Tuesday, May 13, 2014, in San Diego. Wildfires destroyed a home and forced the evacuation of several others Tuesday in California as a high-pressure system brought unseasonable heat and gusty winds to a parched state that should be in the middle of its rainy season. (AP Photo)A pair of wildfires flared and thousands of residents fled amid drought conditions and spiking heat in California, but both blazes had calmed as night fell and the winds that had whipped them diminished.


Pentagon seeks transfer, gender treatment for Chelsea Manning

Posted: 14 May 2014 07:25 AM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army, Pfc. Chelsea Manning poses for a photo wearing a wig and lipstick. In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said Tuesday May 13, 2014. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, File)In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said.


Vietnam mobs set fire to foreign factories in anti-China riots

Posted: 14 May 2014 07:39 AM PDT

By Ho Binh Minh and Manuel Mogato HANOI/MANILA (Reuters) - Thousands of Vietnamese set fire to foreign factories and rampaged in industrial zones in the south of the country in an angry reaction to Chinese oil drilling in a part of the South China Sea claimed by Vietnam, officials said on Wednesday. The brunt of Tuesday's violence, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbors fought a brief border war in 1979, appears to have been borne by Taiwanese firms in the zones in Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces that were mistaken for Chinese-owned companies. A police official in Binh Duong province, speaking by telephone, said about 200 people had been arrested. Some Taiwanese firms had spray-painted messages on the road and across their gates saying \"We Support Vietnam\" in an effort to distinguish themselves from Chinese enterprises.

Pistorius to undergo psychiatric tests

Posted: 14 May 2014 11:51 AM PDT

Oscar Pistorius stands in the dock at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. The judge overseeing the murder trial of Pistorius on Wednesday ordered the double-amputee athlete to undergo psychiatric tests, meaning that the trial proceedings will be delayed. The court adjourned until May 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Werner Beukes, Pool)Oscar Pistorius was ordered by a judge on Wednesday to undergo psychiatric tests, meaning that the double-amputee athlete's murder trial will be interrupted, possibly for two months.


Obama to ask Congress for cash for roads, bridges

Posted: 14 May 2014 07:17 AM PDT

LaGuardia AirportWASHINGTON (AP) — America's roads, bridges and ports are falling apart, and the federal government is running out of money to fix them. So President Barack Obama is heading to a crumbling bridge outside New York City to try to pressure Congress into giving the nation's infrastructure an infusion of cash.


Biden touts St. Louis Arch renovation project

Posted: 14 May 2014 04:11 AM PDT

Biden touts St. Louis Arch renovation projectVice President Joe Biden made a rain-shortened appearance beneath the Gateway Arch to tout the economic benefits of a massive renovation project at the iconic tourist attraction. The Democratic vice president ...


Pentagon OKs Manning transfer for gender treatment

Posted: 14 May 2014 02:19 AM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army, Pfc. Chelsea Manning poses for a photo wearing a wig and lipstick. In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said Tuesday May 13, 2014. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said.


Obama: GOP captured by rigid ideology of 'no'

Posted: 14 May 2014 04:41 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks to the media at the Washington Irving Boat Club in Tarrytown, N.Y., Wednesday, May 14, 2014. The President spoke about the need for Congress to fund road and bridge improvements across the nation. (AP Photo/Journal News, Seth Harrison, Pool)NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama says Republicans have been captured by an ideology that tells them to say no to everything.


274 dead in Turkey's worst-ever mine disaster

Posted: 14 May 2014 03:04 PM PDT

A woman reacts after seeing the dead body of a relative outside a coal mine in Soma, western Turkey, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Istanbul, early Wednesday, May 14, 2014. An explosion and fire at the coal mine killed at least 232 workers, authorities said, in one of the worst mining disasters in Turkish history. Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said 787 people were inside the coal mine at the time of the accident. (AP Photo/Depo Photos)SOMA, Turkey (AP) — Amid wails of grief and anger, rescue workers coated in grime trudged repeatedly out of a coal mine Wednesday with stretchers of bodies that swelled the death toll to 274 — the worst such disaster in Turkish history.


Wildfire burns homes in San Diego County

Posted: 14 May 2014 04:21 PM PDT

A wildfire climbs a canyon toward homes Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in Carlsbad, Calif. More wildfires broke out Wednesday in San Diego County — threatening homes in Carlsbad and forcing the evacuations of military housing and an elementary school at Camp Pendleton — as Southern California is in the grip of a heat wave. (AP Photo)CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Flames engulfed suburban homes and shot up along canyon ridges in one of the worst of several blazes that broke out Wednesday in Southern California during a second day of a sweltering heat wave, taxing fire crews who fear the scattered fires mark only the beginning of a long wildfire season.


9/11 museum offers sights and sounds of tragedy

Posted: 14 May 2014 02:37 PM PDT

In this May 5, 2014 photo released by the National September 11 Memorial Museum, a firetruck, damaged in the attacks of September 11, 2001, is on display at the New York museum. The long-delayed museum will be dedicated during a ceremony Thursday, May 15, 2014. (AP Photo/ National September 11 Memorial Museum, Jin Lee)NEW YORK (AP) — The museum devoted to the story of Sept. 11 tells it in victims' last voicemails, in photos of people falling from the twin towers, in the scream of sirens, in the dust-covered shoes of those who fled the skyscrapers' collapse, in the wristwatch of one of the airline passengers who confronted the hijackers.


Extremists attack town of abducted schoolgirls

Posted: 14 May 2014 03:53 PM PDT

Christians pray during a service to support the release of kidnapped girls in Nigeria, at a church in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Boko Haram, the militant group that kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria, said the girls will only be freed after the government releases jailed militants. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic militants again attacked the remote Nigerian town from which nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped, Nigeria's military said Wednesday, resulting in a firefight that killed 12 soldiers and led angry troops to fire on a commanding officer.


After husband's tragic death, widow takes on PTSD

Posted: 14 May 2014 11:53 AM PDT

In this May 12, 2014 photo, Amy Miner, of Essex, Vt., poses in Burlington, Vt., with an April 2013 photo of herself and husband Kryn Miner, an Army veteran who suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and who was shot to death by one of their children in April after threatening to kill the family. Amy Miner believes the Veterans Affairs health system must do more to help veterans who struggle with PTSD after returning home. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer)BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Amy Miner says her late husband's fight did not end when he left the war.


Boy survives 11-story fall from Minnesota building

Posted: 14 May 2014 01:59 PM PDT

In this photo taken May 13, 2014, shows a section of the Riverside Plaza apartments where a 15-month-old boy survived an 11-story fall from a balcony in Minneapolis. The child, Musa Dayib, suffered a broken spine and ribs as well as a concussion and a punctured lung. His relatives believe he slipped through the balcony's railing Sunday evening. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Renee Jones Schneider) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT.MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A young boy who survived an 11-story fall from a Minneapolis high-rise has been dubbed "the miracle baby" and was recovering in a hospital Wednesday.


Lung cancer screening could cost Medicare billions

Posted: 14 May 2014 02:24 PM PDT

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 new study estimates that screening certain current and former smokers for lung cancer would cost Medicare about $2 billion a year, which would add $3 a month to Medicare premiums. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)Every person covered by Medicare would shell out an additional $3 a month if the government agreed to pay to screen certain current and former smokers for lung cancer, a new study estimates.


CANNES WATCH: Lively soars, Kidman talks lows

Posted: 14 May 2014 04:11 PM PDT

American actress Blake Lively poses for photographers on the red carpet during the opening ceremony and the screening of Grace of Monaco at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)CANNES, France (AP) — The Associated Press is all over the Cannes Film Festival — from its glitzy premieres to the celeb parties and quirky moments in between. Here's what reporters have seen and heard:


Abramson replaced as NYT executive editor

Posted: 14 May 2014 04:11 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times on Wednesday announced that executive editor Jill Abramson is being replaced by managing editor Dean Baquet after two and a half years on the job.

All 20,000 evacuation orders off in San Diego fire

Posted: 13 May 2014 10:54 PM PDT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A wildfire that surged amid high heat and dry winds in drought conditions brought evacuation orders for more than 20,000 homes in and around San Diego, but all residents were told they could return home Tuesday night just a few hours later as cooler, calmer darkness fell.

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