2014年5月16日星期五

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Arkansas high court halts gay marriages

Posted: 16 May 2014 03:59 PM PDT

Beth Moore, left, and her partner Abby Hill, center, exchange vows in a marriage ceremony performed by Jeremy Hernandez, right, at the Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville, Ark., Friday May 16, 2014. The Washington County clerk has resumed issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a day after a circuit judge in Pulaski County ruled that all state laws barring gay marriage are unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Sarah Bentham)More than 450 same-sex licenses were issued since ruling against constitutional amendment.


Shut your 'deathtrap': GM probe reveals banned words list

Posted: 16 May 2014 04:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2009 file photo, the General Motors logo is on display at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. General Motors is offering free loaner cars to owners of compacts that are being recalled for a deadly ignition switch defect, the company said Wednesday, March 12, 2014. The company also will offer a $500 cash allowance to owners who want to buy or lease a new GM vehicle. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)DETROIT (AP) — The revelation of a list of banned words at General Motors is one of the odder twists in the company's ongoing recall of 2.6 million small cars for defective ignition switches.


Destructive force of 'firenadoes' can even surprise experts

Posted: 16 May 2014 02:26 PM PDT

Whirling Flames: How Fire Tornadoes WorkWhat is a fire tornado, and how dangerous are they? In 1926, a series of fire tornadoes were spawned after lightning struck a Union Oil Co. tank farm near San Luis Obispo, California.


India's historic election: Why Modi matters

Posted: 16 May 2014 09:31 AM PDT

Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and India's next prime minister Narendra Modi receives a giant floral garland from supporters after his landslide victory in Vadodara, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Friday, May 16, 2014. Modi will be India's next prime minister, winning the most decisive victory the country has seen in more than a quarter century and sweeping the long-dominant Congress party from power, partial results showed Friday. (AP Photo/ Dharmesh Jobanputra)Blunt outsider who swept to victory inspires with single-minded focus on growth.


Top VA health official resigns under fire

Posted: 16 May 2014 04:12 PM PDT

Veterans Affairs Undersecretary Robert Petzel, MD testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 15, 2014, before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing to examine the state of Veterans Affairs health care. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)WASHINGTON (AP) — The top official for veterans' health care resigned Friday amid a firestorm over delays in care and falsified records at veteran hospitals.


House GOP blocks vote on new immigration bill

Posted: 16 May 2014 01:15 PM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 14, 2014 file photo shows House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. A spokesman for Cantor says he'll block a vote next week on legislation giving a path to citizenship to people living here illegally who serve in the military. Friday's announcement from Cantor comes after a Republican congressman from California announced plans to try to bring the measure to a vote as an amendment to the annual defense bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders intervened Friday to prevent a vote on U.S. immigration legislation, dealing a severe blow to election-year efforts to overhaul the widely denigrated system.


Switzerland, home to world's highest prices, mulls $25 minimum wage

Posted: 16 May 2014 09:16 AM PDT

In this picture taken May 1, 2014, demonstrators demand on a banner a monthly salary of at least 4,000 Swiss Francs (US dollar 4,490), in Lausanne, Switzerland. In a nation of mostly haves and have-mores, Swiss voters head to the polls Sunday, May 18, 2014, to decide on a trade union's proposal that would create a new nationwide minimum wage and set it at 22 Swiss francs (US dollar 24.70) an hour _ the world's highest. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)GENEVA (AP) — In a nation of mostly haves and have-mores, Swiss voters head to the polls Sunday to decide on a union proposal that would create a new nationwide minimum wage at 22 Swiss francs ($24.70) an hour — the world's highest.


N.H. town urges top cop to quit over Obama racial slur

Posted: 16 May 2014 01:32 PM PDT

Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert CopelandPolitical leaders in a New Hampshire town have officially joined residents in demanding the resignation of a police commissioner who uttered a racial slur about President Barack Obama.


Railroad's new owner hopes town where 47 died will OK oil trains

Posted: 16 May 2014 01:48 PM PDT

FILE - Smoke rises from railway cars that were carrying crude oil after derailing in downtown Lac Megantic, Quebec, Canada, Saturday, July 6, 2013. Three employees and the railway company involved in the massive explosion, killing 47 people, will face criminal negligence charges, provincial prosecutors announced late Monday, May 12, 2014. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson, File)The company purchasing the assets of a railroad responsible for a fiery oil train derailment that claimed 47 lives in Quebec plans to resume oil shipments once track safety improvements are made, the firm's ...


Watergate figure who claimed he heard Nixon green-light break-in dies

Posted: 16 May 2014 11:03 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2008 file photo, Jeb Magruder is interviewed by The Associated Press in Columbus, Ohio. Magruder, an aide to President Nixon who spent seven months in prison for his role in covering up the 1972 break-in at Washington's Watergate complex, died Sunday, May 11, 2014, due to complications from a stroke. He was 79. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jeb Stuart Magruder, a Watergate conspirator who claimed in later years to have heard President Richard Nixon order the office break-in, has died. He was 79.


Town's top cop urged to quit over Obama slur

Posted: 16 May 2014 09:51 AM PDT

Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert CopelandN.H. town board says it's powerless to remove commissioner who admitted to racist remark.


Police officer, mail carrier team up to stop runaway pickup

Posted: 16 May 2014 08:30 AM PDT

A man's attempt to fix his pickup truck by tinkering with the engine led to a wild scene in Chesnee, South Carolina.

10 dead, 70 wounded in Kenya bombings

Posted: 16 May 2014 09:39 AM PDT

Security forces secure the scene at the site where two blasts detonated, one in a mini-van used for public transportation, in a market area of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 16, 2014. Two blasts hit Kenya's capital on Friday, killing a number of people and injuring many more, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of increasingly frequent terror attacks. (AP Photo)Two bombs exploded in a market in Kenya's capital on Friday, killing 10 people and injuring 70 as hundreds of British tourists were evacuated from a coastal area where Islamic extremists have operated.


U.S. fines GM $35M in safety case

Posted: 16 May 2014 09:31 AM PDT

GM Board Starts Own Recall ProbeThe U.S. government is fining General Motors $35 million for delays in recalling small cars with faulty ignition switches.


Some evacuations lifted in San Diego fire area

Posted: 16 May 2014 11:13 AM PDT

A woman douses water from a hose around her home as her neighbor's home burns during a wildfire Thursday, May 15, 2014, in Escondido, Calif. One of the nine fires burning in San Diego County suddenly flared Thursday afternoon and burned close to homes, trigging thousands of new evacuation orders. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)Some evacuation orders were lifted early Friday in an area near the fiercest of several wildfires in San Diego County, as crews building containment lines around the blazes hoped cooler temperatures will help them make further progress.


Police shoot armed man at Utah hospital

Posted: 16 May 2014 09:28 AM PDT

generic_fp_shooting_v1A man wielding a gun was shot by police inside a northern Utah hospital, officials said.


10 dead, 70 wounded in Kenya blasts

Posted: 16 May 2014 07:42 AM PDT

A policeman secures the scene of twin explosions at the Gikomba open-air market for second-hand clothes in NairobiTwo blasts hit Kenya's capital on Friday in the latest in a string of terror attacks.


Rare footage shows 'brave struggle' of FDR walking

Posted: 16 May 2014 10:31 AM PDT

Rare film footage featuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt walking to his seat at a baseball game helps dispel the myth that he tried to hide his disability and shows the courage it took to go about his daily life, experts said Friday.

Pro-Russian insurgents retreat in Ukraine's east

Posted: 16 May 2014 09:51 AM PDT

Workers of the Ukrainian company Metinvest clear away debris in a government building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, Friday, May 16, 2014. Local patrols by steelworkers have forced pro-Russia insurgents to retreat from the government buildings they had seized in a major city in eastern Ukraine, giving residents hope that a wave of violence was over. Mariupol is the second-largest city in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, one of two regions that declared independence Monday from the central government in Kiev. Citizen patrols began there earlier this week as Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man, urged steelworkers at his factories to help police restore order.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Local patrols by steelworkers have forced pro-Russia insurgents to retreat from the government buildings they had seized in a major city in eastern Ukraine, giving residents hope that a wave of anarchy was over.


Turkish firm, government officials deny negligence in mining blast

Posted: 16 May 2014 03:52 PM PDT

Family members cry during the funerals of mine accident victims in Soma, Turkey, Thursday, May 15, 2014. An explosion and fire at a coal mine in Soma, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Istanbul, killed hundreds of workers, authorities said, in one of the worst mining disasters in Turkish history.(AP Photo/Emre Tazegul)Four days after mining blast killed 284, Turkish officials deny allegations of oversight.


Rocket attack kills 13 in Syria's Aleppo

Posted: 16 May 2014 09:33 AM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighters prepare weapons to fire towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the countryside in IdlibRebels fired a rocket that struck a government-held neighborhood Friday in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, killing 13 people, Syria's state news agency reported.


Violence abates in Vietnam as U.S. warns China for 'provocation'

Posted: 16 May 2014 10:45 AM PDT

Chinese nationals cross to Cambodia from Vietnam at the Bavet international checkpoint in Svay Rieng provinceBy Nguyen Phuong Linh and Matt Spetalnick HANOI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anti-China violence subsided in Vietnam on Friday after the prime minister called for calm, but the United States said China's "provocative" actions in maritime disputes were dangerous and had to stop. Thousands of people attacked businesses and factories in Vietnam's industrial parks earlier in the week, targeting Chinese workers and Chinese-owned businesses after Beijing parked an oil rig in a part of the South China Sea claimed by Hanoi. The riots risk derailing a major driver of the country's economic growth - industrial parks account for more than 30 percent of Vietnam's exports and have attracted around $110 billion in foreign direct investment.


Severe floods sweep Serbia, Bosnia

Posted: 16 May 2014 05:41 AM PDT

Two men stand in the waters in front of their flooded house as they wait to be evacuated in the town of Obrenovac, east from BelgradeBoats sailed through the streets of a Serbian town on Friday on a mission to rescue people trapped by rising waters as the worst floods ever recorded swept Serbia and Bosnia. Some residents of Obrenovac, 30 km (20 miles) southwest of the capital Belgrade, were stranded on the roofs of their homes, calling for help. Thousands have been evacuated from homes in central and western areas of Serbia. Another 65,000 were without electricity in neighboring Bosnia.


Paris summit to try to rally region against Nigeria's Boko Haram

Posted: 16 May 2014 05:44 AM PDT

By John Irish and Bate Felix PARIS/ABUJA (Reuters) - West African leaders meet in Paris on Saturday to try to improve cooperation in their fight against the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls and threatens to destabilize the wider region. Outrage over the kidnapping has already prompted Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, criticized at home for his government's slow response, to accept U.S., British and French intelligence help in the hunt for the girls. Last week he asked France, itself a target of Islamist militants for its military intervention against Islamist rebels in Mali, to arrange a summit in Paris with Nigeria's neighbors Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin, and Western officials. French diplomats ruled out any Western military operation but said they expected a regional plan to take shape for countering Boko Haram, which has killed more than 3,000 people in a five-year campaign to establish an Islamic state in mostly Muslim northeast Nigeria.

Darden announces sale of Red Lobster for $2.1B

Posted: 16 May 2014 06:01 AM PDT

FILE - This Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, shows a Red Lobster restaurant in Hialeah, Fla. Darden Restaurants on Friday, May 16, 2014 said it entered an agreement to sell its Red Lobster chain to investment firm Golden Gate Capital in a $2.1 billion cash deal. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Darden Restaurants says it will sell its Red Lobster chain to investment firm Golden Gate Capital in a $2.1 billion cash deal.


India opposition wins election landslide

Posted: 16 May 2014 03:40 AM PDT

A supporter of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wears a mask of party leader and India's next prime minister Narendra Modi as he celebrates with others preliminary results that show the BJP winning by a landslide, in Bangalore, India, Friday, May 16, 2014. The BJP now has a decisive lead for 272 seats in the lower house of Parliament, the majority needed to create an independent government without forming a coalition with smaller parties. The full results are expected later in the day but it's unlikely that Modi's party would see a significant reversal. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)Opposition leader Narendra Modi's party routs the ruling Congress party, early results show.


Some California wildfire evacuees return home as weather shifts

Posted: 16 May 2014 04:18 PM PDT

By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Several thousand suburban San Diego residents forced to flee a wildfire threatening their community were allowed to return home on Friday as firefighters gained ground against a swarm of blazes burning in and around California's second-largest city. The conflagrations, which marked an intense, early start to California's wildfire season, have scorched more than 30 square miles or nearly 20,000 acres of drought-parched brush this week across San Diego County, leaving dozens of homes damaged or destroyed. By morning, fire crews had managed to carve containment lines around 10 percent of the fiercest of the blazes, which has blackened some 3,000 acres since erupting on Wednesday near the town of San Marcos, north of San Diego, fire officials said.

Reports: Sterling refusing to pay NBA fine

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A lawyer for the Clippers owner has written a letter to the league threatening a lawsuit.


Idaho just hosted the best political debate of the year

Posted: 15 May 2014 02:41 PM PDT

IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR CHOBANI - Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter addresses nearly 2,000 attendees during the Chobani grand opening celebration at the world's largest yogurt manufacturing plant, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, in Twin Falls, Idaho. Chobani's nearly 1 million square foot yogurt plant was built in just 326 days. (Photo by Jack Dempsey/Invision for Chobani/AP Images)Idaho gubernatorial candidates debated Wednesday and it was very entertaining.


Will Iran's missile program doom nuke talks?

Posted: 15 May 2014 03:36 PM PDT

In front of a portrait of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a missile is displayed by Iran's army in a military parade marking National Army Day in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 18, 2014. Ahead of the parade Iran's President Hassan Rouhani underscored his moderate policies and outreach to the West in a speech. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)Confidential report sees no slowdown on expansion of ballistic missile program.


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