2014年2月25日星期二

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Watchdog: Fewer hate groups a political sign

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 02:23 PM PST

White KnightsSouthern Poverty Law Center says decline is seen as more radical ideas go mainstream.

Hunt for Ukraine's ex-president reveals little hometown support

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 12:50 PM PST

Maidan supporters celebrate their victory in the industrial city of Donetsk on February 23, 2014Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) - A thin wisp of smoke rises from a chimney in the barricaded residential complex of deposed president Viktor Yanukovych in the eastern city of Donetsk, but Ukraine's most famous fugitive is nowhere to be seen. The cluster of opulent villas, a few kilometres outside the industrial city of Donetsk appears thoroughly deserted apart from that small line of smoke. Donetsk, home to one million residents, sits deep in the heart of the Donbas mining region, where Yanukovych was born in 1950. It is impossible to penetrate the imposing perimeter of Yanukovych's residence here at 65 Rainissa Road, ringed by pine trees and a huge brick and cement wall topped with a metal barrier.

Love bug: Man never stopped grieving for stolen 1965 Beetle

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 12:38 PM PST

In a handout photo provided by the Customs and Border Protection, a 1965 Volkswagen Beetle stolen 40 years ago in Tennessee is seen in Detroit. Federal agents making a routine check of the car's paperwork learned that the car was reported stolen in Knoxville in 1974. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Ken Hammond says agents made the discovery Jan. 30 as it was being shipped by rail to Canada from Detroit. Hammond says the Beetle was going to be restored in Finland. (AP Photo/Customs and Border Protection,)NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man whose 1965 Volkswagen Beetle was stolen nearly 40 years ago and recently recovered in Detroit says he never stopped grieving for the red convertible that he had running "slick as a ribbon" before it was stolen.

Teen invents flashlight that could change the world

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 10:21 AM PST

Teen Invents Flashlight That Could Change The WorldAnn Makosinski was just another teenager with another science project when she joined her local science fair in Victoria, Canada, last year. Her invention, a flashlight that is powered solely from hand heat, took second place at the competition. Ann, 16, and her parents, both of whom are HAM radio operators and like to fiddle [...]

$10M stash of gold coins found while walking dog

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 04:09 PM PST

This image provided by the Saddle Ridge Hoard discoverers via Kagin's, Inc., shows one of the six decaying metal canisters filled with 1800s-era U.S. gold coins unearthed in California by two people who want to remain anonymous. The value of the "Saddle Ridge Hoard" treasure trove is estimated at $10 million or more. (AP Photo/Saddle Ridge Hoard discoverers via Kagin's, Inc.)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Northern California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree.

Obama and Boehner have first one-on-one in over a year

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 03:00 PM PST

President Barack Obama meets with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The Democratic president and Republican speaker met in the Oval Office, their first meeting alone at the White House since December 2012, when they failed to reach agreement on tax reform and spending cuts during deficit-reduction talks. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Both parties describe first such meeting in more than a year as 'constructive.'

Asiana Airlines docked $500,000 over crash

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 02:41 PM PST

FILE - In this July 6, 2013 aerial file photo, the wreckage of Asiana Flight 214 lies on the ground after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. Asiana Airlines has been penalized $500,000 for failing to assist family members of passengers on the flight that crashed last year at San Francisco airport, federal transportation officials said Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)First time U.S. has levied fine for inadequate assistance to loved ones of crash victims.

Oyster found off Denmark breaks Guinness record

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 09:09 AM PST

World's Largest Oyster Is One Big BivalveA Pacific Oyster found off the coast of Denmark has officially been named the world's largest, according to Guinness World Records. The oyster measures 13.97 inches in length and 4 inches in width, which is around a size 11 shoe. This large oyster also has...

Conductor writes apology to commuters for train that never came

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 05:41 AM PST

Metro-North To Upgrade Transformers On New Haven LineMichael Shaw distributed 500 copies of a letter apologizing to commuters after telling them to wait for an express train he didn't realize had been canceled. But Metro North said it does not condone Shaw's letter.

First Lady watching scoreboards for kids' health

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 11:25 AM PST

FILE - This Feb. 27, 2013 file photo shows first lady Michelle Obama and Food Network chef Rachel Ray discussing lunches with students from the Eastside and Northside Elementary Schools in Clinton, Miss. Moving beyond the lunch line, new rules expected to be proposed by the White House and the Agriculture Department Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, would limit marketing of unhealthy foods in schools, phasing out the advertising of sugary drinks and junk foods around school campuses and ensuring that other promotions in schools are in line with health standards that apply to school foods. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)New rules take aim at marketing of unhealthy food at schools—and at their sporting facilities.

Colo. Girl Scouts can't sell cookies outside pot shops

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 05:41 AM PST

Girl Scout sells cookies outside marijuana clinicIn response to a California Girl Scout's ingenious strategy to sell Girl Scout cookies outside of a marijuana dispensary, the Girl Scouts of Colorado issued a statement on its Facebook page effectively barring its members from doing the same.

Obama tells Pentagon to plan Afghan pullout

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 02:44 PM PST

U.S. soldiers and Afghan security forces search the site where a suicide attacker rammed a car bomb into a NATO convoy killing two foreign civilian contractors, in the Afghan capital Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. The Islamic militant group Hizb-i-Islami claimed responsibility for the attack in eastern Kabul, saying it would drive all foreign forces from Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has balked at signing a bilateral security agreement.

Report: Few Army women want combat jobs

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 08:26 AM PST

FILE - This Sept. 18, 2012 file photo shows female soldiers training on a firing range while wearing new body armor in Fort Campbell, Ky. Only a small fraction of Army women say they'd like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do, say they want a job that takes them right into the heart of battle, according to preliminary results from a survey of the service's nearly 170,000 women. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)FORT EUSTIS, Va. (AP) — Only a small fraction of Army women say they'd like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do say they want a job that takes them right into the heart of battle, according to preliminary results from a survey of the service's nearly 170,000 women.

U.S. diplomats tell Obama nominees should know their destinations

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 05:50 AM PST

George Tsunis, ambassador-designate to NorwayPlease, presidents, stop picking big campaign donors to be ambassadors whether or not they know anything about the country where they'd be posted and are clueless about foreign affairs in general.

Uganda tabloid outs 'top' homosexuals

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 09:49 AM PST

A Ugandan reads a copy of the "Red Pepper" tabloid newspaper in Kampala, Uganda Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuesday of what it called the country's "200 top" homosexuals, outing some Ugandans who previously had not identified themselves as gay, one day after the president Yoweri Museveni enacted a harsh anti-gay law. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuesday of what it called the country's "200 top" homosexuals, outing some Ugandans who previously had not identified themselves as gay one day after the president enacted a harsh anti-gay law.

California 'lifers' leaving prison at record pace

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 04:25 PM PST

A guard tower is shown at Corcoran State Prison in California in this file photoUnder Gov. Jerry Brown, the state has released nearly 1,400 inmates with life sentences.

43 killed in Nigeria in suspected Boko Haram school attack

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 01:29 PM PST

Residents, who were injured during an attack by Boko Haram militants, wait at the Bama General Hospital in BamaKano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed 43 people on Tuesday in an attack on secondary school students as they slept in the latest school massacre to hit Nigeria's troubled northeast. The raid at 2:00 am (0100 GMT) targeted the Federal Government College in the town of Buni Yadi in Yobe state and bore the hallmarks of a similar attack last September in which 40 died. The attackers reportedly hurled explosives into student residential buildings, sprayed gunfire into rooms and hacked a number of students to death. A senior medical source at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in Yobe's capital Damaturu said the gunmen only targeted male students and that female students were "spared".

Website of major Bitcoin exchange vanishes

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 02:04 AM PST

A mock Bitcoin is displayed on a table in an illustration picture taken in BerlinBitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is offline amid reports it suffered a debilitating theft.

'Secrets of the Vatican' exposes church crises

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 03:53 AM PST

Pope Francis leaves after meeting cardinals and bishops to discuss family issues at the Vatican on February 21, 2014Pope Francis gave hope to many Catholics, but he also inherited a litany of problems.

Ukraine: no new government before Thursday

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 06:28 AM PST

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A former presidential aide despised by protesters has been shot and wounded, his spokesman said Tuesday, raising fears of retaliation as Ukraine charts a new tumultuous political course.

Pollution worsens in Beijing as statues don masks

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 11:30 PM PST

Tourists put on their masks after they posed for souvenir photos as they visit Tiananmen Square on a severely polluted day in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. Pollution across a large swath of northern China worsened on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)BEIJING (AP) — The smog is so bad even the statues wear masks. Or at least they do in pictures of a campus stunt that circulated online Tuesday as parts of northern China suffered a sixth straight day of severe pollution.

Pro-Russian rally in Crimea decries Kiev 'bandits'

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 04:59 PM PST

A Russian armored personnel carrier is driven on a street in Sevastopol, Ukraine's Black Sea Port that hosts a major Russian navy base Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. Tensions were building up in the Crimea, where ethnic Russians who make the majority of the local population are deeply suspicious of the new Ukrainian authorities who replaced fugitive Russia-backed President Viktor Yanukovych. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Dozens of pro-Russian protesters rallied Tuesday in this Crimean Peninsula city, bitterly denouncing politicians in Kiev who are trying to form a new government, with some even calling for secession from Ukraine. A Russian lawmaker stoked their passions by promising that Moscow will protect them.

Arizona governor returns home amid furor over bill

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 03:48 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks during her State of the State address at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. The Republican governor faced intensifying pressure Tuesday from CEOs, politicians in Washington and state lawmakers in her own party to veto a bill that would allow business owners with strongly held religious beliefs to deny service to gays and lesbians. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Jan Brewer returned to Arizona on Tuesday and faced a pressing decision about a bill on her desk that has prompted a national debate over religious and gay rights.

Mexico makes clear it will hold on to 'El Chapo'

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 04:37 PM PST

This combo of photographs released by Mexico's Attorney General Office (PGR) with identification mapping marks made by the source to point out similarities in face measurements, shows Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, using images made from his 1993 and 2014 detentions. The images at right were taken after his Feb. 22, 2014 arrest, and the photos at left were taken after his detention in 1993. The PGR used the pictures, among other tests, to determine that the man detained on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014 was indeed the drug lord. Guzman was recaptured in Mexico's Pacific coast city of Mazatlan after 13 years on the run as fugitive head of the Sinaloa cartel. (AP Photo/PGR)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico made clear Tuesday it is determined to keep Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in its highest-security prison for the foreseeable future, putting off U.S. extradition in a move that could bolster President Enrique Pena Nieto's nationalist credentials but also shine a spotlight on the country's woeful judicial system.

Rick Warren acts on mental health in son's death

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 01:43 PM PST

This Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 photo, Saddleback Church founder and senior pastor, Rick Warren, left, and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, Kevin William Vann, right, pose for a photo at the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. Warren will partner with the Roman Catholic Church and the National Alliance for Mental Illness next month for the first event of what they hope will be a sustained project to get faith leaders more involved with mental health issues and advocacy. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) — A year after his son's suicide, popular evangelical pastor Rick Warren is taking on a new mental health ministry inspired by his personal tragedy.

FDA weighs unknowns of 3-person embryo technique

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 01:57 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Genetic experts cautioned that it could take decades to confirm the safety of an experimental technique, meant to prevent children from inheriting debilitating diseases, that would create babies from the DNA of three people.

Couple stumbles upon $10 million in rare coins

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 04:40 PM PST

David Hall, co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service, poses with some of 1,427 Gold-Rush era U.S. gold coins, at his office in Santa Ana, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. A California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across the modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree. Nearly all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition, said Hall, who recently authenticated them. Although the face value of the gold pieces only adds up to about $27,000, some of them are so rare that coin experts say they could fetch nearly $1 million apiece. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Northern California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree.

Child dies from infected rat; family sues Petco

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 04:22 PM PST

This undated photo released by Gomez Trial Attorneys courtesy the Pankey family, shows Aidan Pankey and one of his pet rats. Lawyers representing the Pankey family have filed a lawsuit against Petco Animal Supplies Inc., saying Aidan died from rat-bite fever contracted from a male rat purchased at one of the national chain's stores. (AP Photo/Courtesy Pankey Family)SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego family is suing Petco after the death of their 10-year-old son from a bacterial infection they say he contracted from his pet rat.

Arizona governor heads home amid furor over bill

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 03:04 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks during her State of the State address at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. The Republican governor faced intensifying pressure Tuesday from CEOs, politicians in Washington and state lawmakers in her own party to veto a bill that would allow business owners with strongly held religious beliefs to deny service to gays and lesbians. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Jan Brewer returned to Arizona on Tuesday and faced a pressing decision about a bill on her desk that has prompted a national debate over religious and gay rights.

Ugandan newspaper prints list of '200 top' gays

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 11:04 AM PST

A Ugandan reads a copy of the "Red Pepper" tabloid newspaper in Kampala, Uganda Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuesday of what it called the country's "200 top" homosexuals, outing some Ugandans who previously had not identified themselves as gay, one day after the president Yoweri Museveni enacted a harsh anti-gay law. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie)KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan newspaper published a list Tuesday of what it called the country's "200 top" gays, outing some Ugandans and raising fears of violence against those named just a day after the president enacted a severe anti-gay law.

Collapse of exchange spells trouble for bitcoin

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 04:46 PM PST

Bitcoin trader Kolin Burges, right, of London and American Aaron (only his first name was given) hold protest signs as they conduct a sit-in in front of the office tower housing Mt. Gox in Tokyo Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The website of major Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is offline Tuesday amid reports it suffered a debilitating theft, a new setback for efforts to gain legitimacy for the virtual currency. The URL of Tokyo-based Mt. Gox was returning a blank page. The disappearance of the site follows the resignation Sunday of Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles from the board of the Bitcoin Foundation, a group seeking legitimacy for the currency. Burgess said he had picketed the building since Feb. 14 after flying in from London, hoping to get back $320,000 he has tied up with Mt Gox. (AP Photo/Kaori Hitomi)TOKYO (AP) — The sudden disappearance of one of the largest bitcoin exchanges only adds to the mystery and mistrust surrounding the virtual currency, which was just beginning to gain legitimacy beyond the technology enthusiasts and adventurous investors who created it.

A signal that preschooler obesity is falling?

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 01:44 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 file photo, Oumou Balde, 4, left, plays with her teacher Jacqualine Sanchez, right, and pretend food in a pre-kindergarten class at the Sheltering Arms Learning Center in New York in a program to educate children about nutrition and health. According to a study published Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2014 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers found that obesity among children ages 2 to 5 dropped - to 8 percent, from 14 percent a decade ago. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)ATLANTA (AP) — A new study may be another signal of a national decline in childhood obesity.

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