2014年4月22日星期二

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Obama takes in mudslide's brutal aftermath

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:36 PM PDT

Marine One helicopter, carrying President Barack Obama, takes an aerial tour of Oso, Wash., Tuesday, April 22, 2014, above the site of the deadly mudslide that struck the community in March. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)President meets grieving families and workers still searching site where dozens died.


IRS workers who owe back taxes awarded $1 million in bonuses

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:31 PM PDT

A general view of the Internal Revenue Service Building in WashingtonWASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service has paid more than $2.8 million in bonuses to employees with recent disciplinary problems, including $1 million to workers who owed back taxes, a government investigator said Tuesday.


Oregon police: Man stalked women with 'moveable dungeon'

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:21 PM PDT

In this combo made from photos taken Jan. 21, 2014, left, and Nov. 6, 2013, and supplied by the Clackamas County Sheriff's office shows Kelly Vern Swodoba. A grand jury transcript released Monday, April 21, 2014, reveals that Swodoba, killed last month in a gunfight with Portland police, had stalked over a dozen girls, rating them by number, and prepared his van as a "moveable dungeon'' or "torture chamber'' with chains mounted to the floor, ropes, zip ties, a box of latex gloves, and teen pornography. (AP Photo/Clackamas County Sheriff)PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a man fatally shot by a Portland officer last month had been stalking young women in a van that he converted into a "moveable dungeon" with chains and handcuffs after one of his victims managed to escape from it in January.


JetBlue pilots overwhelmingly vote 'yes' to join union

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:37 PM PDT

File photo of a passenger walking past a JetBlue advertisement at Logan International Airport in Boston(Reuters) - JetBlue Airways Corp pilots voted by a wide margin on Tuesday to join the Air Line Pilots Association union, sending the budget carrier's stock price down on concerns the move would raise the airline's costs. About 71 percent of the pilots eligible to vote in the month-long election backed ALPA. JetBlue has about 2,600 pilots and 96 percent were eligible to vote. The vote marked the first successful union drive by a group of workers at JetBlue.


Family has unpublished Gabriel Garcia Marquez manuscript

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:44 PM PDT

Residents walk next to a poster of Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, before a symbolic public funeral held for Garcia Marquez, in AracatacaMEXICO CITY (AP) — Novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez left behind an unpublished manuscript that he chose not to print while he was alive, an editor told The Associated Press on Tuesday as the writer's compatriots held a musical tribute to him in his native Colombia.


Kerry: Cold War diplomacy was ‘easier’

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:26 PM PDT

Secretary of State John Kerry, accompanied by Rajiv Shah, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, announces the launch of second Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review during a speech at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Secretary of State feels "bipolar world" made American diplomacy a less high-wire affair.


Opposition: South Africa's ruling ANC giving away mattresses for votes

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:58 AM PDT

A man waves an ANC flag as supporters of the ruling party take part in a protest on March 26, 2014, in Cape TownSouth Africa's government corruption watchdog is looking into an allegation that the ruling ANC party handed out state-paid mattresses in election campaigns ahead of general polls on May 7, a spokesman said Tuesday. Public Protector Thuli Madonsela is planning a meeting with the country's social security agency after a complaint from new opposition party AgangSA. "AgangSA complained that mattresses were distributed in Valhalla in Cape Town allegedly as part of the ruling party's election campaign," her spokesman Oupa Segalwe told AFP.


Life in solitary: The prison within the prison

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:49 AM PDT

'Solitary Nation'Filmmaker Dan Edge takes a look inside the brutal isolation unit at Maine State Prison for PBS' "Frontline."


Justices appear conflicted over Aereo TV copyright fight

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:32 PM PDT

Aereo antenna arrayWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared unsure on Tuesday whether to rule against online TV startup Aereo Inc in a major copyright case, with several raising concerns about how a ruling in favor of broadcast networks could affect increasingly popular cloud computing services. Aereo, backed by media mogul Barry Diller, could be forced to shut down if the high court rules for the four major television broadcasters, who say the service violates copyright law. (Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)


Five things you (probably) don't know about Earth Day

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 07:19 AM PDT

NASA handout image shows the distant blue Earth above the Moon's limbEarth Day turns 44 on Tuesday, and it's more popular than ever. One might suspect the holiday was created by eco-warriors in tie-dyed shirts and leather-fringe vests. Not so. Read on for a collection of facts you (probably) didn't know about Earth Day.


Violent death of Ukraine politician tests accord

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 10:23 AM PDT

Masked pro-Russia protesters burn campaign material of Yulia Tymoshenko outside a regional government building in DonetskUkraine's acting president calls for an anti-terrorist operation to be relaunched in the east of the country.


Friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber seeks trial venue change

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:26 PM PDT

This undated photo found on the VK page of Dias Kadyrbayev shows Kadyrbayev, left, with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, at an unknown location. Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, two college buddies of Tsarnaev from Kazakhstan, were jailed by immigration authorities the day after his Tsarnaev's capture. They are not suspects, but are being held for violating their student visas by not regularly attending classes, Kadyrbayev's lawyer, Robert Stahl said. They are being detained at a county jail in Boston. (AP Photo/VK)A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber on Tuesday asked a judge to move his trial on charges of interfering with the investigation, arguing that pretrial publicity has made it impossible for him to get a fair hearing in Massachusetts. Kazakh exchange student Dias Kadyrbayev filed papers in U.S. District Court in Boston, joining earlier motions by two other defendants, Azamat Tazhayakov, also of Kazakhstan, and Robel Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prosecutors accused ethnic Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of killing three people and injuring 264 others in the April 15, 2013 bombing at the marathon finish line and shooting dead a university police officer three days later. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunbattle with police and Dzhokhar was arrested and is awaiting trial on charges that carry the possibility of execution if he is convicted.


Deadly Texas blast could have been prevented

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:51 AM PDT

The remains of a fertilizer plant burn after an explosion at the plant in the town of West, near Waco, TexasThe flammable fertilizers were in a wood building without sprinklers, investigators said.


Lawsuit challenging Georgia gay marriage ban filed

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 01:34 PM PDT

Shelton Stroman, left, sits with partner Christopher Inniss, in their home, Thursday, April 17, 2014, in Snellville, Ga. A gay rights group on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta challenging the state of Georgia's constitutional ban on same-sex marriages. (AP Photo/David Goldman)A gay rights group on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta challenging the state of Georgia's constitutional ban on same-sex marriages.


High court upholds Mich. affirmative action ban

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:30 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 27, 2012 file photo, an American flag flies in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. DNA may be the building blocks of life, but can something taken from it be the building blocks of a multimillion-dollar medical monopoly? The Supreme Court will grapple with that question Monday, April 15, 2013, as it delves into an issue that could reshape medical research in the United States, in the fight against diseases like breast and ovarian cancer, and the billion-dollar medical and biotechnology business: Can human genes be patented? The court's decision could have a wide-ranging effect. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan's ban on using race as a factor in college admissions.


Death toll in S. Korea ferry disaster passes 120

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 06:46 AM PDT

The red sun sets as searchers and divers look for bodies of passengers believed to have been trapped in the sunken ferry Sewol near buoys that mark the vessel in the water off the southern coast near Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. One by one, coast guard officers carried the newly arrived bodies covered in white sheets from a boat to a tent on the dock of this island, the first step in identifying a sharply rising number of corpses from the South Korean ferry that sank nearly a week ago. (AP Photo/Ahn Yung-joon)Nearly 200 of the 476 people who were aboard the ship are still unaccounted for.


Biden: Russia must 'stop talking and start acting'

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 01:21 PM PDT

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk attend a media briefing in KievThe vice president warns on Ukraine as Russia dismisses sanctions threat.


The face of hemp in Washington

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 04:21 AM PDT

Yahoo News spends a day with Ben Droz, Capitol Hill's hemp lobbyist.

A look into the lives of S. Korea ferry's dead, missing

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 05:58 AM PDT

In this Monday, April 21, 2014 photo, a photography of Park Hye-son's girlhood is shown by her mother Lim Son-mi, in Jindo, South Korea. Park Hye-son is among the 302 people dead or missing in last week's South Korean ferry disaster. Lim said the 16-year-old daughter wanted to be a television screenwriter. But Lim's wages from working at a daycare center meant she didn't have enough money to send her younger daughter to the writing academy she'd wanted to attend. (AP Photo/Gillian Wong)A bicycle, never ridden. A lipstick prank pulled off by old friends. Mother-daughter conversations that now burn in the memory, laden with regret.


Death toll in ferry disaster tops 100

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 05:11 AM PDT

A weeping relative of a passenger aboard the sunken Sewol ferry prays as she awaits news on her missing loved one at a port in Jindo, South Korea, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. As divers continue to search the interior of the sunken ferry, the number of confirmed deaths has risen, with about 220 other people still missing. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)Nearly one week after the South Korea ferry disaster, nearly 200 people are still unaccounted for.


Lawsuit accuses entertainment figures of sex abuse

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 05:09 AM PDT

Lawsuit accuses entertainment figures of sex abuseA man who has accused "X-Men" director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing him when he was a teen sued three more entertainment industry figures Monday, claiming they also molested him. The allegations ...


Cyclone curtails aerial search for MH370

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:12 AM PDT

Handout photo from the Australian Defence Department taken on April 18, 2014 shows an underwater vehicle being moved during the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370Perth (Australia) (AFP) - The aerial search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was suspended Tuesday due to a tropical cyclone, but not before several aircraft had departed on the mission, Australian officials said. Up to 10 military aircraft had been scheduled to fly over the Indian Ocean in hopes of spotting clues as to the fate of the Boeing 777, which vanished on March 8 carrying 239 people. "Planned air search activities have been suspended for today due to poor weather conditions in the search area as a result of Tropical Cyclone Jack," Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre said, adding that 10 ships in the search zone would continue their work.


Michigan affirmative ban is OK, Supreme Court says

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:47 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 19, 2013 file photo shows Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaking at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan's ban on using race as a factor in college admissions. The justices said in a 6-2 ruling that Michigan voters had the right to change their state constitution to prohibit public colleges and universities from taking account of race in admissions decisions. The justices said that a lower federal court was wrong to set aside the change as discriminatory. In dissent, Sotomayor said the decision tramples on the rights of minorities, even though the amendment was adopted democratically. WASHINGTON (AP) — A state's voters are free to outlaw the use of race as a factor in college admissions, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a blow to affirmative action that also laid bare tensions among the justices about a continuing need for programs that address racial inequality in America.


Internet TV case: Justices skeptical, concerned

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:13 PM PDT

A videojournalist sets up outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, April 22, 2104. The court is hearing oral arguments between Aereo, Inc., an Internet startup company that gives subscribers access to television on their laptops and other portable devices and the over-the-air broadcasters. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)WASHINGTON (AP) — Grappling with fast-changing technology, Supreme Court justices debated Tuesday whether they can protect the copyrights of TV broadcasters to the shows they send out without strangling innovations in the use of the internet.


Analysis: Putin likely to ignore West on Ukraine

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:39 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)MOSCOW (AP) — Since he took over Crimea, President Vladimir Putin has seen his popularity soar and his opposition fall silent. So when the U.S. vice president told Russia to defuse tensions in Ukraine, Putin had few reasons to listen.


In Ukraine's east, mayor held hostage by insurgent

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 11:18 AM PDT

In this Saturday, April 12, 2014 photo, Nelya Shtepa the mayor of SLovyansk walks outside a police station in the eastern Ukraine town of Slovyansk. Shtepa's fate highlights the anger, confusion and lawlessness that have gripped eastern Ukraine over the past week and a half as insurgents opposed to the country's interim government seized police stations and government buildings. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — When armed men seized the police station in this eastern Ukrainian city, mayor Nelya Shtepa declared she was on their side. She changed her story a few days later. Then she disappeared — the victim of an apparent abduction by the man who now lays claim to her job.


Most Sherpas decide to leave Everest for season

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:29 PM PDT

A Buddhist monk lights the funeral pyre of Nepalese climber Ang Kaji Sherpa killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 21, 2014. Buddhist monks cremated the remains of Sherpa guides who were buried in the deadliest avalanche ever recorded on Mount Everest, a disaster that has prompted calls for a climbing boycott by Nepal's ethnic Sherpa community. The avalanche killed at least 13 Sherpas. Three other Sherpas remain missing and are presumed dead. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Most Sherpa mountain climbers have decided to leave Mount Everest, a guide said Tuesday, confirming a walkout certain to disrupt a climbing season that was already marked by grief over the 16 lives lost in Everest's deadliest disaster.


Ukraine orders new military operation in the east

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:28 PM PDT

The mother of Sigarov Alexander, 24, reaches for his body at a church during the funeral for three people killed last Sunday in a shooting by unknown gunmen at a checkpoint, in Slovyansk, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's acting president ordered security forces to resume operations in the country's east on Tuesday after the bodies of two people allegedly abducted by pro-Russia insurgents were found and a military aircraft was reportedly hit by gunfire.


'Piles and piles' of bodies in S. Sudan slaughter

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:30 PM PDT

Map locating Bentiu in South SudanNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The townsfolk believed the mosque was safe. They crammed inside as rebel forces in South Sudan took control of the town from government troops. But it wasn't safe. Robbers grabbed their cash and mobile phones. Then gunmen came and opened fire on everyone, young and old.


Obama views mudslide scene, mourns with survivors

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:29 PM PDT

The shadow of Air Force One, with President Barack Obama aboard, is seen on a cloud as it approaches Paine Field Airport, Tuesday, April 22, 2014, in Everett, Wash., en route to Oso, Wash., the site of the deadly mudslide that struck the community in March. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)OSO, Wash. (AP) — Swooping over a terrain of great sadness and death, President Barack Obama took an aerial tour Tuesday of the place where more than three dozen people perished in a mudslide last month, then mourned privately with those who lost loved ones in the destruction.


Cries of anguish as SKorea ferry toll tops 100

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:36 PM PDT

A weeping relative of a passenger aboard the sunken Sewol ferry prays as she awaits news on her missing loved one at a port in Jindo, South Korea, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. As divers continue to search the interior of the sunken ferry, the number of confirmed deaths has risen, with about 220 other people still missing. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)JINDO, South Korea (AP) — For a moment there is silence in the tent where bodies from the ferry disaster are brought for identification. Then the anguished cries begin.


Govt must turn over info on CIA prisons to defense

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:03 PM PDT

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Prosecutors must turn over never-revealed details about the time a Guantanamo Bay detainee spent in secret CIA prisons after his arrest in connection with the deadly attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a military judge's order released Tuesday.

Teen stowaway shows holes in vast airport security

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 07:20 AM PDT

A plane takes off at Mineta San Jose International Airport, Monday, April 21, 2014, in San Jose, Calif. A 16-year-old boy scrambled over a fence at the airport, crossed a tarmac and climbed into a jetliner's wheel well, then flew for five freezing hours to Hawaii, Sunday. FBI spokesman Tom Simon in Honolulu said the teen did not remember the flight from San Jose. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)Surveillance cameras at San Jose International Airport successfully captured the teenager on the tarmac, climbing up the landing gear of a jet. But in the end, the cameras failed because no one noticed the security breach until the plane — and the boy — landed in Hawaii.


South Korea says North may be close to nuclear test

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:41 PM PDT

A North Korean soldier looks on at the South side at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarised Zone dividing the Korean peninsula on March 12, 2014North Korea could well be preparing to carry out a fourth nuclear test, South Korea said Tuesday, citing increased activity at its main test site, just days ahead of a visit to Seoul by US President Barack Obama. "Our military is currently detecting a lot of activity in and around the Punggye-ri nuclear test site," defence ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told a press briefing. Kim stressed that North Korea's nuclear weapons programme was at a stage where it could conduct a test "at any moment". The United States said Tuesday it was watching North Korea "very closely" following the warnings.


'No response' as ferry crew asked for orders to abandon ship

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 02:46 AM PDT

People take part in a candlelight vigil for missing passenger onboard the South Korean ferry Sewol, which capsized on last Wednesday, in AnsanThe crew of a South Korean ferry that sank with hundreds of people on board repeatedly asked officers on the bridge whether or not to give the order to abandon ship, but there was no response, a crew member has said. The captain of the ship, Lee Joon-seok, 69, and other crew members have been arrested on negligence charges. Several crew members, including the captain, left the ferry as it was sinking before many of the passengers, witnesses have said, after passengers were told to stay in their cabins. President Park Geun-hye said on Monday that instruction was tantamount to an "act of murder".


Seabed hunt for Malaysia jet stretches beyond week

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 12:07 AM PDT

Malaysia Airlines flight MH192 bound for Bangalore turned back towards and parked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Monday, April 21, 2014, after its right landing gear malfunctioned upon takeoff. The airline says Flight 192 carrying 166 people landed safely at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport early Monday, four hours after it departed. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)SYDNEY (AP) — An air search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was suspended for a day due to stormy weather on Tuesday as the painstakingly slow sonar scanning of a targeted patch of seabed continued.


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