2014年12月11日星期四

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CIA chief challenges Senate torture report

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 03:35 PM PST

CIA Director John Brennan pauses during a news conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Brennan defending his agency from accusations in a Senate report that it used inhumane interrogation techniques against terrorist suspect with no security benefits to the nation. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)John Brennan says the agency "did a lot of things right" after 9/11 attacks.

Democrats, Obama part on $1.1T spending bill

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 03:24 PM PST

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio holds what may be his last news conference of the 113th Congress, though critical legislation is still pending, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. With a midnight Thursday deadline to keep the government running, a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill is teetering as many lawmakers find more in the measure to dislike than like. Boehner expressed confidence the measure would go through and he said he was looking forward to what he called "the new American Congress" that convenes in January with a Republican majority in the House and the Senate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — In unlikely alliance, the Obama White House and House Republicans joined forces Thursday in a furious attempt to pass a $1.1 trillion governmentwide spending bill over clamorous protests from Democrats who said it would roll back bank regulations imposed in the wake of the economic near-meltdown of 2008.

Ebola cases require rare dual air ambulance rescues

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 01:57 PM PST

An ambulance carrying an Italian doctor, who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone, arrives at the Lazzaro Spallanzani infectious diseases institute in RomeAn American nurse possibly infected with the Ebola virus in West Africa was flown to the National Institutes of Health on Thursday. The rescue was one of two air ambulance missions flown this week by Georgia-based Phoenix Air.

U.S. congressional staffers stage walkout in latest police protests

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 04:34 PM PST

African-American Congressional staffers stage walk out with Hands Up Don't Shoot pose on the steps of the House of Representatives in Washington to protest the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric GarnerBy Emmett Berg WASHINGTON/OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Dozens of congressional staff staged a walkout on Thursday to protest decisions by grand juries not to charge white police officers in the killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City. The staffers, including members of the Congressional Black Associates group, held a prayer service on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and raised their hands in a reference to the "Hands up, don't shoot" chants that have become a regular feature of protests around the nation. ...

U.S. chokehold protesters stage 'die-ins', issue demands in NY

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 09:00 PM PST

An undercover police officer, who had been marching with anti-police demonstrators, aims his gun at protesters after some in the crowd attacked him and his partner in OaklandBy Emmett Berg and Sebastien Malo BERKELEY, Calif./NEW YORK (Reuters) - Students at medical schools around the United States staged "die-ins" to protest the chokehold death by police of an unarmed black man, and New York activists demanded the city take action after a grand jury declined to indict the officer involved. Protests intensified last week after the grand jury decision not to charge a white New York City police officer in the July death of Eric Garner. ...

Major storm knocks out power, disrupts flights in California

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 03:28 PM PST

A pedestrian crosses the idle California Street cable car line in San FranciscoBy Curtis Skinner and Emmett Berg SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Pacific storm pummeled drought-parched northern and central California on Thursday with heavy rain and high winds, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes, disrupting flights, washing out roads and prompting school closures in the Bay Area. Some 240 departing and incoming commercial flights were canceled at San Francisco International Airport by late morning, and others were delayed for more than two hours, airport managers said. ...

42.9 million Americans have unpaid medical bills

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42.9 million Americans have unpaid medical bills

Seven dead in Kabul after two suicide attacks

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 01:39 PM PST

A wounded man receives treatment at the Italian aid organization Emergency hospital after a bomber blew himself up at the Istiqlal High School in Kabul on December 11, 2014A wave of violence assaults Kabul as NATO forces pull out.

6 ways Democrats lose out in 2015 spending bill

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 03:16 PM PST

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a member of the Senate Banking Committee, right, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, express their outrage to reporters that a huge, $1.1 trillion spending bill approved by the Republican-controlled House yesterday contains changes to the 2010 Dodd-Frank law that regulates complex financial instruments known as derivatives, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democratic support for the omnibus bill funding every corner of government faded Wednesday as liberal lawmakers erupted over a provision that weakens the regulation of risky financial instruments and another that allows more money to flood into political parties. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The 1,600-page document could be forced through House and Senate in less than a week.

Yemen's al-Qaida blames Obama for hostage deaths

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 07:01 AM PST

In this Feb. 11, 2013 file photo, Luke Somers, 33, an American photojournalist who was kidnapped over a year ago by al-Qaida, poses for a picture during a parade marking the second anniversary of the revolution in Sanaa, Yemen. The body of an American photojournalist killed during a high risk raid to free him and a South African teacher from al-Qaida militants in Yemen is back on U.S. soil. The remains of Luke Somers arrived at Dover Air Force Base Wednesday aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft. There was no public announcement. The Somers family was there to receive the remains, but no media coverage was allowed, according to a U.S. defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the arrival was not publicly announced. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)The terror group comments after a failed U.S. hostage rescue operation.

Matt Bai: Did TV's '24' convince us that torture really worked?

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 02:20 AM PST

Matt BaiJack Bauer's operative philosophy was simple: "Stop terrorists, by any means necessary."

Harvard professor apologizes to Chinese restaurant

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 04:03 AM PST

A Harvard Business School instructor who blasted a Boston-area Chinese restaurant for overcharging him by $4 on a takeout order apologized Wednesday for a lengthy and widely publicized email exchange with ...

California braces for what could be worst storm in years

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 04:10 PM PST

Sam Taing carries sandbags to his pickup truck to be placed around his home in the Sacramento suburb of North Highlands, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. Sandbags and sand were provided in flood- prone areas of Sacramento County for residents to use to protect their homes in anticipation of a powerful storm that is expected to hit Northern California Thursday. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)The storm is predicted to bring heavy rains and hurricane force winds to N. California.

Hong Kong police arrest 209 protesters, demolish main camp

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 08:13 AM PST

Police officers take away a protester at the occupied area outside government headquarters in Hong Kong Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Hong Kong authorities started clearing barricades Thursday from a pro-democracy protest camp spread across a busy highway as part of a final push to retake streets occupied by activists for two and a half months. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities demolished a protest camp Thursday at the heart of the city's 2 ½-month pro-democracy movement but scores of activists taken away by police vowed their fight for genuine elections wasn't over.

Former VP Dick Cheney says CIA torture report is 'full of crap'

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 11:46 PM PST

Former Vice President Dick Cheney Says CIA Torture Report Is 'Full of Crap'Former Vice President Dick Cheney says a declassified Senate report on the controversial post-9/11 CIA interrogation program is "full of crap.""I think it is a terrible report, deeply flawed," Cheney said on Fox News, his first televised interview since the report's release. "It's a classic example of where politicians get together and throw professionals under the bus."Cheney said he had not read the entire 6,000-page classified document, drafted by Democrats and their staffs on the Senate Intelligence Committee, or the 500-page declassified and redacted executive summary. ...

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