2015年6月3日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China


What you need to know about Lincoln Chafee

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A long-shot candidate, the former Rhode Island governor joined the Democratic Party just two years ago.


Transgender woman pushed onto N.Y. subway tracks in possible hate crime

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 04:30 PM PDT

Transgender Woman Pushed Onto NY Subway Tracks in Possible Hate Crime, Police SayAn incident involving a transgender woman who was pushed onto subway tracks in a New York City subway station is being investigated as a possible hate crime, the New York Police Department said today.


FBI: Boston knifeman had talked of attacking 'boys in blue'

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 04:20 PM PDT

Boston leaders: Video proves black suspect not shot in backBOSTON (AP) — A knife-wielding man killed by the terror investigators who had him under surveillance was confronted because he had bought knives and talked of an imminent attack on "boys in blue," the FBI said Wednesday.


Slain Boston man had planned to behead police officers: FBI

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:59 PM PDT

Law enforcement officials are gathered on a residential street in EverettBy Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts man slain by law enforcement officers on Tuesday had discussed plans to behead police officers with an associate arrested the same day, according to papers filed in Boston federal court on Wednesday. Usaamah Abdullah Rahim, 26, who law enforcement officers shot to death after he allegedly confronted them with a large knife, had told David Wright "I'm just going to, ah, go after them, those boys in blue," an FBI agent involved in the investigation said in an affidavit. Rahim had ordered three knives, with blades ranging in length from 8 inches (20 cm) to 9.75 inches (25 cm), from online retailers and had joked in wire-tapped phone conversations with Wright, 24, about "thinking with your head on your chest," according to the affidavit.


After three decades on death row, Texas inmate Bower executed

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 05:03 PM PDT

Death row inmate Lester Bower is seen in an undated picture released by the Texas Department of Criminal JusticeBy Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday executed Lester Bower, one of the longest-serving inmates on the state's death row who had said he was wrongly convicted of killing four men in 1983 and had spent three decades trying to halt his capital punishment. Bower was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CDT after being given a lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville, a prisons official said. A former chemical salesman with two children, Bower became the oldest death row inmate put to death in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.


Judge in Colorado cinema murder trial rejects defense request for mistrial

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 03:41 PM PDT

File photo of James Holmes sitting in court for an advisement hearing at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in CentennialBy Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo., (Reuters) - The judge presiding over the murder trial of Colorado theater gunman James Holmes denied a motion by defense lawyers for a mistrial on Wednesday over videos shown to jurors of a psychiatrist's interviews with the admitted shooter. Public defender Kristen Nelson argued that a video played in court, in which Holmes described details of the crime to court-appointed psychiatrist William Reid, violated his constitutional right against self-incrimination. It was the second time Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour has denied a defense motion for a mistrial since Reid took the stand late last week.


A tumultuous week ends as Blatter gets standing ovation

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 02:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, May 29, 2015 file photo, FIFA president Sepp Blatter after his election as President greeted by UEFA President Michel Platini, right, at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland. Blatter has been re-elected as FIFA president for a fifth term, chosen to lead world soccer despite separate U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into corruption. The 209 FIFA member federations gave the 79-year-old Blatter another four-year term on Friday after Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan conceded defeat after losing 133-73 in the first round. (Patrick B. Kraemer/Keystone via AP, File)A day after announcing his decision to resign, Sepp Blatter was back at work at FIFA headquarters on Wednesday as the worst corruption crisis in the governing body's 111-year history continued to unfold.


New case may hold clues about missing Indiana student

Posted: 02 Jun 2015 02:53 PM PDT

Missing Indiana StudentThe mysterious case of Lauren Spierer has bewildered detectives in the charming college town of Bloomington, Ind., ever since June 2011, when the Indiana University sophomore disappeared after a night of partying. Nearly four years later, the death of another IU student and the interest of a former FBI investigator turned TV crime show host are breathing new life into the cold case.


Ukraine battle tests cease-fire to breaking point

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 11:02 AM PDT

A firefighter works to extinguish the fire at a market destroyed after shelling in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 3, 2015, during battles on Wednesday in eastern Ukraine Territories. Intensified battles around the rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Wednesday left more than a dozen people dead and threatens to tip the country back into full-blown war, according to Ukraine's General Staff.(AP Photo/Alexander Ermochenko)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A major battle erupted Wednesday on the western edge of the main separatist rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine, leaving more than a dozen dead and threatening to tip the country back into full-blown war.


George W. Bush now more popular than Obama

Posted: 03 Jun 2015 08:29 AM PDT

Former US President George W. Bush (left) is now more popular than his successor Barack Obama, according to a CNN/ORC pollA new CNN/ORC poll finds a majority view the former president favorably for the first time in more than a decade.


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