2015年2月19日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Police make arrest in road-rage killing of Vegas mom

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 01:15 PM PST

A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department photo shows a suspect in the fatal shooting February 12, 2015 of Tammy Meyers in Las Vegas being taken into custody in Las VegasA suspect was arrested Thursday in the killing of a Las Vegas mother of four who was gunned down a week ago in a road-rage shootout after giving her daughter a driving lesson, police said.

Defense rests in 'American Sniper' murder trial

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:31 PM PST

Psychiatrist Dr. Mitchell H. Dunn testifies during the capital murder trial of Former Marine Cpl. Eddie Ray Routh at the Erath County, Donald R. Jones Justice Center Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, in Stephenville, Texas. Routh is charged with the 2013 deaths of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a shooting range near Glen Rose, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero,Pool)STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — Attorneys mounting an insanity defense rested their case Thursday in the trial of the ex-Marine charged with gunning down "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle and another man.

U.S. Embassy: Turkey, U.S. sign deal to train, arm Syrian rebels

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 12:14 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2014 file photo, smoke rises from the Syrian city of Kobani, following an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition, seen from a hilltop outside Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. The mass beheadings of Egyptian Christians by militants in Libya linked to the Islamic State group have thrown a spotlight on the threat the extremists pose beyond their heartland in Syria and Iraq, where they have established a self-declared proto-state. Militants in several countries - including Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia - have pledged allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey and the United States signed an agreement Thursday to train and arm Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State group, said the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.

Obama: Idea that West is at war with Islam is 'an ugly lie'

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 01:46 PM PST

US President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Summit to Counter Violent Extremism at the State Department in Washington, DC on February 19, 2015The president reiterates his call for the world to stand up to violent extremism.

Ex-New York assembly speaker Silver indicted

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 12:41 PM PST

New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver speaks at microphones as he leaves the federal court in New YorkBy Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A grand jury indicted Sheldon Silver, the former New York State Assembly speaker and one of the state's most powerful politicians for two decades, on federal corruption charges on Thursday, federal prosecutors said. Silver, who resigned as speaker after his arrest last month but remains the assemblyman for Manhattan's Lower East Side, was indicted on one count of honest services mail fraud, one count of honest services wire fraud and one count of using his office for extortion. Silver's lawyers said in a statement on Thursday he was not guilty. "We can now begin to fight for his total vindication," Joel Cohen and Steven Molo, Silver's lawyers, said in a statement.

Giuliani: Obama doesn’t love America

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 05:16 AM PST

Arguments made in ex-dictator's suit against gameThe former New York City mayor says he believes the president does not love the United States — or the people in it.

61 of 70 jurors selected for Tsarnaev trial

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 08:58 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2015, file courtroom sketch, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, left, is depicted beside U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr., right, as O'Toole addresses a pool of potential jurors in a jury assembly room at the federal courthouse, in Boston. Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tsarnaev have asked a judge three times to move his trial out of Massachusetts because of the emotional impact of the deadly attack. Three times, the judge has refused. On Thursday, Feb. 19, Tsarnaev's defense team will ask a federal appeals court to take the decision out of the hands of O'Toole Jr. and order him to move the trial. They insist that Tsarnaev cannot find a fair and impartial jury in Massachusetts because too many people believe he's guilty and many have personal connections to the marathon or the bombings. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins, File)Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys argue that an impartial jury can't be found in Boston.

Matt Bai: Obama, facilitator-in-chief

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 02:59 AM PST

Matt Bai - Obama's diminished presidencyIn the last year or so, Barack Obama's team has deployed the presidential summit as a central response to just about every topic of national significance. At this late stage of Obama's presidency, the idea seems to be that talking about a policy — or at least being seen talking about it — is a kind of policy in itself.

‘American Sniper’ trial puts rural Texas town in unwanted spotlight

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 03:05 AM PST

American Sniper TrialPeople in the small Texas town where "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and his best friend were slain want justice, but say celebrity murder cases are meant for Hollywood, not rural hideaways. "It's different than normal life in Stephenville," longtime resident Chick Elms said of the trial now in its second week.

Union rejects contract offer from oil cos in U.S. refinery strike

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:46 PM PST

A general view of the Tesoro refinery in Carson, CaliforniaUnion negotiators on Thursday rejected the latest contract offer from oil companies and said the largest U.S. refinery strike since 1980 may spread to more plants beyond the 11 where walkouts are underway. The United Steelworkers union (USW) said in a message to members and news media including Reuters that the latest proposal from lead oil company negotiator Royal Dutch Shell Plc failed to improve safety at refineries and chemical plants in an "enforceable way." The union also told workers not on strike to be prepared to walk out in the coming days. "New offer fails to improve safety in enforceable way," the USW said in the text message. Out of respect for the bargaining process, we are unable to comment further on today's activities." Earlier this week, the union's lead negotiator, International Vice President Gary Beevers, told Reuters that safe staffing levels at refineries and chemical plants were a sticking point in the talks.

California mass shooter had penchant for Nazis, investigators say

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:22 PM PST

A picture of Elliot Rodger is displayed during a news conference by Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown at Sheriff headquarters in Santa BarbaraBy Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 22-year-old California man who killed six college students last year before taking his own life in a rampage near Santa Barbara had an interest in Nazis and conducted a Web search for torture devices, a report released on Thursday showed. Elliot Rodger stabbed three men to death in his apartment in the community of Isla Vista last May before fatally shooting three more people and wounding 14 others near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Rodger had a history of mental health issues and in an Internet manifesto before the rampage, expressed frustration about his lack of success with women. The report by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office detailing the outcome of its probe into the killings said investigators still could not determine what motivated Rodger to commit the slayings.

FBI agent testifies in case of New Jersey rabbis accused of kidnapping

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:52 PM PST

By Daniel Kelley TRENTON, N.J. (Reuters) - An undercover FBI agent testified on Thursday in a case involving three Orthodox Jewish rabbis in New Jersey accused of kidnapping and beating husbands to force them to grant divorces under Jewish law to their wives. Special Agent Jessica Weisman, who went by the name Rachel Marconi during the operation, said she weaved a complicated back story designed to provide a plausible excuse to the rabbis to explain why she knew no one from the close-knit Orthodox community in Lakewood, New Jersey. She told them of a husband in Argentina and provided them with fake wedding photos and counterfeit marriage contracts. The three rabbis - Mendel Epstein, Binyamin Stimler and Jay Goldstein - and Epstein's son David are accused of kidnapping or trying to kidnap men and torturing them with beatings and stun guns until they agreed to divorce their wives.

Lawyer says 1 of LA superbug victims was teenage student

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:52 PM PST

This illustration released by the Centers for Disease Control depicts a three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of a group of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae bacteria. The artistic recreation was based upon scanning electron micrographic imagery. A potentially deadly "superbug" resistant to antibiotics infected seven patients, including two who died, and more than 100 others were exposed at a Southern California hospital through contaminated medical instruments, UCLA reported Wednesday Feb. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Centers for Disease Control)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The lawyer for one of the people infected by a "superbug" bacterial outbreak at a Los Angeles hospital says his client is an 18-year-old student who remains hospitalized in grave condition.

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