2016年5月17日星期二

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Bathroom bill supporters police public restrooms

Posted: 17 May 2016 03:22 PM PDT

A video of a woman's tirade against Target's inclusive bathroom policy went viral Tuesday, highlighting recent protests by supporters of restrictive bathroom laws.

Travelers sound off on nightmarish lines at Chicago airports

Posted: 17 May 2016 02:30 PM PDT

Over the past few days, hundreds of travelers have missed flights out of the Windy City, as security is proving inadequate to handle the volume of passengers.

Prince’s best friend could be key in death investigation

Posted: 17 May 2016 01:35 PM PDT

Prince's best friend could be key in death investigationAccording to a search warrant, detectives interviewed Kirk A. Johnson — a former Prince drummer and current manager of the singer's Paisley Park estate — following the performer's unexpected death last month. The court document, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, discloses that police seized Prince Rogers Nelson's medical records from a Minneapolis-area hospital in early May. Investigators were particularly interested in files involving a family-medicine doctor who had treated Prince in the weeks before the singer was found dead April 21 in a Paisley Park elevator.


Donald Trump, dismissive of campaign pollsters, hired his own

Posted: 17 May 2016 12:59 PM PDT

Donald Trump, dismissive of campaign pollsters, hired his ownDonald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee who long dismissed the usefulness of campaign pollsters, has hired pollster Tony Fabrizio. Fabrizio's hiring is part of a broader Trump campaign effort to professionalize its operations in order to prepare for a general election campaign against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. During the Republican primary, the poll-obsessed Trump boasted that he doesn't "want to waste money on pollsters" to determine his campaign message.


Exclusive: Trump willing to talk to North Korea's Kim, wants to renegotiate climate accord

Posted: 17 May 2016 04:43 PM PDT

Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump poses for a photo in New YorkBy Steve Holland and Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program, proposing a major shift in U.S. policy toward the isolated nation. In a wide-ranging interview with Reuters, Trump also called for a renegotiation of the Paris climate accord, said he disapproved of Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions in eastern Ukraine, and said he would seek to dismantle most of the U.S. Dodd-Frank financial regulations if he is elected president. The presumptive Republican nominee declined to share details of his plans to deal with North Korea, but said he was open to talking to its leader.


Sanders issues defiant statement under pressure over ruckus

Posted: 17 May 2016 02:32 PM PDT

In a Saturday, May 14, 2016 photo, supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders react during the Nevada State Democratic Party's 2016 State Convention at the Paris hotel-casino in Las Vegas. The Nevada Democratic Convention turned into an unruly and unpredictable event, after tension with organizers led to some Bernie Sanders supporters throwing chairs and to security clearing the room, organizers said. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP) LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT; LAS VEGAS SUN OUTWASHINGTON (AP) — Under pressure from Democratic Party leaders to denounce ugly tactics by his supporters, Sen. Bernie Sanders instead struck back with a defiant statement Tuesday that dismissed complaints from Nevada Democrats as "nonsense" and asserted that his backers were not being treated with "fairness and respect."


Mexican president proposes legalizing gay marriage

Posted: 17 May 2016 04:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 11, 2010 file photo, same sex couples celebrate after getting married at City Hall in Mexico City. The couples wed under Latin America's first law that explicitly approves gay marriage. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, proposed legalizing gay marriage, a move that would enshrine on a national level a Supreme Court ruling last year that it was unconstitutional for states to bar same-sex couples from wedding.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Enrique Pena Nieto proposed to legalize same-sex marriage in Mexico on Tuesday, a move that would enshrine on a national level a Supreme Court ruling last year that it was unconstitutional for states to bar such couples from wedding.


GOP blocks provision to require women to register for draft

Posted: 17 May 2016 12:07 PM PDT

GOP blocks provision to require women to register for draftWASHINGTON (AP) — Buckling under conservative pressure, House Republicans pulled a legislative sleight of hand Tuesday and stripped a provision from the annual defense policy bill that would have required young women to sign up for a military draft.


Oregon and Kentucky contests put pressure on Clinton

Posted: 17 May 2016 06:07 AM PDT

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at Transylvania University in Lexington, KentuckyHillary Clinton is under pressure to do well in Democratic nominating contests in Kentucky and Oregon on Tuesday so she can turn her attention to the general election and the mounting attacks on her by Republican candidate Donald Trump. The continued presence in the race of Bernie Sanders – who remains a long-shot to upset Clinton and win the Democratic nomination – is prompting concerns among Clinton allies that he will damage her ability to take on Trump and hurt the Democrat in the fall.


Senate passes bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia

Posted: 17 May 2016 01:05 PM PDT

FILE PHOTO OF AMERICAN FLAG FLYING AS WORLD TRADE CENTER SMOKE AND DUST LINGERS IN AIR.By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Tuesday that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia's government for damages, setting up a potential showdown with the White House, which has threatened a veto. The Saudis, who deny responsibility for the 2001 attacks, strongly object to the bill. The "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act," or JASTA, passed the Senate by unanimous voice vote.


Trump fumes after pro-Clinton super-PAC uses his own words against him

Posted: 17 May 2016 07:20 AM PDT

Trump fumes after pro-Clinton super PAC uses his own words against him"The pathetic new hit ad against me misrepresents the final line. 'You can tell them to go BLANK themselves' was about China, NOT WOMEN!" Donald Trump said.


NASA releases time-lapse footage of Mercury’s rare transit of the sun

Posted: 17 May 2016 10:16 AM PDT

The smallest planet in the solar system appeared as a small black dot with Earth's nearest star as its backdrop.

Radio traffic likely distracted Amtrak engineer in 2015 crash - U.S. agency

Posted: 17 May 2016 12:43 PM PDT

Emergency responders search for passengers following an Amtrak train derailment in the Frankfort section of PhiladelphiaBy Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The engineer driving a speeding Amtrak passenger train that crashed in Philadelphia in 2015, killing eight passengers, was likely distracted by radio traffic, U.S. safety officials said on Tuesday after a year-long investigation. The incident could have been prevented if the track had been fitted with positive train control, a safety system, the agency's report concluded. "We will delve into the most complicated and unpredictable part of the transportation system - the human being," he told NTSB board members at a hearing into the probable cause of the accident.


IOC says 31 athletes could miss Rio after positive Beijing drugs re-tests

Posted: 17 May 2016 07:47 AM PDT

2016 Rio Olympics: Rio sisters: from violence to the OlympicsBy Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Thirty one athletes from six sports could be banned from this year's Rio Olympics after failing dope tests when 454 samples were reexamined from the 2008 Beijing Games, the International Olympic Committee said on Tuesday. The IOC also said it would start re-testing Sochi 2014 winter Games samples after allegations of tarnished samples were made last week by Russia's former top anti-doping scientist. Some 250 samples from the London Games will also be reexamined.


Wave of bombings in Baghdad kill 69

Posted: 17 May 2016 01:43 PM PDT

Security forces and citizens inspect the scene after a bomb explosion at an outdoor market in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Shaab, Iraq, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. A bomb at an outdoor market in a Shiite-dominated Baghdad neighborhood on Tuesday killed more than 30 people and wounded dozens a police official said, the latest in a wave of deadly militant attacks far from the front lines in the country's north and west where Iraqi forces are battling the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of bombings struck outdoor markets and a restaurant in Shiite-dominated neighborhoods of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 69 people, officials said — the latest in a string of attacks in and around the Iraqi capital that have left more than 200 dead in the past week.


Will Bernie Sanders do the right thing? And what is that, anyway?

Posted: 17 May 2016 02:00 AM PDT

Will Bernie Sanders do the right thing? And what is that, anyway?Hillary Clinton lost last week's West Virginia primary by nearly 16 points. Sanders is in a hole — the kind of hole from which people cannot be rescued. The question now is, What kind of a loser will Bernie Sanders be?


Marco Rubio goes on Twitter rant against the media

Posted: 17 May 2016 05:46 AM PDT

testIn tweet after tweet, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio ripped media outlets for quoting sources, described as close to him, who he said don't know what they're talking about.


Westbrook leads comeback as Thunder stun Warriors to take Game 1

Posted: 16 May 2016 10:35 PM PDT

Oklahoma City Thunder v Golden State Warriors - Game OneOKC looked at a clear disadvantaged in the first half but made more big plays down the stretch thanks to a terrific second half from their star point guard.


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