2016年1月9日星期六

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Oregon residents find common ground with Bundy movement

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 06:00 AM PST

Ammon Bundy


Record Powerball jackpot irresistible for thousands in U.S.

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 01:04 PM PST

Momtaz Parvin pulls Powerball lottery ticket from the printer at her store in Oklahoma City, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, as the multi-state jackpot reaches $800 million. With ticket sales doubling previous records, the odds are growing that someone will win Saturday's record jackpot, but if no one wins the top prize, next week's drawing is expected to soar past $1 billion. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)


Will Trump’s use of eminent domain come back to haunt him?

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 04:58 AM PST

In this photo taken Oct. 6, 2014, a worker removes the "Trump" name from the Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City, N.J. A bankruptcy court judge sided with Donald and Ivanka Trump on Friday, Feb. 20, 2015, ruling that they can move forward with a lawsuit seeking to strip the family name from Atlantic City's Taj Mahal casino. Trump Entertainment Resorts, with which Donald Trump is no longer affiliated, has stripped the Trump name from most of Trump Plaza, which closed on Sept. 16, but is fighting to be able to use it at the Taj Mahal, its lone remaining casino. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)


In final State of Union, Obama aims to define his presidency

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 02:07 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington as Vice Presient Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio listen. Out of time to push a new legislative agenda, a battle-hardened President Barack Obama will look straight past Congress and to the American people in his final State of the Union address, aiming to define his presidency and his legacy before others can do it for him. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Out of time to push a new legislative agenda, President Barack Obama will look past Congress and to the American people in his final State of the Union address, aiming to define his presidency and his ...


Anti-migrant protest turns violent as German welcome cools

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 12:52 PM PST

Police drive back right-wing demonstrators using a water cannon during protests in Cologne, Germany, Saturday Jan. 9, 2016. Women's rights activists, far-right demonstrators and left-wing counter-protesters all took to the streets of Cologne on Saturday in the aftermath of a string of New Year's Eve sexual assaults and robberies in Cologne blamed largely on foreigners.. (Monika Skolimowska/dpa via AP)By Joseph Nasr and Matthias Inverardi COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - Riot police broke up far-right protesters in Cologne on Saturday as they marched against Germany's open-door migration policy after asylum seekers were identified as suspects in assaults on women on New Year's Eve. The attacks, ranging from sexual molestation to theft, shocked Germany, which took in 1.1 million migrants and refugees in 2015 under asylum laws championed by Chancellor Angela Merkel, despite fervent opposition. Shortly before Saturday's protest began, Merkel hardened her stance toward migrants, promising expulsion for criminals and a reduction in migrant numbers over the longer term to Germany.


Lack of government action over land disputes may embolden Ore. protesters

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 10:38 AM PST

LaVoy Finicum, center, a rancher from Arizona, speaks to reporters as his family looks on, left, during a news conference at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, near Burns, Ore. Ammon Bundy, the leader of a small, armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge in Oregon says the activists have no immediate plans to leave. Bundy spoke to reporters Friday, a day after meeting with a local sheriff who asked the group to go. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Some blame the government for failing to arrest antigovernment lawbreakers in the West after the last big standoff in 2014.


N. Korea's defiance challenges moral authority of nuclear club

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 11:33 AM PST

North Koreans clap hands together in a rally, after North Korea said Wednesday it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test, at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. As world leaders debated ways to penalize North Korea's claim of a fourth nuclear test, South Korea voiced its displeasure with broadcasts of anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the rivals' tense border Friday, believed to be the birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)When North Korea claimed triumphantly that it had tested its first hydrogen bomb, it was roundly and predictably condemned by the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and India, countries estimated ...


Police probe man's claim he shot officer in Allah's name

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 01:56 PM PST

In this frame from a Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 video provided by the Philadelphia Police Department, Edward Archer runs with a gun toward a police car driven by Officer Jesse Hartnett in Philadelphia. Archer, using a gun stolen from police, said he was acting in the name of Islam when he ambushed Hartnett sitting in his marked cruiser at an intersection, firing shots at point-blank range, authorities said. (Philadelphia Police Department via AP)A man who investigators say claimed he shot and wounded a Philadelphia police officer in the name of Islam was charged Saturday with attempted murder. Edward Archer also was charged with aggravated assault, ...


Police: Philadelphia gunman pledged allegiance to ISIS

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North Korea warns of war over South's propaganda broadcasts

Posted: 08 Jan 2016 06:28 PM PST

South Korean army soldiers adjust equipment used for propaganda broadcasts near the border area between South Korea and North Korea in Yeoncheon, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. South Korea responded to North Korea's nuclear test with broadcasts of anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the rival's tense border Friday, believed to be the birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (Lim Tae-hoon/Newsis via AP) KOREA OUTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea warned of war as South Korea on Saturday continued blasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the rivals' tense border in retaliation for the North's purported fourth nuclear test.


Armed group not ready to end wildlife refuge occupation

Posted: 08 Jan 2016 09:39 PM PST

Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward meets with Ammon Bundy at a remote location outside the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, near Burns, Ore. Three Oregon sheriffs met Thursday with the leader of an armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge and asked them to leave, after residents made it clear they wanted them to go home. Ward said via Twitter that he asked Bundy to respect the wishes of residents. Ward said the two sides planned to talk again Friday. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP)The leader of an armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge to protest federal land management policies said he and his followers are not ready to leave even though the sheriff and many locals say the group has overstayed its welcome.


Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' captured, sent back to prison he escaped from

Posted: 08 Jan 2016 10:54 PM PST

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers during a presentation at the hangar belonging to the office of the Attorney General in Mexico CityBy Dave Graham LOS MOCHIS, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico recaptured the world's top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a pre-dawn shootout and chase through drains on Friday, returning him to the same prison he escaped from six months ago, in a boost for the beleaguered government. The head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel was captured in a car wearing a filthy vest after fleeing through tunnels and drains from a raid on a safe house in the city of Los Mochis, in his native northwestern state of Sinaloa. "Mission accomplished: We have him," President Enrique Pena Nieto said on his Twitter account.


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