2016年5月20日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China


White House security scare prompts Secret Service shooting

Posted: 20 May 2016 01:01 PM PDT

White House security scare prompts Secret Service shootingA shooting on a street just outside the White House created a brief national security scare Friday afternoon. A uniformed Secret Service officer reportedly shot an armed person on West Executive Ave. NW, a street that borders the White House to the west. An official, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity for lack of authorization to release the information, said the Secret Service officer opened fire around 2 p.m., after the person approached a White House gate with a handgun.


Oklahoma governor vetoes bill to jail abortion doctors

Posted: 20 May 2016 02:52 PM PDT

File photo of Oklahoma Republican Governor Mary Fallin making remarks before the opening of the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in WashingtonOklahoma's Republican Governor Mary Fallin vetoed a bill calling for prison terms of up the three years for doctors who performed abortions, saying the legislation would not withstand a criminal constitutional legal challenge, her office said on Friday. The bill, which was approved a day earlier in the Republican-dominated legislature, would have made performing an abortion a felony. The bill allowed an exemption for an abortion necessary to save the life of the mother.


Number of Zika cases in the U.S. increases dramatically, CDC says

Posted: 20 May 2016 10:52 AM PDT

Number of Zika cases in the U.S. increases dramatically, CDC saysThe number of pregnant women infected with the Zika virus in the U.S. has more than tripled, increasing from 48 to 157 since May 11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday. According to the CDC statement, a total of 279 pregnant women have tested positive for Zika in either the U.S. or its territories. The CDC has found that when pregnant women contract the virus, there is a direct correlation to miscarriage and severe prenatal brain abnormalities, such as microcephaly, a defect in fetal neurological development that results in a smaller than average head and brain.


How a convicted felon nicknamed ‘Joey No Socks’ covered Donald Trump in stars

Posted: 20 May 2016 08:30 AM PDT

How a convicted felon nicknamed 'Joey No Socks' covered Donald Trump in starsThere was the Donald at his new golf club in the rolling Scottish dunes. The gaudy plaque Trump carried that day in 2013 was a Star Diamond award distributed by the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences — a group that turns out to have extensive ties with Trump.


Wreckage of EgyptAir plane found in Mediterranean

Posted: 20 May 2016 12:39 PM PDT

A Greek Air Force mechanic checks a plane at a base in Kastelli, Crete on May 20 before its use in the search operation of the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the MediterraneanEgypt found wreckage including seats and luggage Friday from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean, as investigators tried to unravel the mystery of why it swerved and plummeted into the sea. Search teams spotted personal belongings of passengers and parts of the Airbus A320 about 290 kilometres (180 miles) north of Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria, the military said. The country's aviation minister has said a "terrorist attack" was a more likely cause than technical failure for the plane's disappearance on a flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board.


Paris attack suspect Abdeslam tight-lipped in first interrogation

Posted: 20 May 2016 09:57 AM PDT

Salah Abdeslam is the last surviving member of the team of Islamic State gunmen who killed 130 people in November 2015The last surviving member of the jihadist team that attacked Paris, Salah Abdeslam, refused to answer questions in his first interview with a French anti-terror judge on Friday. Authorities had hoped Abdeslam would shed some light on the operational details of the November 13 attacks that killed 130 people, as well as provide clues as to whether other members of the wider jihadist cell are still at large. A source close to the investigation said Abdeslam's silence may have been the result of advice from Mehdi Nemmouche, the man suspected of a shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014.


Israel defence minister quits, says Netanyahu fanning extremism

Posted: 20 May 2016 12:01 PM PDT

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon announces his resignation during a press conference in Tel Aviv, on May 20, 2016Israel's defence minister resigned Friday, saying extremists had taken over the country, after he clashed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the army's handling of a wave of Palestinian violence. Moshe Yaalon said he no longer had any trust in Netanyahu after the hawkish premier offered his post to a hardliner loathed by the Palestinians, in a bid to expand the governing coalition's majority. "I told the prime minister this morning that due to his conduct in recent developments, and in light of my lack of trust in him, I am resigning from the government and Knesset (parliament) and taking a break from political life," Yaalon said on Twitter.


Trump fires back at ex-Sec. of Defense Gates: ‘He knows nothing about me’

Posted: 20 May 2016 08:15 AM PDT

Trump fires back at ex-Sec. of Defense Gates: 'He knows nothing about me'Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Bob Gates found himself on the receiving end of Donald Trump's barbed tongue Friday. Gates had publicly criticized his foreign policy proposals and temperament several times the day before.


Over 500,000 flee homes as Sri Lanka flood misery worsens

Posted: 20 May 2016 06:18 AM PDT

Sri Lankans wade through floodwaters in the Kolonnawa suburb of Colombo on May 20, 2016, following the heaviest rains in a quarter of a century on the island that sparked huge and deadly landslidesDesperate Sri Lankans clambered onto rubber dinghies and makeshift rafts Friday to escape monster floods in the capital Colombo as officials said half a million people had fled their homes across the island. The heaviest rains in a quarter of a century have pounded Sri Lanka since last weekend, triggering huge landslides that have buried some victims in up to 50 feet (15 metres) of mud. President Maithripala Sirisena urged people to provide shelter and donate cash or food as offers of assistance came in from overseas.


Cosby spends millions as lawsuits, criminal case rage on

Posted: 19 May 2016 07:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2009 file photo, comedian Bill Cosby, left, and his wife Camille appear at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts before he received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Washington. Cosby is spending millions of dollars on teams of high-priced lawyers across the country amid a cascade of sexual assault allegations, defamation claims and insurance disputes. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In any given week, teams of high-priced lawyers fan out across the country to defend Bill Cosby amid a cascade of sexual assault allegations, defamation claims and insurance disputes.


Taiwan installs 1st woman president amid tension with China

Posted: 19 May 2016 08:10 PM PDT

Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen, right, waves beside incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou at the Presidential Office Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, May 20, 2016. Taiwan inaugurated Tsai as its first female president on Friday, returning the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party to power amid new concerns over increasingly fractious relations with Beijing and a flagging economy. (Minoru Iwasaki/Kyodo News via AP) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORYTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan inaugurated Tsai Ing-wen as its first female president on Friday, returning the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party to power amid new concerns over increasingly fractious relations with Beijing and a flagging economy.


San Francisco's police chief resigns amid racial issues

Posted: 19 May 2016 07:40 PM PDT

San Francisco supervisors demand police chief be replacedSan Francisco's police chief resigned Thursday at the request of the mayor hours after an officer fatally shot a young black woman driving a stolen car — the culmination of several racially charged incidents ...


Oklahoma lawmakers OK bill criminalizing performing abortion

Posted: 19 May 2016 05:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 10, 2016 file photo, Sandy Springer, of Edmond, Okla., stands with other members of Bound 4 Life, an anti-abortion group, at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma House has passed legislation that requires the state Department of Health to develop informational material "for the purpose of achieving an abortion-free society," but lawmakers didn't approve any funding for it. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma lawmakers have moved to effectively ban abortion in their state by making it a felony for doctors to perform the procedure, an effort the bill's sponsor said Thursday is aimed at ultimately overturning the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.


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