2012年6月16日星期六

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Wawa or Sheetz? Romney sandwiched in Pa. deli debate

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 04:13 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney shakes hands during a stop at Wawa gas station in in Quakertown, Pa., Saturday, June 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)At the final stop on his bus tour here, Mitt Romney expressed confidence that he'll win Pennsylvania this November. "I am going to win Pennsylvania," the Republican nominee told a crowd of several hundred people at the Cornwall Iron Furnace, a historic foundry that once was the source of cannonballs and other iron products. [...]


Watergate crime scene forgotten 40 years on

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 12:45 PM PDT

This photo taken May 30, 2012 shows a view of the Watergate complex from the top floor of the Watergate Office Building in Washington Forty years ago police in Washington arrested five men breaking in to the Democratic National Committee offices in Washington. The name of the complex they were breaking into became infamous: the Watergate. These days, though, unless you know where to look, there's little marking the location of the 1972 crime that ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The office building that was the site of the break in is still in use, though the tenants have changed. The adjacent hotel where the burglars stayed is currently closed. And another hotel across the street where a lookout waited with a walkie-talkie, monitoring the burglars' progress, has been turned into a college dorm. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)When the Watergate complex was built in the 1960s, it was just a group of buildings on the western edge of the nation's capital. Then, 40 years ago Sunday, police in Washington arrested five men breaking into the office of the Democratic National Committee there.


U.N. observers in Syria suspend patrols

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 02:37 PM PDT

UN observers welcome their comrades upon their return from al-Haffa, in northern Syria, to Damascus, Syria on Saturday, June 16, 2012. U.N. Observers in Syria suspended their activities and patrols Saturday because of escalating violence in the country, the head of the mission said, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan for Syria is disintegrating. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)U.N. observers suspended their patrols in Syria on Saturday due to a recent spike in violence, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan was unraveling despite months of diplomatic efforts to prevent the country from plunging into civil war.


Four presumed dead after McKinley avalanche

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 05:03 PM PDT

National Park Service handout photo shows Mount McKinley in AlaskaAn avalanche on Mount McKinley swept a Japanese climbing team off a hill as they tried to descend on a rope line, leaving four presumed dead. One climber survived after tumbling 60 feet into a crevasse.


Romney leaves funny handwritten note for reporters

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 12:34 PM PDT

A Secret Service agent stands outside the bus of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney during a stop at Wawa gas station in in Quakertown, Pa. Saturday, June 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The Romney press corps was surprised to find they wouldn't be traveling on a long tour bus usually rented by the campaign to trail the candidate. Instead, the campaign had procured what can only be described as a party bus, and after an event Saturday, the press corps arrived back to the bus to find a note from Romney.


Air Force's mystery shuttle returns to earth

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 08:43 AM PDT

Mystery Mini Space Shuttle X-37B Lands in CaliforniaThe Air Force's X-37B, Is an Unmanned Reusable Spacecraft Built by Boeing


Romney: Obama should’ve been a governor first

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 07:15 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures during a campaign stop at Weatherly Casting Company in Weatherly, Pa., Saturday, June 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Several hundred people lined up to hear Mitt Romney speak at a small machinery company here, as the Republican nominee began day two of his battleground state bus tour by railing against President Obama's handling of the economy. "I know the president wants to talk about the economy a little," Romney said. "But he [...]


Egyptians choose new president amid political chaos

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 12:35 PM PDT

Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi casts his ballotEgyptians voted on Saturday in a run-off presidential election pitting an Islamist against Hosni Mubarak's last premier as the military rulers entered a showdown with the Islamists by disbanding parliament.


Dumbest political quotes of week

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 03:21 AM PDT

'This Week' Transcript: David Axelrod and Rick SantorumEach week, the Daily Caller picks the dumbest political statements and ranks them (just for Yahoo! readers) on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being the worst). Who do you think said the dumbest thing?


Carlotta downgraded to tropical depression

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 12:31 PM PDT

This image provided by NASA acquired Friday at 11 p.m. EDT shows Hurricane Carlotta slammed into Mexico's resort-studded Pacific coast late Friday, toppling trees and lashing hotels while authorities evacuated people from low-lying areas. The rapidly changing hurricane made landfall as a Category 1 storm near Puerto Escondido, a laid-back port popular with surfers, and is expected to push inland and northward in the direction of Acapulco. (AP Photo/NASA)Carlotta was downgraded to a tropical depression on Saturday as the system rapidly weakened after killing two young sisters in its march across southern Mexico.


Ohio woman drives into crowd, injuring dozens

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 02:38 PM PDT

Emergency workers move the injured from Lima's Town Square on Friday, June 15, 2012 in Lima, Ohio. A 63-year-old woman drove her car into the crowded town square and struck bystanders, sending some through the air and injuring about 30 people, some of whom were pinned under the car and freed when bystanders lifted it, authorities and witnesses said. No one was killed, but some victims suffered serious injuries to their legs, heads and necks, police said. (AP Photo/The Lima News, Craig J. Orosz)A 63-year-old woman unexplainably drove her car into a crowded town square in northwest Ohio and struck bystanders, sending some through the air and pinning others under the car until freed when bystanders lifted the vehicle, authorities and witnesses said.


President Obama's gamble on immigration front

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 03:44 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama responds to reporter's questions as he speaks about immigration from Rose Garden of the White House in WashingtonThere's not much President Barack Obama can do to boost the economy in the next five months, and that alone might cost him the November election. But on a range of social issues, Obama is bypassing Congress and aggressively using his executive powers to make it easier for gays to marry, women to obtain birth control, and, now, young illegal immigrants to avoid deportation.


Americans hang on after recession claims wealth

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 01:35 PM PDT

Americans hang on after recession claims wealthLooking back, the financial lives many Americans enjoyed until just a few years ago can seem like a mirage.On a suburban cul-de-sac northwest of Atlanta, Michael and Patricia Jackson are struggling to ...


Bombings kill 33 in Pakistani tribal region

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 11:47 AM PDT

Two bombs killed 33 people in tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials and witnesses said, a reminder of the instability wracking the nuclear-armed country.

FCC may take up issue of cell phone radiation

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 12:28 PM PDT

City workers make phone calls outside the London Stock Exchange in Paternoster Square in the City of LondonThe head of the Federal Communications Commission is asking for a review of the agency's stance on radio frequency energy emitted from cell phones amid lingering concerns that the devices may cause brain tumors.


Ron Paul backers seek influence at GOP convention

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 04:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 5, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas speaks at the University of California at Berkeley, Calif. Their candidate has given up on becoming president. But Ron Paul's supporters have been taking over state Republican conventions in places like Nevada and Maine, and now they're planning to do the same in Iowa on Saturday June 16, 2012 as part of an effort to try to carry the Texas congressman's banner to the national convention in Florida this summer. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)Ron Paul has given up on becoming president, but loyal supporters are promising to promote the libertarian-leaning Texas congressman's principles at the Republican national convention this summer, a potential complication for Mitt Romney's goal of a peaceful coronation.


Drones, computers new weapons of U.S. shadow wars

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 01:05 PM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 31, 2010 file photo shows an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile. Drone aircraft spy on and attack terrorists with no pilot in harm's way. Small teams of special operations troops quietly train and advise foreign forces. Viruses sent from computers to foreign networks strike silently, with no American fingerprint. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile.


Suu Kyi receives her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 10:47 AM PDT

(Blank Headline Received)Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally received her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday after spending 15 years under house arrest, and said her country's full transformation to democracy was still far off. "What the Nobel Peace Prize did was to draw me once again into the world of other human beings outside the isolated area in which I lived, to restore a sense of reality to me," Suu Kyi said as the packed crowd, led by Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja, rose in a standing ovation.


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