2013年1月10日星期四

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Heffernan: Amid flashy CES, a peek at a secret prototype

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 02:58 PM PST

An employee hands out magazines to attendees on the second day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las VegasIn a leather banquette in a sparkling Las Vegas club, a knockout blonde discreetly kicked the Louis Vuitton bag at her feet.


Get ready for lower gas prices, forecasters say

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:41 PM PST

FILE- In this Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, file photo, Luis Cuevas changes the gas prices at the Shell station off California State Route 99. Forecasters say that ample oil supplies and weak U.S. gasoline demand will keep a lid on prices in 2103. The lows will be lower, the highs won't be so high, and the average price of a gallon of gasoline will fall 5 percent to $3.44, according to the Energy Department. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, File)At least gasoline should cost you less in 2013.


NRA: Biden gun talks pushed agenda, not safety

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 01:30 PM PST

Gun control talks"We will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen," the organization said.


Accused Colo. shooter may have had getaway plan

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:08 PM PST

Colorado shootingJames Holmes' car was full of items indicating he may have planned to flee after allegedly opening fire in an Aurora movie theater.


Obama: Treasury nominee Lew will fix his loopy signature

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:37 AM PST

U.S. President Obama announces his nomination of White House chief of staff and budget expert Lew as his next treasury secretary in WashingtonPresident Barack Obama on Thursday formally nominated White House chief of staff Jack Lew to succeed departing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner—but joked that Lew's now-famously loopy signature had almost cost him the job. "I had never noticed Jack's signature," Obama said in a ceremony in the White House's East Room, with both men in attendance. [...]


Official: Student opens fire at Calif. high school, wounding 2

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:30 AM PST

Law enforcement officers wearing FBI vests arrive on the scene after a shooting at Taft Union High School in Taft, CaliforniaAt least one student was shot when a classmate opened fire at a high school in California on Thursday.


Obama signs law giving himself, Bush lifetime Secret Service guard

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:43 AM PST

President Barack Obama, accompanied by a U.S. Secret Service agent, waves at reporters shouting questions at him regarding the fiscal cliff as he walks from the White House across Pennsylvania Avenue to Blair House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, to attend a holiday party for the National Security Council. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Former presidents have to give up rides on Air Force One. But now they don't have to give up being shadowed by the armed-and-earpieced bodyguards.


Math is on Hagel’s side in confirmation fight

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:19 AM PST

President Barack Obama listens in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, where he announced that he is nominating Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan, center, as the new CIA director; and former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, right, as the new defense secretary.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Hagel is expected to make a series of courtesy visits to senators on the fence about his nomination, particularly Republicans in an effort to bring at least five on his side.


Whew! Huge asteroid won't hit Earth in 2036

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 01:57 PM PST

Whew! Huge Asteroid Apophis Won't Hit Earth in 2036The Earth is safe from the giant asteroid Apophis when it flies extremely close to our planet in 2029, then returns for seconds in 2036, NASA scientists announced today.


White House petition wants to ‘Save the Lewpty-Loo!’

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 03:01 PM PST

The good people of America are petitioning the White House to let Jack Lew, President Barack Obama's nominee for Treasury secretary, use his incoherent, loopy signature on the nation's currency if he is confirmed. From the official White House Petition site: Save the Lewpty-Lew! When Tim Geithner became Treasury Secretary, he changed his loopy signature [...]

Aerial image of NYC as you’ve never seen it before

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:02 PM PST

New York City is easily one of the most-photographed places in the United States, and an unusual new photograph is showing why. The picture, taken by Russian photographer Sergey Semonov, is a stitched-together panorama, a flattened version of the type of photographs that Semonov takes for the company he works for, AirPano. The AirPano team [...]

Interactive: What would your signature look like if Jack Lew wrote it?

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 08:45 AM PST

White House chief of staff Jack Lew's signature has been ridiculed as nothing more than a series of childish loops—a nontrivial point, given that President Barack Obama is expected to nominate Lew as the new Treasury secretary, meaning his signature will adorn new U.S. currency. Now, Yahoo News exclusively brings you the Jack Lew Signature Generator. Just [...]

Planned Parenthood fights defunding in Texas

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:39 PM PST

Planned Parenthood Fights DefundingWhen Gov. Perry announced his "Initiatives to Protect Life," he said there was a difference between women's health and protecting the rights of abortion providers.


Snake hitches a ride on Qantas flight

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:38 AM PST

A snake hitched a ride in the wing of a Qantas flight to Papua New Guinea on Thursday morning. Passengers captured video of the distressed snake as it fought to stay attached to the wing amid freezing temperatures and brutal winds. The snake, later identified as a scrub python, apparently began the flight inside the [...]

The Pebble: Why your wrist is the new frontier for apps

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 01:01 PM PST

To say the Pebble smartwatch is a Kickstarter success story would be an understatement almost as big as the disparity between the amount of money the company was trying to raise ($100,000) and the amount of money the company actually raised ($10,266,845).

Caption this: Photo shows Putin terrifying boy

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 09:46 AM PST

Russian President Vladimir Putin attended an overnight Mass at a church in Sochi earlier this week in honor of Orthodox Christmas. During the service at Holy Trinity St. George Monastery, Putin knelt down and whispered something to a young boy sitting on the ground near his feet—a tender moment caught by a photographer. But a [...]

Husband of S.C. Gov. Haley ships out for Afghan deployment

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:48 PM PST

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, left, comforts her son, Nalin, 10, and her daughter, Rena, 14, as her husband, Capt. Michael Haley, right, gets ready for a deployment ceremony for the South Carolina Army National Guard 3/49 Agribusiness Development Team at McCrady Training Center, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, at Ft. Jackson, S.C. The deployment is scheduled for a year including one month of training in Indiana prior to leaving for Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)Haley's office said it is not aware of any other governor's spouse who is deployed with the uniformed military.


Bank robber's love letter helped convict him

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 09:25 AM PST

Love Letter Helps Convict RobberRobert Maday Escaped From Custody But Was Caught After a High-Speed Chase


Photos: Astronaut's incredible photos of Earth from space

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 07:00 AM PST

Photos: Astronaut's incredible photos of Earth from spaceAnother of the Australian bushfires, this one near Burrinjuck Dam. Look closely and you can see the flames from orbit. (Chris Hadfield/Twitter)

China's one-child law producing less competitive adults?

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:41 PM PST

Parents play with their children at a kid's play area in a shopping mall in Beijing Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. In China, a law generally limits urban families to having just one child. They grow up as the sole focus of doting parents. How does this affect them? What does it mean to Chinese society if generations of kids are raised this way? Authors of a new study say the one-child policy has significant ramifications for Chinese society. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)BEIJING (AP) — They're called "little emperors" — the children born in China under a law that generally limits urban families to having just one child.


Wave of bombings kill 103 people in Pakistan

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:54 AM PST

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier and local residents gather at the site of bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. A bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers killed scores of people in southwest Pakistan, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)The blasts punctuated one of the deadliest days in recent years in Pakistan, where the government faces a bloody insurgency by Taliban militants and Baluch militants.


Russia may be backing off U.S. adoption ban

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:26 AM PST

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Russian Navy's commander-in-chief Viktor Chirkov, right, talk on board a navy ship in Severomorsk, Russia, on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)The Kremlin appeared to backtrack Thursday, just a little bit, on a controversial new law banning all US adoptions of Russian orphans.


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