2013年1月4日星期五

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Detroit police: U.S. has a gun problem and the epicenter seems to be here

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 03:38 PM PST

Mayor Dave Bing announces Wednesday Dec. 5, 2012,the opening of 13 new Mini Police Stations within the city of Detroit. The mayor made the announcement stressing the importance of bringing "our police department and communities closer together." (AP Photo/Detroit News, Charles V. Tines ) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUTThe city had 386 criminal homicides in 2012, more than any time in the past two decades.


113th Congress: New cards, same game

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 01:45 PM PST

Vice President Joe Biden talks in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, following the counting of Electoral College votes. Biden presided over a Joint Session of Congress Friday as four members of the House and Senate took turns announcing the votes that had been tallied in state capitals last month affirming the re-election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Fresh faces on key committees could shake things up a bit, but confrontational politics are here to stay.


Giffords meets with families of Newtown shooting victims

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:39 PM PST

Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, center, holds hands with her husband, Mark Kelly, while exiting Town Hall at Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown, Conn. after meeting with Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra and other officials on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. At far left is Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman; behind Giffords to the left is U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal. Giffords also met with families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre that left 26 people dead. (AP Photo/The News-Times, Jason Rearick) MANDATORY CREDITNearly two years after being critically wounded in a mass shooting, former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Friday met with families of victims in last month's shooting that left 26 people dead inside a Connecticut elementary school.


Atom smasher goes on hiatus for big revamp

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:25 PM PST

FILE - In this March 30, 2010 file picture the globe of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, is illuminated outside Geneva, Switzerland. The world's largest and most powerful atom smasher goes into a 2-year hibernation in March 2013 , aiming to reach maximum energy levels that may lead to more stunning discoveries after hunting down the so-called "God particle. But physicists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, known by its French acronym CERN, won't exactly be idle as the US $10 billion proton collider goes on hiatus for maintenance and retooling _ in preparation for unlocking more mysteries. There are still reams more data to sift through since the July 2012 discovery of a new subatomic particle called a Higgs boson and promises a new realm of understanding in subatomic science. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus,File)The world's largest and most powerful atom smasher goes into a 2-year hibernation in March, as engineers carry out a revamp to help it reach maximum energy levels that could lead to more stunning discoveries following the detection of the so-called "God particle."


Grand jury indicts New York couple as bomb suspects

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:51 PM PST

Greene appears in Manhattan Criminal Court with his lawyer Lisa Pelosi in New YorkA grand jury indicted a New York man and his girlfriend following their arrest on Saturday after police found an explosive compound, bomb-making manuals and weapons in their Greenwich Village apartment.


Feds: Second inmate who escaped Chicago jail captured

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:31 PM PST

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the FBI shows Kenneth Conley, one of two inmates who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago on Dec. 18, 2012. U.S. Marshals Service spokeswoman Belkis Cantor said Conley was captured Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, at an apartment complex across the street from the Palos Hills, Ill. police department, authorities said. (AP Photo/FBI, File)The second of two bank robbers who escaped last month from a high-rise federal jail in downtown Chicago was captured Friday at an apartment complex across the street from a suburban police department, authorities said.


Why your tweets are being collected and stored at the Library of Congress

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 01:23 PM PST

Photo illustration shows Pope Benedict XVI's twitter account on a smart phone in front of the Twitter logo displayed on a laptopThe Library of Congress says it's amassed about 170 billion tweets since it began collecting an archive of all Twitter messages in 2010.


Body of missing Calif. woman found at Lake Tahoe

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:14 PM PST

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The search for a missing 19-year-old California woman who disappeared on New Year's Eve at Lake Tahoe ended Friday when her body was found behind a snow bank about a mile from the site of a music festival she attended that night, authorities said.

Do war-weary troops have drinking problems?

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:13 PM PST

Responding to recent internal reports that, after a decade of war, a growing number of troops consider themselves heavy drinkers, the Marine Corps has announced a new get-tough policy: Personnel who tally a blood alcohol content of .01 or more while on duty will be sent straight to counseling.

Report: Top parks officials kept $20M hidden

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 04:57 PM PST

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Officials at the highest levels of the California Department of Parks and Recreation helped keep millions of dollars secret for more than a decade, the California attorney general's office said in a report released Friday.

Board mulls allowing guns in Ariz. county building

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 03:34 PM PST

KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona county is considering a plan to remove the metal detector at its administration building and allow people to freely carry guns at the location as they carry out government business.

Pelosi defends altered photo of congresswomen

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 03:31 PM PST

PelosiHouse minority leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday defended an altered picture of Democratic congresswomen that was posted on her Flickr photo-sharing site.


'The Big Bang Theory' Is the New 'Friends'

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 03:51 PM PST

'The Big Bang Theory' Is the New 'Friends'So The Big Bang Theory, CBS's sitcom about how smart people are silly, has broken its second ratings record in as many months, with Thursday night's episode "The Egg Salad Equivalency" attracting a mind-walloping 19 million viewers, with a 6.0 rating in the key 18- to 49-year-old demographic. So that is about as big as a sitcom gets. Toward the end of its run, Friends was topping out around 20 million viewers, meaning Big Bang is now standing shoulder-to-shoulder with one of network TV's biggest and longest comedy successes. ...


'So brutal': India rape victim's friend recounts ordeal

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 11:08 AM PST

Indians stand in a queue to enter the District Court complex where a new fast-track court was inaugurated Wednesday to deal specifically with crimes against women, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Indian police were preparing Thursday to file rape and murder charges against a group of men accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old university student for hours on a moving bus in New Delhi. The Dec. 16 attack on the woman, who later died of her injuries, has caused outrage across India, sparking protests and demands for tough new rape laws, better police protection for women and a sustained campaign to change society's views about women. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)He described how the pair was attacked for 2 1/2 hours before being thrown on the side of the road, where passersby ignored them and police debated jurisdiction issues before helping them.


Obama poised to name new Cabinet members

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 11:13 AM PST

Obama Poised to Name New ChiefsWith the "fiscal cliff" crisis behind him, President Obama is poised to name two new key players to his cabinet, with both announcements expected to come next week.


Why has the jobless recovery been so slow?

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 12:03 PM PST

Job seekers stand in line to meet prospective employers at a career fair in New York CityFor now, the job market has dodged the "fiscal cliff," but employment growth is also notably slower than in past recoveries from recession.


House approves $9.7 billion in Sandy aid

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 08:25 AM PST

A U.S. flag flies over the foundation of a home destroyed by the storm surge of superstorm Sandy in the Staten Island borough neighborhood of OakwoodThere will be another vote later this month on a $51 billion package in relief aid to state governments for rebuilding.


Photos: Winners of the 2012 NatGeo Photo Contest

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 09:00 AM PST

Photos: Winners of the 2012 NatGeo Photo Contest

WWII love letters found during home renovation

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 12:27 PM PST

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy A couple remodeling their Detroit home discovered a past resident's secret history: A treasure trove of love letters from a World War II veteran long before he had married. Hubert Sawyers III and Eliza Sorise-Sawyers came across the stash lodged in a heating [...]

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