2013年10月13日星期日

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A debt deal by Thursday?

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 08:47 AM PDT

Slimdown day 12: Congress adjourns until Sunday at 1pmA GOP senator predicted that the two sides would come together in order to avoid a default.


Palin stands with WWII vets, stumps for N.J. Senate candidate

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 10:59 AM PDT

Military Supporters Rally In Washington To Re-Open WWII MemorialBut does her tea party star power even matter to the GOP?


Chicago Marathon participants keep Boston in mind

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 01:11 PM PDT

Runners participate in the Chicago Marathon in Chicago, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)CHICAGO (AP) — Runners in Sunday's Chicago Marathon held a city nearly a thousand miles away close to their hearts and were determined to show that, six months after the Boston Marathon bombings, they could pound the streets together without fear.


Indian officials say few deaths in massive cyclone

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 08:05 AM PDT

BEHRAMPUR, India (AP) — Mass evacuations spared India the widespread deaths many had feared from a powerful cyclone that roared ashore over the weekend, officials said Sunday, as the country sorted through the wreckage of flooded towns, tangled power lines and tens of thousands of destroyed thatch homes.

Ex-US Rep. Gabby Giffords attends NY gun show

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 03:22 PM PDT

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, left, former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, center, and her husband Mark Kelly tour the New EastCoast Arms Collectors Associates arms fair in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Tim Roske, Pool)SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — A smiling Gabrielle Giffords toured rows of tables loaded with rifles and handguns Sunday in her first visit to a gun show since surviving a 2011 shooting, and pleaded afterward for people to come together to stop gun violence.


After Kenya mall attack, children's trauma lingers

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 10:04 AM PDT

In this photo taken Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, 14-month old Azzurra sits with a lipstick kiss on her cheek from her mother Cynthia Carpino, both of whom were caught up in the Westgate Mall attack, at their apartment in Nairobi, Kenya. Parents whose children were caught up in the Westgate Mall attack on Sept. 21 are struggling with symptoms of distress themselves while at the same time grappling with how to help their traumatized kids - some of whom are drawing grenades or impersonating the terrorists by "playing Westgate" games. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — When the shooting began at the Nairobi mall, Cynthia Carpino and her husband hid in the parking lot. But their 1-year-old daughter wouldn't stop crying. To muffle her cries, her father placed his hand over her mouth so hard she almost suffocated. Little Azzurra fainted in his arms, and three weeks later she's still not right.


South Dakota ranchers reeling from cattle losses

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 01:02 PM PDT

FILE - This Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, file aerial photo shows dead cattle in Sulphur Creek in western South Dakota during a flyover of areas hard hit by a snowstorm that killed thousands of animals. Western South Dakota ranchers are reeling from the loss of tens of thousands of cattle in last weekend's blizzard as pits to dispose of the dead animals are set to open Monday, Oct. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/KOTA-TV, Pool, File)SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Western South Dakota ranchers are reeling from the loss of tens of thousands of cattle in last weekend's blizzard, and many will dispose of carcasses in pits set to open Monday.


Hope remains for global recovery beyond US impasse

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 09:47 AM PDT

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, reads a newspaper before a meeting of the IMFC, during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings at IMF headquarters, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, in Washington. World finance officials prepared to wrap up three days of meetings in Washington, where fretting about the risk of an unprecedented U.S. debt default overshadowed myriad worries about a shaky global economic recovery. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)WASHINGTON (AP) — Worries about a possible U.S. debt default cast a pall over weekend meetings of global financial leaders in Washington. But they ended with some hope over signs that the U.S. and European economies are pulling out of long slumps.


Arrowhead Stadium breaks record for noise level

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 03:41 PM PDT

Kansas City Chiefs fans cheer while setting a world record as the loudest stadium crowd during the second half of an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. Guinness World Records officials were present to confirm the record. The Chiefs defeated the Raiders 24-7. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Arrowhead Stadium is once again the loudest stadium in the NFL.


AP PHOTOS: A look at the Chicago Marathon

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 11:12 AM PDT

Runners participate in the Chicago Marathon in Chicago, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)Chicago Marathon runners hit the streets Sunday morning, nearly six months after the Boston Marathon bombings, with more security lining race route and spectator areas. Runners from more than 120 countries and all 50 states observed a moment of silence for the victims and families before the race kicked off. On a sunny day with the forecast calling for temperatures to hit the high 50s when the top runners finished, conditions were close to ideal. But there was a different feel to this event in the wake of the Boston bombings, which killed three people and injured more than 260 others.


Migrants say they were fired upon leaving Libya

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 09:38 AM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013 file photo, two men are helped by officers after disembarking from a Maltese Navy ship at the Valletta harbor, Malta, after a Maltese ship brought 143 survivors from a capsized smugglers' boat after 34 people drowned when the boat capsized. Most of the migrants in the latest tragedy were fleeing civil war in Syria. A sharp rise in the number of Syrians attempting the perilous sea voyage over the past three months highlights the crushing life-and-death decisions facing many who fled to Egypt to escape Syria's armed conflict, according to rights group Amnesty International. (AP Photo/Lino Arrigo Azzopardi, File)VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Migrants who were rescued after their smugglers' boat capsized in the Mediterranean say they were shot at as they left a Libyan port, making plain that perilous seas are not the only dangers refugees face when they flee their homes for Europe.


Arrest in Baby Hope case brings closure to police

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 05:29 AM PDT

Former NYPD detective Jerry Giorgio smiles alongside Commissioner Ray Kelly, right, after a news conference at One Police Plaza where it was announced that after an investigation that lasted more than two decades they had arrested the killer of a then unidentified child who was nicknamed Baby Hope, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, in New York. During an interrogation early Saturday, the 4-year-old Anjelica Castillo's cousin, Conrado Juarez, had admitted sexually assaulting and smothering her, Kelly said. Giorgio, who had the case from 1991 until his retirement over the summer, said he remained confident the case could be solved. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)NEW YORK (AP) — The announcement of an arrest in one of New York City's most notorious cold cases was especially relieving for two hardened investigators, who for 22 years had been working to identify the girl they nicknamed Baby Hope after discovering her body stuffed in a picnic cooler along a highway.


Stampede near Indian temple kills 89 people

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 08:50 AM PDT

Indian villagers gather after a deadly stampede on a bridge across the Sindh River in Datia district in Madhya Pradesh state, India, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. A stampede by masses of Hindu worshippers left scores of people dead on a bridge they had been crossing to reach a temple in central India, police said. (AP Photo)NEW DELHI (AP) — A stampede by masses of Hindu worshippers crossing a bridge to a temple in central India left at least 89 people dead Sunday, police said.


2 car bombs hit hear Syrian state TV in Damascus

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 11:35 AM PDT

Firefighters extinguish a burning vehicle after two mortar rounds struck the Abu Roumaneh area in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. Syria's state news agency said two mortar rounds struck an upscale neighborhood in the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing at least one child and injuring a dozen people. (AP Photo)BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's official news agency says two bombs have exploded near the state television building in central Damascus.


Furloughed workers pinching pennies, volunteering

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 06:31 AM PDT

FILE Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Catherine Threat watches students as they arrive at Courtenay Elementary Language Arts Center in Chicago in this Oct. 7, 2013 file photo taken in Chicago. The Wisconsin veteran hasn't let the federal shutdown shut Her down. Threat returned from active duty in Afghanistan in July. Since then, she's been in the Army Reserve and working as a civilian at Fort McCoy in central Wisconsin _ until last week when she was furloughed. Rather than sitting around, Threat decided to volunteer for a veteran patrol for the Chicago Public Schools They're experienced research engineers and park rangers still in college, attorneys who enforce environmental regulations and former soldiers who took civilian jobs with the military after coming home from war.


7 Red Cross workers kidnapped in northern Syria

Posted: 13 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Firefighters extinguish a burning vehicle after two mortar rounds struck the Abu Roumaneh area in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. Syria's state news agency said two mortar rounds struck an upscale neighborhood in the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing at least one child and injuring a dozen people. (AP Photo)BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen kidnapped a team of seven workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross after stopping their convoy early Sunday along a roadside in northern Syria, a spokesman said.


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