2013年10月31日星期四

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Obama’s Halloween: No ‘web’ problems here

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 03:35 PM PDT

This photo shows the South Portico of the White House in Washington decorated and lit in orange lights in preparation of tomorrow's Halloween celebration on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will welcome local children and children of military families tomorrow to 'trick-or-treat'. The White House canceled its Halloween celebration last year in aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Treats not tricks as president hosts military families


Cross-border drug tunnel had rail system, electricity

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 03:21 PM PDT

Drug Tunnel From Tijuana to San Diego Held Tons of DrugsSAN DIEGO (AP) — A tunnel designed to smuggle drugs from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego is equipped with electricity, ventilation and a rail system, U.S. authorities said Thursday, making it one of the more sophisticated secret passages discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border.


Calif. woman who killed pimp now free on parole

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 03:17 PM PDT

Sara Kruzan is seen in an handout photo from the California Department of CorrectionsBy Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California woman who served nearly two decades in prison for killing her pimp at age 16 was released on parole on Thursday, after becoming the face of a campaign to reform the treatment of young offenders. Sara Kruzan, 35, left the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla before dawn, state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Luis Patino said in a statement. Kruzan was taken to Orange County in Southern California, where she will live, and processed at a parole office, Patino said. Earlier this week, when California Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, upheld her parole, the decision was hailed as a watershed moment by lawmakers and activists who had fought on her behalf for more than five years.


Why spy on allies? Even good friends keep secrets

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 11:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama walks with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel toward a group photo outside of the Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg. In geopolitics just as on the local playground, even best friends don't tell each other everything. And everybody's dying to know what the other guy knows. Revelations that the U.S. was monitoring the cellphone calls of up to 35 world leaders, including close allies, have brought into high relief the open-yet-often-unspoken secret _ and suggested the incredible reach of new-millennium technology. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)In geopolitics, just as on the playground, even best friends don't tell each other everything. And everybody's dying to know what the other guy knows.


Iraqi PM: Terror 'found a second chance' in Iraq

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 01:14 PM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, walks with the House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking Democrat Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., right, and the committee's chairman Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif. in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before their meeting. Al-Maliki says terrorists WASHINGTON (AP) — Terrorists "found a second chance" to thrive in Iraq, the nation's prime minister said Thursday in asking for new U.S. aid to beat back a bloody insurgency that has been fueled by the neighboring Syrian civil war and the departure of American troops from Iraq two years ago.


No October jinx this time for the stock market

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 02:59 PM PDT

Trader Christopher Lotito, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013. Stocks edged lower in early trading on Wall Street Thursday, paring the market's big gain for October. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — October, with its history of big crashes on Wall Street, didn't scare off investors this time. To the contrary, the stock market seemed unstoppable.


Toronto police say they have mayor drug video

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 04:38 PM PDT

Mayor Rob Ford walks past Halloween decorations on his way to talk to media at City Hall in Toronto on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013. Ford says he has no reason to step down despite police confirmation that they have seized a video that appears to show him smoking a crack pipe. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)TORONTO (AP) — Toronto police said Thursday they have obtained a video that appears to show Mayor Rob Ford smoking a crack pipe — a video that Ford had claimed didn't exist and has been at the core of a scandal that has embarrassed and gripped Canada for months.


Dell laptop buyers make a stink over cat smell

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 11:54 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A noxious feline odor has some Dell customers caterwauling.

Kentucky is No. 1 in preseason poll

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 12:51 PM PDT

Kentucky head coach John Calipari watches his team during their Blue-White NCAA college basketball scrimmage, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, in Lexington, Ky. The Blue team won 99-71. (AP Photo/James Crisp)LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Every time Kentucky coach John Calipari starts to praise his latest crop of talented freshmen, he's just as quick to point out that it is a work in progress.


Judge: No questionable comments on NY stop-frisk

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 03:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2013 file photo, police officers take a report from a woman who had her phone stolen in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York. A federal appeals court on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, blocked a judge's order requiring changes to the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk program and removed the judge from the case. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)NEW YORK (AP) — A judge who ordered changes to the New York City police stop-and-frisk program and was removed from the case says she didn't comment on it inappropriately.


NY officials glad police stop-frisk ruling blocked

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 03:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2013 file photo, police officers take a report from a woman who had her phone stolen in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York. A federal appeals court on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, blocked a judge's order requiring changes to the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk program and removed the judge from the case. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials say they're pleased with a federal appeals court ruling that blocks a judge's order requiring changes to the police department's stop-and-frisk program.


Some Syrians lose themselves in music as war rages

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 11:47 AM PDT

In this photograph made on Thursday Oct. 24, 2013, young Syrians dance at a popular bar in the Old City in Damascus, Syria. While most people in the capital lock themselves fearfully in their homes as the night falls, the joyful crowd of young Syrians dressed in tight jeans and designer clothes go wild with the sound of local Arab hits, clapping and dancing and deafening the booms of the artillery outside. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — As cannons thundered and mortar shells exploded nearby, the young Syrian woman in a slinky dark dress and stylish bob performed a song by pop star Adele, taking refuge behind a microphone from the civil war raging outside.


After unity, some Democrats push back on Obama

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 02:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama gestures while speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Just two weeks after Obama saw his Democratic party put up an unyielding front against Republicans, his coalition is showing signs of stress. From health care to spying to pending budget deals, many congressional Democrats are challenging the administration and pushing for measures that the White House has not embraced. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Just two weeks after President Barack Obama saw his Democratic Party put up an unyielding front against Republicans, his coalition is showing signs of stress.


Snags set back air traffic control system update

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 02:15 PM PDT

A Southwest Airlines plane takes off Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. The modernization of the U.S. air traffic control system, one of the government's most ambitious and complex technology programs, is in trouble. The Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen, was sold to Congress and the public by the Federal Aviation Administration a decade ago as a way to accommodate an anticipated surge in air travel, reduce fuel consumption and improve safety and efficiency. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)WASHINGTON (AP) — After a decade of work and billions of dollars spent, the modernization of the U.S. air traffic control system is in trouble. The ambitious and complex technology program dubbed NextGen has encountered unforeseen difficulties at almost every turn.


Watchdog: Syria destroyed chemical arms equipment

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 05:39 AM PDT

FILE - In this photo released Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013, by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, samples brought back by the U.N. chemical weapons inspection team are checked in upon their arrival at The Hague, Netherlands. An official at the global chemical weapons watchdog says Syria has completed destruction of critical equipment for producing chemical weapons and filling munitions with poison gas. The official spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday, Oct. 31, because the OPCW had not yet made the announcement public. (AP Photo/OPCW, Henry Arvidsson, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Syria has destroyed critical equipment for producing chemical weapons and poison gas munitions, the global chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday as fierce clashes raged in the country's north, close to one of the sites where toxic agents are believed to be stored.


Google, Oracle, Red Hat to help fix HealthCare.gov

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 02:50 PM PDT

Janet Perez oversees specialists help callers with health insurance, at a customer care center in Providence, Rhode IslandBy Susan Cornwell and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration said it has brought in experts from top technology companies including Google Inc and Oracle Corp to fix the HealthCare.gov website, as Republicans press for details about the botched October 1 launch that prevented millions of Americans from signing up for new insurance plans. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it had added dozens of technology experts and engineers to its round-the-clock effort to fix the technical glitches on the site that is key to the implementation of President Barack Obama's healthcare restructuring law. Giving some of the first details of who might be leading the tech fix, HHS officials identified two experts by name: Michael Dickerson, a website reliability engineer on leave from Google, and Greg Gershman, a Baltimore-based innovation director with the firm Mobomo and who previously worked for the White House and the General Services Administration. "We are doing everything we can to assist those contractors to make HealthCare.gov a highly performant, highly reliable, highly secure system." Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told shareholders at the company's annual meeting on Thursday in Redwood City, California.


Millions face food stamp cuts on Nov. 1

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 12:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 23, 2012, file photo Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter's purchases are scanned by a cashier at a ShopRite grocery story in Philadelphia after Nutter pledged to live on the average food stamp benefit of five dollars a day for the entire week. Food stamps look ripe for the picking, politically speaking. Through five years and counting of economic distress, the food aid program has swollen up like a summer tomato. It grew to $78 billion last year, more than double its size when the recession began in late 2007. That makes it a juicy target for conservative Republicans seeking to trim spending and pare back government. But to many Democrats, food stamps are a major element of the country's commitment to help citizens struggling to meet basic needs. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)Currently, 1 in 7 American families rely on the benefits.


Halloween live blog: White House ghost stories

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Justices reverse wrongful death Virginia Tech verdict

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 07:56 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 20, 2009 file photo, Tom Mauser, father of slain Columbine High School student Daniel Mauser, hugs Lori Haas, mother of Emily Haas, who was wounded in the Virginia Tech shooting, at a Columbine Remembrance and Rededication ceremony at the Capitol building in Denver on the 10th anniversary of the school attack. At far right is Lily Habtu, a Virginia Tech student who was shot three times in the Virginia Tech attack. The year after Columbine, Mauser helped lead an initiative to require background checks for all firearms buyers at state gun shows, a move that didn't prevent accused Aurora shooter James Holmes from acquiring his arsenal. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider)RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The state Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a jury's wrongful death verdict against the state stemming from the April 16, 2007, killing of 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.


Prosecutor reviewing facts in Georgia gym mat death

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 01:39 PM PDT

Teen Seen Moments Before Death in Surveillance FootageMACON, Ga. (AP) — A federal prosecutor said Thursday that he is conducting a formal review of facts and evidence in the death of a teenager whose body was found inside a rolled-up wrestling mat in his high school gym.


Cory Booker sworn in as U.S. senator

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 11:46 AM PDT

U.S. Senator Booker stands next to his mother Booker after U.S. Vice President Biden ceremonially swore in Booker as the latest U.S. Senator in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in WashingtonMinutes after his swearing-in, Senator Booker cast his first vote.


Boy falls from Disneyland Paris pirate ride

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 06:17 AM PDT

A view of the Pirates Bay at the Disneyland park in Chessy, near Marne-la-Vallee, outside Paris, taken on March 31, 2012PARIS (AP) — A popular boat ride at Disneyland Paris is closed and under police examination after a 5-year-old boy suffered serious injuries in an accident.


Drink it while you can, as study points to looming wine shortage

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 04:45 AM PDT

The French remain the world's leading wine drinkers, with consumption rising since 2010Attention wine lovers: savor every last sip, as researchers say there may be a global shortage looming. Wine prices could shoot up because of a fall in production and growing thirst for wine among Chinese and Americans, Morgan Stanley research said in a report Wednesday. But since then supply has fallen because of lower production capacity, slipping in 2012 to the lowest level in 40 years, the US bank said. Production capacity has dropped particularly in Europe, where today it is 10 percent lower than in 2005, especially in France, the world's top producer, followed by Italy and Spain.


Businessweek mocks Obamacare glitches

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 07:31 AM PDT

Bloomberg Businesweek Obama glitch coverBloomberg Businessweek poked fun in its new issue at the tech problems that have plagued HealthCare.gov since it opened for business Oct. 1.


FAA tells air travelers to rock on

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 01:59 PM PDT

FAA: Airline passengers can now use electronics during takeoff and landingListeners won't have to power down during takeoffs and landings.


Court testimony reveals affair between two Murdoch editors

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 07:49 AM PDT

Andy Coulson arrives at The Old Bailey law court in London, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013. Former News of the World national newspaper editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson went on trial Monday, along with several others, on charges relating to the hacking of phones and bribing officials while they were employed at the now closed tabloid paper. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, two former editors of Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid, were having an affair at the time their reporters are accused of hacking into phones, a court heard on Thursday. Prosecutor Andrew Edis said the closeness of their relationship showed that both knew as much as each other how staff at the tabloid were operating. "What Mr Coulson knew, Mrs Brooks knew too. What Mrs Brooks knew, Mr Coulson knew too," Edis told the court.


FAA allows passengers' gadget use

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 12:41 PM PDT

FAA May Expand Electronic Device Use GuidelinesTravelers will be able to use most electronics from gate-to-gate.


'This call may be monitored': Snowden gets tech support job in Russia, report says

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 04:11 AM PDT

FILE - In this image made from video released by WikiLeaks on Oct. 11, 2013, former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden, center, receives the Sam Adams Award in Moscow, Russia. Europe bristles following Snowden's latest revelations about NSA tactics, including the alleged tapping of up to 35 world leaders' cell phones, which threaten to undermine America's ability to put its imprint on world affairs. At right is Raymond McGovern, a former U.S. government official, at left is former NSA executive Thomas Drake. (AP Photo, File)MOSCOW (AP) — Anatoly Kucherena, a lawyer for former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden, says his client has found a technical support job at a Russian website.


Obamacare court challenge: Do corporations have religious freedom rights?

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 02:41 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 28, 2012 file photo, protesters chant and hold a copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in front of Supreme Court in Washington as the court concluded three days of hearing arguments on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Arguments in the Supreme Court failed to yield clear hints how the justices would rule on the question of whether President Barack Obama's health care overhaul would be left standing if the high court were to strike down the linchpin provision that all Americans must have health insurance. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)For-profit corporations could opt out of the law by asserting freedom of religion.


Watchdog: Syria has destroyed chemical production facilities

Posted: 31 Oct 2013 02:01 PM PDT

U.N. vehicles transporting a team of OPCW experts, leave their hotel in DamascusBy Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria has destroyed or rendered inoperable all of its declared chemical weapons production and mixing facilities, meeting a major deadline in an ambitious disarmament program, the international chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which won the Nobel Peace prize this month, said its teams had inspected 21 out of 23 chemical weapons sites across the country. Syria "has completed the functional destruction of critical equipment for all of its declared chemical weapons production facilities and mixing/filling plants, rendering them inoperable," it said, meeting a November 1 deadline for the work. The next target date is November 15, by when the OPCW and Syria must agree to a detailed plan of destruction, including how and where to destroy more than 1,000 metric tonnes of toxic agents and munitions.


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