2013年12月18日星期三

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NSA reforms: Yes, we can spy, but should we?

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 02:28 PM PST

A computer with a series of numbers and the logo of NSA is seen in picture illustration taken in FrankfurtWhite House says it will release an outside commission's recommendations for how to fix the NSA.


Georgia woman has one of two winning lottery tickets

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 03:57 PM PST

A cashier holds a Mega Millions lottery ticket at a convenience store in Lisbon, Maine, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013. With tickets selling well, the jackpot for tonight's drawing is now at an estimated $636 million, the second-biggest lottery prize in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia woman who bought just one ticket and used family birthdays and lucky No. 7 to choose her numbers was one of two winners of the $636 million Mega Millions jackpot, the second largest in U.S. history.


Senate passes budget deal

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 04:37 PM PST

A view of the Capitol Building in WashingtonWashington (United States) (AFP) - The US Senate passed a compromise two-year budget accord Wednesday, marking a truce in the fiscal wars that have plagued Washington and reducing the likelihood of a government shutdown in January. The measure, which already cleared the House and passed the Senate 64-36 with the support of nine Republicans and the entire Democratic caucus, now goes to President Barack Obama, who said he was "pleased" with the vote. The legislation was one of the final major accomplishments for Congress in 2013, which by all accounts has been a miserable year for US lawmakers. Obama described the agreement -- the first time in years that Congress has passed a budget -- as "a good first step away from the shortsighted, crisis-driven decision-making that has only served to act as a drag on our economy.


Economy gets vote of confidence

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 01:32 PM PST

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke begins his final planned news conference before his retirement, at the Federal Reserve Bank headquarters in WashingtonBut the central bank suggests its key interest rate would stay lower for longer than promised.


New Obama adviser sorry for 'snark'

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 08:35 AM PST

File photo of Podesta, then president and chief executive officer of the Center for American Progress, in WashingtonJohn Podesta apologizes to GOP leader for Jonestown cult comparison.


White House to release task force report on spying

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 10:04 AM PST

Revelations over the NSA's alleged surveillance program led to "privacy" becoming the word of the year (AP)WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says it's releasing a task force report that recommends changes on how the National Security Agency collects intelligence data.


Senate passes budget deal

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Romney's election night moment of truth revealed in new film

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 08:44 AM PST

Behind-the-scenes doc shows moment Romney learned he had lost the presidencyA new behind-the-scenes documentary coming to Netflix next month shows a more candid side of the 2012 presidential nominee.


Protest smooch seen around the world

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 08:50 AM PST

A picture taken on November 16, 2013 shows a demonstrator trying to kiss a riot police officer during a demonstration in Susa against the high-speed train line between Lyon and TurinThe photo of a young Italian woman kissing a police officer's helmet visor during a protest has gone viral, with a police union threatening to sue her for "sexual violence". The 20-year-old student, Nina De Chiffre, was snapped by a photographer working for AFP as she went to kiss the policeman, Salvatore Piccione, at a protest against a new high-speed rail line in the Alps. Her act was interpreted by many as a loving gesture and proved a hit on social media, although the photographer Marco Bertorello and De Chiffre herself pointed out that it was intended as an act of mockery. Franco Maccari, the head of the COISP police union, earlier this month vowed to sue the protester for "sexual violence and insulting a public official".


India cuts duty-free booze, other perks after envoy's NYC arrest

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 08:29 AM PST

Supporters of Rashtrawadi Shiv Sena, a Hindu hardline group, carry placards during a protest near the U.S. embassy in New Delhi December 18, 2013. REUTERS/Ahmad MasoodBy Shyamantha Asokan and Frank Jack Daniel NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India took retaliatory measures against the United States on Wednesday in a dispute over an Indian diplomat who complained of being stripped and forced to undergo "cavity searches" while in U.S. detention. The measures included a revision of work conditions of Indians employed at U.S. consulates and a freeze on the import of duty-free alcohol. Devyani Khobragade, a deputy consul general at the Indian Consulate in New York, was arrested on December 12 on charges of visa fraud and underpaying her housekeeper, an Indian national. India has responded furiously to what it considers the degrading treatment of a senior diplomat by the United States, a country it sees as a close friend.


Bipartisan budget agreement clears Congress

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 03:59 PM PST

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the chamber for the final votes on the bipartisan budget deal designed to keep Congress from lurching from one fiscal crisis to the next and ease the harshest effects of the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation Wednesday scaling back across-the-board cuts on programs ranging from the Pentagon to the national park system, adding a late dusting of bipartisanship to a year more likely to be remembered for a partial government shutdown and near-perpetual gridlock.


Witness describes car crash before woman was shot

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 04:32 PM PST

Theodore Wafer listens to his attorney Cheryl Carpenter while appearing at his preliminary examination before District Court Judge David Turfe in Dearborn Heights, Mich., Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. The hearing will determine if there's enough evidence to send Wafer to trial on a second-degree murder charge. Defense attorneys claim he feared for his life, but prosecutors say the shooting of Renisha McBride, 19, was not justified. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — A young, drunk woman fatally shot on a man's porch in suburban Detroit was hurt, scared and confused a few hours earlier when she crashed her vehicle into a parked car, a witness testified Wednesday.


Improving US economy leads Fed to ease stimulus

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 04:02 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2013 file photo, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Most economists think the Fed, after meeting this week, will maintain the pace of its monthly bond purchases to keep long-term loan rates low to spur spending and growth. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday sent its strongest signal of confidence in the U.S. economy since the Great Recession, deciding that the nation's economic prospects are finally bright enough to withstand a slight pullback in stimulus spending.


Syrian air raids exact high toll on Aleppo

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 01:11 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center, AMC, and released Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians inspect the rubble of damaged buildings following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian warplanes dumped explosive-laden barrel bombs over opposition-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, the fourth day of a relentless offensive to drive rebels out of the contested city, activists said. The country's conflict, now in its third year, appears to have escalated in recent weeks as both sides maneuver ahead of next month's planned peace talks and ignore calls for a cease-fire. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)BEIRUT (AP) — In a withering four-day air assault, the Syrian government pummeled opposition-held neighborhoods in the northern city of Aleppo, leveling apartment buildings, flooding hospitals with casualties and killing nearly 200 people.


Egypt's Morsi to face new trial on terror charges

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 01:13 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, July 13, 2012 photo, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi holds a joint news conference with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, unseen, at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt state media is reporting that the top prosecutor has referred Morsi to trial for conspiring with foreign groups with the intention of carrying out terrorist operations in the country. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian prosecutors on Wednesday announced a new trial of ousted President Mohammed Morsi and the top leaders of his Muslim Brotherhood, accusing them of conspiring with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran's Revolutionary Guard and militant groups to carry out a wave of terrorism to destabilize the country.


Officials ready up for winter-weather Super Bowl

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 03:36 PM PST

Snow and slush left from Tuesday's snowfall is seen outside MetLife stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. Later Wednesday, at MetLife, officials demonstrated snow removal and melting machinery and outlined emergency weather scenarios and contingency plans for the Super Bowl in February. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Standing amid giant piles of snow in the shadow of MetLife Stadium, Super Bowl organizers said Wednesday that they're prepared to deploy thousands of trucks and tons of salt to prevent snowy weather from interfering with the biggest football game of the year.


AP-GfK poll: Obama int'l ratings top domestic ones

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 10:54 AM PST

Graphic shows AP-GfK poll results; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101 mm;WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's approval ratings for handling foreign policy issues generally top his ratings for most domestic issues, including the economy and health care, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. But the poll also suggests a majority of Americans want the president to pull troops out of Afghanistan faster than he's doing, and many are skeptical about a tentative nuclear deal with Iran.


Holiday shopping season: A disappointment so far

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 02:48 PM PST

In this Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013, photo, sale signs are displayed at a Kmart, in New York. Sales are up 2 percent through Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013, according to data obtained by The Associated Press from store data tracker ShopperTrak, on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, which declined to give dollar figures. The modest growth so far comes as the amount of discounting stores are doing is up 13 percent from last year, the highest level its been since 2008 when stores were holding huge sales events to draw in recession-weary shoppers, according to research firm BMO Capital Markets. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)NEW YORK (AP) — Sparse crowds at malls and "50 percent off" signs at The Gap and other stores offer clues as to how this holiday season is shaping up so far: It's the most discount-driven one since the U.S. was in a deep recession. It's also the most disappointing for stores.


Task force urges limit on NSA snooping

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 01:57 PM PST

FILE - This June 6, 2013, file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. A presidential advisory panel has recommended dozens of changes to the government's surveillance programs, including stripping the NSA of its ability to store Americans' telephone records and requiring a court to sign off on the individual searches of phone and Internet data. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A presidential advisory panel has recommended sweeping limits on the government's surveillance programs, including requiring a court to sign off on individual searches of phone records and stripping the National Security Agency of its ability to store that data from Americans.


Hero guide dog assured good home after NY rescue

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 02:52 PM PST

Cecil Williams pets his guide dog Orlando in his hospital bed following a fall onto subway tracks from the platform, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, in New York. The blind 61-year-old Williams says he fainted while holding onto his black labrador who tried to save him from falling. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)NEW YORK (AP) — The guide dog that leaped onto subway tracks after his blind owner lost consciousness and fell off a station platform is assured a loving home after his retirement.


Haiti faults orphanage run by well-off US church

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 09:50 AM PST

In this Nov. 13, 2013 photo, a young boy stands in his room in the U.S.-based Church of Bible Understanding orphanage in Kenscoff, Haiti. The orphanage is run by a Christian missionary group funded by the Olde Good Things antique store on Manhattan's Upper West Side. While many other orphanages also have failed the Caribbean country's new national standards, and conditions are far worse in some, the group's three-story building on the hilly outskirts of Port-au-Prince stands out because it's run by an organization with such an unusual, and successful fundraising operation. The failure to meet the standards would seem to contradict their financial position.(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At the Olde Good Things antique store on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a French crystal chandelier can go for tens of thousands of dollars. A marble mantel sells for more than $20,000 and hand-carved dinner tables are priced even higher.


Defense bill gives Obama rare Guantanamo victory

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 03:22 PM PST

In this photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a soldier closes the gate at the now abandoned Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaida and Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11 attacks at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. Detainees were housed in open air pens until the completion of Camp Delta in April 2002. Many detainees at Guantanamo Bay may be closer to heading home under a bipartisan deal reached in Congress that gives President Barack Obama a rare victory in his fight to close the prison for terror suspects. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to half the terror suspects held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay could be closer to heading home under a bipartisan deal reached in Congress that gives President Barack Obama a rare victory in his fight to close the prison.


Govt: 500 killed in South Sudan violence

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 01:04 PM PST

In this handout image from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan taken on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 a United Nations soldier stands guard as civilians arrive at UNMISS compound adjacent to the Juba International Airport to take refuge. Sporadic gunfire rang out in the capital, Juba, overnight as the military "cleared out remnants" of a faction of soldiers accused of mounting a coup attempt, the country's foreign minister said Tuesday amid an ongoing hunt for the former deputy president who is accused of leading the failed plot. (AP Photo/UNMISS/Rolla Hinedi)JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — At least 500 people, most of them soldiers, have been killed in South Sudan since Sunday, a senior government official said, as an ethnic rivalry threatened to tear apart the world's newest country.


Store owner learns during interview that she'll get $1M for selling lotto ticket

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 02:33 PM PST

Gateway Newsstand owner Young Soolee speaks to reporters at her store just off the lobby of the Alliance Center office building in the Buckhead community of Atlanta, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. Her store sold one of the two winning tickets for the near-record $636 million Mega Millions drawing. (AP Photo/Johnny Clark)Young Soo Lee was told she'd receive $1 million for selling one of the two winning Mega Millions lottery tickets. Only, she won't get anything.


Obama meets with NSA task force

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 07:42 AM PST

FILE - This June 6, 2013 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The case of a Baltimore purse-snatcher who got nabbed after crank-calling his victim in 1976 laid the legal groundwork for today's worldwide government surveillance of telephone records in the name of protecting the U.S. from terrorists. The NSA has argued that people forfeit privacy rights when they voluntarily give their phone numbers and Internet IDs to businesses. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)The president appointed the panel to review privacy issues and government surveillance.


Report: Pippa Middleton engaged to boyfriend Nico Jackson

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Egypt's Morsi to be tried for 'espionage', Hamas ties

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 09:10 AM PST

Image grab taken from Egyptian state TV shows ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in court in Cairo on November 4, 2013Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi and ex-aides will stand trial for "espionage" that helped a "terrorist" campaign involving the Palestinian militant Hamas and jihadists, the prosecution said Wednesday. Morsi, an Islamist toppled by the military in July after a single year of turbulent rule, is already on trial for his alleged involvement in the killings of opposition protesters. Prosecutors had been investigating his alleged links to Hamas during mass prison breaks in an early 2011 uprising against ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak, when Morsi and other Islamist prisoners escaped. He and 35 others, including former aides and leaders of his Muslim Brotherhood, now stand accused of "espionage for foreign organisations abroad to commit terrorist attacks in the country", a state prosecution service statement said.


Obama selects gay athletes for Sochi delegation

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 04:00 AM PST

Obama selects gay athletes for Sochi delegationThe president sent Russia a clear message about its treatment of gays and lesbians.


Iran says nuclear talks with world powers to resume

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 09:24 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2010 file photo, a worker rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. Assassinations, cyber-attacks and possible military strikes: As nuclear negotiations with Iran enter a crucial stage, Tehran is voicing fears that tougher oversight of its activities will increase the risks of an attack on its atomic facilities and the scientists working on them. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour, File)Tehran is hoping for limited relief from sanctions.


Russia adopts amnesty likely to free Pussy Riot, help Greenpeace 30

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 04:35 AM PST

El Supremo ruso ordena revisar el caso contra las Pussy RiotRussia's parliament on Wednesday approved an amnesty which lawyers said would free two jailed members of punk band Pussy Riot and enable 30 people arrested in a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil drilling avoid trial. The lower house of parliament passed the amnesty, which President Vladimir Putin proposed to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the passage of Russia's post-Soviet constitution. Lawyers said the amnesty, which could enter into force this week, would lead to the early release of Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, whose two-year sentences over an anti-Putin protest in a cathedral have been criticized in the West as excessive.


Two winners in $636M Mega Millions drawing

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 12:40 AM PST

A clerk prepares to operate a lottery machine to print out Mega Millions lottery tickets for a customer at Tobacco Plus, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, in Muncie, Ind. With tickets selling well, the jackpot for tonight's drawing is now at an estimated $636 million, the second-biggest lottery prize in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)Lottery officials say the winning tickets were sold in California and Georgia.


Bipartisan budget agreement nears final passage

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 12:41 PM PST

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. takes a break from the Senate floor, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, after a bipartisan budget compromise cleared a procedural hurdle, advancing past a filibuster threshold on a 67-33 vote that ensures the measure will pass the Democratic-led chamber no later than Wednesday and head to the White House to be signed into law. When enacted, the measure would ease for two years some of the harshest cuts to agency budgets required under automatic spending curbs commonly known as sequestration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate lined up Wednesday to give final congressional approval to legislation scaling back across-the-board cuts on programs ranging from the Pentagon to the national park system, adding a late dusting of bipartisanship to a year more likely to be remembered for a partial government shutdown and near-perpetual gridlock.


South Sudan leader offers talks as violence spreads

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 08:22 AM PST

People arrive to seek refuge in the UNMISS compound in Juba, on December 18, 2013Juba (AFP) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir offered Wednesday to hold talks with his arch-rival he accuses of leading a coup bid that has sparked days of fierce fighting in the world's youngest nation.


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