2013年7月24日星期三

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Bipartisan student loan deal passes Senate

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 04:13 PM PDT

FILE - Prospective students tour Georgetown University's campus in Washington, in this Wednesday, July 10, 2013, file photo. Grants and scholarships are taking a leading role in paying college bills, surpassing the traditional role parents long have played in helping foot the bills, according to a report from loan giant Sallie Mae. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)Congress is set to notch a significant victory after the Senate passed a bipartisan reform of the nation's student loan system Wednesday evening with a vote of 81-18.

Bald move: George Bush shaves head for cancer-stricken child

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Former President George H. W. Bush Shaved His HeadFormer president George Bush shaves his head for a good cause.

Pope: Resist 'idols' of money, power, pleasure

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 04:55 PM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Pope Francis made an emotional plea Wednesday for Roman Catholics to shun materialism in the first public Mass of his initial international trip as pontiff, then echoed that theme when he met with drug addicts at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro.

No more mail at your door? Delivery changes eyed

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 12:53 PM PDT

FILE - This Dec. 5, 2011 file photo shows letter carrier Diosdado Gabnat moving boxes of mail into his truck to begin delivery at a post office in Seattle. Americans for generations have come to depend on door-to-door mail delivery. It's about as American as apple pie. But with the Postal Service facing billions of dollars in annual losses, the long-cherished delivery service could be virtually phased-out by 2022 under a proposal a House panel was considering Wednesday. Curbside delivery, which includes deliveries to mailboxes at the end of driveways, and cluster box delivery would replace letter carriers slipping mail into front-door boxes. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans for generations have come to depend on door-to-door mail delivery. It's about as American as apple pie.

Weiner faces growing calls to quit mayor's race

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 04:21 PM PDT

New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner leaves his apartment building in New York on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. The former congressman acknowledged sending explicit text messages to a woman as recently as last summer, more than a year after sexting revelations destroyed his congressional career. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Weiner pressed ahead with his bid for mayor Wednesday despite growing calls for him to drop out over a new sexting scandal, saying the campaign is too important to abandon over "embarrassing personal things" becoming public.

Obama: Washington has 'taken eye off' the economy

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 04:53 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about the economy, Wednesday, July 24, 2013, at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. Seeking to focus public attention on the problem he was sent to the White House to solve, Obama is making a renewed push for policies to expand the middle class, helping people he says are still treading water years after the financial meltdown. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WARRENSBURG, Mo. (AP) — Seeking to build momentum for looming fiscal fights, President Barack Obama on Wednesday cast himself as the champion for middle-class Americans struggling to make ends meet. He chided Washington for having "taken its eye off the ball" and declared that the economy would be the "highest priority" of his second term.

Caroline Kennedy nominated as ambassador to Japan

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 04:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 26, 2013 FILE photo, Caroline Kennedy speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in New York. AP sources say President Barack Obama is nominating Kennedy as ambassador to Japan. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he is nominating former first daughter Caroline Kennedy as U.S. ambassador to Japan, offering the most famous living member of a prominent American family a new role of service to country.

By George! Britain's little prince gets a name

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 02:23 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — The little prince was in need of a name, and now, by George, he's got one.

Egypt army call signals possible crackdown

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 02:13 PM PDT

In this image taken from Egypt State TV, Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi delivers a speech in Alexandria, Egypt, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. El-Sissi has called on Egyptians to hold mass demonstrations to voice their support for the military to put an end to "violence" and "terrorism."( AP Photo/Egypt State TV)CAIRO (AP) — The military chief who ousted Egypt's elected president called on the public Wednesday to take to the streets to give him and the police a mandate to tackle "violence and terrorism," in an address that pointed to a possible move against supporters of the Islamist leader.

House rejects effort to cut off NSA program

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 03:59 PM PDT

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich. returns to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2013, after a meeting with constituents, before the vote on the Defense spending bill in the House containing his amendment to cut funding to the National Security Agency's program that collects phone records. The White House and congressional backers of the NSA's electronic surveillance program are warning that ending the massive collection of phone records from millions of Americans would put the nation at risk from another terrorist attack. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to continue the collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records in the fight against terrorism.

House debate gives new airing to NSA surveillance

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 03:16 PM PDT

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich. returns to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2013, after a meeting with constituents, before the vote on the Defense spending bill in the House containing his amendment to cut funding to the National Security Agency's program that collects phone records. The White House and congressional backers of the NSA's electronic surveillance program are warning that ending the massive collection of phone records from millions of Americans would put the nation at risk from another terrorist attack. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House on Wednesday weighed whether to end the National Security Agency's authority to collect hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records as the fight pitting privacy rights against the government's efforts to thwart terrorism got a new airing.

Egypt imposes toughest Gaza restrictions in years

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 02:02 PM PDT

A Palestinian worker sleeps by a smuggling tunnel along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Egypt has sealed smuggling tunnels and blocked most passenger traffic in the toughest border restrictions on the Gaza Strip in recent years, causing millions of dollars in economic losses and prompting concerns among Gaza's Hamas rulers that the territory is being swept up in the Egyptian military's crackdown on Islamic fundamentalists.(AP Photo/Adel Hana)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Egypt's new government has imposed the toughest border restrictions on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in years, sealing smuggling tunnels, blocking most passenger traffic and causing millions of dollars in economic losses.

Spain official says train accident leaves 35 dead

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 03:20 PM PDT

MADRID (AP) — Spanish official Alberto Nunez Feijoo says that at least 35 people have died after a passenger train derailed in the northwest of the country.

Train derails in Spain, dozens feared dead

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 02:58 PM PDT

MADRID (AP) — A train derailed in northwestern Spain on Wednesday night, toppling passenger cars on their sides and leaving at least one torn open as smoke rose into the air. Dozens were feared dead, with possibly even more injured.

Authorities see no sheen near burning Gulf rig

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 02:52 PM PDT

A fire is seen on the Hercules 265 drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Natural gas spewed uncontrolled from the well on Tuesday after a blowout that forced the evacuation of 44 workers aboard the drilling rig, authorities said. No injuries were reported in the blowout. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Environmental experts say a fiery, out-of-control gas well blazing off the Louisiana coast appears to pose fewer environmental dangers than past offshore accidents because it primarily involves natural gas.

Kennedy nominated for Japan ambassador, sources say

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Caroline Kennedy speaks at the 2013 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ceremony in BostonWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated former first daughter Caroline Kennedy as U.S. ambassador to Japan, offering the most famous living member of a prominent American family a new role of service to country.

Judge stops lawsuits against Detroit bankruptcy

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Firefighters protest outside the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, in Detroit, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A lawyer for Detroit argued Wednesday that the city would be DETROIT (AP) — A federal judge agreed with Detroit on Wednesday and stopped any lawsuits challenging the city's bankruptcy, declaring his courtroom the exclusive venue for legal action in the largest filing by a local government in U.S. history.

Snowden stays put in Moscow; gets a copy of 'Crime and Punishment'

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 12:28 PM PDT

FILE - This handout file photo taken on Friday, July 12, 2013, and made available by Human Rights Watch shows NSA leaker Edward Snowden during his meeting with Russian activists and officials at Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow, Russia . Russian state news agency says Snowden has been granted a document that allows him to leave the transit zone of a Moscow airport and enter Russia. Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Rusia last week after his attempts to leave the airport were thwarted. The United States wants him sent home to face prosecution for espionage.(AP Photo/Tatyana Lokshina, Human Rights Watch , file)MOSCOW (AP) — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, who fled to Moscow's airport a month ago, aims to stay in Russia for the near future and learn the country's culture and language, his lawyer said Wednesday.

At least 35 killed as train derails in Spain

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 04:58 PM PDT

Tren se descarrila en Santiago de Compostela, España"On a curve the train started to twist, and the wagons piled up one on top of the other," one passenger said.

'Washington has taken its eye off the ball'

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:18 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the economy in IllinoisAs Obama seeks to revive the economy, he promises to act with or without Republicans.

District court nominee hits snag on abstinence-only sex education

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Cornelia Pillard listens as President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 3, 2013, where he announced his nomination of Pillard, Robert Wilkins and Patricia Ann Millet to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)Cornelia Pillard, a Georgetown law professor who has been nominated by President Barack Obama to the federal D.C. Circuit Court, is facing a campaign to tank her nomination from a group that boosts abstinence-only sex education for young people.

Hernandez search warrants unsealed in Connecticut

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 09:52 AM PDT

New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is arraigned in court in Attleborough, MassachusettsATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is due to make another court appearance in the murder case against him.

Last hospitalized marathon victim heads home

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 02:19 PM PDT

In this Thursday, May 9, 2013 photo, Marc Fucarile, left, jokes while speaking with members of the media as his fiancee, Jennifer Regan, right, looks on in his room at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Fucarile was only feet away from a bomb blast Monday, April 15 near the finish line of the Boston Marathon that resulted in the loss of one leg, severe damage to the other, as well as burns, and a piece of shrapnel lodged in his heart. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)BOSTON (AP) — The last hospitalized Boston Marathon bombing victim hobbled gingerly on crutches and stopped to hug nurses, therapists and two rescuers before he got into a waiting car that took him home Wednesday, exactly 100 days after the attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260.

With violence in Egypt, Obama halts delivery of F-16s

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 03:14 PM PDT

An opponent of deposed President Mursi, dresses wound of another injured in Monday's clashes with pro-Mursi protesters in CairoBy Phil Stewart and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has halted the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, in the strongest signal yet of U.S. impatience with Egypt's armed forces after its toppling of President Mohamed Mursi. The decision appears to underscore deepening U.S. concern about the course taken by the Arab world's most populous country, reeling from violent street clashes following Mursi's July 3 overthrow. ...

Live: Obama unveils plan to rebuild economy

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 09:10 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he arrives to deliver remarks at an Organizing for Action dinner inChat with Yahoo! editors about the president's speech on jobs and the economy.

Lawyer: Snowden to stay in Moscow airport for now

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 07:30 AM PDT

FILE - This Sunday, June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Russian state news agency said Wednesday, July 24, 2013 that US leaker Edward Snowden has been granted a document that allows him to leave the transit zone of a Moscow airport and enter Russia. Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Rusia last week after his attempts to leave the airport were thwarted. The United States wants him sent home to face prosecution for espionage. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)MOSCOW (AP) — A lawyer advising National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says his asylum status has not been resolved and that he is going to stay at the Moscow airport for now.

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