2013年8月15日星期四

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Snowden downloaded NSA secrets working for Dell

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 03:14 PM PDT

File photo of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, an analyst with a U.S. defence contractor, being interviewed by The Guardian in his hotel room in Hong KongThe ex-intelligence contractor lifted information a year earlier than previously reported, officials say.

Egypt says Obama's comments may encourage armed groups

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 04:23 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama addresses news conference at the White House in WashingtonCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt said U.S. President Barack Obama's remarks condemning a violent crackdown on Islamist protesters, were not based on "facts" and will strengthen and encourage violent groups, the presidency said in a statement on Friday. It said Egypt was facing "terrorist acts" in reference to recent attacks on churches and government buildings that Egypt blames on supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. Security forces on Wednesday killed hundreds of Mursi's supporters while dispersing protestors (Reporting by Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Sandra Maler)

What happens to the websites we abandon?

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 10:15 AM PDT

Space Jam websitePhysical spaces can be renovated, changed. What about digital spaces?

GOP pushes rising stars amid internal skepticism

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 02:26 PM PDT

Speaker of the House in Oklahoma, T.W. Shannon, second left, chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, second from right, and New Hampshire state Rep. Marilinda Garcia participate in a panel discussion during the Republican National Committee summer meeting Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, in Boston. The RNC formally renewed its minority outreach effort, introducing Shannon and Marlinda among the first four members of a BOSTON (AP) — The Republican Party launched its latest effort Thursday to sell itself to a more diverse segment of the population, acknowledging a glaring weakness in the GOP's ability to attract new voters in a country whose demographics are rapidly changing.

NTSB: No engine failure in fatal UPS plane crash

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 04:12 PM PDT

National Transportation Safety Board investigators remove a black box from the the tail section of the UPS cargo plane that crashed Wednesday on approach to the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013 in Birmingham, Ala. The devices could hold key evidence about what happened as the jet tried to land early but crashed on its approach, killing two pilots. (AP Photo/Hal Yeager)BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Federal investigators found no initial evidence that a UPS cargo jet suffered engine failure or was burning before it clipped trees at the end of a runway and slammed into a hillside, killing the two pilots, officials said Thursday.

Ex-coach: I thought I was dating Zumba prostitute

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 03:16 PM PDT

Donald Hill, the former Kennebunk High School hockey coach who is charged with engaging zumba fitness instructor Alexis Wright for prostitution in 2011, appears at York County Superior Court in Alfred, Maine, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. Wright, who's serving a 10-month jail sentence,Wright, the fitness instructor who pleaded guilty to running a prostitution business, doesn't have to answer questions from prosecutors at the trial of the alleged client, a judge said Thursday. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)ALFRED, Maine (AP) — The first man to go trial on charges that he patronized a prostitute who worked out of her Zumba dance studio contends he thought he was engaged in a romance.

Adorable new mammal species found 'in plain sight'

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:08 PM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by Mark Gurney shows a olinguito. Imagine a raccoon with a teddy bear face that is so cute it's hard to resist, let alone overlook. But somehow science did _ until now. Researchers Thursday announced a rare discovery of a new species of a mammal that belongs to the grouping of large creatures that include dogs, cats and bears: the olinguito. The raccoon-sized critters leap through the trees of the cloud forests of Ecuador and Colombia at night, according to a Smithsonian researcher who has spent the past decade tracking them. (AP Photo/Mark Gurney)WASHINGTON (AP) — Imagine a mini-raccoon with a teddy bear face that is so cute it's hard to resist, let alone overlook. But somehow science did — until now.

Russell Simmons sorry for Harriet Tubman sex video

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 03:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2013 file photo, Russell Simmons arrives at the Vanity Fair and Juicy Couture Celebration for the 2013 Vanities Calendar in Los Angeles. Simmons is apologizing for a parody video of Harriet Tubman in a sex tape that appeared on his All Def Digital YouTube channel. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Russell Simmons is apologizing for a parody video of Harriet Tubman in a sex tape that appeared on his All Def Digital YouTube channel.

MLB to expand instant replay in 2014

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 04:04 PM PDT

Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig checks his watch before a news conference following baseball meetings at the Otesaga Hotel on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, in Cooperstown, N.Y. Atlanta Braves President John Schuerholz stands at right. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Calling it a historic moment, Commissioner Bud Selig said Thursday that Major League Baseball plans to expand its video review process next season, giving managers a tool they've never had in an effort to dramatically reduce the number of incorrect calls made in games.

AP Analysis: Egypt enters uncharted territory

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 04:12 PM PDT

The damaged Prince Tadros Church is seen a day after it was torched in sectarian violence following the dispersal of two Cairo sit-ins of supporters of the ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, in Minya, south of Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. Egypt faced a new phase of uncertainty on Thursday after the bloodiest day since its Arab Spring began, with hundreds of people reported killed and thousands injured as police smashed two protest camps of supporters of the deposed Islamist president. Wednesday's raids touched off day-long street violence that prompted the military-backed interim leaders to impose a state of emergency and curfew, and drew widespread condemnation from the Muslim world and the West, including the United States. (AP Photo/Roger Anis, El Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUTCAIRO (AP) — With astonishing speed, Egypt has moved from a nation in crisis to a nation in real danger of slipping into a prolonged bout of violence or even civil war.

Boston bomb survivor, 7, using new prosthetic leg

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 04:06 PM PDT

This photo released Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, by the Richard family shows Jane Richard, 7, who lost part of her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013, walking on a prosthetic leg in Boston. The family of Jane and her late brother Martin, 8, who was killed by one of the blasts, said in a statement that the little girl is already dancing on her prosthetic leg and BOSTON (AP) — A 7-year-old girl who lost part of her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombings is learning to use a prosthetic leg as her family still mourns the death of her older brother in the April attack.

Girl challenges ban from Ohio school football team

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 04:13 PM PDT

BALTIMORE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio school district is refusing to let a seventh-grade girl play football, prompting requests that the board change its policies on female athletes.

Death toll from Egypt violence rises to 638

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 02:14 PM PDT

People mourn sitting next to bodies of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi at the El-Iman mosque in Cairo's Nasr City, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. Egyptian authorities on Thursday significantly raised the death toll from clashes the previous day between police and supporters of the ousted Islamist president, saying hundreds of people died and laying bare the extent of the violence that swept much of the country and prompted the government to declare a nationwide state of emergency and a nighttime curfew. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)CAIRO (AP) — Weeping relatives in search of loved ones uncovered the faces of the bloodied, unclaimed dead in a Cairo mosque near the smoldering epicenter of support for ousted President Mohammed Morsi, as the death toll soared past 600 Thursday from Egypt's deadliest day since the Arab Spring began.

Pole vault great condemns homosexuality at worlds

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 02:31 PM PDT

Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva poses with her gold medal in the women's pole vault as she stands on the podium during the medal ceremony at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)MOSCOW (AP) — The rainbow colors two Swedish athletes painted their fingernails in support of gays and lesbians sent a clear message and brought a swift rebuke from a Russian star, perhaps even a glimpse of what's to come at the Sochi Olympics.

Ex-coach thought he was dating Zumba prostitute

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 03:06 PM PDT

Alexis Wright, the fitness instructor who ran a prostitution ring out of her dance studio, is sworn in during a hearing at York County Superior Court in Alfred, Maine. The judghe ruled Wright, who's serving a 10-month jail sentence, doesn't have to answer prosecutors' questions in the trial of Donald Hill, former Kennebunk High School hockey coach who is charged with engaging Wright for prostitution in 2011. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)ALFRED, Maine (AP) — The first man to go trial on charges that he patronized a prostitute who worked out of her Zumba dance studio contends he thought he was engaged in a romance.

Hagel looks to cut impact of recent Obama remarks

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 03:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 31, 2013, file photo, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon. Hagel has ordered his top leaders to be sure to only base their judicial decisions on facts and their own independent judgment. The one-page memo tells the military that even though senior U.S. leaders may openly condemn sexual assault, drug abuse, hazing and other crimes, such comments are not intended to sway the outcome of any particular case.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — In a highly unusual move to blunt the legal impact of the president's comments on military sexual assaults, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is ordering his top leaders to be sure to only base their judicial decisions on facts and their own independent judgment.

'That '70s Show,' actress Lisa Robin Kelly dead at 43

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 01:38 PM PDT

Lisa Robin Kelly That '70s Showtress Lisa Robin Kelly, best known for her supporting role on the popular Fox television comedy "That '70s Show," has died at age 43, days after checking into a treatment facility for substance abuse, her agent said on Thursday.

Political strategist's funeral draws appearance from Clintons

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 10:55 AM PDT

Bill LynchThe former president and ex-secretary of state paid tribute to Democratic activist Bill Lynch.

Newtown gun permit requests on pace to double

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:55 AM PDT

Roadside angelsOfficials in Newtown, Conn., say requests for gun permits are set to double this year in the wake of the Dec. 14, 2012, massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Rockefeller impostor sentenced for California murder

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:28 PM PDT

FILE - Christian Gerhartsreiter listens to final arguments by prosecutor Habib Balian during his trial at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles in this Tuesday, April 9, 2013 file photo. Gerhartsreiter is due to be sentenced Thursday Aug. 15, 2013 but has made it evident he will not go gently. It was uncertain if sentencing would proceed. (AP Photo/San Gabriel Valley Tribune,Walter Mancini, Pool )LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small, bespectacled German immigrant who invented a glamorous life for himself in the United States by posing as an heir to the fabled Rockefeller fortune was sentenced Thursday to 27 years to life in prison for a California cold-case murder.

Egypt authorizes police use of deadly force

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 10:40 AM PDT

AP10ThingsToSee - A supporter of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi shouts during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Cairo's Nasr City district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)The measures come after demonstrators torched two government buildings.

Car bomb blast kills three in south Beirut

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 09:28 AM PDT

Cars burn at the site of an explosion in Beirut's southern suburbsBEIRUT (AP) — A powerful car bomb ripped through a southern Beirut neighborhood that is a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah on Thursday, killing at least three people and trapping others in burning buildings, the media said.

'Underdog' from Brooklyn takes lead in NYC mayoral race

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 06:56 AM PDT

New York City mayoral candidate and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio speaks to the press outside Brooklyn Borough Hall in New YorkThere's a new front-runner in the race to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Rastas talk reparations at Jamaica gathering

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:36 AM PDT

Rastas talk reparations at Jamaica gatheringDozens of Rastafarians gathered in Jamaica on Wednesday to brainstorm ways of pressuring European countries to pay reparations for slavery and talk about other core beliefs of the homegrown faith. Mostly ...

Obama denounces Egypt massacre

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 08:19 AM PDT

The widow of a dead Muslim Brotherhood supporter reacts after seeing her husband's body at the El Eyman mosque in CairoThe president cancels a joint military exercise after the crackdown on demonstrators.

Is ‘Armageddon’ coming? NASA’s asteroid hunter Don Yeomans won’t miss a thing

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 04:30 AM PDT

Dinosaur-Killing Comet Didn't Wipe Out Freshwater SpeciesAt first glance, Don Yeomans looks like your friendly suburban neighbor. But behind the calm and cool exterior, the NASA scientist has one of the most important jobs imaginable: finding the galaxy's deadliest asteroids before they pose a threat to all life on Earth.

Rio Olympics coordinating chief resigns

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 08:33 AM PDT

The head of the public body coordinating planning for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro has resigned, raising concerns about the city's ability to stage the first games in South America. The resignation ...

At least three die in south Beirut blast

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 09:06 AM PDT

Cars burn at the site of an explosion in Beirut's southern suburbsBEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's state-run news agency says at least three people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an explosion that ripped through a stronghold of the militant Hezbollah group in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut.

Cops dealing Doritos at post-legalization Hempfest

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:23 AM PDT

Matt Galanti, 17, of Bothell, Wash., smokes marijuana from a glass bong at the opening day of the pro-marijuana rally Seattle Hempfest, Aug. 17, 2012, as friends Zach Casselman, 18, of Bothell, and Clay Graeber, 20, of Bothell, look on. Organizers expected more than 150,000 people to attend the three-day event, which comes as citizens in Washington state prepare to vote on an initiative that would legalize and tax the sale of up to an ounce of cannabis at state-licensed stores. (AP Photo/Gene Johnson)SEATTLE (AP) — A few things will be different at this year's Hempfest, the 22-year-old summer "protestival" on Seattle's waterfront where tens of thousands of revelers gather to use dope openly, listen to music and gaze at the Olympic Mountains in the distance.

Vote to legalize alcohol on SD's Pine Ridge reservation passes

Posted: 14 Aug 2013 10:55 PM PDT

In this Aug. 9, 2013 photo is Bryan Brewer, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, who opposes the legalization of alcohol on the reservation in Pine Ridge, S.D. A special election is being held Tuesday, Aug. 13, on whether to end prohibition and allow the tribe to sell alcohol and use the profits for education and detoxification and treatment centers, for which there is currently little to no funding. (AP Photo/Carson Walker)SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation — home to some of the highest rates of unemployment, domestic abuse and suicide in Indian Country — have voted to end prohibition and legalize alcohol so the tribe can use the profits for education and treatment.

U.N. leader wants inquiry into Egyptian crackdown

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:20 AM PDT

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay speaks to Reuters at her hotel in MadridSigns indicate an "extreme use" of force against demonstrators, says the organization's High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Utah fire destroys 14 homes near resort town

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 02:42 PM PDT

A helicopter with a water bucket dips into Rockport Reservoir to drop water on hot spots about two miles to the south of the wildfire that started Tuesday and destroyed a dozen homes in the Rockport Estates in Wanship, Utah. Helicopters flew hundreds of water drops to fight the fire. The lightning-sparked blaze was among several in the West where fires have devoured dry grass and brush and burned to the edges of small communities. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann) DESERET NEWS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; MAGS OUTA wildfire devours brush and threatens homes outside Park City.

Death toll from Egypt violence rises to 525

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:40 AM PDT

Members of the Egyptians Army walk among the smoldering remains of the largest protest camp of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, that was cleared by security forces, in the district of Nasr city, Cairo, Egypt. The death toll keeps going up in Egypt after security forces swept through two sit-in sites yesterday, operated by supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi. An Egyptian Health Ministry spokesman now says over 400 people died in the violence that has prompted international criticism. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)The government declared a nationwide state of emergency and a nighttime curfew.

Muslim Brotherhood says to bring down 'military coup'

Posted: 14 Aug 2013 11:56 PM PDT

Army vehicles are seen as smoke rises in the background during clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mursi at Rabba el Adwia Square, where the protesters are camping, in CairoThe group says it would bring down the "military coup" by peaceful means.

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