2013年8月21日星期三

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U.N. stops short of demading probe in Syria

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 03:59 PM PDT

A Syrian military soldier holds his AK-47 with a sticker of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Arabic that reads, "Syria is fine," as he stands guard at a check point on Baghdad street, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. Syrian opposition groups claimed scores have died on Wednesday in a government offensive near Damascus, attacks in which some activists say regime troops used "poisonous gas." The government denied the reports. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)"The situation must be followed closely," Argentina's ambassador told reporters.

NYC mayoral race turns personal between Quinn and de Blasio

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 01:03 PM PDT

QuinnThe city's already raucous mayoral campaign turned ugly Wednesday when Christine Quinn trashed what she said was an attack from the wife of rival Bill de Blasio over her ability to connect with mothers because she has no children herself.

Report: NRA keeps database of gun owners and potential members

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:43 PM PDT

NRA Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre speaks during the leadership forum at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting Friday, May 3, 2013 in Houston. (AP Photo/Steve Ueckert)A new investigative report says the National Rifle Association collects and maintains an expansive database of information on gun owners.

Reported Syria attack tests US hope to avoid war

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:59 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 18, 2013, file photo, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holds up a photo of a deployed American soldier as he testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee at his reappointment hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Obama administration is opposed to even limited U.S. military intervention in Syria because it believes rebels fighting the Assad regime wouldn't support American interests if they were to seize power right now, Dempsey said in a letter to a congressman obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration searched for answers Wednesday about a reported chemical weapons attack in Syria that would mark the most flagrant violation yet of the U.S. "red line" for potential military action. But the possibility of intervention seemed ever smaller after America's top general offered a starkly pessimistic assessment of options.

German woman who lost arm to shark in Maui dies

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 04:57 PM PDT

Chairman William Aila of the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, center, speaks to reporters at a news conference in Honolulu on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. Hawaii officials plan to spend the next two years studying tiger shark movements around Maui amid what they call an unprecedented spike in overall shark attacks since the start of 2012. (AP Photo/Oskar Garcia)HONOLULU (AP) — A German woman who lost her arm in a shark attack died Wednesday, one week after she was bitten while snorkeling off Maui.

Egypt to put ex-leader Mubarak under house arrest

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 01:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, April 13, 2013 file photo, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak waves to his supporters from behind bars as he attends a hearing in his retrial on appeal in Cairo, Egypt. Officials say an Egyptian court has ordered the release of ex-President Mubarak, but it's not immediately clear whether the prosecutors will appeal the order. (AP Photo, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's prime minister ordered Wednesday that deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak be placed under house arrest after he's released from prison following more than two years in detention.

Hasan: 'Illegal war' provoked Fort Hood rampage

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 04:14 PM PDT

In this court room sketch, Judge Col. Tara Osborn, top, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, right, and defense attorney, Lt. Col. Kris Poppe, left, are shown, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan rested his case Wednesday without calling any witnesses or testifying in his own defense. Hasan is accused of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others at the Texas military base in November 2009. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley)FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — American soldiers deploying overseas to "engage in an illegal war" provoked the deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood in 2009, the soldier accused in the attack said Wednesday after refusing to mount a defense during his trial.

Details emerge about Ga. school shooting suspect

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 04:11 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 photo released by the Dekalb County Sheriff's Department, Michael Brandon Hill, 20, is shown. Authorities say Hill faces numerous charges in relation to a school invasion on Tuesday. Two people who encountered Hill, accused of opening fire inside a U.S. school, say he told them was off his medication, though a motive remains unknown. Antoinette Tuff, the bookkeeper at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy, told ABC on Wednesday the suspect told her he hadn't taken his medication. (AP Photo/Dekalb County Sheriff's Department)LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) — The man accused of exchanging gunfire with police at a Georgia school didn't seem to have any friends and rarely talked about his family or past during the months he lived with a couple who serve as pastors at a small church.

Nixon tapes span Watergate, Soviet summit

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 05:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 29, 1974, file photo, President Richard M. Nixon points to the transcripts of the White House tapes after he announced during a nationally-televised speech that he would turn over the transcripts to House impeachment investigators, in Washington. The last 340 hours of tapes from Nixon's White House were released Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, along with more than 140,000 pages of text materials. (AP Photo/File)YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — President Richard Nixon had just delivered his first major national address on the Watergate scandal that would ultimately cost him the White House when the calls of support began pouring in.

Facebook aims to get the world online

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 03:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, March 7, 2013 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook wants to get more of the world's more than 7 billion people online through a partnership with some of the world's largest mobile technology companies. Facebook Inc. announced a partnership called Internet.org on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)NEW YORK (AP) — Food, water and the Internet?

911 call discusses school gunman's mental health

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 02:44 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 photo released by the Dekalb County Sheriff's Department, Michael Brandon Hill, 20, is shown. Authorities say Hill faces numerous charges in relation to a school invasion on Tuesday. Two people who encountered Hill, accused of opening fire inside a U.S. school, say he told them was off his medication, though a motive remains unknown. Antoinette Tuff, the bookkeeper at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy, told ABC on Wednesday the suspect told her he hadn't taken his medication. (AP Photo/Dekalb County Sheriff's Department)LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) — A woman whose family once took in the suspect in an Atlanta-area school shooting said Wednesday that he was mentally ill but never violent in the past.

Wildfire burns out of control near Yosemite

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 03:49 PM PDT

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — An out-of-control forest fire threatening about 2,500 structures near Yosemite National Park was one of more than 50 active, large wildfires dotting the western U.S. on Wednesday.

Slain Australian came to US for school, baseball

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 04:15 PM PDT

This photo shows an empty dugout on the baseball field at East Central University in Ada, Okla., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. Australian Christopher Lane, who was on a baseball scholarship at East Central University was in Duncan, Okla., visiting his girlfriend, when he was shot and killed. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)ADA, Okla. (AP) — Chris Lane traveled from Australia to the United States for the love of the game — and the opportunity to secure a college degree while playing America's pastime. On the small campus of East Central University in Oklahoma, he made a home for himself in class and on the baseball field.

No defense from suspect in 2009 Fort Hood shooting

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:57 AM PDT

In this court room sketch, Judge Col. Tara Osborn, top, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, right, and defense attorney, Lt. Col. Kris Poppe, left, are shown, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan rested his case Wednesday without calling any witnesses or testifying in his own defense. Hasan is accused of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others at the Texas military base in November 2009. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley)FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The soldier on trial for the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood refused to put up a fight on Wednesday, resting his case without calling a single witness or testifying in his own defense.

Syrian activists claim deadly 'toxic gas' attack

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:11 AM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian anti-government activists accused the regime of carrying out a toxic gas attack that killed at least 100 people, including many children as they slept, during intense artillery and rocket barrages Wednesday on the eastern suburbs of Damascus that are part of a fierce government offensive in the area.

Brother testifies for defense in Afghan massacre

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 04:12 PM PDT

CORRECTS SPELLING OF ARTIST'S LAST NAME TO MILLETT INSTEAD OF MILLET - In this courtroom sketch, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left, appears before Judge Col. Jeffery Nance in a courtroom at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, during a sentencing hearing in the slayings of 16 civilians killed during pre-dawn raids on two villages on March 11, 2012. Haji Mohammad Naim, an Afghan farmer shot during a massacre in Kandahar Province last year, took the witness stand Tuesday against Bales, who attacked his village, cursing him before breaking down and pleading with the prosecutor not to ask him any more questions. (AP Photo/Peter Millett)JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — A brother of the U.S. soldier who slaughtered 16 Afghan civilians last year began making the case Wednesday for why he should one day be eligible for parole, portraying him as a patriotic American and indulgent father who let his son put ranch dressing on chocolate chip pancakes.

WikiLeaks: 'There will be a thousand more Bradley Mannings'

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:49 AM PDT

U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse , during his court martial at Fort Meade in MarylandLONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks on Wednesday said a 35-year jail term handed down to U.S. soldier Bradley Manning for leaking classified files to the pro-transparency organization was a "strategic victory" as it meant he was eligible for parole in less than a decade. "Significant strategic victory in Bradley Manning case," WikiLeaks said on its official Twitter feed. "Bradley Manning now eligible for release in less than 9 years, 4.4 in one calculation." In a full statement issued later, WikiLeaks said that Manning's trial and conviction had been "an affront to basic concepts of Western justice". ...

U.S. calls for probe of alleged gas attack

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 09:14 AM PDT

A boy who survived from what activists say is a gas attack cries as he takes shelter inside a mosque in the Duma neighbourhood of DamascusSyrian activists claim as many as 1,300 people are dead.

Obama not in favor of changing pot laws… 'at this point'

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 11:49 AM PDT

CNN'S Gupta: I was wrong about marijuanaLegalization activists hope "former marijuana aficionado" president will "evolve."

Police say Ga. school shooting suspect had nearly 500 rounds

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:07 PM PDT

Shanique Worthey, right, is embraced by her mother Daphne Morris, while waiting to be reunited with her son five-year-old son Skyler Worthey as students from Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy are picked up by loved ones in a Walmart parking lot after they were evacuated when a gunman entered the school, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, in Decatur, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman)lice say the suspect in a Georgia school shooting had nearly 500 rounds of ammunition with him.

Okla. schools on alert after killing of Australian athlete

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:08 AM PDT

Australian baseball player killed by 'bored' teens, police sayPublic schools in Duncan, Oklahoma, are on heightened security alert on Wednesday, one day after charges were filed against three teenagers in what police said may have been the thrill killing of an Australian university student. Duncan High School, located in a town of 24,000 about 80 miles south of Oklahoma City, was informed by police of anonymous threats on Tuesday night, according to schools superintendent Sherry Labyer in a message posted on the schools' website. ...

Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years for leaking secrets

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:21 PM PDT

Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for Leaking SecretsThe Army Private Was Accused of Leaking Thousands of Documents to WikiLeaks

Family of Calif. kidnap suspect wants paternity test on victim

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 05:04 PM PDT

FILE - This combination of undated photos provided by the San Diego Sheriff's Department shows James Lee DiMaggio, 40, left, and Hannah Anderson, 16. Anderson went online barely 48 hours after her rescue Saturday Aug. 10, 2013 and started fielding hundreds of questions through a social media site. The 16-year-old California girl kidnapped by a close family friend suspected of murdering her mother and 8-year-old brother says he threatened to kill her if she tried to escape and got what he deserved when he died in a shootout with authorities in the Idaho wilderness. (AP Photo/San Diego Sheriff's Department )SAN DIEGO (AP) — The family of a man suspected of kidnapping a 16-year-old girl and killing her mother and younger brother wants paternity tests to determine if the suspect fathered the children, a spokesman said Wednesday, a suggestion that was quickly refuted by the victims' family.

Top general warns against Syria intervention

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 06:57 AM PDT

A man carries a boy as he runs with other civilians to take cover after what activists said was a missile strike by Syrian Air Force fighter jets loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, in Raqqa provinceJoint Chiefs chairman says rebels won't advance U.S. interests.

NSA surveillance covers 75 percent of U.S. Internet traffic: WSJ

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 08:49 PM PDT

Former large monitoring base of US intelligence organization NSA in Bad Aibling(Reuters) - The National Security Agency's surveillance network has the capacity to reach around 75 percent of all U.S. Internet communications in the hunt for foreign intelligence, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Citing current and former NSA officials, the newspaper said the 75 percent coverage is more of Americans' Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed. The Journal said the agency keeps the content of some emails sent between U.S. citizens and also filters domestic phone calls made over the Internet. ...

Did the GOP just lose its 'evil genius'?

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 04:06 AM PDT

Is There a Brain Drain From Capitol Hill? If So, the GOP Just Lost Its 'Evil Genius'The Fine Print In the 11th hour negotiations on Capitol Hill, away from the glare of the media and behind closed doors, there are high-level Congressional staffers working to close the deal.  In many of the nation's biggest legislative crises in recent memory, Rohit Kumar has been at the table.   As the chief negotiator [...]

In New York City mayoral race, a spotlight on the candidates' modern families

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 03:00 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 24, 2011 file photo, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, left, and her partner, Kim Catullo, attend a wedding in the Manhattan City Clerk's office on the first day New York State's Marriage Equality Act goes into effect. Long seen as a leading contender, Quinn formally launched, on Sunday, March 10, 2013 what she hopes will be a history-making mayoral bid. Quinn would be a groundbreaking mayor across two personal dimensions: She would be the first female and first openly gay mayor to lead the nation's largest city. (AP Photo/Michael Appleton, Pool, File)In a city that has long been more multicultural and progressive than most other places in the country, the mayoral candidates are redefining the traditional notion of family in their quest to win control of City Hall.

WikiLeaks soldier Manning to learn his fate

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 02:03 PM PDT

U.S. Army Pfc. Manning is escorted out of courthouse during his court martial at Fort Meade in MarylandThe soldier convicted of the biggest breach of classified data in U.S. history faces sentencing.

Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis deepens

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 03:25 AM PDT

An aerial view shows TEPCO's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its contaminated water storage tanks in FukushimaBy Kiyoshi Takenaka and James Topham TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's nuclear crisis escalated to its worst level since a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima plant more than two years ago, with the country's nuclear watchdog saying it feared more storage tanks were leaking contaminated water. The U.N. ...

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