2013年8月22日星期四

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U.N. urges Syria to allow gas attack inspection

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:53 PM PDT

Demonstrators calling for help from Barack Obama on the Syrian revolution outside the White House on August 21, 2013The group wants chemical weapons experts into rebel-held areas.


Yosemite wildfire surges to 84 square miles

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:46 PM PDT

Wildfire raging near Yosemite explodes in sizeA wildfire outside Yosemite National Park more than tripled in size Thursday, shutting down businesses in surrounding communities and leading scores of tourists to leave the area during peak season.


Departing FBI chief's biggest worry is an attack on a plane

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 02:18 PM PDT

Outgoing FBI director Robert Mueller speaks during an interview at FBI headquarters on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, in Washington. The nature of terrorism has changed in Robert Mueller's dozen years as FBI director, but his concerns for the future are much the same as when terrorists struck on Sept. 11, 2001, merely a week after he'd taken over the bureau. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The nature of terrorism has changed in Robert Mueller's dozen years as FBI director, but his concerns for the future are much the same as when terrorists struck on Sept. 11, 2001, merely a week after he'd taken over the bureau. As he wraps up his FBI tenure, Mueller worries that terrorists will once again target planes or finally pull off an attack using a weapon of mass destruction.


AP PHOTOS: Exclusive images show Mubarak release

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:56 AM PDT

Egyptian medics and military policemen escort former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 85, into an ambulance after after he was flown by a helicopter ambulance to the Maadi Military Hospital from Torah prison in, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak has been released from jail and taken to military hospital in Cairo. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — Smiling and wearing a white T-shirt, Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak was released from prison Thursday and flown to a military hospital outside Cairo where he will be held under house arrest.


Syrian official blames rebels for deadly attack

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 02:09 PM PDT

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil speaks during an interview with Associated press, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. Jamil blamed the alleged use of chemical weapons in an eastern suburb of Damascus earlier week, on foreign militant fighters backed by "international powers." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's deputy prime minister told The Associated Press that foreign fighters and their international backers are to blame for a purported chemical weapons attack near Damascus that the opposition says killed at least 100 people, the deadliest such attack in Syria's civil war.


US pressed to react to violence in Syria, Egypt

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 04:07 PM PDT

President Barack Obama returns a salute as he is met in the tarmac by the 11th Wing and Joint Base Andrews Commander Col. William Knight, right, as he switched from the Marine One helicopter to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. President Obama is traveling to New York and Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is poised to suspend another major weapons shipment to Egypt amid sharp divisions within the Obama administration over whether to cut off aid to the military-backed government. The debate mirrors similar disagreements over intervening in Syria, where there are new reports that chemical weapons have been used by the government.


Obama calls for cost-conscious college ratings

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 04:08 PM PDT

President Barack Obama addresses a packed house at the University of Buffalo, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 in Buffalo, New York. The president was on a bus tour of Western New York. (AP Photo/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Shawn Dowd, Pool)BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Targeting the soaring cost of higher education, President Barack Obama on Thursday unveiled a broad new government rating system for colleges that would judge schools on their affordability and perhaps be used to allocate federal financial aid.


Govt sues Texas over voter ID law

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 01:44 PM PDT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department sued Texas on Thursday over the state's voter ID law and will seek to intervene in a lawsuit over its redistricting laws that minority groups complain are discriminatory, but Texas Republicans insist are designed to protect the state's elections from fraud.

Council overrides mayor's veto, OK's NYPD watchdog

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 04:34 PM PDT

Supporters of the NYPD Oversight override vote demonstrate on the steps of City Hall Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 in New York. New York City council members say they will make history with a vote to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vetoes on police oversight bills. At a rally on Thursday before the vote, activists cheered and held signs that read "override." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's biggest police department will get a new watchdog and face easier standards for people to file profiling lawsuits against it after the City Council on Thursday overrode mayoral vetoes amid applause from supporters and angry warnings from opponents.


Russia defends anti-gay law in letter to IOC

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 01:06 PM PDT

Protesters in front of the Russian Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday evening Aug. 20, 2013. The organizers, Copenhagen Pride, Sabaah, Amnesty International, LGBT Denmark and AllRightsCPH, arranged the demonstration march which they called 'To Russia with Love' from the Christiansborg Palace to the Russian Embassy in Copenhagen. The march was a protest against the Russian Parliament's Act that directly criminalize homosexual so-called 'propaganda' to children and adolescents. (AP Photo/Polfoto, Politiken, Jens Dresling) DENMARK OUTLONDON (AP) — The Russian government assured the IOC on Thursday it will not discriminate against homosexuals during the Sochi Olympics, while defending the law against gay "propaganda" that has provoked an international backlash.


Nasdaq trading halts for 3 hours due to glitch

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, file photo, stock prices are shown at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York. Trading was halted in Nasdaq-listed securities on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, because of a technical problem. The exchange sent out an alert to traders at 12:20 p.m. EDT saying that trading was being halted until further notice because of problems with a quote dissemination system. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)NEW YORK (AP) — A mysterious technical glitch halted trading on the Nasdaq for three hours Thursday in the latest major electronic breakdown on Wall Street, embarrassing the stock exchange that hosts the biggest names in technology, including Apple, Microsoft and Google.


NSA reveals more secrets after court order

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:37 AM PDT

FILE - This June 6, 213 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The National Security Agency declassified three secret U.S. court opinions Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, showing how it scooped up as many as 56,000 emails and other communications by Americans with no connection to terrorism annually over three years, how it revealed the error to the court and changed how it gathered Internet communications. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has given up more of its surveillance secrets, acknowledging that it was ordered to stop scooping up thousands of Internet communications from Americans with no connection to terrorism — a practice it says was an unintended consequence when it gathered bundles of Internet traffic connected to terror suspects.


Mayor: New NYPD oversight jeopardizes city safety

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 02:27 PM PDT

Supporters of the NYPD Oversight override vote demonstrate on the steps of City Hall Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 in New York. New York City council members say they will make history with a vote to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vetoes on police oversight bills. At a rally on Thursday before the vote, activists cheered and held signs that read "override." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)NEW YORK (AP) — The City Council voted Thursday to create an outside watchdog for the nation's biggest police department and make it easier for people to file profiling claims against it, overriding Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vetoes and prompting him to say the city's safety is being jeopardized.


Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak released

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 08:24 AM PDT

Egyptian medics escort former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 85, into an ambulance after he was flown by a helicopter ambulance to the Maadi Military Hospital from Torah prison in, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak has been released from jail and taken to military hospital in Cairo. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, wearing a white shirt and loafers while flashing a smile, was released from prison Thursday and transported to a military hospital in a Cairo suburb where he will be held under house arrest.


Jury handed Fort Hood shooting rampage case

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 12:54 PM PDT

In this courtroom sketch, U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is shown during closing arguments of his court martial, Thursday Aug. 22, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley)FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The Army psychiatrist on trial for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood passed on his final chance to address jurors before they started deliberating Thursday, even after prosecutors insisted they hand down a verdict that would allow the death penalty.


Council overrides vetoes of NYPD oversight bills

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 02:10 PM PDT

Supporters of the NYPD Oversight override vote demonstrate on the steps of City Hall Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 in New York. New York City council members say they will make history with a vote to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vetoes on police oversight bills. At a rally on Thursday before the vote, activists cheered and held signs that read "override." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)NEW YORK (AP) — The City Council has voted to pass bills that will create an outside watchdog for the nation's biggest police department and make it easier for people to file profiling claims against it, overriding mayoral vetoes.


50 injured when tour bus overturns on California freeway

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:32 PM PDT

Raw: Bus Overturns on 210 Freeway in Irwindale; Dozens InjuredLos Angeles County fire officials say 50 people have been injured in a tour bus crash along a Southern California freeway.


Sex harassment settlement calls for San Diego mayor to resign

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 01:33 PM PDT

San Diego mayor Bob Filner speaks at a news conference in San DiegoSan Diego Mayor Bob Filner will resign from office as part of the proposed settlement he reached with city officials in the sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him by a former aide, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.


Obama faces more calls to act on Syria

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:37 PM PDT

Columns of smoke rising from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood in west Damascus, in Cairo, Syria, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. President Bashar Assad's forces pressed on with a military offensive in eastern Damascus on Thursday, bombing rebel-held suburbs where the opposition said a chemical weapons attack the day before killed over 100 people. The government has denied allegations it used chemical weapons in artillery barrages on the area known as eastern Ghouta on Wednesday as "absolutely baseless." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)White House officials insist they must wait for confirmation on chemical weapons.


Ex-Patriot Hernandez indicted on murder charge

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 04:53 PM PDT

Former New England Patriot football player Aaron Hernandez, listens to procedings in a court in Attleboro, Mass., Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. Hernandez was indicted on first-degree murder and weapons charges in the death of a friend whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park about a mile from the ex-player's home. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was indicted Thursday on first-degree murder and weapons charges in the death of a friend whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park about a mile from the ex-player's home.


Mexico officials find mass grave east of capital

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 04:49 PM PDT

Municipal police guard the entrance to Rancho La Mesa where a mass grave was found in the municipality of Tlalmanalco, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. Mexican authorities said they found the mass grave east of Mexico City and are testing to determine if it holds some of the 12 people who vanished from a bar in an upscale area of the capital nearly three months ago. (AP Photo/Ivan Pierre Aguirre)TLALMANALCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities said Thursday they have found a mass grave east of Mexico City and are testing to determine if it holds some of the 12 people who vanished from a bar in an upscale area of the capital nearly three months ago.


U.S. map gets redrawn based on population

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:52 AM PDT

The United States redrawn as fifty states with equal populationAn artist and urban planner has redrawn the U.S. map to show what it would look like if the same number of people occupied each state.


Former NFL player takes stand in massacre case

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 09:40 AM PDT

Soldier Who Admitted to Massacre Hears from SurvivorsJOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Former pro football player Marc Edwards took the witness stand Thursday at the sentencing of the U.S. soldier who massacred 16 Afghan villagers last year, telling jurors he remembered him as a great leader from their high school days.


Obama takes on college costs

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:56 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama waves from Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base near WashingtonSchools will be ranked by the value they offer students under his new plan.


Lebanon rockets hit northern Israel

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 07:32 AM PDT

A Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force Type 92 Mine sweeping vehicle fires a rocket during an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji training field in GotembaNo injuries are reported, but tensions rise along the volatile front.


WikiLeaker Manning would like to live as 'Chelsea'

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 01:44 PM PDT

U.S. Army handout photo shows Private First Class Manning, convicted of handing state secrets to WikiLeaks, dressed as a womanBy Susan Heavey and Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier sentenced to 35 years in military prison for the biggest breach of classified documents in the nation's history, said on Thursday he is female and wants to live as a woman named Chelsea. Manning, 25, launched an unprecedented bid to get female hormone treatment in a military prison a day after he was sentenced for leaking documents to the WikiLeaks website. "As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. ...


Syrian forces bomb area of alleged gas attack

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 10:23 AM PDT

A Free Syrian Army fighter holds a gas mask as he sits inside a house in the besieged area of HomsActivists say Assad forces are pressing on with an offensive in the Damascus suburbs.


Dozens of Christian churches burned in Egypt, group says

Posted: 22 Aug 2013 03:10 AM PDT

In this Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013 photo, an Egyptian armored vehicle and army soldiers stand guard outside the main Christian Orthodox Cathedral in the southern city of Assiut, Egypt. In the five days since security forces cleared two sit-in camps by supporters of Egypt's ousted president, Islamists have attacked dozens of Coptic churches along with homes and businesses owned by the Christian minority. The campaign of intimidation appears to be a warning to Christians outside Cairo to stand down from political activism. (AP Photo/Roger Anis, El Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUTCAIRO (AP) — An international human rights group has chronicled attacks on 42 churches, dozens of Christian institutions and schools as well as homes and business owned by Christians amid an intimidation campaign believed to be waged by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.


Kidnapped Calif. teen calls herself a survivor in TV interview

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 07:23 PM PDT

Rescued kidnapping victim Hannah is escorted into a local restaurant in LakesideBy Dan Whitcomb and Marty Graham (Reuters) - Hannah Anderson, a 16-year-old California girl kidnapped by a man and taken to Idaho after he killed her mother and younger brother, said in a television interview that she considers herself a survivor who was raised to be strong. The interview, which aired on Wednesday, comes just over a week after Anderson was rescued in the Idaho wilderness by FBI agents who shot and killed her captor, 40-year-old James Lee DiMaggio. ...


Tentative deal in San Diego mayor harassment suit

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:26 PM PDT

Greg Timms, left, signs a petition to recall San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, alongside Tana Piontek, right, at a stand set up in the parking lot of a shopping center Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, in San Diego. Pressure is mounting against San Diego's mayor to resign after a sexual harassment lawsuit was filed against him, and the Democratic National Committee plans to vote on a resolution Friday urging him to step down immediately. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)SAN DIEGO (AP) — Embattled San Diego Mayor Bob Filner on Wednesday reached a tentative deal involving a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him — but details were not made public, including whether settlement hinged on the former congressman resigning.


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