2013年10月9日星期三

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Sources: GOP weighs short-term debt limit hike

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 04:35 PM PDT

U.S. House Speaker Boehner (R-OH) watches as House Majority Leader Cantor (R-VA) addresses the press following a House Republican party meeting on Capitol Hill in WashingtonIt's a possible way to break the gridlock that threatens an unprecedented default.


U.S. freezes ‘large-scale’ arms aid to Egypt

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 02:07 PM PDT

In this Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 photo, Egyptian army soldiers take their positions on top and next to their armored vehicles to guard an entrance of Tahrir square, in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's capital has long been proud of its nickname, The State Dept. is withholding F-16s, Apache helicopters and millions of dollars.


Undercover officer in NYC biker melee unmasked

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 04:25 PM PDT

In a court sketch Wojciech Braszczok is seen in criminal court in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Braszczok, an undercover police detective, was arrested as fallout from a burst of motorcyclist mayhem reached a new level, with investigators saying the officer was shown on video hitting and kicking an SUV before bikers attacked its driver. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Wiliams)NEW YORK (AP) — An undercover police detective accused of punching out an SUV window during a motorcycle rally that descended into violence was unmasked Wednesday in a courtroom where he was confronted with serious assault charges.


US cutting hundreds of millions in aid to Egypt

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 04:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, file photo, Egyptian army soldiers take their positions on top and next to their armored vehicles to guard an entrance of Tahrir Square, in Cairo. U.S. officials said Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013, that the Obama administration is poised to slash hundreds of millions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Egypt. The U.S. has been considering such a move since the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected leader in June. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Wednesday cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to its Mideast ally Egypt, responding to the military ouster last summer of the nation's first democratically elected president and the crackdown on protesters that has sunk the country into violent turmoil.


Mayor: Gunman slain after W.Va. shooting ex-cop

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 04:54 PM PDT

Authorities gather in front of the Federal Building in Wheeling, W.Va, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. West Virginia State Police say a man who fired shots at a federal courthouse in Wheeling has died from police fire. State police spokesman Sgt. Michael Baylous confirmed that the man died Wednesday. The U.S. Marshals Services says officers fired at the man after he shot up to two dozen rounds at the courthouse. (AP Photo/Wheeling News Register & The Intelligencer, Scott McCloskey)WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — The mayor of a West Virginia city where a man was killed by police after firing multiple rounds at a U.S. courthouse says the gunman was retired police officer.


Saudi women in top council want debate on driving

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 03:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, May 24, 2011, Saudi women board a taxi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A campaign calling on women to drive on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013, has started gathering support online and already has nearly 15,000 signatures. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi women on the ultraconservative kingdom's top advisory council have called for a discussion on the sensitive issue of allowing women to drive, a move that could embolden reformers pushing to lift the ban.


Woman denied help gives birth on clinic's lawn

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 03:35 PM PDT

In this Oct. 6, 2013 photo, 29-year-old Irma Lopez talks to her children as her newborn son Salvador sleeps on her lap at her home in the town of Jalapa de Diaz, Mexico. A photo of Lopez grimacing in pain during the first moments after giving birth, with her child still bound to her by the umbilical cord, on the lawn of a clinic has gone viral and served as a reminder of the health disparities still affecting many poor women in Mexico without proper access to health care. A nurse kicked Lopez out of the clinic Oct. 2, claiming she was "still not ready" and had to wait for a doctor. (AP Photo/Chema Alvarez)MEXICO CITY (AP) — An indigenous woman squats in pain after giving birth, her newborn still bound by the umbilical cord and lying on the ground. It's a photograph that horrified Mexicans because of where it took place: the lawn outside a medical clinic where the woman had been denied help, and it struck a nerve in a country where inequity is still pervasive.


Jupiter-bound craft runs into problem after flyby

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 04:28 PM PDT

FILE - This 2010 artist's rendering depicts NASA's Juno spacecraft with Jupiter in the background. NASA's Jupiter-bound spacecraft will swing by Earth for one last visit Wednesday Oct. 9, 2013 before speeding to the outer solar system. Wednesday's flyby allows the Juno spacecraft to gather the momentum it needs to arrive at Jupiter in 2016. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA's Jupiter-bound spacecraft hit a snag Wednesday soon after it used Earth as a gravity slingshot to hurtle toward the outer solar system, but mission managers said it's on course to arrive at the giant planet in 2016.


Girardi signs 4-year extension with Yankees

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 01:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2013, file photo, New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi walks off the field during a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto. Girardi signed a four-year contract extension to stay with the New York Yankees, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Manager Joe Girardi signed a four-year contract Wednesday to stay with the New York Yankees through 2017.


Police: Gunman who fired at US courthouse dies

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 04:22 PM PDT

Authorities gather in front of the Federal Building in Wheeling, W.Va, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. West Virginia State Police say a man who fired shots at a federal courthouse in Wheeling has died from police fire. State police spokesman Sgt. Michael Baylous confirmed that the man died Wednesday. The U.S. Marshals Services says officers fired at the man after he shot up to two dozen rounds at the courthouse. (AP Photo/Wheeling News Register & The Intelligencer, Scott McCloskey)WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — A man armed with what federal marshals described as an assault-type rifle fired up to two dozen rounds at a West Virginia federal courthouse Wednesday until police returned fire and killed him, state police said.


AP Sources: House GOP weighs short-term debt bill

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 03:49 PM PDT

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, gets into an elevator following a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. President Barack Obama is making plans to talk with Republican lawmakers at the White House in the coming days as pressure builds on both sides to resolve their deadlock over the federal debt limit and the partial government shutdown. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say House Republican leaders are considering a short-term increase in the nation's debt limit as one way out of an impasse that threatens the nation with an unprecedented financial default.


NASA spacecraft enters safe mode after Earth flyby

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 03:14 PM PDT

FILE - This 2010 artist's rendering depicts NASA's Juno spacecraft with Jupiter in the background. NASA's Jupiter-bound spacecraft will swing by Earth for one last visit Wednesday Oct. 9, 2013 before speeding to the outer solar system. Wednesday's flyby allows the Juno spacecraft to gather the momentum it needs to arrive at Jupiter in 2016. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA says its Jupiter-bound spacecraft is in safe mode soon after it used Earth as a gravity slingshot to hurtle toward the outer solar system.


Shutdown-Default: All quiet on compromise front

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 03:23 PM PDT

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, gets into an elevator following a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. President Barack Obama is making plans to talk with Republican lawmakers at the White House in the coming days as pressure builds on both sides to resolve their deadlock over the federal debt limit and the partial government shutdown. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — Its approval ratings scraping bottom, Congress took no discernible steps Wednesday to end the nine-day partial government shutdown or to head off a threatened default by the national Treasury.


Boston officials wary as buses roll after strike

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 01:17 PM PDT

Boston school busses sit idle behind a chain link fence at Veolia Transportation, the city's school bus contractor, in Boston, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. About 600 school bus drivers have gone on strike affecting most of the school district's 33,000 students. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)BOSTON (AP) — Wary city officials in Boston said Wednesday they're hoping school bus drivers who staged a surprise strike this week won't leave students stranded again, but they can't offer any guarantees.


Marshals: Gunman fires at US courthouse in W.Va.

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 02:58 PM PDT

WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service says a man who they believe was armed with an assault-type rifle fired up to two dozen rounds at the federal court building in a West Virginia city on Wednesday before security officers returned fire, critically wounding the gunman.

Obama meets House Dems for shutdown talk

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 01:22 PM PDT

Rep., Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., second from left, Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., left, and other House Democrats attend an immigration reform news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. House Democrats unveiled an immigration bill that includes a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants living here illegally and tightens border security. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)On Thursday he's expected to huddle with Republicans.


Foundation to pay death benefits to families of fallen soldiers

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 02:27 PM PDT

An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Pfc. Cody J. Patterson Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Patterson, 24, of Philomath, Ore., died Oct. 6, 2013 in Zhari district, Afghanistan of injuries sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)he Obama administration, scrambling to tamp down a controversy over suspended death benefits for the families of fallen military soldiers, announced Wednesday that a charity would pick up the costs of the payments during the government shutdown.


Respected economist Janet Yellen nominated to lead Fed

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 04:36 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama announces his nomination of Yellen to head the Federal Reserve in WashingtonJanet Yellen is Obama's choice to replace outgoing Chairman Ben Bernanke.


House passes bill to restore benefits for families of fallen soldiers

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 12:03 PM PDT

Military Death Benefits Cut Off With ShutdownThe partial government shutdown has halted death benefits to the families of fallen soldiers, but the House has now voted unanimously for legislation that would restore those benefits.


Meet a group behind GOP's shutdown strategy

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 09:47 AM PDT

Government shutdown impasse continuesIt's unapologetic leader believes if it goes on long enough, Obamacare will choke.


Hagel attends ceremony for four soldiers at Dover Air Force Base

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Army Secretary John McHugh, right, watch an Army carry team move a transfer case containing the remains of Pfc. Cody J. Patterson Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Patterson, 24, of Philomath, Ore., died Oct. 6, 2013 in Zhari district, Afghanistan of injuries sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)DOVER, Del. (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel traveled to Dover Air Force Base on Wednesday for the arrival of the remains of four U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan.


Obama nominates Yellen for Fed

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Janet Yellen would be the first woman to lead the U.S. central bank.


12 tweetable revelations from new book about Twitter

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 08:17 AM PDT

Dorsey, chairman of Twitter and CEO of Square, listens to a fellow panelist during a Techonomy Detroit panel discussion held at Wayne State University in DetroitNick Bilton's upcoming book, "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal," recounts the Silicon Valley startup's sometimes contentious and surprisingly turbulent beginnings.


Cats in horror movies: A supercut

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 06:26 AM PDT

Feral Cats 11pm VolkUsing scenes from such horror classics as "Friday the 13th," "Halloween" and "Pet Sematary," Alex Moschina created a fantastic supercut that includes no less than 25 cats.


IRS official says she never consorted with devil

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 08:43 AM PDT

IRS Sarah Hall Ingram testifies before Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Capitol Hill in WashingtonWASHINGTON (AP) — For the record, the Internal Revenue Service official in charge of implementing a big part of the new health care law tells Congress she has never knowingly consorted with the devil.


Rockwell painting goes missing from N.Y. storage unit

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 09:28 AM PDT

This undated photo provided by Sotheby's in New York shows a Norman Rockwell painting, "Sport," that was discovered missing from a Queens storage facility, according to the New York Police Department. The oil painting was sold from a private collector in Birmingham, Ala., at a Sotheby's auction in New York on May 22. Police didn't identify the owner. (AP Photo/Sotheby's)NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department is investigating after a Norman Rockwell painting was discovered missing from a Queens storage facility.


Five things to know about Obama's Fed pick

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Janet Yellen is a millionaire and she's uncanny at predicting the market.


Disease outbreaks prompt recall of furloughed workers

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Obama to talk with GOP on shutdown, debt

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 12:14 PM PDT

In this Oct. 8, 2013, photo, Andrea Bentley, with the American Federation of Government Employees, protests the government shutdown outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. A new poll says Americans are holding Republicans primarily responsible for the partial government shutdown. The Associated Press-GfK survey finds plenty of disdain to go around as people size up the federal impasse. Most now disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling his job. And Congress' approval rating is a perilous 5 percent. (AP Photo/David Goldman)The president will first meet with Democrats in an effort to resolve the stalemate.


Artifacts in Brazil older than thought possible

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 01:24 AM PDT

Image provided by the Museum of the American Man Foundation shows cave art in a cavern at Serra da Capivara National Park in BrazilCave art suggests people were in the Americas 30,000 years ago.


Russia says drugs found on Greenpeace ship, plans new charges

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 08:29 AM PDT

A Greenpeace activist dressed as a polar bear holds a banner in front of the Arctic Sunrise protest ship in Kola Bay, Murmansk, on September 24, 2013By Gabriela Baczynska and Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigators said on Wednesday they had found drugs aboard a Greenpeace ship used in a protest against offshore Arctic drilling and would press new charges against some of the 30 people being held for alleged piracy. Greenpeace Russia mocked the accusation. "The Investigative Committee 'found' narcotics. We are waiting for it to find an atomic bomb and a striped elephant," it said on Twitter. "This is possible in Russia these days and can hardly surprise anybody. ...


'The Daily Show’ tries to end shutdown using hostage negotiator

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 05:39 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2013, photo Rick Hohensee of Washington holds a "Fire Congress" sign near the House steps on Capitol Hill in Washington. A new poll says Americans are holding Republicans primarily responsible for the partial government shutdown. The Associated Press-GfK survey finds plenty of disdain to go around as people size up the federal impasse. Most now disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling his job. And Congress' approval rating is a perilous 5 percent. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)With Democrats accusing Republicans of holding the federal government hostage over Obamacare, "The Daily Show" took a crack at ending the shutdown with the help of a former FBI hostage negotiator.


Anti-abortion activists target Texas fillibuster star Wendy Davis

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 02:54 AM PDT

Texas state Senator Wendy Davis speaks to supporters in Haltom City"We will spend as much as we can raise," the president of Texas Right to Life says.


Trio win Nobel for taking chemistry to cyberspace

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 12:22 PM PDT

This Wednesday Oct. 9, 2013 photo shows a webpage showing the laureates Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel as winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The prize was awarded for laying the foundation for the computer models used to understand and predict chemical processes. (AP Photo/Claudio Bresciani) SWEDEN OUTStockholm (AFP) - Three scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for developing computer models to simulate chemical processes, providing a revolutionary tool for drug designers and engineers.


US expected to slash aid to Egyptian government

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 05:55 AM PDT

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (AP) — U.S. officials said Wednesday that the Obama administration is poised to slash hundreds of millions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Egypt. The announcement is expected this week, once official notifications have been made to all interested parties.

Defying shutdown, national park visitors play ‘catch me if you can’

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 02:35 PM PDT

A US Park Ranger law enforcement officer speaks with visitors from Switzerland, at a road closed sign leading to the Everglades National Park in Florida, on October 7, 2013Growing numbers of Americans are gleefully engaging in what they call "civil disobedience."


Yellen is Obama choice to succeed Bernanke at Fed

Posted: 09 Oct 2013 09:07 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Capping a lengthy and politically charged search, President Barack Obama will nominate Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve's vice chair, to be chairman of the nation's powerful central bank, succeeding Ben Bernanke at a pivotal time for the economy and the Fed's monetary policies.

Military death benefits delayed by shutdown

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 02:05 PM PDT

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures while speaking outside his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. President Barack Obama stepped up pressure Tuesday on the Boehner to hold votes to reopen the federal government and prevent a potentially disastrous U.S. government default. Obama spoke to reporters at the White House a few hours after calling Boehner and urging him to drop demands that the votes be tied to Republican demands for dismantling Obama's health care law and cutting federal spending. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)Lawmakers voice anger and point fingers over the denial of benefits to soldiers' families.


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