2013年10月30日星期三

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'We made it. No more fear... No more Taliban'

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 11:27 AM PDT

Matt Zeller greets Janis Shinwari and his family at the airport in Washington, D.C. (Zeller photo)Afghan War ally Janis Shinwari finally finds safety in America.


No brainer: Congressmen knock Sebelius with 'Wizard of Oz' jokes

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 12:51 PM PDT

Wizard of Oz and PoliticsSebelius was once the governor of Kansas, so there's only one joke you can make, obviously.


Britain approves new rules to regulate its press

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 01:33 PM PDT

A man looks at newspapers outside the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid before Friday prayers in east LondonBy Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Britain approved a new system of regulating its press on Wednesday, a move newspapers said was draconian and threatened freedom of speech but which former victims of press excess described as long overdue. "It'll protect freedom of press and offer redress when mistakes are made," Britain's ministry of culture said on its official Twitter feed. All three main political parties, including Prime Minister David Cameron's ruling Conservatives, back the new rules. Britain's press has tried and failed to block the new system via the courts, arguing it would expose the industry to possible political interference since the British parliament will be able to change the system if it wants to.


Fed keeps interest-rate policies in place, cites moderate growth

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 01:51 PM PDT

Fed leaves low interest-rate policies unchangedThe Federal Reserve says its low interest-rate policies are still needed to invigorate a subpar U.S. economy. In a statement Wednesday after a policy meeting, the Fed said it would keep buying $85 billion ...


Iraq seeking new US aid after pushing out troops

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:18 PM PDT

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, walks with the House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking Democrat Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., right, and the committee's chairman Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before their meeting. Earlier, the prime minister met with Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two years after pushing out the U.S. military, Iraq is asking for more American weapons, training and manpower to help fight a bloody resurgence of al-Qaida that has unleashed a level of violence comparable to the darkest days of the nation's civil war.


For Obama, risks and rewards in knowing too much

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 04:04 PM PDT

President Barack Obama smiles after he said that environmental protesters who interrupted his speech were at the wrong event as he speaks at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall about the federal health care law, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. Faneuil Hall is where former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, Obama's rival in the 2012 presidential election, signed the state's landmark health care law in 2006, with top Democrats standing by his side. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronted with missteps in his own administration, President Barack Obama has frequently pleaded ignorance — suggesting he could not be at fault about things he did not know.


Israel plans more than 1,500 new settlement homes

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT

Released Palestinian prisoner, Omar Masoud, 40, left, who was arrested in May 1993, for killing an Israeli lawyer is greeted by his neighbor at his family's house in Shati Refugee Camp, Gaza City, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners early Wednesday, the second of four batches to be released as part of a deal that set in motion the current Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel announced plans Wednesday to build more than 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, dealing a setback to newly relaunched peace efforts hours after it had freed a group of long-serving Palestinian prisoners.


Report: NSA broke into Yahoo, Google data centers

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:56 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by Google shows a Google data center in Hamina, Finland. The Washington Post is reporting Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, that the National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world. The Post cites documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with officials. (AP Photo/Google)WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.


NY bus driver saves woman from jumping off bridge

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 02:44 PM PDT

In an Oct. 28, 2013, photo provided by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, NFTA bus driver Darnell Barton poses in front of a bus in Buffalo, N.Y. On Oct. 18, 2103, Barton's decisive action stopped a woman from leaping from a roadway bridge to her death on to the highway below. Caught between the rules of his job and his training as a first responder, Barton stopped his bus, grabbed the woman and brought her back over the rail to safety. (AP Photo/Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Doug Hartmayer)BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A bus driver is being hailed as a hero for preventing a woman from jumping off a Buffalo highway overpass.


2nd mistress testifies in murder trial of Utah doc

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 04:31 PM PDT

Anna Walthall, a former mistress of Martin MacNeill, testifies during his trial at the Fourth District Court in Provo Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. MacNeill is charged with murder for allegedly killing his wife Michele MacNeill in 2007. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Mark Johnston, Pool)PROVO, Utah (AP) — Another mistress of a former Utah doctor accused of killing his wife testified Wednesday that he had once described how he could induce a heart attack in someone that would appear natural.


Search for dark matter comes up empty so far

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 01:47 PM PDT

In this Oct. 29, 2013 photo, physicist Dan McKinsey of Yale University explains an experiment being conducted deep in an abandoned gold mine in Lead, S.D., to search for elusive and mysterious dark matter. In an announcement released Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, scientists at the Sanford Underground Research Facility say they found absolutely no evidence of dark matter in what is the most technologically advanced Earth-based search for the material that has mass but cannot be seen. They'll keep looking for another year, but scientists were not optimistic about finding dark matter with the current setup and are already planning to build a more sensitive experiment on the site. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Kristina Barker)LEAD, S.D. (AP) — Nearly a mile underground in an abandoned gold mine, one of the most important quests in physics has so far come up empty in the search for the elusive substance known as dark matter, scientists announced Wednesday.


Earth-size planet found with rocky core like ours

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 01:17 PM PDT

This artist's rendering provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 shows the planet Kepler-78b, foreground, orbiting less than one million miles from its sun. Astrophysicists reported Wednesday in the journal Nature that the exoplanet appears to be made of rock and iron just like Earth. (AP Photo/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, David A. Aguilar)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have found a planet way out in the cosmos that's close in size and content to Earth — an astronomical first.


Facebook 3Q results fly past expectations

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:58 PM PDT

FILE - This Tuesday, July 16, 2013, file photo, shows a sign at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook's latest quarterly results showed continued strength in mobile advertising, which spurred a 60 percent revenue increase in the July-September quarter.


Obama cites early setbacks of Mass. health law

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:46 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall about the federal health care law, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. Faneuil Hall is where former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Obama's rival in the 2012 presidential election, signed the state's landmark health care law in 2006, with top Democrats standing by his side. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)BOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama chose the site where Massachusetts' health care system became law to promote his signature health insurance program, arguing that the state plan also faced initial setbacks and low enrollment but in time gained popularity and became a success.


US budget deficit down to $680B, lowest in 5 years

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 02:17 PM PDT

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew testifies before the US Senate Finance Committee about the debt limit on October 10, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DCWASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in five years, the U.S. government has run a budget deficit below $1 trillion.


New security issues surface as Sebelius testifies

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 01:35 PM PDT

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gestures while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the difficulties plaguing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The Obama Administration claims the botched rollout was the result of contractors failing to live up to expectations – not bad management at HHS. As the public face of President Barack Obama's signature health care program, Sec. Sebelius has become the target for attacks over its botched rollout with Republicans, and even some Democrats, calling for her to resign. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's embattled top health official declared herself accountable Wednesday for failures of the much-maligned health insurance website as a newly surfaced government memo pointed to security concerns that were laid out just days before its launch.


Obama says he's 'not happy' with health care woes

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 02:40 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall about the federal health care law, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. Faneuil Hall is where former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Obama's rival in the 2012 presidential election, signed the state's landmark health care law in 2006, with top Democrats standing by his side. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)BOSTON (AP) — Declaring himself "not happy" with health care enrollment problems, President Barack Obama said Wednesday he takes "full responsibility" for resolving the computer problems that have bedeviled the administration and undermined a key step in the health care law. "We're going to see this through," he said.


Watch live: Obama touts Massachusetts health care plan

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The President is speaking in Boston


Learning to fly without leaving the ground

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 07:53 AM PDT

Flying Without Ever Leaving The GroundGraduates from one major flight school aim to take control of drones.


Sebelius: No one indicated healthcare rollout could 'go this wrong'

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:54 AM PDT

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gestures while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the difficulties plaguing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The Obama Administration claims the botched rollout was the result of contractors failing to live up to expectations – not bad management at HHS. As the public face of President Barack Obama's signature health care program, Sec. Sebelius has become the target for attacks over its botched rollout with Republicans, and even some Democrats, calling for her to resign. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Health and Human Service secretary takes responsibility of Obamacare website troubles.


Scientists 'watch' dinosaur take its first steps in 94 million years

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:14 AM PDT

Earth's Largest Dinosaur 'Walks' in New Computer SimulationThe Argentinosaurus is one of the largest known dinosaurs, but scientists were unsure how exactly the massive creature plodded across the Cretaceous Earth, until now. Using sophisticated computer models, researchers have digitally reconstructed the Argentinosaurus, enabling them to "watch" the dinosaur take its first steps in over 94 million years. A team of researchers led by Bill Sellers, a professor of computational and evolutionary biology at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, used lasers to scan a 131-foot-long (40 meters) skeleton of the Argentinosaurus huinculensis. The scientists then created advanced computer models to digitally recreate how the dinosaur walked and ran.


Saudi police hold writer who opposed ban on women driving

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 08:50 AM PDT

Saudi women push for right to driveDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi authorities have detained a columnist who supported ending his country's ban on women driving, activists said Wednesday.


Murdoch editors must have known of phone hacking, court hears

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 04:38 PM PDT

Murdoch, News Corp. and 21st Century Fox CEO, arrives at annual Allen and Co. conference at Sun ValleyBy Michael Holden and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, a former top editor, and Andy Coulson, Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-media chief, oversaw a system of phone-hacking and illegal payments when they ran Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids, a London court heard at the start of their trial on Wednesday. Setting out the prosecution case, Andrew Edis said Brooks was linked to both phone-hacking that ruined the tabloid News of the World and the practice of paying public officials for stories at its sister newspaper, the Sun. Brooks, 45, later ran Murdoch's British newspaper division from 2009 to 2011.


U.N.: 7.3 million teen births in developing world

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 07:29 AM PDT

New Program Offers Sex Education To TeensTeen pregnancies in the developing world are declining, but more than 7 million girls under the age of 18 are still giving birth each year, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday. The ...


With just hours to spare, Virginia woman cashes $100K lottery ticket

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 06:25 AM PDT

Virginia woman wins lottery at deadlineWith just hours before a deadline on a $100,000 lottery ticket was about to expire, a Virginia woman made a very profitable discovery.


NYC Police Commissioner Kelly booed offstage over 'stop-and-frisk'

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 05:22 AM PDT

69th Annual Columbus Day Parade in NYCTop cop's lecture was halted on Tuesday after audience members disrupted the talk in protest of his controversial "stop and frisk" policy.


Will U.S. stop spying on allies? Not likely

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:49 AM PDT

Top U.S. intelligence chiefs call spying reports "false"It all depends on if the spymasters really want change—and your definition of "friend."


Russia denies Italian reports it spied on G20 leaders

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:56 AM PDT

Russia denies using 'poisoned' flash drives to spy on G20 summit attendeesROME/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has denied reports that its intelligence services spied on hundreds of foreign delegates at a Group of 20 summit in St Petersburg in September using gifts such as teddy bears, diaries and free USB keys. Quoting a report from the European Council's security office to Italian intelligence services, Italy's Corriere della Sera daily has reported this week that at least 300 such devices were issued at the September 5-6 summit and were revealed to be spy gear during security debriefing sessions last month. The report fuels controversy over international espionage after reports that U.S. intelligence services had conducted telephone surveillance of allied countries and leaders. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he did not know what the source of the latest allegations was.


China police hold five over Tiananmen 'terror attack'

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:50 AM PDT

Police cars block off the roads leading into Tiananmen Square as smoke rises into the air after a vehicle crashed in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on October 28, 2013Chinese authorities capture suspects in a fatal car crash on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.


Sebelius apologizes for health law 'debacle'

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 07:31 AM PDT

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gestures while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the difficulties plaguing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The Obama Administration claims the botched rollout was the result of contractors failing to live up to expectations – not bad management at HHS. As the public face of President Barack Obama's signature health care program, Sec. Sebelius has become the target for attacks over its botched rollout with Republicans, and even some Democrats, calling for her to resign. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The president's top health care official takes responsibility for web site problems.


Intel chief: Spying on allies is two-way street

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 12:17 AM PDT

NSA director Alexander testifies next to Director of National Intelligence Clapper at a House Intelligence Committee hearing in WashingtonWASHINGTON (AP) — Nations spying on each other's leaders is a two-way street and a longtime practice in the intelligence world, according to the U.S. intelligence chief. But a surveillance sweep on phone records overseas that has prompted an anti-American backlash was carried out by European governments, not the U.S., another intelligence official said.


Live: Sebelius takes responsibility for Obamacare site trouble

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 04:43 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sebelius is sworn in to testify before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing about issues and complications with the Affordable Care Act enrollment website, on Capitol Hill"Hold me accountable for the debacle," says the U.S. health secretary.


Live: Sebelius apologizes for health law rollout fiasco

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 06:39 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2013 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks in Phoenix. As the public face of President Barack Obama's signature health care program, Sebelius has become the target for attacks over its botched rollout. Republicans want her to resign and even some Democrats _ while not mentioning her name _ say someone needs to be fired. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)The Health and Human Services Secretary says she's sorry consumers have wasted time.


6 people dead in SC in apparent domestic dispute

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:23 AM PDT

Map locates Greenwood County, S.C.; 1c x 2 inches; 46.5 mm x 50 mm;GREENWOOD COUNTY, S.C. (AP) — Police found the bodies of six people ranging in age from 9 to the early 50s when they responded to a call from a man who said he was thinking about hurting himself.


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