2013年12月16日星期一

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For one victim, something good came out of Boston Marathon bombing

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 04:52 PM PST

James CostelloA victim of the Boston Marathon bombing found his future wife in the hospital.


Shooter's parents: 'Shattered,' 'devastated'

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 03:45 PM PST

This Sept. 7, 2013 photo shows Arapahoe High School senior Karl Pierson as he poses for his class picture in Centennial, Colo. Pierson shot fellow student Claire Davis at the school on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Mary McGregor)As support pours in for the girl critically wounded on Friday, the shooter's parents speak.


Judge's inspired ruling against NSA spying

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 02:35 PM PST

FILE - This June 6, 2013, file photo shows a sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. A federal judge says the NSA's bulk collection of phone records violates the Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches. The judge put his decision on hold pending a nearly certain government appeal. (Patrick Semansky, File/AP)Federal judge Richard Leon invokes Orwell, Madison, Beatles, says info-gathering likely unconstitutional.


Obamas will make ‘Obamacare’ pitch to moms at White House event

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 02:08 PM PST

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk out of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 24, 2013, before boarding the Marine One helicopter. Obama is traveling to Texas for a Democratic fundraiser in Dallas and tomorrow he will attend dedication ceremony for President George W. Bush's library. He will also attend a memorial service for the victims of the fertilizer plant on Thursday at Baylor University. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Always listen to your mother! President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will be highlighting that message Wednesday as they host a group of moms in the Oval Office to promote Obamacare.


Photos: Life in a Berlin ice factory

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST

Photos: Life in a Berlin ice factoryDimitar "Mitko" Todorov, a Roma from the Bulgarian city of Plevna, walks past a graffiti at a former ice factory that serves as his home in Berlin, December 5, 2013. (REUTERS/Thomas Peter)

Mobile home creeps out swanky New York City neighborhood

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 08:27 AM PST

Trailer park invades swanky New York City neighborhoodIs Manhattan turning into a trailer park? That's what at least a few Upper West Side residents are wondering after an apparent influx of motor homes and RVs occupying parking spots in the wealthy New York City neighborhood.


Senate likely to approve bipartisan budget deal this week

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 02:37 PM PST

A view of the Capitol Building in WashingtonBy Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservatives in the U.S. Senate are unlikely to stop passage of a two-year budget bill this week, with some Republicans expected to join Democrats in the Senate in voting for the measure. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and a number Tea Party-backed members, including Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky, are all likely to fight the deal, which was approved in a bipartisan vote of the U.S. House of Representatives last week. But with other Senate Republicans declining to join them, for fear of sparking another government shutdown and distracting attention from the battle to discredit President Barack Obama's health care law, the opponents appear unlikely to have enough votes to erect procedural hurdles to the measure.


Michael Jordan's 'Legend Point' estate in Chicago heads to auction

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 10:14 AM PST

Charlotte Bobcats ownerJordan watches as his team plays against the Chicago Bulls during the first half of their NBA basketball game in CharlotteBy Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago-area mansion belonging to American basketball star and NBA franchise owner Michael Jordan goes up for auction on Monday, according to a real estate auction house. The 56,000-square-foot (5,200 square-meter) home on more than seven acres in the northern Chicago suburb of Highland Park has a regulation-size basketball court, a putting green, tennis court, nine bedrooms and 15 full and four half bathrooms. The estate is scheduled to be auctioned Monday night live for in-person bidding and by phone, said Lauren Hovey, a spokeswoman for the auctioneer, Concierge Auctions. The Jordan home, known as Legend Point, was previously offered for $29 million, according to New York-based Concierge.


Can this marriage be saved? GOP, hard-right groups at odds

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 03:56 PM PST

This photo taken Dec. 12, 2013 shows House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaking during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republican leaders and several hard-right groups are in the throes of a bitter political divorce marked by name-calling and deep suspicions. The eagerness of Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to lash out at groups that have given them fits for the past few years has unshackled others in the Republican ranks, who bluntly question the motivation of organizations such as the Senate Conservatives Fund, Heritage Action, Madison Project and Club for Growth. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders and several hard-right groups are displaying the classic signs of a political divorce, including bitter name-calling and reprisals against one another.


Mega Millions jackpot climbs to $586 million

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 04:35 PM PST

Scott Hoormann holds two Mega Millions lottery tickets he purchased at Energy Express Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, in St. Louis. The Mega Millions jackpot soared to $586 million on Monday amid a frenzy of ticket purchases, a jump that pushed the prize closer to the $656 million U.S. record set last year. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Mega Millions jackpot inched toward a U.S. lottery record Monday as it soared to $586 million amid a frenzy of ticket purchases, raising the possibility that the prize could pass the once-unthinkable $1 billion mark by Christmas Eve should nobody win before then.


Do vitamins block disease? Some disappointing news

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 04:44 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — There's more disappointing news about multivitamins: Two major studies found popping the pills didn't protect aging men's brains or help heart attack survivors.

Wave of attacks kill 65 people in Iraq

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 01:19 PM PST

An Iraqi man inspects a minibus damaged in a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. Iraqi officials say bombings in and around Baghdad have killed and wounded tens of people. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — A double car bombing and a shooting killed 34 Shiite Muslims on pilgrimage in Iraq on Monday, the deadliest in a wave of attacks across the country that left at least 65 dead. It was the bloodiest day of violence in nearly two months.


FDA: Anti-bacterial soaps may not curb bacteria

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 03:07 PM PST

FILE - This Tuesday, April 30, 2013, file photo, shows Dawn Ultra antibacterial soap in a kitchen in Chicago. The Food and Drug Administration says Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, there is no evidence that antibacterial chemicals used in liquid soaps and washes help prevent the spread of germs, and there is some evidence they may pose health risks. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)WASHINGTON (AP) — After more than 40 years of study, the U.S. government says it has found no evidence that common anti-bacterial soaps prevent the spread of germs, and regulators want the makers of Dawn, Dial and other household staples to prove that their products do not pose health risks to consumers.


APNewsBreak: US fundraising mittens made in China

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 03:45 PM PST

The outside of the mittens say "Go USA." The insides say "Made in China."

Fake signer at Mandela event accused in mob attack

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 12:05 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2013 file photo, Thamsanqa Jantjie, the bogus sign language interpreter at last week's Nelson Mandela memorial service, speaks at his home in Bramfischerville, South Africa. Jantjie was among a group of people who accosted two men found with a stolen television and burned them to death by setting fire to tires placed around their necks, one of the interpreter's cousins and three of his friends told The Associated Press Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Itumeleng English, File) SOUTH AFRICA OUTJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Just when it seemed the scandal over the bogus sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial had run its course, a cousin and three friends say he was part of a mob that accosted two men found with a stolen television and burned them to death by setting fire to tires placed around their necks.


28-year sentence in Ohio in $100M charity scam

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 01:18 PM PST

CLEVELAND (AP) — A man convicted of masterminding a $100 million, cross-country Navy veterans charity fraud was sentenced to 28 years in prison Monday.

Google deal adds to company's robotics toolbox

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 02:34 PM PST

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google may be gearing up to build robots that resemble props in science-fiction movies as the ambitious Internet company expands into yet another technological frontier.

Sheriff: Ohio suspect last person seen with girl

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 03:15 PM PST

This photo provided by Wayne County shows Jerrod Metsker, 24, of Green Township, Ohio. Metsker, 24, was scheduled to appear Monday morning, Dec. 16, 2013 in the Wayne County Court of Common Pleas on an aggravated murder charge in the death of 9-year-old Reann Murphy, who authorities said was his neighbor. (AP Photo/Wayne County via Akron Beacon Journal) MANDATORY CREDITWOOSTER, Ohio (AP) — A man accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor and hiding her body in a trash bin had been building a snowman with her just hours before she was reported missing, investigators said Monday.


State Dept: Businessman held in Bolivia is in US

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 04:19 PM PST

FILE - In this March 21, 2012 file photo, Jacob Ostreicher, a New York City businessman, left, arrives at a court to attend a hearing in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The U.S. State Department says Ostreicher, who was detained the past 2 1/2 years in Bolivia on suspicion of money laundering, has arrived in the United States. Bolivian government officials said Monday that they didn't know anything about him possibly leaving.(AP Photo, file)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The U.S. State Department said a New York businessman detained in Bolivia on suspicion of money laundering arrived in the United States on Monday, the latest twist in a more than two-year saga that has unearthed high-level Bolivian government corruption.


Autopsy: Ohio girl likely died from strangulation

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 02:51 PM PST

This photo provided by Wayne County shows Jerrod Metsker, 24, of Green Township, Ohio. Metsker, 24, was scheduled to appear Monday morning, Dec. 16, 2013 in the Wayne County Court of Common Pleas on an aggravated murder charge in the death of 9-year-old Reann Murphy, who authorities said was his neighbor. (AP Photo/Wayne County via Akron Beacon Journal) MANDATORY CREDITWOOSTER, Ohio (AP) — A coroner says a 9-year-old girl found dead over the weekend in an Ohio trash bin likely died of strangulation.


US scholars endorse academic boycott of Israel

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 02:02 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — The American Studies Association on Monday endorsed a boycott of Israeli universities, the largest group of U.S. scholars to do so.

Heartwarming father-son text exchange during Colo. shooting

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 08:27 AM PST

Father and son text messagesIn the moments after the Arapahoe High School shooting began, a father corresponded with his son through text messages. The exchange is heart-rending.


Megafloods may have carved canyons

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 12:16 PM PST

Puzzling Streaks On Mars May Be From Flowing WaterNearly 50,000 years ago, a megaflood may have washed across the area that is now Idaho, carving a gorge — a discovery that could explain similar canyons on Mars, a new study finds. "Landforms on Earth and Mars record information about past environments and events that predate the historical record," said study lead author Michael Lamb, a geologist at the California Institute of Technology. The heads of canyons — the parts of gorges created by the downstream waters of a river — can have a variety of shapes. At times, canyon heads can resemble amphitheaters — the heads are curved when seen from above (think Niagara Falls), and the walls of the canyon heads rise straight up vertically.


Women, children among the victims of 'barrel bombs' in Aleppo

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Harvard reopens buildings after explosives threat

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 12:14 PM PST

Tactical police assemble outside a building at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. Four buildings on campus were evacuated after campus police received an unconfirmed report that explosives may have been placed inside, interrupting final exams. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Four buildings on Harvard University's campus near Boston were evacuated for hours Monday, interrupting final exams, after police received a report that explosives may have been placed inside. The buildings were reopened after hours of searches.


Judge: NSA phone collection unconstitutional

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 11:28 AM PST

Inside the NSA: Former NSA cyber spy shares his storyThe agency's gathering of data violates the Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches.


Russian missiles fuel tension in eastern Europe

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 10:32 AM PST

An Iskander missle system is seen in an undated handout from the Kolomna Machine Construction DepartmentThe Iskander missiles, deployed near the Polish border, have a range of hundreds of miles


Harvard buildings evacuated over explosives report

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 08:56 AM PST

Police officers secure an area at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. Four buildings on campus were evacuated after campus police received an unconfirmed report that explosives may have been placed inside, interrupting final exams. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Four buildings on Harvard University's campus near Boston were evacuated Monday after campus police received an unconfirmed report that explosives may have been placed inside, interrupting final exams.


Dan Brown's 'Inferno' tops Amazon's list for 2013

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 08:09 AM PST

FILE - This file book cover image released by Doubleday shows "Inferno," by Dan Brown. Brown's latest Robert Langdon caper was Amazon.com's No. 1 seller for 2013, the online retailer announced Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Doubleday, File)NEW YORK (AP) — A year after "Fifty Shades of Grey" overwhelmed best-seller lists, book buyers were seeking different kinds of thrills.


South Sudan president says coup has been repulsed

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 06:56 AM PST

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir sits in his office in capital JubaJUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's president on Monday ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the capital after soldiers loyal to the former deputy attempted to seize power by force, leading to clashes between military factions that highlight the growing instability of the world's youngest nation.


Syrian activists: Airstrike death toll rises to 76

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 06:09 AM PST

In this Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center, AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians inspect the rubble of damaged buildings following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. The Britain based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday that dozens of children were among scores killed in airstrikes on several opposition areas a day earlier. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)Government aircraft pounded opposition areas near the southern border.


21 arrested in French raids on horse meat traffic

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 04:25 AM PST

French law enforcement officials say 21 people have been arrested in raids across the south of France targeting the trafficking of horse meat that was used in laboratory procedures and wasn't fit for human ...

Mega Millions jackpot climbs toward a new record

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 05:37 AM PST

During an interview with the Associated Press, Chad Cuneo displays Mega Millions lottery tickets he purchased at a newsstand Friday, Dec. 13, 2013, in Philadelphia. Superstition didn't deter players hoping that Friday the 13th will bring them good luck in the Mega Millions game as heavy sales prompted lottery officials to boost the estimated jackpot to $425 million. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Strong weekend Mega Millions ticket sales easily could push Tuesday's jackpot above last year's record $656 million prize, a lottery official said.


Another worry about new health law

Posted: 16 Dec 2013 12:06 AM PST

FILE - This photo of part of the HealthCare.gov website is photographed in Washington, in this Nov. 29, 2013 file photo. Newly released federal figures, as of Nov. 30, 2013, show more people are picking private insurance plans or being routed to Medicaid programs in states with Democratic leaders who have fully embraced the federal health care law than in states where Republican elected officials have derisively rejected what they call "Obamacare." (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)3 in 4 say the rollout of coverage for the uninsured has gone poorly.


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