2014年1月10日星期五

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Charity: $70,000 in Newtown donations missing

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 02:19 PM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, file photo, a makeshift memorial with crosses for the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre stands outside a home in Newtown, Conn., the one-year anniversary of the shootings. Connecticut authorities said they planned Friday, Dec. 27, 2013, to release state police documents from the investigation into last year's Newtown school massacre. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)Co-founder says her partner cut off contact when she confronted him with suspicions.


W.Va. residents: How long will this go on?

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 01:31 PM PST

West Virginia State Troopers fill water jugs at the Kmart in Elkview, W.Va., Friday, Jan. 10, 2014. Emergency crews are setting up water depots at many locations around the state following a chemical spill Thursday on the Elk River that compromised the public water supply to nine counties. (AP Photo/Tyler Evert)People surrounding state capital warned to avoid water for drinking, bathing and cooking.


Recreational drug probe expands to 10 Air Force officers

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 02:27 PM PST

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks with airmen of the 20th Air Force 90th Missile Wing during a trip to F.E. Warren Air Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 in Cheyenne, Wyo. It was the first time since 1982 that a defense secretary has visited the nuclear missile base. (AP Photo/Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Blaine McCartney)WASHINGTON (AP) — An Air Force investigation into alleged drug use in the ranks has expanded to include 10 officers at six bases in the U.S. and Britain.


US withdraws diplomat after India expulsion demand

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 03:49 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2013 file photo, photo shows Devyani Khobragade, who served as India's deputy consul general in New York, during the India Studies Stony Brook University fund raiser event at Long Island, New York. In a move that could cool a smoldering diplomatic dispute, the U.S. allowed Khobragade to leave the country Friday after she was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury, giving both countries a way to claim victory. (AP Photo/Mohammed Jaffer, File)NEW DELHI (AP) — The United States said Friday it was withdrawing a diplomat from India in hopes it would end a bitter dispute that started with the arrest and strip search of an Indian diplomat in New York.


Emails: Police partly in dark on NJ lane closings

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 01:35 PM PST

GWB GraphicTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Emails released Friday show a police captain had a difficult time getting details about lane closings near the George Washington Bridge that appeared to have been politically orchestrated by officials in Gov. Chris Christie's administration.


State Department issues Olympics warning

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 12:02 PM PST

A man walks past a shop with an Olympic logo in the Black Sea resort town of SochiCaution includes special warning for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender travelers.


Hubble telescope captures another amazing photo

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 10:48 AM PST

Tarantula NebulaWhere to begin? The Hubble Space Telescope captured another amazing photograph, this time of the Tarantula Nebula, a region of space full of "star clusters, glowing gas, and thick dark dust," according to SpaceTelescope.org.


New documents released in NJ bridge scandal

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 12:26 PM PST

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks to the media as he leaves city hall in Fort LeeTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey legislative committee investigating the traffic-jam scandal that has rocked Gov. Chris Christie's administration released hundreds of documents Friday that could shed more light on the politically motivated lane closings that created gridlock at the George Washington Bridge.


Trove of documents released in NJ bridge scandal

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 02:38 PM PST

New Jersey Governor Christie gives news conference in TrentonBy Dave Warner TRENTON, New Jersey (Reuters) - In the latest twist in a scandal engulfing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, documents related to the closure of the George Washington Bridge showed on Friday that authorities were deeply divided about the shutdown, with one warning it was illegal. More than 1,000 pages of documents subpoenaed by New Jersey lawmakers investigating the massive, four-day traffic jam in Fort Lee were made public after days of damaging disclosures about the role Christie's staff played in the September shutdown, which appeared to be political payback. Christie, a star of his party seen as a likely contender for the White House in 2016, on Thursday went to Fort Lee to apologize for the fiasco and said he knew nothing about it until damaging emails from his staff were revealed on Wednesday. Christie cut ties with a senior adviser and fired his then deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly, who wrote to Port Authority executive David Wildstein in August: "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee." Wildstein, a Christie appointee, replied: "Got it." The documents, many subpoenaed from Wildstein, cast new light on the turmoil within the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency overseeing the nation's busiest bridge.


Obama to lay out NSA reforms next week

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 10:48 AM PST

US President Barack Obama stands next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G20 summit in Saint Petersburg on September 6, 2013May call for curb on spying on friendly leaders, changes to phone data storage.


Iran: Nukes roadmap ready for sign-offs

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 10:01 AM PST

The future of Iran's Arak heavy water IR-40 reactor is one of the key points in a landmark nuclear deal Tehran recently signed with world powers in GenevaOfficial tied to UN nuclear agency confirms report on secret Geneva negotiations.


Google apologizes for Berlin map with Third Reich gaffe

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 07:57 AM PST

A screenshot made on January 10, 2014 from the Google Maps website shows an online map of Berlin with Theodor Heuss-Plazt Square resulting from a search of its Nazi-era name "Adolf Hitler"Google issued an apology after it was discovered a popular spot in Berlin had been temporarily and inexplicably renamed after Adolf Hitler on the company's online map service.


'I don't know if the water is not safe'

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 12:16 PM PST

Charleston resident Niru Parikshak loads up the back of her car with bottled water Thursday Jan. 9, 2014 in Charleston, W.Va. . Sam's Club and every retailer for a twenty mile radius sold out of bottled water after a chemical leak Thursday morning up river from the WV American Plant on the Elk River forced the water plant to shut down. (AP Photo/Charleston Daily Mail, Bob Wojcieszak)Thousands of gallons of a hazardous chemical leaked into a W. Va. river.


Federal government to recognize same-sex couples in Utah

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 03:38 PM PST

Tony Butterfield and his husband Paul Redd-Butterfield play board games with their adopted 11 year-old twin sons Lucas and Liam at their home in SandyWASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday extended federal recognition to the marriages of more than 1,000 same-sex couples in Utah that took place before the Supreme Court put those unions in the state on hold.


N.J. town caught in scandal loves, hates that bridge

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 07:19 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2011 file photo two women walk at Palisades Interstate Park as the sun sets over the George Washington Bridge, in Fort Lee, N.J. Many people have known little about Fort Lee until a political scandal centering on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie enveloped the borough. Now for residents of the New York City bedroom community defined by both a feisty pride and frustration over the mixed blessings of proximity to the George Washington Bridge, the scandal is the reminder they did not need of how the bridge dictates the rhythm of everyday life. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — When Mayor Mark Sokolich's annual Christmas card showed up in mailboxes a few weeks ago, some residents took careful note of the photo selected for the front: the steely silhouette of this borough's treasured, and sometimes detested, George Washington Bridge — and a Revolutionary War cannon firing off a shot, as if to warn off unseen enemies who might try to threaten it.


U.S. considering sanctions against South Sudan

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 03:49 PM PST

Displaced people walk past razor wire at Tomping camp, where some 15,000 displaced people who fled their homes are sheltered by the United Nations, near JubaBy Louis Charbonneau and Warren Strobel UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is weighing targeted sanctions against South Sudan due to the failure of leaders in the world's youngest nation to take steps to end a crisis that has brought the country to the brink of civil war, sources briefed on U.S. discussions told Reuters. "It's a tool that has been discussed," a source told Reuters on condition of anonymity about the possibility of U.S. sanctions against those blocking peace efforts or fueling violence in South Sudan. The U.S. government was unlikely to consider steps intended to economically harm impoverished South Sudan but would likely focus on any measures on those individuals or groups it sees as blocking efforts at brokering peace or committing atrocities. Three weeks of fighting, often along ethnic lines, is ringing alarm bells in Washington over the prospect that the conflict could spiral into full-blown civil war, spawning atrocities or making South Sudan the world's next failed state.


Target data breach grows to 70M customers

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 10:28 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, a passer-by walks near an entrance to a Target retail store in Watertown, Mass. Target on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013 said that customers' encrypted PIN data was removed during the data breach that occurred earlier this month. But the company says it believes the PIN numbers are still safe because the information was strongly encrypted. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)Phone numbers, addresses and other personal information was stolen.


U.S. job growth falters as cold weather grips nation

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 02:05 PM PST

Job seekers stand in line to meet prospective employers at a career fair in New York CityBy Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers hired the fewest workers in nearly three years in December, but the setback was likely to be temporary amid signs that unusually cold weather may have had an impact. The surprisingly weak job growth figures reported by the Labor Department on Friday, however, could cause some discomfort at the Federal Reserve, which last month announced plans to scale back its massive monetary stimulus program. Nonfarm payrolls rose only 74,000 in December, the smallest increase since January 2011 and well short of the 200,000 jobs or so that most economists had expected. Michael Feroli, an economist with JPMorgan Chase in New York, called the report "an ugly mix" but said: "We'd guess the underlying trend in job growth hasn't materially shifted." U.S. stock prices were little changed, but yields on benchmark Treasury debt fell by the most since October.


Will bridge scandal hurt a Christie 2016 bid?

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 04:15 PM PST

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie departs City Hall in Fort Lee, New JerseyThe road to the White House just got bumpier for the N.J. governor - but it's not closed.


U.S. to withdraw diplomat at India's request as dispute festers

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 03:30 PM PST

By David Brunnstrom and Frank Jack Daniel WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it would withdraw one of its diplomats from New Delhi at India's request after Washington effectively expelled an Indian envoy at the center of a dispute between the allies. Devyani Khobragade, 39, who was India's deputy consul-general in New York, was arrested in December on charges of visa fraud and lying to U.S. authorities about what she paid her housekeeper. Khobragade's arrest and strip-search provoked protests in India and dealt a serious blow to U.S. efforts to strengthen ties. An indictment announced by U.S. prosecutors on Thursday accused Khobragade of making her Indian housekeeper and nanny, Sangeeta Richard, work 100-hour, seven-day weeks for a salary of little more than $1 an hour and refusing her sick days and holidays.

Surprisingly weak jobs report puzzles economists

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 02:13 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, file photo, Luis Mendez, 23, left, and Maurice Mike, 23, wait in line at a job fair held by the Miami Marlins, at Marlins Park in Miami. Employers added a scant 74,000 jobs in December after averaging 214,000 in the previous four months. The Labor Department said Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, that the unemployment rate fell from 7 percent in November to 6.7 percent, its lowest level since October 2008. But the drop occurred mostly because many Americans stopped looking for jobs. Once people without jobs stop looking for one, the government no longer counts them as unemployed. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — It came as a shock: U.S. employers added just 74,000 jobs in December, far fewer than anyone expected. This from an economy that had been adding nearly three times as many for four straight months — a key reason the Federal Reserve decided last month to slow its economic stimulus.


Damage-control worries followed NJ lane closings

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 04:51 PM PST

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie leaves City Hall Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, in Fort Lee, N.J. Christie traveled to Fort Lee to apologize in person to Mayor Mark Sokolich. Moving quickly to contain a widening political scandal, Christie fired one of his top aides Thursday and apologized repeatedly for the "abject stupidity" of his staff, insisting he had no idea anyone around him had engineered traffic jams to get even with a Democratic mayor. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Officials squabbled over media leaks and worried about bad publicity in the days after lane closings near the George Washington Bridge caused huge traffic jams that now appear to have been politically orchestrated by members of Gov. Chris Christie's administration, documents released Friday show.


500 reported killed in rebel infighting in Syria

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 02:23 PM PST

In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a protester holds a placard depicting U.S. President Barack Obama during a demonstration in Kafr Nabil town, Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday, Jan. 10, 2014. Rebel-on-rebel fighting between an al-Qaida-linked group and an array of more moderate and ultraconservative Islamists has killed nearly 500 people over the past week in northern Syria, an activist group said Friday, in the most serious bout of violence among opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad since the civil war began. The Arabic on the poster is an acronym meaning, "the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant." (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)BEIRUT (AP) — With nearly 500 people reported killed in a week of rebel infighting, many Syrians barricaded themselves in their homes Friday, while others emerged from mosques angrily accusing an al-Qaida-linked group of hijacking their revolution.


GOP House targets health care law; 67 Dems join in

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 01:56 PM PST

President Barack Obama listens to Andres Cruz, second from left, as he has lunch with five young people at The Coupe restaurant in the Columbia Heights section of Washington, Friday, Jan. 10, 2014. The five are spearheading creative outreach efforts to connect with and help enroll young consumers through the Marketplaces or are interested in getting more involved with these efforts. Seated at the table with Obama at left is Anne Johnson. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House voted overwhelmingly Friday to bolt new security requirements onto President Barack Obama's health care law, with 67 Democrats breaking ranks to join with the GOP. It was the first skirmish of what is certain to be a long and contentious election-year fight.


UNC still dealing with 3 years of academic scandal

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 03:55 PM PST

North Carolina coach Roy Williams watches from the sideline during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Miami in Chapel Hill, N.C., Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Miami won 63-57. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has been in an academic crisis mode for more than three years.


Damage-control scramble followed NJ lane closings

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 04:40 PM PST

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie leaves City Hall Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, in Fort Lee, N.J. Christie traveled to Fort Lee to apologize in person to Mayor Mark Sokolich. Moving quickly to contain a widening political scandal, Christie fired one of his top aides Thursday and apologized repeatedly for the "abject stupidity" of his staff, insisting he had no idea anyone around him had engineered traffic jams to get even with a Democratic mayor. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Officials squabbled over media leaks and worried about bad publicity in the days after lane closings near the George Washington Bridge caused huge traffic jams that now appear to have been politically orchestrated by members of Gov. Chris Christie's administration, documents released Friday show.


Chemical in W.Va. spill taken to another site

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 03:40 PM PST

Tanaz Rahin and her mother Farri Rahin of Charleston, W.Va., drove across town to the Kroger in South Charleston, W.Va., to find water following a chemical spill on the Elk River that compromised the public water supply to eight counties on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Tyler Evert)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The company at the center of a chemical spill in West Virginia says it has removed the rest of the foaming agent to prevent any more from escaping.


Gadget Watch: iPhone case lets you see heat

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 03:01 PM PST

The FLIR ONE thermal imager for the iPhone is demonstrated at the International Consumer Electronics Show, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, in Las Vegas. The imager attaches to the back of an iPhone 5 or 5s and translates heat data into color images on the phone's screen. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)LAS VEGAS (AP) — Remember the alien with heat vision in the movie "Predator"? You, too, can now stalk people in the jungle by their heat signatures — or check your home's insulation for leaks, whichever is most useful to you.


AP WAS THERE: '64 US report ties smoking to cancer

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 03:08 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 1964, file photo U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry answers questions on an exhaustive report on the dangers of smoking during a news conference in Washington. Members of his advisory committee, are, from left: Dr. Peter V.V. Hamill, Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Dr. Walter J. Burdette, Prof. William G. Cochan, Dr. Walter J. Burdette, Prof.William G. Cochran, Dr. John B. Hickman, Dr. Emmanuel Farber, Dr. James Hund, committe vice chairman, Dr. Louis F. Fieser, Dr. Terry, Dr. Charles LeMaistre, rear, Dr. Eugene H. Guthrie,staff director, Dr. Maurice H. Seevers, and Dr. Leonard M. Scdhuman. (AP Photo)WASHINGTON (AP) — EDITOR'S NOTE — On Jan. 11, 1964, AP Science Writer Frank Carey covered the release of U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry's historic report linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer. The report has been called one of the most important documents in U.S. public health history. While not the first to raise the alarm about smoking, it gave momentum to the push for tobacco controls. The surgeon general has periodically issued more smoking reports, and a new one is due out next week. Fifty years after its original publication, the AP is making this story available to its subscribers.


GOP-led House again targets Obama health care law

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 07:26 AM PST

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. The top Democrat in the Republican-controlled House focused on the Affordable Care Act and the fight to pass immigration reform. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans targeted President Barack Obama's health care law on Friday, pushing legislation to impose new rules on the administration that Democrats argued was designed to scare Americans from enrolling for coverage.


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