2014年3月31日星期一

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GM recall: Why were so many victims young?

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:33 PM PDT

This combination of undated family photos shows, from left, Amber Marie Rose, Natasha Weigel, and Amy Rademaker. All three were killed in deadly car crashes involving GM's Cobalt during 2005-2006. The complaint tally for the top-selling small cars in the 2005-2007 model years was: Corolla, 228; Cobalt, 164; Honda Civic, 60; Ford Focus, 25; and the Mazda 3, 19. (AP Photo)Price may not be the only reason for the disproportionate number of youthful deaths.


Gov. asks for disaster declaration as mudslide toll hits 24

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:22 PM PDT

An American flag hangs from the only cedar post left standing at the scene of a deadly mudslide, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Oso, Wash. (AP Photo/The Herald, Sofia Jaramillo, Pool)DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Estimated financial losses from the deadly Washington mudslide that has killed at least 24 people have reached $10 million, Gov. Jay Inslee said Monday in a letter asking the federal government for a major disaster declaration.


Complete coverage: Obamacare deadline day

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Latest on enrollments and snafus, with in-depth reports on the politics of making it work.


Ocean garbage frustrates search for Flight 370

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 12:21 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2011 file photo, police officers monitor debris washed ashore on the Mount Maunganui Beach as a shipping container fallen from the grounded container ship Rena sits in the breakwater near Tauranga, New Zealand. Not only is the trash a time-wasting distraction for air and sea crews searching for debris from the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished March 8, it also points to wider problems in the world's oceans. The ocean is like a plastic soup, bulked up with the croutons of these larger items,WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Sometimes the object spotted in the water is a snarled fishing line. Or a buoy. Or something that might once have been the lid to an ice box. Not once — not yet at least — has it been a clue.


Source: U.S. floats freeing convicted spy as Mideast peace incentive

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 12:50 PM PDT

FILE - This May 15, 1998 file photo shows Jonathan Pollard speaking during an interview in a conference room at the Federal Correction Institution in Butner, N.C. An AP source says: the US is talking with Israel about early release of Pollard for concessions. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker, File)JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States is talking with Israel about the possibility of releasing convicted spy Jonathan Pollard early from his life sentence as an incentive in the troubled Mideast peace negotiations, a person familiar with the situation said Monday. Such an extraordinary step would show the urgency of U.S. efforts to keep negotiations alive.


For sale to qualified buyers: Leftovers from 13 years of war

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 11:15 AM PDT

FILE-In this file picture taken Nov. 2, 2013 photo Afghan scrap collectors transport a load of U.S. destroyed equipment from the departing U.S. military inKandahar, southern Afghanistan. As the United States military packs up to leave Afghanistan, ending 13 years of war, it is looking to sell or dispose of billions of dollars in military hardware, including its sophisticated and highly specialized mine resistant vehicles, but finding a buyer is complicated in a region where relations between neighboring countries are mired in suspicion and outright hostility. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, file)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States is trying to sell or dispose of billions of dollars in military hardware, including sophisticated and highly specialized mine resistant vehicles as it packs up to leave Afghanistan after 13 years of war, officials said Monday.


Gunman reported at Stevenson University near Baltimore

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 12:19 PM PDT

Stevenson UniversityPolice were investigating a report on Monday of a gunman at Maryland's Stevenson University but no shots had been fired, authorities said. The school said on its website that it had an "active shooter" on its Owings Mills campus north of Baltimore. "Police are searching but have been unable to find anything at this time," the Baltimore County Police said.


Discovery could solve 61-year-old mystery of missing N.M. woman

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 07:53 AM PDT

Inez GarciaAuthorities in New Mexico say they have a new lead in a 61-year-old cold case after bone fragments were discovered at the former home of a man whose 26-year-old wife, Inez Garcia, went missing in 1952.


Protesters, police clash in Albuquerque

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 07:44 AM PDT

Riot police launch tear gas toward activists in downtown Albuquerque, N.M. following a 10-hour protest around the city, Sunday, March 30, 2014. Hundreds of protesters marched past riot police in Albuquerque on Sunday, days after a YouTube video emerged threatening retaliation for a recent deadly police shooting. The video, which bore the logo of the computer hacking collective Anonymous, warned of a cyberattack on city websites and called for the protest march. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)People demand officials' resignations after string of police shootings.


Israel police recover ancient burial boxes

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:33 PM PDT

11 Ancient Burial Boxes Recovered in IsraelThe boxes contain bone fragments and remnants of pottery buried with the dead.


Kerry returns to Middle East for flailing peace talks

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:27 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waves before his flight leaving ParisBy Lesley Wroughton and Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry rushed back to the Middle East on Monday to try to salvage stalled peace talks, possibly by releasing an Israeli spy jailed in the United States to push Israel to free Palestinian prisoners. Requesting anonymity, a U.S. official said the release of Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in the United States for spying for Israel, was "on the table" as a possible element in a Middle East peace deal as an incentive to Israel. Kerry, who flew to Israel from Paris, held two-hour talks in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


Russian prime minister angers Ukraine by visiting Crimea

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:24 PM PDT

Russia's PM Medvedev meets Sevastopol Mayor Alexei Chaliy in SevastopolBy Darya Korsunskaya SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev flaunted Russia's grip on Crimea by flying to the region and holding a government meeting there on Monday, angering Ukraine and defying Western demands to hand the peninsula back to Kiev. But in a gesture that could ease tension in the worst East-West stand-off since the Cold War, Russia pulled some troops back from near Ukraine's eastern frontier - a move which the United States said would be a positive sign if it is confirmed as a withdrawal. President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that he had ordered a partial drawdown in the region, Merkel's spokesman said.


NSA tool increased RSA security vulnerability, researchers say

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 08:01 AM PDT

A sign marks the entrance to RAS's facility in BedfordBy Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to eavesdrop on some Internet communications, according to a team of academic researchers. Reuters reported in December that the NSA had paid RSA $10 million to make a now-discredited cryptography system the default in software used by a wide range of Internet and computer security programs. The system, called Dual Elliptic Curve, was a random number generator, but it had a deliberate flaw - or "back door" - that allowed the NSA to crack the encryption. A group of professors from Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois and elsewhere now say they have discovered that a second NSA tool exacerbated the RSA software's vulnerability.


International court orders stay on Japanese whaling

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 04:52 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014 and supplied by Sea Shepherd Australia on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, three dead minke whales lie on the deck of the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru, in the Southern Ocean. The International Court of Justice is ruling Monday on Japan's whaling program in Antarctic waters, in a case brought by Australia. Japan hunts around a thousand mostly minke whales annually in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean as part of what it calls a scientific program. Australia and environmental groups say the hunt serves no scientific purpose and is just a way for Japan to get around a moratorium on commercial whaling imposed by the International Whaling Commission in 1986. (AP Photo/Tim Watters, Sea Shepherd Australia) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALESTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Court of Justice on Monday ordered a temporary halt to Japan's Antarctic whaling program, ruling that it is not for scientific purposes as the Japanese government had claimed.


Russia pulls back a battalion from Ukraine border

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:45 PM PDT

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, speaks at a meeting for the economic development of Crimea in Simferopol, Crimea, Monday, March 31, 2014. Russia's prime minister is visiting Crimea to consider priorities for its economic development following the Russian takeover. Dmitry Medvedev is leading a delegation of Cabinet ministers and is chairing a meeting Monday to discuss priorities for federal assistance to the region, which Russia annexed from Ukraine earlier this month. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexander Astafyev, Government Press Service)SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (AP) — Russia said Monday it was pulling a battalion of several hundred troops away from the Ukrainian border but kept tens of thousands in place, prompting a worried response from the Kiev government about what the U.S. warned was still a "tremendous buildup."


Congress passes bill to stop cut to Medicare docs

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 04:03 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 14, 2009 file photo shows Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress is poised to give doctors who treat Medicare patients an 11th hour reprieve from a cut in their government fees. Monday's Senate vote would send legislation to repair Medicare's flawed payment formula for a year to President Barack Obama for his signature. It comes just hours before a midnight deadline Wyden promises to keep pressing ahead with a long-term solution, proposing to use savings from the troop drawdown in Afghanistan to pay the cost. Republicans and most budget experts say such savings are phony and are demanding at least some of the money to come from cuts to Obama's Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — With just hours to spare, Congress stepped Monday to finalize legislation to prevent doctors who treat Medicare patients from being hit with a 24 percent cut in their payments from the government.


Koreas trade fire; island residents in shelters

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 12:33 PM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other's waters Monday in a flare-up of animosity that forced residents of five front-line South Korean islands to evacuate to shelters for several hours, South Korean officials said.

Ump's call overturned, 1st time by expanded replay

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:55 PM PDT

Umpire Ted Barrett, left, signals an out call after listening to the central replay booth in New York in the sixth inning of an opening day baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Milwaukee. An umpire's call has been overturned for the first time under Major League Baseball's expanded replay system, with Brewers' Ryan Braun ruled out instead of safe. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)MILWAUKEE (AP) — An umpire's call was overturned Monday for the first time under Major League Baseball's expanded replay system, with Milwaukee Brewers star Ryan Braun ruled out instead of safe.


Congress to pass bill to stop cut to Medicare docs

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:26 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 14, 2009 file photo shows Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress is poised to give doctors who treat Medicare patients an 11th hour reprieve from a cut in their government fees. Monday's Senate vote would send legislation to repair Medicare's flawed payment formula for a year to President Barack Obama for his signature. It comes just hours before a midnight deadline Wyden promises to keep pressing ahead with a long-term solution, proposing to use savings from the troop drawdown in Afghanistan to pay the cost. Republicans and most budget experts say such savings are phony and are demanding at least some of the money to come from cuts to Obama's Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is poised to give doctors who treat Medicare patients an eleventh-hour reprieve from a cut in their government fees.


Official number of mudslide victims rises to 24

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:02 PM PDT

DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say the official death toll from the deadly Washington state mudslide has increased to 24.

Deadline dash: Health care sign-ups amid glitches

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:45 PM PDT

Charles Ellis, 53, of Salt Lake City, right, works with navigator Luis Rios while seeking help to buy health insurance at the Utah Health Policy Project Monday, March 31, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Ellis said he doesn't feel he needs insurance but was signing up to avoid a penalty. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)WASHINGTON (AP) — In a flood of last-minute sign-ups, hundreds of thousands of Americans rushed to apply for health insurance Monday, as deadline day for President Barack Obama's overhaul brought long waits and a new spate of website ills.


More victims found on east side of mudslide

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:21 PM PDT

An American flag hangs from the only cedar post left standing at the scene of a deadly mudslide, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Oso, Wash. (AP Photo/The Herald, Sofia Jaramillo, Pool)DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Crews searching through the muck and devastation wrought by Washington's deadly mudslide are finding more human remains on the east side of the slide, near the town of Darrington.


Engaged Johnny Depp shows off 'chick's ring'

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 10:25 AM PDT

Actor Johnny Depp, with a diamond ring on his left hand, attends a promotional event for his new movie BEIJING (AP) — Johnny Depp showed off a diamond engagement ring that he called a "chick's ring" on Monday — indirectly confirming rumors of his engagement to actress Amber Heard.


In Kentucky, Obamacare's success did nothing to change the politics of the law

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:56 AM PDT

Kentucky health care exchange navigator Courtney LivelyAlthough Gov. Steve Beshear embraced the law, a Republican says it's "unsustainable."


Weight loss surgery helps reverse type 2 diabetes, study shows

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 10:31 AM PDT

Bariatric surgeon Dr. Michael Snyder prepares a blue cord that will be inserted in the inflated abdomen of Carolyn Dawson in DenverBy Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bariatric weight loss surgery on obese patients with type 2 diabetes helped many get their blood sugar to healthy levels and to no longer require any diabetes medicines, including insulin, three years after the procedure, according to data presented at a major medical meeting on Monday. The study called Stampede, which involved 150 obese patients who had poorly controlled type 2 diabetes for at least eight years, was conducted by Cleveland Clinic researchers. It compared two types of weight loss surgery against weight loss attained by diet and exercise along with nutrition counseling and, for some, additional diabetes medicines that can help promote weight loss, such as Victoza from Novo Nordisk.


Mudslide death toll rises; rains expected to ease

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 06:08 AM PDT

Search and rescue teams navigate the wet, muddy terrain at the west side of the mudslide on Highway 530 near mile marker 37 on Sunday, March 30, 2014, in Arlington, Wash. Periods of rain and wind have hampered efforts the past two days, with some rain showers continuing today. (AP Photo/Rick Wilking, Pool)DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The rains that have bedeviled crews searching for victims in the debris field from the deadly Washington state mudslide are expected to ease this week, but searchers faced other challenges at the site like household chemicals and sewage.


UN panel: Warming worsens food, hunger problems

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:26 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 16, 2012 file photo, corn stalks struggle from lack of rain and a heat wave covering most of the country lie flat on the ground in Farmingdale, Ill. as the nation's widest drought in decades is spreading. Global warming makes feeding the world harder and more expensive, a United Nations scientific panel said. A warmer world will push food prices higher, trigger "hotspots of hunger" among the world's poorest people, and put the crunch on Western delights like fine wine and robust coffee, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in a 32-volume report issued Monday, March 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)Climate change makes feeding the world harder and more expensive, a United Nations scientific panel said.


US, Russia offer differing solutions on Ukraine

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 05:02 AM PDT

PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are advancing far different proposals on how to calm tensions and de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine as Russia continues to mass troops along its border with the former Soviet republic.

U.S., Russia talks fail to end Ukraine deadlock

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 10:39 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before the start of their meeting at the Russian Ambassador's residence about the situation in Ukraine, in Paris Sunday March 30, 2014. Kerry traveled to Paris for a last minute meeting with Lavrov. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov disagreed on crucial issues.


SKorea fires shells at NKorean waters after drills

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 10:07 PM PDT

Map showing the seven designated areas for live-fire drill announced by North Korea near the disputed maritime border with South KoreaSouth Korea has fired artillery shells in response to North Korean shells from a live-fire drill that fell in waters south of the rivals' disputed western sea boundary.


Australia PM: No time limit on Malaysia jet search

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:58 PM PDT

Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott is briefed on the search for MH370 by Royal Australian Air Force Group Commander Craig Heap at RAAF Base Pearce near PerthPrime Minister Tony Abbott said there was no time limit on the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.


NKorea conducts live-fire drills near sea boundary

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 09:08 PM PDT

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un presides over a meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of KoreaSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday conducted live-fire drills near the rival Koreas' disputed western sea boundary, South Korean officials said, in a move seen as an expression of Pyongyang's frustration at making little progress in its recent push to win outside aid.


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