2014年4月11日星期五

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Dreams dashed in fatal Calif. crash

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 04:35 PM PDT

High school students, Jazmine Villalobos, 14, left, and Michelle Lopez, 14, react after learning the death of senior student Adrian Castro, as they leave El Monte High School in El Monte, Calif., Friday, April 11, 2014. Adrian Castro, an El Monte High School senior, was on the Humboldt State University-bound bus that crashed in Orland on Thursday, an El Monte school official said. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Bus in deadly freeway collision carried young, low-income, motivated students.


Obama: Our right to vote is under threat

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 03:53 PM PDT

President Barack Obama gestures while speaking at a National Action Network conference Friday, April 11, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)President blasts GOP in fiery speech at Al Sharpton's National Action Network conference.


Rare T.rex sets off on road trip to Smithsonian

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 03:33 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, April 8, 2014 photo, released by Montana State University, Pat Leiggi, left, the Museum of the Rockies director of exhibitions and administrator of paleontology, Brian Baziak, center, preparator paleontology, and Carrie Ancell, right, senior preparator of paleontology, check the contents of a crate containing fossilized bones from a Tyrannosaurus rex in Bozeman, Mont. The specimen, known as the Wankel T. rex, is being prepared for shipment from Montana to Washington, where it will be on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's new paleontology exhibit scheduled to open in 2019. (AP Photo/Montana State University, Sepp Jannotta)The rare and nearly intact skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed the earth 65 million years ago set off from Montana on Friday on a cross-country road trip, its first, bound for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. The fossil of the 38-foot-long carnivore, found on federal lands in Montana in 1988, has played a starring role in scientific research at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman since its excavation by paleontologists led by curator Jack Horner. The seven-ton skeleton of a dinosaur that may have been an opportunistic eater rather than a stone-cold killer is to be mounted at the Smithsonian Institution in an exhibit that will open in 2019 and is expected to attract 8 million visitors a year, Horner said. The dinosaur is on loan to the Smithsonian for 50 years. The so-called Wankel T.rex - named after Kathy Wankel who discovered it - was about 18-years-old when it died and is considered second for extensiveness and preservation only to "Sue," the famed T.rex at The Field Museum in Chicago, he said.


The ultimate love shack? Living large inside 150 square feet

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 04:22 AM PDT

The Ultimate Love Shack? Living Large Inside 140 Square FeetVisit a tiny house community making a big statement in the nation's capital


New quake shakes Nicaragua; nation on alert

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 02:50 PM PDT

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A magnitude-6.6 earthquake shook Nicaragua on Friday afternoon, sending people running frightened into the streets less than 24 hours after a magnitude-6.1 quake rattled the Central American country.

Attention all passengers: Frequent flyer miles are on the descent

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 01:23 PM PDT

first classNew airline programs make miles less valuable.


U.S. will block Iranian diplomat from United Nations

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 11:52 AM PDT

Hamid AboutalebiRare rebuke comes amid controversy over role in 1979 hostage-taking at embassy.


Bloomberg: NSA exploited Heartbleed for years

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Sources say government agency used flaw to collect intelligence on Web surfers.


Pope: Please forgive us our sins

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 11:04 AM PDT

In this photo released by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis delivers his blessing during a meeting with the Italian pro-life movement, at the Vatican Friday, April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)Francis makes first public plea for forgiveness of "evil" committed by abuser priests. Victims groups say it's not enough.


Nation on red alert as aftershocks rattle Nicaragua

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 01:03 PM PDT

A woman walks inside a home that was damaged by an earthquake in Nagarote, Nicaragua, Thursday, April 10, 2014. A 6.1-magnitude earthquake damaged dozens of houses in western Nicaragua on Thursday, and authorities said some people were injured by falling ceilings, beams and walls. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua's president placed his government on the highest alert level as aftershocks continued to rattle the country on Friday, a day after a magnitude-6.1 earthquake.


Ford Mustang turns 50: How a car caused a global sensation

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:01 AM PDT

The logo of a vintage Ford Mustang is pictured at the Essen motor showNext week's 50th anniversary of the first Ford Mustang evokes a long-ago day when new cars could generate as much excitement, at least in America, as new iPads. Instead it was simply a smartly styled body mounted atop the underpinnings of a pedestrian compact car, the Ford Falcon. One Ford executive boasted, in the idiom of the day, that it was like "turning a librarian into a sexpot." Yet with room for four, the Mustang was surprisingly practical. That price was for the basic six-cylinder engine, but buyers could add extra-cost (and handsomely profitable) options, including an automatic transmission, air conditioning, convertible top and a 289-cubic-inch V8 engine.


Obama nominates Burwell to lead HHS

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 11:39 AM PDT

President Barack Obama, flanked by outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, left, and his nominee to be her replacement, Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 11, 2014. The moves come just over a week after sign-ups closed for the first year of insurance coverage under the so-called Obamacare law. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)After accepting Sebelius's resignation, the president taps his budget director to succeed her.


Woman to appeal sentence in new husband's death

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 11:30 AM PDT

Prosecution Calls Jordan Graham's Maid of Honor to StandA Montana woman who pleaded guilty to pushing her new husband off a cliff in Glacier National Park last summer plans to appeal her 30-year prison sentence for his death.


Armstrong provides names in written testimony

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:14 AM PDT

Lance Armstrong takes part in a special session regarding cancer in the developing world during the Clinton Global Initiative in New YorkLance Armstrong says several people knew about his performance-enhancing drug use and insists he didn't pay anyone to keep his doping secret.


White House: No visa for Iran's UN envoy pick

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 10:53 AM PDT

Hamid AboutalebiIn rare rebuke, ex-member of group behind embassy hostage crisis denied access to US soil.


California college visit turns tragic

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:37 AM PDT

Officials and California Highway Patrol Officers look over the remains of a tour bus that was struck by a FedEx truck on Interstate 5 Thursday in Orland, Calif., Friday, April 11, 2014. At least ten people were killed and dozens injured in the fiery crash between the truck and a bus carrying high school students on a visit to a Northern California College. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)Ten deaths confirmed in crash involving tractor-trailer and bus carrying students.


Feds issue warning: Hackers trying to exploit 'Heartbleed' bug

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 02:59 PM PDT

Heartbleed bug puts private web info at riskHackers are targeting vulnerable networks in an attempt to exploit the "Heartbleed" bug, the U.S. Government warned on Friday.


Suspect in deadly Fla. day care crash to remain in jail

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:02 AM PDT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man who authorities say drove an SUV that crashed into another vehicle, sending it spinning into a daycare center where a girl was killed and 14 people were injured, was ordered Friday to stay in jail until a judge can determine whether he is a flight risk.

Australian PM confident sounds are from Flight 370

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 07:39 AM PDT

In this map provided on Friday, April 11, 2014, by the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, details are presented on the search for the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean off the Australian west coast. Australia's prime minister said on Friday authorities are confident that a series of underwater signals detected in a remote patch of the Indian Ocean are coming from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. (AP Photo/Joint Agency Coordination Centre) EDITORIAL USE ONLYPERTH, Australia (AP) — Authorities are confident that signals detected deep in the Indian Ocean are from the missing Malaysian jet's black boxes, Australia's prime minister said Friday, raising hopes they are close to solving one of aviation's most perplexing mysteries.


Pistorius, prosecutor in heated exchange over girlfriend's screams

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:20 AM PDT

Oscar Pistorius puts on his jacket as he arrives at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, April 11, 2014. The chief prosecutor laughed scornfully at an answer from Pistorius during the Olympic athlete's murder trial Thursday, mocking the man who shot his girlfriend. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was accused by a prosecutor Friday of shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door as the couple talked and argued in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year. The dramatic courtroom exchange ended the world-famous athlete's first week testifying at his murder trial.


Kathleen Sebelius, a lightning rod for critics, resigns

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:12 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sebelius prepares prior to testifying before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the President's budget proposal for FY2015, on Capitol Hill in WashingtonWASHINGTON (AP) — For five years, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been a lightning rod for critics of President Barack Obama's health care law. But with sign-ups exceeding expectations and a new face soon to be in charge at HHS, the White House is eager to see if the poisonous atmosphere might give way to more pragmatic efforts aimed at fixing problems with the nation's newest social program.


Energy co. offers $250,000 reward in startling Silicon Valley grid attack

Posted: 10 Apr 2014 04:58 PM PDT

View of Pacific Gas and Electric Company Metcalf Power Substation near San JoseSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. offered a $250,000 reward Thursday for information leading to an arrest and conviction in a startling attack mounted nearly a year ago on telephone lines and the power grid in Silicon Valley.


9 dead as bus, truck crash in California

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 01:35 AM PDT

Massive flames are seen devouring both vehicles just after the crash, and clouds of smoke billowed into the sky Thursday April 10, 2014 until firefighters had quenched the fire, leaving behind scorched black hulks of metal. The FedEx tractor-trailer crossed a grassy freeway median in Northern California and slammed into the bus carrying high school students on a visit to a college. At least nine were killed in the fiery crash, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jeremy Lockett)A FedEx truck slams into a tour bus carrying high school students to visit a college.


Australian PM says searchers confident of position of MH370's black boxes

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:10 AM PDT

A crew member looks out an observation window aboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3 Orion maritime search aircraft as it flies over the southern Indian Ocean looking for debris from missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370By Swati Pandey and John Ruwitch PERTH/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Search and rescue officials in Australia are confident they know the approximate position of the black box recorders from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday. "Still, confidence in the approximate position of the black box is not the same as recovering wreckage from almost four and a half kilometers beneath the sea or finally determining all that happened on the flight." The mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared more than a month ago, has sparked the most expensive search and rescue operation in aviation history. The search was focusing on a small patch of the Indian Ocean on Friday, after the latest "ping" seemed to lend credence to four previous "pings" detected by a U.S. Navy "Towed Pinger Locator" (TPL) towed by Australia's Ocean Shield vessel. But Angus Houston, head of the Australian agency supervising the search effort, said on Friday that analysis of acoustic data confirmed that the latest signal was unlikely to be related to the missing plane's black boxes.


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