2014年6月26日星期四

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36 injured in Texas floor collapse

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 02:54 PM PDT

A floor collapse during a religious gathering near Houston injures three dozen people.

Cavaliers select Wiggins with No. 1 overall pick in 2014 NBA draft

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After a one-year stopover in Lawrence, Kan., Andrew Wiggins has been drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers.


Rebekah Brooks 'vindicated' by hacking acquittal

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 12:14 PM PDT

Rebekah Brooks, left, former News International chief executive, looks at her husband Charlie, right, as she talks to members of the media in central London, Thursday, June 26, 2014. Brooks was acquitted after a long trial centering on illegal activity at the heart of Rupert Murdoch's newspaper empire but Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson was convicted of phone hacking. The nearly eight-month trial was triggered by revelations that for years the News of the World used illegal eavesdropping to get stories, listening in on the voicemails of celebrities, politicians and even crime victims. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks said Thursday she is innocent of phone hacking and other crimes and feels vindicated by a jury's unanimous decision to acquit her.


Wis. governor not target of special investigation, lawyer says

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 02:11 PM PDT

File photo of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor MarylandWisconsin Governor Scott Walker was not a target of an investigation into possible illegal coordination between his campaign and special interest groups during elections in 2011 and 2012, a lawyer for the prosecutor leading the investigation said on Thursday. Randall Crocker, an attorney representing special prosecutor Francis Schmitz, said Thursday that documents released publicly last week outlined the prosecutor's legal theory of the investigation and did not establish the existence of a crime. A federal judge halted the investigation in response to a lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin Club for Growth that accuses prosecutors of violating their free-speech rights. "At the time the investigation was halted, Governor Walker was not a target of the investigation," Crocker said in the statement.


Obama seeks $500M to train Syrian rebels

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 04:10 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 21, 2013 file photo shows a Syrian military soldier holding his AK-47 with a sticker of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Arabic that reads, "Syria is fine," as he stands guard at a check point in Damascus, Syria. President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $500 million to train and arm vetted members of the Syrian opposition, as the U.S. grapples for a way to stem a civil war that has also fueled the al-Qaida inspired insurgency in neighboring Iraq. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)Obama has asked Congress for funds to train and arm members of the Syrian opposition.


Man's paperwork mistake cost his children $400,000 of an IRA inheritance

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Before Leonard Smith lost his battle with cancer in 2008, he worked with his financial advisors and attorneys to make sure his children received the balance of his retirement funds when he died.

Supreme Court curbs state limits on abortion clinic protests

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 03:29 PM PDT

Anti-abortion protestors celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on protective buffer zones around abortion clinics as they stand outside the Court in WashingtonThe U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory to anti-abortion activists on Thursday by making it harder for states to enact laws aimed at helping patients entering abortion clinics to avoid protesters, striking down a Massachusetts statute that had created a no-entry zone. On a 9-0 vote, the court said the 2007 law violated freedom of speech rights under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment by preventing anti-abortion activists from standing on the sidewalk and speaking to people entering the clinics. The ruling casts into doubt similar fixed buffer zones adopted by several municipalities around the country, including San Francisco and Pittsburgh. The Massachusetts law was enacted in part because of safety concerns highlighted by violent acts committed against abortion providers in the past.


FAA, developers clash over proposed building height limits

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 03:51 PM PDT

CORRECTS LOCATION OF AIRPORT - FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2007, file photo, a twisted reflection of a passenger jet is reflected in the mirrored windows of an office building as it lands at Washington's Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va. The government wants to dramatically reduce the height limits of buildings near hundreds of airports, but the proposal is drawing fire from real estate developers, local business leaders and members of Congress who say it will reduce property values. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)The government wants to dramatically reduce the allowable height of buildings near hundreds of airports — a proposal that is drawing fire from real estate developers and members of Congress who say it will reduce property values.


‘We never saw it coming,’ father of Isla Vista shooter says

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 11:37 AM PDT

Police Took No Action in Reported Attack by Isla Vista Killer Elliot Rodger in 2013The father of a man who killed six people in a California college town said in a television interview that his son's rampage came as a surprise, despite contentions by some victims' families that the attack might have been prevented. Peter Rodger, a Hollywood film director, told Barbara Walters in an interview set to air Friday on ABC's "20/20" that prior to the shooting he did not believe his son, Elliott, 22, could "hurt a flea." Elliot Rodger stabbed three men to death in his apartment in the town of Isla Vista on May 23 before fatally shooting three more people near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara.


Howard Baker Jr., former Tennessee senator, dies at 88

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 11:28 AM PDT

FILE - This May 17, 1973 file photo shows Sen. Fred D. Thompson, Chief Minority Counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee, left, talking with Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn. during the Watergate hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington. . Baker, who asked what President Richard Nixon knew about Watergate, has died. He was 88. Baker, a Republican, served 18 years in the Senate. He earned the respect of Republicans and Democrats alike and rose to the post of majority leader. He served as White House chief of staff at the end of the Reagan administration and was U.S. ambassador to Japan during President George W. Bush's first term. (AP Photo, File)Sen. Baker's question sliced to the core of Watergate: "What did the president know and when did he know it?"


U.S. advances to World Cup round of 16 despite 1-0 loss to Germany

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Team USA lost 1-0 to Germany, but still won by scraping through to the knockout stage of the World Cup after surviving a nervous final afternoon of Group G action.


Activist's slaying in Benghazi leaves many Libyans stunned

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 12:57 PM PDT

In this March 2014 image released by the National Dialogue Preparatory Commission, Salwa Bugaighis, lawyer and rights activist, poses for a photograph during a meeting in Tripoli, Libya. One of Libya's most prominent female activists was assassinated in the restive eastern city of Benghazi when gunmen stormed her house, the state news agency reported Thursday, in slaying that stunned human rights advocates. Bugaighis, was at the forefront in the 2011 uprising against dictator Moammar Gadhafi. She was among the most outspoken voices against militiamen and Islamic extremists who have run rampant in the country since Gadhafi's fall. (AP Photo/National Dialogue Preparatory Commission)A prominent Libyan activist who had become an international face of her strife-torn country's efforts to build a democracy was assassinated by gunmen who stormed her home in the restive eastern city of Benghazi, police said.


High court rebukes Obama on recess appointments

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 08:46 AM PDT

Supreme Court Takes on Recess AppointmentsSupreme Court rules for Senate GOP in partisan clash with president over filling vacancies.


Matt Bai: What is Martin O'Malley thinking?

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 01:46 AM PDT

Maryland's governor persists in behaving like a man who is actually running for president.

Will San Francisco break the fall of Golden Gate jumpers?

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 02:02 AM PDT

478698223JS007_Suicide_BarrHistoric vote might finally lead to installation of a suicide barrier at the iconic bridge.


Knee-high flooding could impact USA-Germany match

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Men sue New Jersey Lottery after throwing out $1M ticket

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 06:11 AM PDT

Raw: Big Powerball Prize Means Big DreamsMAHWAH, N.J. (AP) — Two New York men are suing the New Jersey Lottery after they threw out a Powerball ticket worth $1 million.


Utah same-sex marriage ruling returns focus to Supreme Court

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 06:34 AM PDT

From left, plaintiffs Moudi Sbeity and Derek Kitchen, Kate Call, Laurie Wood and Kody Partridge, five of the six people who brought the lawsuit against the Utah's gay marriage ban, stand together at a news conference outside their lawyer's office Wednesday, June 25, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Call's partner, Karen Archer, was not able to attend. On Wednesday, June 25, 2014, a federal appeals court in Denver ruled that states must allow gay couples to marry, finding the Constitution protects same-sex relationships. The decision from a three-judge panel in Denver upheld a lower court ruling that struck down Utah's gay marriage ban. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Top court may have to make decision it's avoided — can states prohibit gay marriage?


Sex abuse report: Late BBC host 'interfered with dead bodies'

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 04:49 AM PDT

Jimmy Savile joins people from Commonwealth countries in tradional dress outside Buckingham Palace in London on June 4, 2002Late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile sexually abused vulnerable patients in scores of British hospitals over decades and claimed to have performed sex acts on dead bodies, investigators said on Thursday. Savile, one of the biggest TV stars in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s, abused girls, boys, men and women aged from five to 75 as he enjoyed unrestricted access throughout state-run National Health Service (NHS) institutions, they found. Witnesses told investigators that Savile also claimed to have performed sex acts on bodies at the same hospital's mortuary, and even bragged about having jewellery that he had had made from glass eyes taken from the deceased.


Ariz. schools chief sorry for blog posts, but won't step down

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 04:16 AM PDT

Schools chief apologizes for "hurtful" blog postsArizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal broke down in tears Wednesday at the end of a news conference where he apologized for posting an anonymous blog comment that denigrated welfare ...


1 suspect held, 1 killed after deadly Nigeria bomb blast

Posted: 25 Jun 2014 10:34 PM PDT

Nigerian authorities have arrested one suspect and killed another, after a bomb claimed 21 lives in a shopping centre in the capital Abuja, a city gripped by fear of attacks by Boko Haram Islamists. Wednesday's blast shook the Emab Plaza at 4:00 pm (1500 GMT), the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said, as shoppers were buying groceries ahead of the country's World Cup match against Argentina, which kicked-off an hour later. Later the National Information Centre said a second suspect had been shot dead by troops as he tried to escape on a motorbike. Rescue teams were deployed to the scene and evacuated the victims from the area, NEMA spokesman Manzo Ezekiel told AFP.

Malaysia jet most likely on autopilot when it crashed, Australia says

Posted: 26 Jun 2014 01:34 AM PDT

By Lincoln Feast SYDNEY (Reuters) - Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was most likely on autopilot when it crashed into the Indian Ocean further south than previously thought, Australian officials said on Thursday, as they charted the next phase of a so far fruitless search. Investigators say what little evidence they have to work with suggests the plane was deliberately diverted thousands of kilometres from its scheduled route before eventually plunging into the Indian Ocean. The search was narrowed in April after a series of acoustic pings thought to be from the plane's black box recorders were heard along a final arc where analysis of satellite data put its last location. We are now shifting our attention to an area further south along the arc," Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told reporters in Canberra.

Former Providence mayor makes post-prison bid for old job

Posted: 25 Jun 2014 07:50 PM PDT

Former Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci speaks with reporters at the WPRO-AM radio station in East Providence, R.I. on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, moments after announcing on the air that he will run again for mayor of Providence. Cianci was the longest-serving mayor of the city, elected to six terms for 21 years. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Buddy Cianci, the twice-convicted felon who led Providence as mayor for 21 years, wants his old job back.


Lawyer seeks impartial jury for friend of Boston bombing suspect

Posted: 25 Jun 2014 01:44 PM PDT

This undated photo added on April 18, 2013 to the VK page of Dias Kadyrbayev shows, from left, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, from Kazakhstan, with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Times Square in New York. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, two college buddies of Tsarnaev, were jailed by immigration authorities the day after Tsarnaev's capture. They are not suspects, but are being held for violating their student visas by not regularly attending classes, Kadyrbayev's lawyer, Robert Stahl said. They are being detained at a county jail in Boston. (AP Photo/VK)Lawyers for a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have asked a judge to allow potential jurors to be questioned on their attitudes about Muslims and a host of other questions designed to root out bias against their client.


Eli Wallach, veteran character actor, dies at 98

Posted: 25 Jun 2014 06:21 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 27, 2011 file photo shows actor Eli Wallach, left, and his wife Anne Jackson at the 83rd Academy Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Wallach, the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career died Monday, June 23, 2014 of natural causes. He was 98. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)As a masterful character actor and early product of postwar, Method-style theater, Eli Wallach wore countless faces, disappearing into them all. But he was always propelled — in acting and in life — by a mischievousness and an abiding playfulness that made him a tireless performer, an enduring family man and, of course, one immortal scoundrel.


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