2014年8月7日星期四

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Reports clash: U.S. airstrikes in Iraq?

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:09 PM PDT

President Barack ObamaKurdish officials say U.S. has begun strikes on Iraqi jihadists – claims the Pentagon denied.


Stowaway arrested again at LAX

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 05:08 PM PDT

Officials: Woman sneaked onto flight after three triesA woman who has made repeated attempts to sneak aboard flights has been arrested again.


NCAA board grants autonomy for ‘Big 5’ conferences

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The biggest schools in college sports are about to get a chance to make their own rules.


Gaza crisis: Hamas rejects disarmament proposal

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 12:58 PM PDT

A Palestinian boy walks on the rubble of his destroyed home in the devastated neighbourhood of Shejaiya in Gaza City on August 7, 2014With a deadline looming hours away, Hamas on Thursday rejected Israeli demands it disarm and threatened to resume its rocket attacks if its demands for lifting a crippling blockade on Gaza were not met.


Senator exits race after plagiarism scandal

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:18 PM PDT

This Tuesday, June 3, 2014 file photo, Sen. John Walsh, D-Mont., leaves the Capitol in Washington. A campaign spokeswoman says Walsh is taking personal time at his Helena home but declined to answer questions about whether he plans to remain in the U.S. Senate race amid allegations that he plagiarized a research paper. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite,File)Sen. John Walsh (D-Mont.) drops campaign amid plagiarism allegations over graduate project.


CDC activates high-level emergency operation center for Ebola outbreak

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 02:45 PM PDT

In this photo provide by MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), taken on Friday, March 28, 2014, healthcare workers from the organisation, react, as they prepare isolation and treatment areas for their Ebola, hemorrhagic fever operations, in Gueckedou, Guinea. Health officials in the West African nation of Guinea say they're now treating eight cases of Ebola in the capital. Dr. Sakoba Keita, a spokesman for the health ministry, announced on national television the virus had reached the city of 3 million. Keita said Friday, March 28, 2014, at least 70 people have died in the country's south since the Ebola outbreak began last week. (AP Photo/Kjell Gunnar Beraas, MSF)The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told lawmakers on Thursday he has activated the agency's emergency operation center at the highest response level to fight the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Dr Thomas Frieden testified at an emergency hearing that the CDC has more than 200 staff members in Atlanta working on the outbreak, and will soon have more than 50 disease experts in West Africa. Frieden said he was "confident there will not be a large Ebola outbreak in the United States." However, he said it was possible that people who have traveled to West Africa might bring the virus back home with them, and even spread it to some healthcare workers and family members. The two are now being cared for at Emory University in Georgia.


Search for Wash. girl leads to child's body

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 12:49 PM PDT

Jenise Paulette WrightPolice say 6-year-old Jenise Paulette Wright's body was found not far from where she vanished.


Obama signs $16.3B VA spending bill

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 12:35 PM PDT

The emblem for the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs is seen as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Ft. Belvoir, VirginiaU.S. President Barack Obama signed a $16.3 billion bill on Thursday designed to provide veterans with more timely medical care and fix problems in the scandal-plagued Veterans Affairs department. The plan passed Congress last week and aims to address what Obama on Thursday called "outrageous" misconduct at VA hospitals and clinics that included modifying records of delayed care. The VA was thrust into the spotlight this spring after allegations surfaced that it had covered up the months-long wait times some veterans had to endure before receiving medical care. Former head of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki resigned in late May as the scandal mounted, and last week the Senate unanimously confirmed former Procter & Gamble Co Chief Executive Officer Robert McDonald.


Mich. porch shooter convicted of murder

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 01:51 PM PDT

Theodore Wafer testifies in his own defense during the seventh day of testimony for the Nov. 2, 2013, killing of Renisha McBride, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014, in Detroit. He said he feared for his life when he fired at McBride on his porch in Dearborn Heights, Mich. Wafer is charged with second-degree murder and could be sentenced to up to life in prison with the chance for parole, if he's convicted. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Clarence Tabb Jr.)Detroit man convicted of second-degree murder for killing unarmed 19-year-old woman on his porch.


Researchers ID 1st set of remains from Fla. school

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 10:37 AM PDT

'Florida Boys School - The White House': The search for bodies of missing Fl. reform school studentsUniversity of South Florida forensic experts announced Thursday that for the first time they have identified the remains of a boy buried at a now-closed Florida reform school where some guards were accused of brutality.


Obama mulls Iraq airstrikes, civilian aid

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 10:32 AM PDT

President Barack ObamaObama considering U.S. strikes against Iraqi rebels, food drops for beleaguered civilians.


Major Middle East airline Etihad suspends flights to north Iraq

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 11:58 AM PDT

Etihad Airways chairman and CEO James Hogan looks on during a press conference to launch the new flight connecting Rome and Abu Dhabi, in Rome, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Hogan also confirmed Ethiad is negotiating the purchase 49 percent stake of Italian carrier Alitalia, but the agreement was not yet finalized. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)One of the Middle East's largest airlines, Etihad Airways, says security concerns have prompted it to suspend all of flights to the northern Iraqi city of Irbil.


Remains found from Jonestown massacre

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 10:03 AM PDT

Jim JonesAshes from 9 victims of 1978 suicide-murder in Guyana turn up in Dover, Delaware.


Magnitude 4.5 quake rattles Hawaii ahead of 2 hurricanes

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 01:08 PM PDT

Hawaii braces for double hurricane punchIselle was supposed to weaken as it slowly trudged west across the Pacific. It didn't — and now Hawaii is poised to take its first direct hurricane hit in 22 years. Tracking close behind it was Hurricane Julio, which strengthened early Thursday into a Category 2 storm.


President signs VA bill that may improve vets' access to health care

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:48 AM PDT

President Barack Obama signs the Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) — Veterans may soon have easier access to government-paid health care under a bill President Barack Obama signed into law Thursday, the government's most sweeping response to date to a public uproar over systemwide problems that have rocked the Veterans Affairs Department.


China questions U.S. head of Christian NGO near N. Korea border

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:50 AM PDT

KIM JUNG UN RAMPS UP THE CRAZY


US sending Iraq humanitarian aid, weighing strikes

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 04:57 PM PDT

Protesters ask for help for Yazidi people who are stranded by violence in northern Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, across from the White House in Washington. The Obama administration is weighing an urgent response to help trapped religious minorities in Iraq, with one option being delivery of humanitarian aid. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say President Barack Obama has approved sending humanitarian supplies by air to thousands of religious minorities in Iraq who are under siege from Islamic militants.


Iraqi militants seize country's largest dam

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 04:31 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Residents living near Iraq's largest dam say Sunni militants from the Islamic State group have overrun the complex.

CDC director: Scale of Ebola crisis unprecedented

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 02:45 PM PDT

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Tom Frieden testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, before the House subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations hearing on "Combating the Ebola Threat." (AP Photo/Molly Riley)WASHINGTON (AP) — The current Ebola crisis in West Africa is on pace to sicken more people than all other previous outbreaks of the disease combined, the health official leading the U.S. response said Thursday.


Outer edge of hurricane brings rain to Hawaii

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 02:45 PM PDT

Workers at the Menehune Water Company load five gallon bottles of water into a customer's truck, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, in Aiea, Hawaii. Hawaii is bracing for two back to back hurricanes, Iselle and Julio, which are on course to hit the Islands. Bottles of water are quickly disappearing off shelves in Hawaii causing many people to line up for several hours to purchase water directly from the company. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)HONOLULU (AP) — The first hurricane expected to hit Hawaii in 22 years weakened slightly Thursday as its outer edges began to bring rain and wind to the Big Island, while residents and tourists prepared for a possible one-two punch as another major storm lined up behind it in the Pacific.


3 decades later, remains of Jonestown bodies found

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:46 PM PDT

A view of the inside of the former Minus Funeral Home in Dover, Del., Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, where police say the cremated remains of nine victims of a 1978 mass cult suicide-murder in Jonestown, Guyana were discovered. The state Division of Forensic Science has taken possession of the remains, discovered at the former Minus Funeral Home in Dover, and is working to make identifications and notify relatives, the agency and Dover police said in a statement. The division last week responded to a request to check the former funeral home after 38 containers of remains were discovered inside. Thirty-three containers were marked and identified. They spanned a period from about 1970 to the 1990s and included the Jonestown remains. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)DOVER, Delaware (AP) — More than 35 years after the infamous suicide-murder of some 900 people — many forced to drink a cyanide-laced grape drink — in Jonestown, Guyana, the cremated remains of nine victims were found in a dilapidated former funeral home in the U.S., officials said Thursday.


Man guilty of murder in Michigan porch shooting

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:53 PM PDT

Theodore Wafer testifies in his own defense during the seventh day of testimony for the Nov. 2, 2013, killing of Renisha McBride, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014, in Detroit. He said he feared for his life when he fired at McBride on his porch in Dearborn Heights, Mich. Wafer is charged with second-degree murder and could be sentenced to up to life in prison with the chance for parole, if he's convicted. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Clarence Tabb Jr.)DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit man who insisted he killed an unarmed woman on his porch in self-defense was convicted of second-degree murder Thursday after the jury rejected his tearful claim that he fired through a screen door in the wee hours because he feared his life was at risk.


Kerry urges Afghan candidates to end dispute

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 11:30 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry meets with Afghanistan's presidential candidate Ghani at U.S. embassy in KabulKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Obama administration on Thursday stepped up efforts to press Afghanistan's two feuding presidential candidates to end their dispute over June elections, accept the results of an ongoing audit of all ballots and form a national unity government by early September.


Russia retaliates on West's sanctions over Ukraine

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 12:23 PM PDT

Women choose Dutch tomatoes at a supermarket in downtown Moscow on Thursday.MOSCOW (AP) — Russia retaliated Thursday for sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine by banning most food imports from the West, dealing a blow to Europe that also takes aim at hurting the U.S., Canada and Australia.


Flow of child immigrants slows along Texas border

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:37 PM PDT

This Aug. 4, 2014 photo shows Eneyda Alvarez of Honduras peeling a mango while her son Antony plays at the Senda de Vida migrant shelter in Reynosa, Mexico. Alvarez hopes to join the thousands of families _ mothers or fathers with young children _ who have crossed the Rio Grande into the U.S. United States. (AP Photo/Christopher Sherman)McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Fewer unaccompanied immigrant children are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, allowing the federal government to close the temporary shelters that it hurriedly opened to handle the surge, authorities say.


Khmer Rouge leaders jailed for life

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:08 PM PDT

Former Khmer Rouge leader "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea in the ECCC courtroom in Phnom Penh on August 7, 2014Two Khmer Rouge leaders were jailed for life Thursday after being found guilty of crimes against humanity, the first sentences against top figures of a regime responsible for the deaths of up to two million Cambodians. Neither "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, 88, nor former head of state Khieu Samphan, 83, betrayed any hint of emotion as the sentences were handed down at Cambodia's UN-backed tribunal. Judge Nil Nonn said the defendants, who are the most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leaders, were "guilty of the crimes against humanity of extermination... political persecution, and other inhumane acts". Led by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, who died in 1998 without ever facing justice, the Khmer Rouge dismantled modern society in their quest for an agrarian utopia.


Jihadist offensive forces Christian exodus

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 01:31 PM PDT

Displaced demonstrators from the minority Yazidi sect gather during a protest against militants of the Islamic State in ArbiLMasses flee Iraq's Qaraqosh city in 'humanitarian disaster' as ISIL pushes toward Kurdistan.


Branded as 'devil worshippers,' Yazidis face Jihadist genocide

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:12 AM PDT

Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar west of Mosul, take refuge at Dohuk provinceOn Sunday, fighters from the self-declared Islamic State overran the city of Sinjar, part of a widening offensive that on Thursday saw IS take control of other Christian and Yzedi towns on the Nineveh plains. According to UN officials and Yazidi elders, the militants have killed hundreds of Yazidis, a secretive faith with pre-Islamic roots. Others have been taken as slaves. Tens of thousands have taken refuge on Sinjar Mountain, their traditional refuge over centuries of persecution, and are appealing for emergency aid.     "We believe that what they have done may be classified as genocide and a crime against humanity," Gyorgy Busztin, the deputy special representative in Iraq of the UN secretary general, tells the Christian Science Monitor. The labeling the campaign against the Yazidi as genocide carries some weight and could spur international relief efforts. But it has no immediate practical implications, nor is it likely to sway the militants in their assault on other sects and faiths in Iraq and Syria.


Mass. town's enthusiastic welcome to migrant children

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New job for Prince William: air ambulance pilot

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:15 AM PDT

Duke of Cambridge To Train As Air Ambulance PilotLONDON (AP) — Prince William is taking a new job: Air ambulance pilot.


Remains of 2 US airmen found, missing since WW II

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:12 AM PDT

The B-24, B-17 and P-51 pictured, foreground to background, helped win WWII. This weekend, they're coming to Chicago Executive Airport where the public will have a chance to inspect all three.BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The remains of two missing airmen have been accounted for 70 years after they disappeared when their plane went down over Papua New Guinea during World War II, U.S. military officials said.


Ebola drug ethics controversy: Who should get it?

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:16 AM PDT

A man reads a newspaper featuring a front page story on the death of Liberian diplomat Patrick Sawyer (pictured with his wife Decontee) who died of the Ebloa virus in Lagos on July 30, 2014Experimental treatment given to 2 infected Americans, while nearly 1,000 Africans have died from epidemic.


Stabbed Mich. boy's last words, to brother: 'I'll always love you'

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 06:27 AM PDT

a vigil for Michael Connor Verkerke, 9KENTWOOD, Mich. (AP) — A relative says some of the last words from a 9-year-old boy who died after being stabbed on a Michigan playground were about how much he loved his family.


NATO, Ukraine talk about invasion defense

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:29 AM PDT

Ukraine's Prime Minister Yatseniuk greets NATO Secretary General Rasmussen during their meeting in KievAs Russia masses 20K troops at border, Kiev discusses possible Western alliance support for Ukraine.


2 Philly-area boys safe after mother, then father found dead

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:30 AM PDT

Investigators work the scene of a homicide Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, in Drextel Hill, Pa. Two children taken from a Philadelphia-area home after a woman was slain were found safe in New York City on Thursday and a man in a vehicle that was sought by police was found dead, authorities said. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)DREXEL HILL, Pa. (AP) — Two children taken from a Philadelphia-area home after a woman was slain were found safe in New York City early Thursday and a man in a vehicle that was sought by police was found dead, authorities said.


Kerry's surprise Afghanistan visit to meet feuding candidates

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:35 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry speaks at the Ghana Compact Signing Ceremony at the State Department in WashingtonKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Afghanistan late Thursday on an unannounced visit to press the country's two feuding presidential candidates on the urgency of ending a bitter dispute over June elections and forming a new government by early September.


Matt Bai: The true enemy of rational political debate is us

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 01:36 AM PDT

Matt Bai - The Scourge of Small-Money PoliticsThe most corrupting force in politics, we are repeatedly told, is big money — super PACs, corporate lobbyists, rapacious oligarchs. But, $25 contributions add up to a mountain influence.


Pope Francis makes appeal for Iraqi Christians forced to flee

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 05:06 AM PDT

Pope Francis attends a vigil service with youths from the dioceses of Germany, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Pope Francis has brushed off his German to greet some 50,000 German-speaking young people on a pilgrimage to Rome. Francis followed the all-German program during the Tuesday evening vigil service in St. Peter's Square and read from prepared German texts. Unlike his predecessors, Francis rarely strays from Italian or his native Spanish while speaking in public. Vatican officials have said he isn't comfortable speaking in other languages and doesn't want to show favoritism. But Francis lived in Germany in the late 1980s while researching a never-finished dissertation and his willingness to cater to the young German-speaking crowd Tuesday made clear his familiarity with the language. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)Pope Francis appealed to world leaders on Thursday to help end the crisis in northern Iraq after a sweeping advance by radical Islamic state militants forced thousands of residents of Iraq's biggest Christian town to flee their homes. "His Holiness addresses an urgent appeal to the international community to take action to end the humanitarian tragedy now underway, to act to protect those affected or threatened by violence and to provide aid, especially for the most urgent needs of the many who have been forced to flee and who depend on the solidarity of others," the Vatican said in a statement.


PHOTOS: Hawaii battens down for first hurricane in 22 years

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 03:01 AM PDT

PHOTOS: Hawaii battens down for first hurricane in 22 yearsShoppers stock up on cases of bottled water and other supplies in preparation for a hurricane and tropical storm heading toward Hawaii at the Iwilei Costco in Honolulu on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Two big storms so close together is rare in the eastern Pacific, and Hurricane Iselle could make landfall by Friday and Tropical Storm Julio could hit two or three days later, weather officials said. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

Russia stamps Snowden's papers for 3 more years

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:50 AM PDT

An undated handout photo received from Channel 4 on December 24, 2013 shows US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden preparing to make his television Christmas messageFugitive intelligence operative's new residence permit allows movement, travel.


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