2014年10月15日星期三

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2nd Texas nurse with Ebola identified

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 02:00 PM PDT

Ebola nurse Amber Vinson (Akron Public Schools)Amber Joy Vinson, 26, contracted virus; CDC says she recently flew on plane.


Obama: Feds must tackle Ebola 'in a much more aggressive way'

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 03:10 PM PDT

President Obama promises a "much more aggressive" federal government response to Ebola amid growing public fears stoked by a new case in Dallas. And he notes he was fine after having "hugged and kissed not the doctors, but the nurses" who cared for a patient in Georgia.

Senators who opposed 'czars' now want one for Ebola

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:28 PM PDT

Sen. Jerry MoranRepublican Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas was one of the first lawmakers to call on the Obama administration to appoint a czar to help coordinate the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis in Africa, along with a cluster of cases at home. The problem? Almost five years earlier to the day, Moran introduced legislation urging Obama to cease the practice of appointing czars. Moran, who was then a congressman running for the U.S. Senate, also sponsored a bill that would prohibit the federal government from using taxpayer money to pay the salaries of such unconfirmed administration officials — which would have effectively ended the practice of appointing them.


New Texas nurse with Ebola had slight fever on airliner

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 03:29 PM PDT

Emergency personnel wearing protective clothing approach a residential apartment after a second healthcare worker tested positive for the Ebola virus in DallasBy Lisa Maria Garza and Terry Wade DALLAS (Reuters) - A second Texas nurse who contracted Ebola flew on a commercial flight from Ohio to Texas with a slight temperature the day before she was diagnosed, health officials said on Wednesday, raising new concerns about U.S. efforts to control the disease. Chances that other passengers on the plane were infected were very low, but the nurse should not have been traveling on the flight, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Thomas Frieden told reporters. ...


Libyan al Qaeda suspect seeks to toss statements in U.S. case

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 02:44 PM PDT

A courtroom sketch shows Nazih al-Ragye known by the alias Abu Anas al-Liby as he appears in Manhattan Federal Court for an arraignment in New YorkBy Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Suspected al Qaeda figure Abu Anas al-Liby told a U.S. judge on Wednesday that statements he made to U.S. interrogators should not be allowed at trial because he felt he had no choice but to talk. The 50-year-old Libyan, who faces charges stemming from the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, testified at a hearing in New York to determine whether the statements he made aboard a U.S. Air Force plane can be used against him in court. ...


After decades in prison, man freed at NY prosecutor's request

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 01:59 PM PDT

David McCallum exits Brooklyn Supreme Court after his conviction was overturned in the Brooklyn Borough of New YorkBy Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly three decades into a prison sentence he began as a teenager, a New York man who had been championed by boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter walked free on Wednesday after a judge vacated his murder conviction at a prosecutor's request. David McCallum was 16 years old in 1986 when a jury in Brooklyn found him and Willie Stuckey, Jr. guilty of kidnapping and murdering Nathan Blenner. McCallum, now 45, had been in a state prison ever since. Stuckey, whose conviction was also quashed on Wednesday, died in prison in 2001. ...


US stocks sink in turbulent day of trade

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 02:05 PM PDT

US stocks fell sharply soon after the markets opened following disappointing reports on US retail sales and producer pricesNew York (AFP) - US stocks Wednesday finished a turbulent day in the red, rallying somewhat from a huge midday drop spurred by worries over global economic weakness and the Ebola epidemic.


US war on Islamic State finally gets a name

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 09:15 AM PDT

US Army Gen. Martin Dempsey(R), US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, listens with others while US President Barack Obama makes a statement for the press after a meeting at Andrews Air Force Base October 14, 2014 in MarylandPresident Obama's war on the so-called Islamic State finally has a name: It's Operation Inherent Resolve. It's not as dramatic as Desert Storm but not as bad as Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL).


Ann Romney's new ammunition in fight against MS

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 06:49 AM PDT

Ann Romney, left, and her husband Mitt Romney, center, walk past members of the media as they arrive at the Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre before an event held to announce the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, in Boston. Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital is to announce the launch of the center Tuesday that will assemble doctors and scientists to collaborate against neurological diseases that have no cure. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Ann Romney says Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine had her husband Mitt been elected president. In a clear shot at the Obama administration, Romney told Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga, "I do not believe there would have been an invasion, of course, in Ukraine. I believe Putin would have known there would've been consequences to that."


Report: U.S. troops injured by abandoned Iraqi chemical weapons

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 06:53 AM PDT

Report: U.S. troops injured by chemical weapons during Iraq warAmerican troops found nearly 5,000 abandoned chemical weapons in Iraq from 2004 to 2011, but their discoveries were kept secret by the U.S. government, the New York Times reports.


Trooper kills box-cutter wielding man on Ct. tour bus

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 07:21 AM PDT

Trooper Kills Knife-Wielding Suspect on Tour BusNORWALK Conn. (Reuters) - A man wielding a box cutter who attacked passengers on a tour bus headed to a Connecticut casino has died after being shot by a state trooper, officials said on Wednesday. The man, whose identity was not released, was arrested late Tuesday after the driver steered the bus into a construction site off a major highway, state police said, and died of his gunshot wound at a hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut. ...


At soccer match, drone flight causes near-international incident

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:24 AM PDT

A fight breaks out on the pitch between Serbian fans and Albanian national team players, with from right, Albania's Lorik Cana, Albania's Ansi Agolli, match official, 3rd left Serbia's Nenad Tomovic holding Albanian flag, Albania's Bekim Balaj, and soccer fan at left, during the Euro 2016 Group I qualifying match between Serbia and Albania, at the Partizan stadium in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. The match was suspended on Tuesday after pitch skirmishes involving players and fans over an Albanian flag that was flown above the stadium by a drone. The score was 0-0 at the time. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — It was all about the drone Wednesday — the one that took off from an Orthodox Church in Belgrade and flew over a soccer stadium with a nationalist Albanian banner. It ignited more than a brawl between players and fans — it inflamed years of simmering tensions between Balkan rivals Serbia and Albania.


North, South Korea hold high-level military talks

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 03:09 AM PDT

The 1950-53 Korean war ended with a ceasefire rather than a formal peace treaty, meaning the two countries are technically still at warSeoul (AFP) - North and South Korea held high-level military talks on Wednesday to air grievances over recent exchanges of fire across their land and sea borders, Seoul's defence ministry said.


Comet landing site picked for European space mission

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 08:23 AM PDT

The image composed of two different images and provided by the European Space Agency ESA on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2015 shows parts of the spacecraft Rosetta in front of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from a distance of about 16 km from the surface of the comet. The image was taken on 7 October and captures the side of the Rosetta spacecraft and one of Rosetta's 14 m-long solar wings, with the comet in the background. Two images with different exposure times were combined to bring out the faint details in this very high contrast situation. The comet's active 'neck' region is clearly visible, with streams of dust and gas extending away from the surface. (AP Photo/ESA)BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency has confirmed the time and place it will attempt to land the first spacecraft on a comet.


Photo exhibition shows 'depravity' of Syria's Assad regime

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:07 PM PDT

Inside Assad's Syrian Torture CampsIn a chilling and potentially controversial exhibit that opens on Wednesday, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will put on public display for the first time photographs — smuggled out of Syria by a regime defector — that show the emaciated and burned bodies of suspected dissidents believed to have been killed in government detention centers. A director of the museum says the photos are reminiscent of the images from Nazi concentration camps.


Second day of numerous U.S.-led airstrikes on Syria's Kobani

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:01 AM PDT

Smoke rises from the the Syrian town of Kobane on October 14, 2014WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft carried out 18 strikes on Islamic State positions near the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani and five strikes against the group in Iraq on Tuesday and Wednesday, the U.S. military's Central Command said. The planes struck 16 buildings occupied by Islamic State militants and destroyed several of their fighting positions near Kobani, a Kurdish town on the Syrian border with Turkey, it said in a statement on Wednesday. ...


Is Cory Gardner’s nice-guy persona enough to win in Colorado?

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 02:27 AM PDT

If Cory Gardner can't win in Colorado, who can? It's a question that's about more than just one candidate and one state — it's about the future of a Republican party that for the past decade has been pulled increasingly to the right, making truly purple states like Colorado appear blue by default. For as much as the Beltway pundit class talks about President Obama being a drag on down-ballot Democrats nationwide, it's the Republican party brand that could bring down Gardner in Colorado. And if Republicans miss taking back control of the Senate for the third consecutive time because they can't win in a state like Colorado in an off-year election under a president whose popularity has tanked, it won't be because Todd Akin moments — viral gaffes from hyperconservative candidates — took them down. It will be because average, independent voters have come to believe that the GOP is the party of Todd Akins.

Record number of black candidates seeking office

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 07:40 AM PDT

Graphic shows current racial and ethnic makeup of U.S. Congress.WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 100 black candidates will be on the ballot in statewide and congressional races next month, a post-Reconstruction record that some observers say is a byproduct of Barack Obama's historic presidency.


Hong Kong police drag activists away, clear tunnel

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 09:54 PM PDT

Police officers push the protesters out to a nearby park to clear the main roads outside government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Hundreds of Hong Kong police officers moved in early Wednesday to clear pro-democracy protesters out of a tunnel outside the city government headquarters in the latest escalation of tensions in a weekslong political crisis. Officers, many of them in riot gear and wielding pepper spray, tore down barricades and concrete slabs around the underpass. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)HONG KONG (AP) — Hundreds of Hong Kong police officers drove protesters from an underpass in the dead of night in the worst violence since the street demonstrations for greater democracy began more than two weeks ago.


Nurses: No Ebola protocol at Texas hospital

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 09:51 AM PDT

General view of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in DallasA nurses' union slams safety conditions at the hospital where a man died from the virus.


Feds could have done more in Dallas Ebola case, CDC director says

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:33 PM PDT

Ebola has haunted Dallas for more than two weeks, killing one man and infecting a nurse who was treating him. Now, CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden says the nation's health protection agency should have stepped in and taken control when the country's first Ebola case appeared in Dallas.

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