2014年1月17日星期五

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NTSB: Pilots confused by wrong airport's lights

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 04:02 PM PST

Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 sits at the M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport in Hollister, Mo., Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. The plane was supposed to land at the nearby Branson Airport on Sunday evening, but instead landed at Clark Airport, also known as Taney County Airport, which has a much shorter runway than at Branson, about 7 miles away. (AP Photo/Springfield News-Leader, Valerie Mosley)Southwest pilots landed a 737 at landing strip about half the size of destination airport.


Federal judge sent hundreds of bigoted emails

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 04:13 PM PST

U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull is seen in this undated file photo provided by the United States District Court in Montana. Cebull, Montana's chief federal judge, will retire following an investigation into an email he forwarded that included a racist joke involving President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/United States District Court District of Montana, HO)HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A former Montana judge who was being investigated for forwarding a racist email involving President Barack Obama sent hundreds of other inappropriate messages from his federal email account, according to the findings of a judicial review panel released Friday.


Eight questions about Obama’s spying overhaul

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 10:43 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the National Security Agency from the Justice Department in WashingtonSpeech served mostly to feed, not resolve, big debates over NSA surveillance.


Dramatic photos of 1986 shuttle disaster found in attic

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 08:01 AM PST

Dramatic photos of 1986 shuttle disaster found in atticThe tragic launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on morning of January 28th, 1986. (Michael Hindes)

Afghanistan suicide attack kills up to 15

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 03:08 PM PST

Afghan security forces arrive at the scene of an explosion in KabulFour U.N. staff members are missing after a dinnertime bombing killed between 13 and 15 at a popular Kabul restaurant.


Company tied to W.Va. water contamination files for bankruptcy

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:35 PM PST

Company Involved in West Virginia Chemical Spill Files for BankruptcyFreedom Industries, the unfortunately named company whose chemical leak contaminated the water supply for parts of West Virginia, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday.  The Wall Street Journal reports official company papers from the meeting estimate their debt at roughly $10 million, which does not include the impending clean-up costs and lawsuits, which will no doubt be immense.


Vatican child abuse data: 400 priests defrocked in 2-year span

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 11:07 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI gestures to pilgrims on May 29, 2010, as he arrive in the Sala Nervi at the Vatican for a special audience to mark the 4th centenary of the death of the Italian priest Matteo RicciVATICAN CITY - A document obtained by The Associated Press shows Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests over just two years for molesting children.


Riddle of King Alfred the Great's remains may be solved

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 10:01 AM PST

A general view shows St Bartholmew's church in WinchesterLONDON - Researchers say they may have discovered remains of King Alfred the Great, the 9th-century royal remembered for protecting England from the Vikings and educating an untutored nation.


Deadly attack on popular Kabul restaurant

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 04:59 PM PST

NATO soldiers and Afghan policemen arrive at site of an explosion in KabulU.N. says four staffers missing after dinnertime suicide plot in diplomatic district.


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Drought emergency declared for California

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 09:31 AM PST

Calif. faces explosive drought conditionsCalifornia governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency on Friday, a move that will allow the parched state to seek federal aid as it grapples with what could turn out to be the driest year in recorded state history. "We can't make it rain, but we can be much better prepared for the terrible consequences that California's drought now threatens, including dramatically less water for our farms and communities and increased fires in both urban and rural areas," Brown said in a statement.


Cybercrime firm uncovers six active attacks on U.S. merchants

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:45 PM PST

The sign outside the Target store in ArvadaA cybercrime firm says it has uncovered at least six ongoing attacks at U.S. merchants whose credit card processing systems are infected with the same type of malicious software used to steal data from Target Corp. Andrew Komarov, chief executive of the cybersecurity firm IntelCrawler, told Reuters that his company has alerted law enforcement, Visa Inc and intelligence teams at several large banks about the findings. He said payment card data was stolen in the attacks, though he didn't know how much.


Obama: A 'new approach' to data collection

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 03:06 PM PST

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington. Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)President clips NSA's wings, but argues phone data must be held to protect America.


Kerry: World won't be fooled by Assad regime

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:39 AM PST

US Secretary of State John Kerry attends the opening ceremony of the Second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria, at Bayan palace in Kuwait City on January 15, 2014US Secretary of State John Kerry warned the Syrian regime Friday it would fail to divert next week's peace talks away from the aim of installing a new government. Accusing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of funding and even ceding territory to extremists in order to fuel fears of militant groups, Kerry said "nobody is going to be fooled." "They can bluster, they can protest, they can put out distortions, the bottom line is we are going to Geneva to implement Geneva I, and if Assad doesn't do that he will invite greater response," he said. Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have led moves to bring together the divided Syrian opposition and the Assad regime for the first time since the conflict erupted in March 2011.


Obama wants limits on NSA spying

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 08:37 AM PST

US President Barack Obama speaks about the National Security Agency (NSA) and intelligence agencies surveillance techniques at the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC, January 17, 2014The president calls for end of government's control of phone data from Americans.


Inspired by Mandela, Serena Williams rethinks tournament boycott

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 08:12 AM PST

Serena servesWorld number one Serena Williams Friday said she could end her 13-year boycott of the Indian Wells tournament after being inspired by Nelson Mandela. The American 32-year-old and her sister Venus have not played the event in the California desert since being booed in 2001. The capacity crowd was livid and made their feelings clear during the final against Kim Clijsters, booing Venus and her father Richard as they entered the stadium and Serena throughout the match.


Uganda's president opposes tough new anti-gay bill

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:32 AM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 file photo, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks during the London Summit on Family Planning organized by the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the United Nations Population Fund, in central London. Uganda's president said in a letter written late Dec. 2013 and published Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 in Kampala's Daily Monitor newspaper, that he opposes an anti-homosexuality bill recently passed by lawmakers and that "abnormal" people should not be jailed or killed, however a prominent Ugandan gay rights activist said there is "no celebration" over the president's opposition to the bill. (AP Photo/Carl Court, File, Pool)KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's president opposes an anti-gay bill passed by lawmakers that calls for life imprisonment for gays, even as he characterizes homosexuals as "abnormal" who should be rehabilitated, according to excerpts of his letter to the speaker of parliament.


GO FIGURE: Fed budget bill comes to $3M per word

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 08:02 AM PST

FILE -This Jan. 16, 2014 file photo shows a bipartisan group of Senator arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington for the Senate vote to approve a $1.1 trillion spending package, the Omnibus Appropriations Act, a bipartisan compromise that all but banishes the likelihood of an election-year government shutdown. From left are, Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas. Talk about words more costly than gold. The giant federal budget bill that Congress passed late Thursday will cost taxpayers nearly $3 million per word, or if you want to really think big almost $700 million per page. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Talk about words more costly than gold.


Crews chase flare-ups in California fire

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:42 AM PST

Map locates Glendora Calif., where a wildfire has forced the evacuation of over 2,000 residents and has burned at least two homes.; 1c x 2 inches; 46.5 mm x 50 mm;GLENDORA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters were chasing flare-ups Friday morning in a damaging wildfire that was largely tamed but kept thousands of people from their homes in the foothill suburbs northeast of Los Angeles.


Judge spikes photo ID requirement for Pa. voters

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 01:32 PM PST

Gov. Tom Corbett listens to a question during a news conference Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in Philadelphia. Gov. A nearly 2-year-old requirement that almost all of Pennsylvania's 8.2 million voters must show photo identification before casting a ballot was struck down Friday by a state judge, setting the stage for a courtroom showdown before the state's highest court. The law, one of the strictest in the nation, was approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by Corbett in March 2012 over the protests of every single Democratic lawmaker. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge on Friday struck down a requirement that nearly all of the state's 8.2 million voters show photo identification at the polls, saying it imposes an unreasonable burden on the right to vote and that officials failed to demonstrate the need for it.


Palace: Queen's granddaughter Zara has baby girl

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:21 AM PST

FILE - Zara Phillips and her husband rugby player Mike Tindall in this file photo dated Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, as they arrive for a traditional Christmas Day church service in Sandringham, England. Buckingham Palace announced Friday Jan, 17, 2014, that Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall have given birth to a 7 pounds, 12 ounces (3.5 kilograms) baby girl at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Zara Phillips has given birth to a baby girl, Buckingham Palace said Friday. The child is 16th in line to the British throne.


Happy birthday for Michelle Obama, who turns 50

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:20 AM PST

First lady Michelle Obama speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 . Michelle Obama is celebrating her 50th birthday Friday. The first lady was spending the day out of sight, with no scheduled public appearances after back-to-back events at the White House this week. A big birthday bash is on tap for Saturday night at the White House. President Barack Obama has been involved in planning it. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama is celebrating her 50th birthday Friday.


Pa. couple advertises home as 'slightly haunted'

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 03:36 AM PST

This December 2013 photo shows the 1901 Victorian home at 1217 Marion St. in Dunmore, Pa. Pennsylvania homeowners Gregory and Sandi Leeson are thoroughly creeped out by their 113-year-old Victorian home. So, when they put the house up for sale last month, they advertised it as DUNMORE, Pa. (AP) — Between the mysteriously banging doors, the odd noises coming from the basement, and the persistent feeling that someone is standing behind them, homeowners Gregory and Sandi Leeson are thoroughly creeped out by their 113-year-old Victorian.


French president visits hospitalized first lady

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:24 AM PST

FILE - In this May 5, 2012 file photo, French Socialist Party candidate for the presidential election Francois Hollande, right, offers a rose to his companion Valerie Trierweiler, in Tulle, southwestern France. The woman considered France's first lady was hospitalized after a report the president is having an affair with an actress, her office said Sunday, as a poll was released showing the French shrugging off any liaison as none of their business. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File)PARIS (AP) — President Francois Hollande has visited France's first lady for the first time since she was hospitalized late last week after a gossip magazine reported he was having an affair with an actress.


Cuban travel in record numbers a year into reform

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:40 AM PST

HAVANA (AP) — Last February, Amalia Reigosa Blanco experienced for the first time the rush of an airplane taking off. She browsed the clothing shops of Italy's fashion capital, and strolled cobblestone streets echoing with an unfamiliar tongue. She learned what snow feels like.

Djokovic, Williams into 4th round in Australia

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:47 AM PST

Novak Djokovic of Serbia makes a forehand return to Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan during their third round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014.(AP Photo/Andrew Brownbill)MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic extended his winning streak to 27 matches and stayed on track for a fourth consecutive Australian Open title with a 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 win Friday over Denis Istomin.


Explosion hits Bangkok protesters, wounding dozens

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:18 AM PST

An injured anti-government protester is helped by his fellow protesters after he was hit by a bomb blast during the march with leader Suthep Thaugsuban in downtown Bangkok, Thailand Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. Dozens of people were wounded in Thailand's capital Friday when an explosion hit anti-government demonstrators marching through Bangkok in some of the bloodiest violence reported this year. (AP Photo/Daily News) THAILAND OUTBANGKOK (AP) — Dozens of people were wounded in Thailand's capital Friday when a grenade blast ripped through a crowd of marching anti-government demonstrators, an ominous development that raises tensions in the country's political crisis and the specter of more bloodshed to come.


Google contact lens could be option for diabetics

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:34 AM PST

This undated photo released by Google shows a contact lens Google is testing to explore tear glucose. After years of scalding soldering hair-thin wires to miniaturize electronics, Brian Otis, Google X project lead, has burned his fingertips so often that he can no longer feel the tiny chips he made from scratch in Google's Silicon Valley headquarters, a small price to pay for what he says is the smallest wireless glucose sensor that has ever been made. (AP Photo/Google)MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Brian Otis gingerly holds what looks like a typical contact lens on his index finger. Look closer. Sandwiched in this lens are two twinkling glitter-specks loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturized transistors. It's ringed with a hair-thin antenna. Together these remarkable miniature electronics can monitor glucose levels in tears of diabetics and then wirelessly transmit them to a handheld device.


Prince Harry ends role as helicopter pilot

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:14 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2012, file photo Britain's Prince Harry makes his early morning pre-flight checks on the flight-line, from Camp Bastion southern Afghanistan. Palace officials say that Prince Harry is ending his role as a helicopter pilot and taking up a new job with the army in London. Kensington Palace said Harry — known in the army as Capt. Wales — will now be organizing "major commemorative events" involving the army. (AP Photo/ John Stillwell, Pool)LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is ending his role as a helicopter pilot and taking up a new job with the army in London, royal officials said Friday.


'Agonizing' execution puts new focus on capital punishment

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 06:16 AM PST

FILE-In this undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Dennis McGuire. A condemned Ohio killer facing a never-tried lethal injection method has arrived at the state death house a day ahead of his scheduled execution. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction plans to use a combination of a sedative and a painkiller to put McGuire to death for the 1989 rape and fatal stabbing of Joy Stewart in Preble County in western Ohio. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, File)LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's capital punishment system is likely to face new challenges following an unusually long execution in which the condemned man appeared to gasp several times.


Record number of rhinos poached in South Africa in 2013

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:52 AM PST

To match Feature AFRICA-POACHING/By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than 1,000 rhinos were poached for their horns in South Africa in 2013, a record number and an increase of over 50 percent from the previous year, the country's department of environmental affairs said on Friday. The data is sure to ring conservation alarm bells about a downward population spiral in a country that is home to almost all of Africa and the world's rhinos, and it may bring renewed pressure on the government to do something to halt the slayings. In 2013, 1,004 of the massive animals were illegally killed in South Africa, compared with 668 the previous year and 448 in 2011. Most of the killings are taking place in South Africa's flagship Kruger National Park, which lost 606 rhinos last year and 425 in 2012.


Surgeon general adds to list of smoking's harms

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:32 AM PST

A woman is seen smoking a cigarette at the Times Square in New York, on May 23, 2011WASHINGTON (AP) — It's no secret that smoking causes lung cancer. But what about diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, erectile dysfunction? Fifty years into the war on smoking, scientists still are adding diseases to the long list of cigarettes' harms — even as the government struggles to get more people to kick the habit.


Conservative group targets Hispanics

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:09 AM PST

LIBRE Initiative Executive Director Daniel GarzaThe effort includes a seven-figure ad campaign against Democratic lawmakers.


Player in NJ bridge scandal will talk for immunity

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:33 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie arrives to deliver his State Of The State address at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. Christie, eager to get on with business amid a scandal over traffic jams that appear to have manufactured by aides, is meeting Thursday morning, Jan. 16, 2014, with homeowners affected by Superstorm Sandy even as the Legislature prepares to issue new subpoenas as part of its investigation. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The former appointee of Gov. Chris Christie who directed lane closures that backed up traffic for hours in one New Jersey town is reiterating that he is ready to share more information if he can be granted immunity from prosecution.


Japan WWII soldier who hid in jungle until 1974 dies

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 02:42 AM PST

Map of the Philippines locating Lubang island, where a Japanese World War II soldier hid in the jungle for three decadesA Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for three decades, refusing to believe World War II was over until his former commander returned and ordered him to surrender, has died in Tokyo aged 91. Hiroo Onoda waged a guerilla campaign in Lubang Island near Luzon until he was finally persuaded in 1974 that peace had broken out, ignoring leaflet drops and successive attempts to convince him the Imperial Army had been defeated. He and three other soldiers continued to obey that order long after Japan's 1945 defeat. Their existence became widely known in 1950, when one of their number emerged and returned to Japan.


'Seeds of genocide' in Central African Republic, U.N. warns

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 04:57 PM PST

Angry men point at AU soldiers at Gobongo district in BanguiBy Emmanuel Braun and Tom Miles BANGUI/GENEVA (Reuters) - A senior U.N. official warned of the risk of genocide in Central African Republic without a more robust international response to communal bloodshed in which at least 20 more people were killed on Thursday. More than a million people have been displaced by the violence since Seleka installed their leader Michel Djotodia as interim president. Over 1,000 people were killed last month alone in the capital Bangui, prompting neighboring countries to evacuate more than 30,000 of their citizens. There has been relative calm since Djotodia resigned last week under intense international pressure, but sporadic violence has persisted in Bangui.


L.A.-area wildfire partly contained

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 06:09 PM PST

Mark Davis gives a thumbs-up toward a helicopter as he sprays water around his property, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, in Azusa, Calif. A wildfire burned out of control near homes in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains early Thursday, fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds that spit embers into neighborhoods in the city below, igniting trees. Evacuations were ordered for houses at the edge of the fire. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Authorities plan to reopen evacuated neighborhoods after winds die down.


Driver cited for wearing Google Glass beats ticket in court

Posted: 16 Jan 2014 05:44 PM PST

FILE - Cecilia Abadie wears her Google Glass as she talks with her attorney outside of traffic court in this Dec. 3, 2013 file photo taken in San Diego. The California woman believed to be the first cited for wearing Google's computer-in-an-eyeglass while driving says she was within her rights and violated no law. The case to be tried Thursday Jan. 16, 2014 in a San Diego traffic court could help shape future laws on wearable technology as it goes mainstream. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego traffic court threw out a citation Thursday against a woman believed to be the first motorist in the country ticketed for driving while wearing a Google Glass computer-in-eyeglass device.


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