2014年1月29日星期三

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Study: One's 'weight fate' may be set by age 5

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:24 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 photo, Bryson Payne, 4, left, and his teacher Jacqualine Sanchez, center, play with pretend food in a pre-kindergarten class at the Sheltering Arms Learning Center in New York. Payne participated in a program that was produced in conjunction with Sesame Street to educate children about nutrition and health. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)Researchers eye window of opportunity from knowing which kids will develop obesity, when.


Defense team hails ruling on secret spy court documents

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:43 PM PST

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Marshal's office shows Adel Daoud, of Hillside, Ill. At a pretrial ruling Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in the terrorism case against Daoud, a federal judge in Chicago agreed to let the defense view government applications submitted to a foreign intelligence court seeking permission to conduct secret surveillance, in what the judge says is a first. Daoud has denied seeking to detonate a bomb in Chicago in 2012. The defense has pressed for details on how investigators employed the kind of phone and Internet spying revealed by ex-government contractor Edward Snowden. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshal's office, File)CHICAGO (AP) — The government can't keep secret its request to conduct clandestine surveillance of an accused attempted terrorist, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a decision that gives defense attorneys unprecedented access to records from a secret intelligence court.


Inside Josef Stalin's summer villa in Sochi

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 12:58 PM PST

Inside Josef Stalin's summer villa in SochiA general view of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin'­s Villa in Sochi, January 28, 2014. (REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk)

Crisis continues: Ukraine opposition says no to amnesty bill

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:29 PM PST

A Ukrainian demonstrator raises his fist as anti-government protesters gather at a road block in Kiev, on January 28, 2014Ukraine's opposition on Wednesday defiantly refused to back an amnesty bill that would free activists and ease the country's worst crisis since independence, as Germany urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to use his sway to push for dialogue. The amnesty bill was passed by parliament with the backing of the ruling Regions Party in a chaotic late night session, but opposition MPs refused to vote and it appears unlikely the law could mark any breakthrough in the standoff. President Viktor Yanukovych has granted several concessions to protesters who have packed the centre of Kiev for the last two months, including accepting the resignation of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.


Firefighters honor N.Y. boy who died saving six others

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:37 PM PST

Tyler DoohanFAIRPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Local firefighters have adopted as one of their own a 9-year-old boy who died saving six relatives from a fire that destroyed his grandfather's upstate New York home.


Obama signs order for 'myRA' savings plan

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 12:57 PM PST

President Barack Obama prepares to sign an executive order mandating that federal contractors be required to raise the minimum wage they pay their workers to $10.10, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, at the end of an appearance at the US Steel's Mon Valley Works in West Mifflin, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)President touts actions aimed at boosting personal finances of working class Americans.


Cruise ship passengers recall days of misery

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:11 PM PST

Passengers wave from the Explorer of the Seas cruise ship as it docks at a berth in Bayonne, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. The number of passengers and crew reported stricken ill on the cruise ship has risen to nearly 700. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday its latest count puts the number of those sickened aboard the Explorer of the Seas at 630 passengers and 54 crew members. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) — Passengers aboard a cruise ship on which hundreds fell ill recalled days of misery holed up in their rooms as it returned to its home port Wednesday from a Caribbean trip cut short by what is suspected to be among the largest such norovirus outbreaks in the last 20 years.


Iraqi gov't: Have you seen this man?

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 09:10 AM PST

A handout picture released by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior (MOI) shows a photograph purportedly of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an Al-Qaeda-linked group fighting in Iraq and SyriaThe Iraqi interior ministry Wednesday published a photograph purportedly of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an Al-Qaeda-linked group fighting in Iraq and Syria. The photograph, the first of its kind published by an official source, provides a rare glimpse of the man leading a militant group blamed for killing countless Iraqis, as well as fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "Intelligence forces have obtained a recent portrait of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and they also got three handwritten letters," said the statement accompanying the photograph, published on the ministry's website. Baghdadi's group has been blamed for a litany of attacks across Iraq in recent months, and ISIL has been involved in a deadly standoff with government forces in western Iraq's Anbar province.


Cruise ship pulls into N.J. port with hundreds of sick passengers

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:51 PM PST

The Royal Caribbean International's Explorer of the Seas is docked at Charlotte Amalie Harbor in St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014. U.S. health officials have boarded the cruise liner to investigate an illness outbreak that has stricken at least 300 people with gastrointestinal symptoms including vomiting and diarrhea. (AP Photo/Thomas Layer)BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) — Passengers aboard a cruise ship on which hundreds fell ill recalled days of misery holed up in their rooms as it returned to its home port Wednesday from a Caribbean trip cut short by what is suspected to be among the largest such norovirus outbreaks in the last 20 years.


Monarch butterflies hit lowest migration level since 1993

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:56 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2011 file photo, a Monarch butterfly perches on a tree at the Sierra Chincua Sanctuary in the mountains of Mexico's Michoacan state. The number of Monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico has plunged to its lowest level since studies began in 1993. A report released on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 by the World Wildlife Fund, Mexico's Environment Department and the Natural Protected Areas Commission blames the dramatic decline on the insect's loss of habitat due to illegal logging in Mexico's mountaintop forests and the massive displacement of its food source, the milkweed plant. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)MEXICO CITY (AP) — The stunning and little-understood annual migration of millions of Monarch butterflies to spend the winter in Mexico is in danger of disappearing, experts said Wednesday, after numbers dropped to their lowest level since record-keeping began in 1993.


Southerners share tales of epic gridlock

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:30 PM PST

Sunny Walker, a stranded motorist on Interstate 285, holds her dog in her truck Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 in Dunwoody, Ga. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said early Wednesday that the National Guard was sending military Humvees onto Atlanta's snarled freeway system in an attempt to move stranded school buses and get food and water to people. Georgia State Patrol troopers headed to schools where children were hunkered down early Wednesday after spending the night there, and transportation crews continued to treat roads and bring gas to motorists, Deal said. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)Helicopters search for stranded drivers after deadly storm paralyzes the Deep South.


Petition to deport Justin Bieber passes White House threshold

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:12 PM PST

Justin Bieber prepares to stand on his vehicle after exiting from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on January 23, 2014 in Miami, FloridaAs if Barack Obama didn't have enough problems to deal with already, his administration now is being asked to weigh in on the grave matter of Justin Bieber's bad behavior. By midday Wednesday (1700 GMT), a petition on the White House website calling for the deportation of the Canadian-born teen idol had garnered 103,000 names -- easily surpassing the threshold of 100,000 signatures required for presidential consideration. "We the people of the United States feel that we are being wrongly represented in the world of pop culture," says the petition, created by one "J.A." in Detroit on January 23, the day Bieber was busted in Miami Beach for impaired driving and illegal drag racing in a flashy Italian sports car. "We would like to see the dangerous, reckless, destructive and drug-abusing Justin Bieber deported and his green card revoked.


At least six die after winter storm in South

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:45 PM PST

Traffic is at a standstill on Interstate 65 northbound as officials work to clear abandoned vehicles Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 in Hoover, Ala. Overnight, the South saw fatal crashes and hundreds of fender-benders. Jackknifed 18-wheelers littered Interstate 65 in central Alabama. Ice shut down bridges on Florida's panhandle and the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, one of the world's longest spans, in Louisiana. Some commuters pleaded for help via cellphones while still holed up in their cars, while others trudged miles home, abandoning their vehicles outright. (AP Photo/Hal Yeager)Rare winter storm also stranded children in schools overnight and paralyzed travel.


Congressman apologizes for threatening reporter

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 08:38 AM PST

FILE- This May 9, 2012 file photo shows Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that Grimm, a former FBI agent, is under investigation for possible campaign finance violations, but said it is deferring the inquiry because of a separate Justice Department probe. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)It started out like dozens of other interviews after Tuesday night's State of the Union address. But when a reporter decided to press Rep. Michael Grimm on his personal campaign finances, the Republican congressman abruptly ended the interview with a violent threat.


Holder: Justice Department investigating Target data breach

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:59 PM PST

People shop at Target store during Black Friday sales in the Brooklyn borough of New YorkBy Lawrence Hurley and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. spy agency chiefs on Wednesday called on Congress to draft stricter requirements for how retailers and other private businesses should inform government agencies and customers about big breaches of personal and financial data. The intervention by intelligence chiefs came as Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that the Justice Department was investigating the massive hacking of consumer data from No. 3 U.S. retailer Target Corp during the holiday shopping season late last year. Also on Wednesday, several congressional committees signaled growing interest in recent data breaches, with the powerful House Oversight Committee scheduling a telephone briefing on Thursday with Target representatives. Separately, at Wednesday's threat hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, where the National Security Agency is headquartered, asked intelligence chiefs if media leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden had affected U.S. cybersecurity efforts.


Sochi chief: city is world's 'most secure venue'

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 10:24 AM PST

LONDON (AP) — After all the talk of terror threats, corruption, overspending and anti-gay legislation, the head of the Sochi Olympics is determined to show the world the games will be a huge success.

Georgia National Guard heads out to help stranded school kids

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:24 AM PST

A Dekalb County School bus sits abandoned on the Ashford Dunwoody exit off of Interstate 285, early Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Dunwoody, Ga. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said early Wednesday that the National Guard was sending military Humvees onto Atlanta's snarled freeway system in an attempt to move stranded school buses and get food and water to people. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal says the National Guard is sending military Humvees onto Atlanta's winter weather-snarled freeway system in an attempt to move stranded school buses and get food and water to people.


Syria weeks behind on weapons shipments

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:37 PM PST

One of two cargo ships intended to take part in a Danish-Norwegian mission to transport chemical agents out of Syria docks in LimassolThe nation has given up less than 5 percent of its arsenal and will miss a deadline.


Hero's welcome: Wounded veteran gets ovation

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 12:07 AM PST

** ADDS NAME OF FATHER AT LEFT ** Craig Remsburg, father of Army Ranger Sgt.1st Class Cory Remsburg, center, watches as his son acknowledges applause from first lady Michelle Obama and others during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Army Ranger Cory Remsburg inspires emotional high point for State of the Union address.


Never mess with 'the rock star of meteorologists' during a broadcast

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 04:51 PM PST

Weather Channel's Jim Cantore Knees Videobomber in GroinA rebellious teen tried to interrupt weatherman Jim Cantore's live broadcast. This is what happened next.


Bush speechwriter: Obama plagiarized State of the Union address

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 06:38 AM PST

President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Washington, as Vice President Joe Biden, and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, applaud. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)A former speechwriter for President George W. Bush accused President Barack Obama of plagiarizing one of Bush's speeches during Tuesday evening's State of the Union.


The buzziest moments from Obama's speech

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:43 PM PST

Army Ranger Sgt.1st Class Cory Remsburg acknowledges applause from first lady Michelle Obama and others during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)What do Americans think were the buzziest moments from Tuesday's State of the Union address? A military hero, "Mad Men" and House Speaker John Boehner's other title: "son of a barkeep."


Fact-checking the State of the Union address

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 07:25 PM PST

President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)A look at the realities behind some of President Obama's claims.


Obama executive omissions leave some allies angry

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:43 PM PST

President Barack Obama signs a memorandum directing the Treasury Department to create a new retirement saving account after speaking at the U.S. Steel Irvin Plant, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in West Mifflin, Pa., about retirement policies he highlighted in the State of the Union address. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — For some White House allies, the long list of executive actions President Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union address was marred by a few glaring omissions.


Popular wave could lift Egypt army chief to office

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:38 PM PST

ALTERNATE CROP - This undated 2006 photograph provided by the U.S. Army War College photo lab shows Egyptian Brig. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, in a group photo of the International Fellows class of 2006 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The head of Egypt's military, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, is riding on a wave of popular fervor that is almost certain to carry him to election as president. Unknown only two years ago, a broad sector of Egyptians now hail him as the nation's savior after he ousted the Islamists from power, and the state-backed personality cult around him is so eclipsing, it may be difficult to find a candidate to oppose him if he runs. Still, if he becomes president, he faces the tough job of ruling a deeply divided nation that has already turned against two leaders. (AP Photo/U.S. Army War College photo lab)CAIRO (AP) — Unknown only two years ago, the head of Egypt's military, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, is riding on a wave of popular fervor that is almost certain to carry him to election as president. Many Egyptians now hail him as the nation's savior after he ousted the Islamists from power and as the only figure strong enough to lead.


Big impact on income gap is health law's new angle

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:18 PM PST

This handout photo provided by the Brookings Institution, taken Jan. 13, 2012, shows Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution speaking in Washington. If the gap between haves and have-nots is the defining issue of President Barack Obama's second term, his health care overhaul was its first-term counterpart. Now it turns out the two are linked: new research shows that Obama's health care law will significantly boost the economic fortunes of people in the bottom fifth of the income ladder. Obama may be hard pressed to top his first-term accomplishment. (AP Photo/Ralph Alswang, Brooking Institution)WASHINGTON (AP) — Maybe the health care law was about wealth transfer, after all.


Ukraine lawmakers offer protester amnesty

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:22 PM PST

Protesters chant slogans at the barricade in central Kiev, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. Ukraine's parliament is considering measures to grant amnesty to those arrested during weeks of protests in the crisis-torn country, but possibly with conditions attached that would be unacceptable to the opposition. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday passed a measure offering amnesty to those arrested in two months of protests, but only if demonstrators vacate most of the buildings they occupy. The move was quickly greeted with contempt by the opposition.


Fed to reduce pace of bond buying by another $10B

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:46 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 25, 2012, file photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke arrives for a news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington. The tumultuous Ben Bernanke era at the Federal Reserve moves toward its close with the final policy meeting of his eight-year tenure scheduled for the last week of January 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Given the U.S. economy's growing strength, the Federal Reserve pushed ahead Wednesday with a plan to shrink its bond-buying program, even though the prospect of reduced stimulus and higher interest rates has rattled global markets.


Bieber turns self in on expected charge in Canada

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:57 PM PST

TORONTO (AP) — Justin Bieber has turned himself in to Toronto police for an expected assault charge.

After threat, NY rep. faces temperament questions

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:31 PM PST

FILE- This May 9, 2012 file photo shows Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grimm is defending his actions after he physically threatened a reporter at the Capitol after President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014. After cutting the interview short, Grimm told New York cable news station NY1's Michael Scotto, "You ever do that to me again I'll throw you off this (expletive) balcony." He also threatened to "break (Scotto) in half." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm has never been shy about promoting himself as a tough guy.


Police: Bieber to turn self in on charge in Canada

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:29 PM PST

TORONTO (AP) — A police official says Justin Bieber is expected to turn himself in to face an assault charge in Toronto.

French struggle to stop C. African Republic mobs

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:26 PM PST

Looters take down the metal roofs from the mosque at the Place de la Reconciliation in the Miskin district of Bangui, Central African Republic, Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014. Fighting between rival Muslim Seleka factions and Christian anti_Balaka militias continues, as two Muslim men were slaughtered by unknown assailants with machetes nearby, prompting French forces to fire warning shots in the air but not intervene to try to prevent the killings. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The French patrol in two armored personnel carriers showed up just as the bystanders started pulling out their mobile phones to photograph what moments ago had been a human being.


Bitterness of Syrian war on display at talks

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 12:04 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 picture, Syrian journalists argue with each other at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The bitterness and rancor stirred by Syria's civil war were on full display this week, both inside and outside the sealed room where rival delegations were seeking a way to end the conflict. In the hallways of the U.N.'s European headquarters and on the manicured lawns outside, tempers flared between supporters and opponents of President Bashar Assad.(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)GENEVA (AP) — The bitterness and rancor stirred by Syria's civil war were on full display this week at peace talks in Switzerland — and not just in the closed room where rival delegations are seeking a way to end the three-year conflict.


US Supreme Court lifts stay of Missouri execution

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 02:45 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2011 file photo released by the Missouri Department of Corrections is death-row inmate Herbert Smulls who is scheduled to die by injection one minute after midnight Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 for killing St. Louis County jeweler Stephen Honickman in 1991. The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate Herbert Smulls, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Justice Samuel Alito signed the order that was sent out Tuesday night after President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections)BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied last-minute requests to halt the execution of a Missouri man convicted of killing a local jeweler two decades ago.


Farm bill passes House after years of disagreement

Posted: 29 Jan 2014 12:30 PM PST

FILE - In this July 9, 2009 file photo three combines harvest the winter wheat on the Cooksey farm near Roggen, Colo. Farm-state lawmakers are pushing for final passage of the massive, five-year farm bill as it heads to the House floor Wednesday — member by member, vote by vote. There are goodies scattered through the bill for members from all regions of the country: a boost in money for crop insurance popular in the Midwest; higher cotton and rice subsidies for Southern farmers; renewal of federal land payments for Western states. There are cuts to the food stamp program — $800 million a year, or around 1 percent — for Republicans who say the program is spending too much money, but they are low enough that some Democrats will support them. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of setbacks, a nearly $100 billion-a-year compromise farm bill cleared the House on Wednesday despite strong opposition from conservatives who sought a bigger cut in food stamps.


State of the Union: Chat and watch live

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 05:38 PM PST

President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Washington, as Vice President Joe Biden, and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, listen. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)Watch the GOP response and discuss Obama's speech with Yahoo News' team of reporters.


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