2014年2月13日星期四

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Son-in-law arrested in package explosion deaths

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 03:49 PM PST

Package Explodes, Killing Tenn. Lawyer at HomePolice do not reveal motive in murder of Tennessee couple in their 70s that shocked neighbors.

Valentine on ice: Chinese curler to root against S. Korean wife

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Winter storms threaten to chill U.S. economy

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 01:11 PM PST

In this Monday, Jan. 13, 2014 photo, shoppers check out the sale at an ALDO store in the Mall at Robinson, in Robinson Township, Pa. The U.S. Commerce Department reports on spending at retail businesses and restaurants in January, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)WASHINGTON (AP) — The winter storms barreling across much of the United States are undercutting the nation's economy just when signs of stronger growth had begun to emerge.

TV self-parody? Consumer advocates jump on Comcast mega-deal

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 01:53 PM PST

Cast Of "30 Rock" Visits "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon"NEW YORK (AP) — Where is "30 Rock" when you need it?

Feds open criminal probe into coal ash spill

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 12:28 PM PST

Didi Fung, a contractor for the Environmental Protection Agency, collects water samples from the Dan River as state and federal environmental officials continued their investigations of a spill of coal ash into the Dan River in Eden, N.C., Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. Duke Energy estimates that up to 82,000 tons of ash has been released from a break in a 48-inch storm water pipe at the Dan River Power Plant on Sunday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)Duke Energy plant in N.C. spewed enough toxic sludge to fill 73 Olympic-sized pools.

U.S. delegate to Sochi: We didn't feel backlash

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 11:59 AM PST

Former United States hockey player Caitlin Cahow, second from right, speaks during a news conference with fellow members of the U.S. delegation, from left, former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and current President of the University of California, Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Robert Nabors, and Olympic gold medal figure skater Brian Boitano, ahead of the opening ceremony at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)Caitlin Cahow and other gay athletes sent to Olympics in apparent protest over Russian laws.

NYC's new mayor fends off angry kids over snow day

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 10:51 AM PST

Boy tries to catch snow on his tongue while walking with his father in the Park Slope area of the Brooklyn borough of New YorkMayor Bill de Blasio has been on the job for only six weeks, but has already thoroughly alienated one constituency.

Detroit: Beauty in the ruins for some, anger for others

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 10:21 AM PST

Inside the ruins of DetroitPeople from all over the world have descended on Detroit to explore and photograph its empty buildings, but locals worry the obsession over "ruin porn" could hurt the city's image as it navigates its way out of bankruptcy.

Amazing macro views of snowflakes

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 08:13 AM PST

Amazing macro views of snowflakesAn amazing macro snowflake. (Valeriya Zvereva/CATERS NEWS)

Cupid is cleared for landing in Miami

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 02:31 PM PST

In this Jan. 9, 2014 photo, a load of flowers is rushed to a cooling unit at the Miami International Airport. In the weeks leading up to Valentine's Day, about 738 million flowers come through the airport. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)At Valentine's Day, 85 percent of U.S. flower imports come through the Florida airport.

Snowden used password from NSA staffer: intelligence memo

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 05:48 AM PST

Protestors hold up placards featuring a picture of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and with the world Asylum on it during a march against the spying methods of the US in Hamburg, northern Germany on December 28, 2013A National Security Agency employee was stripped of his security clearance for unknowingly giving Edward Snowden access to his password, NBC News reports.

'It's a godawful thing'

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 08:47 AM PST

Snow blankets a street in downtown Birmingham, Ala., on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. Snow and ice covered the northern half of the state, forcing authorties to close roads and prompting another day of school and business closings. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)Schools close, flights are canceled as another winter storm hits Northeast.

In New York, real populism and real choices

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 03:55 AM PST

NY Cuomo di BlasioDemocrats across the U.S. should take note of the intraparty breach in the state.

Suspense in Senate: Debt vote shrouded in secrecy

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 03:56 PM PST

In this Feb. 12, 2014, photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., from left, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, talk as they wait in the majority leader's office, for a meting King Abdullah II of Jordan, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The meeting came after lawmakers voted on must-pass legislation to increase the government's debt limit and after their leaders decided to drop the parliamentary equivalent of a curtain on the voting until its outcome was assured (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — Financial markets were watching, the retirement accounts of millions of Americans on the line.

Syria strikes kill 400 so far this month in Aleppo

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 02:15 PM PST

Syrian citizens ride in the back of a truck with their belongings after fleeing Yabroud, the last rebel stronghold in Syria's mountainous Qalamoun region, as they drive towards the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Arsal in eastern Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. Syrian troops pounded Thursday the town of Yabroud the last rebel stronghold in Syria's mountainous Qalamoun region, forcing hundreds to flee into the nearby Lebanese town of Arsal. Backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters, the Syrian army has been on a crushing offensive in the region since early December. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)GENEVA (AP) — The United States and Russia promised to try to break the stalemate in Syria peace talks, a U.N. mediator said Thursday, as Syrian activists said government shelling and airstrikes with makeshift barrel bombs killed about 400 people in the country's largest city so far this month.

Former pediatrician convicted of waterboarding

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 04:43 PM PST

FILE - Melvin L. Morse is seen in an undated file photo provided by the Delaware State Police. Morse will resume testifying Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, in his trial on endangerment and assault charges. The former pediatrician is accused of waterboarding his longtime companion's daughter by holding the girl's head under a faucet. (AP Photo/Delaware State Police, File)GEORGETOWN, Del. (AP) — A pediatrician known for his research on paranormal science and near-death experiences with children was convicted Thursday of waterboarding the daughter of his longtime companion by holding her head under a faucet.

Son-in-law arrested in Tenn. package bomb deaths

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 04:55 PM PST

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The son-in-law of a Tennessee couple killed when a package exploded at their home has been charged with first-degree murder in their deaths.

Landowner to decide fate of Seattle mammoth tusk

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 03:31 PM PST

Workers build forms Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, around the area at a construction site in Seattle where what is believed to be an ice age mammoth tusk was discovered on Tuesday. Work pouring cement at the site was continuing, but workers blocked off the area where the tusk was found. Paleontologists from the University of Washington hope to move the tusk to a museum on campus. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)SEATTLE (AP) — The fate of the mammoth tusk found at a construction site in downtown Seattle this week is entirely up to the landowner, a national expert said Thursday.

More talking, longer sentences help babies' brains

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 04:21 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The sooner you start explaining the world to your baby, the better.

Minaj uses Malcolm X, racial slur in cover art

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 04:11 PM PST

FILE - This Nov. 2, 2013 file photo shows hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj at the Power 105.1's Powerhouse Concert at the Barclays Center in New York. Minaj is being criticized after using a photo of Malcolm X with a gun in his hands, juxtaposed with a racial slur, for her new single. Minaj posted the photo Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, on her website and Instagram page. The rapper was bashed on social media for the using the famous image of the black nationalist, assassinated 49 years ago this month on her single cover. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Nicki Minaj has apologized for using a famous photo of Malcolm X with a rifle in his hands and juxtaposing it with a racial slur for her new song.

Drake: Done with interviews after Rolling Stone

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 03:24 PM PST

FILE - This Dec. 18, 2013 file photo shows rapper Drake on the last date of his "Would You Like A Tour? 2013" at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Drake says he won't do interviews with magazines following his recent story in Rolling Stone magazine. The rapper was supposed to cover the magazine's new issue, but was replaced with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. Drake tweeted Thursday he's NEW YORK (AP) — Drake lashed out at Rolling Stone after the magazine replaced him on the cover with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and quoted the rapper criticizing some of Kanye West's lyrics.

APNewsBreak: New gender options for Facebook users

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 01:08 PM PST

In this Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison demonstrates expanded options for gender identification at her company's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. Harrison, who helped engineer the project, plans to switch her identifier to "Trans Woman." (AP Photo/Noah Berger)MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — You don't have to be just male or female on Facebook anymore. The social media giant has added a customizable option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender as well as three preferred pronoun choices: him, her or them.

Plushenko retires after injury at Sochi Olympics

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 11:36 AM PST

Evgeni Plushenko of Russia, right, and his coach Alexei Mishin leave after Plushenko pulled out of the men's short program figure skating competition due to illness at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)SOCHI, Russia (AP) — From wild cheers to stunned silence, the Sochi Olympics said goodbye Thursday to one of figure skating's all-time greats.

AP PHOTOS: Fun in the sun for Sochi athletes

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 12:25 PM PST

A volunteer enjoys the warming sun beside a writing reading 'Sochi 2014 - Hot. Cool. Yours' prior to the women's 10K classical-style cross-country race at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)An Olympic skier competes wearing a tank top. Bare-chested spectators cheer on Canada during the men's ski slopestyle qualifier. Construction workers dress after taking a dip in the Black Sea. Is this Sochi or SoCal?

Officials asking how bobsled crashed into worker

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 12:49 PM PST

A track worker is loaded into an ambulance after he was injured when a forerunner bobsled hit him just before the start of the men's two-man bobsled training at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Olympic officials are trying to determine why a worker on the track used for sliding sports at the Sochi Games was in the path of a speeding bobsled that crashed into him, causing leg injuries and a concussion.

Karzai: US must respect Afghan sovereignty

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 07:11 AM PST

In this photo released by the Turkish Presidency Press Office, Turkish Abdullah Gul, second right, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, second left, and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pose for cameras after their meeting in Ankara, Turkey. Karzai and Sharif are in Turkey for the 8th Afghanistan-Pakistan-Turkey Trilateral Summit.(AP Photo/Murat Cetinmuhurdar, Turkish Presidency Press Office, HO)ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the United States must stop "harassing" his country's judicial authority and "respect Afghanistan's sovereignty" over its release of prisoners.

Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 06:56 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2009 file photo, a Time Warner Cable truck is parked in New York. Comcast has agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion in stock, or $158.82 per share, in a deal that would combine the top two cable TV companies in the nation, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity because it had not been announced formally. An announcement is set for Thursday morning, Feb. 13, 2014, the person said. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comcast Corp. will buy Time Warner Cable Inc. for about $45.2 billion in a deal that would combine the nation's top two cable TV companies and create a dominant force in creating and delivering entertainment.

Kentucky gas explosion injures 2, destroys homes

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Winter storm slams Southeast, heads north

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 03:29 PM PST

Slow moving motorists are seen on a freeway leaving downtown Charlotte as snow continues to fall in CharlotteA powerful storm cripples travel, grounds flights, and knocks out power to 363,000 people.

Vicious winter storm slams Northeast

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More than 5,600 flights have been canceled nationwide.

Comcast plans to acquire Time Warner

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 12:21 PM PST

A cable truck returns to a Time Warner Cable office in San Diego, CaliforniaThe deal between the two cable giants could be worth $45.2 billion, sources say.

Afghanistan frees detainees US calls 'dangerous'

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 01:09 PM PST

FILE – This Sept. 27, 2010, file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, shows a U.S. military guard walking a corridor between detainee cells at the Parwan detention facility near Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan official says the government has freed 65 accused militants from a former U.S. prison despite protests from the American military, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. The U.S. has called the men "dangerous" fighters who will likely return to the battlefield to kill coalition and Afghan forces. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Disregarding heated American protests, Afghanistan released 65 accused militants from a former U.S. prison on Thursday, despite warnings that the men are dangerous Taliban fighters and bomb-makers likely to return to killing foreign forces and Afghans.

Sinkhole swallows cars at Corvette Museum in Ky.

Posted: 12 Feb 2014 04:57 PM PST

In this image provided by the National Corvette Museum shows several cars that collapsed into a sinkhole Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Bowling Green, Ky. The museum said a total of eight cars were damaged when a sinkhole opened up early Wednesday morning inside the museum. (AP Photo/National Corvette Museum, HO)BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — It was a sight to make a classic car lover weep: A gaping sinkhole opened beneath the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky and swallowed eight prized cars like they were toys, piling them in a heap amid loose dirt and concrete fragments.

One dead in violent Venezuela protests

Posted: 12 Feb 2014 03:22 PM PST

Opposition demonstrators block a street during a protest against Venezuela's President Maduro's government in CaracasBy Daniel Wallis and Diego Ore CARACAS (Reuters) - At least two people were shot dead on Wednesday during anti-government protests in Caracas, escalating the worst bout of unrest in Venezuela since turmoil after President Nicolas Maduro's election last year. The deaths illustrated the South American OPEC nation's deep political divide and volatility almost a year after the death of former socialist leader Hugo Chavez. Government officials said a Maduro supporter and one other person were killed amid chaotic scenes as a march against Maduro's government and a rally to support the president ended just a few blocks apart in the city center. With both sides blaming each other for the violence, the opposition said two student protesters had died, but there was no official confirmation.

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