2014年3月18日星期二

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Republicans confident about Senate takeover

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:08 PM PDT

RNC Chairman Reince PriebusBut would mid-term success translate to a GOP presidential victory in 2016?

Journey to the Medal of Honor

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 01:28 PM PDT

Journey to the Medal of HonorSgt. First Class Jose Rodela is awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. President Obama awarded 24 Army veterans the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in recognition of their valor during major combat operations in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Thailand defends 'bizarre' delay in reporting radar blips

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 02:50 PM PDT

Visitors are silhouetted against a slideshow of best wishes for the missing Malaysia Airline, MH370, during an event at a shopping mall, in Petaling Jaya, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. A coalition of 26 countries, including Thailand, are looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished March 8 with 239 people aboard on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Search crews are scouring two giant arcs of territory amounting to the size of Australia — half of it in the remote seas of the southern Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Ten days after a Malaysian jetliner disappeared, Thailand's military said Tuesday it saw radar blips that might have been from the missing plane but didn't report it "because we did not pay attention to it."

Obama honors 24 overlooked war vets

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:07 PM PDT

President Barack Obama applauds, from left, Staff Sgt. Melvin Morris, Sgt. 1st Class Jose Rodela, and Spc. Santiago J. Erevia after he awarded them with the Medal of Honor during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. President Obama awarded 24 Army veterans the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in recognition of their valor during major combat operations in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)Medals of Honor given to servicemen from 3 wars after past was examined for prejudice.

Washington Post: NSA has telephone 'time machine' program

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 01:10 PM PDT

FILE - This Thursday, June 6, 2013, file photo, shows a sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. A federal judge in San Francisco stopped the destruction Monday, March 10, 2014, of millions of telephone records collected by the National Security Agency more than five years ago. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has been recording all of a foreign country's phone calls, then listening to the conversations up to a month later, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Outrage in Italy after thieves steal part of Pompeii fresco

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 12:39 PM PDT

The Modesto way, where a custodian doing rounds last week discovered that "a part of a fresco in the House of Neptune had been removed" is pictured on March 18, 2014Thieves have stolen part of an ancient fresco from Pompeii, breaking in to a closed area of the UNESCO World Heritage landmark and chipping off a portrait of a Greek deity. A custodian doing rounds last week discovered "the removal of a part of a fresco in the House of Neptune," where a depiction of the goddess Artemis had been "chiseled off with a metallic object," the Roman site's curator department said in a statement Tuesday. The discovery sparked outrage in Italy, with newspaper Il Messaggero describing it as "a shame for the country", made doubly embarrassing by the recent appointment of a new superintendent for the site. The European Union's Culture Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou said she was "truly saddened" by the theft, telling ANSA news agency that the robbers "have stolen a priceless patrimony which belongs to all citizens, Italian and European, and future generations".

Okla. executions rescheduled due to lack of drugs

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:12 PM PDT

Execution Drug Oklahoma LawsuitOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma court on Tuesday rescheduled a pair of executions set for this week and next so state prison officials will have more time to find a supply of drugs for the lethal injections.

Obama to honor 24 overdue Medal of Honor recipients

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 05:45 AM PDT

'Better Late Than Never': Awarding 24 Belated Medals of HonorRecipient Melvin Morris recounts his actions of valor in Vietnam

Crimea conflict enters military stage

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:14 AM PDT

Self-Defense activists perform military exercises at a military training ground outside Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, March 17, 2014. Ukraine's parliament on Monday voted partial mobilization in response to Russia's invasion onto the Ukrainian territory. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Ukraine PM accuses Russia of committing a "war crime" by firing on servicemen.

GM CEO apologizes amid growing recall scandal

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:04 PM PDT

GM Offers $500 Cash for Recalled CarsAutomaker is facing intense criticism over deaths tied to delayed recall of 1.6M cars.

Malaysia Airlines expert weighs in on missing plane theories

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U.S. suspends diplomatic relations with Syria

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 08:23 AM PDT

A Syrian refugee girl shout slogans as she holds pictures of Syria's President Assad and Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Nasrallah during a celebration at Marj al-Khokh refugee camp near Marjayoun villageWASHINGTON (AP) — A senior State Department official says the Syrian government has been told it must immediately suspend its diplomatic and consular missions in the United States.

Seattle Fire Dept.: Two dead after TV helicopter crash

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 08:10 AM PDT

In this photo provided by KOMO-TV, a car burns at the scene of a helicopter crash outside the KOMO-TV studios near the space needle in Seattle on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. The station says the helicopter was apparently coming in for a landing on its rooftop Tuesday morning when it possibly hit the side of the building and went down, hitting several vehicles on Broad Street. (AP Photo/KOMO-TV, Kelly Koopmans) MANDATORY CREDIT: KOMO-TVSpirals of smoke could be seen from the scene near the Space Needle.

'Crimea has always been...part of Russia'

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 02:17 PM PDT

Russian President Putin addresses the Federal Assembly at the Kremlin in MoscowDefiant of the West, Putin signs a treaty to annex part of the Ukraine.

Thai radar: Malaysia airliner followed a twisting path to Strait of Malacca

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 06:36 AM PDT

A woman writes her a message of support for family members of passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in SepangBANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's military said Tuesday that its radar detected a plane that may have been Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 just minutes after the jetliner's communications went down, and that it didn't share the information with Malaysia earlier because it wasn't specifically asked for it.

Retired Pope Benedict critiqued Francis' interview

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 07:59 AM PDT

FILE -- In this Dec. 23, 2013 picture provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, left, welcomes Pope Francis as they exchanged Christmas greetings, at the Vatican. When Pope Benedict XVI abdicated, he insisted he would remain "hidden from the world" in prayer. But Francis has slowly coaxed him out of retirement and giving him an increasily public role in the church, believing that he like all elderly have something to offer and shouldn't be holed up in a museum like a "statue." (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)VATICAN CITY (AP) — The man who serves two popes has revealed that retired Pope Benedict XVI wrote four pages of critique and commentary on Pope Francis's landmark interview in which he blasted the church's obsession with "small-minded" rules.

TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau gets 10-year sentence

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 05:26 PM PDT

Kevin Trudeau sentenced to 10 years in criminal contempt caseCHICAGO (AP) — Best-selling author Kevin Trudeau, whose name became synonymous with late-night TV pitches, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for bilking consumers through ubiquitous infomercials for his book, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About."

China finds no terror link to its nationals on missing jet

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 12:53 AM PDT

Passengers use self check-in machines at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Checks into the background of all the Chinese nationals on board the missing Malaysian jetliner have uncovered no links to terrorism, the Chinese ambassador in Kuala Lumpur said Tuesday. The remarks will dampen speculation that Uighur Muslim separatists in far western Xinjiang province might have been involved with the disappearance of the Boeing 777 and its 239 passengers and crew early on March 8. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Checks into the background of all the Chinese nationals on board the missing Malaysian jetliner have uncovered no links to terrorism, the Chinese ambassador in Kuala Lumpur said Tuesday.

Ukraine grapples with despair in Crimea takeover

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:40 PM PDT

An elderly woman holds a calendar depicting Soviet leader Josef Stalin while watching a broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech on Crimea in Sevastopol, Crimea, Tuesday, March 18, 2014, as thousands of pro-Russian people gathered to watch the address. Fiercely defending Russia's move to annex Crimea Putin said Russia had to respond to what he described as a western plot to take Ukraine into its influence.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's leadership simmered with a mix of hopelessness and anger at losing Crimea, tempering an influx of eager young men signing up as reservists with the growing certainty that no savior would deliver them from the Russian takeover.

Putin signs treaty to add Crimea to map of Russia

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:17 PM PDT

People rally in support of Crimea joining Russia, with banners and portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin, reading "We are together," in Red Square in Moscow, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. With a sweep of his pen, President Vladimir Putin added Crimea to the map of Russia on Tuesday, describing the move as correcting past injustice and responding to what he called Western encroachment upon Russia's vital interests. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)MOSCOW (AP) — In a gilded Kremlin hall used by czars, Vladimir Putin redrew Russia's borders Tuesday by declaring the Crimean Peninsula part of the motherland — provoking a surge of emotion among Russians who lament the loss of empire and denunciations from Western leaders who called Putin a threat to the world.

Investigators comb scene of deadly chopper crash

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 04:52 PM PDT

Caution tape surrounds the charred wreckage of a news helicopter and two vehicles after the chopper crashed into a city street near the Space Needle, Tuesday, March 18, 2014, in Seattle. Two people were killed and another critically injured. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)SEATTLE (AP) — A news helicopter crashed into a street and burst into flames Tuesday near Seattle's Space Needle, killing both people on board, badly injuring a man in a car and sending plumes of black smoke over the city during the morning commute.

Illinois GOP voters seek to upend political order

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:46 PM PDT

Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary candidate Bruce Rauner answers questions after voting on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, in Winnetka, Ill. Rauner faces State Sen. Bill Brady, State Sen. Kirk Dillard and State Treasurer Dan Rutherford in the primary election. (AP Photo/Andrew A. Nelles)CHICAGO (AP) — With a hunger to reclaim the governor's office, Republican voters set out Tuesday to shake up Illinois' Democratic-dominated political order, energized by candidates' talk of taking on unions, unseating "career politicians" and righting the state's troubled finances.

Woods pulls out of Bay Hill because of back pain

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:14 PM PDT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods withdrew from the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Tuesday because of persistent pain in his back, creating even more uncertainty for golf's No. 1 player with the Masters only three weeks away.

Fueled by Syrian war, hostilities surge in Lebanon

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 01:38 PM PDT

A Sunni protestor carries tires as a fire set by Sunni protesters burns on a major roadway between Beirut and the capital's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, to show support for residents of the Sunni town of Arsal, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Gunmen from Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group and local Shiite Muslim residents tightened their blockade of a Sunni town of Arsal near the Syrian border Tuesday, sparking concerns that thousands of Syrian refugees stranded in the area could be cut off from humanitarian aid. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)BEIRUT (AP) — Sunni Muslim demonstrators used burning tires to close key roads across Lebanon Tuesday to protest a blockade of their brethren by Shiite gunmen, officials said, as the country struggles to keep a lid on simmering sectarian tensions enflamed by the civil war in neighboring Syria.

Investigators examine fatal helicopter crash scene

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:43 PM PDT

In this photo provided by KOMO-TV, a car burns at the scene of a helicopter crash outside the KOMO-TV studios near the space needle in Seattle on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. The station says the helicopter was apparently coming in for a landing on its rooftop Tuesday morning when it possibly hit the side of the building and went down, hitting several vehicles on Broad Street. (AP Photo/KOMO-TV, Kelly Koopmans) MANDATORY CREDIT: KOMO-TVSEATTLE (AP) — A news helicopter crashed into a street and burst into flames Tuesday near Seattle's Space Needle, killing two people on board, badly injuring a man in a car and sending plumes of black smoke over the city during the morning commute.

West looks for fresh ways to curb Russia

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 01:40 PM PDT

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk look at each others during a press conference after talks in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Biden arrived in Warsaw for consultations with Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Bronislaw Komorowski, a few hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a draft bill for the annexation of Crimea, one of a flurry of steps to formally take over the Black Sea peninsula. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden and European leaders unleashed a torrent of angry words Tuesday against Russia's "dark path" as Western allies scheduled an emergency meeting in the Netherlands next week to figure out how to punish Vladimir Putin for taking Crimea — and stop him from expanding his reach even farther.

Jeb Bush in the White House? He's considering it

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:57 AM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 29, 2014 file photo shows former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaking in Hollywood, Fla. Will Jeb Bush run for president? The former Florida governor says he's undecided but his decision is one of the most significant unknowns looming over the 2016 Republican presidential contest. A White House bid by the scion of the Bush political dynasty would shake up a wide-open field and set up a showdown with the tea party movement. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)MIAMI (AP) — Jeb Bush gets the question at just about every public appearance these days: Will you run for president?

Witnesses: Unusual noises before chopper crash

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 02:33 PM PDT

In this photo provided by KOMO-TV, a car burns at the scene of a helicopter crash outside the KOMO-TV studios near the space needle in Seattle on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. The station says the helicopter was apparently coming in for a landing on its rooftop Tuesday morning when it possibly hit the side of the building and went down, hitting several vehicles on Broad Street. (AP Photo/KOMO-TV, Kelly Koopmans) MANDATORY CREDIT: KOMO-TVSEATTLE (AP) — A federal official says witnesses reported hearing unusual noises from a KOMO-TV news helicopter before it crashed Tuesday, killing two people on board and injuring a third on the ground.

Could Westboro Baptist Church survive without ailing founder?

Posted: 17 Mar 2014 02:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 19, 2006 file photo, Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. preaches at his Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Phelps, who founded a Kansas church that's widely known for its protests at military funerals and anti-gay sentiments, is being cared for in a Shawnee County facility according to Westboro Baptist Church spokesman Steve Drain on Sunday, March 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)The church is known worldwide for picketing the funerals of military personnel and prominent people to promote its harshly antigay doctrines.  Mr. Phelps's son, Nate Phelps, has said his father is near death. But Westboro could survive and remain active, says Barry Crawford, a religion professor at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, where Westboro is located. Though the church has only 15 to 20 members, "They have this missionary zeal.

Putin approves draft bill to annex Crimea

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:50 AM PDT

Self-Defense activists perform military exercises at a military training ground outside Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, March 17, 2014. Ukraine's parliament on Monday voted partial mobilization in response to Russia's invasion onto the Ukrainian territory. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)President Vladimir Putin signs a draft treaty to make the Ukrainian region part of Russia.

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