2014年4月28日星期一

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Deadly storm system puts South on edge

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 03:56 PM PDT

Elquin Gonzalez, owner of the Texaco gas station and quick stop on North Gloster Street in Tupelo, Miss. begins cleaning up his business after a tornado touched down on Monday, April 28, 2014. At least three tornados flattened homes and businesses, flipped trucks over on highways and injured an unknown number of people in Mississippi and Alabama on Monday as a massive, dangerous storm system passed over several states in the South, threatening additional twisters as well as severe thunderstorms, damaging hail and flash floods. (AP Photo/Jim Lytle)Threat heads toward Alabama line after two large tornadoes touch down in Mississippi.


Ohio to boost lethal injection drug dosage

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 02:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 2005 file photo, public information director Larry Greene is shown in the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. Ohio prison officials said Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, they are keeping their primary lethal injection drug in place despite the state's supply expiring, but they've added a second drug option for executioners to address the shortage. Prisons spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said the powerful sedative pentobarbital will remain Ohio's primary method of administering the death penalty. A policy posted to the prisons department's website listed a combination of midazolam and hydromorphone as an alternative if sufficient pentobarbital isn't available or if the existing supply "is deemed unusable" by the medical team. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)State moves "to allay any remaining concerns" after January execution lasting 26-minutes.


Sterling's ouster from NBA a legal long shot, experts say

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 03:50 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, center, and V. Stiviano, right, watch the Clippers play the Sacramento Kings during the first half of an NBA basketball game, in Los Angeles. The NBA is investigating a report of an audio recording in which a man purported to be Sterling makes racist remarks while speaking to Stiviano. NBA spokesman Mike Bass said in a statement Saturday, April 26, 2014, that the league is in the process of authenticating the validity of the recording posted on TMZ's website. Bass called the comments "disturbing and offensive." (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)The NBA has many options for taking action in the case of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, if officials determine that his is indeed the voice caught on tape espousing racially offensive views and that the tape has not been rigged. Commissioner Adam Silver, who said Sunday the NBA would move quickly, is set to hold a news conference before the Clippers host the Golden State Warriors in Game 5 of their first-round Western Conference playoff series on Tuesday night, to make an announcement. Among possible punitive actions are a suspension, a hefty fine, efforts to arrange for Mr. Sterling to sell a controlling interest in the Clippers to someone else, and, if the owners of the other teams are willing, forcible ouster. Sterling did not attend Sunday's Clippers game, and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) has asked the NBA to ban him from all remaining 2014 playoff games, among other things.


State Dept. addresses Kerry's Israel 'apartheid' remark

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 01:26 PM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about the collapse of Mideast peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2014Washington reacted on Monday to the The Daily Beast's report on Sunday night that Secretary of State John Kerry warned Israel could eventually become an "apartheid state."


Tornadoes torment South a second day

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 04:07 PM PDT

Piles of cars and remnants of home are scattered along Cemetery Street in Vilonia, Ark., Monday, April 28, 2014, after a tornado struck the town late Sunday. Vilonia was hit hard Sunday after a tornado system ripped through several states in the central U.S. and left more than a dozen dead in a violent start to this year's storm season, officials said. (AP Photo/Karen E. Segrave)Yahoo News is collecting reports, images and videos as system that killed 16 moves east.


Advertisers back away from NBA's LA Clippers

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 03:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Monday, Dec. 20, 2010, a car drives past the CarMax sign at the dealership in Oak Lawn, Ill. CarMax on Monday, April 28, 2014 said it is ending its sponsorship of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers in the wake of racist comments attributed to team owner Donald Sterling. (AP Photo/M Spencer Green, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Advertisers are backing away from the Los Angeles Clippers after racist comments attributed to the NBA team's owner.


$1K bounty for translation of strange margin text in Homer's Odyssey

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 10:35 AM PDT

Homer's OdysseyOnce upon a time, somebody read this 1504 edition of Homer's Odyssey and was apparently so taken by the book, that he or she wrote in the margins of Book 11 (the journey to the underworld of Hades).


Minimum wage seems set to join list of issues buried in Congress

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 03:46 PM PDT

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. joins low-wage workers at a rally outside the Capitol in Washington, Monday, April 28, 2014, to urge Congress to raise the minimum wage as lawmakers return to Washington following a two week hiatus. Democrats been pushing to lift the minimum wage but even if any legislation is passed in the Senate, it is certain to be ignored in the Republican-controlled House. (AP Photo)The push by President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage seems ready to join the parade of issues that gets buried in Congress but — the party hopes — propels voters to the polls this November.


Paul Simon, Edie Brickell arrested in Connecticut

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 12:12 PM PDT

Singer Paul Simon, left, and his wife Edie Brickell appear at a hearing in Norwalk Superior Court on Monday April 28, 2014 in Norwalk, Conn. The couple were arrested Saturday on disorderly conduct charges by officers investigating a family dispute at their home in New Canaan, Conn. (AP Photo/The Hour, Alex von Kleydorff, Pool)Paul Simon and his wife, Edie Brickell, were arrested on disorderly conduct charges by officers investigating a family dispute.


Ukrainian mayor shot in back recently wavered on separatism

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 10:49 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 22. 2014 file photo, Kharkiv mayor Hennady Kernes speaks at the congress of provincial lawmakers and officials in the Ukrainian eastern city of Kharkiv. Kernes was shot in the back Monday morning, April 28, 2014, his office said. Kernes was said to be undergoing surgery and "doctors are fighting for his life," according to the city hall. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov, File)The mayor of Ukraine's second biggest city was shot in the back on Monday, the highest profile assassination attempt in eastern Ukraine since a standoff between Moscow and Kiev began two months ago. Gennady Kernes underwent two hours of surgery after the attack in Kharkiv, one eastern city where police have managed to dislodge pro-Moscow rebels. Surgeon Valery Boiko said his life would hang in the balance for the next few days. Kernes, 54, went into politics after making his fortune in the gangster-ridden post-communist 1990s.


NBA to discuss Sterling probe tomorrow; more audio may be released

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 10:23 AM PDT

Los Angeles Clippers team owner Donald SterlingThe NBA is planning a Tuesday news conference to discuss the investigation into embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who is alleged to have made racist comments in a taped conversation.


VIDEO: South Korean ferry captain shown abandoning ship

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 06:51 AM PDT

Sewol Captain Flees Sinking FerryNewly released footage from the Republic of Korea Coast Guard shows Captain Lee Jun-seok abandoning his sinking ferry with the help of rescue personnel.


Ukraine mayor shot, U.S. announces new sanctions on Russia

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 03:08 PM PDT

President Obama Directs Latest Sanctions at Vladimir PutinThe mayor of Ukraine's second-largest city was shot in the back and pro-Russia insurgents seized more government buildings Monday as the U.S. sanctioned seven Russian government officials and 17 companies with links to Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle.


NY lawmaker pleads not guilty to U.S. fraud charges

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 02:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 9, 2012 file photo, Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grimm is facing criminal charges from federal prosecutors, his lawyer said on Friday, April 25, 2014. A House Ethics Committee announced in November that Grimm was under investigation for possible campaign finance violations but said it would defer its inquiry because of a separate Department of Justice investigation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)New York Congressman Michael Grimm has pleaded not guilty to a 20-count federal indictment that includes charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and tax fraud.


Egypt court sentences 683 to death including Brotherhood chief

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 08:56 AM PDT

People react outside the courtroom in Minya on April 28, 2014 after a court sentences leader Mohamed Badie and other alleged Islamists to deathMinya (Egypt) (AFP) - An Egyptian court sentenced 682 alleged Islamists and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to death on Monday, a lawyer and prosecutor said, after two brief sessions the defence partly boycotted. The same court in the southern province of Minya also reversed 492 of 529 death sentences it passed in March, commuting most of those to life in prison. The court, presided over by judge Said Youssef Sabry, had sparked an international outcry with its initial sentencing last month amid an extensive crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. The crackdown has extended to secular-leaning dissidents who supported Morsi's overthrow but have since turned on the army-installed regime.


Air search for missing Malaysian plane called off

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 07:12 AM PDT

Prime Minister Tony Abbott, left, looks on as retired Chief Air Marshall Angus Houston, the head of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, April 28, 2014. Abbott and Houston announced Monday that the underwater hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet will be expanded to include a massive swath of ocean floor that may take up to eight months to thoroughly search. (AP Photo/AAP Image, Lukas Coch) AUSTRALIA OUT, NEW ZEALAND OUT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUT, SOUTH PACIFIC OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVESThe aerial search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was called off Monday, and the underwater hunt will be expanded to include a vast swath of ocean floor that may take at least eight months to thoroughly search, Australian officials said.


Hall of Fame coach Jack Ramsay dies at 89

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 02:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, May 28, 1977, file photo, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Jack Ramsay autographs a basketball as the team arrived in Portland, Ore., as the trail Blazers trail the Philadelphia 76ers two games to none in their best of seven series for the NBA basketball title. Ramsay, a Hall of Fame coach who led the Portland Trail Blazers to the 1977 NBA championship before he became one of the league's most respected broadcasters, has died following a long battle with cancer. He was 89. (AP Photo/File)Jack Ramsay, a Hall of Fame coach who led the Portland Trail Blazers to the 1977 NBA championship before he became one of the NBA's most respected broadcasters, has died following a long battle with cancer. He was 89.


Mayor of eastern Ukraine city shot in the back

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 05:19 AM PDT

The mayor of Ukraine's second-largest city was shot in the back Monday and pro-Russia insurgents seized yet another government building as tensions rose in eastern Ukraine ahead of a new round of U.S. sanctions.

U.S. to levy new Russia sanctions

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 04:16 AM PDT

Seeking to ratchet up pressure on Vladimir Putin, Pres. Obama said the United States will levy new sanctions Monday on Russian individuals and companies in retaliation for Moscow's alleged provocations in Ukraine.

Tornadoes in central and southern U.S. cause death, destruction

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 09:09 AM PDT

Search teams continue to pick through debris looking for survivors in Arkansas, Oklahoma.

Egypt sentences 683 to death in mass trial

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 03:22 AM PDT

Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie shouts slogans from the defendant's cage during his trial with other leaders of the Brotherhood in a courtroom in CairoMINYA, Egypt (AP) — A judge in Egypt on Monday sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president in the latest mass trial that included the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader, defense lawyers said.


US, EU hit Russia with new sanctions over Ukraine

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 02:15 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama looks towards Press Secretary Jay Carney during a joint news conference with Philippines President Benigno Aquino III at Malacanang Palace in Manila, the Philippines, Monday, April 28, 2014. President Obama said a 10-year agreement signed Monday to give the U.S military greater access to Philippine bases will help promote regional security, improve armed forces training and shorten response times to humanitarian crises, including natural disasters. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and its European allies hit more than two dozen Russian government officials, executives and companies with new sanctions Monday as punishment for their country's actions in Ukraine, yet the penalties stopped short of targeting Russia's broader economy and it remained unclear if they would work. In Moscow, there was relief that the sanctions were not as far-ranging as feared.


A who's who of Putin's friends hit by US sanctions

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 12:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, May 23, 2011 file photo, then, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with his then Chief of Staff ,Vyacheslav Volodin, during a meeting of officials in Pskov, about 600 km (375 miles) northwest of Moscow. The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Monday, April 28, 2014, designated seven Russian government officials, including two key members of the Russian leadership's inner circle, and 17 entities pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13661. E.O. 13661 authorizes sanctions on, among others, officials of the Russian Government and any individual or entity that is owned or controlled by, that has acted for or on behalf of, or that has provided material or other support to, a senior Russian government official. Volodin is on the list. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool, File)MOSCOW (AP) — The seven people from Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle targeted with U.S. sanctions on Monday include men who have helped Putin restore Kremlin control over Russia's economy and its political system. They have been tasked with carrying out some of Putin's most ambitious projects, most notably his plans to make Crimea an integral part of Russia after seizing the peninsula from Ukraine.


Arkansans rush for cover against twister; 15 die

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 03:19 PM PDT

A row of lightly damages houses, top, face destroyed homes in a Vilonia, Ark., neighborhood Monday, April 28, 2014 after a tornado struck the town late Sunday, killing at least 16 people. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)VILONIA, Ark. (AP) — The sky turned black as the funnel cloud closed in, and Maggie Caro rushed with her husband and two children to a community shelter at a Vilonia school, where they were among the last to get inside the fortified gym before the doors were shut.


Stowaway boy's refugee mom cries for son

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 02:36 PM PDT

In this photo taken Sunday, April 27, 2014, Ubah Mohammed Abdule, 33, right, sits with her son Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, 8, left, and daughter Neshad Yusuf Ahmed, 5, center, outside her hut in the Shedder refugee camp near the town of Jigjiga, in far eastern Ethiopia. The Somali mother's home is a small shelter with a frame of sticks covered by ragged blankets on the dusty grounds of a refugee camp but it was to her that her 15-year-old son Yahya Abdi wanted to travel to on an impossible journey as a stowaway on a plane from California. (AP Photo/Elias Asmare)SHEDDER REFUGEE CAMP, Ethiopia (AP) — The Somali woman lives in a stick hut covered by ragged blankets in this dusty refugee camp. It was here that her 15-year-old son wanted to travel on a perilous journey as a stowaway on a plane from California.


AP PHOTOS: Tornadoes rip across Midwest

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 04:21 PM PDT

A tornado-damaged home is covered by tarps in Baxter Springs, Kan., Monday, April 28, 2014. The tornado left a trail of shattered homes, twisted metal and hanging power lines. One person died, but it was not clear whether the death was related to the storm. Volunteers were meeting early Monday to discuss cleanup efforts. Emergency officials say 60 to 70 homes and 20 to 25 businesses were destroyed or damaged in the town. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)Emergency workers are searching through rubble left in the wake of a series of deadly tornadoes and severe weather, the worst of which hit suburban Little Rock, Ark., Sunday night.


NBA announcement coming on Sterling amid fallout

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 03:19 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, right, and V. Stiviano, left, watch the Clippers play the Sacramento Kings during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles. Used car dealership chain CarMax says it is ending its sponsorship of the Clippers in the wake of racist comments attributed to Sterling. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)Outrage over racist comments purportedly made by embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling hit a crescendo Monday, with corporations pulling their sponsorship deals with the team and coach Doc Rivers saying he believes "a very strong message" is coming from the NBA in response to the scandal.


Clippers' Sterling has long history of trouble

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 03:25 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, center, and V. Stiviano, right, watch the Clippers play the Sacramento Kings during the first half of an NBA basketball game, in Los Angeles. The NBA is investigating a report of an audio recording in which a man purported to be Sterling makes racist remarks while speaking to Stiviano. NBA spokesman Mike Bass said in a statement Saturday, April 26, 2014, that the league is in the process of authenticating the validity of the recording posted on TMZ's website. Bass called the comments "disturbing and offensive." (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Donald Sterling has been known to heckle his own team from the center-court seat where he has sat for decades, whether with his now-estranged wife or women young enough to be his granddaughters.


Obama vigorously defends foreign policy record

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 10:49 AM PDT

A Filipino activist holds a slogan near the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines, Monday April 28, 2014 during a rally to oppose the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement between the Philippines and U.S. The U.S. military will have greater access to bases across the Philippines under the new 10-year agreement signed today in conjunction with U.S. President Barack Obama's visit and seen as an effort by Washington to counter Chinese aggression in the region. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Barack Obama vigorously defended his foreign policy record Monday, arguing that his cautious approach to global problems has avoided the type of missteps that contributed to a "disastrous" decade of war for the United States.


AP PHOTOS: The loves Clooney left behind

Posted: 28 Apr 2014 04:07 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 7, 2011 file photo shows human rights attorney Amal Alamuddin, in London. Hollywood's most determined bachelor, George Clooney, recently proposed to the 36-year-old Alamuddin, despite repeated protestations that marriage wasn't for him. A spokesman for the Oscar-winning actor and producer did not respond to requests for comment Monday, April 28, 2014. (AP Photo/PA, Yui Mok, File) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVEAfter two decades of insisting he wouldn't marry again, George Clooney has taken himself off the romantic market. The 52-year-old Oscar winner is engaged to Amal Alamuddin, a 36-year-old international law attorney.


Missing plane's search area to be expanded

Posted: 27 Apr 2014 11:10 PM PDT

Prime Minister Tony Abbott, left, looks on as retired Chief Air Marshall Angus Houston, the head of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, April 28, 2014. Abbott and Houston announced Monday that the underwater hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet will be expanded to include a massive swath of ocean floor that may take up to eight months to thoroughly search. (AP Photo/AAP Image, Lukas Coch) AUSTRALIA OUT, NEW ZEALAND OUT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUT, SOUTH PACIFIC OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVESCANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The underwater hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet will be expanded to include a massive swath of ocean floor that may take up to eight months to thoroughly search, Australia's prime minister said Monday.


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