2014年5月9日星期五

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Benghazi panel puts Democrats in a tough spot

Posted: 09 May 2014 02:01 PM PDT

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks at her weekly news briefing Friday, May 9, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Democrats stand deeply divided over whether to participate in a Republican-led investigation of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, with party leader Nancy Pelosi calling the newest probe a "political stunt." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Leadership in talks over role Democrats would play if they choose to join hearing.


Arkansas judge strikes down gay marriage ban

Posted: 09 May 2014 04:44 PM PDT

Attorney Cheryl Maples, left, leaves a courtroom in the Pulaski County Court House in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, April 17, 2014. Maples argued for gay couples who are advocates of ending Arkansas' ban on same-sex marriage. Circuit Judge Chris Piazza said at the conclusion of the hearing that he will issue a ruling in about two weeks. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A judge on Friday struck down Arkansas' ban on same-sex marriage, saying the state has "no rational reason" for preventing gay couples from marrying.


Katie Couric: The international effort to #BringBackOurGirls

Posted: 09 May 2014 08:24 AM PDT

Katie Couric special report on the abductions in NigeriaKatie Couric interviews Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and other experts.


Blind high school vaulter nearly medals at state championships

Posted: 09 May 2014 03:30 PM PDT

Emory Rains High School's Charlotte Brown competes in the Girls 3A pole vault in the UIL State Track & Field meet, Friday, May 9, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Brown, a pole vaulter who happens to be legally blind, starts on the clap from her coach and counts her steps on her approach. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Charlotte Brown used her seeing-eye dog to navigate the track. An electronic beeper with a high-pitched signal told her when it was time to jump.


NBA picks Parsons as interim Clippers CEO

Posted: 09 May 2014 03:35 PM PDT

Richard ParsonsEx-Time Warner boss will oversee team while NBA tries to force Donald Sterling to sell it.


Family of soldier kidnapped in Iraq learns of killer's confession

Posted: 09 May 2014 11:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 27, 2008 file photo, Lt. General James Campbell (Ret.), left, stands with Carolyn and Keith Maupin, as the casket of their son, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin, is carried to a hearse during a memorial service at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. A man in Iraqi custody has confessed to killing Maupin, whose remains were found in 2008, four years after he was kidnapped by insurgents. (AP Photo/David Kohl, File)CINCINNATI (AP) — A man in Iraqi custody has confessed to killing a U.S. soldier whose remains were found in 2008, four years after he was kidnapped by insurgents and a video showed him surrounded by armed captors, an Army spokeswoman told The Associated Press on Friday.


Court weighs death row inmates' sweat lodge request

Posted: 09 May 2014 12:09 PM PDT

Kentucky State PenitentiaryThree inmates on Kentucky's death row want a sweat lodge, pow wow and traditional foods to conduct Native American religious ceremonies behind bars — requests the prison system has at least in part declined to fulfill.


British, U.S. experts join Nigeria search for girls

Posted: 09 May 2014 03:45 PM PDT

The international effort to rescue the 276 schoolgirls being held captive by Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria was boosted Friday when British security experts joined the Nigerian and American forces trying to rescue the missing students.

Satanic 'black mass' re-enactment plans anger Boston Catholics

Posted: 09 May 2014 10:18 AM PDT

A seal hangs over a building at Harvard University in CambridgeBy Daniel Lovering CAMBRIDGE Mass. (Reuters) - A Harvard University student group plans to hold a re-enactment of a satanic ritual on the school's historic campus, drawing criticism from local Roman Catholic officials, who expressed \"deep sadness and strong opposition\" to the plan. The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club said in a statement posted online that it plans to host \"a historical re-enactment of a black mass ceremony that has a narrator providing historical context and background.\" It said the event was intended to be educational and would be preceded by a lecture on the history and origins of the black mass, a ritual that parodies the Catholic mass, in which bread and wine are consecrated and consumed.  The re-enactment will be performed by the Satanic Temple, a Satanist group that attracted attention earlier this year after it proposed the placement of a 7-foot (2.1-meter) tall statue of Satan next to an existing Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma. \"Our purpose is not to denigrate any religion or faith, which would be repugnant to our educational purposes, but instead to learn and experience the history of different cultural practices,\" the club said.  The Archdiocese of Boston has voiced sharp criticism of the planned re-enactment, calling on its faithful to pray for those involved and on Harvard to disassociate itself from the event.


Is the Kremlin plotting a 'USSR lite'?

Posted: 09 May 2014 10:11 AM PDT

A former Soviet Union army veteran prepares a Soviet army flag as a symbol of victory, in front of the monument of Soviet revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin, during a Victory Day celebration, which commemorates the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, May 9, 2014. Putin's surprise call on Wednesday for delaying the referendum in eastern Ukraine appeared to reflect Russia's desire to distance itself from the separatists as it bargains with the West over a settlement to the Ukrainian crisis. But insurgents in the Russian-speaking east defied Putin's call and said they would go ahead with the referendum. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)On Victory Day, Putin hints at new doctrine mixing Soviet nostalgia with ethnic themes.


Photo of 'firenado' sets the Web ablaze

Posted: 09 May 2014 09:18 AM PDT

6 a.m. FirenadoAn incredible image of a 'firenado,' a combination of (you guessed it) a fire and a tornado, was posted to the Web this week and quickly inspired many to wonder if it could possibly be real.


Putin marks Victory in Crimea as Ukraine violence flares

Posted: 09 May 2014 01:30 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a navy parade marking the Victory Day in Sevastopol, Crimea, Friday, May 9, 2014. Crimea, which hosts a major Russian Black Sea Fleet base, is set to hold a massive navy parade in the port of Sevastopol. Putin extolled the return of Crimea to Russia before tens of thousands Friday during his first trip to Black Sea peninsula since its annexation. The triumphant visit was quickly condemned by Ukraine and NATO. (AP Photo / Ivan Sekretarev)President Vladimir Putin flew in to Crimea on Friday, marking the Soviet victory in World War Two and proclaiming the success of the peninsula's seizure from a Ukraine that Russia says has been taken over by fascists. In east Ukraine, where pro-Moscow rebels plan a referendum on Sunday to follow Crimea in breaking from Kiev, between three and 20 people were reported killed in the port of Mariupol, one of the biggest clashes yet between Ukrainian forces and separatists.


Kids reunite with locked-up moms

Posted: 09 May 2014 01:19 PM PDT

In this photo taken May 3, 2014, inmate Tiffany Dugan, left, greets her daughter, Arianne Skelton, 13, with a big hug at the Folsom Women's Facility in Folsom, Calif. Dugan had the chance to spend time with her daughter and son through a nonprofit program called Get on the Bus that arranges for children of inmates to visit their parents in California prions around Mother's and Father's days. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)Calif. program allows children to visit incarcerated mothers around Mother's Day.


Scientists still working to ID victims from 9/11

Posted: 09 May 2014 09:35 AM PDT

a criminalist, training in forensic science, prepares sample bone fragments for DNA testingThousands of vacuum-sealed plastic pouches filled with bits of bone rest in a Manhattan laboratory. These are the last unidentified fragments of the people who died in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.


Pelosi says House Dems divided on Benghazi probe

Posted: 09 May 2014 09:29 AM PDT

Speaker of the House John BoehnerHouse Democrats stand deeply divided over whether to participate in a Republican-led investigation of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, with party leader Nancy Pelosi calling the newest probe a "political stunt."


Amnesty Int'l: Nigeria ignored Boko Haram warnings

Posted: 09 May 2014 08:15 AM PDT

Mothers of the missing Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists gather to receive information from officials on May 5, 2014The nation could not assemble the troops needed to stop the attack, the group reports.


Judge denies N.Y. murder suspect's plea to ban rap lyric evidence

Posted: 09 May 2014 08:57 AM PDT

A New York City murder suspect has lost his bid to have boastful rap lyrics he wrote about being in a violent street gang excluded as evidence at his trial.

British, U.S. experts arrive to help Nigeria search

Posted: 09 May 2014 09:25 AM PDT

South Africans protest in solidarity against the abduction three weeks ago of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria by the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram and what protesters said was the failure of the Nigerian government and international community to rescue them, during a march to the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday, May 8, 2014. The kidnapping has ignited a viral social media campaign that has brought renewed attention to Boko Haram's campaign of violence, and protests around the world. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)British experts arrived in the Nigerian capital on Friday to help find at least 276 girls being held by Islamic militants in northeastern Nigeria as an international effort began taking hold.


Pope demands redistribution of wealth, end to 'economy of exclusion'

Posted: 09 May 2014 05:51 AM PDT

Pope Francis shakes hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban during a meeting at the VaticanVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis called Friday for governments to redistribute wealth to the poor in a new spirit of generosity to help curb the "economy of exclusion" that is taking hold today.


Ellen's not going to like this: Colleges say no to graduation selfies

Posted: 09 May 2014 06:55 AM PDT

Host Degeneres takes a group picture at the 86th Academy Awards in HollywoodEllen DeGeneres snapped \"selfies\" at the Oscars and President Barack Obama posed for one at Nelson Mandela's funeral, but some U.S. colleges have asked students to keep their cell phones tucked away during graduation season this month when they walk on stage for their diplomas. Officials at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, one of several colleges trying to limit the spontaneous self-portraits that proliferate social media sites, said they asked graduates to preserve decorum at its May 17 commencement. A handful of students drew laughs - and caught administrators by surprise - when they whipped out their smartphones for selfies on stage at last year's graduation, said university relations director Elizabeth O'Neil. With 758 students due to graduate this month, the school decided to take action before things got carried away.


Live: Crisis in Nigeria—#BringBackOurGirls

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Katie Couric interviews Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and other experts.


British, U.S. teams join search for kidnapped girls in Nigeria

Posted: 09 May 2014 06:44 AM PDT

South Africans protest in solidarity against the abduction three weeks ago of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria by the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram and what protesters said was the failure of the Nigerian government and international community to rescue them, during a march to the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday, May 8, 2014. The kidnapping has ignited a viral social media campaign that has brought renewed attention to Boko Haram's campaign of violence, and protests around the world. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — British experts arrived in the Nigerian capital on Friday to help find at least 276 girls being held by Islamic militants in northeastern Nigeria as an international effort began taking hold.


House Democrats weigh role in new Benghazi probe

Posted: 09 May 2014 07:54 AM PDT

Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla.WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats said Friday that before deciding whether to participate in a new investigation on the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost at Benghazi, Libya, they want assurances from Speaker John Boehner that the Republican-run probe will be bipartisan and not a political spectacle.


Johnny Cleveland: Browns halt Manziel's fall

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Cleveland traded up to No. 22 to get Texas A&M star Johnny Manziel, hoping to end the team's QB woes.


Russia displays its might amid Ukraine crisis

Posted: 09 May 2014 03:09 AM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attend a Victory Day parade, which commemorates the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany, at Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 9, 2014. Russia marked the Victory Day on May 9 holding a military parade at Red Square. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)Russia shows off its military muscle at the annual Victory Day parade in Red Square.


Attorney: Shelly Sterling wants to keep Clippers

Posted: 08 May 2014 05:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2010, file photo, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling, right, sits with his wife Rochelle during the Clippers NBA basketball game against the Detroit Pistons in Los Angeles. An attorney representing the estranged wife of Clippers owner Donald Sterling said Thursday, May 8, 2014, that she will fight to retain her 50 percent ownership stake in the team. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)The estranged wife of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling will fight to retain her 50 percent ownership stake in the team, her lawyer said Thursday, adding an unwanted twist to the NBA's plan to force new ownership on the franchise.


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