2014年5月20日星期二

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Sources: DOJ to reveal drone memo on killing U.S. citizens

Posted: 20 May 2014 05:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally under its new stricter targeting policy issued last year. The CIA drones watching him cannot strike because he's a U.S. citizen and the Justice Department must build a case against him, a task it hasn't completed. And President Barack Obama's new policy says American suspected terrorists overseas can only be killed by the military, not the CIA, creating a policy conundrum for the White House. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)Facing Senate vote and court order, White House signals it will make legal case public.


Mo. execution halted amid lethal injection concerns

Posted: 20 May 2014 04:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2014 file photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections is Russell Bucklew who is scheduled to die for killing a romantic rival as part of a crime spree in southeast Missouri in 1996. Bucklew, who suffers from a congenital condition that causes weakened and malformed blood vessels, told the Associated Press Friday, May 16, 2014 that he is scared that the lethal drug could cause him to suffer or be left alive but brain-dead. His would be the first execution since Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett died of a heart attack 43 minutes after a vein collapsed following injection. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Corrections, File)ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal appeals court panel granted a temporary halt to the execution of Missouri inmate Russell Bucklew on Tuesday evening, hours before he was scheduled to die for killing a southeast Missouri man in 1996, citing concerns that Bucklew could suffer during lethal injection due to a rare medical condition.


N.M. officials: 500 barrels of nuke waste packed with suspect kitty litter

Posted: 20 May 2014 04:53 PM PDT

FILE - This May 10, 2014 file photo provided by the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant shows torn and open bags of magnesium oxide on top of standard waste boxes at the WIPP site in Carlsbad, N.M. Workers at a West Texas nuclear waste disposal site are closely monitoring containers from Los Alamos National Lab, Tuesday, May 20, 2014, a day after New Mexico officials announced a type of kitty litter is believed to have caused a radiation leak at the federal government's troubled nuclear waste dump. (AP Photo/Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, File)ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico environment officials say more than 500 barrels of waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory were packed with the kitty litter suspected of causing a chemical reaction and radiation release at the government's underground nuclear waste dump.


Brazil tries to calm tourists on unfinished airports

Posted: 20 May 2014 02:28 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 11, 2013 file photo released by Portal da Copa 2014 shows an aerial view of the Galeao international airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The chronic delays in airport renovations have matched stadium construction, but the Brazilian government is reassuring visitors they won't have problems on arrival. On Monday, May 19, 2014, Brazil's Civil Aviation Minister Wellington Moreira Franco said that although some of the "work won't be finished, all airports will be prepared to adequately" receive World Cup tourists. (AP Photo/Portal da Copa 2014, Daniel Basil, File)SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil is trying to assure World Cup tourists that they won't face problems at airports even though not all upgrades will be complete.


Texas teen faces life in prison over hash brownies

Posted: 20 May 2014 08:08 AM PDT

Jacob LavoroA Texas teenager is facing five years to life in prison for allegedly baking and selling pot brownies.


Pennsylvania gay marriage ban overturned

Posted: 20 May 2014 03:55 PM PDT

The Whitewoods _ Landon, 2, Susan, 49, Abbey, 16, Katie, 14, and Deb, 45 _ pose together after a news conference to announce that they are the lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to overturn a state law effectively banning same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, in Harrisburg, Pa. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Harrisburg, also will ask a federal judge to prevent state officials from stopping gay couples from getting married. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)If decision stands, same-sex marriage will be legal throughout the Northeast.


Agency: 118 killed in Nigeria attack

Posted: 20 May 2014 01:27 PM PDT

Firefighters extinguish a fire at the scene of a bomb blast at Terminus market in the central city of Jos on May 20, 2014Explosive devices hidden inside vehicles go off within 20 minutes of each other.


Twin bombings add to death toll in Nigeria terror campaign

Posted: 20 May 2014 12:01 PM PDT

Two explosions in Jos, NigeriaTwin car bombings on Tuesday killed at least 46 in central Nigeria in the latest in a series of deadly blasts that will stoke fears about security despite international help in the fight against Boko Haram Islamists. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan swiftly condemned the attack in the central city of Jos, calling it a "tragic assault on human freedom" and condemning the perpetrators as "cruel and evil". Most of the victims were women, Pam Ayuba, spokesman for Plateau state governor Jonah Jang, said, while the emergency services said their workers were caught up in the second blast as they attended victims from the first. Plateau, of which Jos is the capital, falls in Nigeria's so-called Middle Belt, where the mainly Christian south meets the Muslim-majority north.


Stolen cell phones put on display after crackdown in Spain

Posted: 20 May 2014 11:44 AM PDT

Spanish police stand guard outside the metro in the Madrid suburb of Alcorcon, on January 27, 2007Spanish police said Tuesday they are putting on display scores of stolen mobile telephones so their owners can claim them, after a crackdown on thefts in Madrid's underground train network. "The national police is looking for the owners of 109 mobile telephones recovered in the Madrid underground," it said in a statement with a photo of the phones and several e-book readers. The loot will be on display for several weeks in a police station on the Puerta del Sol square in the central tourist district of Madrid, it said.


Conviction upheld in NYC subway bombing plot

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:37 AM PDT

FILE - This photo provided by the U.S. Attorneyís Office in the Brooklyn borough of New York shows Adis Medunjanin. Medunjanin is to be sentenced on Friday afternoon, Nov. 16, 2012, in federal court in Brooklyn. Prosecutors had accused Medunjanin and two high school classmates of receiving al-Qaida training before hatching a terror plot they abandoned at the 11th hour. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorneyís Office, File)Bosnian-born U.S. citizen Adis Medunjanin failed to overturn his conviction for planning suicide bombings in New York City's subways.


Twin bombs hit Nigerian bus station

Posted: 20 May 2014 10:02 AM PDT

An eye witness of the bomb blast gives his account to the Kano commissioner of the police during the police chief's assessment of the situation in Sabon Gari, KanoCasualty count unclear in latest attack amid terror campaign by Boko Haram network.


Legislators look into human trafficking aims

Posted: 20 May 2014 07:28 AM PDT

U.S. House of Representatives Victims' Rights CaucusThe Republican-led House will vote on five standalone bills aiming to combat trafficking.


Federal judge strikes down Pennsylvania's gay marriage ban

Posted: 20 May 2014 12:57 PM PDT

The Whitewoods _ Landon, 2, Susan, 49, Abbey, 16, Katie, 14, and Deb, 45 _ pose together after a news conference to announce that they are the lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to overturn a state law effectively banning same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, in Harrisburg, Pa. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Harrisburg, also will ask a federal judge to prevent state officials from stopping gay couples from getting married. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage was struck down by a federal judge on Tuesday in the latest court decision in the United States confirming gay couples' rights to wed. Finding Pennsylvania's 1996 Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, U.S. District Court Judge John Jones III wrote: "By virtue of this ruling, same-sex couples who seek to marry in Pennsylvania may do so, and already married same-sex couples will be recognized as such in the Commonwealth." The ruling makes Pennsylvania the 19th U.S. state where gay marriage is allowed, a movement that has gained momentum since the Supreme Court ruled last June that legally married same-sex couples are eligible for federal benefits. Most recent court rulings allowing gay marriage have included a stay pending appeal, but Jones' ruling does not. There is, however, a three-day waiting period for all weddings in Pennsylvania.


'Shield' actor Michael Jace arrested in wife's shooting death

Posted: 20 May 2014 01:12 PM PDT

Actor Michael Jace of `The Shield` Arrested After Wife Fatally ShotAuthorities say 'The Shield' actor Michael Jace has been arrested on suspicion of homicide after his wife was found shot to death in their Los Angeles home.


German probe finds 20 former death camp guards

Posted: 20 May 2014 08:49 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2005 file picture watch towers and a barbed wire fence of the former Nazi death camp Majdanek outside the city of Lublin in eastern Poland are photographed. The head of Germany's special prosecutors' office that investigates Nazi war crimes says the first phase of a probe of hundreds of former Majdanek death camp guards is nearly complete. Federal prosecutor Kurt Schrimm told reporters Tuesday May 20, 2014 his office was preparing to recommend within the next two weeks that state prosecutors pursue charges against multiple suspects. Schrimm's office has no power to file charges itself. ( AP Photo / Czarek Sokolowski,file)Around 20 former guards at the Majdanek death camp could face charges in Germany, following a widespread probe of the Nazi SS men and women who served there during World War II, war crimes investigators said Tuesday.


Utah to recognize over 1,000 gay marriages

Posted: 20 May 2014 07:43 AM PDT

Utah ordered to recognize over 1,000 gay marriagesIf a federal ruling stands, the state will have to lift its freeze on same-sex couples' benefits.


4 killed, 126 injured in Vietnam violence, China company says

Posted: 20 May 2014 07:41 AM PDT

China company says 4 dead from violence in VietnamA Chinese company said Tuesday that four of its workers died last week in riots in Vietnam triggered by China's deployment of an oil rig in disputed seas.


Connecticut woman makes bomb threats to hide dropout status

Posted: 19 May 2014 01:07 PM PDT

Danielle SheaA woman trying to keep her family from learning she had dropped out of college called in bomb threats to a commencement ceremony at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, police said Monday.


Collapse of 23-story building in N. Korea was hidden from media

Posted: 20 May 2014 06:56 AM PDT

NORTH KOREA SAYS THEY'RE SORRYWhen a South Korean ferry sank with hundreds trapped inside last month, the whole world knew about it. But in North Korea, there was utter silence about the collapse of a 23-story apartment building for five days, until state media issued a rare apology.


6 dead, 45 injured in train crash near Moscow

Posted: 20 May 2014 06:38 AM PDT

An Interior Ministry security force member stands guard near a passenger train damaged in a collision with a freight train in Moscow regionA cargo train and a passenger train collided near Moscow Tuesday, Russian officials said.


Syrian army missile kills 13, including 8 children

Posted: 20 May 2014 05:37 AM PDT

Women talk and children play around the tents of the Bab Al-Nour internally displaced persons campA missile crashed into a rebel-held Syrian town while most people were at home sleeping, killing 13 people, activists said Tuesday.


Balkans Flooding: Drowned livestock pose a new threat

Posted: 20 May 2014 11:58 AM PDT

Men sit on a car porch during heavy floods in Bosanski SamacA new calamity emerged Tuesday in the flood-hit Balkans even as emergency workers battled overflowing rivers and evacuated thousands: tons of drowned livestock were posing a health hazard.


A year after deadly tornado, fears remain in Okla. city

Posted: 20 May 2014 04:59 AM PDT

Moore, Oklahoma - Now and Then: Rebuilding continues one year laterHalf of the homes destroyed by last May's tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, have been rebuilt or are under construction.


Balkans Flooding: Serbia declares national mourning, death toll rises

Posted: 20 May 2014 04:32 AM PDT

Men sit on a car porch during heavy floods in Bosanski SamacSerbia on Tuesday declared three days of national mourning and reported another death in the worst rainfall to hit the Balkan region in living memory, even as the rising River Sava threatened more havoc. Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said the death toll in the town of Obrenovac, southwest of Belgrade, alone had reached 14.


Turkey: Mine disaster won't go unpunished

Posted: 20 May 2014 04:18 AM PDT

flowers on some coal and a hard hatTurkey's prime minister pledged Tuesday not to allow anyone responsible for the country's worst mine disaster to go unpunished, and promised improved supervision of Turkish mines.


China warns U.S. cyber charges could damage ties

Posted: 20 May 2014 08:47 AM PDT

This wanted poster is displayed at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014, after Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin, U.S. Attorney for Western District of Pennsylvania David Hickton and FBI Executive Associate Director Robert Anderson participated in a news conference where Holder announced that a U.S. grand jury has charged five Chinese hackers with economic espionage and trade secret theft, the first-of-its-kind criminal charges against Chinese military officials in an international cyber-espionage case. The indictment of five Chinese military officials on cyber espionage charges will intensify friction between Beijing and Washington. Those tensions have only been growing as China gets bolder in asserting its territorial claims in disputed waterways in East Asia. (AP Photo)China says U.S. charges against five Chinese officers could put military ties at risk.


Tea party faces uphill battle in latest round of GOP primaries

Posted: 20 May 2014 12:16 PM PDT

volunteers for Matt BevinBy John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters in six states will choose candidates on Tuesday for some of November's top congressional election races, including another round of crucial U.S. Senate primaries between the Republican establishment and Tea Party favorites in Kentucky, Georgia and Oregon. Tea Party candidates are fighting an uphill battle in all three U.S. Senate contests, which could be vital to Republican hopes of picking up the six seats they need to recapture control of the chamber from Democrats in November. Idaho, Arkansas and Pennsylvania also will hold primaries on the campaign's biggest day of voting so far. The most closely watched contest is in Kentucky, where Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell is a heavy favorite to beat Tea Party challenger Matt Bevin, setting up one of November's top Senate races against Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.


Thailand's army declares martial law, denies coup

Posted: 20 May 2014 05:00 PM PDT

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's powerful military chief intervened for the first time in the country's latest political crisis, declaring martial law and dispatching gun-mounted jeeps into the heart of the capital with a vow to resolve the deepening conflict as quickly as possible.

U.S. moves more forces closer to Libya as unrest grows

Posted: 19 May 2014 03:51 PM PDT

A view of damage caused by Sunday's clashes in TripoliThe United States has increased the number of Marines and aircraft stationed in Sicily who could be called upon to evacuate Americans from the U.S. embassy in Tripoli as unrest in Libya grows, two U.S. officials said on Monday. About 60 more Marines and another four Osprey aircraft, whose tilt-rotar engines allow it to land like a helicopter but fly like an airplane, were being sent to Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily from their base in Spain. That brings the total number of Marines stationed as a precaution in Sicily to around 250, the two officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Their location in Italy moves them closer to Libya, speeding response times.


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