2014年10月17日星期五

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2nd Ebola nurse 'felt funny' while in Ohio

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 09:03 AM PDT

An ambulance carrying Amber Joy Vinson, the second health care worker to be diagnosed with Ebola in Texas, arrives at Emory University Hospital on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, in Atlanta. Vinson was one of the nurses who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, who died at the Dallas hospital last week of the Ebola virus. (AP Photo/David Tulis)Officials try to identify anyone who may have come into contact with Amber Joy Vinson.


In turn, gay marriage becomes legal in Arizona

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 04:11 PM PDT

demonstrators on PhoenixPHOENIX (AP) — Gay marriage became legal in Arizona on Friday, a sharp turn for a state that became ground zero in the clash over gay rights less than a year ago when the state Legislature passed a bill allowing businesses to deny service to gays and lesbians.


Eye of weakening Hurricane Gonzalo smashes into Bermuda

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 03:47 PM PDT

Shoppers stock up on groceries as they prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Gonzalo in HamiltonBy Sam Strangeways HAMILTON Bermuda (Reuters) - The eyewall of Hurricane Gonzalo made a direct hit on Bermuda on Friday evening pounding the Bermuda coast with high waves, driving rain and gusting winds, becoming the strongest storm to hit the tiny Atlantic island chain in a decade, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. "At least part of the island, if not the entire island, is going to be in the eye," said hurricane center specialist Stacy Stewart. "It's a very large eye. ...


Good news for Hunter Biden after cocaine controversy

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 12:33 PM PDT

Joe Biden's Son Tested Positive for Cocaine, Discharged From NavyWASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden, the youngest son of Vice President Joe Biden, faces no automatic review of his law license in Connecticut following his discharge from the U.S. Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine use, Connecticut legal authorities said Friday.


Mysterious 'space plane' lands in California

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 11:17 AM PDT

This June 16, 2012 file image from video made available by the Vandenberg Air Force Base shows an infrared view of the X-37B unmanned spacecraft landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The purpose of the U.S. military's space plane is classified, only fueling speculation about why it has been orbiting Earth for nearly two years on this, its third mission. The plane is expected to land this week at a Southern California Air Force base.(AP Photo/Vandenberg Air Force Base, File)VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A top-secret space plane landed Friday at an Air Force base on the Southern California coast.


White House comments on travel ban

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 02:27 PM PDT

Ebola: Keeping Americans informedThe president responds to calls to impose a travel ban as part of efforts to fight Ebola.


Pushback against Islamic State showing results

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 09:04 AM PDT

Shi'ite fighters from Saraya al-Salam, loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, are seen during a patrol on the outskirt of west BaghdadWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of U.S. troops in the Middle East said on Friday Iraqi forces are "incrementally" recapturing ground from Islamic State militants who seized much of the country's northwest this year, but he added that major Iraq advances will take time. "They are doing some things now to incrementally recapture ground that's been lost," General Lloyd Austin, head of U.S. Central Command, said in his first news conference about the conflict. He cited the Kurdish operation around Mosul Dam and their recapture of the border post of Rabia. Austin said U.S. ...


Sentence given in 'loud music' murder

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 10:48 AM PDT

Michael Dunn raises his hands in disbelief as he looks toward his parents after the verdicts were announced in his trial in JacksonvilleA Florida man who killed a teen playing high-volume music learned his fate.


Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks out about Ebola

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 09:31 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2014 file photo, Texas Gov. Rick Perry talks to the media and supporters after he was booked at the Blackwell Thurman Criminal Justice Center, in Austin, Texas. Perry will make his first court appearance on Halloween as his defense team tries to quash the two felony counts of abuse of power against him on both constitutional and technical grounds. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)DALLAS (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has joined calls for an air travel ban from countries hit the hardest by Ebola.


Girls are going home

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 12:46 PM PDT

ACCORD ENTRE LES AUTORITÉS NIGÉRIANES ET BOKO HARAM SUR LA LIBÉRATION DES LYCÉENNES ENLEVÉESNigeria says it's reached a deal with Boko Haram.


Mysterious gun attacks against police in Washington state

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 08:41 AM PDT

FILE - This March 14, 2014 file photo shows a police car in Oakley, Mich. An Oakley village trustee plans to move to have police reservists return their badges and all other police equipment to the village, The Saginaw News reported. (AP Photo/The Saginaw News, Jeff Schrier, File) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUTMARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP) — A day after dozens of gunshots were directed at police in three Washington state towns, law enforcement officials said little about what prompted the shootings.


Obama names Ebola 'czar' as West Africa death toll rises

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 03:30 PM PDT

Obama pauses as he talks next to U.S. Secretary of HHS Burwell and Director of the CDC Frieden after meeting with his team coordinating the government's Ebola response in the Oval Office of the White House in WashingtonBy Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama appointed a former White House adviser as U.S. Ebola "czar" on Friday as the global death toll from the disease that has ravaged three West African countries rose to more than 4,500. Amid growing concerns about the spread of the virus in the United States, authorities said a Texas health worker, who was not ill but may have had contact with specimens from an Ebola patient, was quarantined on a cruise ship that departed last Sunday from the port of Galveston, Texas. ...


Courts knock down gay marriage bans in Arizona, Alaska, Wyoming

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 04:38 PM PDT

gay couples marry outside of Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds office in CharlotteBy David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - Barriers to gay marriage fell in Arizona, Alaska and Wyoming on Friday following a series of federal court actions in the latest in a series of legal victories for supporters of same-sex matrimony in America. In Arizona, U.S. District Judge John Sedwick wrote in a ruling made public on Friday that the state's restrictions on gay marriage were "unconstitutional by virtue of the fact that they deny same-sex couples the equal protection of the law." Same-sex couples in the state began getting married right away. ...


Fourth U.S. traffic death linked to Takata air bags

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 11:58 AM PDT

A sign board of Japanese auto parts maker Takata Corp's Annual General Meeting is seen on a street near the venue in TokyoBy Ben Klayman and Barbara Liston DETROIT/ORLANDO (Reuters) - A fourth traffic death in a Honda Motor Co car has been linked to a defective air bag made by Japanese supplier Takata Corp, according to a county medical examiner in Florida. Hien Tran died on Oct. 2, four days after her red 2001 Honda Accord sedan struck another car in Orlando and the air bags exploded, sending shrapnel at the 51-year-old woman, according to the Florida Highway Patrol crash report and Orange-Osceola Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia. ...


U.S. Navy discharges VP Biden's son for cocaine use

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 08:23 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden and his sonsWashington (AFP) - Vice President Joe Biden's son was discharged this year from the US Navy reserve after testing positive for cocaine, a US official confirmed to AFP.


UK police charge 4 in IS-linked terror plot

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 01:44 PM PDT

Scotland Yard said they had charged four men from London with intending to carry out or assist in acts of terrorismLondon (AFP) - Four men appeared in a British court on Friday charged with an alleged terror plot to shoot to kill police officers or soldiers on the streets of London, and with allegedly pledging allegiance to the Islamic State organisation.


Former Biden aide named ‘Ebola czar’

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 07:48 AM PDT

Ron KlainPresident Obama picked lawyer, Beltway vet Ron Klain, VP's former chief of staff, for outbreak response.


Nigerian military claims Boko Haram cease-fire, release of schoolgirls

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 02:52 PM PDT

Nigerian soldiers patrol in the north of Borno state close to a Islamist extremist group Boko Haram former camp near Maiduguri on June 5, 2013Abuja (AFP) - Nigeria on Friday claimed to have reached a deal with Boko Haram militants on a ceasefire and the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls but doubts immediately surrounded the purported breakthrough.


Is Islamic State about to go airborne?

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 04:57 AM PDT

A MIG 21 jet in Belgrade. Islamic State jihadists in Syria are said to be training to fly them, a monitoring group said on October 17, 2014Jihadists said being trained by Saddam Hussein's pilots to fly 3 jets captured from Syrian military.


16 dead in accident at South Korean concert

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 08:31 AM PDT

a collapsed ventilation grate at an outdoor theater in South KoreaSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Sixteen people watching an outdoor pop concert in South Korea fell 20 meters (60 feet) to their deaths Friday when a ventilation grate they were standing on collapsed, officials said.


UN admits it botched response to Ebola

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 11:47 AM PDT

Medical staff in in DallasWorld Health Organization blamed factors including incompetent staff and lack of information.


Walk-off homer sends Giants back to World Series

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The San Francisco Giants are headed to their third World Series in five seasons thanks to an exhilarating 6-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.


Texas health worker isolated on cruise ship

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 12:40 AM PDT

EBOLA IS NOT KILLING YOUR STOCK PORTFOLIOPassenger showing no symptoms of disease; did not have direct contact with now deceased Liberian patient Thomas Eric Duncan.


Powerful Hurricane Gonzalo comes ashore on Bermuda

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 03:28 PM PDT

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Gonzalo is roaring toward the British territory of Bermuda as a powerful Category 4 storm and forecasters say it will likely bring damaging winds and life-threatening storm surge to the island in coming hours.

Obama weighs Ebola czar

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 11:16 AM PDT

Medical staff in protective gear escort Nina Pham, exiting the ambulance, to a nearby aircraft at Love Field, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, in Dallas. Pham, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, was diagnosed with the Ebola virus after caring for Thomas Eric Duncan who died of the same virus. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)The president concedes that it may make sense for one person to lead the U.S. effort.


Ebola-infected nurse moved to Maryland

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 09:03 AM PDT

Nina Pham, first person to contract Ebola in U.S., speaks from Dallas hospital roomNina Pham, one of the two nurses who contracted Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, is expected to be moved to a National Institutes of Health facility in Maryland, multiple reports say.


Sources: Hunter Biden leaves Navy after drug test

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 07:44 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden with his son Hunter and his granddaughter FinneganWASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden, the youngest son of Vice President Joe Biden, has been kicked out of the military after testing positive for cocaine, two people familiar with the matter said Thursday.


Sen. Cruz criticizes Houston over sermon subpoenas

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 05:09 PM PDT

Sen. Cruz, surrounded by preachersHOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz told congregants of his home church Thursday that the city of Houston abused power by subpoenaing sermons and other documents from pastors who publicly opposed a local ordinance banning discrimination against gay and transgender residents.


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