2014年11月1日星期六

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Virgin Galactic founder: 'We fell short'

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:59 PM PDT

Billionaire Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson, at podium, salutes the bravery of test pilots, and vows to find out what caused the crash of his prototype space tourism rocket that killed one crew member and injured another during a news conference in Mojave, Calif., Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo blew apart about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the Mojave airfield after being released from a carrier aircraft Friday. (AP Photo/Scott Fain)Richard Branson vows to find out what caused the crash of his space tourism rocket.


5 dead after fire sweeps Maine student housing building

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:34 PM PDT

Neighbors look at the scene of a fatal apartment building fire, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014, in Portland, Maine. The fire swept through a two-apartment building housing students from the University of Southern Maine on Saturday morning, killing four people and critically injuring one, authorities said. They were still trying to account for several people who had been at a Halloween party at the building the night before. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)Fire swept through a two-apartment building housing college students.


Tech-savvy grandma saves Kansas Democrats

Posted: 31 Oct 2014 10:54 AM PDT

Kansas Democratic Party Chairwoman Joan Wagnon answers questions from reporters following a court ruling that the party does not have to pick a new nominee for the U.S. Senate, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, in Topeka, Kan. The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed by a disgruntled voter after the previous nominee dropped out of the race against Republican Sen. Pat Roberts. (AP Photo/John Hanna)Joan Wagnon, 74, is close to reviving her party after a stunning GOP defeat in 2010.


Branson determined to find cause of Virgin spaceship crash, pilots identified

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:40 PM PDT

Sheriff's deputies look at a piece of debris near the crash site of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo near CantilBy Lucy Nicholson and Irene Klotz MOJAVE Calif./CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson on Saturday vowed to find out what caused his space tourism company's passenger spaceship to crash during a test flight, killing one pilot and injuring the other, but expressed a desire to press on with the dream of commercial space flight. Michael Alsbury, 39, has been identified as the pilot who died in the crash of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, and the surviving pilot is Peter Siebold, 43, the Kern County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. ...


Obama stumps in Michigan, where his popularity is still strong

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:46 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the economy at Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode IslandBy Roberta Rampton DETROIT (Reuters) - President Barack Obama made his lone campaign appearance with a Democrat running for Senate on Saturday in Michigan, urging voters to remember how his administration helped rescue the auto industry when he first took office in 2009. Obama, whose unpopularity has left him on the sidelines leading up to Tuesday's midterm elections, spoke to a crowd of about 6,000 supporters of Democratic congressman Gary Peters, who is expected to win the seat held by retiring long-time Democratic Senator Carl Levin. ...


Former Marine freed from Mexico jail arrives home in Florida

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 10:44 AM PDT

Former U.S. Marine Andrew Tahmooressi talks to U.S. immigration offices at the San Ysidro border crossingBy Ellen Wulfhorst (Reuters) - A former U.S. Marine, newly freed after seven months in a Mexican jail on gun charges, arrived in his home state of Florida on Saturday to get treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. A Mexican court released Andrew Tahmooressi, 26, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, on Friday on psychological grounds. He was set free so he could seek treatment for the post-traumatic stress disorder he developed after his military service, the court said. Tahmooressi was jailed in Mexico after arriving at the border from California with three guns in his pick-up truck. ...


New York doctor with Ebola improves, nurse reunited with dog

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:07 PM PDT

Traffic drives past Bellevue Hospital where Dr. Craig Spencer is currently recovering from Ebola in New YorkBy Jill Serjeant NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York doctor with Ebola, whose case triggered a national debate over mandatory quarantines for health workers returning from West Africa, was upgraded to stable condition on Saturday after nine days of treatment. Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, the only person in the United States currently being treated for Ebola, will remain in isolation, New York City's Bellevue Hospital said in a statement. He has improved to "stable" from "serious but stable. ...


Gas under $3 for 1st time in 4 years

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 09:38 AM PDT

In this Oct. 29, 2014 photo, Mikel Marshall fills his car with gasoline at a Mobil station in Houston, where regular gas was available for $2.85 per gallon. The U.S. is on track for the lowest annual average gas price since 2010 _ and the 2015 average is expected to be lower even still. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)NEW YORK (AP) — The sight is so surprising that Americans are sharing photos of it, along with all those cute Halloween costumes, sweeping vistas and special meals: The gas station sign, with a price of $2-something a gallon.


Ebola-free Texas nurse, pet dog reunited after long quarantine

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 09:08 AM PDT

Ebola Survivor Nina Pham Reunites With Her DogThe Dallas nurse treated for Ebola had an emotional reunion on Saturday with her "best friend", a King Charles Spaniel, after the pet spent the last three weeks in quarantine being monitored for the deadly virus. The dog named Bentley showered Nina Pham with licks at a handover ceremony near the Dallas shelter where he had been kept in isolation and cared for by kennel workers in protective suits. Pham, 26, became the first person in the United States to be infected with Ebola after treating an infected man. ...


Funeral held for soldier killed in Quebec car attack

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 11:38 AM PDT

The casket of warrant officer Patrice Vincent leaves the church after funeral services Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014 in Longueuil, Quebec. Vincent was run over and killed in what is being described as a terrorist attack last week. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Ryan Remiorz)Mourners including Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper paid respects in Quebec on Saturday at the second of two funerals for soldiers killed in attacks police said were carried out independently by radical recent converts to Islam. Patrice Vincent, a 53-year-old warrant officer, died on Oct. 20 near Montreal when a man ran over him and a fellow soldier with a car. The driver was later shot and killed by police. Vincent's funeral on Saturday in the city of Longueuil, Quebec, just across the St. ...


Report says 60,000 veterans get triple benefits

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 07:46 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 9, 2014 file photo, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Coburn requested a Government Accountability Office report which showed nearly 60,000 veterans collected more than $3.5 billion in 2013 in military retirement pay, disability benefits from Veterans Affairs and disability checks from Social Security. Coburn said officials should fulfill promises to veterans, but work to streamline duplicative programs. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)Nearly 60,000 veterans were triple dippers last year, drawing a total of $3.5 billion in military retirement pay plus veterans and Social Security disability benefits at the same time, congressional auditors report.


Nigerian extremist says kidnapped girls married

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 03:32 PM PDT

This Friday Oct. 31, 2014 image taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, center, has denied agreeing to any cease-fire with the government and said Friday more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls all have converted to Islam and been married off. (AP Photo)Nigeria's kidnapped schoolgirls have all been converted to Islam and married off, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremists claimed in a new video message.


'We just had a hunch': How U.S. marshals nabbed Eric Frein

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 05:41 AM PDT

Eric Frein, charged with murder of Pennsylvania State Trooper Cpl. Byron Dickson and critically wounding Trooper Alex Douglass Sept. 10, is taken to prison after a preliminary hearing in Pike County Courthouse on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014 in Milford, Pa. (AP Photo/The Scranton Times-Tribune, Michael J. Mullen)MOUNTAINHOME, Pa. (AP) — Scott Malkowski, a task force commander with the U.S. Marshals Service, spied a figure moving from the woods toward an abandoned airplane hangar in the Pocono Mountains. Looking at his face, his black hat and fleece, and his height and weight, Malkowski was certain he had his man.


Ebola quarantines a 'disincentive' for health workers

Posted: 31 Oct 2014 02:10 PM PDT

Dr Anthony Fauci appears at the Washington Ideas Forum in WashingtonAnthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told Yahoo News Friday that "blanket restrictions" on health care workers returning from West Africa could worsen the Ebola epidemic in the region.


New question in Texas: Can Wendy Davis survive defeat?

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 04:47 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2014 FILE photo, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis visits with supporters at a book signing in Austin, Texas. With just days before the election, Davis isn't addressing an arena packed with adoring supporters, speaking on national television or working a hotel ballroom of top donors. Instead, the Democratic candidate for Texas governor is addressing a small group of volunteers in a backyard. The woman who once stirred excitement among Democrats nationwide now faces seemingly insurmountable odds to beat her well-funded and popular Republican opponent. So the question looming over the race is whether defeat will reduce her to a spent political force (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)KILLEEN, Texas (AP) — It's a sunny afternoon just before the election and Wendy Davis isn't addressing an arena packed with adoring supporters, speaking on national television or working a hotel ballroom of top donors.


Driver sought in crash that killed 3 on Halloween

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 02:59 PM PDT

Police and emergency respoders at the scene where three teenage girls trick-or-treating in costume were hit by a vehicle and killed while walking across a Southern California intersection in Santa Ana Calif., Friday Oct. 31, 2014. Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna says the girls were hit while in a crosswalk near an elementary school early Friday evening. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Paul Rodriguez)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities on Saturday tracked the owner of an SUV suspected of being used in a Halloween night hit-and-run that killed three teenage girls to a Southern California home, only to find someone else living there.


3 girls trick-or-treating killed in hit-and-run

Posted: 01 Nov 2014 12:20 AM PDT

Police and emergency respoders at the scene where three teenage girls trick-or-treating in costume were hit by a vehicle and killed while walking across a Southern California intersection in Santa Ana Calif., Friday Oct. 31, 2014. Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna says the girls were hit while in a crosswalk near an elementary school early Friday evening. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Paul Rodriguez)The girls were hit at an intersection in Santa Ana, Calif., authorities said.


After U.S. rocket explodes, Russians deliver food to Int'l Space Station

Posted: 29 Oct 2014 07:23 AM PDT

Russia Launches Unmanned Supply Ship Toward Space StationAn unmanned Antares rocket exploded seconds after liftoff in Virginia.


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