2015年2月19日星期四

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Police make arrest in road-rage killing of Vegas mom

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 01:15 PM PST

A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department photo shows a suspect in the fatal shooting February 12, 2015 of Tammy Meyers in Las Vegas being taken into custody in Las VegasA suspect was arrested Thursday in the killing of a Las Vegas mother of four who was gunned down a week ago in a road-rage shootout after giving her daughter a driving lesson, police said.


Defense rests in 'American Sniper' murder trial

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:31 PM PST

Psychiatrist Dr. Mitchell H. Dunn testifies during the capital murder trial of Former Marine Cpl. Eddie Ray Routh at the Erath County, Donald R. Jones Justice Center Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, in Stephenville, Texas. Routh is charged with the 2013 deaths of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a shooting range near Glen Rose, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero,Pool)STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — Attorneys mounting an insanity defense rested their case Thursday in the trial of the ex-Marine charged with gunning down "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle and another man.


U.S. Embassy: Turkey, U.S. sign deal to train, arm Syrian rebels

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 12:14 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2014 file photo, smoke rises from the Syrian city of Kobani, following an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition, seen from a hilltop outside Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. The mass beheadings of Egyptian Christians by militants in Libya linked to the Islamic State group have thrown a spotlight on the threat the extremists pose beyond their heartland in Syria and Iraq, where they have established a self-declared proto-state. Militants in several countries - including Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia - have pledged allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey and the United States signed an agreement Thursday to train and arm Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State group, said the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.


Obama: Idea that West is at war with Islam is 'an ugly lie'

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 01:46 PM PST

US President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Summit to Counter Violent Extremism at the State Department in Washington, DC on February 19, 2015The president reiterates his call for the world to stand up to violent extremism.


Ex-New York assembly speaker Silver indicted

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 12:41 PM PST

New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver speaks at microphones as he leaves the federal court in New YorkBy Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A grand jury indicted Sheldon Silver, the former New York State Assembly speaker and one of the state's most powerful politicians for two decades, on federal corruption charges on Thursday, federal prosecutors said. Silver, who resigned as speaker after his arrest last month but remains the assemblyman for Manhattan's Lower East Side, was indicted on one count of honest services mail fraud, one count of honest services wire fraud and one count of using his office for extortion. Silver's lawyers said in a statement on Thursday he was not guilty. "We can now begin to fight for his total vindication," Joel Cohen and Steven Molo, Silver's lawyers, said in a statement.


Giuliani: Obama doesn’t love America

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 05:16 AM PST

Arguments made in ex-dictator's suit against gameThe former New York City mayor says he believes the president does not love the United States — or the people in it.


61 of 70 jurors selected for Tsarnaev trial

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 08:58 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2015, file courtroom sketch, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, left, is depicted beside U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr., right, as O'Toole addresses a pool of potential jurors in a jury assembly room at the federal courthouse, in Boston. Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tsarnaev have asked a judge three times to move his trial out of Massachusetts because of the emotional impact of the deadly attack. Three times, the judge has refused. On Thursday, Feb. 19, Tsarnaev's defense team will ask a federal appeals court to take the decision out of the hands of O'Toole Jr. and order him to move the trial. They insist that Tsarnaev cannot find a fair and impartial jury in Massachusetts because too many people believe he's guilty and many have personal connections to the marathon or the bombings. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins, File)Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys argue that an impartial jury can't be found in Boston.


Matt Bai: Obama, facilitator-in-chief

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 02:59 AM PST

Matt Bai - Obama's diminished presidencyIn the last year or so, Barack Obama's team has deployed the presidential summit as a central response to just about every topic of national significance. At this late stage of Obama's presidency, the idea seems to be that talking about a policy — or at least being seen talking about it — is a kind of policy in itself.


‘American Sniper’ trial puts rural Texas town in unwanted spotlight

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 03:05 AM PST

American Sniper TrialPeople in the small Texas town where "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and his best friend were slain want justice, but say celebrity murder cases are meant for Hollywood, not rural hideaways. "It's different than normal life in Stephenville," longtime resident Chick Elms said of the trial now in its second week.


Bomb scare proves false alarm near Hollywood venue for Oscars

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:37 PM PST

A bomb disposal robot is seen investigating a suspicious item in a vehicle near the Dolby Theater ahead of the 87th Academy Awards in Hollywood, CaliforniaBy Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A bomb scare triggered by an erratic motorist brandishing a propane tank at a shopping strip near the Hollywood venue for the upcoming Oscars show proved to be a false alarm on Thursday, but the man was detained, Los Angeles police said. Bomb squad investigators cordoned off a row of storefronts and the front entrance of a hotel across the street after a man who was driving recklessly in the area emerged from his car with the propane cannister, according to police on the scene. Bomb disposal technicians later detonated the items in question as a precaution, one officer said. The incident unfolded at about 11 a.m. local time about a block away from the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue, where the Dolby Theatre complex is located, and police were on the scene for roughly five hours before the all-clear was given.


California mass shooter had penchant for Nazis, investigators say

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:22 PM PST

A picture of Elliot Rodger is displayed during a news conference by Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown at Sheriff headquarters in Santa BarbaraBy Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 22-year-old California man who killed six college students last year before taking his own life in a rampage near Santa Barbara had an interest in Nazis and conducted a Web search for torture devices, a report released on Thursday showed. Elliot Rodger stabbed three men to death in his apartment in the community of Isla Vista last May before fatally shooting three more people and wounding 14 others near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Rodger had a history of mental health issues and in an Internet manifesto before the rampage, expressed frustration about his lack of success with women. The report by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office detailing the outcome of its probe into the killings said investigators still could not determine what motivated Rodger to commit the slayings.


Accused aide to Osama bin Laden opposed calls for violence, jury told

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 02:33 PM PST

Courtroom sketch shows Khalid al-Fawwaz, a 52-year-old Saudi national, during closing arguments of his trial in the New York Federal CourtBy Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for a Saudi man accused by U.S. prosecutors of acting as Osama bin Laden's lieutenant argued at the close of his trial on Thursday that he was a peaceful dissident who found the al Qaeda leader's violent ideology abhorrent. Khalid al-Fawwaz is charged with participating in several al Qaeda conspiracies, including one that resulted in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, but he is not accused of planning the attacks. Instead, the government has said he provided crucial groundwork that facilitated the plot, such as sending equipment to al Qaeda members and functioning as bin Laden's "man in London." Defense lawyer Bobbi Sternheim told jurors in federal court in Manhattan that the government was trying to make al-Fawwaz guilty by association. "This case seemed like it was the United States against Osama bin Laden," she said in closing arguments at the month-long trial.


'Superbug' outbreak raises questions about medical tool

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

This illustration released by the Centers for Disease Control depicts a three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of a group of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae bacteria. The artistic recreation was based upon scanning electron micrographic imagery. A potentially deadly "superbug" resistant to antibiotics infected seven patients, including two who died, and more than 100 others were exposed at a Southern California hospital through contaminated medical instruments, UCLA reported Wednesday Feb. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Centers for Disease Control)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A "superbug" outbreak suspected in the deaths of two Los Angeles hospital patients is raising disturbing questions about the design of a hard-to-clean medical instrument used on more than half a million people in the U.S. every year.


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