2015年2月20日星期五

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NASCAR suspends Kurt Busch before Daytona 500

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 04:32 PM PST

FILE - In this May 17, 2014 file photo, Kurt Busch, left, walks with his girlfriend, Patricia Driscoll, after arriving for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. Attorneys for the NASCAR driver asked a Delaware judge on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, to reopen a Family Court hearing that resulted in Busch's ex-girlfriend Driscoll being granted a no-contact order. (AP Photo/Terry Renna, File)The suspension comes hours after a judge said he committed an act of domestic violence.


Police: Suspect bragged about Las Vegas road-rage killing

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 03:37 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, photo, Robert Meyers, left, and others bow their heads during a prayer at a candlelight vigil for his wife, Tammy, who was taken off life support on Saturday after a shooting in Las Vegas. What police first described as a road rage-inspired shooting of an innocent mother of four has morphed into a more complex scenario, prompting a backlash Wednesday against the Las Vegas family and the way the case is being handled. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Sun, L.E. Baskow) LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL OUTLAS VEGAS (AP) — The teenage neighbor arrested in what has been described as the road-rage slaying of a Las Vegas mother boasted about the shooting and told friends that he emptied several clips from his semi-automatic handgun during the gunbattle, according to a police report released Friday.


Greece wins eurozone bailout deal with strict conditions

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 02:58 PM PST

A man holds a Greek flag in front of the parliament in Athens as people gather in support to their government on February 20, 2015The 19 eurozone finance ministers reached the hard-won deal at tense talks pitting Greece against an angry Germany, suspicious that the new radical leftist government in Athens was looking to ditch its austerity obligations. "The meeting was intense because it was about building trust between us," said Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem, after the talks ended with a two-page statement setting out the tough conditions Athens will have to fulfil. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said the deal marked a new era for Athens and its relationship with the European Union, after two painful bailouts put together at the height of the debt crisis to save the euro. Athens claimed the rescues and the austerity measures it had to follow since its first 2010 bailout had wrecked the Greek economy, making it impossible to manage its mountain of debt.


Suspect in blast near NAACP office: Target was accountant

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 04:42 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2015 file photo, Colorado Springs, Colo., police officers investigate the scene of an explosion at a building in Colorado Springs that houses a barber shop and the Colorado Springs chapter of the NAACP. A law enforcement source says 44-year-old Thaddeus Murphy has been arrested in connection with the explosion and was in custody Friday, Feb. 20, 2015, and due to appear in federal court later in the day. The FBI investigated the explosion as a possible hate crime. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Christian Murdock, File) MAGS OUTCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The man accused of setting off a small explosion last month that rattled nerves because of its proximity to a Colorado NAACP office says he was in a rage over his financial problems and was actually targeting his accountant, according to court documents filed Friday.


Ex-Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell sentenced

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 03:49 PM PST

Former first lady Maureen McDonnell, right, arrives at federal court with her son Bobby for her sentencing on corruption charges in Richmond, Va., Friday, Feb. 20, 2015. Federal prosecutors have recommended an 18-month prison term, six months less than former Gov. Bob McDonnell received when he was convicted on 11 counts last month. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)McDonnell receives her punishment for a role in a bribery scheme that destroyed her husband's career.


Germany, France demand Ukraine ceasefire be 'fully respected'

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 12:12 PM PST

A Ukrainian flag hangs on the wall of a destroyed building in Luganske village, in the Donetsk region, on February 20, 2015Germany and France demanded Friday that a crumbling Ukraine truce be "fully respected" even as pro-Russian rebels celebrated a battlefield victory in a strategic town and exchanged artillery fire elsewhere with government troops. "The ceasefire has been violated several times," French President Francois Hollande said in a joint Paris media conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. French officials said the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France would meet in Paris next Tuesday to discuss the conflict.


Rand Paul: Presidential announcement likely in March, April

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 10:15 AM PST

In this photo taken Feb. 10, 2015, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaks in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Paul said he is likely to announce whether he'll run for president in 2016 sometime in March or April from his home state of Kentucky. The Kentucky Republican told reporters after a Friday speech in Louisville that he was getting closer to making a decision, but all signs point to Paul launching a campaign. Next month, he will ask the state Republican Party to create a presidential caucus in 2016. That way, Paul could run for president and re-election to his Senate seat simultaneously without appearing on the primary ballot for two offices. That's banned by Kentucky law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The senator from Kentucky dropped a big hint about his 2016 ambitions.


Greek PM 'certain' euro zone will accept loan deal

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 02:06 PM PST

A Greek and a European flag flutter outside the Greek embassy in BrusselsBy Jan Strupczewski and Renee Maltezou BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers agreed in principle on Friday to extend Greece's financial rescue by four months, averting a potential cash crunch in March that could have forced the country out of the currency area. The deal, to be ratified once Greece's creditors are satisfied with a list of reforms it will submit next week, ends weeks of uncertainty since the election of a leftist-led government in Athens which pledged to reverse austerity. "Tonight was a first step in this process of rebuilding trust," Jeroen Dijsselbloem, chairman of the 19-nation Eurogroup, told a news conference. "We have established common ground again to reach agreement on this statement." The agreement, clinched after the third ministerial meeting in two weeks of acrimonious public exchanges, offers a breathing space for the new Greek government to try to negotiate longer-term debt relief with its official creditors.


Finger-pointing, lawsuits likely to follow 'superbug' scare

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 04:19 PM PST

Dr. Zachary Rubin, medical director of clinical epidemiology and infection prevention at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, right, takes questions from the media in Los Angeles Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015. Los Angeles County health officials say a "superbug" bacterial outbreak at a local hospital doesn't pose any threat to public health. At left, Dr. Robert Cherry, chief medical and quality officer, UCLA Health System, and Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, deputy chief of the Acute Communicable Disease Control Program at the county Department of Public Health, middle. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)LOS ANGELES (AP) — With an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" outbreak connected to its facility, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center stopped short of pointing a finger at the manufacturer of a medical instrument believed to have spread the deadly germs. The maker of the product was careful not to blame the hospital as it issued new cleaning instructions emphasizing meticulous manual sterilization.


Refugees in Niger live under shadow of Boko Haram

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 03:50 AM PST

Buses full of displaced people from the Diffa region of Niger fleeing fighting between army and Boko Haram on the border between Niger and Nigeria are checked by police on the outskirts of Zinder pictured on February 13, 2014Aboubacar, usually a worker for a non-governmental organisation, has now taken on another, more ominous role: watching out for suicide bombers. "We watch everyone," he said in Niger's second-largest city of Zinder. His fears reflect the shifting threat of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, which has in recent weeks carried out attacks across the border from its base in northeastern Nigeria as regional forces pursue them. In the southern city of Zinder, the hot, dusty streets have seen a trail of refugees from Niger's Diffa, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) to the east.


Warnings after blizzards sweep across Middle East

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 03:12 AM PST

Palestinian children play in the snow in front of the Dome of the Rock mosque in the old city of Jerusalem on February 20, 2015Snow blanketed much of Israel, Jordan and Lebanon early on Friday, with many residents urged to stay in their homes because of blocked or icy roads. People in Jerusalem woke up to around 25 centimetres of snow after the second major blizzard of winter swept across the hilltop Holy City. The two main highways into Jerusalem, which climb to around 795 metres (2,600 feet) above sea level, were closed in both directions for several hours but reopened at around midday, police said. "There's heavy snow falling in Jerusalem, about 25 centimetres (10 inches) so far and it will continue to fall throughout the day," Israel Meteorological Service forecaster Rinat Rehamim told public radio.


'Parks and Recreation' producer Harris Wittels found dead

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 10:25 PM PST

Parks and Recreation Producer Found Dead of Apparent Drug OverdoseLOS ANGELES (AP) — Harris Wittels, who worked as a writer and executive producer on the NBC comedy "Parks and Recreation," was found dead Thursday of a possible drug overdose at his Los Angeles home, police said. He was 30.


Eastern U.S. bitter cold snap brings pain, grimaces and wonder

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 10:13 AM PST

People skate on the Wollman Rink in Central Park in the Manhattan borough of New YorkBy Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people awoke to painfully cold weather in the eastern United States on Friday, with temperatures frigid enough in New York City and Washington to break decades-old record lows for Feb. 20. At his small grocery store in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood, Mohammad Islam, 30, anticipated selling a lot of hot coffee as the temperature outside hovered around 4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15.6 degrees Celsius), beating the record low of 7 degrees set in 1950 according to National Weather Service records. "I've never seen cold like this," he said unhappily, noting he had moved to New York from Bangladesh in 2003. "All I got to do is dress warm," Ludlow Chamberlain, a 76-year-old custodian at a nearby concert hall, said before counting off his layers on two hands.


Pennsylvania college aims to end insurance coverage of abortions in rape cases

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 02:59 PM PST

By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - University of Scranton employee insurance plans will no longer cover abortions in cases of rape, incest or life-threatening pregnancies under a plan that the Jesuit school says is consistent with Catholic doctrine. The union negotiated away coverage for elective abortions nine years ago in return for adoption coverage, but its current contract pays for abortions in cases of rape, incest, or to save the live of the mother. In a letter to faculty released by the university on Friday, its president, Rev. Kevin Quinn, said that even limited abortion coverage is "inconsistent with the moral teachings of the church." The move comes as Pope Francis, the first Catholic pontiff who is a member of the Jesuit order, prepares to visit Pennsylvania in September. Michael Friedman, an English professor who serves as union president, insisted that Quinn could not impose the change unilaterally.

Amid controversy, oil trains quietly rerouted through Virginia towns

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 11:49 AM PST

A crude oil train moves past the loading rack at the Eighty-Eight Oil LLC's transloading facility in Ft. LaramieHundreds of communities across the United States have become accustomed to the sight of mile-long oil trains rumbling by in recent years. Pembroke, Virginia, was not one of them, until now. CSX Corp is temporarily rerouting up to five oil trains through this small riverside town to bypass the site of an explosive oil train derailment that occurred 90 miles north in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, on Monday. In line with a federal protocol established last year following a string of fiery derailments across North America, the Virginia Department of Emergency Management on Tuesday informed 16 counties and cities that oil trains could be coming through their towns, local officials and fire departments said, one day after the Mount Carbon derailment.


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