2015年6月2日星期二

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Friend of Boston bomber apologizes for obstructing investigation

Posted: 02 Jun 2015 10:00 AM PDT

Boston Marathon bomber's college pal gets 6 years in prisonA friend of the Boston Marathon bomber apologized on Tuesday, before being sentenced to six years in prison for obstruction of justice, for not calling the police when he realized his friend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a suspect in the deadly attack. Kazakhstan national Dias Kadyrbayev, 21, was one of three friends of Tsarnaev's to face federal charges for removing a backpack containing fireworks from the bomber's college dorm three days after the April 15, 2013, bombing, as the FBI searched for Tsarnaev and his older brother.


Congress sends NSA phone-records bill to president

Posted: 02 Jun 2015 03:32 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 2, 2015, to call for the 28 classified pages of the 9-11 report to be declassified. Paul has been voicing his dissent in the Senate against a House bill backed by the president that would end the National Security Agency's collection of American calling records while preserving other surveillance authorities. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)The bill revives and remakes a disputed post-9/11 surveillance program two days after letting it temporarily expire.


'Call me Caitlyn': Vanity Fair editor and stylist talk to Katie Couric

Posted: 02 Jun 2015 08:48 AM PDT

Caitlyn Jenner Tweets By the NumbersBuzz Bissinger and stylist Jessica Diehl share the story behind Caitlyn Jenner's debut.


U.S. Congress reverses post September 11 surveillance program

Posted: 02 Jun 2015 03:59 PM PDT

Wyden speaks with reporters as he arrives for the weekly Democratic Caucus policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonBy Patricia Zengerle and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation reforming a government surveillance program that swept up millions of Americans' telephone records, sending the bill to the White House for President Barack Obama to sign into law. Reversing security policy in place since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the bill would end a system exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Passage of the USA Freedom Act, the result of an alliance between Senate Democrats and some of the chamber's most conservative Republicans, was a victory for Obama, a Democrat, and a setback for Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.


Colorado theater shooter views death, life sentences as equal punishments

Posted: 02 Jun 2015 03:10 PM PDT

File photo of James Holmes sitting in court for an advisement hearing at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in CentennialBy Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes told a psychiatrist that he views life in prison and execution as equal punishments but wants his life spared out of concern for his family, jurors in his capital murder trial heard on Tuesday. The disclosure from the former neuroscience graduate student now on trial for opening fire in a Denver-area cinema came during a videotaped interview session conducted last year by court-appointed psychiatrist William Reid that was shown in court. Holmes, 27, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to fatally shooting 12 moviegoers and wounding dozens more during a shooting rampage at a midnight screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in July 2012.


Obama awards posthumous Medals of Honor to World War One soldiers

Posted: 02 Jun 2015 12:28 PM PDT

Undated photographs show WWI Medal of Honor recipients Johnson and SheminBy Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday awarded posthumous Medals of Honor to two soldiers from World War One, one an African American and the other a Jew, who arguably were denied the honor earlier because of discrimination. The medals, the United States' highest military honor for valor, went to Sergeant William Shemin of Bayonne, New Jersey, and Private Henry Johnson, of Albany, New York, 97 years after they saved comrades on French battlefields. "They both risked their own lives to save the lives of others," Obama said in the White House ceremony.


Sepp Blatter says he will resign as FIFA president

Posted: 02 Jun 2015 09:55 AM PDT

FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who has faced calls, even since his reelection, to stand down, has expressed doubts about the raidSepp Blatter, FIFA's long-time president, announced on Tuesday that he will be resigning as soon as an extraordinary FIFA congress has elected a successor.


Report tells of rapid capsize on China cruise ship

Posted: 02 Jun 2015 07:00 AM PDT

A diver (C) walks into the water as rescue teams search for survivors from the Dongfangzhixing or "Eastern Star" vessel which sank in the Yangtze river on June 2, 2015Tour guide Zhang Hui "had 30 seconds to grab a life jacket," before the ship overturned in China's mighty Yangtze river during a storm Monday night, the Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. The 43-year old and a colleague "grabbed everything they could reach and kept their heads above water" as the ship sank, Xinhua said. More than a dozen people have been been saved from the Dongfangzhixing, or "Eastern Star," which went down on the popular tourist route from the eastern city of Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing, Xinhua said.


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