2015年7月15日星期三

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Obama vigorously challenges critics of landmark Iran deal

Posted: 15 Jul 2015 03:05 PM PDT

President Barack Obama answers questions about the Iran nuclear deal during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 15, 2015. The president vigorously defended the nuclear deal with Iran, casting the historic accord as the only possibility to avert a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and reduce the chances of war. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — Vigorously challenging his critics, President Barack Obama launched an aggressive and detailed defense of a landmark Iranian nuclear accord Wednesday, rejecting the idea that it leaves Tehran on the brink of a bomb and arguing the only alternative to the diplomatic deal is war.


Impact of Iran deal on detained American journalist

Posted: 15 Jul 2015 01:20 PM PDT

Impact of Iran deal on detained American journalistThe family of Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post journalist accused of espionage and imprisoned in Iran for nearly 1 year, is hoping this week's Iranian nuclear agreement could somehow lead to his release.


Lindsey Graham on the Iran deal, Cuba, and being a bachelor president

Posted: 15 Jul 2015 04:30 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., holds up a license plate signed by other presidential candidates during a campaign event at city hall in Manchester, N.H., Wednesday, July 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham told Yahoo News in an interview on Wednesday that he would break the Iran nuclear deal on his first day in the White House. He also said he would shut the U.S. embassy in Cuba, and joked that America is ready for a bachelor like him to be president because "married people have screwed up the world."


Kate Steinle's brother: Trump 'sensationalizing' my sister's death

Posted: 15 Jul 2015 10:59 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at FreedomFest Saturday, July 11, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)The brother of Kate Steinle — the 32-year-old woman who was killed in a random shooting in San Francisco earlier this month — says Donald Trump is sensationalizing his sister's death to score political points.


Obama: Prison rape is no joke

Posted: 15 Jul 2015 08:51 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at the NAACP's 106th national convention at the Philadelphia Convention Center, on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The president is calling for sweeping reforms to fix a criminal justice system he says is "skewed by race and wealth" and plagued with problems in its prisons. Among them: Overcrowding, gang activity, and rape.


In Arab world, worries that deal will boost Iran's power

Posted: 15 Jul 2015 11:23 AM PDT

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is also Iran's top nuclear negotiator, center, shakes hands with an official upon arrival at the Mehrabad airport in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Zarif and his entourage returned to Tehran on Wednesday morning, a day after Iran and the West reached a historic nuclear deal. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The nuclear deal with Iran was met with a profound wariness in the Arab world, where concerns are widespread that the easing of its international isolation could tip the already bloody contest for power in the region toward Shiite-led Tehran.


Trump campaign to reveal wealth details: 'I'm really rich'

Posted: 15 Jul 2015 12:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 29, 2015, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles for a photographer before he addresses members of the City Club of Chicago, in Chicago. As other presidential candidates fight to raise money, Trump is reminding everyone he's already got a lot of it. The celebrity businessman's campaign was expected to reveal details on July 15 of his fortune, which he estimated last month at nearly $9 million when announcing his Republican presidential candidacy. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump unveiled new documents Wednesday setting his personal fortune at more than $10 billion and his annual income at more than $362 million.


GOP candidates slam Iran deal, but how will that play in 2016?

Posted: 15 Jul 2015 12:29 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 13, 2015 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, speaks in Ames, Iowa. Hillary Rodham Clinton offered a qualified endorsement of the landmark nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday, underscoring the deeply tangled links between President Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy and the presidential aspirations of his former Secretary of State. "This isn't diplomacy _ it is appeasement,The agreement was only a few hours old when Republican White House hopefuls began vowing to overturn it.


Jurors begin deliberating in Colorado movie massacre trial

Posted: 15 Jul 2015 03:56 PM PDT

Accused Aurora theater gunman James Holmes listens during his arraignment in CentennialBy Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Jurors in Colorado's movie massacre trial began deliberating on Wednesday on the fate of gunman James Holmes, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to multiple counts of murder and attempted murder stemming from his rampage in July 2012. Holmes, a 27-year-old former neuroscience graduate student from California, could face the death penalty if he is convicted of opening fire inside a midnight premiere of a Batman movie at a Denver area multiplex, killing 12 people and wounding 70. During the trial, two court-appointed psychiatrists testified for the prosecution that while the defendant is severely mentally ill, he was sane when he plotted and carried out the massacre.


Four dead after flash floods in Kentucky, Indiana

Posted: 15 Jul 2015 04:50 PM PDT

By Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - Four people have died and at least five were still unaccounted for on Wednesday after a series of storms struck the Ohio Valley, producing flash floods that swept through parts of eastern Kentucky and southern Indiana, officials said. Three bodies have been recovered in Johnson County, Kentucky, which was hard hit by flooding, and a fourth person drowned in southern Indiana after his car was swept into a creek, officials said. Searchers recovered the body of a 22-year-old man on Wednesday afternoon, one of two people listed as missing who were last seen being swept away on Monday by floods in Johnson County, about 125 miles east of Lexington, officials said.

Sons of Confederacy sees flag controversy as 'nightmare'

Posted: 15 Jul 2015 01:16 PM PDT

The Confederate battle flag is removed from the pole at the South Carolina statehouse grounds during a ceremony in ColumbiaThe commander in chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans says he fails to understand the wave of hostility directed at the Confederate flag following the massacre of nine black people at a South Carolina church last month. "I'll use the words of Jefferson Davis: 'We just want to be left alone,'" Charles Kelly Barrow said on Wednesday, quoting the man who served as the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War of 1861-65. Barrow and about 1,000 members of his organization were in Richmond, Virginia, this week for the 120th national reunion of the SCV, formed in 1896 and open to male descendants of Confederate soldiers.


The lost Gerald Ford portrait: An art mystery

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 05:55 PM PDT

Gerald Ford, the president America needed post-WatergateHow did a painting Time magazine commissioned in 1974 end up in a cluttered coat closet 40 years later?


With Iran deal reached, what should Israel do now?

Posted: 14 Jul 2015 06:39 PM PDT

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference with Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Tuesday, July 14, 2015. (Ahikam Seri/Pool Photo via AP)Some are saying Benjamin Netanyahu should accept it as a fait accompli and try to repair his relationship with President Obama, which is more tense and troubled than any between an Israeli and American leader in more than 30 years.


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