2015年11月14日星期六

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Paris attacks show U.S. surveillance of Islamic State may be ‘going dark’

Posted: 14 Nov 2015 12:31 PM PST

People gather in front of flowers that were laid outside the French embassy in Rome, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. French police on Saturday hunted possible accomplices of eight assailants who terrorized Paris concert-goers, cafe diners and soccer fans with a coordinated string of suicide bombings and shootings in France's deadliest peacetime attacks. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)The attacks underscore the mounting difficulties U.S. and Western intelligence agencies are having in tracking the terror group, resulting in repeated warnings that their efforts to conduct surveillance of Islamic State suspects were "going dark."


Five questions about Paris for Clinton, Sanders, and O’Malley

Posted: 14 Nov 2015 11:53 AM PST

5 questions about Paris for Hillary, Bernie and O'MalleyHillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O'Malley will face off Saturday in their second debate, their fight for the Democratic presidential nomination transformed by the devastating terrorist attacks in Paris Friday. In the wake of the deaths of 129 — and counting — the prime-time showdown seems certain to focus heavily on national security, pitting the former secretary of state's more hawkish views against the independent senator's well-known reluctance to use force, while leaving O'Malley hunting for ways to cast himself as a plausible commander-in-chief.


Sanders aide pushes back against CBS switch to foreign policy focus for debate

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College student from California studying abroad killed in Paris attacks

Posted: 14 Nov 2015 04:54 PM PST

Students, friends and members of the media, gather while listening to a media briefing by University president in memory of 23-year-old Cal State University Long Beach (CA) student Nohemi Gonzalez who died in Paris terror attacksBy Tori Richards LONG BEACH, Calif. (Reuters) - A California university student who was studying design in France was killed in an attack on a restaurant in Paris, making her the first American confirmed dead in the assault at several sites in the French capital, school officials said on Saturday. Nohemi Gonzalez, 23, was a junior at California State University, Long Beach, just south of Los Angeles, and was studying for a semester at the Strate College of Design in a suburb of Paris, said CSULB spokesman Michael Uhlenkamp. On Friday night, several sites around Paris were targeted in a coordinated assault by gunmen and bombers in what the Paris public prosecutor said killed at least 129 people and wounded more than 350, of whom nearly 100 remain in critical condition.


New York, other U.S. cities beef up security after Paris attacks

Posted: 13 Nov 2015 08:51 PM PST

New York City police officers stand guard outside the consulate of France following the attacks in Paris, in the Manhattan borough of New YorkBy Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York, Boston and other cities in the United States bolstered security on Friday night after deadly gun and bomb attacks on civilians in Paris, but law enforcement officials said the beefed-up police presence was precautionary rather than a response to any specific threats. The New York Police Department said officers from its Counterterrorism Response Command and other special units were deployed in areas frequented by tourists, and at the French Consulate in Manhattan. "Teams have been dispatched to crowded areas around the city out of an abundance of caution to provide police presence and public reassurance as we follow the developing situation overseas," the NYPD said in a statement.


Supreme Court's Texas abortion ruling to have broad impact in states

Posted: 14 Nov 2015 09:29 AM PST

File photo of anti-abortion activist wearing mirrored sunglasses and a piece of tape over his mouth in front of the Supreme Court building in WashingtonBy Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Friday to hear a challenge to tough abortion restrictions in Texas raises questions about the legal fate of similar laws in more than a dozen other states. The court's ruling, due by June, could spell out the extent to which states can impose clinic regulations likely to restrict access to abortion as an outpatient procedure. If the court upholds the Texas law, similar laws would also fall.


Death toll at least 129 in Paris terror attacks

Posted: 13 Nov 2015 05:14 PM PST

Investigating police officers work outside the Stade de France stadium after an international friendly soccer match France against Germany, in Saint Denis, outside Paris, Friday Nov. 13, 2015. Several dozen people were killed in attacks around Paris on Friday, French President Francois Hollande said, announcing that he was closing the country's borders and declaring a state of emergency. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)At least 129 people have been killed in shootings and explosions around Paris, many of them in a popular concert hall where patrons were taken hostage, police and medical officials said. Yahoo News is following the latest in the live blog below.


Paris attacks: Harrowing video captures concertgoers fleeing Bataclan

Posted: 14 Nov 2015 07:35 AM PST

A person is being evacuated after a shooting, outside the Bataclan theater in Paris, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. A series of attacks targeting young concert-goers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed over 100 people in the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)A French journalist who lives in an apartment behind the Bataclan in Paris captured harrowing footage of concertgoers attempting to escape the concert hall during Friday's terror attacks before he was wounded trying to help a victim on the street below.


IS group claims Paris attacks, says France at 'top' of list

Posted: 14 Nov 2015 05:21 AM PST

CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for a wave of attacks in Paris that killed 127 people and said France would remain at the "top of the list" of its targets.

Demands at Missouri similar to 1969's, but this time, action

Posted: 13 Nov 2015 08:33 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2015, file photo, a member of the black student protest group Concerned Student 1950 gestures while addressing a crowd following the announcement that University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe would resign, at the university in Columbia, Mo. The bullet points are blunt and direct: Blacks at the University of Missouri are harassed and threatened, the university has too few African-American faculty members, administration doesn't seem to care, and all of that needs to change. A set of demands addressing those concerns is strikingly similar to demands made in 1969. But this time, it appears the university is listening. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The criticism was blunt: Blacks at the University of Missouri are harassed and threatened, the university has too few African-American faculty members, the administration doesn't seem to care, and all of that needs to change.


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