2015年1月18日星期日

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Seahawks return to Super Bowl with miracle win

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Seattle earns a second straight NFC title with a stunning overtime victory over Green Bay.


Freezing rain makes Northeast roads slick; at least 5 killed

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 03:36 PM PST

In this image from PennDOT via FoxTV, more than 20 cars are piled up on I-76 in Philadelphia after freezing rain on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. Slick roads caused a number of crashes, including collisions that also closed parts of Interstates 95 and 476 in and around Philadelphia. (AP Photo/PennDOT via FoxTV)NEW YORK (AP) — Rain "flash-freezing" on roads and sidewalks left an icy glaze under feet and tires across much of the northeast on Sunday, causing crashes that claimed at least five lives.


Secret Service: Shots fired outside Bidens' Delaware home

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 02:34 PM PST

A security official stands at the end of the driveway leading to Vice President Joe Biden's home Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in Greenville, Del. Multiple gunshots were fired from a vehicle near Biden's Delaware home Saturday night, the U.S. Secret Service said Sunday. The vice president and his wife were not at home at the time of the shooting, authorities said. (AP Photo/The News Journal, Kyle Grantham)WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Multiple gunshots were fired from a vehicle near the Delaware home of Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday night, the U.S. Secret Service said Sunday. The vice president and his wife were not at home at the time of the shooting, authorities said.


Shots fired near Vice President Biden's Delaware residence

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 11:53 AM PST

Joe and Jill Biden speak about community college during a visit to KnoxvilleGun shots rang out from a passing vehicle near U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's residence in Delaware on Saturday night, but the vice president and his wife were not at home, the U.S. Secret Service said on Sunday. Secret Service personnel at the residence heard the reports and saw the vehicle speeding away. Biden and his wife, Jill, were in Delaware when the shooting occurred but were out for the evening, the Secret Service said. The incident occurred as the Secret Service tries to recover from a series of security lapses, including an incident in September when a knife-carrying man jumped the White House fence and ran into the president's official residence.


Greg Plitt, fitness model and TV actor, killed by train

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 01:01 PM PST

(Reuters) - Fitness model and television actor Greg Plitt was struck and killed by a commuter train in Burbank, California, on Saturday while filming on the tracks, police said on Sunday. Plitt, who starred in Bravo network shows "Work Out" and "Friends to Lovers," was hit by a Metrolink passenger train and pronounced dead at the scene, said Burbank Police Sergeant Chris Canales. "Our thoughts and deepest sympathy are with Greg's family and friends." Plitt had done previous filming on railroad tracks doing pushups and other fitness routines, according to promotional videos posted online.

Man killed in Florida mall tried to shield woman, police say

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 03:13 PM PST

(Reuters) - Police on Sunday identified a man shot to death at a Florida shopping mall on Saturday and said he was apparently trying to protect a woman who was wounded in the attack. Leonardo Coppola, 36, died when a gunman went to a store at the Melbourne Square Mall intending to shoot the gunman's wife, the Melbourne Police Department said in statement. "Initial reports indicate Mr. Coppola was attempting to move Idanerys Garcia-Rodriguez out of harm's way when he was shot," the police statement said. The mall in Melbourne, on Florida's east coast, was closed after the shooting, but reopened on Sunday.

Manhunts, death threats as Europe on high terror alert

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 01:51 PM PST

French soldiers and police patrol Charles de Gaulle airport on January 17, 2015 in Roissy-en-France, north of ParisEurope was on high alert Sunday as the suspected mastermind of a jihadist cell in Belgium remained at large and jittery authorities blocked anti-Islamist rallies in Germany and France. With tensions heightened, the second gunman in the Charlie Hebdo magazine attack was buried discreetly in an unmarked grave near Paris late Saturday in the hope that it would not become a pilgrimage site for radical Islamists. Meanwhile, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, considered the brains behind the cell plotting to kill Belgian police, was still on the run days after the group was dismantled by intelligence services. The group claimed the threat came from the Islamic State group based in Syria and Iraq, with local media reporting that PEGIDA's most prominent leader Lutz Bachmann was the target.


Obama's address to pitch tax proposals to help middle class

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 11:04 AM PST

File-This Jan. 9, 2015, file photo shows President Barack Obama speaking at Pellissippi State Community College, in Knoxville, Tenn. President Obama is turning to his biggest television audience of the year to pitch tax increases on the wealthiest Americans and put the new Republican Congress in the position of defending top income earners over the middle class. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)The president's plan will also put the GOP in the position of defending top income earners over the middle class.


Charlie Hebdo editor: We attack religion when it becomes political

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 06:45 AM PST

Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Gerard Biard arrives for the funeral ceremony of French cartoonist and Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane "Charb" Charbonnier, on January 16, 2015, in PontoiseThe editor of Charlie Hebdo defends the French satirical newspaper's depiction of religion, saying it targets faith only when it becomes "entangled" in politics.


US teens on alleged crime spree captured in Florida

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 02:04 PM PST

FILE - In this December 2014 file photo provided by Tammy Martin, her son Dalton Hayes poses with his girlfriend Cheyenne Phillips at his family's home in Leitchfield, Ky. Kentucky authorities say two teenage sweethearts suspected in a crime spree of stolen vehicles and pilfered checks across the South have been apprehended in in Panama City Beach Florida early Sunday Jan. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Tammy Martin, FILE)Two teenage Kentucky sweethearts suspected in a crime spree of stolen vehicles and pilfered checks across the U.S. South have been taken into custody in Florida, authorities said Sunday.


Pope attracts world-record crowd in rain-swept Philippines

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 11:05 AM PST

Nuns and Catholic faithful dance as they wait for a Mass by Pope Francis at Rizal Park in ManilaPope Francis drew a record six million people as he celebrated mass in the rain-swept Philippine capital Sunday, a triumphant finale to an Asian tour in which he championed the plight of the poor. Francis made an exhilarating entrance to a Manila bayside park for the mass aboard a "popemobile" that was styled after the nation's iconic, flamboyant and much-loved "jeepney" minibus. The Philippines is famed as the Catholic Church's bastion in Asia, with 80 percent of the former Spanish colony following the faith. "I cannot fathom the faith of the simple people," Francis said, according to the Archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, who acted as the pontiff's chaperone.


Pope Manila Mass drew record crowd of 6-7 million: Vatican

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 04:09 AM PST

Thousands of the faithful wait in the rain at Rizal Park where Pope Francis will celebrate his final Mass in Manila, Philippines, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. Millions filled Manila's main park and surrounding areas for Pope Francis' final Mass in the Philippines on Sunday, braving a steady rain to hear the pontiff's message of hope and consolation for the Southeast Asian country's most downtrodden and destitute. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)By Philip Pullella and Rosemarie Francisco MANILA (Reuters) - Pope Francis concluded his trip to Asia on Sunday with an open-air Mass for a rain-drenched crowd in Manila that the Vatican and the government said drew up to seven million people, the largest ever for a papal event. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said the office of the president told the Vatican that between six and seven million attended the Mass in Manila's Rizal Park and surrounding areas. "If this is true, and we think it is, this is the largest event in the history of the popes," he said, noting that Pope John Paul drew some five million to the same area in 1995. The 78-year-old pope, wearing a transparent yellow poncho over his white cassock, was driven through the ecstatic crowd in a "popemobile" modified from a jeepney, the most popular mode of transport in the Philippines which is based on a U.S. military vehicle used in World War II. He stopped often along the route to kiss children and bless religious statues on the day the Philippines celebrates the feast of the infant Jesus.


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