2015年3月19日星期四

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Secret Service chief insists no crash at White House

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 03:47 PM PDT

Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy testifies before a Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on the proposed FY2016 budget estimates for the U.S. Secret Service.Joseph Clancy pushed back on any suggestion that his agency deliberately erased surveillance video.


Exclusive: Despite Hillary Clinton promise, charity did not disclose donors

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 02:40 PM PDT

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sits during the Annual Women's Empowerment event at the United Nations in New YorkBy Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - In 2008, Hillary Clinton promised Barack Obama, the president-elect, there would be no mystery about who was giving money to her family's globe-circling charities. She made a pledge to publish all the donors on an annual basis to ease concerns that as secretary of state she could be vulnerable to accusations of foreign influence. At the outset, the Clinton Foundation did indeed publish what they said was a complete list of the names of more than 200,000 donors and has continued to update it. In response to questions from Reuters, officials at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the foundation confirmed no complete list of donors to the Clintons' charities has been published since 2010.


Israeli leader backtracks from Palestinian state opposition

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 11:02 AM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prays at the tunnel section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party scored a resounding victory in Israel's election, final results showed Wednesday, a stunning turnaround after a tight race that had put his lengthy rule in jeopardy. (AP Photo/Emeil Salman)JERUSALEM (AP) — Days after winning re-election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday backtracked from hard-line statements against the establishment of a Palestinian state in an apparent effort to contain a diplomatic backlash.


Judge won't release grand jury testimony in Eric Garner death

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 12:16 PM PDT

Protester holds up Eric Garner's photoThe judge argued there wasn't a good enough reason to release the secret information.


Why Mitt Romney isn't running for president

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 02:23 AM PDT

If Mitt Romney had a do-over…The former GOP candidate tells Yahoo's Katie Couric the reason he decided not to run again.


IS claims deadly museum attack in Tunisia

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 09:00 AM PDT

Tunisians holding candles pray at the entrance gate of the National Bardo Museum where scores of people were killed after gunmen staged an attack, Tunis, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Foreign tourists scrambled in panic Wednesday after militants stormed a museum in Tunisia's capital and killed scores of people, "shooting at anything that moved," a witness said. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)According to an online audio recording, the militant group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a museum in the Tunisian capital on Wednesday which killed 20 foreign tourists. It praised the two attackers whom the recording said were "knights of the Islamic State" who were armed with machineguns and bombs. (Reporting By Omar Fahmy; Writing by Noah Browning; Editing by Toby Chopra)


Matt Bai: A Yelp for teachers

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 01:32 AM PDT

Answer sheet for schoolsMaybe what we need, and what teachers should welcome, isn't the data on the test scores and "value-added" rankings that some parents are demanding — or, at least, not that alone. What we need is for some tech entrepreneur to come up with a Yelp or an Angie's List for public schools, because the amalgamated voice of the consumer is the most powerful kind of accountability in American life.


Virginia to investigate bloody arrest of black college student

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 12:05 AM PDT

UVA Student Martese Johnson Was Allegedly Beaten By Police Over A Fake I.D.The arrest of Martese Johnson, 20, sparks campus protests and claims of police brutality.


Tunisia makes arrests after deadly museum attack

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 06:11 AM PDT

21 killed in museum attack in TunisiaAuthorities have arrested nine people in connection with a gun attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis that killed 22 people and two alleged attackers, a spokeswoman for the Tunisian presidential office told ABC News.


Suspect in fatal Arizona shooting rampage appears in court

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 03:13 PM PDT

Ryan Giroux, 41, is seen in an undated picture released by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Phoenix, ArizonaBy David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona ex-convict appeared in court on Thursday accused of killing one person and wounding five others in a shooting rampage that began at a motel in suburban Phoenix and ended with the suspect's capture four hours later. Ryan Elliott Giroux, 41, who an anti-hate group says has white supremacist ties, is charged with multiple felonies including first- and second-degree murder and is being held without bond for probation violation, authorities said. Wearing striped jail clothing and shackles, the tattooed Giroux made a brief appearance at Maricopa County Superior Court where he spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth. He was read the 35 criminal counts he faces, which include aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery and kidnapping, by Court Commissioner Sigmund Popko.


DIY bomb instructions, device remains shown at Boston trial

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 12:18 PM PDT

A large fragment of a homemade pressure-cooker bomb is seen in a still handout image entered as evidence during Tsarnaev trial in BostonBy Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Marathon bombing trial jury on Thursday saw the remains of a pressure-cooker bomb that prosecutors say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hurled at police during a gunfight four days after the bombing as well as jihadist files recovered from his laptop. The bomb, described as similar to the twin bombs set off at the race, was extracted from a Honda Civic in which it embedded itself on a Watertown, Massachusetts street after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, detonated it during the gunfight. The pressure cooker was the same type as was used in the bombs that killed three people and injured 264 on April 15, 2013, said Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Brian Corcoran, though the pieces found in Watertown were more intact than those discovered at the race's finish line. "Those pieces were typically more fragmented, more cut up," Corcoran testified in U.S. District Court in Boston, looking at both the main pot and its lid, which was found halfway down the block from the blast site, in a child-sized soccer goal in a home's side yard.


Britain's Prince Charles meets Obama on U.S. goodwill tour

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 03:28 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) meets with Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, in the Oval Office of the White House in WashingtonBritain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla met with President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday as part of a goodwill tour of the United States. Obama and the Prince of Wales chatted amiably in front of reporters and television cameras while the Duchess of Cornwall sat smiling on a couch nearby. "I think it's fair to say that the American people are quite fond of the royal family," Obama told the prince. It was the first White House visit by Charles since May 2011.


One killed, five wounded in shooting spree in Phoenix suburb

Posted: 18 Mar 2015 10:15 PM PDT

An FBI agent lift police tape at one of the scenes of a multiple location shooting that has injured at least four people in Mesa, Arizona at one of the scenes of a multiple location shooting that has injured at least four people in Mesa, ArizonaBy David Schwartz MESA, Ariz. (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire inside a motel room in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa on Wednesday, killing a man and wounding two women before shooting three more people as he sought to elude an exhaustive manhunt that ended in his capture, police said. Officers using a stun gun subdued the suspected gunman, identified as Ryan Elliot Giroux, 41, at a vacant condominium where he had taken refuge, some four hours after the initial shooting, Mesa police spokesman Esteban Flores told reporters.


Affidavit: LAPD analyst's error delayed Robert Durst link

Posted: 18 Mar 2015 06:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 17, 2015, file photo, Robert Durst is escorted into Orleans Parish Prison after his arraignment in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in New Orleans. The whispered words of Durst recorded in an unguarded moment in a bathroom could come back to haunt him - or help him - as he faces a murder charge. A possible move by prosecutors to introduce the incriminating material from a six-part documentary on his strange life and connection to three killings could back fire as interview footage did in the Michael Jackson molestation trial and the Robert Blake murder case. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)HOUSTON (AP) — A Los Angeles Police Department document examiner's erroneous handwriting analysis in 2001 delayed authorities linking millionaire Robert Durst to a friend's killing by as much as 16 months, a search warrant released Wednesday reveals.


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