2015年6月8日星期一

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Obama targets weaknesses in battle with Islamic State

Posted: 08 Jun 2015 02:38 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a media conference at the conclusion of the G-7 summit at Schloss Elmau hotel near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, Monday, June 8, 2015. The two-day summit addressed such issues as climate change, poverty and the fight against terrorism. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)The president says the U.S. lacks a "complete strategy" for training Iraqi forces to fight the Islamic State.


Pentagon: U.S. base shipped live anthrax to 19 states plus D.C.

Posted: 08 Jun 2015 01:47 PM PDT

Spores from the Sterne strain of anthrax bacteria (Bacillus anthracis) are pictured in this handout scanning electron micrographThe number of labs that received live anthrax samples from a U.S. military base in Utah has risen to 66 in 19 states, Washington and three foreign countries, the Pentagon said on Monday. Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Defense Department spokesman, said 31 people were receiving precautionary treatment for exposure to live anthrax, unchanged since the Pentagon's last update on the incident. Warren said one new state, Pennsylvania, had been added to the list of locations where live anthrax had been sent.


Second psychiatrist: Colorado cinema gunman was sane

Posted: 08 Jun 2015 03:28 PM PDT

Accused Aurora theater gunman James Holmes listens during his arraignment in CentennialBy Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - A second court-appointed psychiatrist has concluded that Colorado movie theater gunman James Holmes was sane when he fatally shot 12 moviegoers and wounded dozens more in 2012, jurors in his capital murder trial heard on Monday. Psychiatrist Jeffrey Metzner testified that after interviewing Holmes for more than 25 hours he determined that the onetime neuroscience graduate student met the criteria for sanity under Colorado law. "Despite having a mental disability or defect ... Mr. Holmes had the capacity to tell the difference between right and wrong," Metzner said.


Yemeni families of drone strike victims file lawsuit against U.S.

Posted: 08 Jun 2015 11:01 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack ObamaThe families of two men killed in a 2012 U.S. drone strike filed a suit in Washington seeking greater accountability for mistakes made during anti-terrorism operations.


G-7 set far-off goal to move away from fossil fuels

Posted: 08 Jun 2015 12:58 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel walk together as the president arrives in Kruen, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, Sunday, June 7, 2015, before attending the G-7 summit in Schloss Elmau hotel. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)ELMAU, Germany (AP) — The world should move away from using fossil fuels by the end of this century, G-7 leaders said Monday, setting an ambitious but distant goal ahead of a global conference on climate change this year.


Live updates from Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference

Posted: 08 Jun 2015 10:13 AM PDT

Apple logos adorn the exterior of the Moscone West building on the first day of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Monday, June 8, 2015. The maker of iPods and iPhones is expected to announce its new, paid streaming-music service to launch this summer. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)Yahoo Tech's David Pogue, Alyssa Bereznak, and Dan Tynan are on hand to give you all the news as it happens, along with incisive and occasionally snarky commentary.


Man pleads guilty to plotting suicide bomb attack on Kansas airport

Posted: 08 Jun 2015 01:16 PM PDT

Terry Loewen, 59, was arrested trying to enter the tarmac at the airport with what he believed was a vehicle loaded with explosives, with a plan to trigger the device next to a terminal and die in the blast, according to a criminal complaint. U.S. District Judge Monti Belot set sentencing for Aug. 31.
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