2015年6月15日星期一

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Jeb Bush faces challenges in ‘16 bid

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Bush launched a GOP presidential bid months in the making Monday with a vow to get Washington "out of the business of causing problems."


Million-dollar identity theft insurance for government workers

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The public may never know the full national security repercussions of a pair of catastrophic hacking attacks on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that were disclosed earlier this month.


Can Rachel Dolezal really be 'transracial'— or Is white privilege to blame?

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Two Catholic U.S. bishops resign in child sex abuse scandal

Posted: 15 Jun 2015 11:58 AM PDT

Bishop John Nienstedt listens to opening remarks at US Conference of Catholic Bishops in TexasPope Francis on Monday accepted the resignation of two U.S. bishops on Monday, 10 days after a Minnesota prosecutor filed criminal charges against their diocese for failing to protect children from a sexually abusive priest. Wehmeyer, who has been dismissed from the priesthood, is serving a five-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in 2012 to criminal sexual conduct with two minors and possessing child pornography. The pontiff accepted the resignations the week after approving an unprecedented Vatican tribunal intended to judge bishops for covering up or failing to report sexual abuse, which has caused worldwide scandal for more than a decade.


Washington state NAACP leader embroiled in race controversy resigns

Posted: 15 Jun 2015 04:23 PM PDT

Rachel Dolezal, a civil rights advocate who has been accused of falsely claiming she is black, announced her resignation on Monday as leader of a local branch of the NAACP in Washington state. Dolezal, 37, who served as president of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the country's oldest and largest civil rights organization, said the controversy over her race had shifted dialogue away from key social and political issues. "It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the presidency and pass the baton to my vice president, Naima Quarles-Burnley," Dolezal said in a statement on the NAACP Spokane chapter's Facebook page.

Pennsylvania man gets up to 40 years prison for ricin-laced card

Posted: 15 Jun 2015 03:57 PM PDT

Nicholas Helman, 20, of Hatboro, a Philadelphia suburb, had previously pleaded guilty to attempted murder, risking a catastrophe and other charges for trying to poison his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend with the lethal inhalant. After he was jailed, he was accused of seeking to have a fellow inmate "kidnap witnesses, rip their eyes out, burn their homes down and kill family members," Bucks County Deputy District Attorney Robert James said. Helman was originally arrested after police, acting on a tip from one of Helman's co-workers, intercepted the card laced with ricin, which is made from castor beans.

Beachgoers lose limbs in shallow-water shark attacks

Posted: 15 Jun 2015 04:19 PM PDT

Emergency responders assist a teenage girl at the scene of a shark attack in Oak Island, N.C., Sunday, June 14, 2015. Mayor Betty Wallace of Oak Island, a seaside town bordered to the south by the Atlantic Ocean, said that hours after the teenage girl suffered severe injuries in a shark attack Sunday a teenage boy was also severely injured. (Steve Bouser/The Pilot, Southern Pines, N.C. via AP) MANDATORY CREDITOAK ISLAND, N.C. (AP) — Beachgoers cautiously returned to the ocean Monday after two young people lost limbs in separate, life-threatening shark attacks in the same town in North Carolina.


Head of Spokane NAACP quits amid furor over racial identity

Posted: 15 Jun 2015 04:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, March 6, 2015, file photo, from left, Della Montgomery-Riggins, Charles Thornton and Spokane NAACP president Rachel Dolezal link arms and sing "We Shall Overcome" at a rally in downtown Spokane, Wash., responding to a racist and threatening package received by Dolezal. Dolezal is now facing questions about whether she lied about her racial identity, with her family saying she is white but has portrayed herself as black. (Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review via AP, File)SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Rachel Dolezal resigned as president of the NAACP's Spokane chapter Monday just days after her parents said she is a white woman posing as black — a dizzyingly swift fall for an activist credited with injecting remarkable new energy into the civil rights organization.


Prison worker charged with aiding escapees appears in court

Posted: 15 Jun 2015 09:55 AM PDT

Law enforcement officers get off a truck as they return to their vehicles after searching a wooded area on Sunday, June 14, 2015, in Schuyler Falls, N.Y. Law enforcement personnel are in the ninth day of searching for David Sweat and Richard Matt, two killers who used power tools to cut their way out of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora in northern New York. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — A woman charged with helping two convicted murderers escape from a maximum-security prison in far northern New York made another court appearance Monday as the manhunt for the men hit its 10th day.


Hillary Clinton's rivals dig in day after campaign rally

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The day after her big rally in New York, both sides of the aisle took aim at the former secretary of state.


Spokane NAACP leader cancels meeting amid furor

Posted: 14 Jun 2015 05:50 PM PDT

FILE- In this March 2, 2015 file photo, Rachel Dolezal, president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, poses for a photo in her Spokane, Wash. home. Dolezal is facing questions about whether she lied about her racial identity, with her family saying she is white but has portrayed herself as black, Friday, June 12, 2015. (Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review via AP, File) COEUR D'ALENE PRESS OUTSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The leader of the Spokane NAACP, Rachel Dolezal, has canceled a chapter meeting Monday where she was expected to speak about the furor sparked over her racial identity.


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