2015年6月28日星期日

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2nd escaped murderer is shot, captured after other killed

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 03:24 PM PDT

FILE - This May 21, 2015, file photo released by the New York State Police shows David Sweat. Sweat, the second of two convicted murderers who staged a brazen escape from an upstate maximum-security prison three weeks ago, was shot and captured Sunday, June 28, 2015, two days after his fellow inmate was killed in a confrontation with law enforcement officers, a sheriff said. (New York State Police via AP, File)David Sweat is being held by police after he was shot and captured near Canadian border.


Huckabee expects civil disobedience in response to SCOTUS gay marriage ruling

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SpaceX rocket destroyed on way to space station, cargo lost

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 02:28 PM PDT

SpaceX rocket destroyed on way to space station, cargo lostAn unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff. It was a severe blow to NASA, the third cargo mission to fail in eight months. The ...


Second New York prison escapee shot, hospitalized

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 03:07 PM PDT

David Sweat is pictured in this handout photoBy Pete DeMola ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. (Reuters) - David Sweat, one of two New York state inmates who escaped from prison three weeks ago, was shot by police near the Canadian border and rushed to a local hospital on Sunday, two days after his accomplice was killed, authorities said. Some 1,300 members of law enforcement took part in the search through the forests and bogs of northern New York. Sweat, 35, was shot and taken into custody in the town of Constable, New York, 23 miles (37 km) north of Duane, where his accomplice was shot and killed on Friday, New York State Police said in a statement.


Activist takes down Confederate flag outside South Carolina capitol

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 06:15 PM PDT

Bree Newsome takes down the Confederate Flag from a pole at the Statehouse in ColumbiaAn activist climbed a flagpole outside the South Carolina state capitol early on Saturday and took down the Confederate flag, state officials said, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama called the banner a symbol of racial oppression. Two people were arrested and charged with defacing a monument, the South Carolina Department of Public Safety said in a statement. Brittany Newsome climbed the flag pole and James Ian Tyson stood inside a fence and assisted her, police said.


SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes after launch

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 12:56 PM PDT

This June 28, 2015 grab from NASA TV shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the unmanned Dragon cargo capsule on board Launches from Cape Canaveral, FloridaAn unmanned SpaceX rocket exploded just minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Sunday, marking a major setback for the fast-charging company headed by Internet tycoon Elon Musk. The accident was the third in less than a year involving US and Russian supply ships bound for the International Space Station, and raised new concerns about the flow of food and gear to the astronauts living in orbit. Skies were sunny and clear for the 10:21 am (1421 GMT) launch of the gleaming white Falcon 9 rocket that was meant to propel the Dragon cargo ship on a routine supply mission, the seventh for SpaceX so far.


Iran nuclear talks near deadline

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 01:26 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, arrives at the Palais Coburg where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, June 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)Iran's foreign minister prepared to head home for consultations Sunday before returning to join counterparts from other countries at the negotiating table to push for a breakthrough.


Armed Tunisian police swarm streets of tourist towns

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 05:40 AM PDT

Police officers patrol the beach near the Imperial Marhabada resort, which was attacked by a gunman in SousseBy Zoubier Souissi SOUSSE, Tunisia (Reuters) - Hundreds of armed police patrolled the streets of Tunisia's beach resorts on Sunday and the government said it will deploy hundreds more inside hotels after the Islamist militant attack in Sousse that killed 39 foreigners, mostly Britons. Thousands of tourists have left Tunisia since Friday's attack, which has shocked the North African country that relies heavily on tourism for jobs and foreign currency revenues. Britain's Foreign Office warned late on Saturday that Islamist militants may launch further attacks in Tunisia after a gunman opened fire on the Imperial Marhaba resort in the deadliest such attack in Tunisia's modern history.


One injured in shooting at San Francisco gay pride event

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 10:52 PM PDT

People gather in Dallas to celebrate the US Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage on June 26, 2015Shots were fired at a gay pride event in San Francisco, leaving one man injured, city police said. The incident was believed to have occurred when several groups of men unrelated to the pride event "got in a verbal argument near or inside the venue," the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement. The pride spectator who was shot was believed to be "unrelated to the dispute", SFPD officer Carlos Manfredi told AFP.


European tour operators evacuate thousands from Tunisia after attack

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 01:35 AM PDT

There are currently about 20,000 British tourists on package holidays in Tunisia, according to ABTA, the country's largest travel associationTour companies were evacuating thousands of foreign holidaymakers from Tunisia on Saturday, a day after a gunman killed 39 people at a beach hotel in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Tunisia's Prime Minister Habib Essid said most of the dead were British, and Britain's foreign office said 15 Britons had been confirmed killed in the attack in the resort town of Sousse, 140 km (90 miles) south of the capital Tunis. It was the second major attack in the North African country this year, following an Islamist militant assault on the Bardo Museum in Tunis in March when gunmen killed a group of foreign visitors as they arrived by bus.


GOP White House hopefuls deride gay marriage ruling

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 09:02 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks during a town hall meeting, Thursday, June 25, 2015, in Exeter, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)DENVER (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told conservatives Saturday that the Supreme Court tried to "unwrite the laws of nature and the laws of nature's God" when it legalized gay marriage across the nation.


Hundreds injured in Taiwan water park blast 'hell'

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 09:46 AM PDT

People tend to an injured woman at the Formosa Fun Coast amusement park after an explosion in the Pali district of New Taipei City on June 27, 2015Witnesses described the scene at a Taiwan water park as "hell" after a ball of fire ripped through a crowd, with authorities putting the injured at nearly 500 on Sunday, more than 200 of them seriously hurt.


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