2015年9月20日星期日

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Pope meets Fidel Castro after warning against ideology

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Pope Francis met with Fidel Castro on Sunday after urging thousands of Cubans to serve one another and not an ideology...


Authorities: Gun tests tie suspect to freeway shootings

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 02:51 PM PDT

Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., makes his way to appear before a judge at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, in Phoenix. The landscaper is the suspect in a series of Phoenix freeway shootings and was arrested Friday after trying to sell a gun at a pawn shop. (Rob Schumacher/The Arizona Republic via AP, Pool)Soft-spoken and handcuffed, a 21-year-old landscaper insists that he is not responsible for a string of Phoenix freeway shootings and that his gun has been sitting in a pawn shop for months.


Emmys 2015: All the Red Carpet Arrivals

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Thousands of evacuees head home as California blazes near containment

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 10:07 AM PDT

A power line burns as the "Butte Fire" rages along East Murray Creek Road in Mountain RanchMore than 1,000 people who were forced to evacuate from areas of Northern California affected by a deadly wildfire that has destroyed nearly 900 residences will be allowed to return home on Sunday, officials said. Authorities said they will allow residents to go back to Hidden Valley Lake, one of the largest areas ravaged by the so-called Valley Fire since it began a week ago. Firefighters made progress over the weekend battling the two major wildfires that have killed five people and destroyed more than 1,400 homes in recent weeks, said Lynnette Round, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire).


Suspect wounds three in shooting at Alabama church: prosecutor

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 12:34 PM PDT

The shooting rattled the congregation of Oasis Tabernacle Church in east Selma but was not believed to be racially motivated, said Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson. In June, a black pastor and eight others were gunned down at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a white gunman who authorities allege targeted them because of their race. The pastor in Sunday's shooting is white and the alleged gunman, James Minter, his girlfriend and the infant are black, Jackson said.

Award-winning gymnastics coach found dead in Indiana jail

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 02:19 PM PDT

Sharp, 49, was found dead on Saturday night in his cell at the Marion County Jail in Indianapolis, county sheriff's spokeswoman Katie Carlson said in a statement. Sharp had coached some members of the 2008 U.S. Olympic women's gymnastics team, according to the website for his business, Sharp's Gymnastics Academy in Indianapolis.

Trump falls, Fiorina jumps in GOP race: CNN/ORC poll

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 08:49 AM PDT

Carly Fiorina's strong performance at last week's primetime Republican debate has catapulted her into second place behind Donald Trump in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, a new CNN/ORC national poll shows.

Kerry: US to accept 85,000 refugees in 2016, 100,000 in 2017

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 12:56 PM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with refugees fleeing Syria, at Villa Borsig, on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, in Berlin. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)The United States is seeking to ease the Syrian refugee crisis by significantly increasing the number of worldwide refugees it takes in over the next two years, though not by nearly the amount many activists and former officials have urged.


GOP candidate Carson: Muslim shouldn't be elected president

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 02:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, file photo, Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson speaks during a forum, in Manchester, N.H. Responding to a question during an interview broadcast Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, on NBC's "Meet the Press," Carson, a devout Christian, said Islam is antithetical to the Constitution and he doesn't believe that a Muslim should be elected president. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says Islam is antithetical to the Constitution, and he doesn't believe that a Muslim should be elected president.


Trump's advice to teens: Follow your heart, do what you love

Posted: 19 Sep 2015 09:44 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump high-fives homecoming king Austin Cook as queen Eylse Pescott, left, looks on during a rally at Urbandale High School, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, in Urbandale, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)Donald Trump's advice for high school students in suburban Des Moines, Iowa, is uncharacteristically wholesome: Avoid alcohol and drugs as well as cigarettes.


Migrants desperate for sanctuary in Europe pack trains

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 12:18 PM PDT

A Greek police man gives instuction as migrants whose boat stalled at sea while crossing from Turkey to Greece approach a shore of the island of Lesbos, Greece, on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. A boat with 46 migrants or refugees has sunk Sunday in Greece and the coast guard says it is searching for 26 missing off the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)TOVARNIK, Croatia (AP) — Migrants desperate to find sanctuary in Europe climbed through windows and fought for space on trains headed north Sunday as border closures and plunging temperatures increased tensions among thousands in a desperate rush to keep moving.


Pope Francis arrives in Cuba amid high hopes for the nation

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Jackie Collins, novelist of the rich and scandalous, dies

Posted: 20 Sep 2015 01:21 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2013 file photo, author Jackie Collins arrives at the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscars Viewing and After Party in West Hollywood, Calif. Collins, died in Los Angeles on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, of breast cancer. She was 77. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The novels of Jackie Collins dramatized the lives of the most elite people and places, but they were read by everyone, everywhere — from airports to beaches to, sometimes, under the covers with a flashlight to hide from disapproving parents and partners.


Trump responds after not correcting Obama claims

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The candidate defends himself after not addressing a man who said the president is a foreign-born Muslim.


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