2016年12月19日星期一

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New Orleans settles police shooting suits

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 03:45 PM PST

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, center right, hugs Jackie Madison Brown, whose brother Ronald Madison was killed by New Orleans Police on the Danziger Bridge after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, after the mayor held a press conference to announce settlements in the civil rights cases, in New Orleans, La. Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. The city said it will pay out $13.3 million to 17 plaintiffs. Landrieu announced the city has reached settlements totaling $13.3 million in lawsuits over the deadly police shootings after Hurricane Katrina and a fatal beating just before the 2005 storm, and he apologized to the victims' families on behalf of the city. (Matthew Hinton/The Advocate via AP)Mayor Mitch Landrieu announces a $13.3 million settlement over killings linked to Hurricane Katrina.


Trump secures Electoral College win

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 05:05 PM PST

Donald Trump and Mike Pence. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Despite thousands of protesters around the country, Donald Trump won 270 electoral votes as expected.


Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2016

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 11:57 AM PST

Merriam-Webster: 'Surreal' Is the Word of the Year for 2016The largest spike in searches for this word happened after Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the election.


Several injured by gunman at Zurich mosque

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 02:06 PM PST

Police secure the area in front of the Islamic center in Zurich. (Ennio Leanza/Keystone/AP)Police and ambulances swarmed the area around the mosque, frequented largely by Somali immigrants, in Switzerland's largest city.


12dead in Berlin market truck crash

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 12:08 PM PST

Truck crashes into crowd in Berlin. (Reuters)Police also say 48 people were injured in the incident, which is being investigated as a possible intentional act.


Hottest U.S. company you've never heard of

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 09:31 AM PST

NVIDIA: Yahoo Finance Company of the YearYahoo Finance reveals its Company of the Year, which dug itself out of a perilous hole to achieve explosive growth.


Texas GOP elector voting Kasich over Trump

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 11:13 AM PST

Ohio Gov. John Kasich. (Alex Brandon/AP)Chris Suprun tells Yahoo News that Donald Trump is a "demagogue" whose finances violate the Constitution.


Bill Clinton sounds off on the election

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 08:08 AM PST

Bill Clinton: Trump knows 'how to get angry, white men to vote for him'The former president says Donald Trump "doesn't know much," but "one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him."


Assassination of Russia’s Turkey envoy

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 02:09 PM PST

Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov (Photo: Ecenur Colak/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)The gunman, wearing a suit and tie and shouting "Allahu Akbar," attacked the ambassador at a photo exhibition.


Getting old may not be so inevitable

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 07:14 AM PST

Aging may be reversible, scientists say. (Getty Images)Researchers have found a way to turn back the clock on human and animal cells, making them appear younger.


Twitter sensation, 7, flees Aleppo

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 08:17 AM PST

Bana Alabed, girl who tweeted Syria horrors, escapes Aleppo with familyBana al-Abed, who chronicled the horrors of life in the besieged Syrian city, has escaped with her family, officials say.


Incoming N.C. governor to repeal LGBT law

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 02:18 PM PST

Incoming governor says North Carolina will repeal LGBT law. (AP)Gov.-elect Roy Cooper says that legislators will hold a special session to repeal a law limiting protections for LGBT people.


Obama: America will 'be a browner country'

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 06:43 AM PST

NPR's Steve Inskeep and President Obama. (NPR)In an interview with NPR, the president notes that the national conversation about race is "long overdue."


Thousands of areas in U.S. affected by lead

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 05:38 AM PST

Lauranda Mignery watches her sons, Kadin Mignery and Collin Mignery as they play in St. JosephAcross the country, the CDC estimates that 2.5 percent of small children have elevated levels of lead in their blood.


College enrollment falls for 5th year

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 05:11 AM PST

College enrollment drops 1.4% as adults head back to work. (Chuck Pefley/Alamy)Older students account for almost the entire overall decline, as one thing draws the majority of them away.


Twitter sensation, 7, flees Aleppo

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 08:30 AM PST

Bana al-Abed checks her Twitter account in her home in east Aleppo, Syria. (AFP)Bana al-Abed, who chronicled the horrors of life in the besieged Syrian city, has escaped with her family, officials say.


Aleppo evacuations resume after days

Posted: 19 Dec 2016 02:49 PM PST

Residents of eastern Aleppo gather near green government buses. (Aleppo 24 via AP)Buses began taking the remaining civilians and rebels from the besieged city following days of delays.


Did 'unpresidented' make Trump seem honest?

Posted: 18 Dec 2016 02:30 PM PST

President-elect Donald Trump at a rally on Dec. 17 in Mobile, Ala. (Brynn Anderson/AP)His tweeted typo is mocked by critics, but his supporters view the mistake as part of his rough-around-the-edges appeal.


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