samedi 23 février 2013

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Authorities: Report of gunman at MIT was a hoax

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 11:56 AM PST

Pedestrians on the MIT Campus in Cambridge, Mass., duck underneath police tape, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, after police responded to reports of a gunman on campus that Cambridge police later said were unfounded. Police said that officers searched for a man reported to be carrying a long rifle and wearing body armor and found nothing. A spokeswoman for the university says the school also called off a campus-wide lockdown. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)Authorities say a report of a gunman on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was a hoax and there is no threat to public safety.

Hawaii Governor: Sequestration will make Pearl Harbor less secure

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 10:16 AM PST

Pearl Harbor survivors Ray Perlingiero, left, and Bill Ferguson, with his wife Ailene, recite the Pledge of Allegiance during a Pearl Harbor memorial service Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, in Knoxville, Tenn. During the Japanese attack, Ferguson was aboard the light cruiser USS Detroit and Perlingiero was an Army Air Forces corporal based at Hickam Field. (AP Photo/Paul Efird, Knoxville News Sentinel)The United States military base at Pearl Harbor will be made less secure as a result of Washington's failure to avoid across-the-board sequestration budget cuts, Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii warned Saturday. "The plain fact is that will undermine our capacity for readiness at Pearl Harbor," Abercrombie said, referring to the base that was [...]

Members of first U.S team to top Everest reunite

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 09:43 AM PST

In this 1963 photo released by Henry S. Hall, Jr. American Alpine Club Library, Barry Corbet Personal Papers and Films, members of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition team and sherpas are shown with their climbing gear on Mt. Everest. Surviving members of the first American expedition team to reach the top of Mt. Everest are celebrating the 50th anniversary of their mountaineering milestones. Jim Whittaker rweached the top of the world on May 1, 1963, a decade after Britain's Edmund Hillary. Three weeks later, two other Americans, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, became the first men ever to scale Everest via more dangerous route on the mountain's west side. (AP Photo/Henry S. Hall, Jr. American Alpine Club Library, Barry Corbet Personal Papers and Films)It might be hard to conceive now, in an era of extreme sports and ultra-light equipment, but there was a time when Americans who set out to conquer mountains engaged in a pursuit that was as lonely as it was dangerous.

It's personal and business in GOP fight over Hagel

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 08:36 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo, former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel testifies at his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The fierce Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's choice of Hagel to be defense secretary is both personal and business, and the nasty fight long has been seen as a proxy for the never-ending scuffles between the Democratic president and congressional Republicans. Barring any surprises, the drawn-out battle over his nomination probably will end this coming week with his Senate confirmation. But Hagel's fellow Republicans have roughed him up. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Show was coinciThe fierce Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary is personal and business.

What does a 'secure' border look like?

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 08:19 AM PST

FILE - In this May 18, 2006 file photo, a man rests his hands on a fence looking out to the United States from a Mexican customs station after being detained by U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona and returned to Mexico in Nogales, Mexico. The border near Nogales is consider the nation's busiest illegal corridor. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)Once, the barren mesas and shrub-covered canyons that extend east of the Pacific Ocean held the most popular routes for illegal immigrants heading into the U.S. Dozens at a time sprinted to waiting cars or a trolley stop in San Diego, passing border agents who were too busy herding others to give pause.

Police: Report of gunman at MIT is unfounded

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 08:03 AM PST

BOSTON (AP) — Police in Massachusetts say a call reporting a gunman on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was unfounded and that there is no threat to public safety.

MIT on lockdown after reports of armed gunman

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 07:29 AM PST

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology says a man carrying a long rifle and wearing body armor was spotted in a campus building, and the school is on lockdown.

Jewish settlers, Palestinians clash in West Bank

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 06:06 AM PST

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian medic says a 24-year-old demonstrator was shot in the stomach during clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank village of Kusra. The Israeli military could not immediately confirm the report.

Analysis: Obama, GOP see no need to stop the cuts

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 05:34 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2013 file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio is interviewed by The Associated Press in his Capitol Hill office in Washington. President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans each seem content with the political ground they hold and are prepared to let across-the-board spending cuts take effect on March 1, unlike during earlier rounds of budget brinkmanship that saw last minute frantic dealmaking. This time, there is no market-rattling threat of a US. default to force the two sides to compromise, no government shutdown on the short-term horizon and no year-end deadline to prevent a tax increase for every working American. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Unlike in earlier rounds of budget brinkmanship, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans both seem content to fight out their latest showdown on the current terrain, let across-the-board spending cuts take effect on March 1 and allow them to stay in place for weeks if not much longer.

WWE challenges Glenn Beck to step into ring

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 05:01 AM PST

Commentator Glenn Beck arrives at the 45th Country Music Association Awards in NashvilleGlenn Beck doesn't like the WWE's latest storyline, and WWE wants him to come explain why. The wrestling production company has cast wrestler Jack Swagger as a conservative, tea-party-ish villain with a xenophobic fictional manager, Zeb Coulter, in a Wrestlemania matchup against Latino star Alberto...

Administration warns of impact of broad budget cut

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 04:44 AM PST

This photo taken Feb. 22, 2013 shows Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood briefing reporters regarding the sequester, at the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans each seem content with the political ground they hold and are prepared to let across-the-board spending cuts take effect on March 1, unlike during earlier rounds of budget brinkmanship that saw last minute frantic dealmaking. This time, there is no market-rattling threat of a US. default to force the two sides to compromise, no government shutdown on the short-term horizon and no year-end deadline to prevent a tax increase for every working American. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Widespread flight delays and shuttered airports, off-limit seashores and unprotected parks.

Father of Pistorius's girlfriend speaks out

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 04:27 AM PST

Photographers take photos of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius as he stands in the dock during his bail hearing at the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. The fourth and likely final day of Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing opened on Friday, with the magistrate then to rule if the double-amputee athlete can be freed before trial or if he has to remain in custody over the shooting death of his girlfriend. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The father of Oscar Pistorius's slain girlfriend has told a South African newspaper that the athlete will have to "live with his conscience" if he is lying about how he killed her.

California search for victims of 'speed freak' killers grows cold

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 01:25 AM PST

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Investigators searching for possible additional victims of California's "speed freak" serial killings of the 1980s and '90s have run out of places to look, after the latest excavation of a suspected burial site came up empty, the FBI said. No human remains were found in the abandoned, 100-foot-deep well dug out by hand during a six-week operation on a patch of pasture land near the San Joaquin County town of Linden, east of San Francisco, the FBI said on Thursday. ...

New England braces for third snowstorm in three weekends

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:36 AM PST

Stalled vehicles are seen during a blizzard as traffic comes to a standstill on the I-635 in Kansas CityBOSTON (Reuters) - New England braced for its third snowstorm in three weekends on Saturday, putting crews to work sanding roads and trimming trees ahead of the snow, sleet and freezing rain moving in from the Midwest. The storm blanketed states from Minnesota to Ohio earlier this week, dumping more than a foot of snow in Kansas on Thursday, forcing airports to cancel hundreds of flights and leaving motorists stranded on highways. ...

3 political sisters in Pa. convicted of corruption

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:13 AM PST

FILE--These are file photos of former state senator Jane Orie, right, from Feb. 29, 2012, her sister Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin, center, from May 18, 2012, and their sister Janine Orie, left, from April 7, 2010. All three sisters were found guilty in campaign corruption crimes. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic/Gene Puskar, FILE)PITTSBURGH (AP) — The story has more irony than a Greek tragedy. Three sisters from a devoutly Catholic family have seen their personal and political careers ruined by a scandal that began with, of all things, a letter to some nuns.

Report: Ohio dad sentenced, put kids in boxes

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 10:57 PM PST

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — An eastern Ohio father has been sentenced to six months in prison for punishing his three children by forcing them into plastic storage boxes sealed with duct tape and a square cut in the top for air.

Obama administration urges justices to overturn anti-gay marriage law

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 10:08 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about strengthening the economy for the middle class and measures to combat gun violence during a visit to Hyde Park Academy in ChicagoThe Obama administration outlined its argument on Friday why the U.S. Supreme Court should strike down a federal law that defines marriage as between a man and woman. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli filed a brief with the court saying that section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional, expanding on the administration's approach to the controversial 1996 law, which it has formally opposed since February 2011. Section 3 defines marriage under federal law as being between a man and a woman. ...

Super space germs could threaten astronauts

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 06:52 PM PST

Super Space Germs Could Threaten AstronautsThe weightlessness of outer space can make germs even nastier.

LivingSocial investors take 'pound of flesh' in financing

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 06:35 PM PST

Tim O'Shaughnessy, CEO and Co-Founder of LivingSocial, at Reuters Consumer and Retail Summit in New YorkThe company had to make large concessions get another $110 million.

6 underground nuclear tanks leaking

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 06:19 PM PST

FILE - In this July 14, 2010 photo, workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation work around a a tank farm where highly radioactive waste is stored underground near Richland, Wash. Six underground radioactive waste tanks at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. Inslee made the announcement after meeting with federal officials in Washington, D.C. Last week it was revealed that one of the 177 tanks at south-central Washington's Hanford Nuclear Reservation was leaking liquids. Inslee called the latest news The tanks in Hanford, Wash. hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste.

U.S. troops to set up drone base in Niger

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 05:46 PM PST

About 100 American troops have been deployed to the African nation to set up a drone base for surveillance missions.

Ride along as deep-sea diving crew uncovers 48 tons of silver

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:52 PM PST

In July 2012, the crew of the deep-sea recovery team Odyssey Marine Expedition (OME) unearthed a record-setting 48 tons of silver from a sunken World War II-era British naval vessel, the SS Gairsoppa. A camera crew was along for the ride, documenting the trip three miles below the surface. This Sunday, Discovery Channel viewers will [...]

Up to 12,000 troops to linger in Afghanistan

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:35 PM PST

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond lead their delegations during a bilateral meeting at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Defense Ministers Meetings, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Panetta and his NATO counterparts are considering leaving 8,000 to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014, but a dispute arose Friday between the U.S. and German defense officials over whether that contingent would be an international force or an American one. (AP Photo/Chip Somodevilla, Pool)They'll hunt down remnants of al-Qaida and help Afghan forces with their own security.

F-35 fleet grounded after engine crack discovery

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:19 PM PST

FILE -This undated photo provided by Northrop Grumman Corp., shows a pre-production model of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Pentagon on Friday grounded its fleet of F-35 fighter jets after discovering a cracked engine blade in one plane. The problem was discovered during what the Pentagon called a routine inspection at Edwards Air Force Base, California, of an F-35A, the Air Force version of the sleek new plane. The Navy and the Marine Corps are buying other versions of the F-35, which is intended to replace older fighters like the Air Force F-16 and the Navy F/A-18. All versions , a total of 51 planes , were grounded Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 pending a more in-depth evaluation of the problem discovered at Edwards. None of the planes have been fielded for combat operations; all are undergoing testing.AP Photo/Northrop Grumman, File) no salesThe Pentagon is launching more in-depth evaluation of the problem.
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