lundi 25 mars 2013

Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines

Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines

Orphaned polar bear moving to New York

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 01:40 PM PDT

Orphaned Polar Bear Cub to Get New York HomeKali will take up residence at the Buffalo Zoo later this spring.

Gun in Colo. prisons chief's killing used in Texas shootout

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 01:08 PM PDT

FILE - This undated image provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows its director Tom Clements. Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Kramer says Clements was shot to death around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night March 19, 2013 when he answered his front door in Monument, north of Colorado Springs. Personal safety is always on the mind of most correctional officers and prison administrators when they're working the prison tower or shaking down inmate cells for contraband. But increasingly it's also a concern at the end of their shifts and off prison grounds. The slaying of Clements has officers checking their review mirrors more often and industry experts recommending a closer look at security off the job. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections)The link was established through ballistics analysis.

U.S. spends $3.7 million on ex-presidents in 2012

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 12:37 PM PDT

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton attends the annual ThisDay awards ceremony, in Abeokuta, Nigeria, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that Nigeria must do more to alleviate the extreme poverty across the nation's predominantly Muslim north in order to halt the wave of bombings, shootings and kidnappings by Islamic extremists there. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)Guess which one had the $85,000 phone bill.

Anxiety, hope as high court ponders gay marriage

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 11:49 AM PDT

gaymarriageThe U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases concerning marriage rights for same-sex couples.

Italian court ponders Amanda Knox's acquittal

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 11:33 AM PDT

Knox, the U.S. student convicted of murdering her British flatmate in Italy in November 2007, arrives at the court during her appeal trial session in PerugiaThe appeals court will decide if the American should have a second trial.

Bachmann’s presidential campaign probed

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 11:17 AM PDT

Bachmann speaks to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, MarylandAn ethics panel investigates alleged "improprieties" in her presidential bid.

Ethics panel investigating Rep. Michele Bachmann

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Office of Congressional Ethics Eyes BachmannInvestigators are interviewing former campaign staff about alleged violations.

Winning $338 million Powerball ticket was sold at N.J. liquor store

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 09:58 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a Powerball form and purchased ticket are on the counter at the Jayhawk Food Mart in Lawrence, Kan. A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in the Saturday night, March 23, 2013 drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)But the bigger mystery—who bought it—remains unsolved.

America gets five new national monuments

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 09:27 AM PDT

President Barack Obama will designate spots Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio and Washington.

Jordan closes main border crossing with Syria

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 08:55 AM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan closed its main border crossing with Syria on Monday after two days of fighting there between Syrian troops and rebel fighters, Jordan's information minister said. Border traders said passengers were turned back at the Jordanian border crossing of Jaber and prevented from entering in the first such closure of the crossing since the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule started two years ago. "The border post is effectively closed because there have been clashes since yesterday and they are continuing," minister Samih Maaytah told Reuters. ...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Lewis dies at 85

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 08:39 AM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — Anthony Lewis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and New York Times columnist, has died. He was 85.

Justice's gay cousin sits in on marriage case

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 08:23 AM PDT

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Roberts, Kennedy, Bader Ginsburg and Breyer listen as U.S. President Obama delivers his State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill in WashingtonJohn Roberts' first cousin will listen to the arguments on Prop. 8.

Republican Senator's son writes about coming out

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 07:51 AM PDT

Sen. Portman's Son Writes About Coming OutRob Portman publicly changed his position on gay marriage two weeks ago.

New North Korea video shows ‘defeat’ of U.S. troops

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 07:19 AM PDT

North Korea has submitted yet another entry to its ongoing propaganda film festival. This time, it has released a video that threatens an attack on U.S. forces using "powerful weapons of mass destruction" and depicts an invasion of Seoul in which 150,000 American citizens are taken hostage. Posted on North Korea's official Uriminzokkiri website and [...]

Skydive site owner: Men didn't deploy parachutes

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 06:47 AM PDT

Two Icelandic skydivers who died during weekend jumps at a popular southwest Florida camp did not deploy their main parachutes, the co-owner of the facility said Sunday.Deputies found the bodies of the ...

Amanda Knox 'anxious' as she waits for another Italian court ruling

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 06:32 AM PDT

Amanda Knox Back in Court: Is This the Final Chapter?Prosecutors appealed when a court threw out her murder conviction in 2011.

Can geeks save the Republican party?

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 06:16 AM PDT

Can Computer Geeks Save the GOP?"You probably could have won an Electoral College vote," a strategist says about 2014.

Paralyzed 9 years ago, Iraq vet prepares to die

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 05:31 AM PDT

Wounded Iraq Vet Prepares to Die, Saying He's 'Ready to Go'"I just decided that I was tired of seeing my body deteriorate," Tomas Young said.

Obamacare’s biggest hurdle may come this fall

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 04:30 AM PDT

In October, as many as 24 million people will sign up for health insurance exchanges.

Amanda Knox waits on another Italian court decision

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 04:14 AM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 2, 2007 file photo shows Amanda Marie Knox, of the U.S., left, and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, of Italy, outside the rented house where 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was found dead in Perugia, Italy. The Court of Cassation on Monday March 25, 2013 is considering prosecutors' contentions that the 2011 acquittals of American Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher should be thrown out and a new trial ordered. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici, File)Prosecutors appealed her acquittal in the murder of her roommate.

Monday in politics: Obama to designate new monuments, and more

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 03:12 AM PDT

It's mostly quiet on the Washington front on Monday. President Barack Obama will designate five new national monuments, using executive authority to protect historic or ecologically significant sites. The sites are Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico; First State National Monument in Delaware; Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument in Maryland; Charles [...]

Spring snowstorm hits central states, pushes east

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 02:57 AM PDT

Korey Estes launches a snowball at his son, James Gordon, at the top of Art Hill in front of the St. Louis Art Museum on Sunday, March 24, 2013, in St. Louis. A storm dumped 7 to 9 inches of snow from eastern Kansas into central Missouri before tapering off this morning. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, J.B. Forbes)KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A wide-ranging storm is burying thoughts of springtime weather across a number of Midwestern states under a blanket of snow and slush, leaving in its wake dashed Palm Sunday plans, dozens of canceled flights and treacherous roadways as it churns eastward.

Big moment nears for couple at center of gay-marriage fight

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 01:40 AM PDT

This photo taken Feb. 8, 2013, shows Sandy Stier, left, and Kris Perry, the couple at the center of the Supreme Court's consideration of gay marriage, at their home in Berkeley, Calif. Whatever the outcome of their momentous case, Perry and Stier, who have been together 13 years, will be empty-nesters as the last of their children will heads off to college. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)Kris Perry and Sandy Stier have been waiting for this week's Supreme Court hearing for four years.

C. African Republic president overthrown by rebels

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 10:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2013 file photo, government security forces in a pickup truck drive past a demonstration calling for peace as negotiators prepare for talks with rebels from the north, in downtown Bangui, Central African Republic Saturday. On Friday, March 22, rebels took the town of Damara, beginning a new march to take the capital, Bangui, said a rebel spokesman. Panic spread throughout the capital, with the neighborhoods closest to the northern gate of the city emptying out, as frightened residents locked up their shops, packed their bags and yanked their children out of school. Banks and government offices closed early.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)The country's president flees the capital after rebels seize the presidential palace.

Reds third base coach Mark Berry has cancer

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 08:14 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 16, 2013, file photo shows Cincinnati Reds third base coach Mark Berry. Berry has been diagnosed with cancer on his tonsils and neck lymph nodes. The 50-year-old traveled to Cincinnati on Wednesday, March 20, to have a biopsy of his lymph nodes, which was positive. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — Mark Berry's conversation with his sister Michelle may have saved his life.
Publié par à

Aucun commentaire:

Enregistrer un commentaire

Inscription à : Publier les commentaires (Atom)