lundi 30 septembre 2013

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Judge orders potential witness list trimmed in theater shooting case

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:21 PM PDT

James Holmes sits in court for an advisement hearing at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in CentennialA judge told prosecutors in the Aurora theater massacre case Monday to pick up the pace cutting down the staggering number of possible witnesses in the murder trial of James Holmes.

Justice Dept sues North Carolina over voter law

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 12:20 PM PDT

FILE - In a June 30, 1982 file photo, President Ronald Reagan signs an expansion of the 1965 Voting Rights Bill during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. The Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort by the Obama administration to fight back against a Supreme Court decision that struck down the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act and freed southern states from strict federal oversight of their elections. North Carolina has a new law scaling back the period for early voting and imposing stringent voter identification requirements. It is among at least five Southern states adopting stricter voter ID and other election laws. (AP Photo, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday sued North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over a tough new voting law that shortens early voting and imposes other restrictions that heavily impact minority voters.

Judge hears claims BP lied to feds about oil spill

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 12:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday July 12, 2010 image from video made available by BP PLC, oil flows out of the top of the transition spool, which was placed into the gushing wellhead and will house the new containment cap, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The federal trial over the 2010 BP oil spill resumed Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, with a focus on the company's response to the disaster, with millions of dollars at stake as the two sides argue over how much oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/BP PLC, File)NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP lied to the U.S. government and withheld information about the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after its well blew out in 2010, attorneys told a judge Monday.

Smash 'n grab: Big looting during Kenya mall siege

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 11:48 AM PDT

This photo taken Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 and made available Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, shows forensic investigators working on the ground floor of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The four-day siege, which included the collapse of part of the mall, left 67 people dead, according to officials. (AP Photo)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Jewelry cases smashed and looted. Mobile phones ripped from displays. Cash registers emptied. Alcohol stocks plundered.

Executive, son believed dead in fiery Calif. jet crash

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 11:35 AM PDT

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — A construction company CEO and his son were believed to be aboard a jet that slammed into a hangar and burst into flames after landing at a Southern California airport, in what fire officials described as an unsurvivable accident, an official with the firm said Monday.

Knox retrial: Court approves new DNA test on murder weapon

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 11:18 AM PDT

Amanda Knox Is A No-show As Retrial For Murder Begins In ItalyFLORENCE, Italy (AP) — A court hearing Amanda Knox's second appeals trial on Monday accepted a request to run additional DNA tests on the presumed weapon in the murder of Meredith Kercher, but rejected most other defense requests for new testimony or evidence.

Barring last-minute deal, shutdown imminent

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 10:46 AM PDT

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, walks to the chamber as the House of Representatives works into the night to pass a bill to fund the government, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Locked in a deepening struggle with President Barack Obama, House Republicans on Saturday demanded a one-year delay in major parts of the nation's new health care law and permanent repeal of a tax on medical devices as the price for preventing a partial government shutdown threatened for early Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)There are only a few hours left and the prospects don't look good.

Obamacare set to go live — glitches and all

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 10:01 AM PDT

The Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, as the government teeters on the brink of a partial shutdown at midnight unless Congress can reach an agreement on funding. Hours before a threatened government shutdown, the Senate has the next move Monday on must-do budget legislation that has fueled a bitter congressional dispute over President Barack Obama's signature health care law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Contentious from its conception, President Barack Obama's health care law has survived the Supreme Court, a battle for the White House and rounds of budget brinkmanship. Now comes the ultimate test: the verdict of the American people.

South Africa to review security after Kenya attack

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Undated image provided by Interpol shows Samantha Lewthwaite. Interpol has issued an arrest notice for Samantha Lewthwaite, the fugitive Briton whom news media have dubbed the JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African security measures are coming under scrutiny in the wake of the Westgate mall attack in Kenya and reports that Briton Samantha Lewthwaite, wanted by Interpol in connection with a 2011 plot to bomb holiday resorts in Kenya, fraudulently obtained a South African passport.

Syria says 'terrorists' eat human hearts

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:43 AM PDT

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Walid al-Moualem speaks during the 68th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria's foreign minister claimed Monday that his government is fighting a war against al-Qaida-linked militants who eat human hearts and dismember people while they are still alive, then send their limbs to family members.

CNN scraps Hillary Clinton documentary after the director quits

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:13 AM PDT

Former U.S. Secretary of State and former U.S. first lady Hillary Clinton sits and watches during the Clinton Global Initiative 2013 (CGI) in New YorkDirector Charles Ferguson cited political pressure on interview subjects. "Neither political party wanted the film made," he said.

Apple unseats iconic soda as world's 'best brand'

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 07:27 AM PDT

A woman uses her mobile phone outside an Apple store in Shanghai on May 7, 2012Paris (AFP) - Coca-Cola has lost its crown as the world's best brand, a closely watched survey said on Monday, unseated by the iconic iPhone and iPad maker Apple.

Who gets blamed for a government shutdown?

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 07:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, President Barack Obama gestures while making a statement regarding the budget fight in Congress and foreign policy challenges, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. As Iran's diplomatic profile rises with attempts to recalibrate its dealings with Washington, the Gulf rulers will have to make adjustments, too, and that's not such an easy thing for the monarchs and sheiks to swallow. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)More Americans aren't pointing their fingers at Obama, a new poll shows.

Vatican: Benedict XVI may attend pope canonization

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 06:24 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken on April 23 1997, Pope John Paul II waves to faithful as he crosses St. Peter's square at the Vatican. Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will be declared saints on April 27, 2014. Pope Francis announced the date Monday, Sept 30, 2013, during a meeting with cardinals inside the Apostolic Palace. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will be declared saints on April 27 at a ceremony that might see two living popes honoring two dead ones.

Obamacare dispute sends gov't to brink of shutdown

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 06:08 AM PDT

The morning sun illuminates the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, as the government teeters on the brink of a partial shutdown at midnight unless Congress can reach an agreement on funding. Congressional Republicans and Democrats spent Sunday trading the blame for failure to reach agreement on the stopgap funding bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Hours before a threatened government shutdown, the Senate has the next move Monday on must-do budget legislation that has fueled a bitter congressional dispute over President Barack Obama's signature health care law.

Amanda Knox's 2nd appeals trial for murder opens

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 06:01 AM PDT

Francesco Sollecito, father of co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito, talks to reporters as he arrives for the start of U.S. student Amanda Knox's second appeals trial in her British roommate's murder, in Florence, Italy, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. Italy's highest court ordered a new trial for Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, overturning their acquittals in the gruesome 2007 slaying of Meredith Kercher with a harsh assessment of an appeals court acquittal in 2011. The Court of Cassation said the acquittal was full of FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — U.S. student Amanda Knox's second appeals trial in the murder of her British roommate opened Monday, but the star defendant was absent.

Justice Dept to sue North Carolina over voter law

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 05:26 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort by the Obama administration to fight back against a Supreme Court decision that struck down the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act and freed southern states from strict federal oversight of their elections.

Justice Dept to sue N. C. over new voter law

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 04:59 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort by the Obama administration to fight back against a Supreme Court decision that struck down the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act and freed southern states from strict federal oversight of their elections.

South Africa: Ruling party urges tighter security

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 04:33 AM PDT

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's ruling party is calling for tighter immigration laws and other security measures in South Africa following the attack at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya.

Red Cross: 39 still missing after mall attack

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 04:18 AM PDT

A woman, center, reacts as she observes the candles and flowers left at a memorial event organized by the Muslim community to express their condemnation of the Westgate Mall attack, and to pay their respects to those who died and those who helped others escape, outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Kenya's interior minister says that another arrest has been made Sunday in connection with the deadly Westgate mall attack, which left 67 people dead in a four-day siege, but refused to give any further details. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than three dozen people remain unaccounted for almost a week after the end of the four-day terrorist attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall that killed at least 67, the head of the Kenyan Red Cross said Monday.

Photos: Images from a fiery Calif. jet crash

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 04:01 AM PDT

Photos: Images from a fiery Calif. jet crashFirefighters work to extinguish fire at the site of a plane crash in Santa Monica, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Authorities say a twin-jet Cessna Citation went off the right side of the runway and crashed into a hangar after landing about 6:20 p.m. It was not immediately clear how many people were on the plane or whether anyone was inside the hangar, and there was no immediate word on any injuries or deaths. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Airlines promise a return to civility—for a fee

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 03:45 AM PDT

Airlines promise a return to civility, for a feeAirlines are introducing a new bevy of fees, but this time passengers might actually like them. Unlike the first generation of charges which dinged fliers for once-free services like checking a bag, these ...

Red Cross: More missing Kenyans found after attack

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:42 AM PDT

A woman, center, reacts as she observes the candles and flowers left at a memorial event organized by the Muslim community to express their condemnation of the Westgate Mall attack, and to pay their respects to those who died and those who helped others escape, outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Kenya's interior minister says that another arrest has been made Sunday in connection with the deadly Westgate mall attack, which left 67 people dead in a four-day siege, but refused to give any further details. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A spokeswoman for Kenya's Red Cross says "progress" has been made in finding some of the 59 people who were still missing after the Westgate mall attack.

Swedish Gypsy file brings racial profiling fears

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:10 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, Marcello Demeter stands on the balcony of his apartment in a Stockholm suburb. About a week ago, the 42-year-old Swede found out that he and his wife Susanne, their three children and at least three of their grandchildren were on a secret police register purportedly created to help fight violent crime. The reason? They are Gypsies. The list has triggered an outcry over racial profiling in this nation proud of its traditions of tolerance and social justice - and reminded many of the persecution that Gypsies, or Roma, suffered under the Nazis. Demeter says the police list reminds him of the way the Nazis drew up lists of Roma during World War II. Researchers estimate between 500,000 and 1.5 million Roma were killed alongside the Jews in the Holocaust. (AP Photo/David Mac Dougall)STOCKHOLM (AP) — In his suburban Stockholm apartment, Marcello Demeter sits at the kitchen table with his two daughters, Isabelle and Sandra — and wonders how they got on the list that has sent Sweden into an uproar.

Popes John Paul II, John XXIII canonized April 27

Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:53 AM PDT

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will be declared saints on April 27, 2014.
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