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mercredi 31 décembre 2014

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U.S. drone rules remain in the hangar in 2014
Two dead, more than 100 drivers stranded amid Southern California winter storm
Beach parties, fireworks: World rings in new year
New laws OK wine shipments, ban tiger selfies
Head of Baltimore Ravens security charged with sex offense: report
Exclusive: CDC to hire lab safety chief after Ebola, bird flu mishaps
U.S. releases 5 Guantanamo prisoners, sends them to Kazakhstan
Police kill Pennsylvania man as he tried to run down officers
U.S. sends five Guantanamo prisoners to Kazakhstan for resettlement
Penny for her thoughts: Puppy heads home after 2,400-mile U.S. road trip
Official: 6 bodies recovered from AirAsia crash
Tensions remain after New York City mayor meets police unions
Reports: 9 dead from linked homicides in in Canada

U.S. drone rules remain in the hangar in 2014

Posted: 31 Dec 2014 11:51 AM PST

By Alwyn Scott and Roberta Rampton NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States missed a year-end deadline for publishing new rules on remote-control aircraft, delaying an eagerly awaited step toward using drones in everything from farming to package delivery. Businesses have been clamoring for rules to allow commercial drone flights, fearing the United States is falling behind other countries in developing a multibillion-dollar industry. The Federal Aviation Administration turned a draft of the rules - the first major overhaul of the regulations - over to the White House on Oct. ...

Two dead, more than 100 drivers stranded amid Southern California winter storm

Posted: 31 Dec 2014 10:46 AM PST

(Reuters) - Two people, including a harbor patrolman, died on a wind-beaten Southern California coastal island and emergency crews rescued more than 100 drivers trapped in the snow-caked mountains outside Los Angeles as a fierce winter storm crept over the region, officials said on Wednesday. A harbor patrolman was killed in a boating accident in the City of Avalon on wind-battered Catalina Island, off the southern California coast, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. Local broadcast footage showed wind-whipped ocean waters pushing two boats up onto the beach. ...

Beach parties, fireworks: World rings in new year

Posted: 31 Dec 2014 10:12 AM PST

After a turbulent year marred by terror woes, Ebola outbreaks and a horrific series of airline disasters, many could be forgiven for saying good riddance to 2014 and gratefully ringing in a new year.

New laws OK wine shipments, ban tiger selfies

Posted: 31 Dec 2014 07:44 AM PST

New state laws taking effect Thursday give livestock in California more living room, approve direct-to-consumer wine shipments in Massachusetts and levy the ultimate punishment on wannabe teen drivers in Nevada by denying them licenses if they skip too much school.

Head of Baltimore Ravens security charged with sex offense: report

Posted: 31 Dec 2014 01:08 AM PST

(Reuters) - The senior director of security for the Baltimore Ravens was charged late on Tuesday with a sex offense, according to the Baltimore Sun newspaper and online court records. Baltimore police issued a summons charging Darren Sanders with a sex offense in the fourth degree stemming from an incident on Dec. 14, according to online court records. The address listed for Sanders in the court record is that of the Ravens' training facility and headquarters in Owings Mills, Maryland. ...

Exclusive: CDC to hire lab safety chief after Ebola, bird flu mishaps

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 10:23 PM PST

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to hire a chief of laboratory safety, a new post that has taken on more urgency after a CDC scientist was possibly exposed to Ebola in a laboratory last week. Creating a new high-level safety position was a key recommendation of a months-long internal investigation into the mishandling of anthrax and bird flu in CDC labs this past summer, according to an internal CDC memo obtained by Reuters. ...

U.S. releases 5 Guantanamo prisoners, sends them to Kazakhstan

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 09:50 PM PST

MIAMI (AP) — Five men who were held for a dozen years without charge at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been sent to the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan for resettlement, the U.S. government announced.

Police kill Pennsylvania man as he tried to run down officers

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 09:34 PM PST

(Reuters) - Police in Pennsylvania shot and killed a man on Tuesday who tried to use his car to run over officers as they attempted to arrest him on charges of making online terroristic threats against law enforcement, officials said. Police in Upper Darby Township, a suburb of Philadelphia, were trying to serve an arrest warrant on the 52-year-old man when the late afternoon shooting occurred on a well-traveled intersection, a department official said. As officers approached, the suspect put his car in reverse, stepped on the gas, and rammed a police vehicle, a police report said. ...

U.S. sends five Guantanamo prisoners to Kazakhstan for resettlement

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 09:02 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Yemenis and two Tunisians held for more than a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to Kazakhstan for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the latest in a flurry of prisoner transfers aimed at closing the facility. The transfer of the five men followed a recent pledge by President Barack Obama for a stepped-up push to shut the internationally condemned detention center where most prisoners have been held without being charged or tried. ...

Penny for her thoughts: Puppy heads home after 2,400-mile U.S. road trip

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 08:12 PM PST

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A puppy called Penny could be reunited with her worry-stricken U.S. owners by week's end after she went on a nearly 2,400-mile road trip that took her to an Iowa truck stop and a Pennsylvania pet hospital, her family said on Tuesday. The floppy-eared Vizsla has one more stop before returning home to Washington state. She has to travel from Pennsylvania, where she has been in foster care, to the District of Columbia for a free ride home from U.S. carrier Alaska Airlines, her owners said in a message on Saturday on a Facebook page devoted to finding her. ...

Official: 6 bodies recovered from AirAsia crash

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 07:23 PM PST

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's Search and Rescue chief says six bodies lost in the AirAsia crash have so far been recovered from the Java Sea, including a woman wearing a flight attendant's uniform.

Tensions remain after New York City mayor meets police unions

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 04:44 PM PST

By Jonathan Allen and Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police union leaders said their grievances with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio remained unresolved after meeting with him on Tuesday, 10 days after they said he was partly to blame for a gunman's deadly attack on two policemen. The meeting came after a marked drop in arrests across the city last week. One city newspaper said the decline was evidence of a "virtual work stoppage", but city officials were unable to say on Tuesday whether or not a police slowdown was under way. ...

Reports: 9 dead from linked homicides in in Canada

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 03:24 PM PST

Nine people have been killed in three related incidents in the western Canadian city of Edmonton, Canadian media reported on Tuesday. CBC TV said seven people were killed in a home in the Albertan city while two others were killed in two separate homes. The Edmonton Journal newspaper said some of the victims are believed to be children. Edmonton police said they were investigating "a multiple homicide scene." Police did not state the number of people killed nor whether the incidents were connected. ...

mardi 30 décembre 2014

Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines

House Speaker John Boehner lends support to Whip Steve Scalise over speech scandal
Police say officer in Berkeley, Missouri, shooting acted in self-defense
Judge accepts former South Carolina sheriff's guilty plea for bribery
New York City mayor to meet police unions to defuse tensions
Former U.S. President Bush, 90, released from Houston hospital: spokesman
Iran sets date for nuclear talks
Boehner comments on Grimm's resignation
Wreckage, bodies reveal jet's fate days after it disappeared
Lawyer says U.S. offered prisoner swap for ex-Marine held in Iran
Texas woman pleads guilty in revenge murder of prosecutors
What is the 'Car of the Year'?
Gun deaths for U.S. officers rose by 56 percent in 2014: report
Cargo vessel carrying migrants sent distress signal
Health worker with Ebola transferred to London hospital
Representative Grimm to step down following guilty plea, reports say
Three New York City fur vendors charged with tossing bleach on protesters
House GOP leader once addressed white supremacists
L.A. police officers shot unarmed black man three times: autopsy
British patient being treated for Ebola

House Speaker John Boehner lends support to Whip Steve Scalise over speech scandal

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 12:06 PM PST

House Speaker John Boehner issued a statement of support for Rep. Steve Scalise who appeared at a 2002 convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization.

Police say officer in Berkeley, Missouri, shooting acted in self-defense

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 11:32 AM PST

By Mark Guarino (Reuters) - An 18-year-old man fatally shot by police in Berkeley, Missouri, last week was pointing a gun at an officer, according to a police investigation of the incident. Berkeley Police Chief Frank McCall told a news conference on Tuesday that Antonio Martin "was armed and pointing a weapon at the officer" before he was shot outside a gas station convenience store on Dec. 23. The killing sparked protests, with demonstrators saying the shooting was unjustified and that race was a factor. Martin was black and the officer is white. ...

Judge accepts former South Carolina sheriff's guilty plea for bribery

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 11:15 AM PST

By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A former South Carolina county sheriff pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring to harbor illegal immigrants in a deal that federal prosecutors said could land him in prison after a judge rejected a similar deal that had called for only probation. James Metts, 68, was the state's longest-serving sheriff, having worked for Lexington County from 1972 until this year. He was suspended from office in June after being indicted on 10 criminal counts and resigned earlier this month. ...

New York City mayor to meet police unions to defuse tensions

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 10:56 AM PST

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was to meet on Tuesday with the leaders of police unions who accused him of having blood on his hands after two policemen were shot dead in an ambush 10 days ago. De Blasio, whose turbulent relationship with his police department has become the gravest crisis of his year-old mayoralty, called the meeting to "foster constructive and responsible dialogue," his press secretary, Phil Walzak, wrote in an e-mail. ...

Former U.S. President Bush, 90, released from Houston hospital: spokesman

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 10:23 AM PST

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, 90, was released from a Houston hospital on Tuesday after a weeklong stay brought on by breathing difficulties, his spokesman said. "President Bush was released from the Houston Methodist Hospital today," spokesman Jim McGrath said in a statement. "He is now resting at home, grateful to the doctors and nurses for their superb care." Bush was taken by ambulance to Houston Methodist Hospital the night of Dec. 23 and admitted for observation after experiencing shortness of breath, McGrath said. ...

Iran sets date for nuclear talks

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 09:16 AM PST

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran and six world powers are set to resume low-level talks on Iran's nuclear program in Geneva on Jan 15, with wide gaps remaining in their positions, the Iranian foreign minister said. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the lead negotiator for Iran with the six powers known as "P5+1," made the remarks in a closed-door session with members of the Iranian parliament's National Security Committee, according to state news agency IRNA. "We have stood firm and demand lifting of all sanctions at once," Zarif said. ...

Boehner comments on Grimm's resignation

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 08:27 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that N.Y. Rep. Michael Grimm made the right decision by resigning from Congress after pleading guilty to tax evasion charges.

Wreckage, bodies reveal jet's fate days after it disappeared

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 08:11 AM PST

Images of debris and a bloated body flash across Indonesian television screens.

Lawyer says U.S. offered prisoner swap for ex-Marine held in Iran

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 07:54 AM PST

DUBAI (Reuters) - A lawyer for an Iranian-American former U.S. Marine jailed in Tehran was reported on Tuesday as saying the United States had sought his release through a prisoner swap, but officials in Washington denied any proposed exchange. Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabai, attorney for former Marine Amir Hekmati, told Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency that the United States had made the request and it had been put to Iran's judiciary, which has not yet responded. "The US has submitted the request via its interest section in Iran," Tabatabai was quoted by Tasnim as saying. ...

Texas woman pleads guilty in revenge murder of prosecutors

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 07:37 AM PST

DALLAS (Reuters) - A woman charged with helping her husband kill a Texas district attorney, his wife and an assistant district attorney pleaded guilty to murder on Tuesday. Kim Williams, 48, accepted a plea deal to three counts of first-degree murder and will serve 40 years in prison, court officials said. Her husband, Eric Williams, was convicted and sentenced to death earlier this month for the murder of Cynthia McLelland. He is also charged with murdering District Attorney Mike McLelland, who was Cynthia's husband, and Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse. ...

What is the 'Car of the Year'?

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 06:32 AM PST

Gun deaths for U.S. officers rose by 56 percent in 2014: report

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 06:16 AM PST

(Reuters) - Gun related deaths of U.S. law enforcement officers rose by 56 percent in 2014 compared to the previous year, with about one-third of officers killed in an ambush, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund said on Tuesday. Across the country, 50 officers were killed by guns in 2014 compared to 32 in 2013, according to the website of the non-profit fund, which aims to increase safety for law enforcement officers. The most deadly states were California, Texas, New York, Florida and Georgia, the group said. ...

Cargo vessel carrying migrants sent distress signal

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 04:53 AM PST

ATHENS (Reuters) - A vessel that called for help off Greece is a Moldovan-flagged cargo ship believed to be carrying migrants, Greece's shipping ministry said on Tuesday. Greek state television earlier reported a passenger ship issued a distress signal because of armed people on board. The "Blue Sky M" was sailing off the island of Corfu, a shipping ministry spokesman said. The vessel was carrying hundreds of migrants, Greek television stations reported. (Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

Health worker with Ebola transferred to London hospital

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:31 AM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - A health worker who was the first person diagnosed with Ebola in Britain arrived at a London hospital from Scotland early on Tuesday for treatment after contracting the disease in West Africa. The woman arrived at the capital's Royal Free hospital, Britain's designated Ebola treatment center, in an ambulance accompanied by several police vehicles, a Reuters witness said. ...

Representative Grimm to step down following guilty plea, reports say

Posted: 29 Dec 2014 07:38 PM PST

By Victoria Cavaliere (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Michael Grimm of New York, who pleaded guilty last week to a federal felony tax charge, is expected to resign from office in coming days, published reports said Monday. Grimm spoke privately on Monday with Republican leaders about the decision, sources told the Washington Post and Politico. Grimm could hand in his resignation as early as next Tuesday, the reports said. Following his guilty plea, Grimm said publicly he had no intention of stepping down. Daniel Rashbaum, one of Grimm's lawyers, declined to comment on the reports. ...

Three New York City fur vendors charged with tossing bleach on protesters

Posted: 29 Dec 2014 06:15 PM PST

(Reuters) - Three New York City fur vendors have been charged with throwing a mixture of bleach and ammonia from the roof of a Manhattan building onto anti-fur protesters and pedestrians on the street below, authorities said on Monday. The incident occurred on a crowded street in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood during the late afternoon of Dec. 20, when at least four people and a baby stroller were hit by the chemical mixture in an area crowded with holiday shoppers, police said. There were no reports of injuries. ...

House GOP leader once addressed white supremacists

Posted: 29 Dec 2014 04:19 PM PST

As Republicans struggle to attract more votes from minorities heading into the 2016 presidential election, a House GOP leader has acknowledged that he once addressed a gathering of white supremacists, though his office denies any association with the group's social views.

L.A. police officers shot unarmed black man three times: autopsy

Posted: 29 Dec 2014 04:00 PM PST

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An unarmed 25-year-old black man slain by Los Angeles police officers in August suffered three gunshot wounds, including one to his back, a long-awaited autopsy report into the killing showed on Monday. Police have said two officers shot Ezell Ford, described by a family lawyer as mentally challenged, on Aug. 11 after he struggled with one of them and tried to grab the officer's holstered gun. ...

British patient being treated for Ebola

Posted: 29 Dec 2014 01:29 PM PST

A female health care worker had just returned from Sierra Leone, officials say.