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Seven dead in Kabul after two suicide attacks

Seven dead in Kabul after two suicide attacks


Seven dead in Kabul after two suicide attacks

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 10:21 AM PST

A wounded man receives treatment at the Italian aid organization Emergency hospital after a bomber blew himself up at the Istiqlal High School in Kabul on December 11, 2014A wave of violence assaults Kabul as NATO forces pull out.


42.9 million Americans have unpaid medical bills

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42.9 million Americans have unpaid medical bills


6 ways Democrats lose out in 2015 spending bill

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 03:16 PM PST

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a member of the Senate Banking Committee, right, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, express their outrage to reporters that a huge, $1.1 trillion spending bill approved by the Republican-controlled House yesterday contains changes to the 2010 Dodd-Frank law that regulates complex financial instruments known as derivatives, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democratic support for the omnibus bill funding every corner of government faded Wednesday as liberal lawmakers erupted over a provision that weakens the regulation of risky financial instruments and another that allows more money to flood into political parties. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The 1,600-page document could be forced through House and Senate in less than a week.


Yemen's al-Qaida blames Obama for hostage deaths

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 07:01 AM PST

In this Feb. 11, 2013 file photo, Luke Somers, 33, an American photojournalist who was kidnapped over a year ago by al-Qaida, poses for a picture during a parade marking the second anniversary of the revolution in Sanaa, Yemen. The body of an American photojournalist killed during a high risk raid to free him and a South African teacher from al-Qaida militants in Yemen is back on U.S. soil. The remains of Luke Somers arrived at Dover Air Force Base Wednesday aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft. There was no public announcement. The Somers family was there to receive the remains, but no media coverage was allowed, according to a U.S. defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the arrival was not publicly announced. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)The terror group comments after a failed U.S. hostage rescue operation.


Matt Bai: Did TV's '24' convince us that torture really worked?

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 02:20 AM PST

Matt BaiJack Bauer's operative philosophy was simple: "Stop terrorists, by any means necessary."


Harvard professor apologizes to Chinese restaurant

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 04:03 AM PST

A Harvard Business School instructor who blasted a Boston-area Chinese restaurant for overcharging him by $4 on a takeout order apologized Wednesday for a lengthy and widely publicized email exchange with ...

California braces for what could be worst storm in years

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 10:31 AM PST

Sam Taing carries sandbags to his pickup truck to be placed around his home in the Sacramento suburb of North Highlands, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. Sandbags and sand were provided in flood- prone areas of Sacramento County for residents to use to protect their homes in anticipation of a powerful storm that is expected to hit Northern California Thursday. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)The storm is predicted to bring heavy rains and hurricane force winds to N. California.


Hong Kong police arrest 209 protesters, demolish main camp

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 08:13 AM PST

Police officers take away a protester at the occupied area outside government headquarters in Hong Kong Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Hong Kong authorities started clearing barricades Thursday from a pro-democracy protest camp spread across a busy highway as part of a final push to retake streets occupied by activists for two and a half months. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities demolished a protest camp Thursday at the heart of the city's 2 ½-month pro-democracy movement but scores of activists taken away by police vowed their fight for genuine elections wasn't over.


More looting, one arrest as Bay Area protests dwindle

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 08:57 AM PST

Protesters march against the New York City grand jury decision to not indict in the death of Eric Garner in Oakland, CaliforniaBy Emmett Berg OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Police in Oakland, California, said demonstrators broke windows and looted stores and that one person was arrested for allegedly assaulting an officer in the latest protest of police activity in the United States. Oakland and neighboring Berkeley have seen nightly demonstrations since the weekend in response to decisions by two grand juries not to charge white police officers in the killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City. ...


U.S. chokehold protesters stage 'die-ins', issue demands in NY

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 09:00 PM PST

An undercover police officer, who had been marching with anti-police demonstrators, aims his gun at protesters after some in the crowd attacked him and his partner in OaklandBy Emmett Berg and Sebastien Malo BERKELEY, Calif./NEW YORK (Reuters) - Students at medical schools around the United States staged "die-ins" to protest the chokehold death by police of an unarmed black man, and New York activists demanded the city take action after a grand jury declined to indict the officer involved. Protests intensified last week after the grand jury decision not to charge a white New York City police officer in the July death of Eric Garner. ...


Cleveland mayor disagrees with DOJ report on city's police

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 10:21 AM PST

By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The mayor of Cleveland said on Thursday he did not agree with all of the U.S. Department of Justice's findings in a scathing report on the widespread use of excessive force by the city's police, saying it will take time to agree on how to reform the troubled department. A federal investigation published this week concluded that Cleveland police supervisors tolerated, and in some cases, endorsed the use of unnecessary or unreasonable force. ...

Former VP Dick Cheney says CIA torture report is 'full of crap'

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 11:46 PM PST

Former Vice President Dick Cheney Says CIA Torture Report Is 'Full of Crap'Former Vice President Dick Cheney says a declassified Senate report on the controversial post-9/11 CIA interrogation program is "full of crap.""I think it is a terrible report, deeply flawed," Cheney said on Fox News, his first televised interview since the report's release. "It's a classic example of where politicians get together and throw professionals under the bus."Cheney said he had not read the entire 6,000-page classified document, drafted by Democrats and their staffs on the Senate Intelligence Committee, or the 500-page declassified and redacted executive summary. ...


Photographer's awe-inspiring video shows severe weather in a new light

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 10:58 AM PST

Incredible storm chaserNicolaus Wegner, who produced a mesmerizing time-lapse video of thunderstorms and supercells swirling in the northern Great Plains last year, is back with another awe-inspiring film.


Delays plague Hillary Clinton's State Dept. files

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 11:42 AM PST

In this Dec. 3, 2014 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at Georgetown University in Washington. The State Department is withholding documents covering Clinton's tenure as secretary of state ahead of her presumptive presidential campaign. The Associated Press asked for files under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, including one request it made four years ago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has failed to turn over government documents covering Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state that The Associated Press and others requested under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act ahead of her presumptive presidential campaign. They include one request AP made four years ago and others pending for more than one year.


CIA torture report casts pall over 'Zero Dark Thirty'

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 11:40 AM PST

FILE - In this May 3, 2011 file photo, local residents gather outside a house, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. After U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama bin laden in Pakistan in May 2011, top CIA officials secretly told lawmakers that information gleaned from brutal interrogations played a key role in what was one of the spy agency's greatest successes. CIA director Leon Panetta repeated that assertion in public, and it found its way into a critically acclaimed movie about the operation, Zero Dark Thirty, which depicts a detainee offering up the identity of bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmad al- Kuwaiti, after being tortured at a CIA Director Kathryn Bigelow claims torture was a part of the story that couldn't be ignored.


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