NPR 美国国家电台 2014-10-03(在线收听) |
After several highly publicized security guests that agency she headed, the secret service director Julia Pierson is step down. Pierson's resignation was accepted by Homeland Security Director Jeh Johnson as it was approved by the president. Representative Elijah Cummings is the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, and said Pierson needed to go. "So I don't see how she could, at the same time, address thing like the culture, protocol, training, and at the same time, lift morale of the organization and protect the president and his family all the other duty-bound to be protected."
The incident last month, when a knife-weaving man was able to jump the fence, made his way inside the White House before finally being stopped, drew intense criticism for the secret service. President Obama and his family were not there at the time.
In Jacksonville, Florida. Michael Dunn has been founded guilty for murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis in the dispute over loud music. NPR's Greg Allen reports it was done second trial of murder charges.
Tuesday after Thanksgiving in 2012 when Michael Dunn pulled into a gas station at a convenience store, and parked alongside a SUV containing 4 teenagers. Dunn and one of the passengers Jordan Davis got into altercation over teenagers' loud rock music. At the end when Dunn took off a pistol and fired 9 shots into the SUV, killing Davis. Dunn said he believed he saw Davis holding a shoot gun, and was in fear for his life. No other weapons were found. In an earlier trial, Dunn was founded guilty of 3 counts of attempted murder on the lives of the 3 survivals teenagers. That jury dead locked on the murder charge. In this re-trial, the jury took 4 and a half hour to find Dunn guilty of the first degree murder, a charge that carries a life sentence. Greg Allen, NPR News.
Rhode Island health officials are reporting 10 years old child does die due to a dangerous combination of severe bacteria affection along with respiratory virus, the second of 100 children around the country. NPR's Patti Neighmond has that story.
State Health Official said the deadly combination is extremely rare. It's not clear how the child became affected with bacterial infection staphylococcus which is calmly found in hospitals. The child was also effected with internal virus D68 or EVD68. Health officials don't know whether the virus played a role in the child's death. Nationwide, at least 472 people, mostly children have been sickened by EVD68. Health officials say most patients suffer only mild cold-like symptom and recover quickly. But some particularly, though with asthmas can progress to wheezing in difficulty of breathing. Officials say parents should make sure their child's asthmas under control and seek medical help if children started have a trouble breathing. Patti Neighmond, NPR News.
Manufacturing showed signs of slowing last month, and that apparently weighted on Wall Street today. All three the major market indexes down more than 1%. The Dow dropped 238 points; the NASDAQ was down 71 points.
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The sister of the man identified the first Ebola patient diagnoses in the US says he notified health workers at the first time he went to the hospital that he had visited the US from Liberia. According to the woman, her brother went to a Dallas emergency room Friday, and told the officials he had come from the country where the epicenter of the currently outbreak, but was sent home with antibiotics. She says she returned two days later when his condition worsened and I remembered a team of health officials have been working at tracking anyone may have made in contact with the man.
A federal judge in Seattle has declined the deportation of 8 immigrant minors who are suing the government over the rights to be representative by a lawyer. NPR's Richard Gonzales would explain the suit of the case just slowed down so-called " rocket, dark legal hearings ".
The suit was filed by the ACLU and other immigrant advocacy groups on behalf of 8 minors who argued the federal government should provide them with a lawyer in their deportation hearing. US District Judge Thomas Zilly said he's sympathetic to the minors' plea for legal assistance, but they've not yet exerted their option in the courts. He did not rule on the question of whether they're entitled to government-paid legal representation. According to federal records, immigrants without lawyer have little chance have avoided deportation. The Obama administration wants the measure to dismiss while the justice department plans to spend almost 2 million dollars to help legal aid organizations representing immigrant minors. Richard Gonzales, NPR News, Washington.
An Oregon man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in plotting to bomb a crowded holiday event in Portland main square in 2010. Mohamed Mohamud was sentenced today in US District Court in Portland. Connection with the plot which turned out to actually be a well-orchestrated FBI sting. Agency posing itself an Al-Qaeda recruiter supplied fake car bomb to former Oregon State University student tried to set off. |
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