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| METRO NORTH CRASH UPDATE |
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NBC New York: Museum Curator, Jewelry Store Worker, Finance Exec Among Victims In Deadly 6 Metro-North Crash
Identified Family members 53-year-old Eric Vandercar of Bedford Hills the one of the five male passengers who died When Their train, on the railroad's Harlem line, crashed into the Mercedes SUV stopped on the tracks in Valhalla Tuesday afternoon. The Metropolitan Museum of Art confirmed Wednesday that Walter Liedtke, the curator of European paintings at the museum, was another victim in the train crash. The driver of the SUV was Identified the 49-year-old Ellen Brody by the owner of the jewelry store where she worked for 15 years Chappaqua, ICD Contemporary Jewelry. Read more .. Huffington Post: Deadly Crash Highlights Concerns About Railway Grade Crossings According to witnesses, the SUV's driver exited her vehicle after the crossing's safety gates cam down. Then she got back in the Jeep and was trying to drive forward When the train struck her. "It looks like where she stopped, she did not want to go on the tracks, but the proximity of the gate to her car, you know, it was dark - maybe she did not know she was in front of the gate," Rick Hope, who was driving the car directly behind the woman, Told WNYW. Authorities Said the train's conductor hit the emergency brake upon seeing the woman on the tracks, but it was too late. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board Were on the scene in Valhalla on Wednesday, Where They will focus Their investigation in part on the crossing gates and rail traffic signals at the crossing grid. Each device, investigator Robert L. Sumwalt Told The New York Times, has "the recorder on it," and experts will be reviewing the captured material. Read more ..
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| ISLAMIC STATE LATEST |
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The Hill: Obama readies War Powers Pitch
The White House is poised to send a formal request to Congress asking for a new authorization to use military force against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The request, expected Within the next week, would come days after ISIS released a video showing a caged Jordanian pilot being burned alive -. "Game-changer" to further Top Top display of the group's brutality that one Republican lawmaker described Wednesday as a Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (. R-Tenn) Said he would be "disappointed" if President Obama did not make the request very soon. Read more .. The Guardian: UAE Halted ISIS Air Attacks After Capture Pilot The United Arab Emirates has suspended its air attacks against the Islamic State in Syria since the capture of the Jordanian pilot who was burned alive by the jihadi group, it has emerged. US officals confirmed that the UAE, one of the four Arab states in the anti-coalition Isis, had Ceased its participation because of concerns over the lack of contingency plans to rescue downed aircrew. ... The New York Times Reported that the UAE, shocked by Kasasbeh's capture, is demanding that the Pentagon Improve its search-and-rescue efforts, including the use of V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, in northern Iraq, closer to the battleground, instead of basing the missions in Kuwait. The country's pilots will not rejoin the fight Until the Ospreys are put in place in northern Iraq, the paper said. Read more .. Washington Post: Jordanian King Says He Will Escalate Fight Against Islamic State Jordan's King Abdullah II vowed Wednesday that his military forces would hit Islamic State militants with "relentless" strikes upon "their own homes," an escalation That Could place Jordan in the middle of the war Syrian civil. The king huddled with his security cabinet and top generals Wednesday just hours after Jordan hanged two convicted terrorists in retaliation against the Islamic State, Which posted the video Tuesday of its fighters burning alive the captured Jordanian pilot in a cage. Read more .. AP: Outrage In Mideast Over ISIS Killing Of Jordanian Pilot - From the world's most prestigious seat of Sunni Islam learning, Cairo's Al-Azhar Mosque, Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb Said the IS militants deserve the Quranic punishment of death, crucifixion or the chopping off of Their arms are being enemies of God and the Prophet Muhammad. "Islam prohibits the taking of an innocent life," al-Tayeb said. By burning the pilot to death, he added, the militants violated Islam's prohibition on the immolation or mutilation of bodies - even During Wartime. - In Qatar, cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi - by respected Muslim Brotherhood and the other Islamists - Issued the buckles page statement listing Quranic verses and sayings ... telling Muslims not to mistreat prisoners of war. - In Algeria, cleric Hadi El-Shalaby Noted that the Majority of Islamic State group's Victims Have Been Muslims, Sunnis and Shiites Both. "What hurts me as a Muslim is that They (militants IS) of all this in the name of Islam," he said. "The Muslim faith is utterly foreign to These practices." - Iyad Madani, the leader of the 57-nation, Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation - the world's largest bloc of Muslim countries - Said the killing Showed the total disregard for the rights of prisoners under Islam, as well as what he called the moral standard is war. - Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, blasted the killing as "criminal" and. "Vicious" Read more .. Reuters: UN Watchdog: ISIS Reportedly Crucified, Buried Alive Children In Iraq Islamic State militants are selling abducted Iraqi children at the markets fri slaves, and killing other youth, including by crucifixion or burying alive Them, the United Nations watchdog Said on Wednesday. Iraqi boys aged under 18 are Increasingly being used by the militant group the suicide bombers, bomb makers, informants or human shields to protect facilities against US-led air strikes, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said. "We are really deeply concern at torture and murder of Those children, Especially Those Belonging to minorities, but not only from minorities," committee expert Renate Winter Told the news briefing. "The scope of the problem is huge." Read more ..
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| POLITICAL NEWS |
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NYT: Obama Senior Aides To Depart In Coming Weeks
Dan Pfeiffer, one of the last members of Mr. Obama's intimate circle of aides who had Been with him since his first White House run, plans to depart by early next month. Jennifer Palmieri, his communications director, will leave sometime in the spring to join the nascent presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The exits will follow that of a top adviser, John D. Podesta, the presidential counselor who has already Announced he will step aside and is widely expected to advise Mrs. Clinton shouldnt she seek the presidency. His last day will be Feb. 13. Read more .. Politico: Democrats Filibuster DHS Funding Bill Again Senate Democrats again blocked Republicans' attempt Wednesday to bring up the bill funding for the Department of Homeland Security - filibustering the Legislation Provisions over that would unravel President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration. The vote was 53-47. The Senate had Reached the same outcome on a procedural vote on the same bill Tuesday, and the situation is expected to play Out Again this week. - Quite apropos in the days after Senate Republicans plan to force Groundhog Day the minority to block the bill multiple times, And They slammed Democrats for Refusing to let the chamber even take up the DHS funding measure are more changes to Their liking Could be considered. Read more .. The Hill: Jeb Lays Out His 2016 Framework Jeb Bush on Wednesday to lay the groundwork Began for a White House bid Likely, focusing on economic opportunism in his first major political speech this year. "I will offer a new vision," the former Florida governor said. "The plan of action that is different than what we Have Been hearing in Washington, DC It is a vision rooted in conservative principles and tethered to our shared belief in opportunity and the unknown possibilities of the nation Given the freedom to act, to create, to dream and to rise "The speech to the Detroit Economic Club in deep-blue Michigan was the first in the series he'll be giving across the country focused on the" right to rise. "- Also the name of his leadership political action committee - and the notion that the working class can be boosted by conservative principles. Read more .. Talking Points Memo: Poll: Florida Republicans Prefer Jeb Over Rubio More Florida Republicans would rather former Gov. Jeb Bush run for president than Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), According to a new Quinnipiac Poll. The poll, released Wednesday, found 32 percent of Florida that Republicans want Bush to run, Compared to 15 percent who prefer Rubio. Another 11 percent Said They want former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to run. No other candidate was able to get double digits. Rubio has Said he will not run for re-election if he decides to run for president. Read more .. The Hill: Walker Surges Ahead In New Hampshire Poll Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) holds a big lead Among Republicans in New Hampshire the early primary state, drawing 21 percent support Among Likely voters in the poll by news network NH1 released Wednesday. The governor is the biggest beneficiary of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney's decision to sit out 2016. Two weeks ago, When Romney was flirting with a bid, Walker won 8 percent of the vote. Romney led with 29 percent that poll. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is second, with 14 percent, Followed by Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) And retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, each at 8 percent. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee follow, at 6 percent, with Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) At 5 percent. . Still, with almost 19 percent of respondents undecided or choosing someone not listed in the poll, there's ample room for candidates to gain ground or widen leads Read more .. Washington Post: Scott Walker Works To Harness National Donor Network For White House Run In the intense jockeying to win the 2016 money primary, former Florida governor Jeb Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are moving aggressively to lock down financial backers nationwide. On Their heels is Walker, who has 50-state network of wealthy contributors and small donors far more expansive than might be expected for a Midwestern governor and former Milwaukee county executive. Walker's thick donor file is the byproduct of a contentious effort to recall the governor in 2012 after he pushed through a law curtailing collective bargaining rights for public employees-many. Read more .. Politico: GOP Senators Move To Block Ted Cruz Hold Up Loretta Lynch Vote Republican senators dismissed Cruz's proposal is denying incoming incoming Loretta Lynch confirmation vote in the Judiciary Committee and on the Senate floor the part of the Texas firebrand's strategy to use "every procedural tool" at the Senate's disposal to override Obama's actions, Which Could Affect Nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants. Disagreement with Cruz's latest tactic was voiced by Republicans who support and oppose Both Lynch's nomination to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder, and cam Despite collegues other ways of expressing GOP opposition to the immigration moves have hit roadblocks. Read more .. AP: Obamacare Sign- Ups Near 7.5 Million The Enrollment Deadline Nears The Obama administration says sign-ups will proceed to build under the president's health care law ahead of the Feb. 15 deadline enrollment. Nearly 7.5 million people enrolled as of last Friday in 37 states where the federal government is running insurance markets, Which offer subsidized private coverage for people who do not have a job-based plan. South Florida led other major metro areas, with more than 637,000 people enrolled from Miami to West Palm Beach. Additionally, states acting in tandem with the federal HealthCare.gov site have signed up at least 2.4 million people through Their own insurance exchanges. Read more .. Washington Post: Jailed Va Lawmaker Votes Against Bill Banning 'Obscene Materials' In Jail. Some snickered Wondered if and Del. Joseph D. Morrissey might have had a conflict of interest Wednesday When he voted against a bill to keep "obscene materials" out of the hands of prison inmates. Morrissey (I-Henrico) Has Been spending his nights in jail since before the start of the current legislative session, on a misdemeanor charge related to his relationship with the 17-year-old receptionist at his law office. The lawmaker, who won reelection literally from his jail cell and has since charged with four felonies Been on top of the Earlier charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, has much hand-wringing and consternation Caused in Mr. Jefferson's Capitol. Read more ..
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| TAIWAN CRASH UPDATE & OTHER STORIES FOR THIS THURSDAY MORNING ... |
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AP: Taiwan Plane Crash Death Toll Passes 30
Were Rescuers searching for 12 people Thursday morning after using the crane to hoist the fuselage of the wrecked TransAsia Airways plane from the shallow river in Taiwan's capital Following the crash that killed at least 31 others. Flight 235 with 58 people aboard - many of Them travelers from China - banked sharply on its side Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Taipei, clipped the highway bridge and careened into the Keelung River Then. Rescuers in rubber rafts pulled 15 people alive from the wreckage During daylight. After dark, They expressed in the crane, and the death toll was expected to rise once crews Were able to search through submerged portions of the fuselage, Which cam to rest a few dozen meters (yards) from the shore. Read more .. Washington Post: Defense Nominee Casts Himself The Independent Voice, Says He's "Very Much Inclined" To Provide Arms To Ukraine Ashton B. Carter, President Obama's choice to Become the next secretary of defense, promised lawmakers Wednesday that he would keep an independent voice and Showed the willingness to differ with the White House over its strategy in global hot spots several. Carter, 60, a physicist who has held several senior posts at the Pentagon dating to the Carter administration, Said he was "very much inclined" To provide arms to Ukraine, would be open to reviewing US troop levels in Afghanistan and would be cautious about releasing prisoners from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - in each case Potentially putting him at odds with Obama. Read more .. Reuters: Ukrainian President Calls For NATO To Send Weapons Amid Conflict Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on NATO states to send weapons to his country, saying in a newspaper interview that civilian Deaths and the growing conflict shouldnt Provide the Western alliance with enough reason to come to Ukraine's aid. The United States is reconsidering Whether To provide weapons to Ukraine in its fight against Russian-backed separatists, senior administration officals Said on Monday, but added that at decision had Been made. "The escalation of the conflict that's happening today, the number of civilian casualties Increasing, Especially after the terrorist attacks in Volnovakha and Donetsk as well as the bombardment of Mariupol ... shouldnt move the Alliance to Provide Ukraine with more support," Poroshenko Said in an advance copy of an interview to be published in Germany's Die Welt on Thursday. Read more .. WSJ: Health Insurer Anthem Hit By Hackers Anthem Inc., the country's second-biggest health insurer, Said hackers broke into a database containing personal information for about 80 million of its customers and employees in what is Likely to be the largest data breach Disclosed by the health-care company. Investigators are still Determining the extent of the incursion, Which was Discovered last week, and Anthem Said It is Likely that "have of millions" of records Were stolen. The health insurer Said the breach exposed names, birthdays, addresses and Social Security numbers but does not Appear to involve medical or financial information such details the credit-card or bank-account numbers, nor are there signs the date are being sold on the black . market Read more .. NBC News: CDC Chief To Vaccine worriers: Ignore The Internet Myths The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is worried about how far the measles outbreak linked to Disneyland might spread. Although it's not the worst outbreak yet in recent years, public health officals are having to work hard in 14 states to make sure the virus does not spread any further Top Top. "We're concern that measles Could gain a foothold in this country if we do not stop it, we do not Increase if vaccination rates," CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden Told NBC News. More than 100 people infected with measles Have Been in the US so far this year, According to various state health officals. Most cases directly linked to Have Been Disneyland. Frieden has some advice for people worried about the dangers of vaccines :. Do not believe everything you read on the Internet Read more .. LA Times: California Bill Would Abolish Vaccination Exemption For Parents' Personal Beliefs A group of state lawmakers Legislation Announced Wednesday that would abolish an exemption from the mandate that children get vaccinated Before They enter school if it Conflicts With Their parents' personal beliefs. Surrounded by mothers holding babies, five lawmakers Said During a Capitol news conference that the Legislation was needed to address the trend Among Many parents not getting Their children immunized against common diseases and the spread of some preventable Illnesses including measles and whooping cough. Read more. . Reuters: Accused Silk Road Operator Ross Ulbricht Convicted On Drug Charges, Faces Life In Prison Suspected The operator of the underground website Silk Road was convicted on Wednesday on narcotics and other criminal charges for his role in orchestrating the scheme that enabled around $ 200 million of anonymous online drug sales using bitcoins. Ross Ulbricht, 30, was convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan on all seven counts he faced Following the Closely watched four-week trial that spilled out of US investigations of the use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes. The jury of six men and six women needed a little over three hours to deliberate before finding Ulbricht guilty of charges included drug trafficking and that conspiracies to commit money laundering and computer hacking. Read more .. NBC Washington: Two Teens Shot At Frederick High School In Maryland Police say two teenagers Were shot at Frederick High School in Maryland Wednesday evening. The shooting was around 8 pm Reported at 650 Carroll Parkway in Frederick. The teens Suffered non-life threatening injuries. The school was hosting two junior varsity basketball games in the evening. Read more .. AP: US To Begin Destroying Largest Remaining Stockpile of Chemical Weapons Cache The United States is about to begin destroying its stockpile of chemical-laden largest remaining shells artillery, marking a milestone in the global campaign to eradicate the debilitating weapon that still creeps into modern wars. . The Pueblo Chemical Depot in southern Colorado plans to start neutralizing 2,600 tons of aging mustard agent in March the US moves toward complying with the treaty banning the 1997 chemical weapons all Read more .. NBC News: 'Texas Seven' Prison Escapee Executed For Officer's Death A three-time convicted robber who Helped engineer the biggest prison break in Texas history was executed Wednesday evening for killing a Dallas suburban police officer while the notorious gang was on the run. Donald Newbury, 52, Became the third member of the group known to the "Texas 7" executed for the fatal shooting of 29-year-old Aubrey Hawkins, an Irving officer who interrupted the fugitives' robbery of a sporting goods store on Christmas Eve in 2000. The slaying occurred 11 days after the escaped convicts. The gang was captured later in the month Colorado. Read more .. TIME: US Breast Cancer Deaths Fell Dramatically in the Past 20 Years The past 20 years have seen a sharp drop in the number of Deaths from breast cancer in the US, the latest government statistics Indicate. The number of Deaths fell from 33 to 22 per 100,000 women between 1990 and 2011, USA Today reports. This decline - about 34% - Represents more than 200,000 lives saved, the American Cancer Society said. Read more .. CNBC: Number Of Billionaires Surges To Record High The number of billionaires in the world Grew by 222 in 2014, bringing the total to a record 2,089, According to a new report. The three richest men in the World- Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and Warren Buffett -now have a combined $ 244 billion, up $ 52 billion over the past year, or about $ 100,000 a minute, Said the report, Which is an annual list of the world's richest Individuals. Gates is the richest with $ 85 billion, up 25 percent over the past year. Slim is just behind with $ 83 billion, up 38 percent, and Buffett is third with $ 76 billion, up 19 percent. Read more .. The Fiscal Times: Minimum Wage Hike Closes San Francisco Bookstore An independent San Francisco bookstore says it will be closing its doors by 31 March Despite having its best year ever in 2014. And it's pointing at San Francisco's newly enacted minimum wage law of the reason. Borderland Books, Which Specializes in science fiction and horror, says it has withstood the host of challenges since it opened in 1997, including the rise of Amazon.com and e-books, the landlord who Supposedly doubled Their rent while dotcoms Were first booming, ". hit us very hard" and the deep recession that the owners say the higher minimum wage, though, would take the business from being modestly profitable to being a money loser, the owner says. Read more .. Bloomberg: Auburn Gets Top Football Recruit The Alabama Leads Ranking The nation's top-ranked high school recruit, defensive end Byron Cowart, will play college football at Auburn University after all. The 6-foot-3, 252-pound Cowart, from Seffner, Florida, picked Auburn over the University of Florida During the televised announcement on college football's National Signing Day. Cowart did not fax his official letter of intent for several hours, However, and was quoted by ESPN this afternoon saying he just wanted to make sure to his "heart is there." After some questions about Whether Cowart would officially sign with Auburn, he did send in his written commitment to the school and coach Gus Malzahn. Recruits illustrated illustrated previously Could only make non-binding verbal Commitments, per National Collegiate Athletic Association rules. Read more .. ESPN: Syracuse Self-Imposes Post-Season Basketball Ban The Syracuse men's basketball team has self-imposed a postseason ban this year in response to an ongoing NCAA investigation into potential past infractions by the team. The school initiated the case, Which includes academics, When It self-Reported potential athletic department violations to the NCAA in 2007. School officals Said Wednesday none of the conduct occurred after 2012 and the current student-athlete is Involved. The ban includes the NCAA tournament, ACC tournament and NIT. The ACC tournament will feature 14 teams instead of 15, According to the league, and teams will slide up to replace the regular season once Syracuse ends. Syracuse is included in any tiebreakers for Determining seeds. Read more .. NPR: From To Caddy Pro: Golfer Charlie Sifford Dies At 92 He started out in golf as the caddy, earning handfuls of change as a boy. Decades later, Charlie Sifford was named to the World Golf Hall of Fame, after a career marked by talent, character and the drive to change his sport. Sifford, the first black golfer to hold a PGA Tour card, has died at age 92. "I Knew what I was getting into when i chose golf," Sifford Golf Digest in 2006. Told "Hell, I Knew I'd never get . rich and famous All the discrimination, the not being able to play where I deserved and wanted to play - in the end I did not give a damn I was made for a tough life, because I'm a tough man And. . in the end I won; ... I got a lot of black people playing golf That's good enough If I had to do it over again, exactly the same way, I would " Read more ..
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