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CIA chief challenges Senate torture report

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 12:47 PM PST

CIA Director John Brennan pauses during a news conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Brennan defending his agency from accusations in a Senate report that it used inhumane interrogation techniques against terrorist suspect with no security benefits to the nation. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)John Brennan says the agency "did a lot of things right" in a time when there were "no easy answers."

Cleveland mayor disagrees with DOJ report on city's police

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 10:53 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. ...

Seven dead in Kabul after two suicide attacks

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 10:02 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

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 09:46 AM PST

42.9 million Americans have unpaid medical bills

More looting, one arrest as Bay Area protests dwindle

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 09:11 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. ...

American nurse exposed to Ebola to be admitted to NIH center

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 07:50 AM PST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An American nurse who was exposed to Ebola while volunteering in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone will be admitted to the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center in Maryland on Thursday, NIH announced. The center is one of 35 designated as an Ebola treatment center earlier this month by the U.S. government, and previously treated a nurse who contracted Ebola in Texas. NIH did not release any further information on the nurse, including when he or she might have been exposed to the virus, current medical condition or affiliation. ...

Yemen's al-Qaida blames Obama for hostage deaths

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 07:35 AM PST

FILE - 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.

Harvard professor apologizes to Chinese restaurant

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 04:38 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 ...

Exclusive: Campaign contributions under scrutiny in California police probe

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 04:22 AM PST

Police officers in riot gear form a line at the Occupy Oakland demonstration in OaklandBy Dan Levine and Kristina Cooke OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - An investigator appointed by a U.S. federal judge is examining whether campaign contributions affected how the city of Oakland, California, chose its lawyers for police disciplinary cases, according to a source briefed on the probe. The investigation started after an arbitrator reinstated an Oakland police officer who was heavily criticized for firing tear gas at a crowd of protesters during Occupy protests in 2011. That followed a series of other cases in which arbitrators overruled disciplinary actions for Oakland police. ...

New Jersey voters say U.S. not ready for president 'Jersey Guy' Christie: poll

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 03:15 AM PST

New Jersey Governor Christie talks at a legal reform awards luncheon at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington(Reuters) - New Jersey voters say the rest of the United States is not ready for a "Jersey Guy" president and neither is the Garden State, where Governor Chris Christie's presidential appeal continues to slide, a poll released on Thursday showed. A telephone poll of 1,340 registered New Jersey voters by Quinnipiac University found that Christie, and every other potential Republican contender for the 2016 White House race, would lose the state to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the possible Democratic candidate. ...

Chicago proposes chokehold ban in wake of U.S. protests

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 02:42 AM PST

A protester stands with a sign as he joins a protest to demand justice for the death of Eric Garner, at Grand Central Terminal in the Manhattan borough of New YorkBy Mark Guarino CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago city council members have proposed a ban on the use of chokeholds by police officers working within city limits in an expansive proposal coming in the wake of the chokehold death of an unarmed black man being arrested in New York. The proposal, which includes all security personnel such as deputy sheriffs, U.S. Marshals and private security guards, is the first among U.S. municipalities attempting to regulate arrest techniques after a grand jury last week declined to indict a New York City police officer in a chokehold death. ...

California braces for what could be worst storm in years

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 01:36 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)Northern California is expected to be slammed by heavy rain and hurricane force winds.

Hong Kong police clear tents in main protest camp

Posted: 11 Dec 2014 12:29 AM PST

Protesters sit at an 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) — Lines of Hong Kong police on Thursday tore down tents as they closed in on the heart of 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.

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

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 06:46 PM PST

A protester holds his hands up and chants during a protest to demand justice for the death of Eric Garner, at Grand Central Terminal in the Manhattan borough of New YorkBy Sharon Bernstein 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. ...

Judge in Colorado cinema massacre case won't delay trial again

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 06:30 PM PST

James Holmes sits in court for an advisement hearing at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in CentennialBy Keith Coffman and Daniel Wallis DENVER (Reuters) - A judge overseeing the Colorado movie theater massacre case said on Wednesday he will not delay the trial of gunman James Holmes again, rejecting a request by the defense for more time to study the results of a second court-ordered sanity exam. Jury selection in the trial of Holmes, 26, is due to start next month, and Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour has previously told lawyers for both sides to be ready to present their opening statements in late May or early June. ...

6 ways Democrats lose out in 2015 spending bill

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 05:24 PM PST

CORRECTS TO APPROVED, NOT PASSED - 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.

For CIA, fallout from Senate report looks far from over

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 04:17 PM PST

Senate Intelligence Committee chair Senator Dianne Feinstein talks to reporters after coming out of the Senate in WashingtonBy Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As outcry grows over its now-defunct brutal interrogation program, America's spy agency appears caught in the crossfire of debate over its methods in the ongoing U.S. battle against Islamic militants and whether it has changed its ways. Inside the Central Intelligence Agency, intelligence officials expressed resentment over what they said was the unfairness of a Senate Intelligence Committee report released on Tuesday that harshly criticized the spy agency's detention and questioning of militant suspects. ...

Delays plague Hillary Clinton's State Dept. files

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 03:28 PM PST

FILE - 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.

Police body cameras carry risks without firm rules

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 01:31 PM PST

File photo of a police body camera is seen on an officer during a news conference on the pilot program dubbed 'Big Brother' at the NYPD police academy in New YorkBy Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Civil rights activists and some police chiefs are warning that the Obama administration's proposal to help local police departments buy 50,000 body cameras must come with firm rules on how to use the equipment. They say that without proper oversight to address potential misuse, such as when police turn off their cameras during brutal acts, the wide deployment of the equipment could undermine efforts to build trust in police departments across the country. Last week, President Barack Obama announced a $75 million plan to help police departments buy body cameras after a state grand jury decided not to indict a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri, for the shooting death of an unarmed black teen, sparking protests and conversations about excessive force and racial bias in policing. Obama's plan, which requires congressional approval, calls for departments to undergo training, receive guidance on best practices from the Department of Justice and submit a plan of use for approval.
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