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• Winter's first big snow expected in U.S. Northeast this weekend
• Moody's slashes Atlantic City rating on bankruptcy potential
• Romney senior advisers meet in Boston to discuss 2016
• Pediatrician group urges measles vaccinations amid Disneyland outbreak
• At U.S. airports, record number of firearms found in 2014
• Russians will 'eat less' for Putin
• Marco Rubio preparing for 2016 run
• Middle East roiled by Yemen chaos and Saudi succession
• A mother pleads as Japan hostage deadline looms
• New Jersey police release video of cop shooting man with hands up
• Connecticut school massacre suit moved to U.S. federal court
• Lawyer for former Australian Guantanamo detainee says U.S. agrees he is innocent
• Pennsylvania high court halts any charges against attorney general
• Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah dies
• Obama says hopes Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage
• Tsarnaev attorneys renew bid to move Boston Marathon bombing trial

Winter's first big snow expected in U.S. Northeast this weekend Posted: 23 Jan 2015 10:51 AM PST By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Up to 8 inches of snow is expected to fall over parts of the Northeast this weekend, and a wintry mix could make for a messy Monday morning commute in New York, Boston and other cities, the National Weather Service said on Friday. Rhode Island, parts of Connecticut and central Massachusetts were expected to be hit the hardest from twin snowstorms, beginning Friday evening and followed by a second storm late Sunday. "Bring it on!" said Tom Meyers, spokesman for Wachusett Mountain Ski Area in Princeton, Massachusetts, about 50 miles west of Boston. The weather service said the same system that brought heavy snow to the southern Plains would bring a wintry mix to the mid-Atlantic and New England at the start of the weekend.

Moody's slashes Atlantic City rating on bankruptcy potential Posted: 23 Jan 2015 10:19 AM PST (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service slashed Atlantic City's credit rating six notches deeper into junk territory on Friday, a day after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appointed an emergency manager with a mandate to consider a debt restructuring. Atlantic City has about $344 million of long-term debt outstanding. Moody's dropped the city's general obligation rating to Caa1, down from Ba1, indicating that the credit rating agency thinks there is a substantial risk of default over the next five years. The order from Christie to consider a restructuring also marks a "rapid, dramatic" change from the usually strong oversight New Jersey provides its local governments, including the requirement that they pay their bond debts, Moody's said.

Romney senior advisers meet in Boston to discuss 2016 Posted: 23 Jan 2015 10:02 AM PST The 2012 GOP presidential nominee is considering a third run for the White House.

Pediatrician group urges measles vaccinations amid Disneyland outbreak Posted: 23 Jan 2015 09:11 AM PST By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The leading U.S. pediatrician group on Friday urged parents, schools and communities to vaccinate children against measles in the face of an outbreak that began at Disneyland in California in December and has spread to more than 50 people. The American Academy of Pediatrics said all children should get the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine between the ages of 12 and 15 months old and again between 4 and 6 years old. "A family vacation to an amusement park – or a trip to the grocery store, a football game or school – should not result in children becoming sickened by an almost 100 percent preventable disease," Dr. Errol Alden, the group's executive director, said in a written statement. The California Department of Public Health has reported 59 confirmed measles cases among state residents since the end of December, most linked to an initial exposure at Disneyland or the adjacent Disney California Adventure Park.

At U.S. airports, record number of firearms found in 2014 Posted: 23 Jan 2015 08:37 AM PST A record number of firearms was found at U.S. airport security checkpoints in 2014, and more than four out of five guns were loaded, the Transportation Security Administration said on Friday. The number of firearms leapt 22 percent to an all-time high of 2,212 last year, more than triple the number in 2005, the TSA said in its 2014 summary. A loaded .38-caliber revolver was found at New York's La Guardia airport clipped to a 94-year-old man's belt. "The most common excuse that we hear from people is that they forgot they had their firearms with them," said TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein.

Russians will 'eat less' for Putin Posted: 23 Jan 2015 07:00 AM PST DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, on Friday warned the West against trying to topple President Vladimir Putin and said that Russians are ready to sacrifice their wealth in Putin's support.

Marco Rubio preparing for 2016 run Posted: 23 Jan 2015 05:10 AM PST "He has told us to proceed as if he is running for president," a senior Rubio adviser said.

Middle East roiled by Yemen chaos and Saudi succession Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:56 AM PST A security expert tells Yahoo News' Michael Isikoff what the turmoil means for the U.S.

A mother pleads as Japan hostage deadline looms Posted: 22 Jan 2015 09:58 PM PST The mother of one of the Japanese men being held by Islamist militants Friday urged the Tokyo government to pay the jihadists' ransom and pleaded that her son's life be spared. As the extremists' deadline loomed, Junko Ishido said freelance journalist Kenji Goto was a friend of Islam, whose life had been devoted to helping children in war zones. "I say to you people of the Islamic State, Kenji is not your enemy. He was reporting war from a neutral position." The Islamic State group released a video earlier this week in which Goto and another Japanese hostage, Haruna Yukawa, apparently knelt in a desert as a British-accented man stood over them brandishing a knife.

New Jersey police release video of cop shooting man with hands up Posted: 22 Jan 2015 08:20 PM PST A New Jersey police department released a video this week of a man being fatally shot by police as he got out of a car with his hands raised during a traffic stop, heightening calls for an independent investigation into the death. The footage, recorded on a police dashboard camera, showed a traffic stop escalating into the deadly confrontation in less than two minutes after one of the police officers said he saw a gun in the car's glove compartment. The death of Jerame Reid on Dec. 30 in Bridgeton has prompted protests in the city, local media has reported. Some protests have been similar to those over cases last year in Missouri and New York City in which white police officers killed unarmed black men.

Connecticut school massacre suit moved to U.S. federal court Posted: 22 Jan 2015 07:15 PM PST By Richard Weizel MILFORD, Conn. (Reuters) - Gunmaker Remington won a bid to move a lawsuit by families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre from state to federal court, officials said on Thursday. The move could help Remington by taking the suit out of the hands of a state system that might be influenced by local issues, said Timothy Lytton, a professor at Albany Law School. "The defendants must believe they have a better chance of stopping the lawsuit in federal court than in state court," he said, adding that federal courts have a track record of rejecting gun manufacturer liability cases. Ten families of the victims of the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, filed suit in state court in December against Remington, owner of Bushmaster Firearms International, which manufactured the AR-15 rifle used in the attack.

Lawyer for former Australian Guantanamo detainee says U.S. agrees he is innocent Posted: 22 Jan 2015 05:20 PM PST By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - The United States has agreed that Australian David Hicks, jailed on terrorism charges for five years at Guantanamo, is innocent, his lawyer said on Friday. Hicks pleaded guilty in 2007 to providing "material support for terrorism" but his legal team claimed that he did so under duress and filed an appeal in late 2013. Lawyer Stephen Kenny said the legal team arguing the appeal has been told the U.S. government did not dispute Hicks' innocence and also admitted that his conviction was not correct. Kenny said he expected to hear within a month whether the Court of Military Commission Review in Washington would quash his conviction.

Pennsylvania high court halts any charges against attorney general Posted: 22 Jan 2015 04:47 PM PST By Elizabeth Daley PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court temporarily halted the filing of charges against Attorney General Kathleen Kane in a media leak case while it decides whether the appointment of a special prosecutor assigned to investigate her was legal, her lawyer said on Thursday. The court will hear oral arguments in March to determine whether the appointment of Special Prosecutor Thomas Carluccio by Judge William Carpenter was a potentially illegal conflict of interest, said Lanny Davis, an attorney who represents Kane. "If the Supreme Court rules he is unconstitutional, everything he's done is illegal," Davis said, adding that any investigation into the Democratic attorney general would need to start from scratch. A special grand jury recommended charges of perjury and obstruction against Kane in connection with an allegedly illegal media leak to the Philadelphia Daily News.

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah dies Posted: 22 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST King Abdullah's expected successor is his 79-year-old half-brother, Prince Salman.

Obama says hopes Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage Posted: 22 Jan 2015 03:13 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday he hoped the Supreme Court would issue a ruling that would prevent states from banning gay marriage when it rules on the issue later this year. The court last week agreed to decide whether states can ban gay marriage. Obama has said previously that he is in favor of allowing same-sex couples to wed. "I'm hopeful the Supreme Court comes to the right decision," Obama said during an interview on YouTube. (Reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Tsarnaev attorneys renew bid to move Boston Marathon bombing trial Posted: 22 Jan 2015 02:04 PM PST Citing juror bias, attorneys for accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are pushing to move his trial out of Boston.

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