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• Brian Williams is not alone: Hillary Clinton, Stephen Glass and other famous fabrications
• Divers retrieve more AirAsia bodies, raising total to 100
• New York man sentenced to 30 years in Home Depot bomb plot
• John Whitehead, former leader of Goldman Sachs, has died: company
• At least 34 killed in three bombings in Baghdad
• Powerball players eye jackpot estimated at $380 million
• Merkel: Uncertain if Ukraine peace talks will succeed
• Can Greece's new government keep its promises?
• NBC launches internal probe on Brian Williams claims
• Anthem: Hackers tried to breach system as early as Dec. 10
• Study: Medical marijuana may do more harm than good for kids
• Department of Justice charges six with supporting Islamic State
• Heroics of engineer recounted after deadly New York train crash
• Former Florida professor deported from U.S. over Palestinian terrorist ties
• Embattled Arizona sheriff buys 700 body cameras for deputies
• U.S. judge rejects third request to move Boston bombing trial

Brian Williams is not alone: Hillary Clinton, Stephen Glass and other famous fabrications Posted: 07 Feb 2015 01:31 PM PST Brian Williams admitted this week that, contrary to previous claims, he was not aboard a helicopter that was grounded by rocket grenades during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. But he's not the first public figure who has been caught stretching the truth.

Divers retrieve more AirAsia bodies, raising total to 100 Posted: 07 Feb 2015 10:54 AM PST Indonesian divers have recovered several more bodies from December's AirAsia crash, including one from the jet's cockpit, bringing the total number of victims retrieved to 100, an official said Saturday.

New York man sentenced to 30 years in Home Depot bomb plot Posted: 07 Feb 2015 09:48 AM PST A former Home Depot employee was sentenced to more than 30 years in federal prison for threatening to set off pipe bombs in some of the chain's suburban New York stores in an attempt to extort money from the retailer, his trial attorney said on Saturday. Daniel Sheehan, 52, of Deer Park, New York was convicted in 2013 of threatening to explode the bombs on the day after Thanksgiving Day the previous year, according to his trial attorney Leonard Lato. Prosecutors said Sheehan tried to extort $2 million from The Home Depot by planting a pipe bomb in its Huntington, New York store and threatening to plant three more in other stores, forcing them to close, if the money was not paid. U.S. District Judge Denis Hurley in Central Islip, New York sentenced Sheehan to 30 years and one month in prison on Friday, Lato said.

John Whitehead, former leader of Goldman Sachs, has died: company Posted: 07 Feb 2015 09:33 AM PST John Whitehead, former senior partner and co-chairman of Goldman Sachs who helped make it a top-tier Wall Street firm and led its international expansion, has died, the investment bank said on Saturday. "We grieve the loss of John Whitehead and honor his achievements and contributions in service to his country and Goldman Sachs," Goldman chief executive Lloyd Blankfein said in a statement.

At least 34 killed in three bombings in Baghdad Posted: 07 Feb 2015 09:17 AM PST At least 34 people were killed in three bombings around Baghdad on Saturday, police said, hours before the government was due to lift a long-standing night-time curfew on the capital. In the first attack, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt inside a restaurant in the Shi'ite neighborhood of New Baghdad, leaving 22 dead, police told Reuters. In a third attack, a bomb killed two and wounded another seven in the Shi'ite section of Abu Sheir in Baghdad's Dura neighborhood, police said. The Iraqi government announced on Thursday that the decade-old curfew in the capital would end on Saturday at midnight and that four neighborhoods would be "demilitarized".

Powerball players eye jackpot estimated at $380 million Posted: 07 Feb 2015 06:06 AM PST One of the richest Powerball jackpots ever offered is up for grabs on Saturday, with the multi-state lottery's grand prize reaching an estimated $380 million after the previous drawing failed to produce a winner. Powerball jackpots start at $40 million and grow until at least one player comes up with the winning number at a drawing. The jackpot winners receive either payments over 29 years or a smaller cash lump sum. The cash option for the jackpot was about $257 million.

Merkel: Uncertain if Ukraine peace talks will succeed Posted: 07 Feb 2015 02:51 AM PST MUNICH (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that it's uncertain whether a flurry of diplomacy aimed at resolving the crisis in Ukraine will succeed.

Can Greece's new government keep its promises? Posted: 07 Feb 2015 02:05 AM PST ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's new prime minister came to power two weeks ago riding a wave of hope for change. But his pledge to rewrite the bailout agreement that has kept the country afloat for nearly five years doesn't depend on him alone.

NBC launches internal probe on Brian Williams claims Posted: 06 Feb 2015 08:16 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News has assigned the head of its own investigative unit to look into statements that anchor Brian Williams made about his reporting in Iraq a dozen years ago, an episode that's ballooned into a full-blown credibility crisis for the network.

Anthem: Hackers tried to breach system as early as Dec. 10 Posted: 06 Feb 2015 07:15 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The hackers who stole millions of health insurance records from Anthem Inc. commandeered the credentials of five different employees while seeking to penetrate the company's computer network — and they may have been inside the system since December.

Study: Medical marijuana may do more harm than good for kids Posted: 06 Feb 2015 06:58 PM PST A new report quells suggestions that medical marijuana could ease behavioral disorders.

Department of Justice charges six with supporting Islamic State Posted: 06 Feb 2015 06:27 PM PST Six people have been charged with providing money and equipment including U.S. military uniforms to support groups such as al Qaeda, Nusra Front and Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday. The six are Bosnian natives living in Missouri, Illinois and New York. Five of them were arrested in the United States and charged with conspiring to provide material support and resources to terrorists. Members of the group conspired to provide money and equipment - including U.S. military uniforms, combat boots, tactical gear, military surplus goods and firearms accessories - to be used to commit crimes outside the United States, according to the indictment released by Justice.

Heroics of engineer recounted after deadly New York train crash Posted: 06 Feb 2015 06:12 PM PST By Sebastien Malo TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (Reuters) - The engineer of a New York commuter train that plowed into a vehicle this week at a suburban rail crossing picked up an injured passenger and carried him off the train as it became engulfed in flames, federal investigators said on Friday. The heroics of Metro-North engineer Steven Smalls Jr., 33, a married father of two, were described at a news conference held by the National Transportation Safety Board three days after the deadliest rail accident in the New York area in more than three decades. Six people died on Tuesday evening after the rush-hour train, traveling from New York's Grand Central Terminal, struck a Mercedes sports utility vehicle that became stuck on the wrong side of a crossing gate in the Westchester suburb of Tarrytown. After exiting the engineer's compartment moments after the crash, Smalls helped five or six passengers escape the first train carriage and then noticed a passenger who was unable to walk crawling toward the door, said NTSB member Robert Sumwalt.

Former Florida professor deported from U.S. over Palestinian terrorist ties Posted: 06 Feb 2015 03:35 PM PST By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A former Florida university professor was deported this week, ending years of legal battles over accusations that he aided a Palestinian terrorist organization. Sami Al-Arian left on Wednesday night on a commercial flight out of Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. He was headed to Turkey, according to a blog post by his criminal attorney, Jonathan Turley. The case against Al-Arian, formerly a computer science professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa, received international attention as a test of U.S. government's powers under the Patriot Act.

Embattled Arizona sheriff buys 700 body cameras for deputies Posted: 06 Feb 2015 03:04 PM PST By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - Controversial Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio is spending $1 million to buy 700 body cameras for sheriff's deputies as part of a court ruling that found his office racially profiled Latino drivers, the company selling the cameras said on Friday. The devices, which will be worn by officers to record their actions in the field, are due to be delivered to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office by early March under an agreement with Scottsdale, Arizona-based TASER International Inc. TASER spokesman Steve Tuttle said the AXON Flex cameras would amount to "legal body armor" for deputies. The use of body cameras was among the requirements issued by U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow in an order that stemmed from a 2007 racial profiling lawsuit brought on behalf of Latinos pulled over during traffic stops.

U.S. judge rejects third request to move Boston bombing trial Posted: 06 Feb 2015 02:30 PM PST By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a third request by lawyers for the accused Boston Marathon bomber to move his trial out of the city, saying the jury selection process had been successful so far in identifying potential impartial jurors. Attorneys for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, who is accused of carrying out the largest mass-casualty attack on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, have repeatedly sought to move the trial out of Boston. The jury selection process, which wrapped up its fifth week on Friday, has shown a number of candidates with direct ties to the event, including a man married to a nurse who tended to the wounded, as well as others who were locked down in their homes during a manhunt for Tsarnaev three days after the attack. Still, of the more than 150 potential jurors so far brought in for questioning at U.S. District Court in Boston, a process known as "voir dire," some have been suitable, the judge said.

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