| Funeral set for four Missouri shooting victims as probe continues Posted: 01 Mar 2015 12:08 PM PST By Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - Funeral services for four of seven people slain last week in a small town in Missouri are scheduled for Thursday as authorities seek a motive in the killings. The four are members of a family killed in the shootings on Thursday in Tyrone, Missouri. Their funeral will take place at the First General Baptist Church in Willow Springs, Missouri, according to the Elliott-Gentry-Carder Funeral Home. |
| U.S. astronauts speed through spacewalk Posted: 01 Mar 2015 11:18 AM PST  Two US astronauts on Sunday made speedy work of their third spacewalk to get the International Space Station ready for the arrival of more commercial spacecraft in the coming years. Tethered to the outside of the orbiting outpost, space station commander Barry Wilmore and flight engineer Terry Virts reported no problems with their spacesuits during the outing, but Virts discovered a small amount of water building up in his helmet after he re-entered the space station. A similar problem occurred after Wednesday's spacewalk, when about three inches of water collected in Virts' headpiece, but NASA said the problem did not put the astronauts in danger.
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| Baseball legend Minnie Minoso dead at 90: Chicago Tribune Posted: 01 Mar 2015 07:43 AM PST (Reuters) - Baseball great Minnie Minoso died on Sunday at the age of 90, the Chicago Tribune and other media outlets reported. Minoso, a legendary player with the Chicago White Sox, was the city's first black major league player, according to the Tribune. (Reporting by Letitia Stein; Editing by Andrew Heavens) |
| Life and death at the heart of Boston bombing trial Posted: 01 Mar 2015 06:39 AM PST  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - From the moment U.S. prosecutors stand up on Wednesday and begin their case against accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, their minds and those of their defense counterparts will be focused on just one thing: The death penalty. Tsarnaev, 21, is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs left at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, in the largest mass-casualty attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. "The bottom line is you're not going to get a not guilty in this case," said Jules Epstein, a Widener University School of Law professor who has represented defendants in federal and Pennsylvania death penalty cases. So every move is with an eye on the end game and that is avoiding death." Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to all charges and his attorneys have offered little detail on their case, with the bulk of both prosecution and defense filings under seal in Boston federal court.
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| U.S.-Israel ties fraying over Netanyahu's planned Iran speech Posted: 01 Mar 2015 06:22 AM PST  By Matt Spetalnick and Dan Williams WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Signs are growing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned speech to Congress against a possible nuclear deal with Iran could damage his country's broad alliance with the United States. The right-wing leader's acceptance of a Republican invitation to address the U.S. legislature already brought Netanyahu's long-strained relations with President Barack Obama to a new low due to the overture's partisan nature. Israel fears that Obama's Iran diplomacy, with an end-of-March deadline for a framework nuclear agreement, will allow its arch foe to develop an atom bomb. Previously Israel has always been careful to navigate between the Republican and Democrat camps.
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| 'I am not afraid': Russians march in memory of murdered Putin critic Posted: 01 Mar 2015 05:16 AM PST  By Katya Golubkova and Alexander Winning MOSCOW (Reuters) - Holding placards declaring "I am not afraid", thousands of Russians marched in Moscow on Sunday in memory of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, whose murder has widened a split in society that some say could threaten Russia's future. Families, the old and young walked slowly, with many carrying portraits of Nemtsov, an opposition politician and former deputy prime minister who was shot dead while walking home from a restaurant in central Moscow on Friday night. "If we can stop the campaign of hate that's being directed at the opposition, then we have a chance to change Russia. If not then we face the prospect of mass civil conflict," Gennady Gudkov, an opposition leader, told Reuters before the march.
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| Israel's Netanyahu heads to Washington for Congress speech Posted: 01 Mar 2015 03:54 AM PST  In a contentious address, the prime minister will press his case against an emerging deal on Iran's nuclear program.
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| NYT: U.S. moving to deport Bosnians tied to war crimes Posted: 01 Mar 2015 01:30 AM PST  The United States is moving to deport at least 150 Bosnians suspected of taking part in war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the New York Times reported Saturday.
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| Who was Boris Nemtsov and why was he murdered? Posted: 28 Feb 2015 11:51 PM PST  The gunning-down of Russian opposition leader Boris Y. Nemtsov has some pundits consumed with the whodunit. "The biggest theory which dumbfounded me is the notion that Nemtsov's own party ordered his murder because that's just absolutely ridiculous and I can't even believe it's being dignified," Knight says. Ms. Knight has a PhD degree in Russian politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
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| Homeland Security funding drama darkens U.S. fiscal outlook Posted: 28 Feb 2015 10:29 PM PST  By Richard Cowan and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress narrowly averted a partial shutdown of the U.S. domestic security agency late on Friday night, but the forces behind the chaotic episode remain - fractious Republicans and House Speaker John Boehner's lack of control over them. In five to seven months, the federal debt ceiling will again be reached, and by October Congress must pass spending bills to keep the government running in the new fiscal year. Failing to deal effectively with these issues could have much more damaging repercussions - such as a broad government shutdown or a debt default - than a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Some conservatives speak of ousting Boehner, but it is unlikely they can muster enough votes, while others made clear on Friday that they were willing to take big risks to score ideological points. Brinkmanship like this, reminiscent of 2013's 16-day federal government shutdown, was supposed to be over.
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| 'Jihadi John' contemplated suicide in 2010: report Posted: 28 Feb 2015 09:41 PM PST  The London man believed to be Islamic State executioner "Jihadi John" told a journalist four years ago that surveillance by British security services had left him contemplating suicide, it emerged Saturday. Mohammed Emwazi, named by media and experts as the militant thought to have beheaded at least five Western hostages held by the IS group, told the Mail on Sunday reporter that he felt like a "dead man walking". Prime Minister David Cameron and a former head of foreign spy agency MI6 strongly rejected the idea, while London mayor Boris Johnson accused Cage of an "apology for terror".
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| Venezuela to shrink U.S. Embassy staff, require tourist visas Posted: 28 Feb 2015 08:03 PM PST  President Nicolas Maduro says "gringo" meddling forced him to adopt new requirements.
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| Investigators search for what triggered Missouri rampage Posted: 28 Feb 2015 06:08 PM PST  By Kevin Murphy and Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - What led Joseph Aldridge to gun down seven people in a southern Missouri hamlet remained uncertain on Saturday, though authorities speculated that the death of the gunman's mother from cancer could have triggered the rampage. Aldridge, 36, embarked on a shooting spree late on Thursday in the rural community of Tyrone, going door-to-door in the wintry night, killing four relatives and three neighbors, and wounding another, before fatally shooting himself, police said. The massacre unfolded shortly after Aldridge's mother, 74-year-old Alice Aldridge, died from complications of metastatic lung cancer. Texas County Coroner Tom Whittaker said an autopsy revealed the fatal condition.
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| Chicago protesters demand probe of what they call police 'black site' Posted: 28 Feb 2015 05:18 PM PST British newspaper The Guardian said in a report earlier this week the Chicago Police Department holds suspects and witnesses for long periods of time at a former warehouse called Homan Square, without giving them access to attorneys or phone calls to family and without recording their detention. The piece was the subject of intense debate in recent days in Chicago, with some criminal justice experts saying it was exaggerated and others giving it credence. Chicago police spokesman Martin Malone did not immediately return a call requesting comment on Saturday. Earlier in the week, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) in a statement said it "abides by all laws, rules and guidelines pertaining to any interviews of suspects or witnesses" at Homan Square and other facilities. |
| Giant, cross-border smuggling tunnel found under Arizona house Posted: 28 Feb 2015 03:59 PM PST  Police pulled over a U-haul carrying 4,700 pounds of marijuana this week. When they traced the truck's route to a house on the border, they discovered the longest drug smuggling tunnel the region has ever seen.
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| Rand Paul wins CPAC straw poll Posted: 28 Feb 2015 03:11 PM PST  The Kentucky senator is voted the top GOP candidate for the third consecutive year.
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