| Judge removes local prosecutors from California shooting rampage case Posted: 12 Mar 2015 01:09 PM PDT  By Dana Feldman and Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California judge on Thursday removed local prosecutors from the case against a former tugboat worker who killed eight people in a 2011 rampage at a hair salon, citing discovery violations and accusations of misconduct. In removing the Orange County District Attorney's office, Goethals ruled that the state attorney general's office should take over the case, but stayed his ruling until March 20 to give that office time to appeal the decision.
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| U.S. naval historian's grandson pleads guilty to stealing records Posted: 12 Mar 2015 12:33 PM PDT By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Navy intelligence analyst Samuel L. Morison, who received a presidential pardon in 2001 after being convicted of passing secret ship photos to a British publication, pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing records related to his naval historian grandfather. Samuel L. Morison, 70, of Crofton, Maryland, entered the guilty plea in Baltimore's U.S. District Court to theft of government property and was sentenced to two years of probation, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement. Morison was accused in June 2014 of offering to sell to a bookstore owner U.S. records relating to the work of his late grandfather, Pulitzer Prize-winning naval historian Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, during World War Two. President Franklin Roosevelt had assigned the elder Morison to write a history of U.S. wartime naval operations. |
| U.S. budget deficit dipped to $192 billion in February Posted: 12 Mar 2015 11:11 AM PDT By Elvina Nawaguna WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. budget deficit was $192 billion in February, down 1 percent from the same period last year, according to data released by the Treasury Department on Thursday. The deficit was $194 billion in February of 2014, according to Treasury's monthly budget statement. February's budget results were affected by differences in the calendar. If adjusted for timing-related transactions, the budget deficit would have been $194 billion. |
| U.S. Justice Department seeks stay of Texas immigration ruling Posted: 12 Mar 2015 10:35 AM PDT The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday asked an appeals court to stay a judge's ruling that blocked President Barack Obama's recent immigration actions. The Justice Department filed a motion asking for a stay with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. |
| Military helicopter wreckage found off Florida coast, no hope for survivors Posted: 12 Mar 2015 09:09 AM PDT  (Reuters) - The wreckage of the Army Black Hawk helicopter missing after it crashed during a training mission off Florida's Gulf Coast has been found, and the 11 service members on board are believed to be dead, a military official said on Thursday. "At this point we are not hopeful for survivors," said Colonel Monte Cannon of Eglin Air Force Base, adding the search effort is now in recovery mode. (Reporting by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Bill Trott)
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| Obama budget would shrink deficits by $1.2 trillion over 10 years: CBO Posted: 12 Mar 2015 08:33 AM PDT  President Barack Obama's fiscal 2016 budget proposal would shrink U.S. deficits by $1.232 trillion over 10 years compared to those expected under current tax and spending laws, the Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday. The reduction is largely due to Obama's proposals for fewer tax deductions and exclusions for the wealthy and plans for lower spending on military operations in Afghanistan. For fiscal 2016, the first full year under Obama's fiscal blueprint if Congress were to adopt it, the deficit would fall to $380 billion from $455 billion, CBO's latest forecast under current laws.
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| Comey warns of Islamic State recruits, lone wolf attacks Posted: 12 Mar 2015 08:00 AM PDT  The radicalization of Americans by Islamic State and other groups, particularly through sophisticated use of social media, is a top concern for the FBI as it grapples with evolving terrorism threats, Director James Comey said on Thursday. Like other militant groups, Islamic State, also known as ISIL, has called for lone wolf attacks in Western countries and has specifically encouraged attacks on soldiers, law enforcement and the intelligence community, Comey said at an appropriations subcommittee budget hearing. Comey cited the group's continuing efforts to recruit Americans to join Islamic State fighting in Syria and Iraq, then have them return to the United States to commit acts of terrorism. "ISIL's widespread reach through the Internet and social media is most concerning as the group has proven dangerously competent at employing such tools for its nefarious strategy," Comey told the panel as he presented his $8.48 billion budget request for fiscal year 2016.
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| University of Oklahoma sets up diversity post in wake of racist video Posted: 12 Mar 2015 07:25 AM PDT  By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - The University of Oklahoma will create the post of vice president of diversity in the wake of a racist video linked to a fraternity at the school. University President David Boren has been speaking with a possible candidate for the job. The 10-second video was shot on a bus chartered for a date night by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and shown in the Internet on Sunday. Boren served as Oklahoma's Democratic governor from 1975 to 1979 and was a U.S. senator from 1979 to 1994.
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| Iran letter: 165,000+ sign petition to prosecute GOP senators Posted: 12 Mar 2015 05:33 AM PDT  A petition on whitehouse.gov calling for charges to be filed against the 47 senators who sent an open letter to the leaders of Iran, possibly in violation of the Logan Act, has collected more than 165,000 signatures in less than two days. And while Earnest redirected the inquiry about the potential Logan Act violation for now, the White House will have to make an official response to the petition.
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| Boston bombing jury to see photos of slain police officer Posted: 12 Mar 2015 04:13 AM PDT  The jury hearing the Boston Marathon bombing trial on Thursday is due to view autopsy photos of a university police officer whom prosecutors charge defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev murdered three days after the deadly bombing. Tsarnaev, 21, is accused of fatally shooting Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier on April 18, 2013, as he and his older brother prepared to flee hours after the FBI released pictures of the pair, calling them suspects in the attack. They are seeking to spare him the death penalty by demonstrating that he was following the lead of his older brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, who died after a gunbattle with police following Collier's shooting. The brothers carjacked a man and hurled explosives at police during a gunbattle that ended when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev roared off in a car, running over and killing his brother before disappearing into a drydocked boat in the Boston suburb of Watertown.
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| Matt Bai: The real source of Hillary’s transparency problem Posted: 12 Mar 2015 03:39 AM PDT  With Hillary Clinton, we always assume she's holding something back. What was striking during her press conference Tuesday was how little she seems to appreciate this circumstance and her own role in creating it. The truth is that during the Clintons' rise, an America cleaved by generational and ideological change would never have accepted them any other way. But this isn't 1992. Transparency and authenticity are paramount in the social media culture, and the lack of them is fatal.
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| Military families grieve for 11 killed in Black Hawk crash Posted: 12 Mar 2015 02:13 AM PDT  NAVARRE, Fla. (AP) — This tranquil beachside enclave normally provides a respite for soldiers, airmen and Marines who come here to relax or to train between dangerous deployments.
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| Newspaper: 2 officers shot in Ferguson Posted: 11 Mar 2015 11:22 PM PDT  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports two officers shot outside the Ferguson police department.
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| Gunfire heard at protest outside Ferguson police department Posted: 11 Mar 2015 10:51 PM PDT By Kate Munsch FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - Gunfire was heard at a protest outside the Ferguson, Missouri, police department early on Thursday morning, according to a Reuters photographer at the scene. A few dozen demonstrators fled following the sound with some screaming, "They hit a cop," around midnight, the photographer said. Police could not be reached immediately for comment. (Writing by Curtis Skinner; Editing by Paul Tait) |
| Target pressured on wages by group with focus but little to spend Posted: 11 Mar 2015 10:19 PM PDT  The non-profit advocacy group launched its campaign on Tuesday. It is also likely the first time that Wal-Mart, which announced its pay hike last month, has been used as leverage to pressure another retailer since campaigns to boost worker pay across the service sector started to gain traction in the United States three years ago. UltraViolet purchased a few weeks worth of banner ads through Google, Microsoft and other networks. For $5,000 it was told the ads, which say "Did you know there's a Walmart near you that pays higher minimum wage than Target?", could be viewed half a million times, organizing director Karin Roland said.
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| 15-year-old boy arrested in kidnapping caught on video Posted: 11 Mar 2015 08:42 PM PDT  SPRAGUE, Wash. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday in the short-lived kidnapping of a 22-month-old toddler that was caught on surveillance video in this small farming town in eastern Washington.
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| Demonstrators protest police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin Posted: 11 Mar 2015 06:19 PM PDT  By Brendan O'Brien MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) - About 1,500 people, some banging plastic pails or blowing whistles, marched on Wednesday to the Wisconsin corrections department in Madison to protest the fatal police shooting last week of an unarmed biracial young man. The shooting of Tony Robinson, 19, in Wisconsin's capital by a white Madison police officer on Friday was the latest in a string of officer-involved deaths around the country that have heightened concerns about racial bias in U.S. law enforcement. A rally over another such shooting drew about 200 protesters on Wednesday evening in Decatur, Georgia. Activists there are questioning the use of force against Anthony Hill, a 27-year-old black man, who was running naked and unarmed through the parking lot outside his apartment complex when he was shot and killed by a white police officer in the Atlanta suburb of Tucker on Monday.
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| Ferguson police chief resigns after scathing Justice Dept. report Posted: 11 Mar 2015 05:45 PM PDT  By Kate Munsch and Carey Gillam FERGUSON/KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - The police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, resigned on Wednesday, following a scathing U.S. Justice Department report that found widespread racially biased abuses in the city's police department and municipal court. The resignation of Chief Thomas Jackson was the latest in a string of departures since the Justice Department said on March 4 that a months-long probe had uncovered a range of unlawful and unconstitutional practices in the St. Louis suburb. Protesters had called for Jackson's removal since the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white Ferguson police officer on Aug. 9. A separate Justice Department investigation found that Ferguson police routinely targeted African-Americans for arrests and ticketing.
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| New Mexico lawmaker under fire for defining rape as 'drunken college sex' Posted: 11 Mar 2015 05:27 PM PDT  Republicans are calling on Rep. Kenny Martinez, D-Grants, to apologize for saying that "rape is defined in many ways, and some of it is just drunken college sex."
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| Kerry: Even a Republican president won’t undo Iran nuclear deal Posted: 11 Mar 2015 02:03 PM PDT  Secretary of State John Kerry bluntly predicts that even a Republican president in 2017 wouldn't nullify Barack Obama's pending nuclear deal with Iran.
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