Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines

---

• Chief Justice John Roberts, who saved Obamacare in 2012, stays quiet this time
• Benghazi committee to subpoena Hillary Clinton's emails
• Snowden says U.S. not offering fair trial if he returns
• US clears officer in Ferguson case, criticizes police force
• Justices sharply divided over health care law subsidies
• McDonald's to use chicken without human antibiotics
• Live: Day 1 of the Boston Marathon bombing trial
• Boston set to remember bloody week as bombing trial opens
• Georgia police officer killed in shootout: WXIA
• Supreme Court weighs new conservative attack on Obamacare
• Opening statements in Boston Marathon bomber trial set for today
• Man killed by LAPD was wanted by U.S. marshals
• Doctors, patients scramble ahead of high court Obamacare decision
• Justice Department finds racial bias in Ferguson police practices
• Engineer from California train derailment has died, police say
• Owner of car charged with murder in deadly Los Angeles street race
• Alabama Supreme Court halts same-sex marriage
• Arizona jury told to keep deliberating on Jodi Arias case
• Ex-CIA chief admits sharing military secrets with mistress
• New U.S. defense chief presses lawmakers for boost in funding
• Justice Department finds racial bias in Ferguson police practices

Chief Justice John Roberts, who saved Obamacare in 2012, stays quiet this time Posted: 04 Mar 2015 12:49 PM PST Chief Justice John Roberts, who saved President Barack Obama's health care overhaul three years ago by unexpectedly joining the liberal wing of the court, stayed largely silent in oral arguments Wednesday on a new challenge that could deal a mortal blow to the law.

Benghazi committee to subpoena Hillary Clinton's emails Posted: 04 Mar 2015 12:00 PM PST The House Select Committee on Benghazi is planning to subpoena Clintonmail.com.

Snowden says U.S. not offering fair trial if he returns Posted: 04 Mar 2015 10:53 AM PST Edward Snowden, the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of the government's mass surveillance programs, said on Wednesday he is not being offered a fair trial if he returns to the United States. "I would love to go back and face a fair trial, but unfortunately ... there is no fair trial available, on offer right now," he said in a live question and answer discussion organized by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, Ryerson University and the CBC.

US clears officer in Ferguson case, criticizes police force Posted: 04 Mar 2015 10:34 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department won't prosecute a former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old, but in a scathing report released Wednesday faulted the city and its law enforcement for racial bias.

Justices sharply divided over health care law subsidies Posted: 04 Mar 2015 09:23 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is sharply divided over the tax subsidies that make insurance affordable for millions of Americans under President Barack Obama's health overhaul.

McDonald's to use chicken without human antibiotics Posted: 04 Mar 2015 08:48 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's says it plans to start using chicken raised without antibiotics important to human health and milk from cows that are not treated with the artificial growth hormone rbST.

Live: Day 1 of the Boston Marathon bombing trial Posted: 04 Mar 2015 08:30 AM PST Follow Yahoo News' live coverage from inside the courtroom.

Boston set to remember bloody week as bombing trial opens Posted: 04 Mar 2015 06:09 AM PST By Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston will relive some of its worst memories on Wednesday when federal prosecutors begin laying out their case against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He could be sentenced to death if convicted of charges that also include fatally shooting a police officer. They also want to play clips from an FBI news conference where officials released photos of Tsarnaev and his older brother identifying them as suspects and setting off a course of events that led to a day-long lockdown of most of the Boston area in a massive manhunt. Defense attorneys, meanwhile, aim to portray Tsarnaev as having been under the spell of his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, who they contend was the mastermind of the attack.

Georgia police officer killed in shootout: WXIA Posted: 04 Mar 2015 04:08 AM PST (Reuters) - A Georgia police officer was killed in a shootout with a suspect early on Wednesday, local broadcaster WXIA reported. Fulton County officers went out to investigate reports of shots and came under fire around 1:30 a.m. local time, WXIA said citing police. The officer, who has not been identified, was hit in the head and a suspect was wounded when police fired back, the station added. Police could not be immediately reached for comment. (Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

Supreme Court weighs new conservative attack on Obamacare Posted: 04 Mar 2015 03:52 AM PST By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court will consider on Wednesday a second major legal attack on President Barack Obama's healthcare law, with conservative challengers taking aim at a pivotal part of the statute that authorizes tax subsidies to help people afford insurance. If the court rules against the Obama administration, up to 7.5 million people in at least 34 states would lose the subsidies that help low- and moderate-income people buy private health insurance, according to the consulting firm Avalere Health. The Democratic-backed Affordable Care Act, narrowly passed by Congress in 2010 over unified Republican opposition, aimed to help millions of Americans who lacked any health insurance afford coverage. The case does not affect people who obtain health insurance through their employer.

Opening statements in Boston Marathon bomber trial set for today Posted: 04 Mar 2015 01:37 AM PST After nearly two months of jury selection, the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is set to begin.

Man killed by LAPD was wanted by U.S. marshals Posted: 03 Mar 2015 11:20 PM PST A homeless man shot dead on Skid Row was living under an assumed name and was wanted for violating probation terms for a bank robbery conviction.

Doctors, patients scramble ahead of high court Obamacare decision Posted: 03 Mar 2015 10:48 PM PST By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the U.S. Supreme Court takes on a make-or-break Obamacare case this week, a growing number of U.S. patients and their doctors are already devising a Plan B in case they lose medical coverage. The Court's ruling, expected by late June, will determine whether millions of Americans will keep receiving federal subsidies to help them pay for private health insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare law. The White House, which said it is confident the justices will rule in favor of the subsidies that are a key element of Obamacare, said it has no immediate fix if the decision goes the other way. Worried about newly-insured patients such as those who have just begun treatment for cancer or other serious illnesses, they are dusting off playbooks they retired when Obamacare slashed the number of uninsured people.

Justice Department finds racial bias in Ferguson police practices Posted: 03 Mar 2015 09:25 PM PST By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has concluded that the Ferguson, Missouri, police department routinely engages in racially biased practices, a law enforcement official familiar with the department's findings said on Tuesday. The investigation into the police department began in August after the shooting of unarmed African-American teen Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson sparked national protests. Analysis of more than 35,000 pages of police records found racist comments from officers as well as statistics that showed African-Americans make up 93 percent of arrests while accounting for only 67 percent of the population in Ferguson, the official said.

Engineer from California train derailment has died, police say Posted: 03 Mar 2015 08:21 PM PST A 62-year-old train engineer who was hospitalized after a train crash and derailment last week in Southern California has died, in the first fatality from the incident that left about 50 people injured, police said on Tuesday. The Feb. 24 crash in Oxnard, California, occurred when a train operated by the Metrolink agency struck a Ford pickup truck. Oxnard police spokesman Miguel Lopez identified the train engineer as Glenn Steele and said he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Steele was transferred in critical condition last week from Ventura County Medical Center to another hospital for more specialized care, a spokeswoman for the Ventura hospital said at the time, without naming the other facility.

Owner of car charged with murder in deadly Los Angeles street race Posted: 03 Mar 2015 06:25 PM PST By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The owner of a car that spun out of control at a Los Angeles street race and crashed last week, killing two spectators, was charged on Tuesday with murder although prosecutors do not believe he was behind the wheel at the time of the crash. Henry Michael Gevorgyan, 21, was also charged with engaging in a motor vehicle speed contest causing injury for his role in the race on Thursday when his Ford Mustang struck three people, killing two, in the suburb of Chatsworth in the San Fernando Valley. "We do not believe he was the driver, but he was involved in participating in the race," said Ricardo Santiago, a spokesman for the District Attorney's Office. The two deaths highlighted the dangers associated with street racing, an underground practice that has for years been a sometimes deadly occurrence on Los Angeles streets.

Alabama Supreme Court halts same-sex marriage Posted: 03 Mar 2015 05:52 PM PST The court is orders the state's probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.

Arizona jury told to keep deliberating on Jodi Arias case Posted: 03 Mar 2015 05:03 PM PST By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - Jurors deciding whether convicted killer Jodi Arias should be executed in Arizona were told by a judge on Tuesday to try harder to reach a verdict after apparently deadlocking in the closely watched retrial, court officials said. Judge Sherry Stephens issued the eight women and four men with a "modified impasse instruction" as the jury deliberated for a fourth day on the fate of the former waitress from Salinas, California, who murdered her ex-boyfriend in 2008. The jurors had earlier told the Maricopa County Superior Court they had several questions that had come up in their discussions, the court officials said. Arias, 34, was found guilty of killing Travis Alexander, 30, at his Phoenix-area home following a 2013 trial that captured widespread attention with its lurid details and sexually explicit testimony.

Ex-CIA chief admits sharing military secrets with mistress Posted: 03 Mar 2015 04:15 PM PST RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an affair with his biographer, has agreed to plead guilty to charges he gave her classified material — including information on war strategy and identities of covert operatives — while she was working on the book.

New U.S. defense chief presses lawmakers for boost in funding Posted: 03 Mar 2015 03:39 PM PST By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Ash Carter warned lawmakers on Tuesday that continuing cuts to U.S. defense spending were causing "corrosive damage to our national security" and he urged them to back the president's request for a big boost in military funding in 2016. Testifying for the first time as secretary before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carter said military modernization by rivals such as Russia and China threatened to erode the Pentagon's technological advantage over other forces. He said President Barack Obama's request for a $534 billion Pentagon base budget plus $51 billion for overseas military operations would help the department repair equipment, restore training levels and invest in new weapons for the future, factors put on hold because of budget cuts and ongoing wars.

Justice Department finds racial bias in Ferguson police practices Posted: 03 Mar 2015 03:05 PM PST By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has concluded that the Ferguson, Missouri police department routinely engages in racially biased practices, a law enforcement official familiar with the department's findings said on Tuesday. The investigation into the police department began in August after the shooting of unarmed African-American teen Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson sparked national protests. Analysis of more than 35,000 pages of police records found that African-Americans make up 93 percent of arrests while accounting for only 67 percent of the population in Ferguson, the official said. African-Americans also made up most of incidents in which officers used force and all incidents where police dogs bit citizens, said the official, who asked not to be named because of the sensitive nature of the investigation.

You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States