| Bloody Sunday 50th anniversary: Thousands crowd Selma bridge Posted: 08 Mar 2015 02:39 PM PDT  SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of people crowded an Alabama bridge on Sunday to commemorate a bloody confrontation 50 years ago between police and peaceful protesters that helped bring about the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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| Democratic ally urges Clinton to explain her email actions Posted: 08 Mar 2015 02:05 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton should fully explain her actions involving the use of a private, nongovernment email account when she was the country's top diplomat, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said on Sunday, becoming the first major Democrat to urge Clinton to share more details of the private account.
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| Hillary Clinton emails: Obama, Colin Powell, Feinstein, others weigh in Posted: 08 Mar 2015 11:22 AM PDT  Lawmakers and pundits from both sides of the aisle weighed in Sunday on the controversy swirling around Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email account during her time as secretary of state.
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| Flipping a coin: rare U.S. coin market hits records Posted: 08 Mar 2015 07:40 AM PDT  By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A rare five-dollar gold piece and a prized silver dollar each could fetch $10 million or more in upcoming auctions, making the American rare coin market as attractive, though not nearly as glamorous, as fine art. Sales of rare U.S. coins reached a record of nearly $536 million last year, and now collectors are turning to the D. Brent Pogue Collection, which could boost it higher. Gathered over more than 30 years by Texas property developer A. Mack Pogue and his son, D. Brent, it is considered the most valuable collection of federal American coins dating from the 1790s to the late 1830s in private hands. An 1822 Half Eagle five-dollar gold piece, one of only three known to exist, and an 1804 Silver Dollar dubbed the "King of American Coins" are expected to be among the top lots when the collection is sold in a series of auctions in New York beginning in May and continuing into 2017.
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| MH370 report: Underwater locator beacon battery had expired Posted: 08 Mar 2015 04:18 AM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The first comprehensive report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 revealed Sunday that the battery of the locator beacon for the plane's data recorder had expired more than a year before the jet vanished on March 8, 2014.
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| State media: Russia holds 2 more suspects over Nemtsov killing Posted: 08 Mar 2015 12:46 AM PST  Moscow (AFP) - Russian police have arrested another two men over the killing of opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down in the centre of Moscow, state media reported Sunday, bringing the number held to four.
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| Obama weighs in on Clinton email controversy Posted: 07 Mar 2015 10:29 PM PST  President Barack Obama cautiously threw his weight behind his former top diplomat Hillary Clinton, as she battles a fallout over her use of a private email account while heading the State Department. Obama told CBS News he only learned this week, after a New York Times report, of Clinton's practice of conducting her official email business from a personal account on a private email server connected to her New York home. His comments came amid mounting pressure, particularly from Republican foes, for Clinton to release all of her email correspondence, which she said she was asking the State Department to do. In the face of accusations that her move was inappropriate, Obama defended Clinton's overall record.
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| On Selma anniversary, Obama says racial progress made but more needed Posted: 07 Mar 2015 04:12 PM PST  By Jeff Mason SELMA, Ala. (Reuters) - With a nod to ongoing U.S. racial tension and attempts to limit voting rights, President Barack Obama declared the work of the Civil Rights Movement advanced but unfinished on Saturday on a visit to the Alabama bridge that spawned a landmark voting law. Obama, the first black U.S. president, said discrimination revealed in a report about law enforcement practices in Ferguson, Missouri, this week showed a lot of work needed to be done on race in America, but he warned it was wrong to suggest that progress had not been made. "Fifty years from Bloody Sunday, our march is not yet finished, but we're getting closer," Obama said, standing near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where police and state troopers beat and used tear gas against peaceful marchers who were advocating against racial discrimination at the voting booth. The event became known as "Bloody Sunday" and prompted a follow-up march led by civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. that spurred the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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| Jeb Bush remarks on ethanol have Iowans reading tea leaves Posted: 07 Mar 2015 03:57 PM PST  Bush gave a nod to free-market conservatives on government subsidies for industry, but in actuality his position appears to be one of full support for the Renewable Fuel Standard.
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| U.S. Republican hopefuls Bush, Walker change their tune on ethanol Posted: 07 Mar 2015 03:25 PM PST  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Potential Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Scott Walker told Iowa voters on Saturday that they supported government policies to boost ethanol use, a change in position that could help their prospects in the corn-growing state. Speaking at an agricultural forum in Des Moines, the two White House hopefuls said a 2007 law requiring ethanol use should be kept in place despite their general distaste for subsidies and mandates. The so-called Renewable Fuel Standard requires motor fuel producers to use an ever-increasing amount of ethanol and other renewable fuels in an effort to boost U.S. energy production. "I don't think Washington should be picking winners and losers," said Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
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| Obama uses familiar rhetoric in his Bloody Sunday speech Posted: 07 Mar 2015 02:51 PM PST  In commemorating the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, President Barack Obama used rhetoric that was reminiscent of his famous 'Yes We Can' speech.
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