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• DEA head Leonhart expected to leave: Senior administration official
• Congress to probe sex parties for possible leaks of U.S. drug agents' secrets
• White House says has concerns about Drug Enforcement Administration
• Baltimore police name officers suspended over suspect's death
• U.S. DEA chief expected to resign soon: CBS, CNN
• Oklahoma reserve deputy pleads not guilty in shooting death
• Trafficking deal clears path for attorney general vote
• U.S. Catholic bishop in child pornography case resigns, Vatican says
• Pope OKs resignation of U.S. bishop for not reporting abuse
• Boston bomber's sentencing trial on death penalty begins Tuesday
• The NRA's brazen shell game with donations: A Yahoo News investigation
• Court sentences ousted Egypt president to 20 years in prison
• Alabama woman joins Islamic State in Syria: media
• Indonesian court finds U.S. man guilty in Bali suitcase murder case
• Life or death: Penalty phase of Boston bombing trial to begin
• Struggling to remember the name of Jeb Bush's super PAC? Here's why
• Baltimore police vow full probe of black man's death while in custody
• Blue Bell Creameries issues recall of all products
• Six Minnesota men charged with conspiring to support Islamic State
• Oklahoma sheriff apologizes for fatal shooting by reserve deputy
• Clinton defends family foundation from charges of favoritism
• Baltimore police vow full probe of black man's death while in custody

DEA head Leonhart expected to leave: Senior administration official Posted: 21 Apr 2015 11:48 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Director Michele Leonhart is expected to leave her post, a senior administration official told Reuters on Tuesday. A recent report from the Justice Department revealed that DEA agents participated in "sex parties" with prostitutes in Colombia. (Reporting by Julia Edwards; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Congress to probe sex parties for possible leaks of U.S. drug agents' secrets Posted: 21 Apr 2015 11:32 AM PDT By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Armed with once-confidential documents, a U.S. congressional committee will investigate whether agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration divulged secrets at sex parties that drug lords in Colombia may have staged to elicit sensitive information. A spokeswoman for the Republican majority at the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said the leaks inquiry would also examine the bureaucratic culture and leadership at the DEA and other Justice Department investigative agencies. On Tuesday, the DEA declined to comment about reports by CBS and CNN that Michele Leonhart, who has run the agency since 2007, was expected to resign soon after testifying to the committee last week. The events with prostitutes took place between 2001 and 2005, but U.S. officials said the DEA did not investigate them until years later.

White House says has concerns about Drug Enforcement Administration Posted: 21 Apr 2015 10:38 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday that it still has concerns about the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration following a recent Justice Department report alleging agents had participated in sex parties. White House spokesman Josh Earnest did not comment on media reports that the agency's director, Michele Leonhart, is expected to soon resign. (Reporting By Julia Edwards)

Baltimore police name officers suspended over suspect's death Posted: 21 Apr 2015 10:18 AM PDT Baltimore police on Tuesday identified six officers suspended over the death of a black man in police custody, a case that has renewed concern about U.S. law enforcement's treatment of minorities. Freddie Gray, 27, was arrested by white officers on April 12 and died on Sunday after slipping into a coma.

U.S. DEA chief expected to resign soon: CBS, CNN Posted: 21 Apr 2015 09:38 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is expected to resign soon following recent revelations that agents had engaged in "sex parties" with prostitutes in Colombia, television news outlets CBS and CNN reported on Tuesday. The DEA declined to comment. Last week, U.S. lawmakers said they lacked confidence in agency chief Michele Leonhart. (Reporting by Emily Stephenson; Editing by Lisa Lambert)

Oklahoma reserve deputy pleads not guilty in shooting death Posted: 21 Apr 2015 08:00 AM PDT (Reuters) - An Oklahoma reserve deputy has pleaded not guilty in the death of a man he shot with a gun instead of a Taser, a Tulsa County Court clerk said on Tuesday. Robert Bates, 73, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the April 2 death of 44-year-old Eric Harris. Bates appeared in on Tuesday for an arraignment, according to CNN, which earlier reported the plea. (Reporting by Suzannah Gonzales and David Bailey; Editing by Mary Wisniewski and Susan Heavey)

Trafficking deal clears path for attorney general vote Posted: 21 Apr 2015 07:44 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders announced a deal Tuesday to move forward on a stalled human trafficking bill, clearing the way for a vote on President Barack Obama's attorney general nominee within days.

U.S. Catholic bishop in child pornography case resigns, Vatican says Posted: 21 Apr 2015 06:04 AM PDT By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City, who was convicted of failing to alert authorities to a trove of child pornography found on a priest's computer in 2012, has resigned, the Vatican said on Tuesday. Groups representing victims of abuse by clerics had been urging the pope to dismiss Finn. The bishop was the subject of a Vatican investigation that started last September into his leadership of the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri. A Vatican statement said Pope Francis had accepted Finn's resignation.

Pope OKs resignation of U.S. bishop for not reporting abuse Posted: 21 Apr 2015 04:59 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of a U.S. bishop who pleaded guilty to failing to report a suspected child abuser, in the first known case of a pope taking action against a bishop for covering up for a guilty priest.

Boston bomber's sentencing trial on death penalty begins Tuesday Posted: 21 Apr 2015 04:26 AM PDT Prosecutors and defense attorneys for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Tuesday will begin making their cases on whether or not he should be sentenced to death for the 2013 attack and its aftermath. Tsarnaev, a 21-year-old ethnic Chechen, was found guilty on April 8 of killing three people and injuring 264 at the marathon finish line and fatally shooting a police officer as he and his older brother, Tamerlan, prepared to flee three days later.

The NRA's brazen shell game with donations: A Yahoo News investigation Posted: 21 Apr 2015 02:50 AM PDT The organization may be violating several federal election laws, according to experts.

Court sentences ousted Egypt president to 20 years in prison Posted: 21 Apr 2015 02:01 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentenced ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison over the killing of protesters in 2012, the first verdict to be issued against the country's first freely elected leader.

Alabama woman joins Islamic State in Syria: media Posted: 21 Apr 2015 01:29 AM PDT (Reuters) - A 20-year-old woman from a Birmingham, Alabama suburb has left the United States to join the Islamic State militant group in Syria, local broadcaster WIAT reported on Monday. The report came as U.S. authorities said they have charged six young Somali-American men from Minnesota with planning to join the fighters who have declared an Islamic Caliphate on land they have seized in Syria and neighboring Iraq. Hoda Muthana made contact with militants through social media and had been distancing herself from other Muslims in Hoover for more a year before leaving, said family spokesman Hassan Shibly according to WIAT. Shibly, who is also an attorney and chief executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida, said the woman's family was devastated and has been working with authorities since she left, WIAT reported.

Indonesian court finds U.S. man guilty in Bali suitcase murder case Posted: 21 Apr 2015 12:54 AM PDT An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced a U.S. man to 18 years in prison for the murder an American woman whose body was found stuffed into a suitcase on the resort island of Bali. Tommy Schaefer, from the Chicago area, was arrested with his girlfriend, Heather Mack, last August after hotel staff discovered the body of Mack's mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, in an abandoned suitcase in a taxi. Schaefer was seen crying in court after presiding Judge Made Suweda announced the verdict and sentence. Schaefer was charged with premeditated murder after he said in court he had killed Wiese-Mack in self-defense.

Life or death: Penalty phase of Boston bombing trial to begin Posted: 21 Apr 2015 12:05 AM PDT Jurors in the trial of Dzokhar Tsarnaev must now decide what his punishment should be.

Struggling to remember the name of Jeb Bush's super PAC? Here's why Posted: 20 Apr 2015 10:24 PM PDT By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's hard to remember whether Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush's super PAC is called America Rising or Right to Rise. The Bush super PAC is in fact Right to Rise. America Rising is another political action committee, unconnected to Bush, that plans to raise and spend unlimited sums of money, although it does share one goal in common with Right to Rise: to defeat Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic nomination in 2016. They also share some thematic similarity with the group supporting another Republican presidential hopeful, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (Our American Revival), which isn't too different from groups advocating for potential candidates New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (America Leads) and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (Pursuing America's Greatness).

Baltimore police vow full probe of black man's death while in custody Posted: 20 Apr 2015 09:52 PM PDT Baltimore police vowed on Monday to make a full and swift probe of the death of a black suspect who suffered spinal injuries after white officers arrested him, the latest incident to raise questions about the treatment of minorities by U.S. police. Freddie Gray, 27, of Baltimore, was arrested on April 12 and died on Sunday from a spinal injury after slipping into a coma, officials said. Deputy Police Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez said officers had arrested Gray without using force after he fled when they approached him. Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said a wide-ranging and transparent department investigation would be concluded by the end of next week and the results forwarded to state prosecutors.

Blue Bell Creameries issues recall of all products Posted: 20 Apr 2015 09:03 PM PDT BRENHAM, Texas (AP) — Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries issued a voluntary recall Monday night for all of its products on the market after two samples of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream tested positive for listeria, a potentially deadly bacteria.

Six Minnesota men charged with conspiring to support Islamic State Posted: 20 Apr 2015 06:37 PM PDT By David Bailey MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have charged six young Somali-American men from Minnesota with planning to join Islamic State and fight for the militant group in Syria, the U.S. attorney for Minnesota said on Monday. The six, all U.S. citizens, were part of a larger group of friends and relatives who had been conspiring for the past 10 months, many trying multiple times to leave the country, federal prosecutors alleged. Their arrests on Sunday capped a yearlong FBI investigation into would-be Islamic State recruits seeking to journey abroad, and there was no evidence the accused had plans to carry out any attacks inside the United States, prosecutors said. Dozens of people from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, many of them young Somali-American men, have traveled or attempted to travel overseas to support Islamic State or al Shabaab, a Somalia-based militant group, since 2007, according to U.S. prosecutors.

Oklahoma sheriff apologizes for fatal shooting by reserve deputy Posted: 20 Apr 2015 06:12 PM PDT By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz apologized on Monday to the family of an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by a white reserve deputy who has said he mistakenly pulled his gun instead of a Taser. In a televised news conference, Glanz acknowledged his long-time friendship with reserve deputy Robert Bates, 73. He has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the April 2 death of 44-year-old Eric Harris. Lawyers for the Harris family said on Monday they were not planning to file a lawsuit against the sheriff's office.

Clinton defends family foundation from charges of favoritism Posted: 20 Apr 2015 05:01 PM PDT Hillary Rodham Clinton dismissed swirling questions about her family foundation Monday as little more than political attacks from Republicans eager to gain an early advantage in the 2016 presidential contest.

Baltimore police vow full probe of black man's death while in custody Posted: 20 Apr 2015 03:33 PM PDT Baltimore police vowed on Monday to make a full and swift probe of the death of a black suspect who suffered spinal injuries after white officers arrested him, the latest incident to raise questions about the treatment of minorities by U.S. police. Freddie Gray, 27, of Baltimore, was arrested on April 12 and died on Sunday from a spinal injury after slipping into a coma, officials said. Deputy Police Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez said officers had arrested Gray without using force after he fled when they approached him. Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said a wide-ranging and transparent department investigation would be concluded by the end of next week and the results forwarded to state prosecutors.

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