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• U.S. appeals court rejects challenge to 2012 Obama deportation relief
• Seven people killed in Illinois crash of small airplane
• Power outage strikes much of D.C., including the White House
• Senator John McCain to seek re-election in Arizona
• Kansas governor signs nation's 1st ban on abortion procedure
• Scattered power outages affect White House, Capitol,
• Coming up: Live Report on Rand Paul campaign launch
• U.S. Ebola patient's condition improves to good: NIH
• Republican candidate Rand Paul tries to broaden libertarian appeal
• Kentucky's Rand Paul joining 2016 presidential campaign
• Republican Rand Paul announces 2016 presidential run on website
• Race, reforms eyed as Ferguson, Missouri, voters head to polls
• Boston bombing jury to begin weighing whether Tsarnaev is guilty
• The Rand Paul record: A collegial, canny presence in the U.S. Senate
• Duke outlasts Wisconsin in title game thriller
• Untangling Rolling Stone reporter's key mistakes
• Prosecution, defense deliver closing arguments in Boston bombing trial

U.S. appeals court rejects challenge to 2012 Obama deportation relief Posted: 07 Apr 2015 01:02 PM PDT A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge to President Barack Obama's 2012 executive action granting deportation relief to immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children, upholding a lower court's earlier ruling. A panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the plaintiffs in the case - the state of Mississippi and a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers upset by White House directives - had not shown they had been sufficiently harmed by the rule to keep the case alive. The ruling comes as the same appellate court prepares to hear the Obama administration's appeal of a challenge to a landmark immigration overhaul unveiled last year that would let up to 4.7 million illegal immigrants stay without threat of deportation. In the case stemming from the 2012 executive action, Mississippi had sought to show it had standing as a plaintiff by arguing illegal immigrants drained state resources, while the ICE agents said they were being forced to violate their oaths to enforce the law.

Seven people killed in Illinois crash of small airplane Posted: 07 Apr 2015 12:29 PM PDT (Reuters) - A small private airplane crashed early on Tuesday on approach to a runway at a central Illinois airport, killing all seven people on board including two members of the Illinois State University athletic department, officials said. Torrey Ward, the associate head coach for Illinois State's men's basketball team, and Aaron Leetch, the deputy director of Athletics for external operations, died in the plane crash, the university said. "Words cannot fully express the grief that is felt in the wake of such a tragedy," Illinois State President Larry Dietz said in a statement. The airplane had left Indianapolis, about 160 miles to the east just after midnight Eastern Time and crashed near Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington, Illinois, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.

Power outage strikes much of D.C., including the White House Posted: 07 Apr 2015 12:12 PM PDT A power outage reportedly struck much of Washington, D.C., Tuesday morning. The U.S. State Department, White House, Capitol, and Justice Department were among the buildings that lost power.

Senator John McCain to seek re-election in Arizona Posted: 07 Apr 2015 11:08 AM PDT U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona, who was the Republican presidential nominee in 2008, will seek a sixth term in office in 2016, an aide said on Tuesday. McCain, the senior senator in the Republican-dominated southwestern state, will formally announce his re-election plans at an Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry event in Phoenix on Tuesday, said his spokesman Brian Rogers. The 78-year-old McCain, who was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, is seeking another term after taking over as chairman of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee in January.

Kansas governor signs nation's 1st ban on abortion procedure Posted: 07 Apr 2015 10:51 AM PDT TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas became the first state Tuesday to ban a common second-trimester abortion procedure that critics describe as dismembering a fetus.

Scattered power outages affect White House, Capitol, Posted: 07 Apr 2015 10:20 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scattered outages in the U.S. capital on Tuesday cut power to several government buildings, including the White House, State Department, Capitol and Justice Department. The State Department's daily news briefing was suspended after power was lost. A department announcement said the main building and other nearby buildings were affected because electricity feeders were down. The U.S. Capitol complex was operating using a backup generator, one congressional aide said. ...

Coming up: Live Report on Rand Paul campaign launch Posted: 07 Apr 2015 08:24 AM PDT Join Katie Couric and special guests as they analyze the Ky. Republican's announcement.

U.S. Ebola patient's condition improves to good: NIH Posted: 07 Apr 2015 07:36 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. patient in treatment for the Ebola virus at a National Institutes of Health facility in Maryland has improved to good condition from fair, the NIH said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Emily Stephenson; Editing by Lisa Lambert)

Republican candidate Rand Paul tries to broaden libertarian appeal Posted: 07 Apr 2015 07:21 AM PDT By Andy Sullivan LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky built a national reputation on his willingness to challenge Republican orthodoxies. Paul announced his candidacy on Tuesday in a post on his website, a few hours before what his political action committee described as "a very special rally" scheduled for 11:30 a.m. at a hotel in Louisville, Kentucky's largest city. The firebrand who wants to scale back the authority of the Federal Reserve has been quietly courting Wall Street donors. Tuesday's announcement makes Paul the second major Republican figure to announce presidential ambitions for 2016, after Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.

Kentucky's Rand Paul joining 2016 presidential campaign Posted: 07 Apr 2015 07:05 AM PDT LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Sen. Rand Paul, a tea party favorite and frequent antagonist of leaders of his Republican Party, is ready to test how much change voters want, both for their government and for the GOP.

Republican Rand Paul announces 2016 presidential run on website Posted: 07 Apr 2015 06:17 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Rand Paul on Tuesday officially announced on his website that he will run for U.S. president in 2016, hours before an event in his home state of Kentucky where he is expected to formally launch the campaign. "I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government," he said in a posting at www.randpaul.com. (Reporting By Lisa Lambert; Editing by Emily Stephenson)

Race, reforms eyed as Ferguson, Missouri, voters head to polls Posted: 07 Apr 2015 04:56 AM PDT Residents in Ferguson, Missouri, are casting their votes on Tuesday in a closely watched election some see as a critical step toward ending discriminatory practices detailed in a federal probe of the St. Louis suburb, which was wracked by months of racially charged protests. Three seats are up for election on the six-member City Council in Ferguson, where two-thirds of the residents are African-American and the municipal leadership has been long dominated by whites. Community activists say a lack of adequate representation for African-Americans in Ferguson has contributed to a range of problems that were exposed when a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager in August. Activists hope new City Council membership will change that, and African-American representation is guaranteed to double to two after Tuesday's election and could increase to three seats.

Boston bombing jury to begin weighing whether Tsarnaev is guilty Posted: 07 Apr 2015 04:23 AM PDT By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - The jury that will determine whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is guilty of carrying out the 2013 bombing attack on the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured 264 is due to begin deliberations on Tuesday. Tsarnaev, 21, is also charged with shooting a police officer to death three days after prosecutors contend he and his older brother set of a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013. The question of whether the ethnic Chechen defendant is guilty of 30 criminal counts may be the easy part of the jury's job. "The judgment is entirely yours," U.S. District Judge George O'Toole told the jurors on Monday after they heard closing arguments by prosecutors and Tsarnaev's lawyers.

The Rand Paul record: A collegial, canny presence in the U.S. Senate Posted: 07 Apr 2015 03:02 AM PDT Paul can play the traditional political party game much better than most insurgents.

Duke outlasts Wisconsin in title game thriller Posted: 06 Apr 2015 08:54 PM PDT The Blue Devils dominate down the stretch to win their fifth NCAA championship.

Untangling Rolling Stone reporter's key mistakes Posted: 06 Apr 2015 04:41 PM PDT On the heels of the Columbia Journalism Review's blistering investigation that found Rolling Stone failed in its "reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking" of its explosive 2014 report about an alleged gang rape on the University of Virginia campus, journalism experts are weighing in on the case.

Prosecution, defense deliver closing arguments in Boston bombing trial Posted: 06 Apr 2015 04:08 PM PDT The jury is expected to begin deliberating Tuesday morning.

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