| White House reportedly on lockdown after drone incident Posted: 14 May 2015 12:01 PM PDT  A man apparently trying to fly a remote controlled drone over the White House fence was detained by Secret Service agents Thursday.
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| Students in Crisis: Mental Health & Suicide on College Campuses Posted: 14 May 2015 11:12 AM PDT  Clusters of student suicides at Tulane, William & Mary, MIT and other universities this past year have launched a nationwide debate about the mental health of young people around the country and what colleges, parents and students themselves can do about it.
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| Eighth passenger confirmed dead in Philadelphia train derailment Posted: 14 May 2015 10:26 AM PDT  At least eight people died in the tragic train derailment in Philadelphia.
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| Death toll in Amtrak wreck hits 8; all aboard accounted for Posted: 14 May 2015 10:09 AM PDT  Another body was discovered in a mangled railcar Thursday, while a lawyer for the train's engineer said his client has no recollection of the crash and wasn't on his cellphone or using drugs or alcohol.
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| Non-passenger train derails in Pittsburgh, no injuries: local media Posted: 14 May 2015 08:32 AM PDT (Reuters) - A train derailed in Pittsburgh on Thursday morning and emergency crews were called, but the accident involved non-passenger cars and no injuries were reported, according to local media. ABC's Pittsburgh affiliate WTAE said about 10 train cars derailed and that it appeared to be a freight train. Pittsburgh is on the opposite end of Pennsylvania from Philadelphia, where an Amtrak train derailed on Tuesday night, resulting in seven deaths and scores of injuries. |
| Largest U.S. needle exchange tries free meth pipes in Seattle Posted: 14 May 2015 07:43 AM PDT  By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Occasional crystal meth smoker Richard Russell ambles up to a church storage garage in a Seattle alley and a recovering drug addict hands him two brand new meth pipes, no questions asked. Inject." The theory behind the handout program is that giving meth pipes to drug users may steer some away from needles, which are far riskier than smoking, especially if the user is sharing with another person infected with HIV or hepatitis C. There is little scientific evidence to support that claim, but The People's Harm Reduction Alliance, a privately funded needle-swap group run by drug users, said it has distributed more than 1,000 pipes in Seattle in a matter of weeks and could expand to other cities in Washington state and Oregon. Its program also draws addicts from society's fringes into its compassionate fold, with links to treatment and housing services, Executive Director Shilo Murphy said.
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| Obama Set Goals Too High for Gulf Rebalance, Experts Say Posted: 14 May 2015 07:10 AM PDT  The Obama administration is likely to fall far short of the lofty goals it set for itself at Thursday's summit with Gulf leaders, several experts on the region said. While the White House has framed the seven-nation meeting as an opportunity to deepen and strengthen Gulf nations' security relationship with the United States in light of a possible nuclear deal with Iran, the six foreign leaders attending have set out bargaining chips that the administration has already shot down, and it's not exactly clear what else, besides those tangible items, either side wants. "There's a very real prospect that this exercise could end up looking like the February Countering Violent Extremism summit," Brian Katulis of the Center for American Progress, which is aligned with the Obama administration, said, referring to a 60-plus-country confab that issued a lengthy joint statement with few specifics. The White House has already ruled out a formal mutual defense treaty, which several of the Gulf nations were advocating, and is also unlikely to approve Saudi Arabia's request for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets.
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| Investigators want to hear from engineer of derailed Philadelphia Amtrak Posted: 14 May 2015 06:19 AM PDT  By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Federal safety investigators probing the deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia were waiting to interview the train's engineer, whose attorney said on Thursday he did not remember the crash that killed seven people and injured more than 200 others. The train bound for New York City from Washington was barreling into a curve at more than 100 miles per hour on Tuesday night, twice the speed limit, when the engineer slammed on the brakes, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said. Investigators said they have not yet interviewed the train's engineer, identified by a city official as Brandon Bostian, to give him time to recover. NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt said on Wednesday that data from the black box, or event recorder, recovered at the crash site had not yet been fully analyzed.
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| Protests in Wisconsin after prosecutor ruling on teen shooting Posted: 14 May 2015 04:23 AM PDT  By Mary Reardon MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) - Hundreds of people protested Wednesday in Wisconsin's capital, blocking a road a day after a prosecutor ruled that a Madison police officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed biracial teenager was justified. Relatives of Tony Robinson, 19, had expressed disappointment at Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne's decision on Tuesday that Madison officer Matt Kenny, who is white, used justified lethal force in the March 6 shooting. More than two dozen people were arrested, mostly on suspicion of obstructing the road, and then released, Madison Police spokesman Joel DeSpain said, describing their acts as peaceful civil disobedience. Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau in a statement late on Wednesday night promised a "thorough investigation" of the allegations.
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| Taliban attack in Kabul kills 14, including an American Posted: 14 May 2015 03:19 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban attack on a Kabul guesthouse left 14 people dead, including nine foreigners, in the most audacious assault by the insurgents in the Afghan capital since the start of their spring offensive, a government official confirmed Thursday.
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| Matt Bai: If Clinton won’t level with voters now, when will she? Posted: 14 May 2015 02:47 AM PDT  My colleagues in the media keep insisting that Hillary Clinton take a position on the proposed free-trade pact that has riven her party.
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| Town where Shepard killed passes measure to protect gays Posted: 14 May 2015 01:09 AM PDT  LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — When Matthew Shepard was beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead nearly 20 years ago, his murder became a rallying cry in the gay rights movement.
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| Fifth suspect arrested in fatal shooting of Mississippi officers Posted: 13 May 2015 08:50 PM PDT  (Reuters) - A fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with the killings of two Mississippi police officers over the weekend, officials said on Wednesday. Abram Wade Franklin, 29, was charged with obstruction of justice over the shootings that occurred during a routine traffic stop on Saturday, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said in a statement. Officers Benjamin Deen, 34, and Liquori Tate, 25, a recent police academy graduate, were shot after Deen stopped a gold Cadillac Escalade in the city of Hattiesburg. Autopsy results by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations released on Monday showed one of the officers was shot in the face and the other in the back.
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| Police investigating after four found dead in Alaska home Posted: 13 May 2015 08:03 PM PDT (Reuters) - Police discovered four bodies inside an Alaska home on Wednesday and were attempting to determine what happened, officials said. The Anchorage Police Department said in a statement that officers responded to the home after someone called 911 to request a welfare check on the residence around 12:30 p.m. local time. "There's a clear indication that the deaths seem suspicious," Anchorage Police spokeswoman Jennifer Castro told the Alaska Dispatch News. |
| Amtrak train in Philadelphia wreck was moving at twice the speed limit Posted: 13 May 2015 05:38 PM PDT  By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - An Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia, killing seven people, was barreling into a curved stretch of track at 100 miles per hour, over twice the speed limit, when the engineer slammed on the brakes, U.S. investigators said on Wednesday. While the cause of Tuesday night's crash that injured more than 200 people remains to be determined, experts from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) believe the derailment would have been prevented by installation of an advanced safety system called "positive train control," NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt said.
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| U.S. House votes to ban most abortions after 20 weeks Posted: 13 May 2015 04:33 PM PDT  The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks, a measure strongly opposed by the White House. The Republican-led House approved the bill by a largely party-line vote of 242-184. An earlier version was pulled by House Republican leaders in January after a revolt by some Republican women in the chamber. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte called Wednesday's vote "a victory for the most innocent and defenseless among us, our children." "Extensive medical research shows that unborn children begin to feel pain by 20 weeks post fertilization, and probably earlier," the Virginia Republican said.
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| Ex-CIA official: America no safer than four years ago Posted: 13 May 2015 03:59 PM PDT  Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell tells Yahoo News that Americans are less safe from terrorism than they were when President Barack Obama won reelection in 2012.
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| Exclusive: Derailed Amtrak train was not fitted with latest U.S. safety controls Posted: 13 May 2015 01:15 PM PDT  By Patrick Rucker and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The commuter rail route where an Amtrak train left the track on Tuesday was not governed by an advanced safety technology meant to prevent high-speed derailments, officials familiar with the investigation said on Wednesday. Positive train control (PTC) automatically slows or even halts trains that are moving too fast or heading into a danger zone. The cause of Tuesday's crash, in which seven people were killed, has only begun to be investigated.Regulators are examining whether excessive speed led to the derailment on an Amtrak line in Philadelphia, said officials familiar with the investigation. Amtrak has begun installing components of a PTC system but the network is not yet functioning, federal officials said.
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