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• Top Democrat sounds 'alarm bells' over Obama rhetoric on Islamic State
• Takata air bag recall becomes biggest ever in US
• Takata declares air bags in nearly 34 million vehicles defective: U.S.
• Patriots owner will not appeal NFL's deflate-gate penalty
• US looking into whether hostage was kept by IS leader
• Tennessee man plotted to attack Muslims, burn down mosque in New York's Islamberg
• Boston bomber to face about 20 of his victims at sentencing
• Texas jail keeps biker gangs apart after deadly shooting: paper
• Psychologist to head Chicago jail, nation's second largest
• Memo: Violence long simmered between rival Texas biker gangs
• Convicted murderer in 'Serial' podcast allowed to call new witness
• State Dept. plans release of Clinton emails by next January
• Texas grand jury does not indict policeman for fatal shooting of Mexican
• Police want bikers off streets after deadly Texas shooting
• Jeb Bush hardens position, says he opposes gay marriage
• FBI finds no evidence damage to Amtrak windshield caused by firearm: NTSB
• Colorado movie massacre jurors quizzed about Boston death verdict
• The latest on Amtrak crash: Injured conductor sues Amtrak

Top Democrat sounds 'alarm bells' over Obama rhetoric on Islamic State Posted: 19 May 2015 12:17 PM PDT A senior House of Representatives Democrat said Tuesday that the White House's description of supposed progress in the war against the Islamic State should ring "alarm bells," and called the fall of the city of Ramadi to the extremists "a very serious and significant setback."

Takata air bag recall becomes biggest ever in US Posted: 19 May 2015 12:01 PM PDT Air bag maker Takata Corp. has agreed to declare 33.8 million of its inflator mechanisms defective, effectively doubling the number of cars and trucks that have been recalled in the U.S. so far. The announcement ...

Takata declares air bags in nearly 34 million vehicles defective: U.S. Posted: 19 May 2015 11:28 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese air bag manufacturer Takata Corp has agreed to declare nearly 34 million vehicles defective due to problems with air bag inflators, the U.S. Department of Transportation and National Highway Safety Administration said on Tuesday.

Patriots owner will not appeal NFL's deflate-gate penalty Posted: 19 May 2015 11:10 AM PDT Robert Kraft said on Tuesday he will not appeal the penalty the National Football League handed the reigning Super Bowl champions for the team's role in the "Deflategate" scandal. The NFL fined the club a record $1 million and forced the Patriots to give up two draft choices for purposely deflating footballs used in the team's 45-7 playoff victory over the Indianapolis Colts that put New England in the Super Bowl. The league also suspended star quarterback Tom Brady without pay for the first four games of next season. ...

US looking into whether hostage was kept by IS leader Posted: 19 May 2015 09:47 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility that the Islamic State militant leader killed Friday was the captor of American hostage Kayla Mueller for a time.

Tennessee man plotted to attack Muslims, burn down mosque in New York's Islamberg Posted: 19 May 2015 08:58 AM PDT An ex-Congressional candidate from Tennessee faces up to five years in prison for plotting to burn down an upstate New York mosque and use an assault rifle against anyone who tried to stop him, according to court documents. Robert Doggart, who made a failed bid for Congress in 2014 as an independent with highly conservative views, pleaded guilty on April 29 to interstate communication of threats, according to a plea agreement filed in U.S. District Court in Knoxville, Tennessee. Doggart was released on $30,000 bail.

Boston bomber to face about 20 of his victims at sentencing Posted: 19 May 2015 07:55 AM PDT By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will face about 20 of his victims at a hearing next month when he will be formally sentenced to die for the 2013 attack, a U.S. judge said on Tuesday. The same jury that found Tsarnaev, 21, guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, sentenced him to death for his crimes last week. "We could proceed rather expeditiously," in making the jury's sentence formal, U.S. District Judge George O'Toole told prosecutors and defense attorneys in the same courtroom where Tsarnaev was tried.

Texas jail keeps biker gangs apart after deadly shooting: paper Posted: 19 May 2015 07:07 AM PDT The 170 people arrested after a deadly brawl between motorcycle gangs at a Waco restaurant that left nine dead and 18 injured are being held in separate parts of a county jail to prevent an outbreak of violence, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. A day earlier, Waco police warned of revenge attacks by the biker gangs after the deadly fight at the Twin Peaks Sports Bar and Grill, a restaurant where scantily clad women that sells bar food and drinks. Police said they had warned the restaurant about the potential for violence at the meeting of five rival motorcycle gangs but the store's management did not heed their calls to turn the bikers away.

Psychologist to head Chicago jail, nation's second largest Posted: 19 May 2015 04:28 AM PDT By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - A clinical psychologist will be appointed head of Chicago's Cook County Jail, the nation's second-largest jail where a third of the inmates are mentally ill, officials announced on Tuesday. Nneka Jones Tapia will become executive director of the jail on May 26, county officials said. Tapia, who has been with the sheriff's office since 2013 and oversees mental health strategy, replaces Cara Smith, who will become chief strategy officer for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.

Memo: Violence long simmered between rival Texas biker gangs Posted: 19 May 2015 03:23 AM PDT WACO, Texas (AP) — A meeting of motorcycle clubs ended in a deadly shootout after two rival gangs faced off at a Waco restaurant, an explosion of what Texas authorities had warned earlier in the month was growing animosity between the groups.

Convicted murderer in 'Serial' podcast allowed to call new witness Posted: 19 May 2015 01:13 AM PDT (Reuters) - A Baltimore man serving life for murder, whose conviction was called into question by last year's "Serial" podcast, will get a chance to call a new witness who says she can give him an alibi. The Maryland Court of Special Appeals granted Adnan Syed an opportunity to call a woman who said in an affidavit she saw him at a library around the time of the murder of his ex-girlfriend and high school classmate, Hae Min Lee, on Jan. 13, 1999. Syed appealed his 2000 murder conviction arguing that his legal counsel was ineffective for not interviewing the witness, Asia McClain, and for not seeking a plea deal.

State Dept. plans release of Clinton emails by next January Posted: 18 May 2015 11:35 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has proposed releasing portions of 55,000 pages of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton by next January.

Texas grand jury does not indict policeman for fatal shooting of Mexican Posted: 18 May 2015 08:43 PM PDT By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas grand jury declined on Monday to charge a suburban Dallas police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Mexican national in another case that raised questions about racial bias by U.S. police. Ruben Garcia Villalpando, a married father of four, was shot twice in the chest on the side of a highway in February by Grapevine police officer Robert Clark after a brief car chase. Along with announcing the grand jury's decision, prosecutors also released a police dashcam video of the incident, which showed Villalpando raising his hands as he walked unsteadily toward Clark, who repeatedly asked him to stop.

Police want bikers off streets after deadly Texas shooting Posted: 18 May 2015 05:19 PM PDT By Lisa Maria Garza WACO, Texas (Reuters) - The local Harley Davidson dealership was closed, motorcycle riders were asked to stay off the roads and police snipers took to rooftops to watch Waco streets after a deadly gangland shooting caused many to cast a colder eye on bikers. Police did not say how long the request would last. Riders asked the public to take a breath, relax and realize that criminality is the rare exception for members of motorcycle clubs. Waco Police said they have been threatened by motorcycle gangs after a Sunday shoot out between rivals at a Twin Peaks restaurant that left nine dead and 18 injured.

Jeb Bush hardens position, says he opposes gay marriage Posted: 18 May 2015 03:15 PM PDT (Reuters) - Republican Jeb Bush said in a weekend radio interview that he does not believe the U.S. Constitution grants a right to gay marriage, moving away from his previous urging of "respect" for all Americans on the gay and lesbian marriage issue. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected by the end of June to make a landmark ruling that could make gay marriage the law of the land or return the decision to individual states. "It's at the core of the Catholic faith and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, (a) committed child-centered family system, is hard to imagine," Bush told the conservative Christian Broadcasting Network show, The Brody File, in an interview broadcast on Sunday. "So, irrespective of the Supreme Court ruling because they are going to decide whatever they decide - I don't know what they are going to do - we need to be stalwart supporters of traditional marriage," said Bush, who converted to Catholicism 20 years ago.

FBI finds no evidence damage to Amtrak windshield caused by firearm: NTSB Posted: 18 May 2015 02:28 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An FBI examination of the Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia last week killing eight people has found no evidence that damage to the locomotive's windshield was caused by a firearm, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday. The NTSB said it has not ruled out the possibility that another object may have struck the windshield. (Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Eric Walsh)

Colorado movie massacre jurors quizzed about Boston death verdict Posted: 18 May 2015 01:56 PM PDT By Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - Lawyers for Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes asked that jurors in his murder trial be questioned on Monday about whether they saw reports of the death sentence given to the Boston marathon bomber, arguing it could affect their impartiality. Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty if the 27-year-old Holmes is convicted for killing 12 people and wounding 70 during the midnight premiere of a Batman film at a Denver-area multiplex in July 2012. The prosecution objected to asking the jurors about the Boston verdict, but was overruled. The jurors said nothing they had seen would stop them from rendering a fair verdict, and the judge allowed all members to remain on the jury.

The latest on Amtrak crash: Injured conductor sues Amtrak Posted: 18 May 2015 01:11 PM PDT 3:55 p.m.

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