Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines

---

• Cleveland police say 71 people arrested overnight in protests
• John Nash, wife, 'A Beautiful Mind' inspiration, die in NJ
• Mathematician who inspired 'A Beautiful Mind' killed in auto accident: media
• US: Iraq's 'will to fight' at issue after IS takeover Ramadi
• After bruising safety crisis, U.S. car watchdog shows its bite
• GOP navigates the new politics of energy abundance
• Streets calm a day after protest of Ohio officer's acquittal
• Malaysia finds mass graves of suspected trafficking victims
• Drenching rains force scores of rescues in Oklahoma City
• Cleveland protests erupt after officer found not guilty in fatal shooting of two unarmed suspects
• San Francisco police keep eye out for missing 'Eyeball' mask
• Motorist arrested for killing Colorado cadet, injuring officer: police
• Pipeline that leaked wasn't equipped with auto shut-off

Cleveland police say 71 people arrested overnight in protests Posted: 24 May 2015 01:02 PM PDT By Aaron Josefczyk CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Some 71 people were arrested in Cleveland overnight during protests that flared after a police officer was found not guilty in the shooting deaths of an unarmed black man and a woman following a high-speed car chase in 2012, police said on Sunday. Protests were mostly peaceful after the judge's verdict was announced on Saturday, Police Chief Calvin Williams said. Over the past year, the deaths of unarmed black men during confrontations with police in Ferguson, Missouri, New York City, Baltimore and elsewhere have spawned protests and occasional violent outbursts around the United States.

John Nash, wife, 'A Beautiful Mind' inspiration, die in NJ Posted: 24 May 2015 11:40 AM PDT John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie "A Beautiful Mind," has died along with his wife in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86.

Mathematician who inspired 'A Beautiful Mind' killed in auto accident: media Posted: 24 May 2015 08:07 AM PDT (Reuters) - Mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner who inspired the movie "A Beautiful Mind," was killed in an auto accident along with his wife in New Jersey, ABC News reported. The Oscar award-winning film "A Beautiful Mind" starring Russell Crowe was loosely based on Nash's longtime struggle with schizophrenia. Crowe wrote on Twitter on Sunday that he was stunned by reports of the death of Nash and his wife, Alicia.

US: Iraq's 'will to fight' at issue after IS takeover Ramadi Posted: 24 May 2015 07:00 AM PDT The U.S. defense secretary delivers a harsh assessment of Iraqi fighters.

After bruising safety crisis, U.S. car watchdog shows its bite Posted: 24 May 2015 05:22 AM PDT The U.S. auto safety watchdog, long criticized as toothless and slow, is showing both bark and bite under its new boss - a testimony to his credentials as a safety expert and a hardening of the administration's policy after a wave of deadly defects. Having taken the helm of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in January, Mark Rosekind has wasted no time in forcing reluctant companies into recalling millions of defective vehicles. In doing so, he has shown greater willingness than some of his predecessors to use the government's full legal powers over the industry, some for the first time. In the past week alone, the agency announced the biggest recall in history, involving nearly 34 million vehicles with potentially deadly Takata Corp air bags.

GOP navigates the new politics of energy abundance Posted: 24 May 2015 04:34 AM PDT By James Oliphant OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (Reuters) - U.S. Republicans have had to watch from the sidelines as the Obama White House has taken political credit for America's unexpected energy boom and tumbling gas prices. Now it has left their presidential candidates scrambling for a way to reclaim leadership on an issue the party once seemed to own. "We've got an abundance of supply," Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said this week in Oklahoma at a gathering of putative Republican candidates for next year's presidential election.

Streets calm a day after protest of Ohio officer's acquittal Posted: 24 May 2015 04:01 AM PDT CLEVELAND (AP) — The streets largely remained calm Sunday morning after police in riot gear made numerous arrests overnight of protesters angered by a patrolman's acquittal in the deaths of two unarmed black suspects in a barrage of police gunfire.

Malaysia finds mass graves of suspected trafficking victims Posted: 24 May 2015 03:13 AM PDT Malaysian authorities make the grim discovery near the border with Thailand.

Drenching rains force scores of rescues in Oklahoma City Posted: 23 May 2015 08:55 PM PDT (Reuters) - More than 70 people were rescued on Saturday after severe storms soaked Oklahoma during a month of record rainfall, authorities said. The Oklahoma City Fire Department said in a statement it had rescued more than 70 people after the drenching storms triggered flash floods in the city. The National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma, said Oklahoma City was just .11 inch shy of the all-time record for rainfall in any month.

Cleveland protests erupt after officer found not guilty in fatal shooting of two unarmed suspects Posted: 23 May 2015 08:22 PM PDT By Aaron Josefczyk and Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A Cleveland police officer was found not guilty on Saturday in the shooting deaths of an unarmed black man and a woman after a high-speed car chase in 2012, one in a series of cases that have raised questions over police conduct and race relations in the United States. Judge John O'Donnell said Officer Michael Brelo, 31, acted reasonably in shooting the two suspects while standing on the hood of their surrounded car and firing multiple rounds through the windshield. The two people who were killed, Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, were black and Brelo, a former Marine, is white.

San Francisco police keep eye out for missing 'Eyeball' mask Posted: 23 May 2015 07:19 PM PDT San Francisco police have asked people to be on the lookout for a valuable mask depicting an eyeball wearing a top hat, an artifact made famous by an avant garde rock band, saying the artwork was stolen during shipment from a Seattle museum. The museum had then sent the artwork back to San Francisco via courier service when the crate they were in went missing, police said in a statement. The mask is about two-feet tall and features a blue iris and white top hat.

Motorist arrested for killing Colorado cadet, injuring officer: police Posted: 23 May 2015 06:46 PM PDT By Keith Coffman LONGMONT, Colo. (Reuters) - A Colorado State Patrol cadet was killed and his training officer critically injured on Saturday when a motorist they tried to stop struck them with his car, authorities said. The cadet, 21-year-old Taylor Thyfault, died at the scene on Colorado Highway 66 outside the town of Longmont, about 35 miles (56 km) north of Denver, State Patrol spokesman Trooper Josh Lewis said in a statement. Thyfault and Trooper Clinton Rushing, 37, were outside of their cruiser when they were struck, Lewis said.

Pipeline that leaked wasn't equipped with auto shut-off Posted: 23 May 2015 02:09 PM PDT The pipeline that leaked thousands of gallons of oil on the California coast was the only pipe of its kind in the county not required to have an automatic shut-off valve because of a court fight nearly three decades ago, a county official said.

You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States