| Obama administration will not seek Supreme Court stay on immigration block Posted: 27 May 2015 01:46 PM PDT  Despite a setback to President Barack Obama's immigration action in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, the U.S. Justice Department will not ask the Supreme Court to stay the injunction, a Department spokesman said. Twenty-six states blocked the launch of the executive action, estimated to provide relief from deportation to 4.7 million undocumented immigrants, in a ruling first decided by a Texas District judge in February. The Fifth Circuit will hear an appeal to the injunction in July.
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| Pentagon: Military mistakenly shipped live anthrax samples Posted: 27 May 2015 01:12 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says it inadvertently shipped live anthrax spores to as many as nine laboratories and is investigating how that happened.
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| U.S. military mistakenly transfers live anthrax to laboratory Posted: 27 May 2015 12:54 PM PDT The U.S. military mistakenly sent at least one live anthrax sample to a private laboratory in Maryland and possibly sent others to eight other states, a U.S. defense official said on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Pentagon confirmed an investigation into the incident was underway and said there was no public health risk. |
| Dispute over Martin Luther King Jr.'s Bible, Nobel medal heads for mediation Posted: 27 May 2015 11:37 AM PDT  By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - A judge in Georgia agreed on Wednesday to appoint a mediator to help settle a dispute between the late Martin Luther King Jr.'s children over whether to sell his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal and the Bible he carried during the civil rights movement. The fight pits the slain civil rights leader's sons Martin Luther King III and Dexter King, who want to sell the medal and Bible, against King's surviving daughter, Bernice King, who opposes the sale of items she calls "sacred" to the family. Attorneys for the King estate and Bernice King said they were close to settling a lawsuit filed against her by the estate.
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| U.S. regulators to review pilot mental health after Germanwings crash Posted: 27 May 2015 11:06 AM PDT (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday announced that a joint government-industry group will review how the agency monitors the mental health of commercial pilots and will make recommendations within six months. The move came some two months after a pilot allegedly crashed a Germanwings flight in the French Alps deliberately, raising concerns about how regulators screen pilots for mental illness. The new Pilot Fitness Aviation Rulemaking Committee will examine methods used to evaluate pilots' emotional health as well as the barriers to reporting any issues, the FAA said. |
| Yahoo must face email spying class action: U.S. judge Posted: 27 May 2015 09:30 AM PDT  A U.S. judge ordered Yahoo Inc to face a nationwide class-action lawsuit accusing it of illegally intercepting the content of emails sent to Yahoo Mail subscribers from non-Yahoo Mail accounts, and using the information to boost advertising revenue. In a decision late Tuesday night, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California said people who sent emails to or received emails from Yahoo Mail subscribers since Oct. 2, 2011 may sue as a group under the federal Stored Communications Act for alleged privacy violations. Holders of non-Yahoo Mail accounts accused Yahoo of copying and then analyzing their emails, including keywords and attachments, with a goal of creating "targeted advertising" for its subscribers, in addition to detecting spam and malware.
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| Rick Santorum launching second White House run Posted: 27 May 2015 08:41 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rick Santorum, an aggressive advocate for conservative family values, will launch a second bid for president on Wednesday, a spokesman said.
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| Colorado movie massacre defense: We need to talk about James Posted: 27 May 2015 07:51 AM PDT  By Daniel Wallis and Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - In a hushed courtroom on the outskirts of Denver, defense lawyers played family videos of a young boy sitting on a sofa in shorts and a T-shirt, playing on a slide in a park, and frolicking in waves on a sunlit beach. The films gave no hint of the violence that would later be committed by James Holmes, who could face the death penalty if convicted of murdering 12 people and wounding 70 others by opening fire inside a suburban Denver multiplex in July 2012. Painting a picture of a bright, normal child who could have belonged to any member of the jury before he fell prey to severe mental illness that runs in his family, Holmes' lawyers will seek to save the now 27-year-old's life.
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| Texas dam at Padera Lake south of Dallas, breaches in wake of floods: CBS Posted: 27 May 2015 05:43 AM PDT (Reuters) - A dam holding back floodwaters south of Dallas has breached in the wake of record Texas flooding, posing serious concerns for area residents and livestock, according to CBS affiliate KRLD. (Reporting by Suzannah Gonzales in Chicago; Editing by Scott Malone) |
| Appeals court rules with states challenging Obama's immigration action Posted: 27 May 2015 02:24 AM PDT  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's plan to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation was dealt another setback on Tuesday when a U.S. appeals court refused to lift a block put in place by 26 states that argued Obama overstepped his authority. By a 2-1 vote that could pave the way to a Supreme Court ruling, the judges from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that Obama's executive action should remain on hold pending further judicial proceedings. The decision further delays Obama's immigration order, which was first blocked by a Brownsville, Texas lower court judge in February.
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| Floodwaters deepen in Houston after city gets more rain Posted: 27 May 2015 02:07 AM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — Floodwaters deepened across much of Texas on Tuesday as storms dumped almost another foot (30 centimeters) of rain on the Houston area, stranding hundreds of motorists and inundating the famously congested highways that serve the fourth-largest U.S. city.
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| Swiss police detain FIFA officials on corruption charges Posted: 26 May 2015 11:39 PM PDT  Six top soccer officials were arrested and detained pending extradition to the U.S.
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| Arrested FIFA officials face extradition to U.S.: NY Times Posted: 26 May 2015 10:36 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Authorities in Zurich, Switzerland on Wednesday launched an operation to arrest several high-ranking FIFA officials on corruption charges and extradite them to the United States, the New York Times reported. The Times, citing anonymous law enforcement officials, said the U.S. federal charges include racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud and span two decades of misconduct in soccer's world governing body. More than 10 officials were expected to be indicted, the newspaper reported. ...
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| Bernie-mania! Sanders launches 2016 campaign Posted: 26 May 2015 06:48 PM PDT  The 73-year-old former Burlington mayor and independent senator is beloved here by Vermonters who have adopted his bluntness, Brooklyn accent and stubbornly progressive views as their own.
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| Storms kill 16 in Texas, Oklahoma; Houston flooded Posted: 26 May 2015 05:41 PM PDT  By Kristen Hays and Amanda Orr HOUSTON (Reuters) - Torrential rains have killed at least 16 people in Texas and Oklahoma, including four in Houston where floods turned streets into rivers and led to about 1,000 calls for help in the fourth-most populous U.S. city, officials said on Tuesday. The death toll is set to rise with numerous people still missing in Texas after the storms slammed the states during the Memorial Day weekend, causing record floods that destroyed hundreds of homes, swept away bridges, and even unearthed a coffin from a Houston cemetery. "A lot of folks drove their car into high water and had to abandon those vehicles," Mayor Annise Parker said at a news conference.
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| Colorado movie gunman wrote of 'obsession to kill' since childhood Posted: 26 May 2015 04:52 PM PDT  By Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo., (Reuters) - Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes wrote in a notebook he sent to his psychiatrist prior to opening fire in a suburban theater that he had harbored an "obsession to kill" since childhood, a police officer testified at his murder trial on Tuesday. Holmes mailed a package to the psychiatrist that included the notebook a day before he opened fire inside a cinema in the Denver suburb of Aurora during a screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises." Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for Holmes if he is convicted of killing 12 moviegoers and wounding 70 others in the July 2012 rampage. Aurora Police Sergeant Matthew Fyles read aloud excerpts from the 29-page notebook, in which Holmes allegedly wrote: "The obsession to kill since I was a kid, with age became more realistic." Fyles said that Holmes wrote in another entry that he had thought about multiple ways to kill, including with nuclear weapons and biological warfare.
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| Vermont's Sanders kicks off 2016 bid Posted: 26 May 2015 04:36 PM PDT  Challenging Hillary Clinton from the left, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders kicked off his presidential bid Tuesday with a pitch to liberals to join him in a "political revolution" to transform the nation's economy and politics.
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| Data thieves gain access to 100,000 U.S. taxpayers' information: IRS Posted: 26 May 2015 03:34 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Tax return information for about 100,000 U.S. taxpayers was illegally accessed by cyber criminals over the past four months, U.S. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of data thefts that have alarmed American consumers. From February to May, attackers sought to gain access to personal tax information 200,000 times through the agency's "Get Transcript" online application, which calls up information from previous returns, he told a news conference. The breach did not affect any IRS data outside the "Get Transcript" application, and the agency said it would strengthen its security measures.
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| Fire extinguished at Apple site in Arizona - local ABC station Posted: 26 May 2015 01:14 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Firefighters fought a blaze that erupted at an Apple Inc facility in Mesa, Arizona on Tuesday, local station ABC15 reported. The fire appeared to be out, but fire personnel remained on the scene, the station reported on Twitter. (Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Chris Reese)
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