| U.S. President Obama visits family of journalist slain by ISIS Posted: 28 May 2015 10:58 AM PDT  U.S. President Barack Obama met on Thursday with the family of American journalist Steven Sotloff, who was beheaded last year by Islamic State militants. The White House said Obama met with Sotloff's parents Art and Shirley and his sister, Lauren, while he was in Florida for fundraising and a briefing on the upcoming hurricane season. "The president expressed his and the first lady's condolences for Steven's death," White House spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said.
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| The Pataki record: A Roosevelt Republican from N.Y.’s crime-crackdown years Posted: 28 May 2015 09:52 AM PDT  Amid a growing group of long-shot Republican presidential hopefuls that already includes a neurosurgeon, a deposed Silicon Valley CEO, and two failed contenders from presidential primaries past, few official or potential primary candidates have been as quickly dismissed as George Pataki.
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| Defense in Freddie Gray case seeks to move trial from Baltimore Posted: 28 May 2015 09:03 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Defense attorneys for six police officers facing criminal charges in the Freddie Gray case are seeking to have the trial moved from Baltimore, saying their clients cannot get a fair trial there, the Baltimore Sun reported on Thursday. The lawyers filed an 85-page document on Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court asking for a change of venue, arguing that a "presumption of prejudice" exists in the city, the newspaper said. Gray, a 25-year-old black man, was arrested April 12 and suffered a spinal injury in police custody.
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| Ninth suspect arrested in deadly shooting of Mississippi officers Posted: 28 May 2015 08:30 AM PDT By Therese Apel JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) - Mississippi authorities said they have made a ninth arrest in connection with the May 9 shooting deaths of two Hattiesburg police officers. Brodrick Kendell Varnado, 25, of Hattiesburg has been charged with accessory after the fact of capital murder in the deaths of officers Benjamin Deen, 34, and Liquori Tate, 25, according to a Mississippi Department of Public Safety statement late Wednesday. Tate and Deen both died of gunshot wounds suffered during a traffic stop near downtown Hattiesburg, becoming the first officers killed in the southern Mississippi city in more than 30 years. |
| Boston bomber to face victims when death sentence handed down in June Posted: 28 May 2015 08:13 AM PDT  Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev late next month will confront people who lost limbs and loved ones in the deadly 2013 attack when he is scheduled to be formally sentenced to death for his crimes, a judge said on Thursday. The same federal jury that found Tsarnaev, 21, guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 in one of the highest-profile attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, last month voted to sentence him to death. Tsarnaev's trial evoked memories of the darkest days in recent memory in Boston as victims testified of being hurled through the air by the twin pressure-cooker bombs, struggling to save the lives of those who had lost limbs amid screams of pain and fears that additional explosions would follow.
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| U.S. anti-legalization group urges more access to marijuana research Posted: 28 May 2015 07:24 AM PDT  A group opposed to pot legalization is unveiling proposals on Thursday for the U.S. government to ease restrictions on scientific research into marijuana's potential as medicine, in a first step for an organization of its kind. The plan from Smart Approaches to Marijuana, which is co-founded by former U.S. Congressman Patrick Kennedy, comes after three U.S. Senators this year introduced a bill that would require the federal government to recognize pot's medical value and allow states to set their own medical cannabis policies. Kennedy will present his group's plan on Thursday to officials in Washington, said Kevin Sabet, the group's president and chief executive.
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| New flood warning for Texas, where storms have killed 16 Posted: 28 May 2015 07:08 AM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The National Weather Service issued a new flash flood watch on Thursday for large parts of Texas, where severe weather this week has left at least 16 people dead, damaged thousands of structures and flooded cities such as Houston and Austin. The warning stretches from south of San Antonio to Dallas, through Oklahoma, where severe weather this week killed an additional six people, and into Kansas. In Texas, the latest victim of the deadly storms that brought flooding on Monday was a boy whose body was recovered near the central city of San Marcos, Hays County officials said.
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| To see why Amtrak's losses mount, hop on the Empire Builder train Posted: 28 May 2015 06:51 AM PDT  By Ernest Scheyder ABOARD THE EMPIRE BUILDER (Reuters) - Its passengers are mostly silver-haired retirees, oil-field workers and a few young families gazing out the windows of Amtrak's least-profitable and third-longest line, rumbling from Chicago through eight states and on to the American West Coast. As the Empire Builder snakes along 2,230 miles (3,590 km) on a 46-hour journey, it offers insights into the financial problems plaguing America's passenger railroad at a time of intensifying scrutiny over its aging infrastructure and safety record. A coach ticket between Spokane, Washington and Williston, capital of North Dakota's oil boom, costs $111, much cheaper than flying.
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| George Pataki announces 2016 presidential bid Posted: 28 May 2015 06:00 AM PDT |
| Former NY Governor Pataki launches 2016 Republican presidential bid Posted: 28 May 2015 05:12 AM PDT  Former New York Governor George Pataki entered the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on Thursday, joining a crowded field of candidates vying to retake the White House for their party. "It is time to stand up, protect our freedom and take back this government," he said in an announcement video titled "Pataki for President" posted on his website, georgepataki.com. Pataki, who served three terms as governor from 1995 to 2006, has flirted with running for U.S. Senate or the presidency in past years.
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| U.S. training of Syria rebel fighters expands to Turkey: source Posted: 28 May 2015 04:55 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has started training Syrian opposition fighters in Turkey to combat Islamic State, expanding a program that first launched in Jordan weeks ago, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not offer details on the size of the first group of recruits undergoing training in Turkey or the specific start date. The Pentagon declined comment. (Reporting by Phil Stewart; Editing by Susan Heavey) |
| Swollen rivers cause Texas cities to worry about flooding Posted: 28 May 2015 02:46 AM PDT  While the deadly thunderstorms have tapered off, several cities aren't out of danger.
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| Hundreds evacuated in Texas after storms leave at least 15 dead Posted: 28 May 2015 01:09 AM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate flood-threatened areas of Texas on Wednesday as torrential rains battered the state, where at least 15 people have been killed in weather-related incidents this week, including six in Houston. People were told to stay away from more than 200 homes in Parker County where the Brazos River was poised to overflow its banks about 30 miles (50 km) west of Fort Worth on Wednesday night, county officials said. "The river is coming up fast and flowing at dangerous volumes," Parker County Judge Mark Riley told a news conference, adding shelters were available.
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| FIFA indictment: How one bribe led to the next Posted: 27 May 2015 10:24 PM PDT  The 164 pages are filled with the seedy inner workings of how soccer's power brokers exploited their positions.
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| U.S. military mistakenly ships live anthrax to labs in 9 states Posted: 27 May 2015 05:18 PM PDT By Phil Stewart and Sharon Begley WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. military mistakenly sent live anthrax bacteria to laboratories in nine U.S. states and a U.S. air base in South Korea, after apparently failing to properly inactivate the bacteria last year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The Pentagon said there was no known suspected infection or risk to the public. The four face "minimal" risk, said Jason McDonald, a spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has begun an investigation of the incident. |
| Colorado cinema gunman's writings show murder plans, musings Posted: 27 May 2015 03:57 PM PDT  By Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo., (Reuters) - A journal that Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes wrote before he opened fire inside a packed theater contains his plans to commit a mass killing, interspersed with personal musings and philosophical questions, a document showed on Wednesday. The writings were introduced by prosecutors in the murder trial of the 27-year-old California native and former neuroscience graduate student who is charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder. Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to fatally shooting 12 moviegoers and wounding 70 more in a suburban Denver theater during a screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises." Holmes, who could face the death penalty over the July 2012 rampage, mailed a spiral notebook containing the writings to his psychiatrist a day before he launched his attack on the theater.
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| Russia ‘reset’ architect to next president: Don’t try that again Posted: 27 May 2015 03:42 PM PDT  Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, a key architect of President Barack Obama's attempt to "reset" relations with Moscow...
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| US believes identity thieves from Russia Posted: 27 May 2015 02:52 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials tell The Associated Press that the U.S. tax collection agency believes the identity thieves who stole personal tax information from its website are from Russia.
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