| Ron Paul ad predicts currency crisis, civil unrest Posted: 05 May 2015 01:32 PM PDT  The 79-year-old warns of a coming economic armageddon — one not backed up by mainstream economic projections.
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| Thousands of Seattle teachers to hold one-day walkout over pay, class sizes Posted: 05 May 2015 12:58 PM PDT By Victoria Cavaliere SEATTLE (Reuters) - Thousands of Seattle teachers have voted to walk out of class later this month, joining educators in nearly 30 districts across Washington state staging rolling one-day strikes for better pay and smaller class sizes, the union said on Tuesday. Washington teachers held a first round of walkouts last month, followed by a rally on the steps of the Capitol in Olympia, accusing the state legislature of inadequately funding public schools or teachers' salaries. On Monday, about 4,000 members of the Seattle Education Association, the state's largest teachers' union, voted to join the action with a walkout on May 19. "There's going to be disruption, no doubt about it," said Jonathan Knapp, president of the Seattle Education Association. |
| Marine general chosen Joint Chiefs chairman Posted: 05 May 2015 10:31 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated a respected, combat hardened commander as his next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to lead the military during a key period of transition.
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| Mike Huckabee formally announces 2016 White House bid Posted: 05 May 2015 09:10 AM PDT |
| Poll: 65 percent of Americans support decision to charge officers in Freddie Gray's death Posted: 05 May 2015 07:47 AM PDT  A majority of Americans say the decision to charge officers in the death of Freddie Gray was the right one.
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| Eyeing the White House again, Huckabee can’t escape lifelong anxieties about money Posted: 05 May 2015 06:59 AM PDT  Eyeing the White House again, Huckabee can't escape lifelong anxieties about money Mike Huckabee could add a populist edge to the Republican field. Huckabee and a close friend from Arkansas, David Haak, who owns the house next door, spent months combing the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida for the "sweet spot" where they could build homes they would eventually retire in. Owning a house next to the ocean, he said, "was something I had never even imagined." His beachfront enclave, valued at just under $3 million, is a long way from his hometown of Hope, Ark., where Huckabee grew up in a tiny rental house next to the railroad tracks on the poor side of town — not far from where Hope's other famous son, President Bill Clinton, once lived.
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| Attorney general visits Baltimore after charges in Gray case Posted: 05 May 2015 05:37 AM PDT  New Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the head of the Justice Department's civil rights division will travel to Baltimore on Tuesday, the week after the city's top prosecutor charged six police officers in the death of a black man. Lynch planned to meet with city officials, members of Congress, law enforcement, faith and community leaders, a Justice Department official said. Lynch was to be accompanied by Vanita Gupta, head of Justice's civil rights division, and Ronald Davis, director of its Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS.
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| Boston bomber's lawyers continue case against death sentence Posted: 05 May 2015 04:47 AM PDT  Lawyers for the convicted Boston Marathon bomber prepared to call fresh witnesses on Tuesday as they argue that a federal jury should sentence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to life in prison, rather than death, for his role in the deadly 2013 attack. Tsarnaev, 21, was found guilty last month of killing three people and injuring 264 others with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, as well as fatally shooting a police officer three days later as Tsarnaev and his older brother prepared to flee Boston. Defense lawyers, who at the trial's opening in March conceded that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had committed all the crimes of which he was accused, contend that 26-year-old Tamerlan was the driving force behind the bombing, with his younger brother coming along out of a sense of sibling loyalty.
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| IS claims responsibility for Texas cartoon attack Posted: 05 May 2015 03:10 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a weekend attack at a center near Dallas, Texas, exhibiting cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.
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| Gunman in Mohammad cartoon attack in Texas monitored for years Posted: 05 May 2015 02:55 AM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz and David Schwartz GARLAND, Texas/PHOENIX (Reuters) - Federal agents for years monitored one of the two gunmen who were shot dead after opening fire with assault rifles at a heavily guarded Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. Two government sources who asked not to be named said the gunmen were roommates Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, of Phoenix. Court documents show Simpson had been under surveillance since 2006 and was convicted in 2011 of lying to FBI agents over his desire to join violent jihad in Somalia. FBI agents and police searched the two men's home at the Autumn Ridge Apartments in north-central Phoenix, cordoning off the complex and evacuating residents for several hours.
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| The Mike Huckabee record Posted: 05 May 2015 02:22 AM PDT The conservative TV host was not nearly as hardline a governor as many would imagine. |
| Garland shooting suspect's father says son 'made a bad choice' Posted: 05 May 2015 01:49 AM PDT  The father of one of the suspected gunmen in the Garland, Texas, shooting told ABC News today that his son "made a bad choice." "We are Americans and we believe in America," Dunston Simpson said. "What my son did reflects very badly on my family."
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| Obama jokes with Letterman about post-retirement life Posted: 05 May 2015 12:28 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama is envisioning a future of playing dominoes with retiree David Letterman.
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| Obama on protests: 'There are consequences to indifference' Posted: 04 May 2015 06:02 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — In a deeply personal response to outbreaks of racially motivated protests, President Barack Obama on Monday blamed a lack of opportunity in minority communities and harsher treatment of black and Hispanic men by police for fueling a sense of "unfairness and powerlessness."
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| NYPD officer shot in head dies, commissioner cites historic anti-police sentiment Posted: 04 May 2015 04:58 PM PDT  By Ellen Wulfhorst and Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City plainclothes police officer who was shot in the head died on Monday, the fifth officer gunned down in as many months amid anti-law enforcement sentiment not seen since the turbulent 1960s, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said. Officer Brian Moore, 25, was in an unmarked car pursuing Demetrius Blackwell, who was wanted on a weapons charge, when he was shot during the weekend in a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, police said. The shooting in New York comes amid months of mounting tensions after a series of unarmed black men died at the hands of police officers, the most recent in Baltimore where six officers were charged on Friday in the death of Freddie Gray. Moore is the first New York City officer killed in the line of duty since two uniformed officers were ambushed last December.
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| FBI probed Texas gunman 'over jihadist sympathies' Posted: 04 May 2015 03:02 PM PDT  One of the men shot dead by police when he and an accomplice attempted to storm an event hosted by an anti-Muslim group in Texas was sentenced to three years' probation in 2011 for lying to US federal agents investigating his alleged jihadist sympathies, it emerged Monday. Investigators were delving into the backgrounds of the two suspected Islamist gunmen -- they were roommates, The Los Angeles Times reported -- who opened fire with assault rifles outside Sunday's controversial exhibit of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. A quick-acting traffic policeman shot the two suspects before they were able to enter the venue in Garland, a suburb of Dallas. Commentators were quick to draw parallels to a January mass shooting at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris that killed 12 people and wounded 11 more.
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| Cannons and bells ring out for baby Princess Charlotte Posted: 04 May 2015 01:05 PM PDT  Prince William and his wife Kate announced Monday that their new baby princess will be called Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, as the sound of gun salutes and pealing bells rang out over London. Britain had been on tenterhooks waiting to discover what names the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would give their little princess, who was born on Saturday and is fourth in line to the throne. Charlotte had been the bookmakers' late favourite and is the feminine form of the name of William's father Prince Charles, the heir to the throne. Elizabeth is the middle name of Kate's mother Carole -- another feminine version of Charles -- as well as being the name of the reigning British monarch, great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.
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