| Seeking Hispanic vote, Hillary Clinton defends illegal immigrants Posted: 09 May 2015 11:55 AM PDT  The 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States don't vote, but they have children, siblings or cousins who do, and Hillary Clinton is courting their support. The Democratic presidential candidate has singled out immigration as a key campaign issue in her bid for the White House in 2016. She is looking to set herself apart from her Republican rivals on the matter, and has even said she wants to go further than President Barack Obama to secure legal status, and citizenship, for millions of undocumented immigrants, most of whom are Hispanic. The move is a strategic one: securing the Hispanic vote could be what Clinton -- or any candidate -- needs to become president in the next election.
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| Obama on his beef with Sen. Warren: She's wrong Posted: 09 May 2015 11:38 AM PDT  In a Yahoo News exclusive, the president tells columnist Matt Bai that his ally's trade pact fears are misguided.
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| Obama on his beef with Sen. Warren: She's wrong Posted: 09 May 2015 11:21 AM PDT In a Yahoo News exclusive, the president tells columnist Matt Bai that his ally's trade pact fears are misguided. |
| Severe storms, possible tornadoes to batter Great Plains Posted: 09 May 2015 10:46 AM PDT Residents in parts of Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas were bracing on Saturday for severe thunderstorms that could spawn tornadoes, just days after a series of twisters tore through several Great Plains states, leaving one person dead. The National Weather Service issued a warning saying there was an "enhanced risk" of severe weather beginning on Saturday afternoon that could bring hail, strong winds, flash floods and possibly conditions leading to tornadoes. "The area of greatest concern is from southeast Colorado to portions of Texas," it said in its advisory. "The primary threat with these storms will be very large hail, but damaging winds and even a few tornadoes cannot be ruled out." The storm system could bring lashing wind and rain as far north as Kansas and southern Nebraska, and to parts of central Texas, including Dallas and its suburbs. |
| At Christian University, Jeb Bush seeks support from evangelicals Posted: 09 May 2015 09:04 AM PDT  By Steve Holland LYNCHBURG, Va. (Reuters) - Republican Jeb Bush sought to bolster his support among evangelical Christians on Saturday in remarks at a Christian university, accusing liberals of trying to undermine religious freedom. The potential presidential candidate in the November 2016 election gave the commencement speech to 34,000 people in the football stadium at Liberty University, a school founded by evangelical leader Jerry Falwell. The former Florida governor, who is competing with a variety of Republican rivals for support from the Christian right, cited a series of cases that, he said, showed religious freedom was under assault and considered by some to be an "obstacle to enlightened thought." One was an attempt by President Barack Obama's administration to require businesses to include contraception coverage in their employees' health insurance as part of Obama's signature healthcare law.
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| Tropical storm warning expanded for Carolinas as Ana strengthens Posted: 09 May 2015 08:12 AM PDT  By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - Meteorologists expanded a tropical storm warning for part of the North Carolina and South Caroline coastline on Friday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Subtropical storm Ana, the first named storm of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season, was on the verge of becoming a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour (72 km per hour), according to the Miami-based weather agency announced. A warning is now in effect for areas from South Santee River, South Carolina to Cape Lookout, North Carolina, at the southern end of the Outer Banks, it said.
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| Exclusive: Why a U.S. company’s chairman threw support behind Prophet Mohammad cartoon event Posted: 09 May 2015 05:36 AM PDT  By Tim McLaughlin and Mark Hosenball BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Shillman heads a publicly traded American technology company called Cognex Corp with a market value of $4 billion. He also says he is a big supporter of last Sunday's Prophet Mohammad cartoon contest in Texas that was attacked by two gunmen who opened fire before being shot dead by police. In a telephone interview with Reuters from his home near San Diego, California, Shillman said America's free speech is under threat.
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| U.S. says it's receptive to nuclear talks with North Korea Posted: 09 May 2015 05:02 AM PDT  Preliminary talks would probe North Korea's intentions and assess the prospects of ridding the country of nuclear weapons.
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| Court sentences Egypt's Mubarak to 3 years in prison, fine Posted: 09 May 2015 03:37 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's deposed leader Hosni Mubarak and his two sons were sentenced Saturday to three years in prison and a fine in a retrial on corruption charges they faced earlier. It wasn't immediately clear whether it will include time he's already served since his country's 2011 revolt.
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| Report: North Korea test-fires submarine-launch ballistic missile Posted: 08 May 2015 09:47 PM PDT  North Korea said on Saturday it has successfully conducted an underwater test-fire of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, which, if true, would indicate progress in the secretive state's pursuit of building missile-equipped submarines. The North's leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test-launch from a location off-shore as the submarine dove under water and "a ballistic missile surfaced from the sea and soared into the air, leaving a fiery trail of blaze," the official KCNA news agency said. "Through the test, it was verified and confirmed that the underwater ballistic missile launch from a strategic submarine fully achieved the latest military, scientific and technical requirements," KCNA said. North Korea is under United Nations sanctions banning it from developing or using ballistic missile technology.
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| Nine Georgia deputies fired over black inmate's death Posted: 08 May 2015 09:30 PM PDT (Reuters) - Nine sheriff's deputies in Georgia were fired on Friday over the New Year's Day death of a black inmate who had been placed in restraints, officials said. The Chatham County Sheriff's Office said its decision was based on an internal review and a separate probe by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation into the Jan. 1 death of 22-year-old Matthew Ajibade. Ajibade, a college student, was then placed in an isolation cell and later found unresponsive, officials said. They also said he was handcuffed to a restraining chair when officials used a taser on him, according to the News. |
| Officers charged in arrested man's death want case dismissed Posted: 08 May 2015 08:55 PM PDT  Attorneys for six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of a man who died of a spinal injury he received while in custody asked a judge Friday to dismiss the case or assign it to someone other than the city's top prosecutor, who they say has too many conflicts of interest to remain objective.
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| Reese Witherspoon reflects on hosting 'SNL' after 9/11 Posted: 08 May 2015 06:37 PM PDT  In New York City to host Saturday Night Live this weekend, Reese Witherspoon sat down with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric Friday and reflected on the last time she hosted the show—two weeks after 9/11.
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| 'Re-homing' couple exposed by Reuters is indicted on kidnap charges Posted: 08 May 2015 04:22 PM PDT  The suspects, Nicole and Calvin Eason, came to authorities' attention as a result of "The Child Exchange," a Reuters series in 2013 that exposed how Americans were using Yahoo message boards, Facebook groups and other online sites to "re-home" unwanted children. The stories showed how parents were privately transferring custody of their adopted children to strangers met on the Internet. The Easons had taken at least six boys and girls in this manner while lying about their identities, the series showed. Nicole Eason's own two biological children had been permanently removed from her care earlier, police reports showed, after social workers concluded she had neglected one child and physically abused the other.
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| Jeb Bush’s unexpected adviser on Israel Posted: 08 May 2015 02:16 PM PDT  The presumptive presidential candidate shares who he turns to for advice on Israel, according to sources.
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