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• Bernie Sanders wants to take back 'family values' from the GOP
• Uzbek citizen charged in U.S. for plotting to support Islamic State
• Pentagon watchdog reassigns audit chief after Reuters report
• Legendary actor Christopher Lee dead at 93
• Virginia 17-year-old pleads guilty to providing support to Islamic State
• Female prison worker, in love, agreed to drive getaway car: NBC News
• Search for escaped killers enters Day 6, expands outside NY
• Seattle adds 'streateries' to America's growing pavement culture
• Hopi sacred masks auctioned in Paris despite protests
• Nine wounded, one dead in shooting at Connecticut apartment: media
• Matt Bai: Why Republican candidates should want to be shut out of debates
• Florida high school principal removed after defending Texas officer
• Californian oil spill clean-up costs exceed $60 million: newspaper
• Rapper Rick Ross arrested for marijuana possession: official
• Colorado cinema gunman outwardly shy but outgoing in private: ex-girlfriend
• U.S. lawmakers vote to scrap meat labeling laws
• Vehicle strikes four Washington state teens, killing two
• Lawsuit alleges mistreatment at Border Patrol facilities in Arizona
• Person of interest in upstate New York prison break: Who is Joyce Mitchell?
• D.C. watchdog group calls for feds to probe alleged violations by NRA
• New trial for man who said he killed New York boy to open in 2016
• Exclusive: Confusion clouds count of cars hit by Takata air bag recall
• U.S. officials looking into possible seventh Takata air bag death

Bernie Sanders wants to take back 'family values' from the GOP Posted: 11 Jun 2015 11:47 AM PDT Bernie Sanders, elected as an independent, caucuses with Senate Democrats and calls himself a "Democratic socialist." And now that he's running for the White House, he'd like to keep busting categories and take back a key phrase from Republicans and redefine it for the 2016 election: "family values."

Uzbek citizen charged in U.S. for plotting to support Islamic State Posted: 11 Jun 2015 10:42 AM PDT A citizen of Uzbekistan has been indicted alongside four previously-charged New York City residents for taking part in a plot to try to provide support to Islamic State militants, prosecutors said Thursday. Akmal Zakirov, 29, is scheduled to be arraigned later on Thursday in U.S. federal court in Brooklyn, New York, after he was charged for attempting and conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State, prosecutors said.

Pentagon watchdog reassigns audit chief after Reuters report Posted: 11 Jun 2015 10:26 AM PDT By Scot J. Paltrow NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department Inspector General is reassigning one of his top deputies just weeks after Reuters reported that the deputy had forced staff to sign off on a disputed audit of the Marine Corps. In a Wednesday email to staff, Inspector General Jon Rymer said Daniel Blair, deputy inspector general for audits, would be reassigned to the lower-ranking position of deputy chief of staff. Blair for five years has been in charge of all audits by the Pentagon's Office of the Inspector General, an independent watchdog agency that monitors Defense Department operations and programs.

Legendary actor Christopher Lee dead at 93 Posted: 11 Jun 2015 08:12 AM PDT

Virginia 17-year-old pleads guilty to providing support to Islamic State Posted: 11 Jun 2015 07:39 AM PDT A Virginia 17-year-old pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to charges of conspiring to provide support and resources to Islamic State militants, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. Ali Amin, of Manassas, Virginia, used social media to provide instructions on how to use the virtual currency Bitcoin to send funds to militants, and he helped another Virginia resident travel to Syria to join the group, the department said.

Female prison worker, in love, agreed to drive getaway car: NBC News Posted: 11 Jun 2015 07:04 AM PDT A female prison worker being questioned by police, who are hunting two escapees from an upstate New York prison, thought she had a romantic relationship with one of them and had planned to drive the getaway car, NBC News reported on Thursday. In the end, Joyce Mitchell, an industrial training supervisor in the tailor shop of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, got cold feet and checked herself into a hospital for nerves on Saturday, the day the inmates were discovered missing, NBC reported, citing unnamed senior government officials. The older inmate, convicted killer Richard Matt, 48, who has a history of escape attempts, had wooed Mitchell for months and established a relationship in which she agreed to drive the getaway car, the report said.

Search for escaped killers enters Day 6, expands outside NY Posted: 11 Jun 2015 06:48 AM PDT DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities searching for two escaped killers who have been on the loose for the better part of a week acknowledged being in the dark about their whereabouts or doings, even as the hunt for the men expanded past state borders.

Seattle adds 'streateries' to America's growing pavement culture Posted: 11 Jun 2015 05:41 AM PDT The box-shaped wood-frame patio, which juts out into a traffic-clogged roadway in the densely populated Capitol Hill neighborhood, is one of Seattle's "parklets," with a segment set aside for alcohol consumption. The street eateries are platformed oases with decorative shrubs that semi-permanently usurp one or two parking spaces. "American cities really want to activate the public spaces and streets that for way too long have been given over to the automobile," said Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, a professor at the University of California Los Angeles, who studies the phenomenon.

Hopi sacred masks auctioned in Paris despite protests Posted: 11 Jun 2015 05:09 AM PDT A collection of sacred masks and statues belonging to the Native American Hopi tribe have gone under the hammer at a Paris auction despite calls that the sale be canceled. The Hopi, who still live in the high desert of the Colorado Plateau in Arizona, consider the artifacts sacred, representing messengers to the gods and the spirits of ancestors and natural forces such as animals, plants or the sun. "Hopi Indians are totally opposed to the trade of these objects and for these objects to be shown, (their images) published and scattered," said Jean-Patrick Razon, head of Survival International, which defends cultural heritage.

Nine wounded, one dead in shooting at Connecticut apartment: media Posted: 11 Jun 2015 02:57 AM PDT (Reuters) - Nine people were hurt and one was killed in a shooting at a Connecticut apartment complex early on Thursday morning, local broadcaster WFSB reported.

Matt Bai: Why Republican candidates should want to be shut out of debates Posted: 11 Jun 2015 02:41 AM PDT Now that we know the number of Republicans running for president this year is exponentially higher than the number of voters Rick Santorum can lure into a room in Iowa, the media that sponsor debates are freaking out.

Florida high school principal removed after defending Texas officer Posted: 11 Jun 2015 02:09 AM PDT (Reuters) - A Florida high school principal has been removed from his job after commenting online in support of the Texas police officer who resigned after a video surfaced showing him manhandling a black bikini-clad teenager and pulling his gun on other black teens, according to officials and local media.

Californian oil spill clean-up costs exceed $60 million: newspaper Posted: 10 Jun 2015 11:25 PM PDT (Reuters) - Clean-up costs associated with a Californian oil pipeline rupture that dumped as much as 2,400 barrels of crude onto a pristine stretch of coastline and into the Pacific Ocean have exceeded $60 million, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday. Plains All American Pipeline spokeswoman Meredith Mathews told the newspaper that expenses for restoring the affected area near Santa Barbara ran as high as $3 million a day. On Tuesday Santa Barbara County rejected Exxon Mobil Corp's emergency permit application to temporarily haul crude using tanker trucks following the spill.

Rapper Rick Ross arrested for marijuana possession: official Posted: 10 Jun 2015 08:58 PM PDT (Reuters) - Rapper Rick Ross was arrested on Wednesday in Georgia for marijuana possession, according to the Fayette County Sheriff's Office. The 39-year-old Ross, whose legal name is William Leonard Roberts II, was pulled over at around 4 p.m. on Highway 279 in Georgia for a window tint violation, according to an official with the sheriff's office, who declined to be named. Deputies went to his car, smelled marijuana, and after searching the vehicle placed Ross under arrest for possession, the officer said.

Colorado cinema gunman outwardly shy but outgoing in private: ex-girlfriend Posted: 10 Jun 2015 08:42 PM PDT The former girlfriend of Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes testified at his capital murder trial on Wednesday that the admitted shooter was quiet in public but was more outgoing when alone with her or their friends. The line of questioning appeared to focus on the personality of the man prosecutors say went on a killing spree just months after facing difficulties in graduate school and being rejected by his then-girlfriend, Gargi Datta, who said she met Holmes when they attended University of Colorado-Denver in 2011. Holmes, 27, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to fatally shooting 12 moviegoers and wounding 70 more at a suburban Denver multiplex in July 2012.

U.S. lawmakers vote to scrap meat labeling laws Posted: 10 Jun 2015 07:39 PM PDT By Krista Hughes WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to repeal meat labeling laws, which were widely backed by U.S. consumer groups, after Canada and Mexico threatened $3 billion in trade sanctions. The House voted 300-131 to repeal country-of-origin labeling (COOL) rules on beef, pork and poultry, after the World Trade Organization ruled they discriminated against imported meat. Canada wants to impose just over C$3 billion ($2.4 billion) in sanctions on U.S. imports while Mexico is looking for $653 million worth of punitive measures.

Vehicle strikes four Washington state teens, killing two Posted: 10 Jun 2015 07:22 PM PDT Two Washington state high school students were killed and two more seriously injured after the group was struck from behind by a sport utility vehicle during a gym class walk, state police said on Wednesday. The driver, who first told police he fell asleep while driving but later admitted to drug use, struck the boys at about 1:30 p.m. in Ferndale, about 100 miles north of Seattle, Trooper Mark Francis said. The car apparently jumped a curb and plowed into the boys as they were walking on the sidewalk during gym class at Windward High School, Francis said.

Lawsuit alleges mistreatment at Border Patrol facilities in Arizona Posted: 10 Jun 2015 06:19 PM PDT Civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Border Patrol complaining immigrants were unlawfully held for extended periods in freezing, filthy holding cells in Arizona, plaintiffs' attorneys said on Wednesday. The lawsuit, on behalf of three undocumented immigrants detained at the Tucson Border Patrol Station, says detainees are mistreated for days in what were designed to be hours-long holding cells in southern Arizona detention facilities. The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Tucson on Monday cited a wide range of abuse and neglect, including being held in overcrowded cells and denied adequate food, water, sleep and medical care.

Person of interest in upstate New York prison break: Who is Joyce Mitchell? Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:26 PM PDT Authorities are questioning Joyce Mitchell, a female prison employee, about the inmates who escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility last weekend.

D.C. watchdog group calls for feds to probe alleged violations by NRA Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:10 PM PDT A watchdog group asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the National Rifle Association for failing to disclose $33.5 million in political expenditures on its tax returns over a six-year period.

New trial for man who said he killed New York boy to open in 2016 Posted: 10 Jun 2015 03:23 PM PDT A new trial for the former New York deli worker who confessed to strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz in a case that changed the way the U.S. responds to missing children will open in 2016, a judge said on Wednesday. A month after declaring a mistrial because of a hung jury, Judge Maxwell Wiley told Pedro Hernandez that a new jury would be picked as early as December to hear the kidnapping and murder case in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. Seven jurors from Hernandez' first murder trial, in which a single holdout declined to convict him in the 1979 killing, returned to court to hear the judge's decision.

Exclusive: Confusion clouds count of cars hit by Takata air bag recall Posted: 10 Jun 2015 02:35 PM PDT The number of vehicles on U.S. roads with potentially defective Takata air bags appears to be less than half the 34 million initially estimated by federal regulators, according to a Reuters analysis of recall records submitted to the watchdog and confirmed by the car companies. About 16.2 million vehicles — roughly one out of every 16 cars on U.S. highways — may have one or two defective air bags supplied by Japan's Takata Corp , vehicle manufacturers confirmed to Reuters. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Wednesday said it has not counted the absolute number of vehicles, but said it was aware of 30 million potentially defective Takata parts that need to be replaced.

U.S. officials looking into possible seventh Takata air bag death Posted: 10 Jun 2015 01:30 PM PDT U.S. auto safety regulators said on Wednesday that they are looking into a possible seventh death linked to defective Takata air bag inflators, a Louisiana woman who died after her 2005 Honda Civic hit a utility pole in the early hours of April 5. A lawsuit filed on Monday in U.S. District Court by the family of the victim, 22-year-old Kylan Rae Langlinais, claims the car's Takata driver-side air bag exploded on impact, sending shards of metal into the passenger compartment and severing the woman's carotid artery.

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