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• Officials: Second hack exposed military and intel data
• Judge signs Justice Department pact with Cleveland Police
• 'Fast-track' trade bill derailed in House in blow to Obama
• Arctic drilling opponents hanging from Shell ship in Washington state
• U.S. western states to get $110 million in drought aid: White House
• Seventeen injured in church bus crash in Tennessee
• 2 charged with conspiring to help IS group with Boston man
• Detroit man imprisoned up to 40 years in French artist's slaying
• New Hampshire man charged with killing parents to be arraigned
• Obama makes personal appeal on trade with key vote in House
• Two men charged with conspiracy to support ISIS in Boston terror probe
• Former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn acquitted in pimping trial
• New York prison escape among decade's most audacious breakouts
• Manhunt for two New York prison escapees focuses on nearby woods
• Virginia officer indicted over fatal shooting of mentally ill black man
• Man arrested in connection with Boston terror probe
• In Minnesota, high employment and weak wages show Fed's quandary
• Alaska passes budget to avoid partial government shutdown
• Minnesota Somali-American ordered held for trial on charges of trying to help Islamic State
• Ohio judge finds police officer should face charges in Rice case: paper
• Union: Hackers have personnel data on every federal employee

Officials: Second hack exposed military and intel data Posted: 12 Jun 2015 01:57 PM PDT Several U.S. officials say hackers linked to China appear to have gained access to sensitive background information submitted by intelligence and military personnel seeking security clearances. The break is the second cyberbreach of federal records revealed in a week and could dramatically compound the potential damage.

Judge signs Justice Department pact with Cleveland Police Posted: 12 Jun 2015 11:31 AM PDT A federal judge on Friday signed off on an agreement between the U.S. Justice Department and Cleveland to address complaints of widespread racial bias and use of excessive force in the city's police department. The agreement released in May was detailed in a 105-page plan for changes to use-of-force policies, training and standards of accountability within the Cleveland Police and calls for an outside monitor to report directly to the court. The plan is "fair, reasonable and adequate" to address the issues of excessive use of force in the Cleveland department and could be a model for the rest of the nation, U.S. District Court Judge Solomon Oliver said in a court hearing on Friday.

'Fast-track' trade bill derailed in House in blow to Obama Posted: 12 Jun 2015 11:15 AM PDT The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday blocked legislation to "fast-track" trade deals through Congress as lawmakers defeated a related measure on aid to workers hurt by trade, dealing a big blow to President Barack Obama. The measures had been joined together and the defeat of the program providing aid for U.S. workers who lose their jobs because of trade pacts ends, at least for now, a drive in the House to pass the fast-track bill, which Obama needs to finish negotiating a 12-nation Pacific Rim trade deal.

Arctic drilling opponents hanging from Shell ship in Washington state Posted: 12 Jun 2015 10:43 AM PDT Two activists strapped themselves on Friday to the anchor chain of a Shell Royal Dutch Shell vessel docked in Washington state that will be part of a fleet sent north to Alaska to resume drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic. The women used camping gear and hammocks to attach themselves to the massive chain on the barge in Bellingham, Washington, north of Seattle, the activist group ShellNo said. Both are students at Western Washington University, KIRO-TV reported.

U.S. western states to get $110 million in drought aid: White House Posted: 12 Jun 2015 09:54 AM PDT The White House said on Friday that it would spend an additional $110 million to help farmers and communities in western states hit hard by drought and wildfires. The drought has affected a third of the western United States, and President Barack Obama was slated to discuss it with western governors in a video conference on Friday. The Agriculture Department will expand crop insurance, providing about $30 million in relief this year and $42 million next year, the White House said.

Seventeen injured in church bus crash in Tennessee Posted: 12 Jun 2015 09:37 AM PDT A church bus left the road and smashed into a drain culvert in southeastern Tennessee on Friday, injuring 16 juvenile passengers and the driver, authorities said. The passengers are part of a group visiting the Cleveland, Tennessee, area for a week-long mission trip from Barnwell, South Carolina, Cleveland police said in a statement. Six passengers were being treated and the 11 others evaluated at a local hospital, Cleveland police said.

2 charged with conspiring to help IS group with Boston man Posted: 12 Jun 2015 09:21 AM PDT Two men were charged Friday with conspiring to help the Islamic State group by plotting with a Boston terror suspect to kill U.S. citizens to support the objectives of the terrorist organization.

Detroit man imprisoned up to 40 years in French artist's slaying Posted: 12 Jun 2015 08:47 AM PDT Jasin Curtis, 18, of Detroit, had pleaded guilty in May to second degree murder and was sentenced to 25 to 40 years in prison in the killing of Bilal Berreni, who was found shot dead in 2013 in a vacant high-rise building near downtown Detroit. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Morrow also sentenced Curtis to two years on a firearms conviction to be served consecutively to the murder sentence, prosecutors said. Before he went to Detroit, Berreni traveled and painted murals in Tunisia in 2011.

New Hampshire man charged with killing parents to be arraigned Posted: 12 Jun 2015 08:30 AM PDT A New Hampshire man charged with murdering his parents in March 2014 is scheduled to be arraigned early on Friday, following his capture last week in Florida. State prosecutors say Matthew Dion, 39, beat and strangled his parents, Robert and Constance Dion, in the suburban home they shared in Manchester, and later set fire to the house. Dion was believed to have fled to Florida, but he eluded capture for nearly 15 months until the U.S. Marshals Service caught him in a suburb of Jacksonville, where he was living and working at a hotel.

Obama makes personal appeal on trade with key vote in House Posted: 12 Jun 2015 08:13 AM PDT President Barack Obama made an unusual, personal 11th-hour appeal to dubious Democrats on Friday in a tense run-up to a House vote on legislation to strengthen his hand in global trade talks.

Two men charged with conspiracy to support ISIS in Boston terror probe Posted: 12 Jun 2015 07:21 AM PDT U.S. prosecutors charged two men on Friday with conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS, following an investigation that led law enforcement officers to shoot a suspect dead last week in Boston after he approached them with a large knife. One of the men, Nicholas Rovinski, 24, of Rhode Island was taken into custody on Thursday night, according to the FBI. The other, David Wright, of Massachusetts, was already in custody after being arrested last week on lesser charges.

Former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn acquitted in pimping trial Posted: 12 Jun 2015 06:48 AM PDT Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was cleared of pimping charges on Friday in France, ending four years of legal drama that began with a sexual assault charge in a New York ...

New York prison escape among decade's most audacious breakouts Posted: 12 Jun 2015 06:19 AM PDT The upstate New York prison break of two inmates who squeezed through underground pipes last weekend was among a handful of recent daring escapes by U.S. convicts whom experts describe as ingenious and willing to risk it all to flee a life behind bars. Escapees have got "imagination, they're creative, they're intelligent and they're willing to risk their lives," said Charles Ewing, a law professor at University at Buffalo who specializes in forensic psychology and violent behavior. Jeff Hall, a history professor at Queensborough Community College who has studied prisons blamed cutbacks in education programs aimed at rehabilitating prisoners, such as those offering high school and college degrees, for creating a void in which escapes serve as one of the only mental challenges.

Manhunt for two New York prison escapees focuses on nearby woods Posted: 12 Jun 2015 01:55 AM PDT Hundreds of law enforcement agents hunting for two upstate New York prison escapees focused their search on Thursday on a heavily wooded area just a few miles from the maximum security facility where they broke out last week, police said. Convicted murderers Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, escaped from the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York through underground pipes and a manhole. More than 500 law enforcement officers, along with sniffer dogs and aviation units, were involved in the manhunt, along with the FBI and other agencies, New York State Police said.

Virginia officer indicted over fatal shooting of mentally ill black man Posted: 12 Jun 2015 01:39 AM PDT The decision comes amid a national outcry over police violence against minorities, sparked by high profile police killings of unarmed black men in cities across the country in the past year, as well as grand jury decisions to not criminally charge the officers involved. Norfolk Police officer Michael Carlton Edington Jr. was charged with voluntary manslaughter over the June 6, 2014 shooting death of 35-year-old David Latham, the Office of the Norfolk Commonwealth's Attorney said in a statement.

Man arrested in connection with Boston terror probe Posted: 12 Jun 2015 12:34 AM PDT A Rhode Island man has been linked to an alleged terror plotter who was shot dead by police.

In Minnesota, high employment and weak wages show Fed's quandary Posted: 11 Jun 2015 10:25 PM PDT By Howard Schneider MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - By all rights wages should be soaring in Minnesota, a Midwestern state that boasts one of the best educated and well-paid workforces in the United States and where the unemployment rate stands at a 14-year low. Retail workers, who account for 6,000 of the union's 10,000 Minnesota members, agreed to keep wages flat to avoid an increase in health care premiums. Health care is "where our members are in demand...There are no bodies," Hesse said, while "the retailers are saying: 'we will bargain pay for health care'." That push and pull has played out statewide in what may offer a cautionary tale for Federal Reserve officials debating whether to raise interest rates for the first time in a decade.

Alaska passes budget to avoid partial government shutdown Posted: 11 Jun 2015 08:45 PM PDT Alaska Governor Bill Walker on Thursday rescinded his plan to furlough more than 10,000 state employees after state lawmakers reached a $5 billion budget agreement, avoiding a partial government shutdown from July 1. Lawmakers had been at odds for more than four months on how to fund day-to-day operations with Alaska beset by a budget shortfall as large as $4 billion, worsened by a global oil price plunge.

Minnesota Somali-American ordered held for trial on charges of trying to help Islamic State Posted: 11 Jun 2015 06:18 PM PDT A federal judge in Minnesota ordered on Thursday that a Somali-American man remain in custody pending trial on charges of conspiring to support Islamic State and lying to federal agents. Mohamed Farah, 21, who was born in Minneapolis and was a full-time college student before his arrest in April, was one of six men charged as a group in April with conspiring to support Islamic State militants. U.S. District Judge Michael Davis ruled that Farah was a flight risk and danger to the community, despite the defense's contention he had no criminal record or history of violence and that the case against him was weak.

Ohio judge finds police officer should face charges in Rice case: paper Posted: 11 Jun 2015 02:19 PM PDT (Reuters) - A Cleveland judge found probable cause on Thursday that a police officer who shot and killed a 12-year-old boy who was holding a replica gun should face murder and other charges, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper.

Union: Hackers have personnel data on every federal employee Posted: 11 Jun 2015 01:45 PM PDT Hackers stole personnel data and identity numbers for every federal employee, union says.

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