| 'Call me Caitlyn': Vanity Fair editor and stylist talk to Katie Couric Posted: 02 Jun 2015 12:57 PM PDT Buzz Bissinger and stylist Jessica Diehl share the story behind Caitlyn Jenner's debut. |
| Wal-Mart to raise wages for 100,000 U.S. workers in some departments Posted: 02 Jun 2015 12:40 PM PDT  Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it would raise minimum wages for over 100,000 U.S. employees including some department managers and deli workers, its second wage hike this year. Wal-Mart, the largest private employer in the United States with 1.3 million U.S. workers, has been targeted by labor groups for its minimum wages. The company said in February that it would raise minimum wages for 500,000 U.S. employees.
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| U.S. meat, wine among Canada's targets in label fight: minister Posted: 02 Jun 2015 11:00 AM PDT  By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canada is whittling down its list of U.S. products that it may hit with steep tariffs in retaliation against contentious meat-labeling laws, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said on Tuesday. The Canadian government is likely to target beef, pork, California wines, mattresses, cherries and office furniture, possibly along with other goods, from an earlier list of three dozen U.S. products, Ritz said in an interview. Canada is ratcheting up pressure on U.S. lawmakers to scrap the meat labeling laws after they were ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization (WTO) last month.
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| Sepp Blatter resigns as FIFA president Posted: 02 Jun 2015 10:27 AM PDT  Sepp Blatter, FIFA's long-time president, announced on Tuesday that he will be resigning as soon as an extraordinary FIFA congress has elected a successor.
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| Blatter stands down as FIFA president Posted: 02 Jun 2015 10:10 AM PDT  Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday, four days after being re-elected to a fifth term. Blatter, 79, announced the decision at a news conference in Zurich, six days after the FBI raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested several FIFA officials. (Reporting by Brian Homewood, editing by Mitch Phillips:)
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| Owners may need to have Takata air bags replaced more than once Posted: 02 Jun 2015 09:55 AM PDT  Millions of owners of vehicles equipped with Takata air bags may have to get repairs done more than once because of shortages of replacement parts and uncertainty over whether repair parts already installed are defective, auto industry officials and safety regulators said on Tuesday. A House subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for 2 p.m. EDT on Tuesday as part of an investigation of problems with Takata air bags that have been linked to six deaths and one of the largest consumer product recalls in U.S. history. Lawmakers are expected to look at when owners of affected vehicles, which could number as many as 34 million in the U.S., can be sure that their air bags are safe.
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| Poll: Clinton's trustworthiness takes hit among Americans Posted: 02 Jun 2015 08:49 AM PDT |
| Exclusive: Detainee alleges CIA sexual abuse, torture beyond Senate findings Posted: 02 Jun 2015 08:33 AM PDT  By David Rohde NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed in a Senate report last year, according to a Guantanamo Bay detainee turned government cooperating witness. Majid Khan said interrogators poured ice water on his genitals, twice videotaped him naked and repeatedly touched his "private parts" – none of which was described in the Senate report. Interrogators, some of whom smelled of alcohol, also threatened to beat him with a hammer, baseball bats, sticks and leather belts, Khan said.
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| U.S. investigators don't know if warning device worked in Amtrak crash: NTSB Posted: 02 Jun 2015 07:29 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators probing the May 12 derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia do not yet know whether an electronic warning device was operating or activated before the disaster, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Christopher Hart told the U.S. Congress on Tuesday. In prepared testimony to a House of Representatives committee, Hart also said several U.S. rail carriers will not meet an end-of-year deadline for installing a more sophisticated safety system known as Positive Train Control. ...
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| Report tells of rapid capsize on China cruise ship Posted: 02 Jun 2015 07:13 AM PDT  Tour guide Zhang Hui "had 30 seconds to grab a life jacket," before the ship overturned in China's mighty Yangtze river during a storm Monday night, the Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. The 43-year old and a colleague "grabbed everything they could reach and kept their heads above water" as the ship sank, Xinhua said. More than a dozen people have been been saved from the Dongfangzhixing, or "Eastern Star," which went down on the popular tourist route from the eastern city of Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing, Xinhua said.
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| Nestle USA to remove artificial flavors, cut salt in some foods Posted: 02 Jun 2015 06:06 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Nestle USA said on Tuesday it would remove artificial flavors and reduce salt by 10 percent in its frozen pizza and snack products by the end of this year. The move will include more than 250 products sold under the Digiorno, Tombstone, California Pizza Kitchen, Jack's, Hot Pocket and Lean Pockets brands. Nestle USA said in February it would remove artificial flavors and certified colors from its chocolate products, such as Butterfinger and Baby Ruth bars, by the end of the year.
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| Friend of Boston bomber to be sentenced for obstructing investigation Posted: 02 Jun 2015 04:27 AM PDT  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A friend of the Boston Marathon bomber who admitted to obstructing the investigation into the deadly 2013 blast, one of the highest-visibility attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, is set to be sentenced on Tuesday. Kazakhstan national Dias Kadyrbayev was one of three friends to face federal charges for removing a backpack containing fireworks from bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's college dorm hours after the FBI released photos of the suspect and his older brother. Federal prosecutors are seeking a seven-year prison sentence for Kadyrbayev, who pleaded guilty in August after his roommate and fellow Kazakh exchange student Azamat Tazhayakov was convicted of obstruction of justice.
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| Survivors pulled from China boat capsizing; hundreds missing Posted: 02 Jun 2015 03:04 AM PDT  Well over 400 people are still missing after a cruise ship capsized on the Yangtze River.
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| With law expired, Senate mulls changes to phone collection Posted: 02 Jun 2015 01:43 AM PDT  The Senate now will decide the fate of a House bill backed by the president that would end the National Security Agency's collection of American calling records while preserving other surveillance authorities. ...
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| U.S. safety officials to testify to Congress on Amtrak crash Posted: 01 Jun 2015 10:44 PM PDT  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human error remains a strong focus of the inquiry into the Philadelphia Amtrak crash, but federal investigators are still digging for answers, aides said ahead of the first hearing in the U.S. Congress on last month's deadly accident. House Republican aides told reporters on Monday that investigators might suspect human error caused Amtrak Train 188 to hit speeds of 106 miles per hour (171 km per hour) in a zone with a 50-mph (80-kph) speed limit. Christopher Hart, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, is scheduled to testify to the House of Representatives' Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
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| Boat with more than 450 people sinks in China's Yangtze Posted: 01 Jun 2015 09:07 PM PDT  The small cruise ship sank overnight during a storm, leaving almost 450 people missing.
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| Arizona mosque, site of anti-Islam protest, holds 'love not hate' event Posted: 01 Jun 2015 08:00 PM PDT  By Deanna Dent PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona mosque where hundreds gathered last week for an anti-Islam demonstration, with counterprotesters shouting "Go home, Nazis," was the site of a "love not hate" event on Monday to promote peace and inclusiveness, participants said. The Islamic Community Center of Phoenix said it was hosting a gathering that includes a multi-faith prayer service and speakers to "show that when one of us is mistreated, our community responds with a message of Love and Not Hate." "We ask that you bring a FLOWER as a symbol of love and care," the event organizers said on Facebook. "We are better together, and together we are strong." (https://www.facebook.com/events/1648234602075105) Monday's event, organized by more than 20 groups, comes four days after an anti-Muslim event held outside the mosque drew more than 200 protesters, some armed, who berated Islam and its Prophet Mohammed.] The rally was held at the mosque in part because two Texas gunmen who opened fire outside an anti-Muslim event in Texas last month had worshipped there, rally organizer Jon Ritzheimer, an Iraq war veteran, said.
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| North Carolina Senate overrides governor's veto of marriage opt-out bill Posted: 01 Jun 2015 07:44 PM PDT  By Marti Maguire RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) - A measure that would allow some public officials in North Carolina to opt out of performing gay marriages moved closer to becoming law on Monday, when lawmakers voted to override Republican Governor Pat McCrory's veto of the bill. The Republican-led state Senate reached the three-fifths majority needed to override McCrory's veto in a 32-16 vote. The legislation now goes back to the Republican-controlled state House of Representatives, which passed it in February by a margin wide enough to override the veto.
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| Homeland security chief reassigns top TSA official Posted: 01 Jun 2015 07:28 PM PDT  Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Monday he reassigned the acting administrator for the Transportation Security Administration after earlier ordering improved security at U.S. airports. The moves follow media reports that checkpoint screeners failed to detect mock explosives and weapons in 95 percent of tests carried out by undercover agents. Johnson said in a statement that Melvin Carraway would be reassigned to serve in the Office of State and Local Law Enforcement at Department of Homeland Security headquarters, while TSA Acting Deputy Director Mark Hatfield would lead the agency until a new acting administrator was appointed.
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| Hastert to appear before judge who donated to campaign Posted: 01 Jun 2015 07:16 PM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is set to make his first court appearance in his hush-money case on Thursday, when he is expected to enter a plea before a federal judge who previously donated $1,500 to the then-Illinois congressman's re-election campaign.
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| 2015 hurricane season: Forecasters predict ‘below-average’ activity Posted: 01 Jun 2015 03:40 PM PDT  Ten years after the record-setting hurricane season that produced Katrina and other destructive storms, forecasters are calling for a quiet year in the Atlantic.
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| Men brace for 'beard patrols' in Iraq's IS-held Mosul Posted: 01 Jun 2015 03:22 PM PDT  The jihadist group has handed out leaflets in their stronghold of Mosul in recent weeks announcing that full beards become compulsory on June 1 and explaining why shaving is punishable. "I'm scared because they deal ruthlessly with anyone who opposes or ignores their instructions," he told AFP from Mosul, the de facto Iraqi capital of IS's self-proclaimed caliphate. Mosul is Iraq's second city and used to have a population of around two million before IS swept in a year ago and made it their main hub.
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| What We Know About the Dennis Hastert Scandal Posted: 01 Jun 2015 03:04 PM PDT  New details about an alleged hush money scandal involving former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert have been trickling out over the weekend. Now, sources say, two male students who knew Hastert, 73, when he was a high school teacher and wrestling coach before he entered politics have accused him of sexual misconduct. ABC News has reached out directly to Hastert by email, but has not received a response.
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| Colorado cinema gunman picked midnight movie because fewer children likely present Posted: 01 Jun 2015 01:57 PM PDT  By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A psychiatrist testified on Monday that Colorado theater gunman James Holmes chose a midnight screening of a movie to commit mass murder because he believed there would be fewer children present. Court-appointed psychiatrist William Reid, who made the comments during questioning by a prosecutor in a capital case now in its sixth week, said Holmes also indicated he was sorry when he learned a young girl was among the dead. "He said that he didn't want to kill children," Reid said Holmes told him of the late-night attack.
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