| Haley calls for removal of Confederate flag Posted: 22 Jun 2015 01:42 PM PDT  South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley joined those calling on state lawmakers to remove the Confederate flag from a war memorial on the state Capitol grounds.
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| Senate committee: Takata may have put profits before safety Posted: 22 Jun 2015 01:10 PM PDT  Air bag maker Takata Corp may have put profits before safety, a U.S. Senate committee said in a report released on Monday. The report by the committee on commerce, science and transportation was released the day before a Washington hearing on Takata's defective inflators, which are linked to more than 100 injuries and at least eight deaths globally because of air bags that deploy with too much force and spray metal shards at passengers. "Internal emails obtained by the committee suggest that Takata may have prioritized profit over safety by halting global safety audits for financial reasons," the committee said in its report.
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| How small-town police foiled the accused Charleston killer’s getaway Posted: 22 Jun 2015 10:59 AM PDT  For 13 hours and 44 minutes last week, an unemployed high school dropout just barely of legal drinking age was the most wanted man in America. Then in an unexpectedly mundane fashion and in an unlikely place, alleged Charleston killer Dylann Roof's getaway was thwarted.
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| Republican Presidential Candidates Say They Will Return or Donate Contributions From So-Called White Supremacist Leader Posted: 22 Jun 2015 10:28 AM PDT  Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and former Sen. Rick Santorum said this morning they would return or donate thousands of dollars possibly linked to the head of the Council of Conservative Citizens, which the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a white supremacist group. The group was cited in a purported manifesto believed linked to the suspect in last week's massacre at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. The head of that group, Earl Holt, appears to have made contributions to several Republican candidates for president over the past several years or their political action committees, including Cruz, of Texas, Paul, of Kentucky, and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, as well as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, and other prominent Republicans.
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| Activists urge South Carolina capitol to take down rebel flag after massacre Posted: 22 Jun 2015 09:19 AM PDT  South Carolina activists on Monday stepped up their call for lawmakers to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the state capitol, five days after a white gunman allegedly shot dead nine black worshippers at a historic church in Charleston. The demand by U.S. civil rights leaders and local elected officials for the state to remove the rallying symbol of the pro-slavery South during the U.S. civil war follows revelations that the 21-year-old white man, charged with Wednesday's attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Church, had posted a racist manifesto on the internet. The suspect, Dylann Roof, was arrested on Thursday and charged with nine counts of murder for gunning down members of a Bible study group at the church nicknamed "Mother Emanuel" after sitting with them for an hour on Wednesday night.
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| Hunt for NY escapees focuses on area near burglarized cabin Posted: 22 Jun 2015 08:46 AM PDT  The 2-week-old search for two escaped murderers focused on a rural area about 20 miles away from the New York prison they fled after their DNA was discovered inside a burglarized cabin, CNN reported on Monday. CNN, citing an unidentified law enforcement source, said evidence of the escapees was found on items in a cabin in Owls Head, New York. Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 35, were discovered missing from the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, early on June 6.
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| North Carolina man charged in gun plot to kill Americans for Islamic State Posted: 22 Jun 2015 08:30 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A North Carolina man has been charged with attempting to provide material support to Islamic State and weapons offenses, the Department of Justice said on Monday. |
| Supreme Court rejects Madoff trustee's appeal over $4 billion recovery Posted: 22 Jun 2015 07:25 AM PDT  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact a court ruling that could prevent victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme from recouping more than $4 billion from customers who withdrew money before the enterprise collapsed. The high court left in place a December 2014 ruling by the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which said federal bankruptcy law did not let the trustee Irving Picard recoup a variety of payments that Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC made to some customers more than two years before the firm collapsed on Dec. 11, 2008. The decision does not affect the $10.69 billion that Picard has recouped for former Madoff customers, who lost about $17.5 billion of principal.
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| Obama, on podcast, says of racism: 'We're not cured of it' Posted: 22 Jun 2015 06:53 AM PDT  U.S. President Barack Obama, in a podcast posted online on Monday, used the N word to emphasize his point that the United States has made progress in eliminating racism but there was still more work to do. Obama discussed race and gun control as part of the hour-long podcast interview, in the aftermath of the shooting deaths a week ago of nine black people at a church in South Carolina, allegedly by a 21-year-old white man with racist sentiments. "I always tell young people in particular: 'Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s,'" Obama told Mark Maron, host of the "WTF" podcast.
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| 'War crimes' likely by both sides in 2014 Gaza war: UN report Posted: 22 Jun 2015 06:22 AM PDT  Both Israel and Palestinian militants may have committed war crimes during last year's Gaza war, a widely anticipated United Nations report said Monday, decrying the "unprecedented" devastation and human suffering. The Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict announced it had gathered "substantial information" and "credible allegations" that both sides had committed war crimes during the conflict, which killed more than 2,140 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and 73 people on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers. "The extent of the devastation and human suffering in Gaza was unprecedented and will impact generations to come," the chair of the commission, New York judge Mary McGowan Davis, said in a statement.
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| 'White rights' group leader cited by South Carolina shooter donated to Republicans: reports Posted: 22 Jun 2015 06:05 AM PDT  The head of a white supremacist group, cited by the suspected gunman who killed nine people at a black South Carolina church last week, has given thousands of dollars to several 2016 Republican presidential candidates, according to media reports. Earl Holt III of Texas, leader of the Council of Conservative Citizens, has donated a total of $65,000 to Texas Senator Ted Cruz, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, among other politicians in recent years, the Guardian reported late on Sunday.
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| Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government's War on Gays Posted: 22 Jun 2015 04:43 AM PDT  As the U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to rule on same-sex marriage, Yahoo News presents a new 30-minute documentary, "Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government's War on Gays," reported and narrated by chief investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff. The film explores a dark and little-known chapter in America's recent political past, when gays and lesbians were barred from working for the federal government and the FBI, through its"sex deviates" program, secretly collected hundreds of thousands of files on the sex lives of American citizens.
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| Obama in first presidential podcast: U.S. not cured of racism Posted: 22 Jun 2015 03:24 AM PDT  The president uses the N-word to make his case that the U.S. hasn't overcome its racist past.
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| Apple changes tune on royalties after Swift complains Posted: 21 Jun 2015 11:19 PM PDT  PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Taylor Swift has Apple changing its tune.
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| Spieth wins a stunner at Chambers Bay for U.S. Open title Posted: 21 Jun 2015 08:48 PM PDT  UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — Another major for Jordan Spieth. Another stunning loss for Dustin Johnson.
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| Mourning shooting victims, Charleston anguishes over 'freshness of death' Posted: 21 Jun 2015 07:11 PM PDT  Hundreds of people packed a sweltering Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston for an emotional memorial service on Sunday just days after a gunman, identified by authorities as a 21-year-old white man, shot dead nine black church members. "We are reminded this morning about the freshness of death that comes like a thief in the night," the Reverend Norvel Goff told a mostly black congregation that swelled to about 400 people for a service remembering those killed on Wednesday in the latest U.S. mass shooting. Armed police searched bags at the door of the church, home to the oldest African-American congregation in the southern United States, and officers stood at intervals inside the church along the side of the nave and in the gallery.
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| 'Black Lives Matter': Graffiti appears on Confederate statue in Charleston Posted: 21 Jun 2015 03:39 PM PDT A vandalized memorial honoring Confederate soldiers was covered in Charleston, S.C., on Sunday as the city continues to mourn the victims of last week's shooting massacre at a historic black church. |
| Charleston church reopens Posted: 21 Jun 2015 02:02 PM PDT  Worshippers pack Emanuel AME Church just days after a gunman massacred nine people.
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