| What does SCOTUS Obamacare ruling mean? Posted: 25 Jun 2015 11:43 AM PDT  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to uphold the availability of tax subsidies related to President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, the 2010 Affordable Care Act better known as Obamacare. Yahoo global news anchor Katie Couric hosted a special live discussion of the ruling with Yahoo News chief White House correspondent Olivier Knox, Yahoo News national affairs reporter Liz Goodwin, and National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeff Rosen.
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| French anti-Uber protests turn violent Posted: 25 Jun 2015 10:53 AM PDT  Protests against ride-booking app Uber turned violent Thursday in France as cabbies torched cars, blocked roads and attacked a vehicle carrying American rocker Courtney Love. Among the some 2,800 cabbies who took part in the strike, police arrested at least 11 across the country in connection with confrontations that erupted as the drivers blocked access to airports, train stations and major roads. Taxi drivers in France are furious over an Uber service called UberPOP, which puts customers in touch with private drivers at prices lower than those of traditional taxis.
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| House completes Obama's trade items as Pacific pact looms Posted: 25 Jun 2015 10:19 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led Congress completed President Barack Obama's trade package Thursday, overwhelmingly passing a worker training program just weeks after it was stymied.
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| Live: What does the SCOTUS Obamacare ruling mean? Posted: 25 Jun 2015 09:45 AM PDT  Katie Couric and guests break down the significance of the Supreme Court's ruling.
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| Mayor faces complexities of poverty, crime in reviving N.J.'s largest city Posted: 25 Jun 2015 08:41 AM PDT  A handful of streets in New Jersey's largest city boast glistening apartment towers with floor-to-ceiling views of the Manhattan skyline, but much of the rest of Newark bears the scars of stubbornly high crime rates and persistent poverty. The complexities of life in Newark are reflected in graffiti, boarded-up houses and shattered car windows, stark reminders for Mayor Ras Baraka of the challenges he faces to attract people and investment to his hometown. Little more than 10 miles from New York City, Newark has one of the highest murder rates in the United States, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics, and one in four residents live in poverty.
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| Supreme Court upholds key Obamacare insurance subsidies Posted: 25 Jun 2015 07:39 AM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide availability of tax subsidies that are crucial to the implementation of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, handing a major victory to the president. The court ruled on a 6-3 vote that the 2010 Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare, did not restrict the subsidies to states that establish their own online healthcare exchanges. Chief Justice John Roberts was joined by fellow conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy and the court's liberal members in the majority.
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| NY prison guard charged with giving tools to escapees for art Posted: 25 Jun 2015 07:21 AM PDT  A corrections officer was due in court on Thursday as the second person charged with helping two murderers escape an upstate New York prison, accused of passing them tools hidden in frozen hamburger in exchange for artwork, court documents said. Guard Gene Palmer, 57, who was suspended with pay from Clinton Correctional Facility, was freed after posting $25,000 cash bail early on Thursday, the Clinton County Sheriff's Department said. Law enforcement officials searched the thick forests of the Adirondack Mountains for fugitives Richard Matt, who turned 49 on Thursday, and David Sweat, 35, in the 20th day of a manhunt.
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| Gays can't use U.S. Catholic family meet to attack Church, bishop says Posted: 25 Jun 2015 06:28 AM PDT Homosexuals can attend a Catholic family congress in Philadelphia during Pope Francis' U.S. visit this year but won't be allowed to use it to attack Church teachings, the city's archbishop said on Thursday. "We don't want to provide a platform at the meeting for people to lobby for positions contrary to the life of our Church," said Archbishop Charles Chaput. The Catholic Church teaches homosexuality is not sinful but homosexual acts are. |
| The Obama legacy on race Posted: 25 Jun 2015 04:48 AM PDT  When future historians look back on Obama's presidency and try to understand his place in America's racial evolution, they will almost certainly zero in on the one he gave Marc Maron in the comedian's southern California garage last week, in which Obama dared to publicly utter the most explosive racial epithet in American life.
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| Obama to Clyburn: Charleston victims 'are my people' Posted: 25 Jun 2015 02:54 AM PDT  Rep. James Clyburn recalls an anguished call with President Obama the day after the tragedy.
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| Prosecutors probe deadly California balcony collapse Posted: 25 Jun 2015 12:59 AM PDT  Prosecutors have launched an investigation into the deadly balcony collapse in Berkeley, California last week that killed five Irish students and an American friend, a district attorney official said on Wednesday. Berkeley city officials announced on Tuesday that criminal charges were not expected, but Alameda County deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick told Reuters in an email late on Wednesday that prosecutors continued to investigate. "In light of Berkeley's statement Tuesday afternoon that it had concluded its investigation, this office will be the lead agency," Drenick said.
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| Obama scolds heckler at gay pride event: 'You're in my house' Posted: 24 Jun 2015 11:54 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama took on a heckler head-on at a gay pride month reception at the White House Wednesday, scolding the protester for being disrespectful in "my house."
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| After Charleston shootings, poll highlights race dilemma for Republicans Posted: 24 Jun 2015 10:17 PM PDT  By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential contenders face a dilemma when talking about racial issues after last week's racially motivated murders at a South Carolina church, as a new poll shows many Republican primary voters are less likely to see the topic as important. While more than three-quarters of Americans believe race relations must be addressed in the United States, a smaller majority of only about 65 percent of likely Republican primary voters agree, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. "There is a tension Republicans are trying to navigate, and they are really stuck between a rock and a hard place," said Ipsos pollster Chris Jackson.
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| Confederate symbols of Civil War divide U.S. 150 years on Posted: 24 Jun 2015 07:09 PM PDT  By Wayne Hester BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Reuters) - More and more voices across the U.S. South called for banishing the banner of the pro-slavery Confederacy on Wednesday in a fast-growing movement that adds new emotion and tensions to a year of soul-searching over race in America. From Alabama to Mississippi, Louisiana to Tennessee and beyond, politicians distanced themselves from flags and statues memorializing southern heroes of the 1861-65 Civil War. Alabama's governor ordered the Confederate flag and three other flags of the Confederacy removed from the grounds of the state's Capitol in Montgomery, a historically significant city in America's civil rights movement where Martin Luther King Jr. led protests in the 1950s.
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| Second New York prison worker charged in breakout: police Posted: 24 Jun 2015 06:38 PM PDT  A second New York prison employee was arrested on Wednesday for the escape of two convicted murderers who have eluded a massive police manhunt for almost three weeks, police said. Clinton Correctional Facility officer Gene Palmer, 57, allegedly took frozen hamburger meat embedded with smuggled tools to the inmates, Richard Matt and David Sweat, CNN quoted Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie as saying. Authorities have said Matt and Sweat used the catwalks during their June 6 escape.
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| Ohio Senate passes bill banning abortion after 20 weeks Posted: 24 Jun 2015 02:42 PM PDT The Ohio Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of gestation, following the passage of a similar ban by the Wisconsin Senate this month. The legislation, which passed 23-9, contains a narrow exception for medical emergencies, but not for rape or incest. It would now go to the House, which, like the Senate, is dominated by Republicans. |
| Republican-led U.S. Congress hands Obama major win on trade Posted: 24 Jun 2015 02:24 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress passed major trade legislation Wednesday that was long-sought by President Barack Obama but vehemently opposed by most lawmakers in his Democratic party.
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