| Greece's future in balance as creditors reject aid extension Posted: 27 Jun 2015 11:05 AM PDT  Greece's place in the euro currency bloc looked increasingly shaky on Saturday after eurozone nations rejected a monthlong extension to its bailout program and the prime minister called for a risky popular vote on the country's financial future.
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| Fire injures scores attending party at Taiwan water park Posted: 27 Jun 2015 10:47 AM PDT  TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A fire on a music stage spread into a crowd of spectators at a party Saturday night at a Taiwan water park, injuring more than 200 people, authorities said.
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| New York manhunt for prison escapee heats up after accomplice killed Posted: 27 Jun 2015 10:29 AM PDT  A day after killing the first of two convicted murderers who escaped from a maximum security prison in New York, hundreds of law enforcement officers were scouring an area near the Canadian border on Saturday in hopes of apprehending his accomplice. After Richard Matt was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol officers, a tight security perimeter was set up in the area where Sweat was believed to be holed up. New York State Police declined to provide additional information about the search and would not say why they thought Sweat was in the area.
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| Charleston suspect's life a troubled road to radicalization Posted: 27 Jun 2015 09:08 AM PDT The people who know Dylann Storm Roof — the people who watched his progression from a sweet child to a disturbed man — are struggling with guilt. How could they have missed the signs? Could they have done something to prevent the deaths of nine innocents at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church? |
| Activist takes down Confederate flag outside South Carolina state capitol Posted: 27 Jun 2015 08:35 AM PDT  The Civil War-era flag has been a focal point for soul-searching across the southern United States in the aftermath of the fatal shooting last week of nine African Americans during a Bible study session at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina. The suspect in the shootings, Dylann Roof, 21, had posed with a Confederate flag in photos posted on a website that also displayed a racist manifesto. Following the removal of the flag in Columbia, two people were arrested and charged with defacing a monument, the South Carolina Department of Public Safety said in a statement.
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| In custody, suspect in French terror attack keeps quiet Posted: 27 Jun 2015 07:44 AM PDT  A detained truck driver with a history of radical Islamic ties is refusing to speak to police investigators over his implication in an explosion and beheading in southeastern France, a French official said Saturday, adding that one of the other suspects initially arrested has been released without charge.
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| Big business on winning side in U.S. top court's major rulings Posted: 27 Jun 2015 06:35 AM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Big business was on the winning side in the U.S. Supreme Court's two major cases of the year, with hundreds of employers pushing hard in favor of gay marriage and the healthcare industry backing the insurance subsidies available under Obamacare. The court on Thursday rejected a conservative challenge to President Barack Obama's healthcare law on a 6-3 vote and, a day later, ruled 5-4 that gay marriage should be legal nationwide. Both cases were largely seen through the lens of national ideological wars, with liberals backing gay marriage and Obamacare and conservatives opposing them.
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| Tourists scramble to leave Tunisia after seaside massacre Posted: 27 Jun 2015 05:46 AM PDT  Thousands of scared foreign holidaymakers were being flown from Tunisia on Saturday after an Islamist gunman killed 38 people, most of them British tourists, at a beach resort. The Islamic State jihadist group, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest in Tunisia's recent history.
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| For many black Americans, Confederate flag debate a distraction Posted: 27 Jun 2015 04:21 AM PDT  As calls grow to remove the Confederate flag from public spaces across America's South, Vanessa White says she questions whether that would mark real progress for black Americans like her. "We never felt like we were allowed near normal life," said White, speaking from the tidy, two-story home she purchased last year in the struggling suburb south of Los Angeles. Across the country, African Americans are applauding a fast-growing movement to remove the Confederate flag from public life after last week's racially charged massacre of nine black worshipers in a Charleston church.
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| Bill Cosby's lawyer says revealing court documents would cause 'embarrassment' Posted: 27 Jun 2015 03:14 AM PDT  (Reuters) - A lawyer for Bill Cosby argued that unsealing court documents from a 2005 Pennsylvania sexual assault case filed against the comedian would cause severe "embarrassment," court records show. Attorney George Gowen asked in a motion filed in federal court on Wednesday to keep under seal records from the case brought by Andrea Constand, who alleged Cosby tricked her into consuming drugs before he sexually assaulted her. Gowen wrote that Cosby had explained in a previous filing that "his embarrassment at the release of the discovery motions — deposition excerpts about sex, money, health, and marriage — would be severe." While Constand's case was settled for an undisclosed sum years ago, the Associated Press has asked the court to release the documents.
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| Cosby lawyer: Unsealing court docs 'terribly embarrassing' Posted: 27 Jun 2015 01:49 AM PDT  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A lawyer for Bill Cosby argued Friday that it would be "terribly embarrassing" for the comedian if documents from a 2005 sex-assault lawsuit were unsealed.
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| Obama sheds cool style for 'fearless' final lap in office Posted: 26 Jun 2015 10:38 PM PDT  By Roberta Rampton, Richard Cowan and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama has reached the stage of his presidency where if he wants to break out in song publicly, as he did with "Amazing Grace" in a eulogy on Friday, then he's going to do it. With a year-and-a-half left in office, Obama is shedding some of his trademark "no drama" style for a looser approach, admitting that he feels more fearless and liberated. The icing on the cake came on Friday with the high court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage, a move Obama said was a "big step" toward equality for Americans.
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| Dozens killed in attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France Posted: 26 Jun 2015 10:06 PM PDT  SOUSSE, Tunisia (AP) — A young man pulled a Kalashnikov from a beach umbrella and sprayed gunfire at European sunbathers at a Tunisian resort, killing at least 39 people — one of three deadly attacks Friday from Europe to North Africa to the Middle East that followed a call to violence by Islamic State extremists.
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| Landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizes gay marriage nationwide Posted: 26 Jun 2015 07:08 PM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement. The court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex marriages. With the landmark ruling, gay marriage becomes legal in all 50 states.
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| Jeb Bush to visit Charleston next week to meet with pastors Posted: 26 Jun 2015 06:50 PM PDT  Jeb Bush, a Republican contender for president, will sit down with pastors on a visit on Monday to Charleston, South Carolina, where nine African-Americans were shot to death at a historic black church, his campaign said on Friday. Bush, the former Florida governor who leads many polls of Republican voters in the race for the party's 2016 presidential nomination, had canceled a planned campaign stop in Charleston a week ago when the shootings took place. Instead of a campaign event, Bush will hold a private session with pastors from the Charleston community.
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| New York prison escapee believed killed in shootout, accomplice flees Posted: 26 Jun 2015 06:18 PM PDT  By Pete DeMola MALONE, N.Y. (Reuters) - Law enforcement officers shot and killed a man who is believed to be one of two prisoners who broke out of a maximum security prison in New York three weeks ago and the second escapee is still at large near the Canadian border, police said on Friday. A man thought to be convicted murderer Richard Matt was killed during a shootout with U.S. Border Patrol officers after he was spotted in a wooded area near the town of Malone, the New York State Police said in a statement. Police were still combing the vicinity for Matt's accomplice, David Sweat, after a second man was seen fleeing.
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| Obama delivers 'Amazing Grace' at funeral of slain pastor Posted: 26 Jun 2015 05:29 PM PDT  By Roberta Rampton and David Adams CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - An impassioned President Barack Obama led thousands of mourners in singing "Amazing Grace" on Friday at the funeral of a slain pastor in Charleston and urged Americans to eliminate symbols of oppression and racism, including the Confederate battle flag. In a speech likely to be considered one of the most memorable of his presidency, Obama paid an emotional tribute to the nine people shot to death at the church and pleaded for Americans to use the tragedy as a way to bridge racial divide. The shootings last week sparked an intense dialogue over the legacy of slavery and its symbols after photos of the white man charged in the shooting surfaced showing him posing with the Confederate flag on a website that also displayed a racist manifesto.
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| Escaped N.Y. inmate Richard Matt killed by police, partner on run Posted: 26 Jun 2015 03:36 PM PDT  Escaped convicted murderer Richard Matt was shot and killed by authorities in upstate New York today, according to officials, 20 days after he made an elaborate escape from prison.
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| 'The Reverend President': Obama sings Amazing Grace in eulogy Posted: 26 Jun 2015 03:20 PM PDT  Barack Obama, who celebrated "audacity" in his first run for the White House, declared this week that he has entered the "fearless" phase of his consequential two-term presidency. But no one expected the urgent blend of personal, political and religious themes in the eulogy he gave Friday for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, slain along with eight others during Bible study last week at Emanuel AME Church — a speech so like a sermon that the next two people to speak called him "the Reverend President."
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| Tourists describe scenes of panic in Tunisia attack Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:29 PM PDT  British holidaymakers told how they fled in panic from Friday's gun massacre on a Tunisian beach resort, screaming and running for cover when they realised they were under attack. Frightened tourists hid in their hotel rooms and barricaded themselves in, while a pregnant woman went into labour in the confusion. Olivia Leathley, 24, heard "loud bangs" and saw from her hotel room people fleeing the beach, as holiday company representatives blew whistles.
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| Baltimore prosecutors reject motion to move Freddie Gray death trial Posted: 26 Jun 2015 01:11 PM PDT  Baltimore prosecutors on Friday rejected a defense motion to move the trial of police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, saying jurors still could be impartial in the high-profile case. In a filing in Baltimore City Circuit Court, State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby and Deputy State's Attorney Janice Bledsoe said lawyers for the six officers relied upon an outdated view of how prejudice should be measured. Mosby and Bledsoe left open the prospect that the defense could be allowed another chance to move the trial when potential jurors are interviewed at the start of the trial.
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