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• New York police seek subway attacker in possible hate crime
• Group sues to compel U.S. to evacuate Americans from Yemen
• NYC police union head faces election challenges as voting deadline nears
• Cleveland policeman acquitted in shooting now wanted for assault
• California school won't ban Native American student's feather
• Ukraine battle tests cease-fire to breaking point
• Four Texas family members suspected of beating 14-year-old to abort baby
• George W. Bush now more popular than Obama
• Apple recalls Beats Pill XL speakers
• Texas set to execute man who has spent three decades on death row
• Sepp Blatter back at work at FIFA headquarters
• Second hearing set for jailed Washington Post Iran reporter: ISNA
• Boston man shot by police was target of terrorism probe: officials
• Obama signs new curbs on NSA surveillance into law
• For green activists, Arctic drilling could be the next big thing
• One dead, eight injured in Chicago bus crash: local media
• Obama signs bill reforming surveillance program
• Boston police officer shoots and kills terror suspect
• Colorado theater shooter views death, life sentences as equal punishments
• Relatives, politicians call on Iran to free detained Americans
• U.S. Congress passes bill to limit domestic surveillance

New York police seek subway attacker in possible hate crime Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:56 PM PDT A New York City police hate-crime task force is hunting for a man suspected of pushing a transgender woman onto subway tracks in the city's Greenwich Village neighborhood, authorities said on Wednesday. The 28-year-old victim was treated and released from a local hospital following the incident, which took place on Monday at about 9 a.m., according to the New York Police Department. The attack comes a month after a New York City woman was jailed for 24 years for fatally pushing a man into the path of an oncoming subway train in 2012 in what officials called an attack motivated by religious hatred.

Group sues to compel U.S. to evacuate Americans from Yemen Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:40 PM PDT By Serena Maria Daniels DETROIT (Reuters) - Lawyers representing a group of Yemeni Americans on Wednesday sought to have a federal judge force the government to order emergency evacuations of 37 American citizens stranded in Yemen since a deadly conflict broke out in March. The U.S. government is needlessly putting citizens in imminent danger by not moving to get them out, lawyers for the Michigan branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations told Judge Sean Cox in Detroit. The group is the largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization in the United States.

NYC police union head faces election challenges as voting deadline nears Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:23 PM PDT By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City police officers are voting this week on whether to extend the 16-year reign of Patrick Lynch as their union leader or heed critics who have said his confrontational style is out of sync with the prevailing climate in the largest U.S. city. Lynch, 51, who has run unopposed for more than a decade, is facing two challengers this year for the presidency of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the city's largest police union, representing nearly 23,000 officers. Lynch was elected union president in 1999 and became known for challenging Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani, Mayor Bill de Blasio's predecessors, over issues like police benefits and safety.

Cleveland policeman acquitted in shooting now wanted for assault Posted: 03 Jun 2015 11:44 AM PDT By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The Cleveland police officer acquitted in May in the shooting deaths of two unarmed suspects is wanted for assault on suspicion of beating his brother, according to an arrest warrant issued on Wednesday. The warrant for Michael Brelo, 31, stemmed from an alleged May 27 assault on his brother, Mark R. Brelo, that left "visible injuries," according to a document filed in Rocky River Municipal Court. Demonstrations erupted over Memorial Day weekend after Cuyahoga County Judge John O'Donnell found Brelo not guilty of two counts of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams.

California school won't ban Native American student's feather Posted: 03 Jun 2015 11:11 AM PDT By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California school district, threatened with a civil rights lawsuit, has agreed to drop its objection to a Native American student wearing an eagle feather at his high school graduation ceremony in the city of Clovis, officials said on Wednesday. Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California on Monday filed a notice of intent to sue on an emergency basis to challenge the Clovis Unified School District's refusal to allow the feather, the organization said. Under a settlement, Clovis High School senior Christian Titman will be allowed to wear the feather in his hair and affix it to the tassel of his mortar board at various times during the Thursday ceremony in the city about 160 miles (257 km) southeast of San Francisco, school district spokeswoman Kelly Avants said.

Ukraine battle tests cease-fire to breaking point Posted: 03 Jun 2015 10:40 AM PDT KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A major battle erupted Wednesday on the western edge of the main separatist rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine, leaving more than a dozen dead and threatening to tip the country back into full-blown war.

Four Texas family members suspected of beating 14-year-old to abort baby Posted: 03 Jun 2015 09:32 AM PDT By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - Four members of a Texas family have been arrested on suspicion of beating a 14-year-old relative to induce an abortion two years ago after she had been raped by a member of the family, Dallas police said on Wednesday. The teenager eventually gave birth to a stillborn baby, whose body was thought to have been burned in a charcoal grill and buried at an unknown location, it said.  The young girl told police she became pregnant after a sexual assault by a family member but was too embarrassed to report it to authorities.  Police said the four relatives discovered the teenager was pregnant and used various methods to terminate the pregnancy out of fear that Child Protective Services would remove the other children living at the home.

George W. Bush now more popular than Obama Posted: 03 Jun 2015 08:54 AM PDT A new CNN/ORC poll finds a majority view the former president favorably for the first time in more than a decade.

Apple recalls Beats Pill XL speakers Posted: 03 Jun 2015 08:05 AM PDT (Reuters) - Apple Inc said it is recalling Beats Pill XL portable wireless speakers due to a fire hazard from overheating batteries. The iPhone maker will recall about 222,000 speakers in the United States and about 11,000 in Canada, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said on Wednesday. Apple has received eight reports of overheating speakers, the CPSC said in a statement.

Texas set to execute man who has spent three decades on death row Posted: 03 Jun 2015 06:43 AM PDT By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - One of the longest-serving inmates on Texas' busy death row was set to be executed on Wednesday, more than three decades after being convicted of fatally shooting four people in 1983. Lawyers for Lester Bower filed a last-minute appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court last week that faults the sentencing, seeking to prevent the execution by lethal injection scheduled for 6 p.m. at the state's death chamber in Huntsville. If the execution goes ahead, it would be the 526th in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.

Sepp Blatter back at work at FIFA headquarters Posted: 03 Jun 2015 06:26 AM PDT ZURICH (AP) — A day after announcing his decision to resign, Sepp Blatter was back at work at FIFA headquarters on Wednesday as the worst corruption crisis in the governing body's 111-year history continued to unfold.

Second hearing set for jailed Washington Post Iran reporter: ISNA Posted: 03 Jun 2015 05:37 AM PDT An Iranian court will hold a second hearing next week for Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, an American-Iranian on trial on espionage charges, Iran's Students News Agency ISNA reported on Wednesday. The trial of Rezaian, the newspaper's Iran bureau chief, began behind closed doors on May 26 at a Revolutionary Court in Tehran. "Jason's second hearing will be on Monday at branch 15 of the Revolutionary court," his lawyer Leila Ahsan told ISNA.

Boston man shot by police was target of terrorism probe: officials Posted: 03 Jun 2015 03:59 AM PDT Law enforcement officers in Boston shot dead a man on Tuesday who came at them with a large knife when they tried to question him as part of a terrorism-related investigation, authorities said, describing him as a "threat." The 26-year-old man, identified as Usaamah Rahim, brandished a knife and advanced on officers working with the Joint Terrorism Task Force who initially tried to retreat before opening fire, Boston Police Superintendent William Evans told reporters. This suspect is in the process of being booked, fingerprinted and interviewed." FBI special-agent-in-charge Vincent Lisi said the subject had been under 24-hour surveillance but declined to provide any details of what investigators had learned about his activities.

Obama signs new curbs on NSA surveillance into law Posted: 03 Jun 2015 02:55 AM PDT President Barack Obama signed into law landmark legislation ending the government's bulk telephone data dragnet, significantly reversing American policy by reining in the most controversial surveillance program since 9/11. The bill was given final passage earlier Tuesday by the US Senate, after being approved by the House several days earlier. The measure reauthorizes key national security programs that had lapsed early this week.

For green activists, Arctic drilling could be the next big thing Posted: 02 Jun 2015 10:32 PM PDT By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Michael Brune is pleased that activists in kayaks are training for another "Paddle in Seattle" to confront an expected Royal Dutch Shell rig on its way to the Arctic to explore for oil. What makes the head of the Sierra Club just as happy is the effect Shell's Arctic ambitions are having on his own environmental organization. Sierra's funding drive against the resumption in Arctic drilling has taken in three times more money than usual campaigns by the nation's oldest green group, said Brune, though he wouldn't reveal specific amounts.

One dead, eight injured in Chicago bus crash: local media Posted: 02 Jun 2015 08:55 PM PDT (Reuters) - One person was killed and eight were injured on Tuesday when a Chicago bus ran up onto a downtown sidewalk during the afternoon rush hour, local media reported. Local officials told the Chicago Tribune a Chicago Transit Authority bus struck at least four vehicles and one pedestrian near the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Lake Street at about 5:45 p.m. local time, the paper reported. A 51-year-old woman involved in the crash died at a local hospital and the bus driver suffered minor injuries, the paper reported.

Obama signs bill reforming surveillance program Posted: 02 Jun 2015 06:42 PM PDT By Patricia Zengerle and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law on Tuesday legislation passed by Congress earlier in the day reforming a government surveillance program that swept up millions of Americans' telephone records. Reversing security policy in place since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the bill ends a system exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Passage of the USA Freedom Act, the result of an alliance between Senate Democrats and some of the chamber's most conservative Republicans, was a victory for Obama, a Democrat, and a setback for Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Boston police officer shoots and kills terror suspect Posted: 02 Jun 2015 05:19 PM PDT A Boston police officer has shot and killed a Massachusetts man who had been under surveillance by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, ABC News has learned. The FBI had been tracking 26-year-old Usaama Rahim for several weeks, and authorities are looking into whether he may have been radicalized by ISIS propaganda online, law enforcement sources said.

Colorado theater shooter views death, life sentences as equal punishments Posted: 02 Jun 2015 03:26 PM PDT By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes told a psychiatrist that he views life in prison and execution as equal punishments but wants his life spared out of concern for his family, jurors in his capital murder trial heard on Tuesday. The disclosure from the former neuroscience graduate student now on trial for opening fire in a Denver-area cinema came during a videotaped interview session conducted last year by court-appointed psychiatrist William Reid that was shown in court. Holmes, 27, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to fatally shooting 12 moviegoers and wounding dozens more during a shooting rampage at a midnight screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in July 2012.

Relatives, politicians call on Iran to free detained Americans Posted: 02 Jun 2015 02:19 PM PDT At a House of Representatives committee hearing, relatives of three detained Americans, Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati and Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, said they should not be forgotten in the effort to seal a nuclear deal with Iran by a June 30 deadline. The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a resolution calling on Iran to immediately release the three and to provide information about Robert Levinson, an American missing in Iran since 2007.

U.S. Congress passes bill to limit domestic surveillance Posted: 02 Jun 2015 01:45 PM PDT The U.S. Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that ends spy agencies' bulk collection of Americans' telephone records, a vote that reversed national security policy that had been in place since shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks. After weeks of often angry debate over how to balance concerns about privacy with worries about terrorist attacks, the Senate passed the USA Freedom Act by a vote of 67-32, with support from both Democrats and Republicans. Because the House of Representatives passed the bill last month, the Senate vote sends the bill to the White House, where President Barack Obama has promised to sign it into law.

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