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• Florida man charged in alleged backpack bomb plot: DOJ
• Florida cop on leave after video of him tossing peanuts to prisoner
• Mike Huckabee defends Holocaust comment amid backlash
• Donald Trump's lawyer gets law wrong, says, ‘You can’t rape your spouse’
• Senate aims to vote on defunding Planned Parenthood
• Prison seamstress who aided N.Y. escapees pleads guilty
• NY prison worker pleads guilty in escape of 2 killers
• U.S. appeals court upholds bulk of Obama air pollution rule
• Libya court sentences Kadhafi son Seif al-Islam to death
• Obama to wrap Africa trip with speech to African Union
• Four dead after small plane crashes in Wisconsin field
• Colorado theater shooter's sister says his eyes changed
• U.S. House Benghazi panel says State Deptartment to hand over documents Tuesday
• New York Gov. Cuomo announces new LaGuardia Airport
• Boy Scouts lift blanket ban on gay adult leaders, employees
• Louisiana shooting suspect never involuntarily committed: Georgia authorities
• U.S. Navy investigates report of cancer cluster at Guantanamo

Florida man charged in alleged backpack bomb plot: DOJ Posted: 28 Jul 2015 12:22 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Florida resident has been charged in an alleged backpack bomb plot he planned to carry out in the United States, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday.

Florida cop on leave after video of him tossing peanuts to prisoner Posted: 28 Jul 2015 12:05 PM PDT A surveillance video from inside the Sarasota County Jail showed Officer Andrew Halpin of the Sarasota Police Department standing near the man and trying to toss peanuts into the man's mouth, according to the video released Monday by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. The man is unable to catch the peanuts and they land on the floor.

Mike Huckabee defends Holocaust comment amid backlash Posted: 28 Jul 2015 10:51 AM PDT Yahoo's Katie Couric interviews the presidential hopeful about his controversial remarks on the Iran nuke deal.

Donald Trump's lawyer gets law wrong, says, ‘You can’t rape your spouse’ Posted: 28 Jul 2015 09:43 AM PDT

Senate aims to vote on defunding Planned Parenthood Posted: 28 Jul 2015 09:27 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning to hold a vote on legislation in coming days on a Republican bill halting federal funding of Planned Parenthood, following the release of videos involving use of aborted fetal tissue for medical research.

Prison seamstress who aided N.Y. escapees pleads guilty Posted: 28 Jul 2015 09:11 AM PDT A prison seamstress pleaded guilty on Tuesday to helping two murderers escape from a maximum security prison in upstate New York last month. Joyce Mitchell, 51, faces up to seven years for her role in the daring breakout by inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6. In making their escape, the inmates cut through the steel walls of their cells, climbed down a catwalk and through a steam pipe and emerged from a manhole outside the prison in Dannemora, New York.

NY prison worker pleads guilty in escape of 2 killers Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:23 AM PDT PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A northern New York prison worker pleaded guilty Tuesday to smuggling hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger meat to two killers who later broke out and spent more than two weeks on the run.

U.S. appeals court upholds bulk of Obama air pollution rule Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:06 AM PDT By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday mostly upheld a major federal environmental regulation requiring some states to limit pollution that contributes to unhealthy air in neighboring states. Among the challengers were coal company Peabody Energy Corp and energy company American Electric Power Company Inc. The case was before the appeals court for a second time after an April 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the justices, on a 6-2 vote, upheld the regulation. Writing for the majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the EPA rule a cost-effective way to allocate responsibility for emission reductions among upwind states, and that the EPA need not consider each state's proportionate responsibility for the emissions in question.

Libya court sentences Kadhafi son Seif al-Islam to death Posted: 28 Jul 2015 07:16 AM PDT A Libyan court Tuesday sentenced a son and eight aides of slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi to death for crimes during the 2011 uprising, in a verdict strongly criticised by rights campaigners. Seif al-Islam, the strongman's one-time heir apparent who is also wanted by the International Criminal Court, was tried in his absence because he is held by militia opposed to the Tripoli authorities. Former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi and Kadhafi's last prime minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi were also sentenced to death, although they can appeal to the supreme court.

Obama to wrap Africa trip with speech to African Union Posted: 28 Jul 2015 04:03 AM PDT ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — President Barack Obama highlighted his administration's efforts to combat hunger worldwide on Tuesday as he prepared to end a historic return to the land of his father's birth with a speech to the African Union.

Four dead after small plane crashes in Wisconsin field Posted: 28 Jul 2015 01:43 AM PDT (Reuters) - Four people were killed when a small plane crashed in a field in western Wisconsin and burst into flames, local officials said on Tuesday.

Colorado theater shooter's sister says his eyes changed Posted: 28 Jul 2015 01:11 AM PDT CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — When the younger sister of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes visited him in jail nearly two years after the attack, his eyes bulged from his head and he spoke in short, stilted phrases— a vast difference from the loving brother who protected her while they were growing up, she testified Monday.

U.S. House Benghazi panel says State Deptartment to hand over documents Tuesday Posted: 27 Jul 2015 07:13 PM PDT The U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the 2012 attacks on an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, said the State Department has pledged to hand over 5,000 new pages of documents related to the incident on Tuesday. "The State Department has informed the Committee it will make a production of approximately 5,000 pages tomorrow - the second largest production the Committee has received and the largest since last summer," Republican Representative Trey Gowdy, the committee's chairman, said in a statement on Monday. The documents are not expected to include emails involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has been embroiled in a controversy over her use of a private email account while she was America's top diplomat.

New York Gov. Cuomo announces new LaGuardia Airport Posted: 27 Jul 2015 05:51 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A year after comparing New York's LaGuardia Airport to "some Third World Country," Vice President Joe Biden helped unveil an ambitious plan Monday to rebuild its collection of aging terminals into a modern, unified hub while easing congestion by doubling the space available for planes to operate.

Boy Scouts lift blanket ban on gay adult leaders, employees Posted: 27 Jul 2015 05:33 PM PDT The Boy Scouts of America on Monday ended the group's outright ban on openly gay adult leaders and employees, rolling back a policy that has deeply divided the membership of the 105-year-old Texas-based organization. The new policy, which takes effect immediately, comes three years after the organization removed its prohibition on gay youth but will still allow local Boy Scout units chartered by religious organizations to make their own choices regarding gay adult leaders. The Boy Scouts said the latest resolution, unanimously adopted by the organization's executive committee on July 13, gained final approval by the National Executive Board, with 79 percent of board members present voting to support it.

Louisiana shooting suspect never involuntarily committed: Georgia authorities Posted: 27 Jul 2015 04:27 PM PDT Suspect John R. Houser, who killed himself after Thursday's rampage in Lafayette, Louisiana, purchased the weapon he used in the attack from an Alabama pawnshop in 2014, authorities say. "We did not receive an involuntary commitment order on John Houser, because there was no order," Sherry Lang, deputy director of public affairs for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, told Reuters in a phone interview on Monday.

U.S. Navy investigates report of cancer cluster at Guantanamo Posted: 27 Jul 2015 04:03 PM PDT The U.S. Navy is investigating a complaint that seeks the evacuation of civilian and military lawyers from parts of the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, following reports of cancer cases among personnel working on the trials of detainees there. At least seven civilians and military members who worked on detainee trials at Guantanamo Bay have been diagnosed with cancer, according to the complaint, which was filed with the U.S. Defense Department's Office of the Inspector General. The complaint claims that an unusually large number of relatively healthy and young people who worked at the base have been diagnosed with cancer.

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