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• John Kerry: Dollar could suffer if U.S. walks away from Iran deal
• Prison bus collides with truck in Arizona, seriously injuring three
• More than 30 people arrested in Arkansas drug, gun case
• Virginia ex-governor's conviction appeal denied by U.S. court
• Sanders lets civil rights activists open LA campaign event
• Rivers hardest hit by Colorado mine waste spill to stay closed until Aug. 17
• Bush links Clinton to rise of Islamic State
• Police, protesters face off again in Ferguson
• Greece, lenders clinch bailout deal after marathon talks
• Several arrests in 4th night of Ferguson protests
• Cutting terms for some violent crimes key to easing U.S. mass incarceration: analysis
• Charges filed against Washington Post reporter who covered 2014 Ferguson protests
• State of emergency called in Ferguson after gunfire mars protests
• New step in Trump's feud with Fox News; Clinton weighs in
• Ohio high court advises judges not to refuse to perform gay marriages
• Google to become Alphabet as firm shakes up operating structure
• California man pleads guilty to bid to support Islamic State

John Kerry: Dollar could suffer if U.S. walks away from Iran deal Posted: 11 Aug 2015 11:56 AM PDT If the United States walks away from the nuclear deal struck with Iran last month in Vienna and demands that its allies comply with U.S. sanctions, the dollar may soon cease to be the world's reserve currency, the top U.S. diplomat...

Prison bus collides with truck in Arizona, seriously injuring three Posted: 11 Aug 2015 11:22 AM PDT Another 19 people on the bus were taken to area hospitals for evaluation and treatment after the violent crash that scattered debris across the highway about 100 miles south of Phoenix, said Arizona Department of Corrections spokesman Bill Lamoreaux. The seriously injured inmates and driver were transported to hospitals, as well, said Bart Graves, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety. The driver of semi-truck told state troopers he toppled his vehicle trying to avoid an animal that had darted onto the roadway, Graves said.

More than 30 people arrested in Arkansas drug, gun case Posted: 11 Aug 2015 08:30 AM PDT More than 30 people in northeast Arkansas have been arrested on firearms and drug charges in a major federal investigation, a U.S. Attorney's office said on Tuesday. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas scheduled a news conference later in the day to discuss the unsealing of 40 federal indictments charging 70 defendants with drug and gun crimes in the case, it said in a statement.

Virginia ex-governor's conviction appeal denied by U.S. court Posted: 11 Aug 2015 08:12 AM PDT A U.S. appeals court denied former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell's appeal of his 2014 corruption conviction on Tuesday, setting the stage for an appeal to the Supreme Court. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a brief opinion that no judge had voted for a rehearing of McDonnell's appeal of his 11 convictions. A three-judge panel of the court in July had upheld McDonnell's conviction for taking $177,000 in gifts and loans from businessman Jonnie Williams in exchange for promoting one of his company's dietary supplements.

Sanders lets civil rights activists open LA campaign event Posted: 11 Aug 2015 05:26 AM PDT Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders vowed that he would fight harder than any other presidential candidate to end institutional racism in front of a packed Los Angeles arena, two days after ...

Rivers hardest hit by Colorado mine waste spill to stay closed until Aug. 17 Posted: 11 Aug 2015 04:20 AM PDT Two rivers in Colorado and New Mexico hardest hit by contamination from toxic wastewater spilled from a defunct gold mine will remain closed to drinking water and irrigation intakes for at least another week, U.S. environmental officials said. The San Juan River and its northern tributary, the Animas River, have been fouled by the release of more than 3 million gallons (11.3 million liters) of acid mine drainage inadvertently triggered by a team of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers last week. The discharge has continued to flow at the rate of 500 gallons (1,900 liters) per minute from the site of the century-old Gold King Mine, near the town of Silverton in southwestern Colorado, into a stream below called Cement Creek.

Bush links Clinton to rise of Islamic State Posted: 11 Aug 2015 01:32 AM PDT BURBANK, California (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush will step up his criticism of Hillary Rodham Clinton and her tenure as secretary of state on Tuesday, arguing in a speech on foreign policy the Democratic front-runner shares in the mistakes that he says led to the rise of the Islamic State.

Police, protesters face off again in Ferguson Posted: 11 Aug 2015 01:17 AM PDT Police arrested nearly two dozen people during another night of demonstrations.

Greece, lenders clinch bailout deal after marathon talks Posted: 11 Aug 2015 12:08 AM PDT By George Georgiopoulos and Michele Kambas ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece and its international lenders clinched a multi-billion-euro bailout agreement on Tuesday after marathon talks through the night, officials said, raising hopes aid can be disbursed in time for a major debt repayment falling due in days. "Finally, we have white smoke," a finance ministry official said.

Several arrests in 4th night of Ferguson protests Posted: 10 Aug 2015 10:12 PM PDT Several arrests are made as police and protesters clash once again.

Cutting terms for some violent crimes key to easing U.S. mass incarceration: analysis Posted: 10 Aug 2015 09:21 PM PDT By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mass incarceration, a problem that President Barack Obama and nearly all 2016 White House hopefuls agree must be tackled, can only be substantially reduced by easing punishments for some violent criminals, according to an analysis released on Tuesday. A range of ideas for shrinking the swelling U.S. prison population, now at 2.2 million, was advanced by the Urban Institute, a policy think tank, in the wake of Obama's historic prison visit last month and call for congressional sentencing reform legislation. The Urban Institute unveiled an online tool, called the Prison Population Forecaster, to measure how the changes would affect the prison population, which grew exponentially over the past four decades even as crime dropped to all-time recorded lows.

Charges filed against Washington Post reporter who covered 2014 Ferguson protests Posted: 10 Aug 2015 07:45 PM PDT A Washington Post reporter arrested last year while covering protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager has been charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer, the newspaper said on Monday. Wesley Lowery, 25, was arrested after police asked him and another reporter to leave a McDonald's restaurant being used as a staging area for press coverage of the demonstrations that occurred after the Aug. 9, 2014, shooting of Michael Brown. The Post said Lowery received a court summons dated on Aug. 6 ordering him to appear in St. Louis County municipal court on Aug. 24 or face the risk of arrest.

State of emergency called in Ferguson after gunfire mars protests Posted: 10 Aug 2015 06:07 PM PDT Protesters regrouped in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday evening after a state of emergency was declared, aimed at preventing a repeat of violence the night before on the anniversary of the police shooting of an unarmed black man. Protesters, some carrying placards, assembled on a street near the site where Michael Brown, a black teenager, was shot dead by white officer Darren Wilson a year ago and ignited a national firestorm on race relations. The emergency order was issued for the St. Louis suburb and surrounding areas amid tensions between residents and police after officers shot and critically wounded an 18-year-old man in an exchange of gunfire Sunday night that marred what had been a day of peaceful demonstrations.

New step in Trump's feud with Fox News; Clinton weighs in Posted: 10 Aug 2015 05:36 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's turbulent relationship with Fox News showed signs of improvement Monday even as Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton seized on the billionaire businessman's clash with the network to cast his Republican rivals as being bad for women.

Ohio high court advises judges not to refuse to perform gay marriages Posted: 10 Aug 2015 04:48 PM PDT Judges in Ohio should not refuse to perform same-sex marriages based on personal or religious beliefs, the state's Supreme Court said in an informal, nonbinding opinion released on Monday. The advisory opinion was issued in response to inquiries from judges and a judicial association seeking guidance, after a number of Ohio judges refused to marry same-sex couple or halted civil marriages altogether. The opinion cited the June 26 U.S. Supreme Court Obergefell v Hodges ruling that legalized gay marriage nationwide, effectively invalidating Ohio's law prohibiting marriages not between a man and a woman.

Google to become Alphabet as firm shakes up operating structure Posted: 10 Aug 2015 03:42 PM PDT Investors have been after Google CEO Larry Page for years to cut back on the pie-in-the-sky bets that many see as a costly distraction to the company's highly profitable core search and Internet advertising businesses.

California man pleads guilty to bid to support Islamic State Posted: 10 Aug 2015 03:25 PM PDT A 21-year-old Southern California man who prosecutors say sought to travel to Syria last year in a bid to join Islamic State fighters pleaded guilty on Monday to federal charges. Adam Dandach, who was arrested in Turkey in July, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California, to providing material support to Islamic State and making a false statement on a passport. As part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Dandach admitted that he tried to travel to Syria to join the militant group.

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