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• State of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, extended 24 hours
• Pennsylvania man's 1982 murder conviction thrown out on new DNA evidence
• Greenpeace protesters face fines for dangling from Oregon bridge
• University taking statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis indoors
• Kentucky county clerk defies judge over gay marriage
• Death toll rises to 50 in massive blasts at Chinese port
• Convicted Virginia ex-governor asks to stay free pending high court appeal
• At least five dead in spate of shootings around Boston
• Clerk's office defies order; no same-sex marriage licenses
• U.S. military's transgender care costs 'negligible,' study says
• At least 50 dead as huge warehouse blasts hit Chinese port
• The myth of Trump’s angry legions
• Truck bomb kills at least 60 in Baghdad's Sadr City
• At least 44 dead in warehouse blasts in China port city
• Los Angeles to pay $15 million to teen with pellet gun paralyzed by police
• Former President Carter says he has cancer
• One-on-one with U.S. ambassador to Chile
• Uber driver accused of sexual assault on South Carolina passenger
• Jimmy Carter says he has cancer, revealed by recent surgery

State of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, extended 24 hours Posted: 13 Aug 2015 01:23 PM PDT (Reuters) - The government of St. Louis County extended for 24 hours the state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, which has been the scene of protests a year after an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white police officer.

Pennsylvania man's 1982 murder conviction thrown out on new DNA evidence Posted: 13 Aug 2015 12:34 PM PDT A man convicted in 1982 in the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl was due to be freed from a Pennsylvania prison on Thursday thanks to new DNA testing after spending more than three decades behind bars filing repeated appeals proclaiming his innocence. Lewis Fogle, 63, had his conviction thrown out by Judge David Grine in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and was granted $25,000 bail pending a decision by Indiana County District Attorney Patrick Dougherty on whether to retry him on second-degree murder charges. Dougherty's decision is due by Sept. 14.

Greenpeace protesters face fines for dangling from Oregon bridge Posted: 13 Aug 2015 12:01 PM PDT By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Five Greenpeace protesters who dangled from a Portland, Oregon, bridge for two days in a bid to block a Royal Dutch Shell ship headed to the Arctic to drill for oil are each facing $5,000 fines from the U.S. Coast Guard, authorities said on Thursday.  Three of the protesters dangled from the 200-foot-high St. John's bridge in Portland last month while two were on the bridge offering support, U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class George Degener said. Each was cited for interfering with the safe operation of a vessel. ...

University taking statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis indoors Posted: 13 Aug 2015 11:44 AM PDT The University of Texas said on Thursday it would move a statute of Confederate president Jefferson Davis from the campus to an educational exhibit in response to protests over the public display of symbols of the Confederacy. The university said it would not remove statues of other figures of the Confederacy but said it was considering adding plaques explaining their significance in respect to the U.S. Civil War and the state of Texas. A wave of opposition to the display of Confederate symbols in public places swept the United States after nine black people were murdered in a South Carolina church on June 17 by a white man who was pictured on social media with the Confederate battle flag.

Kentucky county clerk defies judge over gay marriage Posted: 13 Aug 2015 10:56 AM PDT A Kentucky county clerk's office on Thursday defied a federal judge's order by continuing to block marriage licenses for same-sex couples, saying the legal case was still pending. Local media also reported that the Rowan County clerk's office turned away two same-sex couples who tried to get marriage licenses. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is on vacation, but Nathan Davis, a relative who also works at the clerk's office, told Reuters the office was not currently taking licenses because of the active litigation.

Death toll rises to 50 in massive blasts at Chinese port Posted: 13 Aug 2015 10:22 AM PDT TIANJIN, China (AP) — The death toll from the fiery explosions at a warehouse of hazardous chemicals climbed Thursday to 50, and the Chinese government sent experts to the shattered and smoldering port to assess any environmental dangers from the spectacular blasts.

Convicted Virginia ex-governor asks to stay free pending high court appeal Posted: 13 Aug 2015 10:06 AM PDT Lawyers for McDonnell, a one-time rising star in the Republican Party, filed the motion in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. A three-judge panel of the court in July upheld McDonnell's 11 convictions. McDonnell, 61, "remains neither a flight risk nor a threat to public safety, and the questions presented by his case remain 'substantial,' notwithstanding that a panel of this Court has rejected them," the 23-page filing said.

At least five dead in spate of shootings around Boston Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:29 AM PDT As of Sunday, some 151 shootings had been reported in Boston this year, a 25 percent increase from the same period last year. Two other fatal shootings occurred in the neighboring cities, local police confirmed.

Clerk's office defies order; no same-sex marriage licenses Posted: 13 Aug 2015 07:40 AM PDT MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky clerk's office turned away two gay couples seeking marriage licenses on Thursday, defying a federal judge's order that dismissed her argument involving religious freedom.

U.S. military's transgender care costs 'negligible,' study says Posted: 13 Aug 2015 06:01 AM PDT Transition care for transgender members of the U.S. military would cost around $5.6 million a year, "little more than a rounding error" as a share of total expenditure, according to new research published amid criticism of proposed funding. The sum amounts to just 22 cents per service member per month, said Aaron Belkin, an academic at San Francisco State University, adding that the military's annual healthcare budget is currently $47.8 billion. Last month, defense chief Ash Carter backed the admission to the U.S. military of openly transgender people for the first time, setting up a working group to study the issue "with the presumption that transgender persons can serve openly without adverse impact".

At least 50 dead as huge warehouse blasts hit Chinese port Posted: 13 Aug 2015 05:11 AM PDT Huge, fiery blasts at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals killed at least 50 people and turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the Chinese port of Tianjin, raising questions Thursday about whether ...

The myth of Trump’s angry legions Posted: 13 Aug 2015 02:28 AM PDT Trumpmania may be telling us a lot less about the dominant mood in the electorate at large than we think.

Truck bomb kills at least 60 in Baghdad's Sadr City Posted: 13 Aug 2015 01:22 AM PDT By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 60 people were killed and 200 wounded in a blast on Thursday at a market in Baghdad's Sadr City district, police and medical sources said, one of the largest attacks on the capital since Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi took office a year ago. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing in the Shi'ite Muslim neighborhood, but Islamic State, Sunni militants who seized swathes of northern and western Iraq last year, regularly send bombers into the capital. "Many people were killed and body parts were thrown on top of nearby buildings." The market in the northeastern suburb is one of the biggest in Baghdad selling wholesale food items.

At least 44 dead in warehouse blasts in China port city Posted: 12 Aug 2015 11:28 PM PDT Hundreds more are injured as huge explosions send massive fireballs into the sky.

Los Angeles to pay $15 million to teen with pellet gun paralyzed by police Posted: 12 Aug 2015 10:11 PM PDT The city of Los Angeles on Wednesday agreed to pay $15 million dollars to the family of a teenager paralyzed in 2010 when he was shot by a police officer who mistook a pellet gun the youth was holding for a real firearm. Rohayent Gomez Eriza was 13 when he was struck by a single bullet while playing near his home with two friends, according to court documents. The bullet stuck Gomez Eriza's spinal cord, rendering him paralyzed from the chest down and unable to care for himself or work, according to court documents.

Former President Carter says he has cancer Posted: 12 Aug 2015 07:25 PM PDT "I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare," Carter, 90, said in a statement. The Carter family has a history of pancreatic cancer, including his parents, two sisters and younger brother Billy Carter who all died from the disease. Carter told the New York Times in 2007 that he and other relatives had given blood for genetic studies seeking to help doctors diagnose the disease.

One-on-one with U.S. ambassador to Chile Posted: 12 Aug 2015 05:28 PM PDT U.S. Ambassador to Chile Mike Hammer is a widely respected career diplomat who has worked for presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Uber driver accused of sexual assault on South Carolina passenger Posted: 12 Aug 2015 03:49 PM PDT A driver for the popular taxi-hailing service Uber faces sexual assault charges after a passenger reported that he attacked her instead of driving her home from a bar, authorities said on Wednesday. Patrick Aiello, 39, a sixth-grade social studies teacher in North Charleston, South Carolina, was booked into jail on Monday on felony charges of kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct, according to Charleston County Jail records. The 23-year-old woman told police that she and a male friend had requested an Uber driver for a ride home from a beachfront bar in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, near Charleston, late Sunday evening, according to an arrest affidavit.

Jimmy Carter says he has cancer, revealed by recent surgery Posted: 12 Aug 2015 02:10 PM PDT The former U.S. president announced he has been diagnosed with cancer in a brief statement issued Wednesday.

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