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• Bomb threat prompts evacuation of Stanford business school
• Cost of hunt for escaped NY killers topped $1 million a day
• Islamic State uses theology to justify rape, enslavement of Yazidi women
• Kentucky clerk defying court on gay marriage licenses to file response
• U.S. court throws out Arizona sheriff's immigration policy challenge
• How St. Louis police added Twitter to their arsenal
• AP EXCLUSIVE: Top secret Clinton emails include drone talk
• Japanese leader Abe stops short of apology for World War II
• Lightning strike injures 40 U.S. Army Ranger students, four instructors
• Three men arrested following treasure hunt in New York City's sewers
• 'Straight Outta Compton' attendees dismiss theater security concerns
• US investigating whether Islamic State used chemical weapons
• Firefighter rescued from blast zone in China's Tianjin port
• Kerry in Havana for banner day in US-Cuba relations
• State of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, extended at least 24 hours
• Detainees' lawyers question Obama commitment to close Guantanamo
• Jeb Bush leaves door open for use of torture by government
• Notorious inmate's lawyer says officials knew he was target
• Judge OKs settlement with families of Newtown massacre victims

Bomb threat prompts evacuation of Stanford business school Posted: 14 Aug 2015 12:46 PM PDT A bomb threat prompted the evacuation of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business on Friday morning, the San Francisco Bay Area school said. The message said some 700 faculty and staff members in the Knight Management Center complex were affected, but classes were not in session at the time.

Cost of hunt for escaped NY killers topped $1 million a day Posted: 14 Aug 2015 12:29 PM PDT Payroll records suggest the hunt for two escaped killers in northern New York cost more than $1 million a day, with overtime alone for state troopers and corrections officers $22 million higher than last year.

Islamic State uses theology to justify rape, enslavement of Yazidi women Posted: 14 Aug 2015 10:31 AM PDT A wrenching look by The New York Times into the Islamic State's enslavement and rape of women from the Yazidi minority group has shed light on one of the most disturbing aspects of its rule in Syria and Iraq. The practice, according to reporter Rukmini Callimachi, was formalized a year ago, when IS announced it was bringing institutionalized slavery back. To handle them, the Islamic State has developed a detailed bureaucracy of sex slavery, including sales contracts notarized by the ISIS-run Islamic courts.

Kentucky clerk defying court on gay marriage licenses to file response Posted: 14 Aug 2015 08:01 AM PDT Attorneys for a Kentucky county clerk who has stopped issuing marriage licenses to avoid serving same-sex couples are expected to file a response on Friday to the court. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis and her office stopped issuing all marriage licenses following the U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling legalizing gay marriage, and she has continued with that stance despite an injunction on Wednesday by a federal judge ordering her office to begin issuing licenses again. Davis previously said her religious beliefs as an Apostolic Christian prevented her from issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.

U.S. court throws out Arizona sheriff's immigration policy challenge Posted: 14 Aug 2015 07:43 AM PDT A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a lawsuit brought by an Arizona sheriff who argued that President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration were unconstitutional. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a district court judge's finding that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio lacked standing to sue, a provision in U.S. law that means he has to prove he has been directly harmed.

How St. Louis police added Twitter to their arsenal Posted: 14 Aug 2015 07:27 AM PDT The Saint Louis County Police Department significantly altered its approach to social media since Michael Brown's death last year.

AP EXCLUSIVE: Top secret Clinton emails include drone talk Posted: 14 Aug 2015 06:06 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The two emails on Hillary Rodham Clinton's private server that an auditor deemed "top secret" include a discussion of a news article detailing a U.S. drone operation and a separate conversation that could point back to highly classified material in an improper manner or merely reflect information collected independently, U.S. officials who have reviewed the correspondence told The Associated Press.

Japanese leader Abe stops short of apology for World War II Posted: 14 Aug 2015 05:32 AM PDT TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged Friday that Japan inflicted "immeasurable damage and suffering" on innocent people in World War II, but stopped short of offering his own apology and said future generations of Japanese should not have to make them either.

Lightning strike injures 40 U.S. Army Ranger students, four instructors Posted: 14 Aug 2015 04:44 AM PDT All 44 individuals were taken to a local hospital for treatment following the Wednesday afternoon incident at Eglin Air Force Base, in north Florida, the Army said in a statement. Seventeen students and three instructors remained overnight at the hospital while the remaining students and instructor were treated and released, the statement said. "The Ranger students and instructors reacted and got everyone proper medical care quickly," said Colonel David Fivecoat, Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade commander.

Three men arrested following treasure hunt in New York City's sewers Posted: 14 Aug 2015 04:13 AM PDT A spokesman for the New York City Police Department said Marquise Evans, 21, dislodged a manhole cover on a street in Brooklyn late on Wednesday and allowed two other men to climb inside. About four hours later, the two men, identified as David Hannibal, 45, and Damion Nieves, 35, emerged and were taken into custody, police said. New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton told reporters he didn't know what specifically the men had hoped to find.

'Straight Outta Compton' attendees dismiss theater security concerns Posted: 14 Aug 2015 02:51 AM PDT By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Attendees at opening night screenings of rap biopic "Straight Outta Compton" in Southern California dismissed concerns about the film triggering violence amid heightened racial tension across the nation, although theaters stepped up the security presence. "Straight Outta Compton", the story of rap collective N.W.A, from Compton, California, opened on Thursday as protests take place in Ferguson, Missouri, to mark the anniversary of the fatal shooting of black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer. Against that backdrop, and with security at movie theaters in focus after a gunman killed two women in a Louisiana screening of "Trainwreck" in July, private security and police presence was increased at a number of venues.

US investigating whether Islamic State used chemical weapons Posted: 14 Aug 2015 01:00 AM PDT EDGARTOWN, Massachusetts (AP) — The United States is investigating whether the Islamic State used chemical weapons, the White House said Thursday, following allegations that IS militants deployed chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq.

Firefighter rescued from blast zone in China's Tianjin port Posted: 13 Aug 2015 11:55 PM PDT TIANJIN, China (AP) — Rescuers Friday pulled out a firefighter who was trapped for 32 hours after responding to two huge explosions in Tianjin, state media said, as authorities moved forward gingerly in dealing with a fire still smoldering amid potentially dangerous chemicals.

Kerry in Havana for banner day in US-Cuba relations Posted: 13 Aug 2015 11:07 PM PDT The U.S. flag will be raised at the restored American embassy for the first time since 1961.

State of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, extended at least 24 hours Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:59 PM PDT County Executive Steve Stenger extended the state of emergency in Ferguson, a suburb of the city of St. Louis, through at least Friday, said his spokeswoman, Allison Blood. In consultation with police, Stenger put the state of emergency in place on Monday for Ferguson and surrounding areas after police officers shot and critically wounded a man in an exchange of gunfire Sunday night, marring what had been a day of peaceful demonstrations.

Detainees' lawyers question Obama commitment to close Guantanamo Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:10 PM PDT Before midnight on Friday, President Barack Obama's Justice Department is due to either block or accept a legal request to free a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who weighs 74 pounds (33.5 kg) after an eight-year hunger strike. Lawyers for the detainee, Tariq Ba Odah, say the way the department decides will be the clearest indication yet of how serious Obama is about closing the detention center before he leaves office in January 2017. "There is this profound dissonance between what the administration is saying about its desire to close Guantanamo and what is it actually doing," said Omar Farah, the detainee's lawyer.

Jeb Bush leaves door open for use of torture by government Posted: 13 Aug 2015 07:04 PM PDT Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Thursday declined to rule out resuming the use of torture under some circumstances by the U.S. government.

Notorious inmate's lawyer says officials knew he was target Posted: 13 Aug 2015 05:29 PM PDT Hugo Pinell, a notorious killer with ties to the 1960s and 1970s black revolutionary movement, spent the last 45 years in California's prison isolation units partly for his own protection. Just days after he was moved into the general prison population, fellow inmates stabbed him death in an exercise yard.

Judge OKs settlement with families of Newtown massacre victims Posted: 13 Aug 2015 02:45 PM PDT A Connecticut judge on Thursday approved the largest portion yet of a settlement in which the estate of the mother of the gunman who carried out a 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school will pay out $1.5 million to families of 16 victims. Probate Court Judge Joseph Egan in Bethel, Connecticut approved deals with the families of six of the 20 first-graders killed in the Dec. 14, 2012, rampage, according to a court clerk and attorneys who were present at the closed hearing. Two survivors of the attack, which also killed six educators, joined the initial lawsuit but were not part of the final settlement, which represents the amount of a homeowners' insurance policy that gunman 20-year-old Adam Lanza's mother had held on her Newton, Connecticut home.

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