| Clinton hits back at Jeb Bush on Iraq and Islamic State Posted: 15 Aug 2015 12:11 PM PDT  Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday hit back at comments from Republican Jeb Bush that President Barack Obama's policies on Iraq created instability that led to the rise of the Islamic State militant group. Clinton, who served as Secretary of State in the Obama administration, directed the blame toward Bush's brother, former President George W. Bush, who launched the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and also signed the agreement for withdrawing U.S. troops, and former Iraq Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
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| AT&T helped U.S. NSA in spying on Internet traffic: N.Y. Times Posted: 15 Aug 2015 11:55 AM PDT  Telecommunications powerhouse AT&T Inc has provided extensive assistance to the U.S. National Security Agency as the spy agency conducts surveillance on huge volumes of Internet traffic passing through the United States, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing newly disclosed NSA documents. The newspaper reported that the company gave technical assistance to the NSA in carrying out a secret court order allowing wiretapping of all Internet communications at the headquarters of the United Nations, an AT&T customer. The documents date from 2003 to 2013 and were provided by fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the Times reported.
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| Flights grounded at Washington D.C. area airports due to computer problem: FAA Posted: 15 Aug 2015 10:52 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Flights were grounded at airports in the Washington, D.C. area on Saturday due to a problem with a flight-tracking computer system, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. |
| Sheriff's deputy fatally shot in Nevada, suspect dead Posted: 15 Aug 2015 10:35 AM PDT The deputy was fatally shot when a male suspect came out of the house and opened fire on officers who were responding to the domestic violence incident that left a woman injured, the department said in a Facebook post. Three children, between the ages eight to 13, and one adult were subsequently evacuated from the residence in Carson City, Nevada, about 30 miles south of Reno. |
| Italy: At least 40 migrants dead at sea, 320 others rescued Posted: 15 Aug 2015 09:29 AM PDT ROME (AP) — At least 40 migrants died Saturday in the hold of an overcrowded smuggling boat in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya, apparently killed by fuel fumes, and some 320 others aboard were saved by the Italian navy, the rescue ship's commander said. |
| Small plane crashes near New Jersey airport, fatalities likely: media Posted: 15 Aug 2015 09:13 AM PDT (Reuters) - A small airplane crashed in a New Jersey suburb of New York on Saturday and fatalities were likely, local media reported. |
| U.S. military looks into moving some Guantanamo detainees to military sites: media Posted: 15 Aug 2015 07:47 AM PDT  The U.S. Department of Defense is sending a team to military installations in Kansas and South Carolina to investigate the possibility of relocating some Guantanamo Bay prisoners to U.S. soil, media outlets reported on Saturday. Fox News and CNN said the Pentagon on Friday notified the U.S. Congress that the team was already visiting the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and would then survey the naval brig at Charleston, South Carolina, in the coming weeks. Republicans, who control Congress, swiftly condemned the idea of moving detainees into the United States and close to major military posts, according to Fox News.
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| With hot dogs and hugs, mothers take stand against Chicago violence Posted: 15 Aug 2015 05:31 AM PDT  Every afternoon this summer, on a street corner in one of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods, visitors have been able to find an unusual block party. A dozen volunteers armed with lawn chairs, a barbecue grill and canopies have taken over the corner of 75th and Stewart in Englewood, a roughly three square mile neighborhood that has averaged almost one shooting a day this year. Across Chicago, violence has reached alarming levels this year, confounding city leaders and activists, particularly in the poorest neighborhoods.
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| At least 40 migrants 'suffocated' in hold of boat off Italy Posted: 15 Aug 2015 04:58 AM PDT  More than 40 migrants have died in the Mediterranean Saturday, the Italian navy said, after apparently suffocating below deck on the boat taking them to Europe. "Operation underway... many migrants saved. At least 40 dead," the navy said on Twitter, while the Corriere della Sera newspaper said those who died were found in the hold of the vessel.
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| Deadly sodium cyanide confirmed at China blast site Posted: 15 Aug 2015 12:55 AM PDT  By Megha Rajagopalan TIANJIN, China (Reuters) - Chinese police have for the first time confirmed deadly sodium cyanide at the site of two huge warehouse blasts that killed 85 people, state media said on Saturday, as a series of new, small explosions were heard and small fires broke out. Police confirmed the presence of the chemical, fatal when ingested or inhaled, "roughly east of the blast site" in an industrial zone in the northeastern port city of Tianjin, the state-run Beijing News said. "I do feel a bit afraid," said construction worker Li Shulan, 49, when asked about the air quality.
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| Japan marks 70th anniversary of WWII surrender Posted: 14 Aug 2015 11:16 PM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II on Saturday, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stayed away from a contentious Yasukuni shrine that honors war criminals among other war dead.
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| Western wildfires: Wind, heat, dry land fueling large blazes Posted: 14 Aug 2015 10:43 PM PDT  Winds in the West are helping stoke wildfires sweeping across the Northern Rocky Mountains, Pacific Northwest and elsewhere, posing problems for firefighters trying to contain the flames fed by drought.
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| U.S. flag raising in Havana reveals old wounds run deep Posted: 14 Aug 2015 06:23 PM PDT  It may have been 54 years since the American flag was last seen waving above the U.S. embassy in Havana, but mixed reactions to Friday's flag-raising ceremony revealed that the scars of Cuba's brutal past run deep — and won't heal overnight.
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| U.S. female hostage raped by Islamic State leader before death: U.S. officials Posted: 14 Aug 2015 05:35 PM PDT  Kayla Mueller, the U.S. aid worker killed this year while being held hostage by Islamic State militants, was raped repeatedly by the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, while in captivity in Syria, U.S. officials said on Friday. Mueller was 26 at the time of her death and would have turned 27 on Friday.
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| Battle over same-sex status on birth certificates in Texas and Arkansas Posted: 14 Aug 2015 04:49 PM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas/LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Two states that had blocked gay marriage are in legal battles over granting parenthood status to same-sex couples: Arkansas is trying to throw out a suit from couples seeking the status and Texas is saying it does not have forms ready. The cases come as states that had barred same-sex marriage grapple with changes brought by the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that made gay marriage legal in the United States. Three Arkansas same-sex couples have sued the state Health Department for refusing to record both partners as parents on birth certificates of the children they are raising.
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| Exclusive: Scandal-tainted U.S. Secret Service to hire 1,100 staff - sources Posted: 14 Aug 2015 03:28 PM PDT  By Julia Edwards and Jason Szep WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing accusations that it cannot adequately protect the White House, the U.S. Secret Service plans to hire 1,100 more officers and agents for an agency besieged by embarrassing scandals and security lapses, two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the plans said. The addition of 700 uniformed division officers and 400 agents over five years would expand its staff of 6,647 by nearly 17 percent, the biggest hiring increase in more than a decade at the 150-year-old agency whose job it is to protect the president, his family, and senior officials, along with fighting financial crime. The Secret Service is trying to rebound from a leadership crisis and mend a culture of covering up mistakes that some trace back 12 years to when it was pulled out of the Treasury Department and absorbed into the sprawling new Department of Homeland Security, where it had to compete for turf and money.
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| U.S. woman hostage raped by Islamic State leader before death: ABC News Posted: 14 Aug 2015 02:56 PM PDT  Kayla Mueller, the American woman who died earlier this year after being held hostage by Islamic State militants, was raped repeatedly while held captive by the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ABC News reported on Friday, citing unnamed U.S. counter-terrorism officials. ABC News reported that Mueller's family confirmed that U.S. government officials had told them that their daughter was repeatedly sexually assaulted by al-Baghdadi. "We were told Kayla was tortured, that she was the property of al-Baghdadi.
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| Hillary Clinton offers plan to help students with children Posted: 14 Aug 2015 02:24 PM PDT  By Amanda Becker CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Friday that if elected she would dramatically expand a program that provides child care for college students with children, and to create a scholarship program for student parents. Clinton announced the plan at a town hall meeting in Dubuque, Iowa, as she continued to highlight her platform to make college more affordable. Clinton also said she would create a "SPARK College Scholarship" to help parents pay for their own higher education.
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| Ex-Detroit mayor Kilpatrick loses appeal of conviction Posted: 14 Aug 2015 01:36 PM PDT  By a 3-0 vote, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Kilpatrick, 45, failed to show that his trial lawyers were constitutionally ineffective because they had recently joined a law firm that was suing him in a civil matter related to the criminal case. The panel also upheld the conviction and 21-year prison term of Kilpatrick's friend, Bobby Ferguson, 46, a Detroit contractor.
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| Islamic State leader raped American hostage, US finds Posted: 14 Aug 2015 01:05 PM PDT  American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, according to accounts provided to U.S. intelligence officials.
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