| Shots fired from roof of Texas elementary school: sheriff Posted: 23 Aug 2015 12:39 PM PDT Police responded to calls at about 8 a.m. that shots were heard from the roof of the Velasquez Elementary School, according to the Facebook page of the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office. Two men, one in his 20s and the other in his 30s, were taken into custody at the school, the sheriff's office said, adding that one of the men was playing bagpipes on the roof. |
| Crowd packs former President Carter's Sunday school after his cancer spreads Posted: 23 Aug 2015 10:29 AM PDT  Larger-than-usual crowds of wellwishers meant former President Jimmy Carter had to teach an extra Bible class at his rural Georgia church on Sunday, after he announced on Thursday cancer had spread to his brain. Carter, 90, a lifelong Baptist and church deacon, has taught Sunday school for decades and the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia is used to a throng. The theme of the lesson was love, Carter told the 300 people who filled the church's sanctuary, after briefly alluding to his health.
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| Donald Trump Plans on Executing Immigration Plan Through 'Management’ Posted: 23 Aug 2015 07:52 AM PDT  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump today defended his newly released immigration reform plan, which calls for the deportation of millions of undocumented workers in the United States, saying he'll accomplish the objectives through "management."In a plan released earlier this month, Trump called for an end to birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and for the deportation of undocumented workers. He did not offer more specifics as to how undocumented workers would be removed from the country or how much the plan would cost."It's called management," he ...
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| Should Walker's health plan be taken seriously? Posted: 23 Aug 2015 06:09 AM PDT  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Scott Walker's plan for repealing and replacing President Barack Obama's health care law hinges on what many see as a nearly insurmountable obstacle — getting 60 votes in the Senate.
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| Blighted houses still mar New Orleans a decade after Katrina Posted: 23 Aug 2015 05:20 AM PDT  By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - From the hardscrabble Lower Ninth Ward to middle-class Gentilly, thousands of abandoned homes still litter neighborhoods in New Orleans, a glaring reminder of the mass exodus of residents that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005.A decade after the storm triggered flooding that damaged 70 percent of the city's housing stock, the most-blighted streets in town are still lined with boarded-up houses that pose safety hazards to residents who have repaired and rebuilt homes nearby. In the Lower Ninth Ward in particular, a 10-minute drive from the jazz clubs and bar of New Orleans' historic downtown, large swaths of vacant houses and overgrown lots shelter rodents and snakes amid pockets of recovery where entire blocks of dwellings have been renovated.
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| New Hampshire beach set for topless beach demonstration Sunday Posted: 23 Aug 2015 04:15 AM PDT Hundreds of bare-breasted women are expected to converge on a popular New Hampshire beach on Sunday to push for greater acceptance of topless sunbathing, much to the consternation of some local residents and officials. The event at Hampton Beach was inspired by "Free the Nipple," a 2014 documentary and a movement that seeks to "stand against female oppression and censorship, both in the United States and around the globe," according to an online statement by its proponents. The gathering also coincides with "Go Topless Day," which is loosely observed in the United States and other countries. |
| Man tackled on train on authorities' radar in 3 countries Posted: 23 Aug 2015 03:26 AM PDT  He had ties to radical Islam and may have traveled to Syria, authorities said.
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| North, South Korea on alert as talks resume in bid to end standoff Posted: 23 Aug 2015 12:26 AM PDT  By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea resumed talks on Sunday after negotiating through the night in a bid to ease tensions involving an exchange of artillery fire that brought the peninsula to the brink of armed conflict. The meeting at the Panmunjom truce village inside the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) began on Saturday evening, with both sides on military alert, shortly after North Korea's deadline for Seoul to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts or face military action. The envoys, shown on TV exchanging handshakes and tight smiles at the start of their meeting, discussed ways to resolve tensions and improve ties, South Korea's presidential Blue House said in a brief statement.
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| Double happiness as giant panda gives birth to twins in U.S. Posted: 22 Aug 2015 10:18 PM PDT  Giant panda Mei Xiang, a star tourist draw in the U.S. capital, gave birth to a pair of cubs hours apart on Saturday, the National Zoo said. Mei Xiang gave birth to her first cub at 5:34 p.m. after her water broke about an hour beforehand, zoo officials said. About four and one-half hours later, at 10:07 p.m., a second cub arrived and appeared healthy, the zoo said.
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| Democrat Sanders courts black voters in South Carolina Posted: 22 Aug 2015 08:26 PM PDT  By Harriet McLeod NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders brought his progressive populism to deeply Republican South Carolina, and made a pitch to connect with the black voters that provide most of the Democratic support in the early primary state. It was the Vermont senator's first visit to the state since announcing his candidacy in late April, in a challenge to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. Sanders had canceled a planned appearance in Charleston in June in the wake of the massacre at the city's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine dead.
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| Clock ticking on Obama's Gitmo promise Posted: 22 Aug 2015 05:44 PM PDT  Lingering on President Obama's to-do list before his term ends is closing the detention facility.
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| At Koch group summit, a restrained enthusiasm for Trump Posted: 22 Aug 2015 02:06 PM PDT  While thousands streamed into a football stadium Friday evening in Mobile, Alabama to see Donald Trump, a much smaller crowd of committed conservatives unwound at a bar and mused over the good, the bad and the unknown of the unlikely Republican presidential front-runner. According to AFP, 3,600 people came to this year's annual Defending the American Dream Summit from around the country Friday and Saturday, taking in appearances by a handful of the 17 Republican presidential candidates. Trump was not invited.
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| French train attacker 'went to Syria' Posted: 22 Aug 2015 01:36 PM PDT  A suspected jihadist gunman overpowered by passengers on a packed Amsterdam-Paris train had visited Syria and was known to both French and Spanish intelligence services, officials said Saturday. The suspect, who has been named as 25-year-old Moroccan national Ayoub El Khazzani, was wrestled to the floor by three American passengers after opening fire with an assault rifle on Friday evening, and is now being interrogated by counter-terrorist officials near Paris. A Spanish counter-terrorism source said he had lived in Spain for seven years until last year before travelling to Syria from France.
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