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• Nashville movie theater shooting suspect pronounced dead
• Obama: Alternative to Iran nuclear deal is war
• Malaysia confirms plane debris is from Flight MH370
• Obama: Iran deal builds on diplomacy that won Cold War
• California governor challenges GOP candidates on climate change
• Experts start examining wing piece that may be from MH370
• Special Report: Multitude of local authorities soak Illinois homeowners in taxes
• White House criticized for not filling watchdog post at CIA
• Obama pitches Iran nuclear deal as support looks 'squishy'
• Paper: FBI investigating security of Clinton emails
• Man found guilty of 2010 killing of Chicago police officer
• Americans say blacks treated less fairly in 2015 than 2007: Gallup
• Americans say blacks treated less fairly in 2015 than 2007: Gallup
• Christie vows GOP 'not going to be backed into a corner' in Planned Parenthood fight
• Shots fired near Camp Shelby in Mississippi, no injuries
• Fiorina, Perry among those to miss out on first GOP debate

Nashville movie theater shooting suspect pronounced dead Posted: 05 Aug 2015 12:59 PM PDT Police and firefighters were responding to reports of an active shooter at Carmike 8 Cinemas Wednesday afternoon.

Obama: Alternative to Iran nuclear deal is war Posted: 05 Aug 2015 12:27 PM PDT

Malaysia confirms plane debris is from Flight MH370 Posted: 05 Aug 2015 11:19 AM PDT Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed on early on Thursday that a Boeing 777 wing segment discovered in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is from the missing Flight MH370, the first real breakthrough in the search for the plane that disappeared 17 months ago.

Obama: Iran deal builds on diplomacy that won Cold War Posted: 05 Aug 2015 09:55 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama argued Wednesday that the Iran nuclear accord builds on an American tradition of "strong, principled diplomacy" with adversaries, including the former Soviet Union. He linked those who oppose the pact to politicians who pushed for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

California governor challenges GOP candidates on climate change Posted: 05 Aug 2015 09:23 AM PDT The letter, sent a day ahead of the Republican primary debate in Cleveland, attributed California's raging wildfires and years-long drought to global warming caused by human activity, a theory generally rejected by the Republican Party. Brown recently enacted an aggressive plan to cut California's greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030. Last month, he urged governors and mayors at a Vatican conference to "fight the propaganda" of big business interests that deny that climate change is human induced.

Experts start examining wing piece that may be from MH370 Posted: 05 Aug 2015 08:00 AM PDT BALMA, France (AP) — French and Malaysian experts on Wednesday began examining an airplane wing fragment that could offer the first tangible clue about the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished more than a year ago with 239 people aboard.

Special Report: Multitude of local authorities soak Illinois homeowners in taxes Posted: 05 Aug 2015 06:54 AM PDT The 53-year-old insurance manager gets a real estate tax bill for 20 different local government authorities and a total payout of about $7,000 in 2014. Then there is Wauconda Road and Bridge, not to be confused with Road and Bridge, Wauconda Gravel, or with Wauconda Special Road Improvement and Gravel unit – all three of which have imposed separate taxes on her and the village's other homeowners.

White House criticized for not filling watchdog post at CIA Posted: 05 Aug 2015 02:20 AM PDT More than six months after the CIA inspector general resigned, President Obama has yet to nominate a replacement.

Obama pitches Iran nuclear deal as support looks 'squishy' Posted: 05 Aug 2015 01:48 AM PDT The president will strive to counter an all-out blitz against the deal by the GOP and Israel.

Paper: FBI investigating security of Clinton emails Posted: 04 Aug 2015 09:57 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is looking into the security of the private email server that Hillary Rodham Clinton used when she was secretary of state, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Man found guilty of 2010 killing of Chicago police officer Posted: 04 Aug 2015 08:37 PM PDT A judge on Tuesday found a man guilty of fatally shooting a Chicago police officer after a scuffle in a police station parking lot in 2010, prosecutors said. Cook County Criminal Court Judge Timothy Joyce rejected a defense argument that Bryant Brewer, 29, was insane at the time he shot and killed Officer Thor Soderberg. Brewer was convicted of first degree murder in the killing of Soderberg and the attempted murders of Officers Kim Thorpe, Officer Lynn Casey and Sgt. Jason Kazinski, said Cook County State's Attorney's Office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton.

Americans say blacks treated less fairly in 2015 than 2007: Gallup Posted: 04 Aug 2015 07:49 PM PDT Whites, blacks and Hispanics also expressed a new low in their satisfaction with the way blacks are treated in U.S. society, according to the Gallup 2015 Minority Rights and Relations poll. Overall, about 49 percent of respondents said they were satisfied, compared to 62 percent just two years ago, pollsters said. The survey of more than 2,000 respondents, conducted from June 15 until July 10, comes at a tense time between U.S. law enforcement and the communities in which they operate, particularly after grand jury decisions not to indict white officers who killed unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and in New York City.

Americans say blacks treated less fairly in 2015 than 2007: Gallup Posted: 04 Aug 2015 06:43 PM PDT Whites, blacks and Hispanics also expressed a new low in their satisfaction with the way blacks are treated in U.S. society, according to the Gallup 2015 Minority Rights and Relations poll. Overall, about 49 percent of respondents said they were satisfied, compared to 62 percent just two years ago, pollsters said. The survey of more than 2,000 respondents, conducted from June 15 until July 10, comes at a tense time between U.S. law enforcement and the communities in which they operate, particularly after grand jury decisions not to indict white officers who killed unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and in New York City.

Christie vows GOP 'not going to be backed into a corner' in Planned Parenthood fight Posted: 04 Aug 2015 05:21 PM PDT

Shots fired near Camp Shelby in Mississippi, no injuries Posted: 04 Aug 2015 04:30 PM PDT No one was injured in the shooting, which took place off the base while soldiers were training at the camp, said Lt. Col. Christian Patterson, director of public affairs at the Mississippi Military Department. Authorities were searching for two suspects in a red Ford pickup truck, both possibly white males but details remained uncertain, said Regina Hegwood, an officer with the Perry County Sheriff's Office. Soldiers at the camp, located 110 miles north of New Orleans, reported the shots to their commanding officers, who in turn told local authorities, Patterson said in a news release.

Fiorina, Perry among those to miss out on first GOP debate Posted: 04 Aug 2015 03:25 PM PDT Fox News has named the Republican candidates who will take part in Thursday night's debate — the first of the 2016 White House campaign.

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