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• Trump signs pledge to back GOP's 2016 presidential nominee
• Judge jails Kentucky clerk for refusing marriage licenses
• France confirms wing part found on Reunion is from MH370
• French investigators confirm wing part is from Flight 370
• Judge rules for Tom Brady, overturns four-game deflate-gate suspension
• Illinois woman charged with lying about seeing police shooting suspects
• Former Clinton aide will not testify in House probe: lawmaker
• One Marine killed, 9 hurt in helicopter landing in North Carolina -report
• Migrants leave Budapest for Austrian frontier; pressure builds for EU action
• If Biden runs, he shouldn't run from his record on crime
• Washington state patrolman won't face charges over shooting of two black men
• Can this video game-like software help save the suburbs from heroin?
• Australia under fire for lobbying on California kangaroo trade
• U.S. judge approves $415 million settlement in tech worker lawsuit
• Kentucky clerk seeks same-sex marriage license reprieve
• GOP reportedly seeks pledge to avert Trump third-party run
• ‘Relentless’ writer on bin Laden raid mistake, deadly ‘Xbox’
• Baltimore judge orders individual trials for police in Gray case
• Hillary Clinton unveils $10 billion plan to fight substance abuse
• U.S. police slayings raise pressure on officers at time of tension
• Obama scores policy win in securing votes for Iran nuclear deal
• U.S. appeals court asked to halt NSA phone spying program
• Kentucky clerk files emergency injunction on same-sex marriage licenses

Trump signs pledge to back GOP's 2016 presidential nominee Posted: 03 Sep 2015 12:06 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidential candidate Donald Trump ruled out the prospect of a third-party White House bid Thursday and vowed to support the Republican Party's nominee — whoever it may be.

Judge jails Kentucky clerk for refusing marriage licenses Posted: 03 Sep 2015 10:57 AM PDT ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge ordered a defiant county clerk to jail for contempt Thursday after she insisted that it would violate her conscience to follow court orders to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.

France confirms wing part found on Reunion is from MH370 Posted: 03 Sep 2015 09:00 AM PDT French prosecutors confirmed Thursday that a wing part found on a remote Indian Ocean island was from ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a month after tests on the flaperon began. "It is possible today to say with certainty that the flaperon discovered on Reunion island on July 29 came from flight MH370," Paris prosecutors said in a statement, confirming claims made by Malaysia's prime minister last month. The disappearance turned into one of the biggest mysteries in the history of aviation, sparking a colossal hunt in the Indian Ocean based on satellite data which hinted at MH370's possible path.

French investigators confirm wing part is from Flight 370 Posted: 03 Sep 2015 08:43 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — A French prosecutor says the piece of wing discovered in July on a remote Indian Ocean island has been formally identified as having come from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Judge rules for Tom Brady, overturns four-game deflate-gate suspension Posted: 03 Sep 2015 08:09 AM PDT Judge Richard M. Berman offered his ruling of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's appeal in the deflate-gate controversy.

Illinois woman charged with lying about seeing police shooting suspects Posted: 03 Sep 2015 07:53 AM PDT Hundreds of police in northern Illinois have been searching for three suspects since Tuesday in the killing of Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, a decorated 30-year veteran policeman, who was shot to death during a foot chase. Kristin Kiefer, 30, of Vernon Hills, Illinois, faces two counts of falsifying a police report after admitting to authorities that she made up the sighting because she wanted attention, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

Former Clinton aide will not testify in House probe: lawmaker Posted: 03 Sep 2015 06:43 AM PDT A former U.S. State Department staff member who worked for Hillary Clinton will not testify before U.S. lawmakers probing the former top diplomat and the 2012 attacks on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, according to a congressional memo. Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, was secretary of state at the time of the attacks, in which four Americans were killed. The Republican-led House Select Committee is investigating the incident as well as Clinton's use of a private email during her tenure.

One Marine killed, 9 hurt in helicopter landing in North Carolina -report Posted: 03 Sep 2015 06:10 AM PDT The helicopter landed during a training exercise on Wednesday night, AP said. The name of the Marine who was killed will not be released for 24 hours, said AP, which cited a statement from Captain Ryan Elizabeth Alvis. In March, four soldiers and seven Marines from a special operations unit from Camp Lejeune were killed when a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter plunged into waters off the Florida Panhandle during a training exercise.

Migrants leave Budapest for Austrian frontier; pressure builds for EU action Posted: 03 Sep 2015 03:55 AM PDT By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants left Budapest aboard a packed train bound for a town near the Austrian border on Thursday after two days of chaos symbolic of a European asylum system brought to breaking point. Exhausted and confused, migrants crammed onto a train to the Hungarian border town of Sopron, clinging to doors and squeezing their children through open carriage windows. Trains to Vienna and beyond to Germany were cancelled, making it unclear what would be the next stop for the migrants - many of them refugees from wars in the Middle East.

If Biden runs, he shouldn't run from his record on crime Posted: 03 Sep 2015 03:08 AM PDT Biden authored the 1994 bill that may have contributed to reversing the soaring crime rates.

Washington state patrolman won't face charges over shooting of two black men Posted: 03 Sep 2015 01:15 AM PDT A Washington state police officer will not face criminal charges after shooting two unarmed black men suspected of trying to steal beer from a supermarket, a prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. Officer Ryan Donald, a three-year veteran of the police department in the state capital Olympia, told investigators the men had no weapons during the May incident. No charges will be brought against Donald because his use of force was justified, said Anne Larsen, a spokeswoman for the Thurston County prosecuting attorney said.

Can this video game-like software help save the suburbs from heroin? Posted: 03 Sep 2015 12:28 AM PDT Heroin has been quietly wreaking havoc across the United States for more than a decade, capturing media attention, prompting federal government action and — for the first time since the early '90s — turning drug abuse into a presidential campaign talking point.

Australia under fire for lobbying on California kangaroo trade Posted: 02 Sep 2015 11:10 PM PDT By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Australian government is under fire for lobbying the California legislature to stop a ban on the sale of kangaroo products in the U.S. state, a restriction the industry argues would cripple exports of the marsupials' meat and leather. The California senate will vote on Thursday on a bill to extend a moratorium indefinitely on the sale of kangaroo products like premier league baseball mitts and fire retardant gloves favored by U.S. firefighters. Powerful animal rights and democracy lobbyists in California are angry about the way the bill was introduced this week via the backdoor, just days before the end of the current legislative session, following extensive Australian government lobbying and financial aid.

U.S. judge approves $415 million settlement in tech worker lawsuit Posted: 02 Sep 2015 10:54 PM PDT A U.S. judge on Wednesday granted final approval to a $415 million settlement that ends a high profile lawsuit in which workers accused Apple, Google and two other Silicon Valley companies of conspiring to hold down salaries. The plaintiffs alleged that Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Corp and Adobe Systems Inc agreed to avoid poaching each other's employees, thus limiting job mobility and, as a result, keeping a lid on salaries. In a ruling on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, found the deal was fair to the thousands of plaintiff workers in the class action.

Kentucky clerk seeks same-sex marriage license reprieve Posted: 02 Sep 2015 08:48 PM PDT A county clerk in Kentucky sought an emergency injunction on Wednesday to temporarily block a federal court order requiring her to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a day before she goes to court to face contempt charges. Kim Davis, the elected Rowan County clerk, says her religious beliefs as an Apostolic Christian stop her from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that made gay marriage legal nationwide.

GOP reportedly seeks pledge to avert Trump third-party run Posted: 02 Sep 2015 07:12 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to avert a 2016 disaster, the Republican National Committee on Wednesday challenged every GOP presidential candidate to sign a pledge not to undertake a third-party bid under any circumstances.

‘Relentless’ writer on bin Laden raid mistake, deadly ‘Xbox’ Posted: 02 Sep 2015 06:56 PM PDT To find out how the difference between a chain-link fence and a stone wall nearly spelled disaster for the Americans carrying out the raid to kill Osama bin Laden, pick up "Relentless: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command."

Baltimore judge orders individual trials for police in Gray case Posted: 02 Sep 2015 06:09 PM PDT A judge on Wednesday ordered individual trials for six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of a black man from an injury in custody, a case that fed the U.S. debate on police treatment of minorities. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams also rejected defense motions calling for charges to be dropped and State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby and her office to recuse themselves from the Freddie Gray case. The death of Gray, 25, in April from a severe spinal injury suffered in the back of a police van drew worldwide attention when it triggered protests and a day of rioting, arson and looting.

Hillary Clinton unveils $10 billion plan to fight substance abuse Posted: 02 Sep 2015 04:59 PM PDT Increasing local prevention efforts for teens is just part of the Democratic presidential hopeful's strategy.

U.S. police slayings raise pressure on officers at time of tension Posted: 02 Sep 2015 04:27 PM PDT At the current rate, the number of U.S. law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty this year would fall short of the 51 who died last year. On average, 64 officers have been killed annually in the United States since 1980, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation data.

Obama scores policy win in securing votes for Iran nuclear deal Posted: 02 Sep 2015 03:39 PM PDT By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama scored a major foreign policy victory on Wednesday by securing enough Senate votes to protect the Iran nuclear deal in Congress, but Republicans pledged to keep up their fight against the pact with new sanctions on Tehran. Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski said she would support the deal announced on July 14 between world powers and Iran, which exchanges relief on economic sanctions for Tehran's agreeing to curtail its nuclear program.

U.S. appeals court asked to halt NSA phone spying program Posted: 02 Sep 2015 03:05 PM PDT By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court appeared reluctant on Wednesday to put an immediate halt to the federal government's collection of millions of Americans' phone records, with the controversial spy program set to expire in November. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York previously found the program illegal in May, ruling that the Patriot Act did not authorize the National Security Agency to install such sweeping surveillance. The decision came in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Kentucky clerk files emergency injunction on same-sex marriage licenses Posted: 02 Sep 2015 01:57 PM PDT MOREHEAD, Ky. (Reuters) - Lawyers representing a county clerk in Kentucky who has refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses in defiance of a court order filed an emergency motion on Wednesday asking for an injunction to temporarily block the order while she appeals.

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