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Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines


Clinton: I didn't 'stop and think' about email system

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 10:50 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday her use of a private email system at the State Department wasn't the "best choice" and acknowledged she didn't "stop and think" about her email set-up when she became President Barack Obama's secretary of state in 2009.

A look at the Illinois officer slaying investigation

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 10:01 AM PDT

Lake County Major Crime Task Force Cmdr. George Filenko, right, and Christopher Covelli of the Lake County Sheriff's office, address the media Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015 in Fox Lake, Ill. The pair provided updates in the search for the suspects in the death of Fox Lake Police officer Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz. Gliniewicz. was shot and killed this week while pursuing a group of suspicious men. Authorities have recovered video that they hope will provide significant help to detectives searching for three men wanted in the fatal shooting Filenko said. (Steve Lundy/Daily Herald, via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUTFOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) — Investigators in northern Illinois say they're hopeful a video and crime lab results will produce a break in the hunt for three men wanted in this week's fatal shooting of a police officer. A guide to key aspects of the case:


Video called a significant lead in Illinois policeman's slaying

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 09:43 AM PDT

Hundreds of law enforcement officials on Friday pressed on with their search in northern Illinois for three suspects in the fatal shooting of a veteran policeman while police called a home security video among the most important pieces of evidence in the case. The officers scoured the region of Fox Lake, located about 60 miles (97 km) north of Chicago and close to the Wisconsin border, for the men suspected in Tuesday's shooting of Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Charles Gliniewicz, 52. The video was turned over to authorities by a police officer, Lake County Major Crime Task Force Commander George Filenko told CNN.

Kansas university on lockdown amid search for possible armed person

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 06:39 AM PDT

(Reuters) - Kansas State University was on lockdown on Friday amid a search for possible armed person, the school said on Twitter.

Eyes on office of Kentucky county clerk jailed in gay marriage dispute

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 04:12 AM PDT

Booking photo of Rowan County clerk Kim Davis provided by the Carter County Detention Center in GraysonA two-month legal fight over a Kentucky county clerk's refusal to issue marriage licenses to gay couples turns on Friday to whether her deputy clerks will defy her orders or those of a federal judge who ordered her jailed for contempt. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis closed her office on Thursday while she and her staff appeared before U.S. District Judge David Bunning over her refusal to issue any marriage licenses under an office policy she created after the U.S. Supreme Court in June made gay marriage legal across the United States.


Drowned Syrian boys buried in hometown they fled

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 03:21 AM PDT

This handout photo courtesy of Tima Kurdi shows Alan Kurdi, left, and his brother Galib Kurdi. The body of 3-year-old Syrian Alan Kurdi was found on a Turkish beach after the small rubber boat he, his 5-year old brother Galib and their mother, Rehan, were in capsized during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece. The family stated that the spelling of the boys' names had been changed by Turkish authorities to Aylan and Galip, but were in fact spelled as Alan and Galib. (Photo courtesy of Tima Kurdi /The Canadian Press via AP) MANDATORY CREDITKUCUK KENDIRLI, Turkey (AP) — The Syrian man who survived a capsizing during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece, on Friday buried his wife and two sons in their hometown of Kobani, returning them to the conflict-torn Syrian Kurdish region they had fled.


U.S. men who thwarted France train attack to be honored in California parade

Posted: 03 Sep 2015 10:41 PM PDT

The three friends, Anthony Sadler, 22, Spencer Stone, a 23-year-old U.S. airman, and Alek Skarlatos, 22, a National Guardsman, charged the gunman on a train headed to Paris from Amsterdam on Aug. 21, helping to wrestle away a pistol and an AK-47 assault rifle. The efforts of the three Americans, along with Briton Chris Norman, earned them France's highest honor, the Legion d'honneur.

Why aren’t there more Kim Davises?

Posted: 03 Sep 2015 06:33 PM PDT

Other county clerks have taken a controversial but less defiant path on gay marriage.


Shooting kills one, wounds two near community college in Sacramento

Posted: 03 Sep 2015 05:27 PM PDT

One person was killed and two others wounded in a shooting near a Sacramento community college, police said on Thursday. All three of the shooting victims were male, police said. The shooter, who police described as a male of Pacific Island descent and wearing cargo shorts and no shirt, was still at large by 5 p.m., police said.

Justice Department tightens cellphone tracking rules

Posted: 03 Sep 2015 05:10 PM PDT

A commuter uses his mobile phone in New YorkBy Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors and some federal law enforcement agencies will need to obtain a search warrant to use devices that track cellphone locations, under a policy announced by the U.S. Justice Department on Thursday. Until now, U.S. attorneys and Justice Department agencies, including the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration, have been able to use cell-site simulators without applying for a warrant or outlining a probable cause. Cell-site simulators replicate phone towers to pick up location-identifying information that enables law enforcement to apprehend fugitives, conduct narcotic investigations or rescue a kidnapped child, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told reporters on Thursday.


Democratic support piles up for Iran nuclear deal in Senate

Posted: 03 Sep 2015 01:46 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 10, 2015 file photo, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., attends a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Booker announced his support for the Iran nuclear deal on Thursday, siding with President Barack Obama and bucking home-state pressures to say WASHINGTON (AP) — Now a done deal, the Iran nuclear agreement gained critical backing from three more Democratic senators Thursday, deflating opponents and boosting White House hopes of blocking a disapproval resolution in the Senate and sparing President Barack Obama from resorting to a veto.


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