| Jury recommends death for man who killed 3 at Jewish sites Posted: 08 Sep 2015 12:48 PM PDT  OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A jury recommended the death penalty Tuesday for a white supremacist who fatally shot three people at Jewish sites in Kansas last year, just hours after the man told jurors he didn't care what sentence was handed down.
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| Killer of three at Kansas Jewish centers sentenced to death Posted: 08 Sep 2015 12:15 PM PDT  A Kansas jury on Tuesday said a white supremacist who shot three people to death outside two Jewish centers last year should be put to death. Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan who has been representing himself in court, was found guilty last month of killing Reat Underwood, 14, and his grandfather, William Corporon, 69, outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, and Terri LaManno, 53, outside a Jewish retirement home, both in Overland Park, Kansas.
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| Illinois investigator says people on video were not involved in officer's killing Posted: 08 Sep 2015 11:28 AM PDT  CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Lake County, Illinois, investigator said on Tuesday people seen on a video put together by the FBI were not involved in last week's fatal shooting of Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz.
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| Trump: I 'always felt that I was in the military' at military school Posted: 08 Sep 2015 11:12 AM PDT  Republican frontrunner Donald Trump reportedly told the author of a forthcoming biography that while he never served in the military, he "always felt" that he had because he attended a military-themed prep school that gave him "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military."
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| Judge orders Kentucky clerk in gay marriage case released from jail Posted: 08 Sep 2015 10:21 AM PDT  By Steve Bittenbender Grayson, Ky. (Reuters) - A U.S. district judge on Tuesday ordered jailed Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis in Kentucky released immediately, according to a court order. The judge said he was satisfied the county clerk's office was fulfilling its obligation to issue marriage licenses to legally eligible couples. U.S. District Judge David Bunning on Sept. 3 had ordered Davis, 49, jailed after she defied his order.
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| Freddie Gray's family settles with city for $6.4M Posted: 08 Sep 2015 08:25 AM PDT  BALTIMORE (AP) — The city of Baltimore says it has reached a $6.4 million wrongful death settlement with the family of Freddie Gray.
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| Baltimore in tentative $6.4 million settlement with Freddie Gray family: media Posted: 08 Sep 2015 08:09 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Baltimore officials have reached a tentative $6.4 million wrongful death settlement with the family of Freddie Gray, an unarmed black man who died in April from an injury sustained in police custody, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing two unnamed sources. The settlement would need the approval of the city's Board of Estimates, the Post said. A judge last week ordered individual trials for six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Gray, a case that fed the U.S. debate on police treatment of minorities.
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| U.S. hunter who killed Zimbabwe lion returns to dental practice Posted: 08 Sep 2015 05:56 AM PDT  BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (Reuters) - The Minnesota dentist who killed Zimbabwean lion Cecil, sparking a global outcry from animal lovers, returned to work on Tuesday at his suburban Minneapolis office to shouts of "murderer" and "leave town" from a half dozen protesters. Walter Palmer, 55, arrived at about 7 a.m. CDT to the Bloomington, Minnesota, dental practice that he shut down in late July amid a firestorm of protests after he was publicly identified as the hunter who killed the rare black-maned lion. It had reopened in the middle of August without him. ...
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| Kansas jury to weigh death penalty in Jewish center murders Posted: 08 Sep 2015 04:19 AM PDT  A Kansas jury could decide on Tuesday whether a Missouri white supremacist should be sentenced to death in the killings of three people outside two Jewish centers in April 2014. Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan, was found guilty in August of the murders he told jurors he had committed. Cross was found guilty of killing Reat Underwood, 14, and his grandfather, William Corporon, 69, outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, as well as Terri LaManno, 53, outside a Jewish retirement home in Overland Park, Kansas.
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| Pope radically simplifies Catholic marriage annulment procedures Posted: 08 Sep 2015 04:04 AM PDT  Pope Francis makes the most substantial changes to Catholic annulment rules in centuries.
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| Huckabee to join rally for clerk opposed to gay marriage Posted: 08 Sep 2015 03:00 AM PDT  The presidential candidate will join protesters outside the jail where Kim Davis is locked up.
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| As Pope visit nears, U.S. Catholic Church faces financial strain Posted: 07 Sep 2015 11:04 PM PDT  By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - When Pope Francis makes his first visit to the United States this month he will face a national Catholic Church whose finances are staggering under a shrinking membership and huge payouts to sex-abuse victims, threatening to undermine its social influence. With the Church still absorbing the roughly $3 billion cost of a clergy sex abuse scandal, another financial crisis is looming -- a potentially crippling shortfall in funding the pensions of its ageing priests. A Reuters review of U.S. Catholic financial disclosures shows the pension funding shortfall in 2014 likely approached $2 billion, with much of that coming due in the next five years as thousands of priests retire. The U.S. Catholic Church has lost millions of its members over the past 14 years following the child abuse scandal that tarnished its reputation and forced it to sell assets to pay billions of dollars in settlements. The Church's finances are also under pressure from emptying pews and a demographic shift among Catholics to the U.S. south and suburbs that has left much of its inner-city bricks and mortar underused and bleeding money.
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| Planned Parenthood faces unexpected challenge from Obamacare Posted: 07 Sep 2015 10:15 PM PDT  In many states, Planned Parenthood is losing clients as newly insured patients turn to medical providers included in their health plan's networks, according to data provided to Reuters and interviews with more than two dozen of its affiliates. "Some people relied on us because they were uninsured prior to the Affordable Care Act. Now they can go anywhere for care, and some of them have been," said Lori Carpentier, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Mid and South Michigan, which expects to treat 58,000 patients in 2015, down about 15 percent from the 68,000 it treated in fiscal 2012, before major parts of the law went into effect.
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| Clinton to propose U.S. campaign finance overhaul Posted: 07 Sep 2015 09:59 PM PDT  Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton will propose a slate of campaign finance reform measures on Tuesday aimed at limiting political donations by corporations and large donors and increasing transparency in election spending. Clinton, who is seeking the nomination to be the Democratic candidate in the November 2016 presidential election, identified measures she would pursue if she becomes president. Among them are rules requiring greater disclosure of political spending including by publicly traded companies and U.S. government contractors and a program that would provide matching funds for small donations to presidential and congressional candidates.
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| In haven for Mideast emigres, a hope U.S. will take more refugees Posted: 07 Sep 2015 07:28 PM PDT  By Bernie Woodall DEARBORN, Mich. (Reuters) - Akeel Asady, the usually cheerful part-owner of Iraqi Kabob restaurant, lifted a kitchen towel draped over his left shoulder to wipe tears that formed seconds after he spoke of the 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned last week during his refugee family's desperate attempt to make it to Greece. Asady was once a refugee who fled Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq in the early 1990s and lived in a tent in Saudi Arabia's desert for more than two years before a Christian agency brought him to the United States. For Arab-Americans who sit at the six booths of Iraqi Kabob in Dearborn, Michigan, lively discussions about violence in the Middle East and the refugees it creates are always taking place, he said.
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| At least four people dead in small plane crash in Colorado mountains Posted: 07 Sep 2015 05:13 PM PDT The twin-engine Cessna 310-H went down around 4:15 p.m. local time on Sunday in a remote section of the San Juan Mountains, part of the Rocky Mountain range, the National Transportation Board said. NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said the agency had reports that five people on board had died. Rescue teams from the Colorado National Guard and San Juan County had spotted the wreckage and were working to recover the bodies from the remote, mountainous area above the town of Silverton, in southwestern Colorado. |
| Europe's Refugee Crisis by the Numbers Posted: 07 Sep 2015 02:41 PM PDT  European leaders are proposing extra funding to help relocate thousands of people amid the continent's biggest refugee crisis since World War II. Germany and Austria are advocating for quotas for each of the 28 members of the European Union. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is expected this week to propose relocating 120,000 migrants in Italy, Greece and Hungary to other nations in the E.U., according to Bloomberg News.
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| 'Give it a go, Joe': Pittsburgh union crowd cheers on Biden Posted: 07 Sep 2015 02:08 PM PDT  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Hearing chants of "run Joe, run," Vice President Joe Biden marched in Pittsburgh's annual Labor Day parade on Monday as speculation swirled about a potential late entry into the Democratic presidential campaign.
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