| Mississippi city sued over jailing of poor who miss court payments Posted: 21 Oct 2015 11:32 AM PDT  The group said the Gulf Coast city known for its casinos and white-sand beaches locks up hundreds of indigent debtors each year for days or weeks at a time without access to a court hearing or lawyer, a violation of their constitutional rights. "People are being jailed because they're poor," said ACLU attorney Nusrat Choudhury. Biloxi spokesman Vincent Creel said the city "treats all defendants fairly under the law" and that its courts have ordered community service for people who could not pay their fines.
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| Suspect identified in killing of New York police officer Posted: 21 Oct 2015 09:59 AM PDT  A 30-year-old man with a long criminal history is suspected of killing a New York City police officer on Tuesday night in the city's East Harlem neighborhood, police said. Officer Randolph Holder was shot around 8:30 p.m. during an exchange of gunfire on a pedestrian overpass above the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, a busy highway that runs along the east side of Manhattan. Police identified the suspect as Tyrone Howard, who was shot in the leg and arrested a few blocks from the shooting.
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| VP Joe Biden will not run for president in 2016 Posted: 21 Oct 2015 09:42 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden says he won't run for president in 2016.
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| Obama to target nation's heroin problem on West Virginia trip Posted: 21 Oct 2015 09:26 AM PDT  President Barack Obama will seek to draw attention to the growing U.S. heroin problem on Wednesday on a trip to West Virginia, which has the nation's highest drug overdose death rate. In that time, heroin abuse has worsened. Obama will visit Charleston, the state capital.
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| Pilot killed as US Navy jet crashes near UK base Posted: 21 Oct 2015 07:49 AM PDT  A US F-18 fighter jet crashed near a British air base on Wednesday, killing the pilot, police and the US Embassy in London said. The single-seater US Navy plane came down near the town of Ely, around 130 kilometres (80 miles) north of London, after taking off from RAF Lakenheath airforce base in Suffolk. "We can confirm that the aircraft was a military aircraft," a police spokesman said.
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| Police responding to reported suspicious substance near Congress: ABC Posted: 21 Oct 2015 06:28 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Capitol Police are responding to reports of a suspicious substance at one entrance of the Cannon congressional building, the ABC News affiliate in Washington reported on Wednesday. |
| Sister of teenagers beaten at New York church to appear in court Posted: 21 Oct 2015 04:31 AM PDT  The half-sister of two teenagers severely beaten at a church in upstate New York, leaving one dead and the other hospitalized, is due to appear in court on Wednesday on assault charges. Sarah Ferguson, 33, is accused of participating in a group attack on her 17-year-old brother, Christopher Leonard, during a counseling session last week at the Word of Life Church in Chadwicks, New York, about 50 miles east of Syracuse. Leonard, who was recently released from a hospital where he was treated for blunt force injuries throughout his body, is expected to testify against Ferguson in New Hartford Town Court on Wednesday.
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| Democrats back Clinton, say Benghazi probe mostly politics: poll Posted: 21 Oct 2015 03:25 AM PDT  White House contender Hillary Clinton heads into Thursday's congressional hearing on the 2012 Benghazi attacks with most U.S. Democrats agreeing with her accusation that the Republican-led probe is politically motivated, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Fifty-four percent of the 598 Democrats surveyed said they believed the U.S. House of Representatives investigation into the attacks and Clinton's actions was entirely or mostly about discrediting the former U.S. secretary of state. Twelve percent of Democrats surveyed online from Oct. 16-19 said the hearings were mostly a valid investigation that had become politicized.
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| U.S. adds charges against Macau billionaire in U.N. bribe case Posted: 21 Oct 2015 03:09 AM PDT  U.S. prosecutors unveiled more charges against a billionaire Macau real estate developer and three others accused of engaging in a bribery scheme involving a former president of the United Nations General Assembly. The charges were in an indictment in Manhattan federal court against five people including John Ashe, a former U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who was General Assembly president from 2013 to 2014. Prosecutors previously said Ashe took more than $1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen including Ng Lap Seng, who has a $1.8 billion net worth and developments in the Chinese territory Macau.
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| Syrian TV: President Assad meets Putin in Moscow Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:16 AM PDT  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — President Bashar Assad has traveled to Moscow in his first known trip abroad since the war broke out in Syria in 2011 to meet his strongest ally Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Syrian and Russian media reported Wednesday.
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| NY federal prosecutor probes daily fantasy sports business: WSJ Posted: 20 Oct 2015 11:22 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Manhattan Attorney Preet Bharara is investigating whether the business model behind daily fantasy sports companies such as DraftKings Inc and FanDuel Inc violates federal law, the Wall Street Journal reported. The investigation is at an early stage and senior Justice Department lawyers in Washington are undecided on whether daily fantasy sports betting violates federal gambling statutes, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The newspaper reported earlier this month that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Justice Department were investigating the industry, but the central role of Bharara's office was not previously known.
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| Texas teen arrested for homemade clock to move to Qatar Posted: 20 Oct 2015 11:07 PM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — A 14-year-old Muslim boy who was arrested after a homemade clock he brought to school was mistaken for a possible bomb will be moving with his family to the Middle East so he can attend school there, his family said Tuesday.
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| New York City police officer killed pursuing suspect in East Harlem Posted: 20 Oct 2015 10:33 PM PDT Officer Randolph Holder was shot around 8:30 p.m. local time in an exchange of gunfire near the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, a major route through Manhattan, having responded to calls from residents reporting hearing shots in the area. One person said an he was the victim of armed robbery while riding his bike, the New York City Police Department said. |
| Ryan to seek speakership if unity candidate of House GOP Posted: 20 Oct 2015 05:55 PM PDT  Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan told GOP lawmakers late Tuesday that he will run for speaker, but only if they embrace him by week's end as their consensus candidate — an ambitious bid to impose unity on a disordered and divided House.
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| Texas teen arrested over clock is moving to Qatar with his family Posted: 20 Oct 2015 04:48 PM PDT  By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - The Texas boy arrested for bringing to school a homemade clock that was mistaken for a bomb is moving to Qatar, his family said on Tuesday, a few hours after he was at the White House for an astronomy night hosted by President Barack Obama. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, a bespectacled ninth-grader who became an Internet sensation for an arrest that supporters said was influenced by bias against his Muslim religion, has accepted an offer from the Qatar Foundation to study at its Young Innovators Program. "This means, that we, as a family, will relocate to Qatar where Ahmed will receive a full scholarship for secondary and undergraduate education," his family said in a statement.
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| U.S. adds charges against Macau billionaire in U.N. bribe case Posted: 20 Oct 2015 02:52 PM PDT U.S. prosecutors unveiled more charges against a billionaire Macau real estate developer and three others accused of engaging in a bribery scheme involving a former president of the United Nations General Assembly. The charges were in an indictment in Manhattan federal court against five people including John Ashe, a former U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who was General Assembly president from 2013 to 2014. |
| New York suburb with roots in Nazi era accused of housing bias Posted: 20 Oct 2015 02:36 PM PDT A New York suburb that was established by Nazi sympathizers in the years leading up to World War Two still uses discriminatory housing practices to ensure its residents remain white, according to a lawsuit filed this week. A couple who lived in Yaphank, a hamlet of 6,000 about 65 miles (105 km) east of New York City, claims the organization that owns the land under their house enforces bylaws requiring homeowners to be primarily of German ancestry. In a lawsuit filed on Monday in federal court in Central Islip, Philip Kneer and Patricia Flynn-Kneer said the German American Settlement League had violated federal housing law. |
| Biden clarifies recollection of bin Laden raid Posted: 20 Oct 2015 02:18 PM PDT |
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