| Judge dismisses Wikimedia lawsuit over NSA surveillance - report Posted: 24 Oct 2015 12:11 PM PDT  A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Wikimedia and other groups challenging one of the U.S. National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs, the Baltimore Sun reported. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Maryland, where the spy agency is based, said the NSA is violating U.S. constitutional protections and the law by tapping into high-capacity cables, switches and routers that move Internet traffic through the United States. The case is one of a number of challenges made by privacy advocates against U.S. spying programs since 2013, when documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the long reach of secret government surveillance.
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| Tensions over big-game hunting rekindled with Florida bear hunt Posted: 24 Oct 2015 11:55 AM PDT  The hunt, which will span up to one week and allow up to 320 black bears to be killed, aims to stabilize a population that has rebounded to more than 3,000 from several hundred in the 1970s, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Hunting enthusiasts have defended such hunts in Florida and elsewhere as necessary to manage expanding numbers of bears and other large animals that threaten humans, while animal rights activists have decried the trend as cruel and ineffective.
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| Car plows into crowd at Oklahoma parade, killing at least three Posted: 24 Oct 2015 11:40 AM PDT  At least three people were killed and nearly two dozen injured when a car traveling at high speed plowed into a crowd watching a homecoming parade at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, police said on Saturday. The driver of the vehicle, Adacia Chambers, 25, was in custody, Captain Kyle Gibbs of the Stillwater Police said. The suspect does not appear to have been a student at Oklahoma State University, Gibbs said.
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| Police: 3 dead, 22 injured after homecoming parade crash Posted: 24 Oct 2015 11:07 AM PDT  A vehicle crashed into a crowd of spectators Saturday during the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, killing at least three people and injuring nearly two dozen others, police said
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| Heavy rains swamp Texas, flooding roads, derailing train Posted: 24 Oct 2015 08:56 AM PDT (Reuters) - Heavy rains swamped Texas overnight, forcing the evacuation of some residents in at least one county, stranding drivers on flooded streets in the central part of the state and causing cancellations of dozens of flights at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, officials said on Saturday. A Union Pacific freight train derailed in Navarro County, south of Dallas, as flood waters covered the tracks. The rain was expected to intensify over the weekend as moisture from tropical depression Patricia, which struck the Pacific coast of Mexico on Friday as a very powerful hurricane, meets with a storm system coming from the west and over Texas. |
| Kerry: Israel, Jordan working to ease holy site tensions Posted: 24 Oct 2015 08:23 AM PDT  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Israel and Jordan have agreed on steps aimed at reducing tensions at a holy site in Jerusalem that have fanned Israeli-Palestinian violence.
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| Paul Ryan prepares to ascend to speaker; pile of mess awaits Posted: 24 Oct 2015 07:49 AM PDT  The honeymoon might be over before it even begins for House Speaker-in-waiting Paul Ryan when he is elevated to the top job this coming week.
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| Dash of drama: How the Royals returned to the World Series Posted: 24 Oct 2015 05:43 AM PDT |
| Donald Trump pans Iowa polls, says Carson 'super low-energy' Posted: 24 Oct 2015 05:11 AM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump dismissed polls that show him trailing Dr. Ben Carson in Iowa, calling the retired neurosurgeon "super low-energy" before a boisterous crowd in Miami on Friday night.
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| Missouri's Gateway Arch monument built on rigged votes, protests Posted: 24 Oct 2015 04:25 AM PDT  When the last section of St. Louis' Gateway Arch, an American landmark as iconic as the Statue of Liberty, was hoisted into place on Oct 28, 1965, it was the concluding act of a story that began more than 30 years earlier. From rigged votes in a bond election to fund the project, to a famous father-son mix-up when the winning architect was alerted, to a civil rights protest high above ground, some of the Arch's rich, complicated history during those three decades has largely been forgotten as the 630-foot-tall, stainless steel structure nears its 50th anniversary. While today's television viewers may know the Arch better as the centerpiece of the SyFy series "Defiance," the seed for its creation was planted in 1933, when attorney Luther Ely Smith, returning by train to his home town, saw the blight of the riverfront and proposed building the structure.
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| GOP, Dems moving in opposite directions after a pivotal week Posted: 24 Oct 2015 02:16 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — After a pivotal week, the presidential race has become a tale of two parties on sharply different trajectories: Hillary Rodham Clinton has tightened her grip on the Democratic nomination while Republican concern is reaching new heights. Some officials are even considering what could turn into a GOP civil war to stop Donald Trump — with no fallback option.
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| Clinton calls Republican's impeachment vow 'pathetic' Posted: 24 Oct 2015 01:26 AM PDT  Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday denounced as "pathetic" and "totally ridiculous" a Republican congressman's call to impeach her on her first day in office if she is elected to the White House next year. Clinton, the front-runner for her party's November 2016 presidential nomination, was responding to comments made by Republican Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama. It's so totally ridiculous." "It, perhaps, is good politics with, you know, the most intense, extreme part of their base.
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| The 2015 World Series schedule is set Posted: 24 Oct 2015 12:53 AM PDT |
| Mega-storm Patricia drenches Mexico, raising flooding fears Posted: 24 Oct 2015 12:19 AM PDT  It has weakened from its record-breaking strength but is still dumping torrential rains in Mexico.
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| Colorado movie gunman James Holmes assaulted by fellow prisoner Posted: 23 Oct 2015 11:46 PM PDT  Convicted mass killer James Holmes, who is serving multiple life sentences for gunning down a dozen people at a movie theater in 2012, was assaulted by another inmate at a high-security Colorado prison, a corrections official said on Friday. Holmes was not injured when he was attacked by 27-year-old Mark C. Daniels at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City, said Adrienne Jacobson, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections. Daniels lunged at Holmes and "took some swings" at him as the two prisoners were being escorted by guards down a hallway inside the lockup on Oct. 8, she said.
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| Hurricane Patricia batters Mexico as one of strongest storms ever Posted: 23 Oct 2015 11:29 PM PDT  The storm slams into a stretch of sparsely populated coastline near the popular beach getaway of Puerto Vallarta.
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| Wisconsin Governor Walker signs bill restricting secret investigations Posted: 23 Oct 2015 08:31 PM PDT  Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker on Friday signed a bill into law that prohibits prosecutors from using the state's secret investigation law to probe political crimes - a measure used to convict four of his aides and investigate his campaign. In Wisconsin, prosecutors can use a so called "John Doe" proceeding law to call witnesses, request search warrants and offer immunity without probable cause that a crime has been committed. Under the legislation Walker signed, prosecutors can no longer use the law to investigate cases of bribery or political misconduct.
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