| Hillary Clinton calls McCarthy's Benghazi comments 'deeply distressing' Posted: 04 Oct 2015 11:22 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton says House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's suggestion that the select committee investigating Benghazi was summoned to derail her 2016 presidential bid is "deeply distressing" because it dishonors the four Americans who died in the terror attacks.
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| Trump says he has license to carry: 'Somebody attacks me, they’re gonna be shocked' Posted: 04 Oct 2015 10:49 AM PDT  Donald Trump continues to court Second Amendment supporters in the wake of last week's deadly shooting in Oregon, suggesting the teachers at Umpqua Community College should have been armed — just like he is.
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| Utah Rep. Chaffetz announces uphill run for House speaker Posted: 04 Oct 2015 07:11 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah announced Sunday that he is running for House speaker in a longshot challenge to Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, adding a new dose of turmoil for reeling House Republicans.
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| Supreme Court tackles hot social issues as 2016 election looms Posted: 04 Oct 2015 04:40 AM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are set to wade into contentious social matters in their new term beginning on Monday including affirmative action, union powers and voting rights, and could add major cases involving abortion and birth control. The justices, five appointed by Republican presidents and four by Democrats, often divide along ideological and political lines on pressing social issues. In a major battle over the future of affirmative action in college admissions, the justices for a second time will consider a lawsuit brought by Abigail Fisher, a white applicant who was denied admission to the entering class of 2008 at the University of Texas at Austin.
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| Doctors Without Borders leaves Afghan city after airstrike Posted: 04 Oct 2015 12:50 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — International medical charity Doctors Without Borders has withdrawn from the northern Afghan city of Kunduz after a deadly airstrike destroyed its hospital.
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| Gusty wind may add to weather risks on soggy East Coast Posted: 04 Oct 2015 12:34 AM PDT  Trees and power lines across the Carolinas and Virginia are vulnerable.
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| Gunman in Oregon college massacre committed suicide Posted: 03 Oct 2015 09:46 PM PDT  By Courtney Sherwood and Emily Flitter ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - The gunman who killed his English professor and eight others at an Oregon community college committed suicide after a shootout with police who arrived within five minutes and exchanged fire with him almost immediately, authorities said. Investigators had previously said the 26-year-old shooter was killed by the officers who raced to the rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, which ranks as the deadliest among dozens of U.S. mass shootings in the past two years. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin told a news conference on Saturday the state medical examiner had determined that the gunman, Christopher Harper-Mercer, took his own life.
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| New York gas blast and fire kill one, injure three Posted: 03 Oct 2015 08:40 PM PDT  A gas explosion and fire that ripped off the facade of a three-story building in New York on Saturday, killing one person and injuring three, might have been caused by a tenant moving out a stove, fire officials said. More than 200 firefighters battled the four-alarm blaze in the borough of Brooklyn after it was reported to the New York Fire Department at 1:05 p.m., Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro told a news conference. Although severe structural damage had prevented fire officials from entering the building, Nigro said he thought the fire originated on the second floor.
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| Obama offers condolences over 'tragic incident' in Kunduz Posted: 03 Oct 2015 05:58 PM PDT  US President Barack Obama offered his "deepest condolences" over a suspected US airstrike on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz that killed 19 people, and promised a thorough probe of the incident. "On behalf of the American people, I extend my deepest condolences to the medical professionals and other civilians killed and injured in the tragic incident at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz," he said in a statement released by the White House. "The Department of Defense has launched a full investigation, and we will await the results of that inquiry before making a definitive judgment as to the circumstances of this tragedy," Obama said.
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| Guatemala mudslide death toll reaches 56, more feared dead Posted: 03 Oct 2015 02:10 PM PDT  SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala (AP) — A Guatemalan emergency official says the number of people killed when a hillside collapsed on a group of homes has risen to 56.
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