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• Rihanna calls Rachel Dolezal 'a bit of a hero'
• Lindsey Graham doesn’t remember voting against Sandy relief
• South Carolina still gripped by floodwaters after record rain
• Report of gunman at Philadelphia college prompts lockdown: ABC
• U.S. investigators head to Florida to probe ship lost in hurricane
• The Trump swagger is seen, not always loved, worldwide
• Texas plans to execute a man who killed, robbed victim of $8
• Obama: GOP would have U.S. in 'seven wars right now'
• Despite sunny forecast, South Carolina ordeal far from over
• Hillary Clinton slams Benghazi committee as a political ploy
• Clinton: Benghazi committee set up with partisan motives
• Oregon college shaken by massacre reopens with counselors, comfort dogs
• Nine dead in historic South Carolina rains and flooding
• Benghazi committee Democrats say they'll release witness transcripts
• Source: Oregon gunman rants in manifesto that he had no girlfriend
• General Mills recalling 1.8M Cheerios boxes on allergy risk
• Oregon college shaken by massacre reopens with counselors, comfort dogs
• California becomes fifth state with right-to-die law

Rihanna calls Rachel Dolezal 'a bit of a hero' Posted: 06 Oct 2015 12:51 PM PDT Rachel Dolezal was widely criticized for representing herself as black.

Lindsey Graham doesn’t remember voting against Sandy relief Posted: 06 Oct 2015 12:17 PM PDT In 2013, Graham was among 36 Senate Republicans who voted against giving aid to New Jersey in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

South Carolina still gripped by floodwaters after record rain Posted: 06 Oct 2015 09:14 AM PDT Residents in flood-plagued South Carolina grappled with the damage wrought by historic rains on their homes, roads and water supplies but welcomed predictions of sunny skies in the state on Tuesday. Emergency management officials said about 300 state-maintained roads and 160 bridges remained closed. "This is a great example of why you should NOT drive around a road barricade," the South Carolina Emergency Management Division tweet said.

Report of gunman at Philadelphia college prompts lockdown: ABC Posted: 06 Oct 2015 08:21 AM PDT (Reuters) - A report of a gunman at Community College of Philadelphia prompted a campus lockdown on Tuesday, a local ABC affiliate said. No injuries were immediately reported.

U.S. investigators head to Florida to probe ship lost in hurricane Posted: 06 Oct 2015 06:19 AM PDT Federal safety investigators traveled to Florida on Tuesday to investigate the U.S. container ship lost at sea after being hit by powerful Hurricane Joaquin, leaving one person confirmed dead and 32 others missing. The team from the National Transportation Safety Board left Washington for Jacksonville, Florida, where the El Faro had departed from last week en route to San Juan, Puerto Rico, before disappearing in what maritime experts called the worst cargo shipping disaster involving a U.S.-flagged vessel in more than 30 years. NTSB member Bella Dinh-Zarr acknowledged the investigation would be difficult with the ship having sunk in an unknown location after its last known location off Crooked Island in the Bahamas.    "It's a big challenge when there's such a large area of water and at such depth," Dinh-Zarr said.

The Trump swagger is seen, not always loved, worldwide Posted: 06 Oct 2015 06:02 AM PDT BALMEDIE, Scotland (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is well-known in this serene coastal section of Scotland, where shimmering golden sand dunes meet the ice-blue North Sea and people play on his golf course. He's known in the Himalayas, too, far from any sign with his name on it. And in the Middle East, Africa and beyond.

Texas plans to execute a man who killed, robbed victim of $8 Posted: 06 Oct 2015 04:20 AM PDT Texas plans on Tuesday to execute a man who was convicted of fatally shooting a recently arrived Mexican immigrant in the head and robbing him of $8. Juan Garcia is set to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. local time at the state's death chamber in Huntsville. If the execution goes ahead, it will be the 529th in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976 - the most of any state.

Obama: GOP would have U.S. in 'seven wars right now' Posted: 06 Oct 2015 03:11 AM PDT The president blasts his hawkish GOP critics in a little-noticed video released last month.

Despite sunny forecast, South Carolina ordeal far from over Posted: 06 Oct 2015 02:05 AM PDT It will take weeks for the state to return to normal after being hit by a historic rainstorm.

Hillary Clinton slams Benghazi committee as a political ploy Posted: 05 Oct 2015 08:49 PM PDT

Clinton: Benghazi committee set up with partisan motives Posted: 05 Oct 2015 07:46 PM PDT

Oregon college shaken by massacre reopens with counselors, comfort dogs Posted: 05 Oct 2015 07:15 PM PDT By Eric M. Johnson and Emily Flitter ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - Students still shaken from the deadly mass shooting at an Oregon community college days ago were welcomed back to campus Monday by grief counselors, comfort dogs and words of encouragement from faculty, but classes remained canceled through the week. The White House later in the day said President Barack Obama, who spoke out forcefully in favor of stricter gun control measures after the massacre, planned to visit Roseburg on Friday to meet privately with families of the victims. Roseburg Mayor Larry Rich, a Republican and self-described supporter of gun rights in the former timber community 180 miles (300 km) south of Portland, said he welcomed the Democratic president to visit when the White House called on Monday to ask whether Obama should make the trip.

Nine dead in historic South Carolina rains and flooding Posted: 05 Oct 2015 06:09 PM PDT By Greg Lacour WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) - Floodwaters from unprecedented rainfall in South Carolina have killed nine people, closed more than 500 roads and bridges and prompted hundreds of rescues of people trapped in homes and cars, officials said on Monday. Governor Nikki Haley warned residents to remain on alert as rain continued to fall in some of the hardest-hit areas, including the state capital, Columbia, which saw its wettest days on record over the weekend. "There's still a lot of water out there." President Barack Obama declared a disaster in South Carolina, making federal funds available to governments and non-profits in 11 counties.

Benghazi committee Democrats say they'll release witness transcripts Posted: 05 Oct 2015 04:45 PM PDT By Susan Cornwell and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Democratic minority on a U.S. congressional committee investigating the attack in Benghazi, Libya, intend to defy the committee's Republican leaders by releasing the transcript of a closed-door interview with a former senior aide to Hillary Clinton, they said on Monday. The announcement came six days after Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the leader of U.S. House Republicans, went on television to boast that the federally funded investigation had successfully dented Clinton's poll numbers as she runs for the Democratic presidential nomination. This has not stopped Democrats, including Clinton herself, from seizing on his comments as confirmation of what they have believed all along.

Source: Oregon gunman rants in manifesto that he had no girlfriend Posted: 05 Oct 2015 04:28 PM PDT The gunman who executed nine people at an Oregon community college before killing himself ranted in a manifesto he left behind about not having a girlfriend and said he thought everyone else was "crazy," a law enforcement official said Monday.

General Mills recalling 1.8M Cheerios boxes on allergy risk Posted: 05 Oct 2015 03:38 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — General Mills is recalling 1.8 million boxes of Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios produced at a plant in Lodi, California, saying the cereal is labeled gluten-free but actually contains wheat.

Oregon college shaken by massacre reopens with counselors, comfort dogs Posted: 05 Oct 2015 01:44 PM PDT Students were welcomed back on Monday by grief counselors and comfort dogs to the small Oregon community college shattered by a shooting rampage that left 10 people dead, though classes were to remain canceled through the week. The campus of Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, about 180 miles (300 km) south of Portland, was reopened to registered students and staff four days after the massacre, allowing them to retrieve vehicles and other belongings left behind in Thursday's pandemonium. The reopening also was aimed at helping restore a sense of normalcy on campus before classes and other activities at the college of some 3,000 full-time students were due to resume next Monday, school officials said.

California becomes fifth state with right-to-die law Posted: 05 Oct 2015 01:27 PM PDT SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will become the fifth state in the nation to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives using doctor-prescribed drugs after Gov. Jerry Brown announced Monday he signed one of the most emotionally charged bills of the year.

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