| Man who landed gyrocopter at U.S. Capitol pleads guilty Posted: 20 Nov 2015 12:13 PM PST  A Florida man who flew a gyrocopter onto the U.S. Capitol grounds to publicize campaign finance reform pleaded guilty on Friday to a reduced charge. Douglas Hughes, 62, a mail carrier from Ruskin, Florida, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one felony count of operating as an airman without an airman's certificate. A date for Hughes's sentencing has not been set but his attorney, Mark Goldstone, asked Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to give him probation.
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| Chipotle E. coli outbreak suspected in three new states Posted: 20 Nov 2015 11:58 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday that three additional states reported E. coli infections of the same strain as the Chipotle outbreak.
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| VW emissions issue in larger vehicles dates back to 2009: EPA Posted: 20 Nov 2015 10:39 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG has told U.S. regulators that emissions issues in larger luxury cars and SUVs extend to thousands of additional vehicles dating back to 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday.
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| 18 dead in Mali hostage siege a week after Paris carnage Posted: 20 Nov 2015 08:49 AM PST  Special forces stormed a luxury hotel in Mali on Friday after gunmen seized guests and staff in a hostage crisis that left at least 18 people dead, a week after the jihadist rampage in Paris. Many of the 170 hostages initially trapped by the suspected Islamists in the besieged Radisson Blu hotel in the Malian capital Bamako were foreigners and a Belgian regional assembly official was reported to be among the dead. About nine hours after the attack began in a hail of automatic gunfire, the country's security minister said there were no more hostages after Malian special forces backed by US and French troops stormed the building.
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| Two killed, 10 hurt in Texas crash involving Ghost Inside band tour bus Posted: 20 Nov 2015 07:25 AM PST A tour bus carrying members of the rock band The Ghost Inside and a truck crashed head-on in West Texas on a two-lane desert road, killing the drivers of the two vehicles and injuring 10 others, authorities said on Friday. The Texas Department of Public Safety said the cause of the crash, which took place on Thursday about 15 miles (25 km) east of El Paso, has not yet been determined. "All 5 band members and all members of the crew are alive and currently being treated for their injuries," the band said on its Facebook page. |
| Six U.S. citizens among those recovered in hotel: U.S. military Posted: 20 Nov 2015 07:08 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six U.S. citizens are among the people who have been recovered from the Radisson hotel in Mali where attackers took 170 people hostage on Friday, a U.S. military spokesman said. Army Colonel Mark Cheadle, a spokesman for the U.S. Africa Command, also said that U.S. special forces were assisting in the incident in the capital city of Bamako. Dozens of people were reported to have escaped or been freed, but at least three were dead. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. (Reporting by Warren Strobel; Writing by Lisa Lambert; Editing by Susan Heavey)
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| Data doesn't support nod for BioMarin's muscle-wasting drug: FDA staff Posted: 20 Nov 2015 06:21 AM PST (Reuters) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff reviewers said clinical data to date did not merit approving BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc's muscle-wasting disorder drug. The FDA staff reviewers raised questions over the clinical benefit of the drug, drisapersen, and said long-term data submitted by BioMarin did not support an approval at this time. BioMarin's shares fell 8.7 percent to $94.15 in premarket trading on Friday. |
| Wal-Mart scrimped on hiring as store space grew rapidly Posted: 20 Nov 2015 05:15 AM PST  By Nathan Layne CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart has been dogged by criticism of the standard of its stores in recent years, including long checkout lines and insufficient stocking of its shelves. Over the past decade, Wal-Mart Stores Inc opened nearly 1,500 new stores in the United States, a 45 percent increase in space and equivalent to more than 4,000 American football fields, while its sales have grown by 50 percent. The disparity may help to explain why Wal-Mart acknowledged earlier this year that its customer service needed to be improved significantly as it was hurting sales growth, and why it is now investing a lot more in its workforce and technology to improve the standard of the stores and how shoppers are treated there.
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| Princeton University to mull dropping Woodrow Wilson's name in racism row Posted: 20 Nov 2015 03:38 AM PST  Thursday's agreement between students and several top administrators at the renowned Ivy League university in New Jersey ended a 32-hour sit-in outside Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber's office, a university statement said. Eisgruber said Princeton appreciated the "willingness of the students to work with us to find a way forward". Protest organizers from the Black Justice League have called on Princeton to remove Wilson's name and image from its public spaces, as well as from the university's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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| Israeli spy Pollard set free from U.S. prison: Israeli PM Posted: 20 Nov 2015 03:05 AM PST  Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was released on parole in the United States on Friday after 30 years in prison, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, a case that became a serious strain in relations between the close allies. "The people of Israel welcome the release of Jonathan Pollard," Netanyahu said in a statement. "After three long and difficult decades, Jonathan has been reunited with his family." Under the terms of his parole, Pollard, a former U.S. Navy analyst, must remain in the United States for five years.
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| Islamist gunmen attack luxury hotel in Mali capital, 170 taken hostage Posted: 20 Nov 2015 02:20 AM PST  Gunmen shouting Islamic slogans attacked a hotel full of foreigners in Mali's capital.
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| Minneapolis NAACP chief calls for release of videos in fatal police shooting Posted: 19 Nov 2015 11:04 PM PST  By Brendan O'Brien MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The head of the Minneapolis NAACP on Thursday joined protesters in demanding that authorities release videos of an altercation earlier this week in which a police officer shot an unarmed black man to death. Nekima Levy-Pounds, president of the Minneapolis National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said there have been "so many false narratives spun by the Minneapolis Police Department as to what has happened." "Enough is enough," she told about 75 protesters and members of the media at a news conference outside the police precinct near where Jamar Clark, 24, was shot early Sunday. Community activists have said Clark was unarmed and claim he was handcuffed when he was shot shortly during an altercation with two police officers.
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| Top 5 takeaways from Bernie Sanders' big speech Posted: 19 Nov 2015 08:41 PM PST |
| More than 500,000 people homeless in the United States: report Posted: 19 Nov 2015 07:20 PM PST  More than 500,000 people - a quarter of them children - were homeless in the United States this year amid scarce affordable housing across much of the nation, according to a study released on Thursday. The report, from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), said the number was down slightly from 2014. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Oregon and Hawaii have all recently declared emergencies over the rise of homelessness, and on Thursday Seattle's mayor toured a new encampment for his city's dispossessed.
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| U.S. House passes bill to slow Syrian refugees despite Obama veto threat Posted: 19 Nov 2015 05:30 PM PST  By Megan Cassella and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Thursday to suspend Obama's program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and then intensify the process of screening them. The measure, quickly drafted this week following the Islamic State attacks in Paris on Friday that killed 129 people, was approved on a vote of 289-137, with 47 of Obama's 188 fellow Democrats breaking with the White House to support it. It would require that high-level officials - the FBI director, the director of national intelligence and homeland security secretary - verify that each Syrian refugee poses no security risk.
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| House votes to curb Syrian refugees, snubbing veto threat Posted: 19 Nov 2015 03:24 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Responding swiftly to the terror in Paris, the U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to erect high hurdles for Syrian and Iraqi refugees coming to American shores, dividing the president's own party as lawmakers reflected the anxiety of voters back home.
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| New Islamic State video threatens attack on White House Posted: 19 Nov 2015 02:52 PM PST Islamic State militants released a video on Thursday threatening the White House with suicide bombings and car blasts and vowing to conduct more attacks on France. The six-minute video released by Islamic State fighters in Iraq applauds last week's Paris attacks, according to a translation of the Arabic provided by the Maryland-based SITE Intelligence Group. The latest threat comes one day after the militant group put out a video showing scenes of New York City, which suggested it was also a target. |
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