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• Prosecutor: Paris ringleader planned another attack for days later
• Obama: US, France stand 'united' against terror
• Pakistani man sentenced in U.S. to 40 years prison for al Qaeda plot
• Five shot near Minnesota protest of police killing of unarmed black man
• Chicago policeman faces murder charges in shooting of black teen: reports
• Four killed in military helicopter crash at U.S. Army base in Texas
• Baltimore officer faces pretrial hearing over black man's death
• Ted Cruz has always had a master plan. Now it could win him the White House.
• Turkey downs Russian warplane near Syria border
• Moscow confirms warplane downed on Syria border was Russian
• Source: Chicago cop expected to be charged in teen's death
• Family of Muslim teen seeks $15M in clock incident
• ACLU sues Indiana governor over refusal to resettle Syrian refugees
• Black Lives Matter protesters sue over treatment by California police
• U.S. appeals court rules against Wisconsin abortion doctor law
• Texas student arrested over clock seeks $15 million
• US issues global travel alert due to 'increased terrorist threats'
• Planned Parenthood sues Texas over threat to cut Medicaid funding

Prosecutor: Paris ringleader planned another attack for days later Posted: 24 Nov 2015 01:12 PM PST

Obama: US, France stand 'united' against terror Posted: 24 Nov 2015 10:48 AM PST President Barack Obama told his French counterpart Francois Hollande Tuesday the United States stands united with France against terror. "We are all French," Obama told Hollande, in French, after hosting him at the White House for talks on how to confront the threat posed by Islamic State. "We are here to declare that the United States and France stand united in total solidarity to deliver justice to terrorists and those who sent them, and to defend our nations," he said.

Pakistani man sentenced in U.S. to 40 years prison for al Qaeda plot Posted: 24 Nov 2015 08:11 AM PST By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pakistani man was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Tuesday for plotting to bomb a shopping center in England as part of an al Qaeda plan for attacks in Europe and the United States. Abid Naseer, 29, had faced up to life in prison following his conviction by a U.S. jury in March on charges including that he provided material support to the Islamic militant group. Not in any sense of the word," U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie in Brooklyn told Naseer when imposing the sentence.

Five shot near Minnesota protest of police killing of unarmed black man Posted: 24 Nov 2015 07:38 AM PST By David Bailey MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Police are searching for three white men in the shooting of five people near a Minneapolis police station where demonstrators have gathered for more than a week to protest the shooting of an unarmed black man by officers. None of the injuries were believed life-threatening in the shooting late Monday, a block from the station where protests have taken place since the fatal shooting of Jamar Clark, 24, on Nov. 15, Minneapolis police said in a statement. The Black Lives Matter Minneapolis group protesting Clark's shooting said on its Facebook page that five unarmed protesters were shot by what it described as white supremacists who had been asked to leave and were followed out.

Chicago policeman faces murder charges in shooting of black teen: reports Posted: 24 Nov 2015 07:06 AM PST The white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager in an incident caught on video is expected to be charged with first-degree murder and appear in a bond hearing on Tuesday, city newspapers reported, citing unnamed sources. Community leaders who met with Mayor Rahm Emanuel said they expected protests on Wednesday, when the city plans to release the video of the October 2014 fatal shooting. It shows Laquan McDonald, 17, being shot 16 times by police officer Jason Van Dyke, who is on administrative duty while state and federal prosecutors investigate.

Four killed in military helicopter crash at U.S. Army base in Texas Posted: 24 Nov 2015 06:18 AM PST Four crew members on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter died when their aircraft crashed during a training exercise at the Fort Hood U.S. Army base in central Texas, military officials said on Tuesday. The crew was assigned to Division West, First Army and on a routine training mission when the helicopter crashed on Monday, at about 6 p.m., the military officials said in a statement.

Baltimore officer faces pretrial hearing over black man's death Posted: 24 Nov 2015 04:13 AM PST Officer William Porter, 26, is the first of six Baltimore officers to face trial separately over the death of Freddie Gray in April. Motions on which Judge Barry Williams could rule include a defense request to drop a second-degree assault charge against Porter. Prosecutors also want to bar the defense from bringing up Gray's previous encounters with police.

Ted Cruz has always had a master plan. Now it could win him the White House. Posted: 24 Nov 2015 02:39 AM PST

Turkey downs Russian warplane near Syria border Posted: 24 Nov 2015 02:24 AM PST Russia claims its plane was still in Syrian airspace at the time of the incident.

Moscow confirms warplane downed on Syria border was Russian Posted: 24 Nov 2015 01:51 AM PST Moscow (AFP) - Russia said on Tuesday that the military plane Turkey shot down at the Syrian border was a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 jet, adding that the jet did not enter Turkish space.

Source: Chicago cop expected to be charged in teen's death Posted: 23 Nov 2015 10:43 PM PST CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County prosecutors are expected to charge a white Chicago police officer with murder in the death of a black teenager who was shot 16 times more than a year ago, an official close to the investigation said Monday night.

Family of Muslim teen seeks $15M in clock incident Posted: 23 Nov 2015 10:27 PM PST IRVING, Texas (AP) — Attorneys for a 14-year-old Muslim boy arrested after the homemade clock he took to his Dallas-area school was mistaken for a possible bomb said Monday he was publicly mistreated and deserves $15 million.

ACLU sues Indiana governor over refusal to resettle Syrian refugees Posted: 23 Nov 2015 10:10 PM PST Pence is one of more than 25 U.S. governors, mostly Republicans, who have publicly called on President Barack Obama to stop resettling Syrian refugees following the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. In the lawsuit, the ACLU said decisions concerning immigration and refugee resettlement are exclusively the province of the federal government and cannot be dictated by state officials. "Attempts to pre-empt that authority violate both equal protection and civil rights laws and intrude on authority that is exclusively federal," ACLU of Indiana legal director Ken Falk said in a statement.

Black Lives Matter protesters sue over treatment by California police Posted: 23 Nov 2015 07:48 PM PST Protesters and journalists covering a Black Lives Matter rally in Berkeley, California, have filed a lawsuit alleging "unconstitutional police attacks" on attendees, court records showed. The civil rights lawsuit was filed in federal court on Sunday by the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the National Lawyers Guild against the city and police of Berkeley and nearby Hayward. The Dec. 6, 2014 march stemmed from the decision days earlier by grand juries in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri, to not criminally charge police officers for killing unarmed, black men, the complaint said.

U.S. appeals court rules against Wisconsin abortion doctor law Posted: 23 Nov 2015 04:24 PM PST (Reuters) - A Wisconsin law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday, addressing a topic the U.S. Supreme Court is considering during its current term. Abortion providers in Wisconsin had challenged the state law, which requires doctors to have privileges at a hospital within 30 miles (50 km). A federal judge in March permanently blocked the Wisconsin law, ruling that the health benefits, if any, were outweighed by the burden on women's health caused by restricted access to abortion.

Texas student arrested over clock seeks $15 million Posted: 23 Nov 2015 04:07 PM PST The family of a Texas Muslim teenager arrested for bringing a homemade clock that was mistaken for a bomb to school demanded $15 million in damages and an apology from the city of Irving and its schools to avoid a lawsuit, lawyers said on Monday. The lawyers represent the family of Ahmed Mohamed, 14, a student who dabbles in robotics and attended a Dallas-area high school. In separate letters to the city of Irving, located west of Dallas, and the Irving Independent School District, lawyers said the ninth grader was wrongfully arrested, illegally detained and questioned without his parents.

US issues global travel alert due to 'increased terrorist threats' Posted: 23 Nov 2015 03:04 PM PST Washington (AFP) - The United States issued a worldwide travel alert on Monday warning American citizens of "increased terrorist threats" in the wake of the Paris attacks.

Planned Parenthood sues Texas over threat to cut Medicaid funding Posted: 23 Nov 2015 02:18 PM PST By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood, other women's health providers and a group of women in need of reproductive healthcare sued Texas on Monday, seeking to halt its threatened cut in Medicaid funding, a move they said was more about politics than healthcare. The suit filed in federal court in Austin comes as Texas and several other Republican-controlled states try to cut funding for Planned Parenthood after an anti-abortion group released videos it said showed Planned Parenthood officials negotiating prices for fetal tissues from abortions it performs.

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