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• Reports of 20 victims wounded in shooting in San Bernardino, California
• Secret Service agent indicted for 'sexting'
• Statue of Liberty inspired by Arab woman, researchers say
• Chicago police force needs a cultural change: mayor
• Jury selection nearly complete in Baltimore's Freddie Gray killing trial
• California man pleads guilty to seeking to join Islamic State
• Climate negotiations proceed just like an 'action movie'
• Ex-wife says clinic suspect targeted Planned Parenthood
• Rio's Olympic waterways badly polluted, even far offshore, tests show
• Chicago police chief out, review launched over black teen's death
• New dad Zuckerberg vows to give away Facebook fortune
• U.S. special operations forces expanding in Iraq to battle ISIS

Reports of 20 victims wounded in shooting in San Bernardino, California Posted: 02 Dec 2015 11:53 AM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - San Bernardino Fire Department units were responding on Wednesday to reports that 20 people had been wounded in a shooting in that Southern California city, the department said in a tweet. No further details on the incident were immediately available. (Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Leslie Adler)

Secret Service agent indicted for 'sexting' Posted: 02 Dec 2015 08:40 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal grand jury has indicted a U.S. Secret Service officer who allegedly sent naked pictures of himself to an undercover police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.

Statue of Liberty inspired by Arab woman, researchers say Posted: 02 Dec 2015 08:10 AM PST The Statue of Liberty, a symbol of democracy and freedom that has greeted countless immigrants to US shores, was inspired by a project representing an Arab woman guarding the Suez Canal, researchers said. The recent findings are especially startling for some in the United States amid a heated debate over the arrival of refugees from war-scarred Syria and other Muslim majority countries. French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who traveled to Egypt in 1855-1856, developed there a "passion for large-scale public monuments and colossal sculptures," said the US National Park Service, which guards the Statue of Liberty in New York.

Chicago police force needs a cultural change: mayor Posted: 02 Dec 2015 07:54 AM PST Chicago's 12,000-member police force, one of the biggest in the country and one of the most prone to use lethal force, needs a cultural change that will take time, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Wednesday in a live-streamed interview with Politico. Emanuel fired the city's police chief on Tuesday and has launched a search for a replacement, in the wake of protests over the police killing of a black teenager that was caught on video. A police officer has been charged with murder in the shooting, which occurred in October 2014, and is out on bail.

Jury selection nearly complete in Baltimore's Freddie Gray killing trial Posted: 02 Dec 2015 06:39 AM PST A jury could be chosen on Wednesday in the trial of the first of six police officers charged in a black man's death that triggered rioting and fueled a U.S. debate on police brutality. A Baltimore City Circuit Court spokeswoman has said a pool of prospective jurors will appear in court for a final round of questioning before a panel is seated in the trial of Officer William Porter. The jurors' identities will be shielded, and Judge Barry Williams has said the trial will run no later than Dec. 17.

California man pleads guilty to seeking to join Islamic State Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:50 AM PST A California man has pleaded guilty to planning to join the Islamic State militant group in Syria, prosecutors said, and faces up to 15 years in prison. Nicholas Michael Teausant, 22, from the town of Acampo, on Tuesday pleaded guilty in a federal court in Sacramento to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Teausant is one of a number of people arrested in the United States in the last two years for planning to join Islamic State, which controls large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and claimed responsibility for the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people.

Climate negotiations proceed just like an 'action movie' Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:30 AM PST LE BOURGET, France (AP) — With world leaders back home, it's time for the hardcore climate negotiators to work on the more mundane guts of a deal.

Ex-wife says clinic suspect targeted Planned Parenthood Posted: 02 Dec 2015 01:24 AM PST COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — An ex-wife of the man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood said that he has targeted the reproductive health organization before.

Rio's Olympic waterways badly polluted, even far offshore, tests show Posted: 01 Dec 2015 11:18 PM PST RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic sailor Erik Heil floated a novel idea to protect himself from the sewage-infested waters he and other athletes will compete in during next year's games: He'd wear plastic overalls and peel them off when he was safely past the contaminated waters nearest shore.

Chicago police chief out, review launched over black teen's death Posted: 01 Dec 2015 05:36 PM PST Chicago's police chief was ousted on Tuesday after days of protest over a white officer's shooting of a black teenager 16 times and the department's refusal to release a video of the killing for more than a year. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced during a news conference that he had asked Garry McCarthy, police superintendent since May 2011, to resign. Emanuel also said he was creating a new police accountability task force.

New dad Zuckerberg vows to give away Facebook fortune Posted: 01 Dec 2015 02:10 PM PST Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced he had become a father -- and pledged to give away his fortune to make the world a "better place" for baby daughter Max and others. In a letter to Max posted on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg and his wife said they were going to give away 99 percent of their company shares -- with an estimated value of $45 billion -- in an effort to make a happy and healthy world for her and all children.

U.S. special operations forces expanding in Iraq to battle ISIS Posted: 01 Dec 2015 01:39 PM PST Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Congress on Tuesday that the U.S. would establish a special operations "targeting force" in Iraq as part of the intensified military effort to fight ISIS. The special operations force would conduct raids, could free hostages held by ISIS, gather intelligence and capture ISIS leaders in both Iraq and Syria. It is part of the broader role for U.S. special operations forces that Carter said would occur in the wake of the raid in late October where U.S. special operations forces helped free 70 ISIS hostages in northern Iraq.

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