| Bill Cosby arraigned on sex assault charge Posted: 30 Dec 2015 12:48 PM PST  The troubled comedian, 78, will remain free on $1 million bail pending trial.
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| Cleveland activists oppose re-election of prosecutor in Tamir Rice shooting Posted: 30 Dec 2015 11:45 AM PST  African-American leaders in Cleveland on Wednesday called for voters to reject the county prosecutor's bid for re-election next year after he recommended that police officers face no charges in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney Timothy McGinty on Monday said a grand jury followed his recommendation and cleared two officers in the November 2014 fatal shooting of Rice, who was brandishing a replica gun in a park. McGinty, a Democrat, said a series of errors that led to the shooting did not amount to criminal conduct by Officer Timothy Loehmann or his partner, Frank Garmback.
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| Woman who plowed car into Las Vegas crowd had used marijuana: prosecutor Posted: 30 Dec 2015 11:14 AM PST  Lakeisha Holloway, 24, faces one count of murder through use of a deadly weapon in the death of a 32-year-old Arizona woman who was among those struck by the sedan on Dec. 20. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said a toxicology examination showed that Holloway tested positive for marijuana and marijuana metabolites. The county did not say when Holloway had consumed the marijuana, traces of which can linger in a person's system for days, weeks or months.
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| No charges for Colorado police officer who fatally shot fugitive Posted: 30 Dec 2015 10:42 AM PST DENVER (Reuters) - A grand jury in Colorado has declined to bring charges against a Denver-area police officer who fatally shot a fugitive parolee who was wanted on suspicion of kidnapping and assault, prosecutors said on Wednesday. |
| Hillary Clinton: What ISIS is doing is ‘genocide’ Posted: 30 Dec 2015 08:52 AM PST  Clinton speaks at a town hall event in Portsmouth, N.H., on Tuesday. (Photo: Steven Senne/AP)
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| Bill Cosby is charged with sexually assaulting a woman Posted: 30 Dec 2015 08:05 AM PST |
| Bill Cosby expected to be criminally charged in Pennsylvania: reports Posted: 30 Dec 2015 07:18 AM PST  (Reuters) - Pennsylvania prosecutors are expected to criminally charge comedian Bill Cosby on Wednesday, NBC 10 reported, quoting unnamed sources. An arrest warrant has been issued for the comedian for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his mansion in January 2004, sources told People magazine. The Montgomery County District Attorney has scheduled a 10 a.m. press conference. (Reporting by Laila Kearney; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli)
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| Chicago mayor to announce changes to police policy after shootings Posted: 30 Dec 2015 06:15 AM PST  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, under pressure following a series of fatal police shootings, is expected on Wednesday to unveil new strategies that will include equipping all officers with Tasers by June of next year. Emanuel ended a vacation early this week to deal with fallout from the police shootings of a 55-year-old mother and a 19-year-old college student. Chicago police, under a federal civil rights investigation over the use of deadly force and other issues, have admitted the woman's death was an accident.
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| Republicans come up short in search for diverse voters in 2016 election Posted: 30 Dec 2015 03:11 AM PST  NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ten months before the United States elects a new president, the Republican Party has yet to resolve a problem that its leaders said contributed to Mitt Romney's 2012 loss to Barack Obama: a lack of support among Hispanic and younger voters. The percentage of Republicans among those likely to vote in the Nov. 8, 2016, election lags Democrats by 9 percentage points, compared with a 6-point deficit in the year leading up to Obama's 2012 victory, according to an analysis of Reuters/Ipsos polling data from 2012 and 2015. In 2012, 93 percent of voters who identified as members of a particular party cast a ballot for that party's presidential candidate, a Reuters/Ipsos Election Day poll found.
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| 19 levees in Illinois, Missouri monitored for flooding Posted: 30 Dec 2015 02:10 AM PST  Record flooding was projected in some Mississippi River towns after days of torrential rain.
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| US accuses Iran of conducting rocket test near warships Posted: 30 Dec 2015 12:37 AM PST  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian naval vessels conducted rocket tests last week near U.S. warships and commercial traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the American military said Wednesday, causing new tension between the two nations after a landmark nuclear deal.
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| Texas 'affluenza' teen captured in Mexico to be returned to U.S. Posted: 30 Dec 2015 12:22 AM PST  By Marice Richter and David Alire Garcia FORT WORTH, Texas/PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (Reuters) - A rich Texas teenager who fled with his mother to Mexico to avoid possible jail time for violating his probation in a drunken-driving crash that left four people dead planned the flight and even held a farewell party, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday. Ethan Couch, 18, became known as the "affluenza" teen during his trial in juvenile court over the 2013 crash. During Couch's trial, a psychologist sparked outrage by saying in his defense that Couch was so wealthy and spoiled he could not tell the difference between right and wrong.
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| Rare winter flood threatens Missouri, Illinois levees Posted: 29 Dec 2015 10:18 PM PST  At least 18 deaths in Missouri and Illinois were blamed on flooding.
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| Chicago officer who shot black teen pleads not guilty to murder Posted: 29 Dec 2015 07:58 PM PST  By Justin Madden and Renita D. Young CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager last year pleaded not guilty to murder on Tuesday, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel cut short a vacation to return to the city to deal with the fallout from two more fatal police shootings over the weekend. Meanwhile, protesters demonstrated outside the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office in Cleveland, a day after a grand jury decided not to charge two white police officers in the 2014 shooting death of Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old boy who was playing in a park with a toy gun that shoots plastic pellets. Tensions over race and policing in Chicago and Cleveland come amid intense scrutiny of police killings in the United States over the past 18 months, especially of black men.
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| Pataki announces he's ending White House bid Posted: 29 Dec 2015 07:43 PM PST  BERLIN, N.H. (AP) — Former New York Gov. George Pataki said Tuesday that he's ending his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, with just over a month to go before the first nominating contests begin.
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| Magnitude 4.7 quake hits east of Los Angeles: USGS Posted: 29 Dec 2015 06:24 PM PST (Reuters) - A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck east of Los Angeles on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It said the quake, which was very shallow at only 3.1 miles (5 km) below the earth, was centered three miles (4.8 km)northwest of Rialto, east of Los Angeles. (Reporting by Sandra Maler in Washington; Editing by Peter Cooney) |
| Severe floods hit Missouri as U.S. storms sweep north Posted: 29 Dec 2015 04:49 PM PST  By Kevin Murphy and Mary Wisniewski KANSAS CITY, Mo./CHICAGO (Reuters) - Missouri residents struggled through a fourth straight day of storms on Tuesday, fighting rising floodwaters that inundated homes, forced evacuations and closed highways and even part of the Mississippi River. Missouri has been pounded by downpours since Saturday, and forecasters warned that its major rivers were still days away from cresting at record levels. At the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, about 20 miles (32 km) north of St. Louis, residents of the small cities of West Alton and Arnold were told to evacuate on Tuesday due to rising waters.
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| The NSA spied on Israeli prime minister during Iran talks, says WSJ Posted: 29 Dec 2015 04:18 PM PST  In 2014, Washington was buzzing over a controversial new nuclear agreement between the US and Iran — but the negotiations may have kept America's spy agencies busy as well. A new report in The Wall Street Journal claims the negotiation process saw sustained efforts by the National Security Agency to monitor the communications of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, particularly once he came to Washington to lobby Congress to oppose the deal. The Journal had previously reported on Israel's own efforts to spy on the closed door talks.
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