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• Supreme Court agrees to hear Puerto Rico restructuring appeal
• Mosque members on San Bernardino shooter: ‘He was living the American Dream’
• Boston police bomb squad investigating suspicious package: spokeswoman
• Trump picked stock fraud felon as senior adviser
• Justice Dept files opposition to Texas request to block refugees
• U.S. gun control activists newly optimistic, but change may be elusive
• Muslim Americans fear demonization of Islam after mass shooting
• Leaders of mosques where California shooter prayed say rampage betrayed Islam
• Paul Ryan sets 2016 House agenda as if he’s campaigning for president
• San Bernardino mass shooting: FBI probes possible terror ties
• At least one wounded in shooting at Illinois Wal-Mart store
• Chicago to release video in police shooting of second black man

Supreme Court agrees to hear Puerto Rico restructuring appeal Posted: 04 Dec 2015 11:34 AM PST The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Puerto Rico's bid to reinstate a law that would allow restructuring of the U.S. territory's public agencies as the Caribbean island grapples with its huge debt load. The court also took up a companion case filed by representatives of the publicly owned Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico. The court noted in its brief order that Justice Samuel Alito will not participate in the case, meaning only eight justices will hear it.

Mosque members on San Bernardino shooter: ‘He was living the American Dream’ Posted: 04 Dec 2015 09:28 AM PST Members of the California mosques where San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook prayed were shocked to learn of his involvement in the massacre at Inland Regional Center.

Boston police bomb squad investigating suspicious package: spokeswoman Posted: 04 Dec 2015 08:54 AM PST BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston police on Friday were investigating a suspicious package discovered near a U.S. Coast Guard facility, with the department's bomb squad on the scene, police spokeswoman Myeshia Henderson said.

Trump picked stock fraud felon as senior adviser Posted: 04 Dec 2015 08:05 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump tapped a man to be a senior business adviser to his real-estate empire even after the man's past involvement in a major Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme had become publicly known, according to Associated Press interviews and a review of court records.

Justice Dept files opposition to Texas request to block refugees Posted: 04 Dec 2015 07:00 AM PST By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department filed an opposition in federal court on Friday against Texas's temporary restraining order that bars refugees from entering the state. Seeking to overturn the restraining order that the court granted last week, the Justice Department said decisions over the resettlement of refugees fall under the authority of the federal government. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission sued the U.S. government to block refugee resettlement in the state following the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris.

U.S. gun control activists newly optimistic, but change may be elusive Posted: 04 Dec 2015 03:32 AM PST By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After years of thwarted efforts to tighten restrictions on firearms, gun control activists are heralding the 2016 elections as a watershed moment. Everytown for Gun Safety said its membership spiked by 20,000, to 3.5 million, in the hours after the California shooting - in which a young married couple armed with assault-style rifles left their infant daughter in the care of a grandmother before opening fire at a workplace holiday party.

Muslim Americans fear demonization of Islam after mass shooting Posted: 04 Dec 2015 02:44 AM PST Muslim Americans fear their religion will be demonized and Islamophobia will spread after a young Muslim couple was accused of carrying out one of the bloodiest mass killings in the United States. Across the country, Muslim Americans responded with shock and outrage after a shooting in which authorities said Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, stormed a holiday party attended by San Bernardino County employees in California on Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding 21. "I was at the gym yesterday while the shooting was taking place and all the TVs were showing that footage and all I could keep thinking to myself is 'God, I hope they don't have any Eastern descent, not just Middle Eastern, anything we'd associate with a Muslim'," said Adam Hashem, 32, in Dearborn, a Detroit suburb with one of the country's largest Muslim populations.

Leaders of mosques where California shooter prayed say rampage betrayed Islam Posted: 04 Dec 2015 01:41 AM PST By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN BERNARDINO (Reuters) - California shooter Syed Rizwan Farook was a devout Muslim who made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 2013 and prayed regularly at a mosque in Riverside, California and later at one in nearby San Bernardino, officials at the mosques said on Thursday. "He is someone who used to listen to my sermons, my talks here," said Mustafa Kuko, director of the Islamic Center of Riverside. "I sat up last night thinking about him and what's happened." Kuko has trouble understanding how Farook could have betrayed the very principles of his religion.

Paul Ryan sets 2016 House agenda as if he’s campaigning for president Posted: 03 Dec 2015 10:59 PM PST

San Bernardino mass shooting: FBI probes possible terror ties Posted: 03 Dec 2015 07:00 PM PST Authorities investigating the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., say they have yet to determine a motive. But law enforcement officials are reportedly treating the attack as an act of terrorism.

At least one wounded in shooting at Illinois Wal-Mart store Posted: 03 Dec 2015 06:14 PM PST A local CBS affiliate, citing an employee within the store in the Chicago suburb of Darien, said that shooting broke out after an argument between two people at a food stand inside the store. A local ABC broadcaster, citing police, reported one person was shot inside the Wal-Mart Stores Inc location. A suspect had not been captured, multiple broadcasters said.

Chicago to release video in police shooting of second black man Posted: 03 Dec 2015 04:41 PM PST By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - A video of a 2014 Chicago police shooting of a black man will be released next week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Thursday after days of controversy over another fatal police shooting caught on tape. Emanuel said the city would release police squad car dashboard video of the shooting of 25-year-old Ronald Johnson III, who was killed by police on Oct. 12, 2014, a week before the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, 17. Details of when the video would be released were not available from the mayor's office.

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