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• FBI looking into $28,000 deposit in California shooters' account: source
• U.S. justices question Texas 'one person, one vote' challenge
• Yale University instructor tied to race protests resigns: school
• Case of Oklahoma City ex-policeman accused of rape while on duty goes to jury
• Prosecutors to rest in corruption trial of ex-N.Y. legislative leader
• Chicago police commander faces trial for putting gun in suspect's mouth
• Crossing to Lesbos: A photojournalist on the frontlines of the refugee crisis
• Prosecution continues in trial of Baltimore officer in man's death
• Pig's head thrown at Philadelphia mosque, mayor decries bigotry
• Grappling with attacks, U.S. leaders ask Muslim Americans to fight back
• The brothers Farook: one a decorated veteran, the other a killer
• Foreign fighters in Syria more than double, posing threat as they return home
• Trump's Muslim ban proposal draws extraordinary rebukes
• Two hospitalized, nearly 200 sickened in Seattle norovirus outbreak
• Special Report: In the heart of U.S. opioid epidemic, help finds mother and baby
• Bomb threat triggers evacuations at Florida college: social media
• Donald Trump calls for ‘total and complete shutdown’ of Muslims entering U.S.
• San Bernardino staff back on job amid tight security after rampage

FBI looking into $28,000 deposit in California shooters' account: source Posted: 08 Dec 2015 10:07 AM PST By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI investigation into a husband and wife who killed 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, is examining $28,000 in financial activity they engaged in before their attack, a U.S. government source said on Tuesday. Authorities have said Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, were radicalized Muslims who committed an act of terror. While investigations into such attacks often focus on how they were financed, the Reuters source and two other informed government officials said there are no indications the money trail in this case links the couple with any foreign group.

U.S. justices question Texas 'one person, one vote' challenge Posted: 08 Dec 2015 09:35 AM PST The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical toward a conservative challenge to the method Texas uses to draw state legislative districts in a case that could diminish the clout of Hispanic voters and boost the power of rural, often Republican voters. The plaintiffs, Texans Sue Evenwel and Edward Pfenninger, contend that the current process for counting voters - based not on the number of eligible voters but rather on total population - violates the long-established legal principle of "one person, one vote" endorsed by the Supreme Court in the 1960s.

Yale University instructor tied to race protests resigns: school Posted: 08 Dec 2015 09:05 AM PST Yale was one of dozens of U.S. colleges and universities where students protested this fall about the legacies of racism on campus. The wave of demonstrations led to the resignation of the president of the University of Missouri and promises at Ivy League schools including Yale and Brown University to boost the resources they commit to promoting diversity.

Case of Oklahoma City ex-policeman accused of rape while on duty goes to jury Posted: 08 Dec 2015 06:51 AM PST A jury is set to deliberate on Tuesday in the case of a former Oklahoma City police officer accused of sexually assaulting and raping 13 women while on the job. Daniel Holtzclaw, 28, of Oklahoma City is charged with 36 counts of sexual assault, including six first-degree rape counts for attacks on 13 women.

Prosecutors to rest in corruption trial of ex-N.Y. legislative leader Posted: 08 Dec 2015 04:26 AM PST By Joseph Ax and Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday are expected to rest their case in the corruption trial of former New York state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the second high-profile lawmaker to stand trial in recent weeks for abusing his office. Skelos' lawyer, Robert Gage, would not rule out calling his client to the stand to testify in his own defense. "With regard to Senator Skelos, we think that decision is properly made at the close of the government's case," Gage said in federal court in Manhattan on Monday.

Chicago police commander faces trial for putting gun in suspect's mouth Posted: 08 Dec 2015 04:10 AM PST A Chicago police commander who had been praised for his crime fighting in some of the city's roughest neighborhoods will go on trial on Tuesday on charges that he put a gun in a suspect's mouth. Glenn Evans, who was relieved of his duties pending the outcome of his case, was charged last year with aggravated battery and official misconduct in the capture of a suspect on Jan. 30, 2013. Evans' trial comes a day after the U.S. Department of Justice said that it was conducting a civil rights investigation of the third-largest U.S. city's police department, including its use of force.

Crossing to Lesbos: A photojournalist on the frontlines of the refugee crisis Posted: 08 Dec 2015 03:54 AM PST

Prosecution continues in trial of Baltimore officer in man's death Posted: 08 Dec 2015 03:26 AM PST Prosecutors in the case of a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of a black man return for more testimony on Tuesday after witnesses said the man would not have died had he received immediate medical help. Officer William Porter, 26, is accused of manslaughter in the April death of Freddie Gray from a neck injury suffered while transported in a police van. Porter is the first of six officers, three of them black, to face trial in Gray's death, which triggered rioting in the largely black city and fueled a U.S. debate on police brutality.

Pig's head thrown at Philadelphia mosque, mayor decries bigotry Posted: 08 Dec 2015 02:20 AM PST Philadelphia Mayor-elect Jim Kenney decried what he called an act of bigotry. Surveillance video showed a red truck driving past the Al-Aqsa mosque in North Philadelphia and someone throwing an object out of the window on Sunday night, police said. A caretaker discovered the pig's head early Monday, police said.

Grappling with attacks, U.S. leaders ask Muslim Americans to fight back Posted: 07 Dec 2015 11:11 PM PST Facing what President Barack Obama has called a new phase of terrorism, U.S. officials appealed to Muslim Americans on Monday to fight harder against extremist ideology.     The Obama administration has defended Muslim Americans after attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, and the inflammatory rhetoric that came in its wake, while a parallel message to Islamic communities is gaining urgency: please help.     As Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested banning all Muslims from entering the country on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson stood in solidarity with an imam and leaders of other faiths at a northern Virginia Islamic center.

The brothers Farook: one a decorated veteran, the other a killer Posted: 07 Dec 2015 10:39 PM PST Syed Raheel Farook and his younger brother Syed Rizwan Farook grew up in the same house, attended the same high school two years apart and, as teenagers, often socialized in the same groups. In court filings, Rafia cited multiple instances of domestic abuse, asserting that her husband was "mentally ill" and threatened "to kill himself on a daily basis." During one violent incident, she said, her son came between them "to save me." Gasser Shehata, a friend of Rizwan's from a San Bernardino mosque, said that Rizwan talked to him in recent years about his religious issues with his dad while growing up, and how he came to side with his mother in their disputes.

Foreign fighters in Syria more than double, posing threat as they return home Posted: 07 Dec 2015 09:51 PM PST The number of fighters from Western Europe pouring into Syria has more than doubled since last year, swelling the ranks of the Islamic State and other extremist groups by more than 30,000 despite efforts by the U.S. and other Western countries to cut off the flow, according to a new report by an international security firm.

Trump's Muslim ban proposal draws extraordinary rebukes Posted: 07 Dec 2015 08:49 PM PST Even the reliably hawkish Dick Cheney says Trump's plan "goes against everything we believe in."

Two hospitalized, nearly 200 sickened in Seattle norovirus outbreak Posted: 07 Dec 2015 06:14 PM PST Nearly 200 people who attended a catered party at a downtown Seattle office building have become ill with norovirus, a public health official said on Monday. Public health officials closed all the food-service locations inside the Russell Investments Center in downtown Seattle, including a Starbucks location, said Dr. Meagan Kay, a medical epidemiologist for the public health department.

Special Report: In the heart of U.S. opioid epidemic, help finds mother and baby Posted: 07 Dec 2015 04:55 PM PST Yeager, 24, had been clean since leaving jail eight months earlier. "I just wanted to escape from myself," Yeager recalled, "basically the loneliness, the anger and uncertainty of everything." Getting high is easy in Charleston, a city at the center of Appalachia's epidemic of opioid addiction. On that fall day last year, two months before her baby was due, Yeager poured powdered heroin into a spoon, added water and held a lighter beneath it until the drug liquefied.

Bomb threat triggers evacuations at Florida college: social media Posted: 07 Dec 2015 03:21 PM PST TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Daytona State College alerted students that it had received a "specific bomb threat" on Monday and was evacuating three buildings at its campus in Daytona Beach, Florida, officials said on social media.

Donald Trump calls for ‘total and complete shutdown’ of Muslims entering U.S. Posted: 07 Dec 2015 02:16 PM PST

San Bernardino staff back on job amid tight security after rampage Posted: 07 Dec 2015 02:00 PM PST San Bernardino County employees began returning to work under tighter security on Monday, five days after a co-worker and his wife killed 14 of their colleagues at a holiday party. Crisis counseling teams were reaching out to families of those killed and wounded on Dec. 2 in the fusillade from U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his Pakistani wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29. Most San Bernardino County workers returned to work on Monday for the first time since the massacre that President Barack Obama has called an act of terrorism, county officials said at a news conference.

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