| White supremacist should die for three Kansas murders, prosecutor argues Posted: 01 Sep 2015 11:36 AM PDT  A prosecutor urged a jury on Tuesday to give a Missouri white supremacist he called a "remorseless killer" a death sentence for murdering three people, including a boy, he thought were Jewish outside two Jewish centers in Kansas last year. Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, was convicted Monday of capital murder for the April 2014 shooting spree that left a man and his grandson dead in a Jewish community center parking lot along with a woman visiting a nearby retirement home. Cross, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan, said during his trial that he wanted to kill as many Jews as possible because he believes they are destroying the white gentile race.
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| Police seek suspects after officer shot dead north of Chicago: reports Posted: 01 Sep 2015 09:57 AM PDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - Police in suburbs north of Chicago were searching for two armed suspects after a police officer was shot dead on Tuesday in the village of Fox Lake, the Sun-Times and other local media reported. |
| University of Tulsa cleaning up small radiation spill at research campus Posted: 01 Sep 2015 09:41 AM PDT By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - The University of Tulsa is working to clean up what it is calling a minor spill of a radioactive chemical on its research campus and is having 21 people who may have been exposed to the cesium-137 undergo medical evaluations, school officials said on Tuesday. The spill by Tracerco, a subsidiary of British chemical company Johnson Matthey that was contracted by the university, is believed to have occurred last fall but Tracerco did not notify the school about it until Aug. 25, the university said. Tracerco spilled a small quantity of cesium-137, a radioactive isotope often used in research, in a restricted building on a campus that houses research equipment, according to Steadman Upham, the university's president. |
| That time Hillary Clinton emailed about Gefilte fish Posted: 01 Sep 2015 09:25 AM PDT  The latest batch of Clinton's emails includes high-level diplomatic discussions — and a few surprises.
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| Video shows San Antonio man with arm raised fatally shot by deputies Posted: 01 Sep 2015 08:18 AM PDT Gilbert Flores, 41, was shot on Friday by two Bexar County deputies responding to a domestic disturbance call at a home in Northwest San Antonio, the San Antonio Express-News and KSAT-12 television station reported. |
| Judge to rule on deflate-gate 'in next day or two' Posted: 01 Sep 2015 08:02 AM PDT  The NFL and Tom Brady failed to reach a settlement in their deflate-gate court proceedings, and the judge will rule soon.
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| Kentucky clerk denies marriage licenses despite Supreme Court decision: reports Posted: 01 Sep 2015 06:21 AM PDT  The top U.S. court on Monday turned down Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis' request for an emergency order allowing her to continue to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples while she appeals a federal judge's order requiring her to do so. Davis' office rejected requests for marriage licenses for the first two same-sex couples to enter the courthouse on Tuesday, the Washington Post reported. Davis has refused to issue any marriage licenses since the U.S. Supreme Court in June ruled that same-sex couples had the right to marry under the U.S. Constitution.
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| Kentucky clerk still won't issue same-sex marriage licenses Posted: 01 Sep 2015 06:04 AM PDT  Kim Davis invokes her religious beliefs and "God's authority" — this time in defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against her.
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| Thai prime minister says bombing suspect arrested at border Posted: 01 Sep 2015 04:11 AM PDT  BANGKOK (AP) — Thai authorities arrested a man they believe is part of a group responsible for a bombing at a shrine in central Bangkok two weeks ago, the prime minister announced Tuesday. He said the suspect resembles a yellow-shirted man in a surveillance video who police say planted the bomb.
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| Obama pushes for more U.S. ice-breaking might in Arctic Posted: 01 Sep 2015 01:27 AM PDT  By Roberta Rampton ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday will propose a faster timetable for buying a new heavy icebreaker for the U.S. Arctic, where quickly melting sea ice has spurred more maritime traffic, and the United States has fallen far behind Russian resources. Obama will say that the government should buy a heavy icebreaker by 2020 - a year when routine Arctic marine transit is expected - instead of the previous goal of 2022. The White House said move is required for safety in the changing Arctic - and to keep up with Russia.
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| Clinton friend advised on U.S. politics, foreign policy Posted: 31 Aug 2015 11:00 PM PDT  By Alistair Bell and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - An old friend of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton played an outsized role in advising her on U.S. politics and even her dealings with President Barack Obama's White House despite holding no formal government position. The State Department released emails on Monday that showed adviser Sid Blumenthal sent Clinton exhaustive memos on domestic issues, taking a more active role in advising her than was previously known.
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| Big Rail's little cousins find boon in U.S. oil-by-rail bust Posted: 31 Aug 2015 10:44 PM PDT  Amid the rolling mountains surrounding this quiet town in southwest New York state, tucked away on miles-long stretches of underused rail tracks, hundreds of idle oil tank cars attest to the extent of fallout from oil's rout. The oil tank cars - a year ago sought-after to haul crude from North Dakota to New Jersey - now stand idle as a result of two converging trends: the reversal in U.S. shale oil production and the completion of new pipelines. Short-line railroads from Utah to Pennsylvania are making millions of dollars every month by providing refiners, producers and traders a place to park their unused tank cars.
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| Daily pot smoking on U.S. college campuses at 35-year high: study Posted: 31 Aug 2015 09:24 PM PDT  The number of U.S. college students smoking marijuana every day or nearly every day is greater than it has been in 35 years, according to a study released on Tuesday. Nearly 6 percent of college students reported using pot daily or near-daily in 2014, up from 3.5 percent in 2007 but less than the 7.2 percent recorded in 1980, the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future study found. "It's clear that for the past seven or eight years there has been an increase in marijuana use among the nation's college students," said Lloyd Johnston, the study's principal author.
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| Mount McKinley becomes Denali - except on Air Force One map Posted: 31 Aug 2015 08:18 PM PDT  The televised flight map on Air Force One still called it Mount McKinley, but President Barack Obama was all about capturing the historic moment that Denali - now the name of North America's tallest peak - came into view. Obama snapped a photo of the gleaming mountain, with an elevation of about 20,000 feet (6,100 meters), and posted it to Instagram - part of a push to draw attention to his tour of parts of Alaska threatened by climate change. Alaska natives had long called the mountain Denali, meaning "the High One" - a name that the rest of the state adopted too.
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| Suspect in Houston-area shooting of deputy appears in court Posted: 31 Aug 2015 06:06 PM PDT  Shannon Miles, 30, did not enter a plea at a court appearance on charges he fatally shot Deputy Darren Goforth on Friday evening as the deputy fueled a patrol car at a Houston-area gas station. "Targeting police officers is completely unacceptable - an affront to civilized society," President Barack Obama said in a statement on Monday. Obama said he offered his condolences to Goforth's widow in a telephone call and that he and first lady Michelle Obama would keep her and her family in their prayers.
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| About 150 new Hillary Clinton emails now deemed classified Posted: 31 Aug 2015 04:45 PM PDT  Among the soon-to-be released emails from Hillary Clinton's private email server, approximately 150 have been deemed classified by the State Department. The roughly 150 emails are among 7,000 pages of new emails from Hillary Clinton's private server that the State Department will publish on its public records website later tonight -- part of its ongoing effort to make all of 30,000 emails public. The exact number of newly classified emails to be released tonight in redacted form is still being calculated, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said today.
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| White supremacist aiming to kill Jews convicted in three Kansas murders Posted: 31 Aug 2015 02:51 PM PDT  A man who admitted in court to wanting to kill Jews was found guilty on Monday of murdering three people, including a teenage boy, outside two Jewish centers in Kansas last year. A seven-man, five-woman jury took less than two hours to convict Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, on the three murders as well as on three counts of attempted murder for firing at other people during the same shooting spree in April 2014. Jurors will next decide if Cross should get the death penalty.
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| State Department says 150 more Clinton emails have classified information Posted: 31 Aug 2015 02:35 PM PDT About 150 more of Hillary Clinton's work emails have recently been designated as containing classified information, the U.S. State Department said on Monday ahead of the public release of the latest batch of emails Clinton handed over last year. The department does not know for sure if any information was classified at the time it was sent or received on the private email server Clinton used for work, department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. "It's not an exact science," Toner said in a media briefing, where he described the 150 emails as being "upgraded." "When we've upgraded, we've always said that that certainly does not speak to whether it was classified at the time it was sent." The latest finding brings the total number of Clinton emails considered to contain classified information to more than 200 when prior batches are included. |
