| Islamic State's online supporters include 300 Americans: report Posted: 01 Dec 2015 12:37 PM PST Active online supporters of the Syria-based Islamic State movement now include about 300 people identifiable as Americans, said a study by academic experts published on Tuesday. George Washington University's Program on Extremism said in the study that the number of other Americans who passively "consume" Islamic State propaganda runs to "several thousand," though they are not necessarily active supporters of the group. Twitter is the "platform of choice" most widely used by the active core of American supporters of Islamic State, it said. |
| Amazon gadget sales more than triple over Thanksgiving weekend Posted: 01 Dec 2015 10:48 AM PST  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said sales of its electronic gadgets more than tripled over the Thanksgiving weekend from last year, with the Fire tablet the top-selling product.
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| Chicago mayor fires police chief in wake of video release Posted: 01 Dec 2015 10:00 AM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired the city's police superintendent Tuesday, a week after the release of a dash-cam video that showed a white Chicago officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times.
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| Puerto Rico makes December 1 debt payment Posted: 01 Dec 2015 09:29 AM PST  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Puerto Rico has made a Dec. 1 bond payment, avoiding a second default, but its liquidity position is severely constrained, the commonwealth's Government Development Bank said in a statement.
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| Chicago police head fired after officer charged with murder: report Posted: 01 Dec 2015 09:12 AM PST  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired his police superintendent on Tuesday after it took 13 months to charge a white police officer with the shooting death of a black teenager, a media report said on Tuesday.
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| Obama: Climate action an economic and security 'imperative' Posted: 01 Dec 2015 07:39 AM PST  US President Barack Obama said Tuesday global warming posed economic and security risks that had to be tackled immediately, but insisted the climate problem could be solved. If global warming continues, "then before long we are going to have to devote more and more of our economic and military resources not to growing opportunity for our people but to adapting to the various consequences of a changing planet," Obama said. "Climate change is a massive problem, it's a generational problem," Obama said on the sidelines of the November 30-December 11 UN conference being held north of Paris.
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| Human Rights Watch demands U.S. criminal probe of CIA torture Posted: 01 Dec 2015 06:51 AM PST  The other officials include former Vice President Dick Cheney, former CIA Director George Tenet, former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. Human Rights Watch argued that details of the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation program that were made public by a U.S. Senate committee in December 2014 provided enough evidence for the Obama administration to open an inquiry.
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| Obama: U.S. has power to prevent gun homicides like shooting in Colorado Posted: 01 Dec 2015 06:36 AM PST  President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the United States has power to do more to prevent gun homicides like last week's shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. "We are rightly determined to prevent terrorist attacks wherever they occur, whether in the United States or with friends and allies like France," he said at a news conference during an international summit on climate change. Obama added that Planned Parenthood, which has come under heavy criticism after a video was released about it selling fetal tissue, has given women access to healthcare for generations.
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| Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber to argue for new trial Posted: 01 Dec 2015 04:14 AM PST  Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are due in court on Tuesday to seek a new trial for their client, who was sentenced to death in June for the 2013 bomb attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. The Supreme Court found it overly broad two days after Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by lethal injection. The defense in August asked that Tsarnaev be re-tried outside Boston, saying the intense publicity surrounding the attack and the trial unfairly influenced the 12 jurors who found their client guilty and sentenced him to death.
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| Chicago to create police task force after officer charged with murder Posted: 01 Dec 2015 03:42 AM PST  (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will announce a new police accountability task force on Tuesday, his office said, a week after a white Chicago police officer was charged with murdering a black teenager. Emanuel, along with Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and State Attorney for Cook County Anita Alvarez, have faced stiff criticism for a 13-month delay in releasing a video of the 2014 shooting and charging the officer. There have been a number of protests in Chicago in recent days.
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| Jury picking resumes in Baltimore's Freddie Gray killing trial Posted: 01 Dec 2015 03:12 AM PST  Jury selection resumes on Tuesday in the trial of the first of six police officers charged in the death of a black man from an injury in police custody that triggered rioting and fueled a U.S. debate on police brutality. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams on Monday told the roughly 75 potential jurors that opening statements in the trial of Officer William Porter would take place as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday. The death of Freddie Gray, 25, in April followed police killings of black men in other cities, including New York and Ferguson, Missouri.
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| U.S. Marine jailed in Philippines for killing transgender woman Posted: 01 Dec 2015 01:06 AM PST  A Philippine court on Tuesday found a U.S. Marine guilty of killing a transgender woman, jailing him for six to 12 years in a case that has reignited debate over the American military presence in the country. The Olongapo City regional trial court also ordered Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton to pay more than 4.5 million pesos ($95,350) to the family of Jennifer Laude, who was found dead last year in a hotel outside the former U.S. navy base northwest of Manila. Laude had been charged with murder but was convicted of the lesser offense of homicide, which does not require malicious intent.
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| Suspect in Colorado clinic shooting told he faces murder charge Posted: 30 Nov 2015 05:51 PM PST  The man accused of killing three people and wounding nine in a shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs was told he faces first-degree murder charges during his first court appearance on Monday. Robert Lewis Dear, 57, appearing by video link from jail, spoke only to tell a judge he understood and had no questions. Police records from North Charleston, South Carolina, showed that Dear was charged with rape there in 1992, although Reuters could not determine in court records how the case was resolved.
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| Police shooting of black teen cited in U of Chicago threat Posted: 30 Nov 2015 03:33 PM PST  Federal authorities said an online threat that led the University of Chicago to cancel classes Monday targeted whites and was motivated by the police shooting of a black teenager, video of which was released ...
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| Putin, Obama discuss Syria political settlement Posted: 30 Nov 2015 03:01 PM PST  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he and President Barack Obama have a shared understanding on how to move toward a political settlement in Syria, but added that incidents like the recent downing of a Russian warplane by a Turkish fighter jet stymie broader cooperation against extremism.
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