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• Florida man charged in alleged backpack bomb plot: DOJ
• Florida cop on leave after video of him tossing peanuts to prisoner
• Mike Huckabee defends Holocaust comment amid backlash
• Donald Trump's lawyer gets law wrong, says, ‘You can’t rape your spouse’
• Senate aims to vote on defunding Planned Parenthood
• Prison seamstress who aided N.Y. escapees pleads guilty
• NY prison worker pleads guilty in escape of 2 killers
• U.S. appeals court upholds bulk of Obama air pollution rule
• Libya court sentences Kadhafi son Seif al-Islam to death
• Obama to wrap Africa trip with speech to African Union
• Four dead after small plane crashes in Wisconsin field
• Colorado theater shooter's sister says his eyes changed
• U.S. House Benghazi panel says State Deptartment to hand over documents Tuesday
• New York Gov. Cuomo announces new LaGuardia Airport
• Boy Scouts lift blanket ban on gay adult leaders, employees
• Louisiana shooting suspect never involuntarily committed: Georgia authorities
• U.S. Navy investigates report of cancer cluster at Guantanamo

Florida man charged in alleged backpack bomb plot: DOJ Posted: 28 Jul 2015 12:22 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Florida resident has been charged in an alleged backpack bomb plot he planned to carry out in the United States, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday.

Florida cop on leave after video of him tossing peanuts to prisoner Posted: 28 Jul 2015 12:05 PM PDT A surveillance video from inside the Sarasota County Jail showed Officer Andrew Halpin of the Sarasota Police Department standing near the man and trying to toss peanuts into the man's mouth, according to the video released Monday by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. The man is unable to catch the peanuts and they land on the floor.

Mike Huckabee defends Holocaust comment amid backlash Posted: 28 Jul 2015 10:51 AM PDT Yahoo's Katie Couric interviews the presidential hopeful about his controversial remarks on the Iran nuke deal.

Donald Trump's lawyer gets law wrong, says, ‘You can’t rape your spouse’ Posted: 28 Jul 2015 09:43 AM PDT

Senate aims to vote on defunding Planned Parenthood Posted: 28 Jul 2015 09:27 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning to hold a vote on legislation in coming days on a Republican bill halting federal funding of Planned Parenthood, following the release of videos involving use of aborted fetal tissue for medical research.

Prison seamstress who aided N.Y. escapees pleads guilty Posted: 28 Jul 2015 09:11 AM PDT A prison seamstress pleaded guilty on Tuesday to helping two murderers escape from a maximum security prison in upstate New York last month. Joyce Mitchell, 51, faces up to seven years for her role in the daring breakout by inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6. In making their escape, the inmates cut through the steel walls of their cells, climbed down a catwalk and through a steam pipe and emerged from a manhole outside the prison in Dannemora, New York.

NY prison worker pleads guilty in escape of 2 killers Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:23 AM PDT PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A northern New York prison worker pleaded guilty Tuesday to smuggling hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger meat to two killers who later broke out and spent more than two weeks on the run.

U.S. appeals court upholds bulk of Obama air pollution rule Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:06 AM PDT By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday mostly upheld a major federal environmental regulation requiring some states to limit pollution that contributes to unhealthy air in neighboring states. Among the challengers were coal company Peabody Energy Corp and energy company American Electric Power Company Inc. The case was before the appeals court for a second time after an April 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the justices, on a 6-2 vote, upheld the regulation. Writing for the majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the EPA rule a cost-effective way to allocate responsibility for emission reductions among upwind states, and that the EPA need not consider each state's proportionate responsibility for the emissions in question.

Libya court sentences Kadhafi son Seif al-Islam to death Posted: 28 Jul 2015 07:16 AM PDT A Libyan court Tuesday sentenced a son and eight aides of slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi to death for crimes during the 2011 uprising, in a verdict strongly criticised by rights campaigners. Seif al-Islam, the strongman's one-time heir apparent who is also wanted by the International Criminal Court, was tried in his absence because he is held by militia opposed to the Tripoli authorities. Former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi and Kadhafi's last prime minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi were also sentenced to death, although they can appeal to the supreme court.

Obama to wrap Africa trip with speech to African Union Posted: 28 Jul 2015 04:03 AM PDT ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — President Barack Obama highlighted his administration's efforts to combat hunger worldwide on Tuesday as he prepared to end a historic return to the land of his father's birth with a speech to the African Union.

Four dead after small plane crashes in Wisconsin field Posted: 28 Jul 2015 01:43 AM PDT (Reuters) - Four people were killed when a small plane crashed in a field in western Wisconsin and burst into flames, local officials said on Tuesday.

Colorado theater shooter's sister says his eyes changed Posted: 28 Jul 2015 01:11 AM PDT CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — When the younger sister of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes visited him in jail nearly two years after the attack, his eyes bulged from his head and he spoke in short, stilted phrases— a vast difference from the loving brother who protected her while they were growing up, she testified Monday.

U.S. House Benghazi panel says State Deptartment to hand over documents Tuesday Posted: 27 Jul 2015 07:13 PM PDT The U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the 2012 attacks on an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, said the State Department has pledged to hand over 5,000 new pages of documents related to the incident on Tuesday. "The State Department has informed the Committee it will make a production of approximately 5,000 pages tomorrow - the second largest production the Committee has received and the largest since last summer," Republican Representative Trey Gowdy, the committee's chairman, said in a statement on Monday. The documents are not expected to include emails involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has been embroiled in a controversy over her use of a private email account while she was America's top diplomat.

New York Gov. Cuomo announces new LaGuardia Airport Posted: 27 Jul 2015 05:51 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A year after comparing New York's LaGuardia Airport to "some Third World Country," Vice President Joe Biden helped unveil an ambitious plan Monday to rebuild its collection of aging terminals into a modern, unified hub while easing congestion by doubling the space available for planes to operate.

Boy Scouts lift blanket ban on gay adult leaders, employees Posted: 27 Jul 2015 05:33 PM PDT The Boy Scouts of America on Monday ended the group's outright ban on openly gay adult leaders and employees, rolling back a policy that has deeply divided the membership of the 105-year-old Texas-based organization. The new policy, which takes effect immediately, comes three years after the organization removed its prohibition on gay youth but will still allow local Boy Scout units chartered by religious organizations to make their own choices regarding gay adult leaders. The Boy Scouts said the latest resolution, unanimously adopted by the organization's executive committee on July 13, gained final approval by the National Executive Board, with 79 percent of board members present voting to support it.

Louisiana shooting suspect never involuntarily committed: Georgia authorities Posted: 27 Jul 2015 04:27 PM PDT Suspect John R. Houser, who killed himself after Thursday's rampage in Lafayette, Louisiana, purchased the weapon he used in the attack from an Alabama pawnshop in 2014, authorities say. "We did not receive an involuntary commitment order on John Houser, because there was no order," Sherry Lang, deputy director of public affairs for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, told Reuters in a phone interview on Monday.

U.S. Navy investigates report of cancer cluster at Guantanamo Posted: 27 Jul 2015 04:03 PM PDT The U.S. Navy is investigating a complaint that seeks the evacuation of civilian and military lawyers from parts of the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, following reports of cancer cases among personnel working on the trials of detainees there. At least seven civilians and military members who worked on detainee trials at Guantanamo Bay have been diagnosed with cancer, according to the complaint, which was filed with the U.S. Defense Department's Office of the Inspector General. The complaint claims that an unusually large number of relatively healthy and young people who worked at the base have been diagnosed with cancer.

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• Boston out of running for 2024 Summer Olympic Games bid
• Boston to drop bid to host 2024 Olympic Games: local media
• Colorado massacre trial jurors quizzed over Lafayette shooting
• Magazine cover features 35 of Bill Cosby's accusers
• DJ Henry was a black man killed by police. Should he be a cause?
• Boston mobster 'Whitey' Bulger's lawyers set to appeal conviction
• Offshore wind power gets foothold in U.S. with Rhode Island project
• Shanghai share index dives more than 8 percent
• Pedro Martinez steals the show on Hall of Fame induction day
• Bobbi Kristina Brown dies at 22, after five months in coma
• Some Guantanamo inmates would go to U.S. under new plan: Obama aide
• Firefighters make progress against Western U.S. wildfires
• U.S. candidate Huckabee: Obama marching Israelis to 'door of the oven'
• Missouri man kills father by lying on his head to 'prove a point'

Boston out of running for 2024 Summer Olympic Games bid Posted: 27 Jul 2015 12:35 PM PDT The city of Boston is no longer a candidate to host the 2024 Olympic Games.

Boston to drop bid to host 2024 Olympic Games: local media Posted: 27 Jul 2015 11:59 AM PDT By Scott Malone and Jacqueline Tempera BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston will back out of its effort to host the 2024 Olympic Games, local media reported on Monday, hours after the city's mayor, Marty Walsh, on Monday said he would not "commit" to a deal if doing so would leave city taxpayers vulnerable to the costs of hosting such a large-scale event. The idea of hosting the games in the city has been controversial, with opinion polls showing many residents of Boston and its surrounding communities fear the event would take a heavy toll on local budgets. The Boston Globe cited two officials close to the discussion as saying the bid would be dropped.

Colorado massacre trial jurors quizzed over Lafayette shooting Posted: 27 Jul 2015 10:38 AM PDT By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The judge in the Colorado movie massacre trial asked jurors on Monday if they saw reports of last week's deadly shooting at a Louisiana cinema, and whether they could remain impartial as they decide the fate of Aurora gunman James Holmes. After questioning the jurors, Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour decided not to dismiss any of them, saying they only had brief exposure to information about the case in Louisiana. Holmes has been found guilty of killing 12 people and wounding 70 during a midnight screening of a Batman film at a suburban Denver multiplex in 2012.

Magazine cover features 35 of Bill Cosby's accusers Posted: 27 Jul 2015 10:25 AM PDT New York Magazine has published an explosive cover story chronicling the stories of nearly three dozen women who have accused the 77-year-old comedian of rape or sexual assault over a four-decade span.

DJ Henry was a black man killed by police. Should he be a cause? Posted: 27 Jul 2015 06:54 AM PDT Dan and Angella Henry sit in the windowed kitchen of their stately home in Easton, Mass. — the trampoline and swimming pool out back, the trees and hummingbird feeders all around, the artfully arranged platter of sandwiches on the granite counter.

Boston mobster 'Whitey' Bulger's lawyers set to appeal conviction Posted: 27 Jul 2015 04:29 AM PDT Lawyers for former Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger are set to challenge his 2013 racketeering conviction on Monday, contending a judge wrongly blocked them from arguing that a U.S. official had given him immunity for his crimes. Bulger, 85, was found guilty of committing or ordering 11 murders in the 1970s and 1980s in a trial that shone a light on his corrupt relationship with federal agents and prosecutors in Boston, who turned a blind eye to the Irish-American gangster's crimes in return for information they could use against the Italian-American Mafia. The former head of the "Winter Hill" gang currently is serving a sentence of two life terms plus five years for what U.S. District Judge Denise Casper called his "unfathomable" crimes.

Offshore wind power gets foothold in U.S. with Rhode Island project Posted: 27 Jul 2015 04:13 AM PDT By Richard Valdmanis NEW SHOREHAM, Rhode Island (Reuters) - Rhode Island's Deepwater Wind will start installing the foundations for North America's first offshore wind farm on Monday, a milestone the company says could pave the way for an industry long established in Europe but that is still struggling with opposition in the United States. The 30-megawatt wind farm, which will include five turbines located three miles (4.8 km) off the coast of the bucolic summer tourist destination of Block Island, will take more than a year to build and is scheduled to produce electricity for the tiny island community and the mainland by the end of next year. "Our belief is once Block Island is up and running, it will bring offshore wind from theory to reality in the United States and open up opportunities to build larger projects," said Jeffrey Grybowski, Deepwater Wind's CEO.

Shanghai share index dives more than 8 percent Posted: 27 Jul 2015 02:10 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Shanghai share index dived more than 8 percent Monday as Chinese stocks suffered a renewed sell-off despite government efforts to calm the market.

Pedro Martinez steals the show on Hall of Fame induction day Posted: 27 Jul 2015 12:48 AM PDT Former Boston Red Sox ace Pedro Martinez has developed quite the reputation from both his time in the game, and since he's been out of the game.

Bobbi Kristina Brown dies at 22, after five months in coma Posted: 26 Jul 2015 06:47 PM PDT

Some Guantanamo inmates would go to U.S. under new plan: Obama aide Posted: 26 Jul 2015 04:51 PM PDT A plan being drafted for closing the Guantanamo military jail will call for the transfer to U.S. prisons of possibly dozens of inmates deemed too dangerous to release, President Barack Obama's counter terrorism adviser said, setting up a fight with congressional opponents. Outlining the White House proposal that will soon be sent to Congress, Lisa Monaco, one of Obama's top national security aides, told the Aspen Security Conference on Saturday that the United States would step up the transfers of 52 detainees cleared for resettlement in other countries. The plan calls for the rest of the inmates at the U.S. naval base in Cuba to be brought to the United States to "Supermax" or military prisons for trials or continued military detention, Monaco said.

Firefighters make progress against Western U.S. wildfires Posted: 26 Jul 2015 03:43 PM PDT Firefighters made progress Sunday against three wildfires burning in Montana and California, aided by cooler temperatures overnight. A blaze in the Sierra foothills near Lake Tahoe in California was burning rapidly toward the north despite calming overnight, and evacuation orders remained in place for several communities, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. Investigators do not yet know the cause of the blaze, dubbed the Lowell Fire, which started Saturday and prompted evacuation orders for the communities of You Bet, Red Dog, Lowell Hill and Chalk Bluff, the agency said.

U.S. candidate Huckabee: Obama marching Israelis to 'door of the oven' Posted: 26 Jul 2015 02:53 PM PDT Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has denounced the deal reached by the United States and other world powers on Iran's nuclear program by saying President Barack Obama is marching Israelis "to the door of the oven," a reference to the Holocaust. The head of the Democratic National Committee on Sunday demanded an apology by Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor whose comments came in an interview with a conservative website on Saturday. "This president's foreign policy is the most feckless in American history," Huckabee told "Breitbart News Saturday." "It is so naive that he would trust the Iranians.

Missouri man kills father by lying on his head to 'prove a point' Posted: 26 Jul 2015 02:37 PM PDT Kyle Webb, 44, of Grandview, Missouri, is charged with killing Franklin Webb late Saturday night at a home they shared after the father complained about the way his son was cleaning up around a leaky pipe, according to a police report. Kyle Webb admitted the killing, telling police that he became angry at his father's complaints and attempted to scare him by acting as though he was going to hit him with an empty vodka bottle, according to the police report. Franklin Webb then tried to punch his son but fell back, hitting a kitchen chair before falling to the floor where the son jumped on top of him, the police report states.

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