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• Live updates: Grand jury decision in Eric Garner case sparks more protests
• Eric Garner's children speak to Katie Couric in exclusive interview
• Hundreds of killings by cops are not reported to FBI, study finds
• Top U.S. justice official promises probe after NYC police chokehold death
• Hagel dismisses reports he resigned over differences with Obama
• L.A. police chief finds fault with shooting of unarmed man after chase
• U.S.: Cleveland police poorly trained, reckless
• Republicans seem poised to expand Senate majority
• Matt Bai: Jeb Bush is right about 2016
• NASA scrubs Orion launch; will try again Friday
• Protests erupt after chokehold decision
• Yemen's al-Qaida threatens to kill U.S.hostage in video
• Islamic militants attack Chechen capital; 20 dead
• Justice Dept. to investigate Eric Garner death
• Obama's AG pick targets convicted Clinton bundler

Live updates: Grand jury decision in Eric Garner case sparks more protests Posted: 04 Dec 2014 03:44 PM PST Demonstrators gather at Foley Square in lower Manhattan, while hundreds march in streets.

Eric Garner's children speak to Katie Couric in exclusive interview Posted: 04 Dec 2014 09:09 AM PST Erica and Eric Garner Jr. raise the question of what more a jury needs to charge officer.

Hundreds of killings by cops are not reported to FBI, study finds Posted: 04 Dec 2014 08:09 AM PST A new study finds that more than 550 killings by police were not reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation between 2007 and 2012. This makes it nearly impossible to figure out how many people cops kill — justifiably or not — every year.

Top U.S. justice official promises probe after NYC police chokehold death Posted: 04 Dec 2014 04:53 PM PST By Sebastien Malo, Barbara Goldberg and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday promised a full investigation into the choking death of an unarmed black man by a white New York police officer as protests flared for a second day over a grand jury's decision declining to bring criminal charges in the case. ...

Hagel dismisses reports he resigned over differences with Obama Posted: 04 Dec 2014 03:12 PM PST By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday his resignation last week was not prompted by "major differences" with President Barack Obama, pushing back against statements that he had been fired or quit due to White House micromanagement. Hagel, speaking publicly for the first time about his Nov. 24 resignation, said he decided to step down after several conversations with the president led him to conclude that now was the best timing for a Pentagon leadership change. ...

L.A. police chief finds fault with shooting of unarmed man after chase Posted: 04 Dec 2014 04:31 PM PST By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three Los Angeles police officers who killed an unarmed man after a car chase last year, in a shooting caught on live television, acted in violation of the department's use of force policy, the police chief said in a report released on Thursday. The three officers have said they thought 51-year-old Brian Beaird was reaching for a gun or shooting at them when they fired on him 21 times last December in an incident in downtown Los Angeles that raised questions about police use of force. ...

U.S.: Cleveland police poorly trained, reckless Posted: 04 Dec 2014 04:25 PM PST CLEVELAND (AP) — A U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday spared no one in the Cleveland police chain of command amid findings of excessive use of force and civil rights violations.

Republicans seem poised to expand Senate majority Posted: 04 Dec 2014 06:45 AM PST Rep. Bill Cassidy's race against Sen. Mary Landrieu could complete the 2014 GOP onslaught.

Matt Bai: Jeb Bush is right about 2016 Posted: 04 Dec 2014 02:55 AM PST The smart play for 2016, if you're a Republican like Jeb Bush or Chris Christie or Marco Rubio, may be to let the other guys fight it out for Survivalist of the Year and set your sights on the party's other, broader constituencies: the right-leaning independents and mainline conservatives who fear that a Republican nominee too easily caricatured as extreme will lead the country straight into the embrace of Hillary Clinton. If you can unify that voting bloc, more or less, and end up going one-on-one with a candidate like Rand Paul or Scott Walker on Super Tuesday, then you've got a very real path to the nomination.

NASA scrubs Orion launch; will try again Friday Posted: 04 Dec 2014 10:38 AM PST NASA's new Orion spacecraft will have to wait a little longer to fly.

Protests erupt after chokehold decision Posted: 04 Dec 2014 02:26 PM PST New York reacts after a grand jury fails to indict a cop in the death of Eric Garner.

Yemen's al-Qaida threatens to kill U.S.hostage in video Posted: 04 Dec 2014 02:01 AM PST Al-Qaeda in Yemen released a video Thursday threatening to execute a US journalist taken hostage last year. In the video dated December 2014, the hostage said his name was Luke Somers, 33, and that he was kidnapped more than a year ago in Sanaa. The photojournalist was kidnapped in the Yemeni capital in September 2013, US-based monitoring agency SITE Intelligence said. The video featured a message by Nasser bin Ali Al-Ansi, of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), threatening to kill the hostage in three days if Washington failed to meet unspecified demands.

Islamic militants attack Chechen capital; 20 dead Posted: 04 Dec 2014 12:22 PM PST GROZNY, Russia (AP) — Police waged hours-long gunbattles with Islamic militants who attacked Chechnya's capital Thursday, leaving at least 20 people dead and underscoring Russia's vulnerability just as President Vladimir Putin used patriotic and religious imagery in his state-of-the-nation address to defend his standoff with the West.

Justice Dept. to investigate Eric Garner death Posted: 03 Dec 2014 07:27 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will conduct a federal investigation into the chokehold death of an unarmed black man after a grand jury in New York City declined to indict the white police officer who applied the move, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.

Obama's AG pick targets convicted Clinton bundler Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:46 PM PST Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney nominated by President Barack Obama to be his next attorney general, is asking a federal judge to impose a stiff prison term on a former Hillary Clinton fundraiser convicted of making illegal campaign contributions. The court filing by Lynch's office comes at a time when she is facing a potentially tough grilling from Republican lawmakers on her nomination to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder. "It won't hurt for Loretta Lynch to be sending a major Democratic fundraiser to prison right before her confirmation hearing for attorney general," said one Washington lawyer.

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