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Feds: Ohio bartender contemplated poisoning Speaker Boehner

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:58 PM PST

Boehner speaks to reporters at a news conference following a Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonMichael Hoyt is suspected to have contemplated poisoning House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, and has been charged with threatening to murder a U.S. official, court documents showed on Tuesday. Michael Hoyt, who had long served Boehner at a country club in Ohio and checked into a psychiatric facility after he was questioned by police, was indicted on the charge on Jan. 7, court papers said. ...


Tsarnaev lawyers: Suspend jury selection over France attacks

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

Suspects wanted for questioning in relation to the Boston Marathon bombing April 15 are revealed during an FBI news conference in BostonAttorneys for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are asking a judge to suspend jury selection in his trial for at least a month because of the terror attacks in France.


Montana officer breaks down after fatally shooting unarmed man

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:27 PM PST

Montana Cop Bursts Into Tears After Shooting Unarmed ManIn the footage, Billings Police Officer Grant Morrison can be seen sobbing on the hood of a police cruiser after shooting 38-year-old Richard Ramirez three times during a traffic stop.


U.S. police organizations criticize response to alleged brutality

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:29 PM PST

A memorial to Antonio Martin, an armed man fatally shot by police late on Tuesday, is seen in BerkeleyBy Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. police are being unfairly targeted in response to allegations of police brutality, leaders from three police organizations said at the first public meeting of U.S. President Barack Obama's policing task force on Tuesday. In a tense back and forth, Fraternal Order of Police President Chuck Canterbury told the task force that the media and public figures often rush to judgment against officers involved in fatal shootings rather than respecting due process. ...


Facebook to issue missing children alerts in U.S.

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:47 AM PST

People pose with laptops in front of projection of Facebook logo in this picture illustration taken in ZenicaNEW YORK (Reuters) - Social networking website Facebook plans to use its estimated 140 million daily U.S. users to help track missing children through emergency alerts, the company said on Tuesday. Facebook partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to immediately begin sending AMBER Alerts, including photographs and other details, to the news feeds of users in targeted search areas. "The chances of finding a missing child increase when more people are on the lookout," Emily Vacher, trust and safety manager at Facebook, said in a statement. ...


Probe into deadly Washington subway smoke may take a year: NTSB

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:32 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The investigation into smoke in a Washington subway tunnel that killed a woman and sent 84 people to hospitals could take six to 12 months, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday. The preliminary cause of the smoke that filled six subway cars in a tunnel on Monday was electrical arcing involving the charged third rail about 1,100 feet (335 metres) ahead of the train, NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said. "What caused the electrical arcing is what we want to understand," he said. ...

Man linked to Paris attacker held

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:23 PM PST

French prime minister Manuel Valls delivers his speech during an homage to the 17 victims of last week terrorist attacks, at the French national Assembly in Paris, Tuesday Jan. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)PM Valls is urging tighter surveillance and other anti-terrorism measures.


Eleven Ukraine civilians killed when rocket hits bus

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST

Ukrainian soldiers patrol near the frontline in the eastern Ukrainian city of Debaltseve, Donetsk region, on December 24, 2014Eleven Ukrainian civilians were killed and nearly 20 injured on Tuesday when a long-range Grad rocket apparently fired by pro-Russian insurgents hit an intercity bus in the separatist east. Local police said the rocket appeared to have gone astray after being aimed by the gunmen at a checkpoint set up by government soldiers on the main highway connecting the rebel stronghold of Donetsk with Ukraine's southeastern coast on the Sea of Azov. The incident was the deadliest attack on civilians since the rival sides signed a much-maligned September 5 ceasefire that only partially stemmed the fighting and did little to resolve the insurgents' independence claims.


US judges review broad surveillance of Muslims by NYC police

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:05 PM PST

Kameelah Rashad demonstrates Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, outside the U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia. The 3rd U.S. Circout Court is scheduled to weigh an appeal of N.J. decision that allows New York City police to spy on Muslim communities in the city and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court appeared concerned Tuesday that the New York Police Department may have spied on Muslim groups following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks solely because of their religion.


Pope urges respect for human rights on Sri Lanka trip

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:40 AM PST

Pope Francis and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena during a welcome ceremony at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake on January 13, 2015Pope Francis urged respect for human rights as he began a two-nation Asia tour in a windswept Sri Lanka Tuesday, bearing a message of peace and reconciliation after a decades-long civil war. His visit, days after the surprise election of a new president, is focused on unity in a country struggling to heal the wounds of a 37-year conflict that pitted troops against Tamil separatists. The Argentine pope's second visit to Asia will also take in the Philippines, a bastion of Christianity in the region, where he is set to attract one of the biggest-ever gatherings for a head of the Catholic Church.


Indian state slams plan for centers to make LGBT youths 'normal'

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:07 AM PST

A participant holds a rainbow flag during Queer Azadi Mumbai 2011 in MumbaiBy Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The chief minister of the Indian beach state of Goa on Tuesday slammed plans by his youth affairs minister to set up treatment centers for young lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people(LGBT), a move that had enraged activists. Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said Ramesh Tawadkar's plan to set up centers providing treatment, training and medication "to make them (LGBT youths) normal" was announced in ignorance. ...


Israel to bury victims of Paris market attack

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:20 AM PST

Family of victim of attack on a Paris grocery mourn beside a symbolic coffin during a procession near Tel AvivTop Israeli leaders will attend services for four Jews killed in a kosher market.


CDC director 'confident' world can get to zero Ebola cases

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:12 AM PST

In this Oct. 12, 2014, file photo, Dr. Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks at a news conference in Atlanta. People who shared an apartment with the country's first Ebola patient are emerging from quarantine healthy. And while Thomas Eric Duncan died and two U.S. nurses were infected caring for him, there are successes, too: A nurse infected in Spain has recovered, as have four American aid workers infected in West Africa. Even there, not everyone dies. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday he was "confident" that the Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa can be brought under control, but that "we are by no means out of the woods." Speaking at a breakfast meeting in Washington with public health officials and lawmakers, Dr. Tom Frieden said it is vital that every case of the disease is eliminated. "I remain very confident we can get to zero cases in this epidemic if we continue the way we're going and nothing unexpected happens," he said. ...


Contest to succeed Sen. Boxer prompts hectic maneuvering

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

In this April 12, 2013, file photo, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses delegates to the 2013 Democratic State Convention in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom says he won't run for the open U.S. Senate seat created by Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer's retirement next year. On his Facebook page, Newsom says it's better to be candid than coy, and while he's humbled by widespread encouragement to seek federal office, he has unfinished work in the state of California, not Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Tuesday became the first Democrat to enter the high-stakes, high-dollar race to replace Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate.


1792 penny sells for record-breaking sum

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 03:39 PM PST

This photo provided by Heritage Auctions shows an experimental U.S. penny struck to test a design in 1792 that sold Thursday, Jan. 8,2015 for $2,585,000 to a California man according to Heritage Auctions in Dallas. An official says the rare coin is called the "Birch cent" after engraver Robert Birch. (AP Photo/Heritage Auctions)By Michael Fleeman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Beverly Hills rare coin dealer purchased a 1792 American penny for nearly $2.6 million, the most ever paid for a one-cent piece at auction. Named after its engraver, Robert Birch, the so-called "Birch Cent" was among the first pennies struck for the United States, part of a series of prototype coins. Only 10 are believed to exist and collector Kevin Lipton said the coin he purchased is in the best condition of those 10. ...


Sen. Marco Rubio issues terror warning: Not if, but when

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:39 PM PST

Sen. Marco Rubio issues terror warning: Not if, but whenFlorida Sen. Marco Rubio warns that "thousands of people around the world" are plotting terror attacks like the one on the staff of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and that an attack on America is "not a question of if, but when."


Ohio State routs Oregon to win College Football Playoff title

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Running back Ezekiel Elliott scores four touchdowns as the Buckeyes complete a dream season.


Divers retrieve AirAsia cockpit voice recorder

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:07 AM PST

Indonesian officers move the Flight Data Recorder (C) of the AirAsia Flight QZ8501 into a suitable protective transportation case in Pangkalan Bun after it was retrieved from the Java Sea on January 12, 2015Finding the recorder is a key step towards determining the cause of the deadly crash.


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