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Intrigue surrounds Argentine prosecutor's death
Syria begins destruction of chemical weapons facilities
McCain urges 'boots on the ground' to combat IS
Tributes, protests mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day
FAA probing near miss between planes at New York airport
Oil spills in Montana's Yellowstone River after pipeline leak
Plea to imams to fight extremism draws Islamophobia charge
Attorney's biggest challenge: Defending the accused Boston Marathon bomber
'Selma' stars including Oprah march in Alabama
Which current members of Congress voted against making MLK Day a federal holiday?
EU calls for anti-terror alliance with Arab countries
Yemeen rebels seize state media, battle soldiers
'Flash-freezing' turns Northeast roads deadly
Patriots roll over Colts, will play Seahawks in Super Bowl

Intrigue surrounds Argentine prosecutor's death

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 04:48 PM PST

Officials say there is no indication anybody else was involved in the death of a prosecutor who had accused Argentina's president of shielding Iranian suspects in a deadly terror attack.

Syria begins destruction of chemical weapons facilities

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 06:52 AM PST

The destruction of production and storage centers begins.

McCain urges 'boots on the ground' to combat IS

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 03:29 PM PST

US Senator John McCain on Monday urged the deployment of international ground forces to combat jihadists in Syria and Iraq, as he toured the Middle East with a Senate delegation. "For months we've been bombing (Syrian border town) Kobane and we still haven't driven ISIS out," the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman told reporters in Jerusalem, using an acronym for the Islamic State group. "The reality is, we need more boots on the ground... we need intelligence, we need special forces, and we can't treat Iraq and Syria as different battlegrounds because it's the same enemy," McCain said.

Tributes, protests mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

By Laila Kearney and Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tributes to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. were held nationwide on Monday as protests over the treatment of minorities by law enforcement rolled on across the country. Observers of Martin Luther King Jr. Day have this year linked the federal holiday to a rallying cry in recent months during demonstrations over police brutality: "Black lives matter." King's 1960s dream of racial equality was being viewed through a lens focused on the recent deaths of unarmed black men after confrontations with police, including Eric Garner, who died in July after being put in a chokehold in New York City, and Michael Brown, shot in Ferguson, Missouri, in August. More than 1,800 people pressed into a King commemoration service at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King once preached, some holding signs with his famous quote "I am a man," others with placards reading "I can't breathe" in Garner's memory and "Hands up! Don't shoot!" to honor Brown.

FAA probing near miss between planes at New York airport

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 02:20 PM PST

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday that it was investigating whether an air traffic control problem caused a near miss between two planes in New York over the weekend. A JetBlue Airways Corp flight to Austin, Texas, was preparing to takeoff at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday when a Caribbean Airlines flight crossed its path, the FAA said in a statement. The Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737 was returning from South America's Guyana. The departing JetBlue Airbus 320 had received control tower clearance when it attempted to takeoff but returned to the gate after the mishap, JetBlue said in a statement.

Oil spills in Montana's Yellowstone River after pipeline leak

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 01:13 PM PST

(Reuters) - Bridger Pipeline LLC said on Monday it has shut the 42,000 barrel per day Poplar pipeline system after a weekend breach that sent as much as 1,200 barrels of crude oil into the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Montana. The pipeline system runs from the Canadian border to Baker, Montana, where it meets the Butte pipeline. Despite the shutdown, the price of Bakken crude was little changed on the Martin Luther King holiday.

Plea to imams to fight extremism draws Islamophobia charge

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 08:26 AM PST

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Muslim groups accused the British government of copying the language of the far right on Monday and of stoking Islamophobia after ministers wrote to imams asking them to explain to Muslims how Islam is compatible with being British. In a letter to over 1,000 imams last Friday, Eric Pickles, the minister for local government and communities, asked them to explain to Muslims how Islam can be "part of British identity", arguing they had a duty to do more to fight extremism and root out anyone preaching hatred. Muslim groups said the letter unfairly singled them out. "The letter has all the hallmarks of very poor judgment which feeds into an Islamophobic narrative, which feeds into a narrative of us and them," Tahla Ahmad of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) told Sky News.

Attorney's biggest challenge: Defending the accused Boston Marathon bomber

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 02:16 AM PST

Judy Clarke is known as the "patron saint of defense attorneys" for her willingness to take on the cases of notorious killers and finding a way to save their lives. But she faces her biggest challenge yet in trying to spare accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from the death penalty.

'Selma' stars including Oprah march in Alabama

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 09:07 PM PST

Hundreds marched to recall one of the bloodiest chapters of the civil rights movement.

Which current members of Congress voted against making MLK Day a federal holiday?

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 02:11 AM PST

In 1983, Congress voted overwhelmingly to approve legislation to honor the memory of the late Martin Luther King Jr. by observing a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January. But not every elected official was onboard with the effort.