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Obama in State of the Union: America is turning the page

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 04:35 PM PST

In this Jan. 28, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber in Washington. Obama will outline in his State of the Union address Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, appear to be aimed at driving the debate in the 2016 election on income inequality and middle-class economic issues, rather than setting a realistic agenda for Congress. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool, File)President Barack Obama was set to urge Americans on Tuesday night to "turn the page" on years of economic troubles, terrorism and lengthy wars, arguing that his presidency had ushered in an era of smarter American leadership and a growing U.S. economy.


French authorities arrest five suspected of preparing attack

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 09:10 AM PST

A group Chechens in southern France are in police custody.

Paris mayor plans to sue Fox News over reports of Muslim 'no-go zones'

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 12:59 PM PST

New York city mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, right, give a press conference, in Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. Terror attacks by French Islamic extremists should force the country to look inward at its "ethnic apartheid," the prime minister said Tuesday as four men faced preliminary charges on suspicion of links to one of the gunmen. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)Anne Hidalgo says she intends to sue the American cable network over reports suggesting there are Muslim "no-go zones" in the French capital.


How the U.S. Capitol gets ready for the State of the Union

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 02:12 AM PST

2012 SOTU MEDIAIt may only draw half the viewers it once did, but for staffers at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday night's annual State of the Union address by the president is their Super Bowl. It is the single most complex logistical undertaking held each year in the United States' more than 200-year-old central legislative building. Months of work by press gallery staff, the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms and Capitol Police are required to stage the event properly for television cameras around the world.


Time to "turn the page" and help middle class, Obama to say

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 04:44 PM PST

U.S. President Obama addresses joint news conference with British Prime Minister Cameron at the White House in WashingtonBy Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will challenge a skeptical Republican-led Congress on Tuesday to back tax increases on the wealthy to help lift up middle-class Americans in a State of the Union speech that will outline his vision for his last two years in office. On foreign policy, Obama will call on lawmakers to pass a new authorization of military force against Islamic State militants to replace powers that were given to President George W. Bush to prosecute the Iraq war. He will say the U.S.-led effort to stop Islamic State from advancing in Iraq and Syria is working without dragging the United States into another ground war in the Middle East. Obama will credit his "middle-class economics" for a surge in the U.S. economy and say it is time to "turn the page" from recession and war and to focus on growth for all, including the middle class, according to excerpts of his 9 p.m. EST (0200 GMT Wednesday) televised speech released by the White House.


Jury selection starts in Colorado cinema massacre trial

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 02:22 PM PST

Jury selection in the case of James Holmes beginsBy Keith Coffman and Daniel Wallis CENTENNIAL, Co. (Reuters) - A judge in Colorado began the process on Tuesday of choosing the jury for the murder trial of James Holmes, the former neuroscience graduate student who killed 12 people in July 2012 at a midnight screening of a Batman movie. If convicted, he could face the death penalty. Jury selection may take up to four months as Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour seeks to narrow a field of some 9,000 possible jurors to a panel of 12 and 12 alternates. Each person will be questioned about views on topics such as insanity defenses and the death penalty.


Obama to visit Selma for 50th anniversary of civil rights marches

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 02:36 PM PST

Obama smiles as he works on a literacy project with children during a day of service at the Boys & Girls Club in WashingtonU.S. President Barack Obama will visit Selma, Alabama, in March to recognize the 50th anniversary of historic marches led by activists fighting against segregation and seeking to ensure African Americans' right to vote, a White House official said on Tuesday. Obama will visit the small southern town on March 7 as part of his administration's efforts to highlight the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the official said. The law, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson 50 years ago this August, banned literacy tests and other tactics used in the U.S. South to block racial minorities from voting. The White House official said more details of Obama's trip would be announced later.


President Obama's 2015 State of the Union address: Live updates

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 07:19 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2014 file-pool photo, President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Joe Biden, and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, listen. President Barack Obama and his aides have been trickling out his State of the Union proposals on taxes, education, Internet access and more for weeks. What's left to watch for during Tuesday night's speech? Plenty. The event is as much about the theatrics and accoutrements of the evening as about the meat of the president's proposals. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, File-Pool)The president is scheduled to give his second-to-last State of the Union address on Tuesday. Yahoo News is providing live streaming coverage and analysis of the speech.


Oil could hit $25 a barrel

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 12:22 PM PST

A man fills up his car at a petrol station in RomeBy Barani Krishnan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil fell as much as 5 percent on Tuesday after the International Monetary Fund cut its 2015 global economic forecast and key producer Iran hinted prices could drop to $25 a barrel without supportive OPEC action. Genscape, an analytics firm that monitors U.S. oil stocks, reported a 2.6 million-barrel build last week in Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for the U.S. crude futures contract, adding to the market's bearish sentiment, traders said. Trade group American Petroleum Institute will issue its data on U.S. crude inventories for last week on Wednesday while the government's Energy Information Administration will release its stockpile tally on Thursday, both delayed a day by a holiday on Monday.


Houthis take Yemen presidential palace

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 03:51 PM PST

Houthis take Yemen's presidential palace: witnesses, security sourcesThe development follows some of the most intense fighting in Sanaa in years.


Kenyan officials condemn use of tear gas at children's protest

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 08:03 AM PST

Students from Langata primary school and activists run from teargas fired by riot police during a protest against a perimeter wall erected by a private developer around their school playground in NairobiBy Edith Honan NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan officials on Tuesday rushed to condemn the use of teargas against children at a Nairobi primary school who were protesting at the loss of their playground. Police were seen firing at least three canisters of tear gas just outside the Langata Primary School as several hundred tried to knock down a wall surrounding the playground in protest at what they called an illegal "land grab" to turn it into a car park. Children wearing green school uniforms were seen scampering away from the clouds of gas, coughing and choking. President Uhuru Kenyatta said he had censured the Ministry of Lands and the National Land Commission for failing to address the dispute sooner.


Jury selection begins in Colorado theater shooting case

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 10:32 AM PST

FILE -- This Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015 file photo shows a view of the jury box, right, inside Courtroom 201, where jury selection in the trial of Aurora movie theater shootings defendant James Holmes is to begin on Jan. 20 at the Arapahoe County District Court in Centennial, Colo. The trial begins with 9,000 possible jurors and a rare opportunity to see a mass shooter stand trial. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool, File)The process of choosing the dozen jurors who will decide whether James Holmes was sane or insane at the time of the Colorado theater rampage in July 2012 began Tuesday afternoon, when the first wave of an unprecedented 7,000 prospective jurors reports to the Arapahoe County Justice Center.


Why Obama’s State of the Union still matters in the Twitter era

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 02:10 AM PST

U.S. President Barack ObamaHis team plans to use a complex social media blitz to make up for a shrinking TV audience.


Islamic State threatens two Japanese captives

Posted: 20 Jan 2015 06:31 AM PST

A masked person holding a knife speaks as he stands in between two kneeling men in this still image taken from an online video released by the militant Islamic State groupISIS is reportedly demanding $200 million for their release.


Officials: 1 dead, 1 injured in overpass collapse in Ohio

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 11:14 PM PST

This photo provided by the Cincinnati Fire and EMS, shows the scene following a highway overpass collapse in Cincinnati, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that according to a police dispatch the southbound Interstate 75 was closed indefinitely after the collapse of the overpass. (AP Photo/Cincinnati Fire and EMS)CINCINNATI (AP) — Officials say one person died and another person was injured when a highway overpass collapsed in Cincinnati.


Jindal: Muslims establish 'no-go zones' outside civic control

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 05:47 PM PST

In this Nov. 3, 2014, file photo, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal delivers a speech for Florida Gov. Rick Scott in Clearwater, Fla. Some countries have allowed Muslims to establish autonomous neighborhoods in cities where they govern by a harsh version of Islamic law, Jindal said Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, during a speech in London. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Some countries have allowed Muslims to establish autonomous neighborhoods in cities where they govern by a harsh version of Islamic law, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Monday during a speech in London.


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