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• Police make arrest in road-rage killing of Vegas mom
• Defense rests in 'American Sniper' murder trial
• U.S. Embassy: Turkey, U.S. sign deal to train, arm Syrian rebels
• Obama: Idea that West is at war with Islam is 'an ugly lie'
• Ex-New York assembly speaker Silver indicted
• Giuliani: Obama doesn’t love America
• 61 of 70 jurors selected for Tsarnaev trial
• Matt Bai: Obama, facilitator-in-chief
• ‘American Sniper’ trial puts rural Texas town in unwanted spotlight
• Union rejects contract offer from oil cos in U.S. refinery strike
• California mass shooter had penchant for Nazis, investigators say
• FBI agent testifies in case of New Jersey rabbis accused of kidnapping
• Lawyer says 1 of LA superbug victims was teenage student

Police make arrest in road-rage killing of Vegas mom Posted: 19 Feb 2015 01:15 PM PST A suspect was arrested Thursday in the killing of a Las Vegas mother of four who was gunned down a week ago in a road-rage shootout after giving her daughter a driving lesson, police said.

Defense rests in 'American Sniper' murder trial Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:31 PM PST STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — Attorneys mounting an insanity defense rested their case Thursday in the trial of the ex-Marine charged with gunning down "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle and another man.

U.S. Embassy: Turkey, U.S. sign deal to train, arm Syrian rebels Posted: 19 Feb 2015 12:14 PM PST ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey and the United States signed an agreement Thursday to train and arm Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State group, said the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.

Obama: Idea that West is at war with Islam is 'an ugly lie' Posted: 19 Feb 2015 01:46 PM PST The president reiterates his call for the world to stand up to violent extremism.

Ex-New York assembly speaker Silver indicted Posted: 19 Feb 2015 12:41 PM PST By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A grand jury indicted Sheldon Silver, the former New York State Assembly speaker and one of the state's most powerful politicians for two decades, on federal corruption charges on Thursday, federal prosecutors said. Silver, who resigned as speaker after his arrest last month but remains the assemblyman for Manhattan's Lower East Side, was indicted on one count of honest services mail fraud, one count of honest services wire fraud and one count of using his office for extortion. Silver's lawyers said in a statement on Thursday he was not guilty. "We can now begin to fight for his total vindication," Joel Cohen and Steven Molo, Silver's lawyers, said in a statement.

Giuliani: Obama doesn’t love America Posted: 19 Feb 2015 05:16 AM PST The former New York City mayor says he believes the president does not love the United States — or the people in it.

61 of 70 jurors selected for Tsarnaev trial Posted: 19 Feb 2015 08:58 AM PST Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys argue that an impartial jury can't be found in Boston.

Matt Bai: Obama, facilitator-in-chief Posted: 19 Feb 2015 02:59 AM PST In the last year or so, Barack Obama's team has deployed the presidential summit as a central response to just about every topic of national significance. At this late stage of Obama's presidency, the idea seems to be that talking about a policy — or at least being seen talking about it — is a kind of policy in itself.

‘American Sniper’ trial puts rural Texas town in unwanted spotlight Posted: 19 Feb 2015 03:05 AM PST People in the small Texas town where "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and his best friend were slain want justice, but say celebrity murder cases are meant for Hollywood, not rural hideaways. "It's different than normal life in Stephenville," longtime resident Chick Elms said of the trial now in its second week.

Union rejects contract offer from oil cos in U.S. refinery strike Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:46 PM PST Union negotiators on Thursday rejected the latest contract offer from oil companies and said the largest U.S. refinery strike since 1980 may spread to more plants beyond the 11 where walkouts are underway. The United Steelworkers union (USW) said in a message to members and news media including Reuters that the latest proposal from lead oil company negotiator Royal Dutch Shell Plc failed to improve safety at refineries and chemical plants in an "enforceable way." The union also told workers not on strike to be prepared to walk out in the coming days. "New offer fails to improve safety in enforceable way," the USW said in the text message. Out of respect for the bargaining process, we are unable to comment further on today's activities." Earlier this week, the union's lead negotiator, International Vice President Gary Beevers, told Reuters that safe staffing levels at refineries and chemical plants were a sticking point in the talks.

California mass shooter had penchant for Nazis, investigators say Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:22 PM PST By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 22-year-old California man who killed six college students last year before taking his own life in a rampage near Santa Barbara had an interest in Nazis and conducted a Web search for torture devices, a report released on Thursday showed. Elliot Rodger stabbed three men to death in his apartment in the community of Isla Vista last May before fatally shooting three more people and wounding 14 others near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Rodger had a history of mental health issues and in an Internet manifesto before the rampage, expressed frustration about his lack of success with women. The report by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office detailing the outcome of its probe into the killings said investigators still could not determine what motivated Rodger to commit the slayings.

FBI agent testifies in case of New Jersey rabbis accused of kidnapping Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:52 PM PST By Daniel Kelley TRENTON, N.J. (Reuters) - An undercover FBI agent testified on Thursday in a case involving three Orthodox Jewish rabbis in New Jersey accused of kidnapping and beating husbands to force them to grant divorces under Jewish law to their wives. Special Agent Jessica Weisman, who went by the name Rachel Marconi during the operation, said she weaved a complicated back story designed to provide a plausible excuse to the rabbis to explain why she knew no one from the close-knit Orthodox community in Lakewood, New Jersey. She told them of a husband in Argentina and provided them with fake wedding photos and counterfeit marriage contracts. The three rabbis - Mendel Epstein, Binyamin Stimler and Jay Goldstein - and Epstein's son David are accused of kidnapping or trying to kidnap men and torturing them with beatings and stun guns until they agreed to divorce their wives.

Lawyer says 1 of LA superbug victims was teenage student Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:52 PM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) — The lawyer for one of the people infected by a "superbug" bacterial outbreak at a Los Angeles hospital says his client is an 18-year-old student who remains hospitalized in grave condition.

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