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Jeb Bush’s biggest CPAC win: No gifts for Democrats
Stopgap Homeland Security spending bill fails in House
Prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov shot dead
Despite fiery CPAC speech, is Ted Cruz changing course?
Ukraine conflict at 'crossroads' as troop deaths shake truce
Attackers in Bangladesh hack to death American blogger
Partial shutdown? House rejects Homeland Security funding
For Jeb Bush, the Q&A is the message
German Parliament approves Greece's bailout extension
Eight dead in door-to-door Missouri shooting spree
Adoption by same-sex parent recognized by Alabama appeals court
Texas snowstorm snarls transport, cancels nearly 600 flights
Indiana may allow 'baby boxes' for surrendering newborns
Congress edges toward domestic security funding patch
CPAC: Convention with history of controversy is underway
CPAC shows how GOP media strategy could backfire

Jeb Bush’s biggest CPAC win: No gifts for Democrats

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 01:19 PM PST

The ex-Florida governor addresses complaints conservatives have made about him.

Stopgap Homeland Security spending bill fails in House

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 02:18 PM PST

The House has rejected a stopgap spending bill for the Homeland Security Department with just hours to go before a midnight deadline to fund the agency or see it begin to partially shut down.

Prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov shot dead

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 04:32 PM PST

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down Saturday near the Kremlin, officials said. Nemtsov was killed just a day before a protest planned against Putin's rule.

Despite fiery CPAC speech, is Ted Cruz changing course?

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 07:19 AM PST

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas used a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday to rail against the party establishment, calling himself a "disruptive app" such as Uber that would upend the political system. Delighting the assembled conservative shock troops, Cruz castigated the Republican leadership for selling out their principles by separating a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security from a measure that would roll back President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration

Ukraine conflict at 'crossroads' as troop deaths shake truce

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 10:04 AM PST

International monitors said Friday the conflict in Ukraine was at a "crossroads" as further losses among government forces rattled a two-week-old truce just as it seemed to be gaining traction. The envoy to Ukraine for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which is monitoring the peace deal, told the UN Security Council that while there were encouraging signs, the country still risked all-out war. Russia formally annexed the territory in March 2014, triggering an international furore. The uprising in Ukraine's east, which has claimed at least 5,800 lives, began the following month.

Attackers in Bangladesh hack to death American blogger

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 12:39 PM PST

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger known for speaking out against religious extremism was hacked to death as he walked through Bangladesh's capital with his wife, police said Friday.

Partial shutdown? House rejects Homeland Security funding

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 04:00 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The rebellious Republican-controlled House unexpectedly voted down short-term funding for the Department of Homeland Security late Friday, increasing the prospect of a partial shutdown at midnight of an agency with major anti-terrorism responsibilities.

For Jeb Bush, the Q&A is the message

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 02:17 AM PST

The former Florida governor's openness sets him apart from his likely 2016 opponents.

German Parliament approves Greece's bailout extension

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 06:07 AM PST

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Parliament overwhelmingly approved the four-month extension of Greece's financial bailout on Friday, despite unease over the new government in Athens.

Eight dead in door-to-door Missouri shooting spree

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 03:53 PM PST

A man armed with a handgun went on a house-to-house shooting spree in a rural Missouri town, killing seven relatives and neighbors before taking his own life, officials said on Friday. All of those killed by the gunman, identified as Joseph Aldridge, 36, lived within a few miles of each other in the tiny community of Tyrone, an unincorporated area with a population of about 50, authorities said. Authorities said the motive was unclear and declined to comment on whether the murders had been triggered by the death of Aldridge's mother, who was found at her home. Authorities said she may have died from natural causes.

Adoption by same-sex parent recognized by Alabama appeals court

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 03:50 PM PST

An Alabama appeals court ruled on Friday that the state must recognize the out-of-state adoption of three children by the estranged wife of their birth mother, lawyers for the plaintiff said. The decision comes as a handful of Alabama judges have refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of a federal ruling, and as another same-sex couple in Mobile has sued seeking similar adoption rights. Alabama this month became the 37th state where gay marriage is legal after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay a federal ruling that struck down Alabama's ban on same-sex marriage. Despite that, Roy Moore, the conservative chief justice of the state's Supreme Court, has directed judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Texas snowstorm snarls transport, cancels nearly 600 flights

Posted: 27 Feb 2015 03:09 PM PST

By Marice Richter DALLAS (Reuters) - A storm that dusted the Dallas area on Friday with about 1 to 3 inches of snow caused hundreds of traffic accidents and led to more than 600 flight cancellations. Flight tracker FlightAware.com said as of 4:30 p.m. CST, 595 flights were canceled at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, one of the nation's busiest and a hub for major carrier American Airlines. The slippery weather conditions also led to a pileup of nearly 40 vehicles in Melissa, about 35 miles north of Dallas. No fatalities or serious injuries were reported, Department of Public Safety officials reported.

Indiana may allow 'baby boxes' for surrendering newborns

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 10:46 PM PST

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — On the outside, the metal box looks like an oversized bread container. But what's inside could save an abandoned newborn's life.

Congress edges toward domestic security funding patch

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 06:06 PM PST

By David Lawder and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives were planning to pursue on Friday a temporary funding bill to keep the lights on at the U.S. domestic security agency for three weeks, postponing the threat of a partial agency shutdown. As the clock ticked toward a midnight Friday deadline for funding the Department of Homeland Security, lawmakers said a stop-gap extension would buy time to try to work out differences between the Republican-controlled House and the Senate. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, who has insisted on a full Homeland Security funding bill free of immigration reform restrictions that have caused weeks of delay, said on Thursday he would refuse to allow such negotiations with the House.

CPAC: Convention with history of controversy is underway

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 05:32 PM PST

Since the nonprofit American Conservative Union hosted its first Conservative Political Action Conference in 1973, CPAC has morphed into a massive annual event, with everyone from bloggers to national networks enticed by the opportunity to observe conservatives in their natural habitat in hopes of witnessing something controversial. And CPAC, for its part, rarely disappoints.