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Was Amtrak train hit by a flying object?

Posted: 15 May 2015 04:45 PM PDT

New rail lines are stacked up in an area near the site where a deadly train derailment occurred earlier in the week, Friday, May 15, 2015, in Philadelphia. Amtrak is working to restore Northeast Corridor rail service between New York City and Philadelphia. Service was suspended after a train derailed in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, killing eight passengers and injuring more than 200. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)The Amtrak train that derailed along the nation's busiest tracks may have been struck by an object in the moments before it crashed, investigators said Friday, raising new questions about the deadly accident.


Jury sentences Boston Marathon bomber to death

Posted: 15 May 2015 12:39 PM PDT

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and U.S. District Judge George O'Toole are shown in a courtroom sketch after Tsarnaev was sentenced at the federal courthouse in BostonMore than two years after the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, admitted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to the death penalty.


Mark Everson ran the IRS. Now he wants to be president.

Posted: 15 May 2015 09:17 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 3, 2007, file photo, Mark Everson poses for a portrait at a Red Cross chapter, in New York. Everson, who led the Internal Revenue Service from 2003 to 2007, says he's running as a Republican for president because he wants to make federal tax laws more consistent and less complex. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)There comes a moment in the career of many government bureaucrats when they sit across the table from a high-ranking elected official — the president, even—and think, You know, I'm just as smart as these guys. "You understand they're just another person," says Mark Everson, who served in the Reagan administration and as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service under George W. Bush. "You ask yourself, Do you like this? Do you think you qualify?" The answers he arrived at — yes and yes — led him, after a long period of soul-searching, to the Lincoln Dinner of the Linn County (Iowa) Republican Committee on May 1, where he shared a dais with the only other presidential candidate who showed up, an Indiana contractor named Mike Petyo. Because the hard truth about presidential politics is that while you may be just as smart as the guys who win, you almost certainly aren't as famous, charismatic or rich.


House panel to hold Amtrak hearing; Schumer blasts Boehner

Posted: 15 May 2015 03:11 PM PDT

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, speaks during a news conference outside New York's Penn Station, Friday, May 15, 2015. Schumer and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., will launch a major push to get Congress to prioritize rail safety in 2015. Their campaign comes in the wake of a tragic Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia on Tuesday night that killed at least eight passengers and injured over 200. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. House committee announced Friday it would hold a hearing on the deadly Amtrak crash while U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer launched another push to get Congress to pay for train safety technology and infrastructure improvements in the wake of the derailment.


Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev sentenced to death for 2013 attack

Posted: 15 May 2015 04:14 PM PDT

Judy Clarke, defense attorney for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, walks out of the federal courthouse in BostonBy Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by a U.S. jury on Friday for helping carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded 264 others in the crowds at the race's finish line. After deliberating for 15 hours, the federal jury chose death by lethal injection for Tsarnaev, 21, over its only other option: life in prison without possibility of release. The same jury found Tsarnaev guilty last month of placing a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs on April 15, 2013, as well as fatally shooting a policeman. William Richard, the father of bombing victim Martin Richard, described the decision to leave his 8-year-old son to die of his wounds so that he could save the life of his daughter, Jane, who lost a leg but survived.


Philadelphia train may have been hit by projectile before wreck

Posted: 15 May 2015 04:53 PM PDT

Emergency workers and Amtrak personnel inspect a derailed Amtrak train in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaBy Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia and a separate commuter train in the vicinity may have been hit by projectiles of some kind shortly before the wreck, a U.S. transportation safety official said on Friday, after investigators interviewed members of the Amtrak crew. An assistant conductor told NTSB investigators on Friday that she heard the engineer, 32-year-old Brandon Bostian, talking by radio with the driver of another train from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).


Saudi man gets life in U.S. prison for ties to Africa embassy bombings

Posted: 15 May 2015 09:08 AM PDT

Terror suspects Khalid al-Fawwaz and Adel Abdul Bary are seen in this courtroom sketch during a court appearance in Manhattan Federal Court in New YorkBy Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Saudi man whom U.S. authorities described as a top Osama bin Laden deputy was sentenced to life in prison on Friday in connection with the deadly 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Khalid al-Fawwaz was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan after being convicted of four conspiracy counts in New York in February. Instead, prosecutors said he was bin Laden's "bridge to the West" in London, disseminating the al Qaeda leader's violent messages to media outlets and sending supplies to the group's members in Africa. "I worship the same God you say you do," said Ellen Karas, an embassy worker left permanently blind by the August 7, 1998, bombing in Nairobi.


Bin Laden top aide sentenced to life in embassy bombing plot

Posted: 15 May 2015 10:29 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2015, file courtroom sketch, Khaled al-Fawwaz, right, a defendant in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, is seated next to his defense attorney, Barbara O'Connor, during jury selection in Manhattan Federal Court. The aide to Osama bin Laden faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced after his conviction Friday, May 15. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams, File)Khaled al-Fawwaz was convicted of conspiring in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.


What Marco Rubio's stumble on immigration says about his ability to lead

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No one doubts Rubio's raw talent. But there are doubts about his readiness for the presidency.


Blues legend B.B. King dies at age 89

Posted: 15 May 2015 10:26 AM PDT

BB KingHe was not only the undisputed king of the blues but a mentor to scores of guitarists.


IS seizes government HQ in Iraq's Ramadi

Posted: 15 May 2015 01:41 PM PDT

Security forces defend their headquarters against attacks by Islamic State extremists during sand storm in the eastern part of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 14, 2015. Islamic State extremists tend to take advantage of bad weather when they attack Iraqi security forces positions, an Iraqi officer said. (AP Photo)Islamic State fighters seized the government compound in the city of Ramadi on Friday and edged closer to what would be their biggest victory in Iraq this year, officials said. The loss of the capital of Anbar province, which Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had said would be the next target of government forces after wresting back Tikrit last month, would be a major setback. The government stressed that Ramadi had not fallen yet and announced that a major counter-offensive was under way as Abadi held an emergency meeting with top security officials. IS has threatened to take control of Ramadi for months, and the breakthrough came after a wide offensive on multiple fronts in the province, including an assault using several suicide car bombs in Ramadi on Thursday.


Nepal rescuers find 3 bodies near crashed US Marine chopper

Posted: 15 May 2015 09:09 AM PDT

A UH-1Y Huey helicopter flies into the Tribhuvan International Airport after a search and rescue operation in Kathmandu NepalKATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter that disappeared this week during a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, and officials said it was unlikely there were any survivors from the crash.


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