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• Mike Huckabee defends Holocaust comment amid backlash
• GOP: Still no deal on Clinton testimony to Benghazi panel
• Roger Goodell upholds Tom Brady's four-game suspension
• New York prison worker pleads guilty in escape of 2 killers
• Prison employee who aided New York escapees pleads guilty
• Part of Pentagon email network taken down over suspicious activity
• Florida man charged in alleged bomb plot for Islamic State
• Donald Trump's lawyer gets law wrong, says, ‘You can’t rape your spouse’
• Obama delivers frank words about Africa's problems
• GOP on guard as Trump continues to dangle 3rd party prospect
• Libya court sentences Kadhafi son Seif al-Islam to death
• Colorado theater shooter's sister says his eyes changed
• Clinton aims high in green energy plan
• New York Gov. Cuomo announces new LaGuardia Airport

Mike Huckabee defends Holocaust comment amid backlash Posted: 28 Jul 2015 10:39 AM PDT Yahoo's Katie Couric interviews the presidential hopeful about his controversial remarks on the Iran nuke deal.

GOP: Still no deal on Clinton testimony to Benghazi panel Posted: 28 Jul 2015 12:42 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, said Tuesday that there is no agreement with Hillary Rodham Clinton over her possible appearance before the panel, despite the State Department's pledge to produce 5,000 new pages of documents.

Roger Goodell upholds Tom Brady's four-game suspension Posted: The NFL didn't budge. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell...

New York prison worker pleads guilty in escape of 2 killers Posted: 28 Jul 2015 02:30 PM PDT PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A prison worker who was "in over her head" with two inmates convicted of murder tearfully pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of aiding them by smuggling hacksaw blades and other tools to the pair, who broke out and spent three weeks on the run.

Prison employee who aided New York escapees pleads guilty Posted: 28 Jul 2015 10:19 AM PDT A female prison employee pleaded guilty to one felony and one misdemeanor charge in a deal with prosecutors on Tuesday in connection with helping two convicted murderers in their daring June escape from a maximum security prison in upstate New York. Joyce Mitchell, 51, faces up to seven years in prison for her role in the breakout by inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6. "She realizes that she made a horrible mistake," her attorney Stephen Johnston told reporters.

Part of Pentagon email network taken down over suspicious activity Posted: 28 Jul 2015 03:47 PM PDT An unclassified email network used by Army General Martin Dempsey and other members of the U.S. military's Joint Staff has been taken off line because of suspicious activity, a Pentagon spokeswoman said on Tuesday. "We continue to identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks across our networks," Henderson said.

Florida man charged in alleged bomb plot for Islamic State Posted: 28 Jul 2015 12:48 PM PDT A Florida man has been charged in an alleged backpack bomb plot he planned to carry out on a public beach in Key West to show his support for the Islamic State militant group, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday. Harlem Suarez, also known as Almlak Benitez, 23, of Key West, was arrested on Monday as part of an FBI sting operation and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, the department said. According to the criminal complaint, the FBI was alerted to Facebook posts made by Suarez in April of this year in which he expressed his support for Islamic State.

Donald Trump's lawyer gets law wrong, says, ‘You can’t rape your spouse’ Posted:

Obama delivers frank words about Africa's problems Posted: 28 Jul 2015 01:47 PM PDT ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — President Barack Obama arrived in East Africa with no big American aid packages, no ramped up U.S. military resources for fighting terror groups and no new initiatives with billions in government backing.

GOP on guard as Trump continues to dangle 3rd party prospect Posted: 28 Jul 2015 10:41 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is running for president as a Republican, and he says that won't change — so long as he's "treated fairly."

Libya court sentences Kadhafi son Seif al-Islam to death Posted: 28 Jul 2015 08:00 AM PDT A Libyan court Tuesday sentenced a son and eight aides of slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi to death for crimes during the 2011 uprising, in a verdict denounced by rights campaigners. The United Nations also said it was "deeply disturbed" by the outcome and criticised the trial for failing to meet international standards. Seif al-Islam, the strongman's one-time heir apparent who is also wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), was tried in his absence because he is held by militia opposed to the Tripoli authorities.

Colorado theater shooter's sister says his eyes changed Posted: 27 Jul 2015 05:53 PM PDT CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — When the younger sister of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes visited him in jail nearly two years after the attack, his eyes bulged from his head and he spoke in short, stilted phrases— a vast difference from the loving brother who protected her while they were growing up, she testified Monday.

Clinton aims high in green energy plan Posted: 27 Jul 2015 12:52 PM PDT DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Calling climate change one of the "most urgent threats of our time," Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out elements of a sweeping plan Monday that would see every U.S. home powered by renewable energy by 2027, even as she declined to take a position on the Keystone XL oil pipeline opposed by environmental activists.

New York Gov. Cuomo announces new LaGuardia Airport Posted: 27 Jul 2015 08:25 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A year after comparing New York's LaGuardia Airport to "some Third World Country," Vice President Joe Biden helped unveil an ambitious plan Monday to rebuild its collection of aging terminals into a modern, unified hub while easing congestion by doubling the space available for planes to operate.

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