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• Donald Trump calls for ‘total and complete shutdown’ of Muslims entering U.S.
• DHS secretary to announce new terror alert system
• Responding to mistrust, feds investigate Chicago police
• Tube stabbing suspect appears in London court
• Special Report: Newborns die after being sent home with drug-dependent mothers
• Special Report: As social services stand back, mother and baby fall 'into hell'
• Special Report: In the heart of U.S. opioid epidemic, help finds mother and baby

Donald Trump calls for ‘total and complete shutdown’ of Muslims entering U.S. Posted:

DHS secretary to announce new terror alert system Posted: 07 Dec 2015 03:05 PM PST Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said today that in the coming days he will announce a "new terror alert system" for the United States. "I believe that we need to do a better job of informing the public at large of what we are seeing, removing some of the mystery about the global terrorism threat and what we are doing about it and what we are asking the public to do," Johnson said. Johnson said the United States has moved into a "new phase" in the global terrorist threat and requires an alert system that can respond appropriately.

Responding to mistrust, feds investigate Chicago police Posted: 07 Dec 2015 03:16 PM PST Responding to deepening mistrust of one of the nation's largest police forces, the federal government opened an investigation Monday into the Chicago Police Department, and authorities announced they would ...

Tube stabbing suspect appears in London court Posted: 07 Dec 2015 10:09 AM PST A man who appeared in court Monday charged with attempted murder after a stabbing at London Underground train station was allegedly found with pictures associated with the Islamic State group on his phone. Muhaydin Mire, 29, from east London, is accused of attempting to murder a 56-year-old man at Leytonstone station on Saturday night. Mire was remanded in custody until Friday when he will again appear at the Old Bailey in London, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales.

Special Report: Newborns die after being sent home with drug-dependent mothers Posted: 07 Dec 2015 04:30 PM PST By Duff Wilson and John Shiffman LEHIGHTON, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Brayden Cummings turned 6 weeks old the morning his mother suffocated him. High on methamphetamine, Xanax and the methadone prescribed to help her kick a heroin habit, 20-year-old Tory Schlier told police that she was "fuzzy" about what happened to her baby boy. A 12-year-old federal law calls on states to take steps to safeguard babies like Brayden after they leave the hospital.

Special Report: As social services stand back, mother and baby fall 'into hell' Posted: 07 Dec 2015 04:33 PM PST The help came too late to save her daughter, Jacey. In December 2011, Frazier gave birth to Jacey at a hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina. Jacey spent two weeks suffering through withdrawal, a result of the methadone Frazier took during pregnancy to control an addiction to prescription painkillers.

Special Report: In the heart of U.S. opioid epidemic, help finds mother and baby Posted: 07 Dec 2015 04:35 PM PST Yeager, 24, had been clean since leaving jail eight months earlier. "I just wanted to escape from myself," Yeager recalled, "basically the loneliness, the anger and uncertainty of everything." Getting high is easy in Charleston, a city at the center of Appalachia's epidemic of opioid addiction. On that fall day last year, two months before her baby was due, Yeager poured powdered heroin into a spoon, added water and held a lighter beneath it until the drug liquefied.

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