| Former U.S. House Speaker Hastert indicted on federal charges Posted: 28 May 2015 03:49 PM PDT  Dennis Hastert was indicted on Thursday on federal charges including making false statements to the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago said. The Illinois Republican, who left office in 2007, was charged with structuring the withdrawal of $952,000 in cash in order to evade the requirement that banks report cash transactions over $10,000, and lying to the FBI about his withdrawals, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement.
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| Google wants to store all your photos for free, forever Posted: |
| Chicago’s heart of mercy for the disabled Posted: 28 May 2015 10:00 AM PDT  Nestled away in a northern Chicago suburb, among tree-lined streets, white picket fences and perfectly manicured lawns, is a 31-acre complex known as Misericordia. Misericordia, whose name means "heart of mercy" in Latin , is home to more than 600 children and adults with a wide range of physical and mental disabilities.
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| FBI launches probe into theft of U.S. taxpayer information Posted: 28 May 2015 10:44 AM PDT  The FBI said on Thursday it had begun looking into the illegal access of the tax-return information of about 100,000 people disclosed by the Internal Revenue Service earlier this week. "The FBI has opened an investigation into the recently reported incident at the Internal Revenue Service and is working with our interagency partners to determine the nature and scope of this matter," a spokesman said. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday cyber criminals had sought to gain access to personal tax information 200,000 times from February to May, and were successful in about half of those attempts.
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| Defense in Freddie Gray case seeks to move trial from Baltimore Posted: 28 May 2015 08:45 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Defense attorneys for six police officers facing criminal charges in the Freddie Gray case are seeking to have the trial moved from Baltimore, saying their clients cannot get a fair trial there, the Baltimore Sun reported on Thursday. The lawyers filed an 85-page document on Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court asking for a change of venue, arguing that a "presumption of prejudice" exists in the city, the newspaper said. Gray, a 25-year-old black man, was arrested April 12 and suffered a spinal injury in police custody.
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| U.S. President Obama visits family of journalist slain by ISIS Posted: 28 May 2015 10:47 AM PDT  U.S. President Barack Obama met on Thursday with the family of American journalist Steven Sotloff, who was beheaded last year by Islamic State militants. The White House said Obama met with Sotloff's parents Art and Shirley and his sister, Lauren, while he was in Florida for fundraising and a briefing on the upcoming hurricane season. "The president expressed his and the first lady's condolences for Steven's death," White House spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said.
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| CDC investigating error that caused live anthrax shipments Posted: 28 May 2015 04:54 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Army's top general said Thursday that human error probably was not a factor in the Army's mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples from a chemical weapons testing site that was opened more than 70 years ago in a desolate stretch of desert in Utah.
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| Matt Bai: Hillary Clinton's not like the rest of us? Good! Posted:  The "out of touch" mantra has been a perennial line of attack in our campaigns for several decades, at least.
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| Pataki record: A Roosevelt Republican from N.Y.’s crime-crackdown years Posted: 28 May 2015 09:43 AM PDT  Amid a growing group of long-shot Republican presidential hopefuls that already includes a neurosurgeon, a deposed Silicon Valley CEO, and two failed contenders from presidential primaries past, few official or potential primary candidates have been as quickly dismissed as George Pataki.
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| Putin accuses US of meddling into FIFA affairs Posted: 28 May 2015 07:34 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of meddling in the affairs of soccer's governing body and hinted that its corruption investigation is part of an attempt to take the 2018 World Cup away from his country.
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| George Pataki announces 2016 presidential bid Posted: |
| U.S. military mistakenly ships live anthrax to labs in nine states Posted: 28 May 2015 08:29 AM PDT  By Phil Stewart and Sharon Begley WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. military mistakenly sent live anthrax bacteria to laboratories in nine U.S. states and a U.S. air base in South Korea, after apparently failing to properly inactivate the bacteria last year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The Pentagon said there was no known suspected infection or risk to the public. Twenty-two personnel at the base in South Korea were also given precautionary medical measures although none have shown sign of exposure, the U.S. military said.
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