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• With barbs and bluster, Trump barges into 2016 White House race
• Rachel Dolezal: ‘I identify as black’
• Indictment: Man helped plan Texas cartoon-contest shooting
• New York appeals court hears arguments over grand jury records in chokehold death
• U.S. arrests New York man for Islamic State-inspired bomb plot
• NY escape highlights relationships between inmates, prison employees
• Al-Qaida says U.S. strike killed leader of Yemen branch
• Tropical Storm Bill pelts Texas coast
• Blackhawks win Stanley Cup at home for first time in 77 years
• Jeb Bush jumps in GOP race, both guns blazing

With barbs and bluster, Trump barges into 2016 White House race Posted: 16 Jun 2015 02:00 PM PDT By Alana Wise NEW YORK (Reuters) - Real estate mogul and TV personality Donald Trump barged his way into the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Tuesday in a blitz of boasts, inflammatory comments and attacks on both fellow Republicans and President Barack Obama's administration. Trump wallowed in political incorrectness as he insulted everyone from Mexican immigrants to Jeb Bush and U.S. ally Saudi Arabia in announcing his bid for the Republican nomination. "I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created," Trump predicted in a long, combative speech in the atrium of Trump Tower on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.

Rachel Dolezal: ‘I identify as black’ Posted: 16 Jun 2015 05:15 AM PDT The former NAACP leader who resigned as president of the organization's Spokane, Wash., chapter after being accused of lying about her race says she identifies as African-American.

Indictment: Man helped plan Texas cartoon-contest shooting Posted: 16 Jun 2015 12:36 PM PDT PHOENIX (AP) — A man has been charged with helping plan an attack on a provocative Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas that ended with two Phoenix men being killed in a shootout with police.

New York appeals court hears arguments over grand jury records in chokehold death Posted: 16 Jun 2015 01:07 PM PDT A New York state appeals court heard arguments on Tuesday over unsealing minutes of a grand jury that declined to indict a white New York police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man. A coalition of groups seeking release of the transcripts told the four-judge panel that grand jury secrecy undermined confidence in the justice system and hampered debate among state lawmakers weighing grand jury reforms. The groups, which included the Legal Aid Society, want the appeals court to overturn a Staten Island justice's decision in March to bar release of records of the grand jury that probed the death of Eric Garner, 43, last year.

U.S. arrests New York man for Islamic State-inspired bomb plot Posted: 16 Jun 2015 03:30 PM PDT U.S. authorities have accused a New York City college student of plotting to set off a pressure cooker bomb in the city in support of the militant group Islamic State, according to court documents made public on Tuesday. Munther Omar Saleh, 20, was arrested early on Saturday morning after he and another man got out of their car and ran toward a surveillance vehicle that had been tracking their movements, according to documents filed in federal court in Brooklyn. A defense lawyer for Saleh could not be identified on Tuesday.

NY escape highlights relationships between inmates, prison employees Posted: 16 Jun 2015 01:12 PM PDT Reports that a sexual relationship had developed between two escaped New York inmates and a prison employee who has been charged with helping them break out 11 days ago illustrates the difficulties of policing relationships within prisons. The problem of sex between prisoners and staff is well documented and enough of a concern that New York set up a special statewide office in 1996 to investigate and prevent it. Joyce Mitchell, 51, was charged this week with providing chisels and hacksaws to convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat, who were found missing from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, near the Canadian border on June 6.

Al-Qaida says U.S. strike killed leader of Yemen branch Posted: 16 Jun 2015 11:24 AM PDT The group confirms the death of its No. 2 figure and head of its powerful Yemeni affiliate.

Tropical Storm Bill pelts Texas coast Posted: 16 Jun 2015 02:14 PM PDT By Kristen Hays HOUSTON (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Bill punched the Texas coast with heavy rains and strong winds on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said, just three weeks after floods killed about 30 people in the state. The second named tropical storm of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season made landfall near Matagorda, a sportfishing town near the South Texas Nuclear Generating Station in Bay City, a coastal nuclear power plant. Vessel traffic was halted in the Houston Ship Channel, the biggest U.S. petrochemical port, and ports in Galveston and Texas City, officials said.

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Jeb Bush jumps in GOP race, both guns blazing Posted: 15 Jun 2015 07:52 PM PDT Appearing before a raucous rally in front of thousands of supporters here Monday afternoon, former Florida governor Jeb Bush showed he is a force to be reckoned with in the presidential election as he officially launched his campaign.

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