News Guide: Primary election highlights
Highlights from Tuesday's primary elections in Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.Read More ...
Ferguson city council confront calls for reform
By
Carey Gillam FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - City leaders in Ferguson,
Missouri, confronted demands for reform by several hundred people on
Tuesday night at their first public meeting since last month's fatal
shooting of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer ignited
weeks of protests. The atmosphere was charged from the start, with
members of a largely black audience at a church in the St. Louis suburb
shouting down City Council members, rising out of their seats and
chanting in solidarity. As council leaders attempted to discuss routine
city business, one man shouted: "What about Mike Brown?" Tension remains
high in the mostly black community of 21,000 people after the Aug. 9
shooting. Protesters are demanding the arrest of the officer who shot
and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, as well as the ouster of Mayor
James Knowles III and Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson.Read More ...
Goodell doesn’t rule out Rice playing again
CBS
Evening News' Norah O'Donnell scored the first interview with NFL
commissioner Roger Goodell after Ray Rice's indefinite suspension
following the release of the extended video tape showing Rice hitting
his then-fiancée in an Atlantic City hotel.Read More ...
White House says beheaded U.S. journalist not 'sold' to Islamic State
The
United States has no information indicating beheaded American
journalist Steven Sotloff was "sold" to Islamic State militants by
moderate Syrian opposition rebels, White House spokesman Josh Earnest
said on Tuesday. Sotloff family spokesman Barak Barfi told CNN on Monday
night the family believed Islamic State paid up to $50,000 to rebels
who told the militant group the 31-year-old journalist had entered
Syria.Read More ...
In Missouri, Michael Brown memorial preserved, protected
By
Carey Gillam FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - It's still there. The stuffed
animals, flowers, and candles mounded into a memorial in the middle of
the street where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a
police officer changes almost daily. It has been a month since the
unarmed Brown was shot at least six times in an altercation with
Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Crowds no longer gather daily at
the site where Brown died, a quiet street that runs between the Canfield
Green apartment buildings.Read More ...
U.S. Ebola cases we haven't heard about
Company contracted by State Dept. has evacuated to U.S. an undisclosed number of people exposed to virus.Read More ...
5 missing S.C. children found dead; father suspected
The
bodies of five children aged between 2 and 8 were found stuffed into
garbage bags on Tuesday near a logging road in Alabama after their
father confessed to killing them and led police to the scene,
authorities said. Timothy Ray Jones, the father of the children, did not
reveal a motive for the killings, which he confessed to authorities in
Mississippi, Smith County Sheriff Charlie Crumpton said. "I’m a father
of two, and I can't imagine what goes through a man's head when he does
this," Crumpton said. "It was a horrible, horrible crime." The children,
whose names have not been released, were reported missing from their
home near Lexington, South Carolina, by their mother on Sept. 3, the
Lexington County Sheriff's Department said in a statement.Read More ...
U.S. extends Padilla terror sentence to 21 years
Jose
Padilla, a US citizen convicted of helping a homegrown Al-Qaeda cell,
saw his prison sentence extended to 21 years Tuesday after his initial
17-year penalty was deemed too lenient. Padilla was the subject of a
fierce tug-of-war between the administration of former president George
W. Bush and civil liberties groups after he was detained without charge
for nearly four years on a military brig following his arrest in 2002.
He was convicted two years later of aiding a homegrown Al-Qaeda cell
that supplied recruits and funding to Islamic extremists abroad, and of
conspiring to murder, kidnap and maim people in Afghanistan, Chechnya,
Bosnia and other countries from 1993 to 2001.Read More ...
Obama: I have authority for IS campaign
Obama says he still welcomes action by Congress that would aid effort, demonstrate unity.Read More ...
Syrian rebels to release UN peacekeepers
Syrian insurgents will release 45 UN peacekeepers held captive since Aug. 28, Fiji said.Read More ...
Curt Schilling returning to ESPN after battling cancer
Curt Schilling will be back talking baseball this week after announcing in August that he'd won his cancer fight.Read More ...
Orangutan that picked 7 straight Super Bowl winners dies in Utah
An
orangutan who became famous by correctly predicting the winner of the
Super Bowl for the last seven straight years has died at a zoo in Utah,
its keepers reported.Read More ...
Shark kills man in Australia despite rescue attempt
SYDNEY
(AP) — A shark killed a 50-year-old swimmer Tuesday at eastern
Australia's popular Byron Bay despite a beachgoer's brave rescue
attempt, police said.Read More ...
Six Flags' Colossus coaster goes out in flames
The Colossus roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain has fallen down to the ground after going up in flames.Read More ...
Eagles RB leaves 20-cent tip on $61.56 bill, restaurant says
LeSean McCoy is a good running back. And, it would appear, a bad tipper.Read More ...
India-Pakistan flood toll hits 400, thousands still stranded
Emergency
workers battled Tuesday to reach hundreds of thousands of people
marooned by floods in India and Pakistan that have claimed more than 400
lives, as anger grew over the speed of the rescue effort. The army said
it was airlifting boats to the worst-hit areas of Indian Kashmir, where
whole villages have been submerged and an estimated 400,000 people are
stranded in the region's worst flooding for half a century. "The
situation in Kashmir Valley is still very grim, it is quite critical,"
said Rajesh Kumar, police Inspector General of the Jammu region in
India's Jammu and Kashmir state.Read More ...
FBI: Air marshal attacked with syringe in Nigeria
The FBI says a U.S. air marshal was attacked with a syringe at a Nigerian airport.
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Remains of Tennessee student found
Partial remains of missing student Holly Bobo have been found more than three years after her disappearance.Read More ...
28 leaders of Islamist group killed in Syria blast
An
explosion killed the leader of one of Syria's most powerful Islamist
insurgent groups Ahrar al-Sham on Tuesday, the group said, and an
organization that monitors violence in the civil war said at least 28 of
its commanders had died. Ahrar al-Sham is a hardline Islamist group and
part of the Islamic Front alliance that has been in armed conflict with
the Islamic State group which has seized swathes of territory in Syria
and Iraq. A statement posted on Ahrar al-Sham's official Twitter feed
said the blast had hit a meeting in Idlib province in northwest Syria
and confirmed Hassan Aboud, the group's leader, among at least 12 dead.
"We don't know the cause of the explosion yet," Abu Mustafa al-Absi, a
member of Ahrar al-Sham's politburo told Al-Jazeera TV in an interview.Read More ...
U.S. bombs Islamic State in Iraq
Pentagon: U.S. warplanes have carried out more airstrikes against Iraqi jihadists.Read More ...
Documentary shows atrocities in fight against Boko Haram jihadis
Atrocities in fight against Boko Haram jihadists depicted in FRONTLINE documentary.Read More ...
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