Why Scotland wants independence
There's nothing new about Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom's ups and downs.Read More ...
Independent senator says he may run for president as a Democrat
Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders says he may run as a Democrat.Read More ...
#GoodellMustGo banners fly above NFL stadiums
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women's rights group flew banners above several NFL stadiums on Sunday
calling on its commissioner, Roger Goodell, to resign over his handling
of the Ray Rice domestic violence case.Read More ...
Liberal Vermont Senator Sanders may seek U.S. presidency in 2016
By
Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bernie Sanders, one of the Senate's
leading liberals, said on Sunday he is thinking about running for U.S.
Sanders, an independent from Vermont, could pose a challenge from the
left to Clinton, widely seen as the front-runner for the Democratic
presidential nomination. Sanders is serving his second six-year term in
the Senate. He has cultivated a following among some American liberals,
especially on economic issues like the growing income disparity between
rich and poor and corporate greed.Read More ...
New Yorker Kira Kazantsev 'Happy' to be crowned Miss America
New
Yorker Kira Kazantsev won the coveted 2015 Miss America Pageant crown
on Sunday, a "three-peat" for contenders from the Big Apple. As part of
the competition, Kazantsev, 23, sang Pharrell William's song "Happy",
keeping time by tapping a red plastic cup. Wearing a long-sleeved,
backless white gown and clutching red roses, the newest Miss America
walked the runway with a wide smile and waved to a cheering crowd in
Atlantic City, where the 94-year-old beauty pageant returned last year
after eight years in Las Vegas. Kazantsev's win marked New York's third
consecutive Miss America title.Read More ...
Hundreds evacuated as northern California wildfires rage
Hundreds of residents were forced to flee their homes on Sunday as wildfires raged through parts of drought-plagued northern California, officials said. Roughly 1,000 Madera County residents were ordered to evacuate as one blaze, dubbed the Courtney Fire, charred some 320 acres (129.5 hectares), California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention (CalFire) said. A total of 400 firefighters were called in to battle the flames, which had destroyed at least 10 buildings and was being fueled by drought conditions in the area roughly 150 miles (241.4 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco, CalFire said. Further north, about 800 firefighters were working to battle a 2,500-acre (1,011.7-hectare) blaze called the King Fire, raging in El Dorado County.
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Scottish independence could mean messy divorce
How do you divorce after a 300-year union? It's complicated, and there is a deadline.Read More ...
Fourth Sierra Leonean doctor dies from Ebola
Freetown
(AFP) - A fourth Sierra Leonean doctor, a woman, died Sunday after
contracting the dreaded Ebola virus, a top health official said, while a
Dutch charity repatriated two doctors suspected of having been
contaminated with the disease.Read More ...
Several Arab countries offer to join air campaign on ISIL
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Jason Szep PARIS (Reuters) - Several Arab countries have offered to
join the United States in air strikes against Islamic State targets,
U.S. The officials declined to identify which countries made the offers.Read More ...
U.S. man in North Korea given 6 years of hard labor
Matthew Miller was accused of entering the country illegally and trying to commit espionage.Read More ...
Islamic State attracts female jihadis from U.S. heartland
At least three Somali families in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area have female relatives who have gone missing in the past six weeks and may have tried to join Islamic State, said community leader Abdirizak Bihi. In a separate case, a 19-year-old American Somali woman from St. Paul snuck away from her parents on Aug. 25 saying she was going to a bridal shower. Instead, she flew to Turkey and joined IS in Syria. Home to the biggest Somali community in the United States, the Twin Cities area of Minnesota has been plagued by terrorist recruiting since the Somali group al-Shabaab began enlisting in America around 2007.
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Britain mourns slain hostage; another under threat
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