Reports: Ferguson grand jury still undecided, reconvening Monday
The 12-member panel is still reviewing the shooting death of Michael Brown.Read More ...
Barricades go up in St. Louis County as decision looms
On
Saturday, grand jury watch started to feel more like a hurricane watch
here in the heart of St. Louis County. Workers scrambled Saturday
morning to barricade police headquarters and other government buildings,
residents grabbed supplies at a corner store and some shop owners
finished boarding up windows.Read More ...
Cleanup on, flood threat looms after huge N.Y. snow
BUFFALO,
N.Y. (AP) — Beth Bragg's home was spared the worst of a lake-effect
storm that buried parts of the Buffalo area under more than 7 feet of
snow. But she was still out first-thing Saturday with her shovel — along
with hundreds of other volunteers.Read More ...
Missouri town on edge awaiting grand jury decision on police shooting
By
Daniel Wallis FERGUSON Mo (Reuters) - An uneasy quiet settled over
Ferguson, Missouri, on Saturday evening after another day without a
decision from a grand jury on whether to bring charges against a white
police officer for fatally shooting a black teen. With the St. Louis
suburb and the rest of the country waiting for an announcement,
activists and police have been taking steps to avert more street
violence. The Aug. 9 shooting triggered months of protests and a
national debate over police violence. ...Read More ...
Volunteer snow shovelers hit Buffalo streets as flooding fears rise
By
Aaron Ingrao BUFFALO (Reuters) - As temperatures near Buffalo, New
York, rose above freezing on Saturday, volunteers fanned out to help
their neighbors clear the walls of snow that have paralyzed parts of the
region this week, but the warming trend also raised the threat of
flooding. More than 200 volunteers, called the Shovel Brigade Mob, armed
themselves with shovels and headed into neighborhoods south of downtown
Buffalo. The group said some residents were still stuck in their homes,
days after a lake-effect system clobbered the region with up to seven
feet of snow. ...Read More ...
Four dead in murder-suicide on South Dakota reservation, police say
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A South Dakota man shot and killed three people and critically wounded a fourth person before taking his own life at a residence on a Native American reservation, law enforcement officials said Saturday. Local police cooperating with Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribal Police had launched an early morning manhunt for the shooting suspect but later said the gunman was among the dead found inside a residence in the city of Sisseton, on the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation. ...
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Iran, world powers seek elusive nuclear deal one day before deadline
Iran
and world powers face an uphill struggle to break the deadlock in their
high-stakes nuclear negotiations and secure a historic deal on the eve
of a deadline. Kerry, who on Friday postponed a trip to Paris to remain
in Vienna for the talks, met Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad
Zarif on Saturday afternoon, their fourth meeting in three days. German
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, also in the Austrian capital,
called this final weekend of talks, after months of negotiations, a
"moment of truth". At stake is a historic deal in which Iran would curb
its disputed nuclear activities in exchange for broad relief from years
of heavy international economic sanctions.Read More ...
Biden announces new aid for Syrian refugees
Vice
President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan emerged
from a nearly four-hour meeting Saturday, offering no indication that
the U.S. and Turkey had bridged their differences about how to deal with
Islamic State fighters or Syrian President Bashar Assad.Read More ...
Rising tension ahead of Ferguson grand jury decision
Tensions
were high on Saturday in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, with a US
grand jury poised to decide whether to prosecute a white police officer
for killing an unarmed black teenager. US President Barack Obama has
called for calm, Missouri's governor declared a state of emergency and
activated the state National Guard, and the FBI has deployed an extra
100 personnel to the area. Police helicopters trained search lights over
Ferguson late Friday as a small gaggle of protesters braved the cold to
demand that officer Darren Wilson stand trial for shooting 18-year-old
Michael Brown dead on August 9.Read More ...
Kerry says gaps remain in talks about Iran's nukes
U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry warned of "serious gaps" in talks about a
nuclear deal with Iran, but as Monday's deadline approached his German
counterpart said Tehran and six world powers have "never been closer" to
agreement since they started negotiating more than six years ago.Read More ...
Civic group: No Ferguson grand jury decision yet
FERGUSON,
Mo. (AP) — Crews erected barricades Saturday around the building where a
grand jury has been considering whether to indict the Ferguson police
officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, even as a grand jury decision
seemed unlikely this weekend.Read More ...
Activist group: US-led Syria strikes kill over 900
BEIRUT (AP) — A prominent Syrian activist group monitoring its civil war says U.S.-led airstrikes in the country have killed over 900 people since September, many fighters of the militant Islamic State group, though some civilians as well.
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Obama urges critics to 'pass a bill' on immigration
Obama
urged Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform as he used his
weekly address Saturday to again defend his unilateral action shielding
millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. "I still believe
that the best way to solve this problem is by working together –- both
parties –- to pass that kind of bipartisan law," Obama said in his
weekly radio and television address, referring to a wide-ranging
overhaul that had passed the Senate but was blocked in the House of
Representatives. "That bill would have secured our border, while giving
undocumented immigrants who already live here a pathway to citizenship
if they paid a fine, started paying their taxes, and went to the back of
the line," the president said, speaking from the Las Vegas, Nevada high
school where he launched his immigration reform efforts two years ago.
"But until that happens, there are actions I have the legal authority to
take as President -- the same kinds of actions taken by Democratic and
Republican Presidents before me -- that will help make our immigration
system more fair and more just," he insisted.Read More ...
House intel panel debunks many Benghazi theories
WASHINGTON
(AP) — A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House
Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted
properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound
in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration
appointees.Read More ...
Agency: Schools helped Lanza's mom 'appease' him
HARTFORD,
Conn. (AP) — Adam Lanza's parents and educators contributed to his
social isolation in the years before he carried out the 2012 Sandy Hook
Elementary School massacre by accommodating — and not confronting — his
difficulties engaging with the world, according to a state report issued
Friday.Read More ...
House GOP sues administration over health care law
Republicans says Obama overstepped his legal authority in carrying out the ACA.Read More ...
Senate to vote on two controversial Obama ‘ambassadonors’ Dec. 1
The Senate will vote Dec. 1 on whether to confirm a pair of big-time donors to President Barack Obama's reelection campaign as ambassadors to Argentina and Hungary. It could be Noah Bryson Mamet's and Colleen Bell's last chance — their odds become vanishingly small when the GOP takes over in January.
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GOP could struggle to roll back immigration changes
Republicans have no clear plan yet on how to respond to Obama's executive action.Read More ...
More signs of Florida shooter's troubled life
TALLAHASSEE,
Fla. (AP) — A man who shot three people at a Florida State University
library complained to police and property managers in New Mexico that
cameras were watching him in his apartment and that he heard voices
talking about and laughing at him, according to police reports released
Friday.Read More ...
100-year-old woman sees the ocean for the first time
ORANGE
BEACH, Ala. (AP) — Ruby Holt spent most of her 100 years on a farm in
rural Tennessee, picking cotton and raising four children. She never had
the time or money to go to a beach.Read More ...
What the Cosby uproar says about how far we've come
For decades, those who accused Cosby did so in the context of a world inclined not to believe them.Read More ...
Bandits in Guinea steal suspected Ebola blood
CONAKRY,
Guinea (AP) — It was a highway robbery but the bandits got more than
they bargained for when they stopped a taxi in Guinea and made off with
blood samples that are believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola
virus.Read More ...
More arrests as protesters await Ferguson grand jury decision
By Daniel Wallis FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Riot police arrested at least two demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri, for a second night running as tensions simmer ahead of a grand jury decision in the case of a white officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in August. The grand jury is deciding whether to charge officer Darren Wilson in the slaying of 18-year-old Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb in a case that has exposed fresh strains in often-troubled race relations in the United States. ...
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Israel says Hamas planned to assassinate Lieberman in West Bank
By
Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has arrested four
Palestinians suspected of planning to kill Foreign Minister Avigdor
Lieberman with an anti-tank rocket while he drove to his Jewish
settlement in the occupied West Bank, Israeli officials say. The alleged
Hamas plot was hatched during the July-August war in Gaza. Its
disclosure comes as ties fray between Israel and U.S.-backed Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas, who is based in the West Bank, over a
contested Jerusalem shrine. ...Read More ...
Michael Brown's father issues plea for peace in Ferguson
ST.
LOUIS — On the eve of what appears to be a grand jury decision in the
shooting death of his son, Michael Brown, Sr. issued a last-minute plea
for no more Ferguson riots.Read More ...
Woman with gun arrested outside White House after Obama's immigration speech
(Reuters)
- A woman demonstrating outside the White House on Thursday night was
arrested for carrying a gun, the Secret Service said, shortly after
President Barack Obama began a speech unveiling sweeping reforms to the
U.S. immigration system. April Lenhart, 23, of Mount Morris, Michigan,
was arrested around 8:30 p.m. local time, Secret Service spokesman
Robert Hoback said in an email. Obama had started his speech some 30
minutes earlier, during which he imposed the most sweeping immigration
reform in a generation. The executive actions ease the threat of
deportation for some 4. ...Read More ...
Supreme Court allows gay marriage to proceed in South Carolina
By
Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on
Thursday cleared the way for South Carolina to become the 35th U.S.
state where gay marriage is legal, denying a request to block same-same
weddings from proceeding. The order was another victory for gay marriage
advocates after a federal judge in Montana on Wednesday struck down
that state's ban on same-sex marriage. "We're really thrilled," said
Jeff Ayers, board chairman of South Carolina Equality. "This proves that
all the way to the highest court, these were our rights from the
beginning. ...Read More ...
Where is Darren Wilson?
The Ferguson police officer remains out of sight as the grand jury decision looms.Read More ...
CIA's plan to erase emails comes under fire
A CIA plan 'could allow for the destruction of crucial documentary evidence...'Read More ...
Mary Landrieu against the GOP wave
The Louisiana senator’s every move has garnered unusual amounts of attention.Read More ...
Matt Bai: Uber, Gruber and underlying truth
Social
media routinely ruins good reputations by magnifying a few clumsy words
beyond all proportion. Except, you know, when it doesn't really do that
at all.Read More ...
Texas judge approves execution of mentally ill man
Washington
(AFP) - A Texas judge on Wednesday refused to postpone the scheduled
execution of a convicted killer who suffers from mental illness and is
set to face lethal injection on December 3.Read More ...
Oscar-winning director dies at 83
NEW
YORK (AP) — A legend of film, theater and comedy in nearly equal
measure, Mike Nichols was an unquestioned fixture of smart, urbane
American culture across a relentlessly versatile, six-decade career that
on stage or screen, reliably coursed with crackling intelligence.Read More ...
Gunman killed by police after FSU shooting
Three students were also wounded in the shooting at a campus library.Read More ...
Police arrest protesters as Ferguson awaits grand jury decision
By Scott Malone and Daniel Wallis FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Police in Ferguson, Missouri, kept alert on Thursday for signs of tension after arresting five people for blocking a street the night before in a protest demanding the criminal indictment of a white police officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in August. The St. Louis suburb has been bracing for months to learn whether a St. Louis County grand jury will charge police officer Darren Wilson in the slaying of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a case that has become a flashpoint for often-troubled U.S. race relations. ...
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Immigrants wait, hope, plan for Obama order
SANTA
ANA, Calif. (AP) — Immigrants in the country illegally already are
flooding attorneys' offices with calls to see if they can qualify under
President Barack Obama's yet-to-be-announced plan to shield as many as 5
million immigrants from deportation.Read More ...
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