Mitt Romney says he will not make 2016 White House bid
The 2012 GOP nominee announced he won't make a third bid for the presidency.Read More ...
Dartmouth College bans hard liquor
On Thursday, school President Philip Hanlon announced that starting March 30, all students, regardless of age, will be prohibited from possessing hard alcohol on campus. The school’s Greek societies have also been warned that they need to improve their behavior or risk being banned. The White House says the behavior has led to an “epidemic” of sexual assault on school campuses. According to the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1,825 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die each year from alcohol-related unintentional injuries and 97,000 students are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape.
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Florida prosecutor drops case against Zimmerman
By
Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida prosecutor announced
on Friday he will not pursue an aggravated assault charge against
former neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman stemming from a domestic
incident earlier this month after the alleged victim recanted.
Zimmerman, who was acquitted in 2013 in a fatal shooting of an unarmed
black teenager, has had several brushes with the law since his trial.
His latest arrest on Jan. 9 in central Florida was in connection with a
domestic disturbance involving his then-girlfriend who had accused him
of throwing a wine bottle at her and smashing her cell phone during an
argument. Zimmerman claimed he acted in self-defense when he shot and
killed Trayvon Martin, 17, in February 2012, when he was patrolling as a
neighborhood watch volunteer.Read More ...
'Suge' Knight arrested for murder
'Suge' Knight faces murder chargesRead More ...
Jordan awaits proof hostage is alive after swap deadline
Families of a Japanese journalist and Jordanian military pilot remained in limbo.Read More ...
Is Mitt Romney running for president?
Romney will update supporters today about his plans for 2016.Read More ...
Obama calls for spending surge, buoyed by rising economy
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Declaring an end to "mindless austerity," President Barack Obama
called for a surge in government spending Thursday, and asked Congress
to throw out the sweeping budget cuts both parties agreed to four years
ago when deficits were spiraling out of control.Read More ...
Suge Knight arrested on murder charge
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U.S. government releases draft plan for electronic health data
The
Obama administration on Friday proposed a plan to move most doctors,
hospitals and their patients to national standards for handling
electronic clinical data by the end of 2017. The U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS), as part of an effort to propel the $2.9
trillion U.S. healthcare system away from a costly fee-for-service
system, released a report draft aimed at establishing an inter operable
health information technology system that can be accessed by patients
and their healthcare providers. Policy experts say that national health
IT standards would lead to transparency in medical data, prices and
provider performance, while helping support hospitals and medical
practices in pursuing care-delivery models that emphasize care quality
and savings over quantity. Earlier this week, Health and Human Services
Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced the goal of moving 50 percent of
fee-for-service Medicare payments to quality-care focused providers by
the end of 2018.Read More ...
Mother of NYC boy who vanished in 1979 to testify at murder trial
By
Natasja Sheriff NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mother of Etan Patz, a boy
whose disappearance from a New York City street in 1979 ignited a
national movement to find missing children, will tell jurors at his
accused killer's trial about the "nightmare that never ended," a
prosecutor said on Friday. In opening statements in the kidnapping and
murder trial of Pedro Hernandez, Assistant District Attorney Joan
Illuzzi-Orbon said the former deli worker who confessed to the crime had
upended an average American family's life and sent it spiraling into
unthinkable tragedy. "You will hear from Julie Patz... about her quite
ordinary life, a regular American tale, interrupted by a nightmare that
never ended," Illuzzi-Orbon told jurors seated before Judge Maxwell
Wiley in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. During jury selection,
Illuzzi-Orbon said the case would not feature "high tech forensic
evidence," but would take them back 35 years "to a time when the Brady
Bunch was still on TV." Patz' disappearance prompted President Ronald
Reagan to sign into law the Missing Children’s Assistance Act, and Patz
was one of the first missing children whose picture appeared on a milk
carton. In 2012, investigators received a tip from Hernandez's
brother-in-law, who told police Hernandez allegedly confessed to the
crime to a church prayer group in the 1980s. Hernandez, in a
videotaped confession to police, said he lured Patz to the basement of
the deli where he worked near the child's home, strangled him and dumped
him in an alley.Read More ...
Keystone XL bill passes in Senate, faces Obama veto
The
U.S. Senate passed a bill on Thursday to approve the long-pending
Keystone XL oil pipeline, despite the White House saying earlier in the
day that President Barack Obama would veto the measure. The
Republican-led Senate passed the bill that would approve TransCanada
Corp's project to carry 800,000 barrels per day of heavy Canadian crude
to Nebraska on the way to Gulf Coast refineries and ports. The House has
passed its own pipeline bill and will work with the Senate to send the
bill to the Obama's desk. After the potential veto, Obama is expected to
make his own decision on the pipeline after the State Department
finishes a review in coming weeks.Read More ...
'Peace between us,' Raul Castro says of U.S. ties
Cuban
President Raul Castro gave an endorsement to peace between the United
States and his communist country, with the two nations in talks to
restore ties after decades of animosity. Asked by a journalist at a
summit of Latin American and Caribbean states what he would most like to
see after the US economic embargo of Cuba is lifted, Castro barked:
"Peace, peace between us, peace between the United States and us. Castro
first said he would have to consider the question because the end of
the economic embargo may be a long way away. US and Cuban diplomats met
last week in Havana in landmark talks aimed at renewing ties that broke
off in 1961.Read More ...
Texas lawmaker under fire for divisive Facebook post
A
newly-elected Texas state lawmaker is under fire for a divisive
Facebook post asking Muslim visitors to an event at the state capitol in
Austin to pledge allegiance to the United States.Read More ...
Senate panel approves Iran sanctions bill
The measure would levy a tougher penalty on Tehran if it fails to curb its nuclear program.Read More ...
Lindsey Graham to test 2016 Republican presidential waters
By
Steve Holland and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Carolina
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Thursday formed a political
organization to explore a potential run for his party's presidential
nomination, the latest high-profile politician to test the 2016 waters.
Graham would attempt to use his South Carolina home base to his
advantage for any potential run, since the Southern state is typically
the third to hold a nominating contest in presidential election years,
after Iowa and New Hampshire. "What I'm looking at is, is there a
pathway forward on the ground in Iowa and New Hampshire for a guy like
me?Read More ...
Gas blast at Mexico City children's hospital
At least three people are dead and dozens are injured.Read More ...
Boy Scouts settle California suit over abuse
The case involved a man who was molested by a Scout volunteer in 2007.Read More ...
Islamic State purportedly sets new deadline for hostage swap
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U.S. jobless claims plunge 14%
New
claims for US unemployment insurance benefits plunged to the lowest
level in nearly 15 years last week, the Labor Department reported
Thursday. Initial jobless claims, a sign of the pace of layoffs, dropped
to a seasonally adjusted 265,000 in the week ending January 24, a hefty
decline of 43,000 from the prior week's slightly upwardly revised level
of 308,000. It was the lowest level for initial claims since mid-April
2000. The Labor Department said there was no particular factor
influencing the week's claims data, which is often volatile.Read More ...
Weekly Ebola cases below 100, WHO says endgame begins
By
Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The number of new
confirmed Ebola cases totaled 99 in the week to Jan. 25, the lowest
tally since June 2014, the World Health Organization said on Thursday,
signaling the tide might have turned against the epidemic. "The response
to the EVD (Ebola virus disease) epidemic has now moved to a second
phase, as the focus shifts from slowing transmission to ending the
epidemic," the WHO said. "To achieve this goal as quickly as possible,
efforts have moved from rapidly building infrastructure to ensuring that
capacity for case finding, case management, safe burials, and community
engagement is used as effectively as possible." The outbreak has killed
8,810 people out of 22,092 known cases, almost all of them in Sierra
Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Cases and deaths have fallen rapidly in
Liberia and Sierra Leone in the past few weeks, with just 20 deaths
recorded in Liberia in the 21 days to Jan. 25.Read More ...
Jeb and the myth of the Sister Souljah moment
Contrary
to what people say, there’s really no such thing as a “Sister Souljah
moment” unless a political candidate has spent a good bit of time making
the argument that underlies it first.Read More ...
Malaysia declares MH370 an 'accident', airline to proceed with compensation
Malaysia
declared on Thursday the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight
MH370 an accident, clearing the way for the airline to pay compensation
to victims' relatives while the search for the plane goes on. "We
officially declare Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 an accident ... and
that all 239 of the passengers and crew onboard MH370 are presumed to
have lost their lives," Department of Civil Aviation (DCA)
director-general Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said in a statement. The
announcement is in accordance with standards of annexes 12 and 13 in the
International Civil Aviation, said Azharuddin. It will allow families
of the passengers to obtain assistance through compensation, he said.Read More ...
AirAsia co-pilot at controls when plane crashed
The
French co-pilot was at the controls of an AirAsia plane before it
crashed into the sea last month after flying through an area of towering
clouds, killing all 162 people on board, investigators said Thursday.
The announcement came as fishermen found two more bodies from the crash
in waters off Sulawesi island in central Indonesia, around 1,000
kilometres (600 miles) from where the plane crashed, a search and rescue
official said. On Thursday, Indonesia's National Transportation Safety
Committee, which has been analysing the plane's black boxes, said that
prior to the crash, the aircraft had climbed fast in an area packed with
huge storm clouds, and the stall alarms started going off. They also
revealed that the Airbus A320-200's less experienced French co-pilot,
Remi Plesel, was flying the plane before it went down, rather than
Captain Iriyanto, a former fighter pilot who had around 20,000 hours of
flying time.Read More ...
Hillary Clinton agrees to testify on Benghazi, panel’s ranking Dem says
The
former secretary of state has agreed to testify before the House select
committee investigating the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack, the
panel's Democratic ranking member says.Read More ...
Bucking Obama, senior Democrat seeks limits on war against Islamic State
Saying
that Congress must do its constitutional duty, a senior House of
Representatives Democrat will introduce legislation on Wednesday that
authorizes President Barack Obama's war on the so-called Islamic State
but forbids sending U.S. ground troops into combat.Read More ...
Hezbollah carried out deadly attack on Israeli convoy: source
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