Obama: Idea that West is at war with Islam is 'an ugly lie'
The president reiterates his call for the world to stand up to violent extremism.Read More ...
61 of 70 jurors selected for Tsarnaev trial
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys argue that an impartial jury can't be found in Boston.Read More ...
Giuliani: Obama doesn’t love America
The former New York City mayor says he believes the president does not love the United States — or the people in it.Read More ...
Matt Bai: Obama, facilitator-in-chief
In
the last year or so, Barack Obama’s team has deployed the presidential
summit as a central response to just about every topic of national
significance. At this late stage of Obama’s presidency, the idea seems
to be that talking about a policy — or at least being seen talking about
it — is a kind of policy in itself.Read More ...
‘American Sniper’ trial puts rural Texas town in unwanted spotlight
People
in the small Texas town where “American Sniper” Chris Kyle and his best
friend were slain want justice, but say celebrity murder cases are
meant for Hollywood, not rural hideaways. “It's different than normal
life in Stephenville,” longtime resident Chick Elms said of the trial
now in its second week.Read More ...
Accused bomber's lawyers say cannot get fair trial in Boston
By
Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Attorneys for the accused Boston
Marathon bomber on Thursday asked a U.S. appellate panel to override a
federal judge and order his trial moved out of the city, saying an
impartial jury could not be seated so close to the site of the 2013
attack. U.S. District Judge George O'Toole has three times rejected
pleas by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers to move the trial out of the city
where the bombing killed three people and injured 264. "This attack was
viewed as an attack on the marathon itself ... and an attack on the city
of Boston," attorney Judith Mizner, representing Tsarnaev, 21, told the
three-judge panel. Thousands of Boston-area residents were crowded
around the race's finish line when twin bombs went off on April 15,
2013, and hundreds of thousands were ordered to remain in their homes
four days later while police conducted a massive manhunt for Tsarnaev.Read More ...
Record-breaking cold in U.S. Midwest heads to frigid East Coast
By
Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bone-chilling cold in the U.S.
Midwest shattered records in Chicago on Thursday, closing schools and
starting its trudge eastward to an already frozen Boston and New York.
Arctic air was expected to keep its grip on the nation's midsection on
Friday morning, a day after the minus 8 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 22
Celsius) measured in Chicago broke the low temperature record of minus 7
degrees for the day set in 1936, said National Weather Service
meteorologist Bob Oravec. The wind chill made temperatures in Chicago
feel like minus 25, he said. Chicago public schools, serving 396,000
students in the third largest U.S. school district, canceled classes on
Thursday and many commuters there were bundled so heavily that only
their eyes could be seen.Read More ...
Texas county issues marriage license to same-sex couple
By
Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas county issued a
marriage license to a same-sex couple on Thursday in what may be the
first legal certification for a gay couple in the state, which has a
constitutional amendment defining marriage as only being between a man
and a woman. A Travis County clerk said the marriage license was given
to one couple after a court order earlier in the day and the county,
home to the state capital Austin, is not planning to issue more licenses
to same-sex couples. Legal experts believe it is the first marriage
license granted to a same-sex couple in Texas. A U.S. district judge in
Texas last year ruled the state's bans on gay marriage unconstitutional
because it denied the couples equal protection under the law.Read More ...
2 dead, over 170 potentially exposed in 'superbug' outbreak
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