Rand Paul: Presidential announcement likely in March, April
The senator from Kentucky dropped a big hint about his 2016 ambitions.Read More ...
Rebels pledge prisoner exchange as Ukraine ceasefire teeters
Germany
and France demanded Friday that a crumbling Ukraine truce be "fully
respected" even as pro-Russian rebels celebrated a battlefield victory
in a strategic town and exchanged artillery fire elsewhere with
government troops. "The ceasefire has been violated several times,"
French President Francois Hollande said in a joint Paris media
conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. French officials said
the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France would meet
in Paris next Tuesday to discuss the conflict.Read More ...
Police: Victim knew suspect in Vegas road-rage killing
Police arrest a 19-year-old who lived a block away from the victim and her family.Read More ...
Greek PM 'certain' euro zone will accept loan deal
By
Jan Strupczewski and Renee Maltezou BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone
finance ministers drafted an outline agreement on Friday that could form
the basis for extending Greece's financial rescue package, officials on
both sides said. European Union paymaster Germany, Greece's biggest
creditor, had demanded "significant improvements" in reform commitments
by the new leftist government in Athens before it would accept a
six-month extension of euro zone funding. "There is an initial agreement
on a joint draft text among the institutional partners, which is now
being presented to all of the ministers," a Greek government official
said following preparatory talks involving the Greek and German
ministers, as well as the managing director of the IMF. "I feel certain
that the Greek letter for a six-month extension of the loan agreement
with the conditionalities that accompany it will be accepted," Tsipras
said in a statement to Reuters hours before the crucial Brussels
meeting.Read More ...
Lawyer: Teen infected by 'superbug' struggling to survive
LOS
ANGELES (AP) — An 18-year-old student is struggling to survive after he
was infected by a "superbug" outbreak tied to contaminated medical
instruments at a Los Angeles hospital, his attorney said.Read More ...
Refugees in Niger live under shadow of Boko Haram
Aboubacar,
usually a worker for a non-governmental organisation, has now taken on
another, more ominous role: watching out for suicide bombers. "We watch
everyone," he said in Niger's second-largest city of Zinder. His fears
reflect the shifting threat of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram,
which has in recent weeks carried out attacks across the border from its
base in northeastern Nigeria as regional forces pursue them. In the
southern city of Zinder, the hot, dusty streets have seen a trail of
refugees from Niger's Diffa, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) to the
east.Read More ...
Warnings after blizzards sweep across Middle East
Snow
blanketed much of Israel, Jordan and Lebanon early on Friday, with many
residents urged to stay in their homes because of blocked or icy roads.
People in Jerusalem woke up to around 25 centimetres of snow after the
second major blizzard of winter swept across the hilltop Holy City. The
two main highways into Jerusalem, which climb to around 795 metres
(2,600 feet) above sea level, were closed in both directions for several
hours but reopened at around midday, police said. "There's heavy snow
falling in Jerusalem, about 25 centimetres (10 inches) so far and it
will continue to fall throughout the day," Israel Meteorological Service
forecaster Rinat Rehamim told public radio.Read More ...
'Parks and Recreation' producer Harris Wittels found dead
LOS
ANGELES (AP) — Harris Wittels, who worked as a writer and executive
producer on the NBC comedy "Parks and Recreation," was found dead
Thursday of a possible drug overdose at his Los Angeles home, police
said. He was 30.Read More ...
Accused in U.S. sniper's murder faked schizophrenia: psychologist
A
psychologist testified in court on Friday that the man charged with
murdering U.S. Navy sniper Chris Kyle and another man on a Texas
shooting range two years ago has been faking schizophrenia and knew what
he did was wrong, media reports said. Eddie Ray Routh, 27, is accused
of shooting Kyle, whose best-selling autobiography was turned into the
hit movie "American Sniper, and Kyle's friend Chad Littlefield at the
range about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Fort Worth. Defense
attorneys, who have not disputed that Routh repeatedly shot the two men
in February 2013, are seeking to have Routh declared innocent by reason
of insanity. On Friday, psychologist Randall Price testified for the
prosecution in a rural court in Stephenville, a day after a forensic
psychiatrist for the defense told the jury that he found Routh had
paranoid schizophrenia and showed signs of psychosis that could not be
faked.Read More ...
Eastern U.S. bitter cold snap brings pain, grimaces and wonder
By
Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people awoke to
painfully cold weather in the eastern United States on Friday, with
temperatures frigid enough in New York City and Washington to break
decades-old record lows for Feb. 20. At his small grocery store in
Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood, Mohammad Islam, 30, anticipated
selling a lot of hot coffee as the temperature outside hovered around 4
degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15.6 degrees Celsius), beating the record low
of 7 degrees set in 1950 according to National Weather Service records.
"I've never seen cold like this," he said unhappily, noting he had moved
to New York from Bangladesh in 2003. "All I got to do is dress warm,"
Ludlow Chamberlain, a 76-year-old custodian at a nearby concert hall,
said before counting off his layers on two hands.Read More ...
N.Y. Governor Cuomo sets date for special congressional election
New
York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday ordered a special election to be
held in May to fill the seat vacated by a Staten Island congressman who
pleaded guilty to felony tax evasion, hours before a deadline set by a
federal judge. The election to replace former Rep. Michael Grimm is
scheduled for May 5, according to an order issued by Cuomo's office. New
York's 11th Congressional District includes the New York City borough
of Staten Island and parts of the borough of Brooklyn. On Tuesday, U.S.
District Judge Jack Weinstein in Brooklyn ordered Cuomo to set an
election date by noon Friday in a lawsuit filed by district residents
who said they had been disenfranchised by the vacancy.Read More ...
Prosecution expert says 'American Sniper' suspect not insane
STEPHENVILLE,
Texas (AP) — The ex-Marine charged with shooting "American Sniper"
author Chris Kyle and another man was not legally insane, a prosecution
expert said, suggesting the man may have gotten some of his ideas from
the television show "Seinfeld."Read More ...
Obama's new communications director a target of Russian media
A
new "Daily Show"-style TV show mocking Jen Psaki is just the latest
manifestation of the Russian media’s obsession with the new White House
communications director.Read More ...
Destruction as massive cyclones hit Australia
Two
powerful cyclones pounded Australia Friday, leaving a trail of
destruction with houses ripped apart, trees uprooted and electricity cut
to thousands of people, but authorities expressed relief there were no
fatalities. Tropical Cyclone Marcia, a top-rating category five storm,
slammed into the Queensland coast just after 2200 GMT Thursday with its
landfall coming just hours after Cyclone Lam hit further north. The
category four Lam caused extensive damage to remote Aboriginal
communities near Elcho Island, some 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of
the Northern Territory capital Darwin, including Milingimbi,
Ramingining, and Gapuwiyak. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk
said while there had been "a lot of structural damage" in the towns of
Yeppoon and Rockhampton as the storm passed through, "thankfully to date
there is no loss of life".Read More ...
Doctor: 'American Sniper' defendant was schizophrenic
A
psychiatrist told a Texas court on Thursday that the man accused of
murdering U.S. Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle had paranoid schizophrenia
and showed signs of psychosis that could not be faked, media reports
said. Eddie Ray Routh, 27, has been charged with killing Kyle, whose
autobiography was turned into the hit movie "American Sniper," and
Kyle's friend Chad Littlefield at a gun range about 70 miles (110 km)
southwest of Fort Worth in February 2013. Dr. Mitchell Dunn, a forensic
psychiatrist who spent more than six hours interviewing Routh and was
called by the defense, testified Routh believed that Kyle and
Littlefield were going to kill him, the Dallas Morning News reported
from the court in Stephenville.Read More ...
Defense rests in 'American Sniper' murder trial
STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — Attorneys mounting an insanity defense rested their case Thursday in the trial of the ex-Marine charged with gunning down "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle and another man.
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Bostonians look for fun ways to deal with aggravating snow storms
Bostonians are thinking up new ways to have fun as their city deals with the fast-accumulating snow throughout the streets.Read More ...
U.S. Embassy: Turkey, U.S. sign deal to train, arm Syrian rebels
ISTANBUL
(AP) — Turkey and the United States signed an agreement Thursday to
train and arm Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State group, said the
U.S. Embassy in Ankara.Read More ...
Ex-New York assembly speaker Silver indicted
By
Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A grand jury indicted Sheldon
Silver, the former New York State Assembly speaker and one of the
state's most powerful politicians for two decades, on federal corruption
charges on Thursday, federal prosecutors said. Silver, who resigned as
speaker after his arrest last month but remains the assemblyman for
Manhattan's Lower East Side, was indicted on one count of honest
services mail fraud, one count of honest services wire fraud and one
count of using his office for extortion. Silver's lawyers said in a
statement on Thursday he was not guilty. "We can now begin to fight for
his total vindication," Joel Cohen and Steven Molo, Silver's lawyers,
said in a statement.Read More ...
'Superbug' outbreak raises questions about medical scope
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