Road rage? Mistaken identity? Questions raised in Vegas case
A
mother of four who just finished giving her daughter a driving lesson
is followed by a driver they encountered on their way home.Read More ...
2 sides in West Coast ports dispute reach tentative contract
LOS
ANGELES (AP) — Negotiators reached a tentative contract covering West
Coast dockworkers, likely ending a protracted labor dispute that snarled
international trade at seaports handling about $1 trillion worth of
cargo annually.Read More ...
Hundreds to mark 50th year since Malcolm X's assassination
NEW
YORK (AP) — Activists, actors, and politicians will remember civil
rights leader Malcolm X with a ceremony at the New York site in Harlem
where he was killed 50 years ago.Read More ...
Malcolm X's legacy survives 50 years after his assassination
The
uncompromising message of Malcolm X, who had virtually embodied the
black power movement in its early years, carries particular resonance
today, they say, a half-century after his shooting death in New York on
Feb. 21, 1965. His ideas are at the core of a national debate over the
treatment of African-Americans and other minorities by the U.S. criminal
justice system that heated up after last summer's killings of unarmed
black men by white police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York
City. Those two galvanizing cases echo an incident in April 1957, when a
black man named Johnson Hinton was beaten by police in New York's
Harlem neighborhood and a young Malcolm X famously came to his defense.
Malcolm X, born as Malcolm Little and also known as Malcolm Shabazz, was
a powerful orator who rose to prominence as the national spokesman of
the Nation of Islam, an African-American Muslim group that opposed
integration with whites.Read More ...
Minneapolis police officer wounded in shooting
(Reuters) - A Minneapolis police officer was shot and wounded on Saturday after responding to a burglary call in what police said appeared to be a targeted attack. The officer was shot before 5 a.m. local time in north Minneapolis as he returned to his squad car, Minneapolis Police Department spokesman John Elder said. The incident follows the fatal shooting of two police officers in New York City in December by a gunman who had written that he wanted to avenge the killing of unarmed black men by police.
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Spacewalking astronauts rigging station for new U.S. space taxis
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - A pair of U.S. astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Saturday to begin rigging parking spots for two commercial space taxis. Station commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore, 52, and flight engineer Terry Virts, 47, left the station’s Quest airlock shortly before 8 a.m. EST to begin a planned 6-1/2-hour spacewalk, the first of three outings over the next eight days. The work will prepare docking ports for upcoming flights by Boeing Co and privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, which are developing capsules to ferry crew to and from the station, which flies about 260 miles (418 km) above the Earth. The United States has been dependent on Russia for station crew transportation since the space shuttle were retired in 2011.
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Cuomo's fracking ban has some New York towns contemplating secession
Environmentalists
praised New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ban on hydraulic fracturing. But
in New York's struggling Southern Tier, the ban was seen not as cause
for celebration but as the final straw, prompting some towns to consider
seceding to Pennsylvania.Read More ...
Fire races up high-rise Dubai tower, but claims no lives
DUBAI,
United Arab Emirates (AP) — One of the world's tallest residential
towers caught fire early Saturday in Dubai's Marina district, sending
hundreds of residents pouring into the streets as bright yellow flames
raged several stories high. No one was reported killed.Read More ...
Analysts: West looks impotent as Ukraine ceasefire frays
The
continued fighting in eastern Ukraine has made a mockery of the West's
latest attempts to negotiate a ceasefire but may ultimately pave the way
for a more durable peace, say analysts. It did not take long for the
latest truce, brokered by France and Germany and signed in the
Belarussian capital Minsk last week, to look as impotent as previous
deals. With barely a pause, pro-Russian rebels continued their assault
on the key transport hub of Debaltseve, ultimately forcing the Ukrainian
military into a humiliating retreat. "It was a classic case of good
intentions paving the way to hell," said Ievgen Vorobiov of the Polish
Institute of International Affairs.Read More ...
Massive fire engulfs Dubai skyscraper
Hundreds have reportedly been evacuated from one of the tallest buildings in the world.Read More ...
NASCAR suspends Kurt Busch before Daytona 500
The suspension comes hours after a judge said he committed an act of domestic violence.Read More ...
Police: Suspect bragged about Las Vegas road-rage killing
LAS
VEGAS (AP) — The teenage neighbor arrested in what has been described
as the road-rage slaying of a Las Vegas mother boasted about the
shooting and told friends that he emptied several clips from his
semi-automatic handgun during the gunbattle, according to a police
report released Friday.Read More ...
Greece wins eurozone bailout deal with strict conditions
The
19 eurozone finance ministers reached the hard-won deal at tense talks
pitting Greece against an angry Germany, suspicious that the new radical
leftist government in Athens was looking to ditch its austerity
obligations. "The meeting was intense because it was about building
trust between us," said Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem, after the
talks ended with a two-page statement setting out the tough conditions
Athens will have to fulfil. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said
the deal marked a new era for Athens and its relationship with the
European Union, after two painful bailouts put together at the height of
the debt crisis to save the euro. Athens claimed the rescues and the
austerity measures it had to follow since its first 2010 bailout had
wrecked the Greek economy, making it impossible to manage its mountain
of debt.Read More ...
Suspect in blast near NAACP office: Target was accountant
COLORADO
SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The man accused of setting off a small explosion
last month that rattled nerves because of its proximity to a Colorado
NAACP office says he was in a rage over his financial problems and was
actually targeting his accountant, according to court documents filed
Friday.Read More ...
Ex-Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell sentenced
McDonnell receives her punishment for a role in a bribery scheme that destroyed her husband's career.Read More ...
Germany, France demand Ukraine ceasefire be 'fully respected'
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 ...
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