Alabama Supreme Court halts gay-marriage licenses
The court is orders the state's probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.Read More ...
Netanyahu speech exposes bitter divisions
Tthe optics of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech on Tuesday were just as important as the speech itself.Read More ...
72 passengers reach settlements in Asiana crash
SAN
FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 70 passengers aboard an Asiana Airlines
flight that crashed in San Francisco two years ago have reached a
settlement in their lawsuits against the airline, attorneys for the
passengers and airline said in a court filing Tuesday.Read More ...
Justice Department finds racial bias in Ferguson police practices
By
Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has
concluded that the Ferguson, Missouri, police department routinely
engages in racially biased practices, a law enforcement official
familiar with the department's findings said on Tuesday. The
investigation into the police department began in August after the
shooting of unarmed African-American teen Michael Brown by a white
police officer in Ferguson sparked national protests. Analysis of more
than 35,000 pages of police records found racist comments from officers
as well as statistics that showed African-Americans make up 93 percent
of arrests while accounting for only 67 percent of the population in
Ferguson, the official said.Read More ...
Alabama high court orders halt to same-sex marriage licenses
(Reuters) - The Alabama Supreme Court ordered probate judges on Tuesday to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in apparent defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court, underscoring the depth of opposition to gay matrimony in the socially conservative state. The 7-1 ruling comes roughly three weeks after U.S. District Judge Callie Granade's decision overturning Alabama's ban on gay marriage went into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to put it on hold. "As it has done for approximately two centuries, Alabama law allows for 'marriage' between only one man and one woman," Tuesday's state supreme court ruling said.
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Engineer from California train derailment has died, police say
A 62-year-old train engineer who was hospitalized after a train crash and derailment last week in Southern California has died, in the first fatality from the incident that left about 50 people injured, police said on Tuesday. The Feb. 24 crash in Oxnard, California, occurred when a train operated by the Metrolink agency struck a Ford pickup truck. Oxnard police spokesman Miguel Lopez identified the train engineer as Glenn Steele and said he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Steele was transferred in critical condition last week from Ventura County Medical Center to another hospital for more specialized care, a spokeswoman for the Ventura hospital said at the time, without naming the other facility.
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GOP’s net neutrality point man says fight is not over
The
Republican Party’s point man in Congress on net neutrality admitted
Tuesday that the GOP has been slow to act on the issue but insisted that
Congress must be the body setting the rules for how the Internet will
be regulated.Read More ...
Ex-CIA chief admits sharing military secrets with mistress
RALEIGH,
N.C. (AP) — Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was
destroyed by an affair with his biographer, has agreed to plead guilty
to charges he gave her classified material — including information on
war strategy and identities of covert operatives — while she was working
on the book.Read More ...
Thousands evacuated as Chile volcano erupts
Fiery plumes of lava have forced thousands to flee.Read More ...
UN moves to slap sanctions on South Sudan
The
UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution to slap
sanctions on South Sudan's warring factions, ratcheting up pressure as a
deadline loomed to reach a peace deal. Drafted by the United States,
the resolution sets up a sanctions committee which would submit to the
council the names of those responsible for blocking peace efforts, and
who should be punished with a global travel ban and assets freeze.
Regional mediators have given South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and
rebel chief Riek Machar until Thursday to reach a final deal to end 14
months of war that have killed tens of thousands of people.Read More ...
Jailed Ukrainian pilot 'may be transferred to hospital'
A
Ukrainian airforce pilot who has been on hunger strike in a Russian
jail for 81 days might be transferred to a civilian hospital if her
health deteriorates, the prison service said Tuesday. The statement by
Russia's prison service raised the possibility of Nadia Savchenko, who
is also a member of the Ukraine parliament, being transferred from the
hospital of a Moscow prison where she has been held for nearly nine
months. Speaking later in the day, one of her lawyers said she may stop
the hunger strike if her health sharply worsens. She denies the charges,
saying she was kidnapped and brought to Russia.Read More ...
O'Malley rules out Senate as decision over White House bid looms
Former Maryland Governor and possible Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley said on Tuesday he will not seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Senator Barbara Mikulski. O'Malley, who left office in January and has said he is considering a run for the White House, told reporters in an email he hoped other candidates would step up to represent the mid-Atlantic state, but "I will not be one of them." The move allows O'Malley, 52, to keep the door open for a potential presidential campaign. Despite winning two terms as governor in the heavily Democratic State, his future is somewhat complicated by his successor's surprise loss to a Republican in the November election. O'Malley is popular among Democrats and spent much of the last year actively campaigning for fellow liberals across the country, especially in New Hampshire and Iowa, the first two states with presidential nominating contests.
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LAPD killing lays bare enduring horror of Skid Row
A fatal police shooting raises broader questions about mass homelessness in L.A.Read More ...
Netanyahu goes to Congress
the Israeli PM will warn of the danger of trusting Iran curb its nuclear ambitions.Read More ...
Democrats scramble to defend Hillary Clinton over email flap
By
Steve Holland and Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats
scrambled on Tuesday to contain the fallout for Hillary Clinton, their
favored 2016 presidential candidate, after allegations she
inappropriately used her personal email for work while secretary of
state. The Clinton camp quickly sought to discredit a New York Times
report published late Monday that said her exclusive use of a personal
email account from 2009 through 2013 and a lack of email preservation
may have run afoul of the Federal Records Act. The report got wide play,
largely because it fuels a political narrative from Republicans that
Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, are obsessed
with secrecy and seek to play by a different set of rules. Clinton
spokesman Nick Merrill, however, said Clinton had followed both the
"letter and spirit of the rules" while she was secretary of state.Read More ...
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