Oklahoma City, Boston bombings are linked by an enduring mystery
Yahoo News' Holly Bailey, who covered both tragic events, speculates on a common thread.Read More ...
From Okla. City to 9/11: 20 years on, rescue workers who responded to both share a bond
It
was just after 9 a.m. on April 19, 1995, when the bomb went off outside
the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. It was one of
those events that seem to make the world stop turning. At the time, it
was the worst terror attack on U.S. soil. Lt. (now Capt.) Stephen Spall
of the New York City Fire Department was driving home from his shift
when he heard the news on the radio. He immediately called in to see if
he needed to go back to work. The next day, he was on a plane to
Oklahoma.Read More ...
California prepares for historic mandatory cutbacks on water
California
water officials drafted a slate of mandatory conservation regulations
Saturday, part of a first-ever attempt at mandatory rationing for the
state, which is facing its fourth consecutive year of drought.Read More ...
Paul, Graham clash on foreign-policy on U.S. campaign trail
By
Andy Sullivan NASHUA, N.H. (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopefuls
Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham took their debate over America's role in
the world from the U.S. Senate floor to the campaign trail on Saturday
in an early sign that foreign policy is likely to be a flash point in
the 2016 election. At a gathering of 18 potential and actual White House
contenders, Paul accused fellow Republicans of being too willing to
commit U.S. troops to foreign conflicts without a clear idea of how to
get them out. There's a group of folks in our party who would have
troops in six countries right now, maybe more." That drew a rebuke from
Graham, a South Carolina senator and Air Force reservist who frequently
criticizes Democratic President Barack Obama for not being aggressive
enough with adversaries like Iran and the Islamic State.Read More ...
Officers kill knife-wielding man near St. Louis, police say
A
23-year-old man who barricaded himself in his mother's house in a St.
Louis suburb and spoke of a "black revolution" was shot and killed by
police when he rushed at them with a knife, authorities said on
Saturday.Read More ...
2 Cuban dissidents up for election in unprecedented vote
At
least two dissidents made it past a first round of voting and are
standing as candidates in municipal elections that will be watched on
and off the island Sunday as an unprecedented test of Cuba's
single-party system.Read More ...
President Ghani: IS claims responsibility for deadly Afghan bombing
The
Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in
Afghanistan Saturday that killed 33 people and wounded more than 100
others, President Ashraf Ghani said, in what appears to be the first
major attack by the jihadists in the country. Ghani's government has
repeatedly raised the ominous prospect of IS making inroads into
Afghanistan, though the group that has captured swathes of territory in
Syria and Iraq has never formally acknowledged having a presence in the
country. The Taliban have seen defections to the group in recent months,
with some self-styled IS insurgents voicing their disaffection with
their one-eyed supreme leader Mullah Omar, who has not been seen since
the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan. On Saturday a suicide bomber
killed 33 people and wounded 115 others outside the state-run Kabul Bank
in the eastern city of Jalalabad as government officials were drawing
their salaries, in the deadliest attack since November.Read More ...
TV: Russia's Putin says ready to work with United States
Russia
has key interests in common with the United States and needs to work
with it on a common agenda, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on
Saturday in a television interview. In his comments to the state-run
Rossiya channel, Putin appeared to soften his anti-American rhetoric
after being highly critical. Relations between Moscow and Washington and
other Western powers have soured over the conflict in Russia's neighbor
Ukraine, sinking to an all-time low. We have a common agenda." Putin
has in the past fiercely attacked the United States and the West in
general, blaming them for the Ukraine crisis, which Russia says was the
result of a Western-backed "coup" against Ukraine's former leader Viktor
Yanukovich.Read More ...
Some victims of California explosion released from hospital
FRESNO,
Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. investigators were at
the scene Saturday of a natural gas pipeline blast at a sheriff's gun
range, as four of the 11 people injured in the explosion were released
from the hospital.Read More ...
California gas pipeline explosion, fire injure up to 15 people
By
Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A construction crew on
Friday accidentally ruptured a natural gas transmission line in Fresno,
California, sparking an explosion and fire that injured up to 15 people,
four of them critically, officials said. The 12-inch (30-cm) pipeline,
belonging to Pacific Gas & Electric Corp , was struck by a
backhoe near state Highway 99, unleashing a fireball that injured
members of the construction team and a jail inmate crew nearby, Fresno
Fire Department spokesman Peter Martinez said. One worker in critical
condition was flown to hospital by helicopter, and 13 or 14 others were
taken to hospitals for evaluation and treatment of injuries after the
pipeline was ruptured at about 2:30 p.m., Martinez added. Four of the
injured were taken to Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, and
two more were taken to the burn unit there, said hospital spokeswoman
Mary Lisa Russell, adding that four were in critical condition and two
serious.Read More ...
Torrential rain floods Houston before heading toward New Orleans
Torrential rain triggered flooding on the streets of Houston and sent spectators fleeing from a circus south of the Texas city, officials said on Saturday, as the storm system headed east toward Louisiana and neighboring states. The heavy rainfall followed a front that built up along the Gulf Coast, causing moisture to accumulate along it, said Mark Paquette, a meteorologist with AccuWeather.com. Two tornadoes were spotted in rural Yuma County in northeastern Colorado at about 1:30 p.m. local time, according to the weather service. There were no reports of damage, the Yuma County Sheriff's Office said.
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U.S. urges Greece to reach debt deal
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warns default would create "hardship" for Greece.Read More ...
Clinton faces early test on trade deal fight
Less
than a week after formally launching her presidential campaign, Hillary
Clinton is already being tested on a thorny issue for Democrats:
free-trade deals and their impact on workers. On Thursday, the debate
rose to a full boil when members of Congress from both parties announced
legislation that would give President Barack Obama the "fast-track"
trade negotiating authority he needs to complete a massive Asia-Pacific
free-trade deal. Over two days of campaigning in Iowa this week, where
she discussed economics, Clinton, who is the commanding front-runner to
be the Democratic nominee for the 2016 election, uttered not a word
about the potential Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between the United
States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries.Read More ...
Suicide bomber kills 33 in bloody attack outside Afghan bank
A
suicide bomber killed at least 33 people and wounded 100 others in an
attack Saturday outside a bank in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad,
according to officials. "Thirty-three dead bodies and more than 100
wounded were brought to the hospital," Dr Najeebullah Kamawal, head of
the provincial hospital, told AFP. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, provincial
government spokesman, confirmed the attack -- the deadliest since
November -- but put the death toll slightly lower at 30. Afghan
President Ashraf Ghani strongly condemned the attack, which saw children
among those killed, his office said in a statement.Read More ...
Man gets 100-year term in murder of teacher in oil boom town
A
man was sentenced to 100 years in prison Friday in a Montana teacher's
murder — a case that local officials say robbed the victim's rural
hometown of its innocence amid an oil boom that's swept across ...Read More ...
Gas-line blast closes California highway, 3 critically injured
FRESNO,
Calif. (AP) — A large explosion closed both directions of a major
highway in Central California and injured at least three people,
authorities said Friday.Read More ...
Obama calls delay of his attorney general nominee 'crazy'
WASHINGTON
(AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday said it was "crazy" and
"embarrassing" the way the Republican-led Senate has held up
confirmation of his attorney general nominee, Loretta Lynch.Read More ...
Chicago schools chief to take temporary leave amid probe
CHICAGO
(AP) — Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett will take a paid
leave of absence amid a federal investigation over a roughly $20
million no-bid contract the district awarded to a training academy where
she once worked as a consultant, officials announced Friday.Read More ...
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