Lawsuit: Ferguson probe was botched from start
Ex-Ferguson
police officer Darren Wilson destroyed potentially crucial evidence
shortly after fatally shooting Michael Brown, the slain teen’s family
alleges in a lawsuit filed Thursday.Read More ...
Arizona sheriff acknowledges investigation into judge's wife
PHOENIX
(AP) — In a bombshell revelation, Sheriff Joe Arpaio acknowledged
Thursday that his office was behind a secret investigation into the wife
of the judge presiding over a racial-profiling lawsuit against the
brash Arizona lawman known for his anti-immigration patrols.Read More ...
Oklahoma’s earthquakes triggered by wastewater disposal wells
Oklahoma
state scientists shook the ground on which the oil and gas industry
stands by linking their practices to earthquakes. Now the state needs to
pick up the pieces.Read More ...
Lynch becomes U.S. attorney general, first black woman in post
The
Senate confirmed Loretta Lynch as the nation's first black female
attorney general Thursday, installing an aggressive counter-terrorism
prosecutor as the top law enforcement official for President Barack
Obama's final 21 months in office.Read More ...
Petraeus sentenced to 2 years' probation for military leak
Former
CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an
extramarital affair with his biographer, has been sentenced to two
years' probation and a $100,000 fine for giving her classified material
while she was working on the book.Read More ...
Obama takes blame for strike that killed hostages
The
White House said Thursday that a US operation in January against an Al
Qaeda compound near the Afghan-Pakistan border killed one American and
one Italian hostage, along with an American member of the jihadist
group. Another American, Al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn, was killed,
"likely in a separate US government counterterrorism operation." "No
words can fully express our regret over this terrible tragedy," the
White House said, revealing the previously classified finding. The
president "takes full responsibility for these operations." US President
Barack Obama expressed his profound regrets to their families. The
White House identified the hostages killed in the operation against the
border compound as US contractor Warren Weinstein and Italian aid worker
Giovanni Lo Porto.Read More ...
‘Clinton Cash’: Donations to Bill and Hillary’s foundation scrutinized ahead of book
Four separate stories published Wednesday and Thursday — by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Politico and Yahoo News — take a look at donations detailed in Peter Schweizer’s “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” which is due out May 5.
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Family of black Ferguson teen killed by police sues city
(Reuters)
- The family of Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old killed in Ferguson
last summer by a white police officer, filed a wrongful death lawsuit
against the city on Thursday, seeking unspecified punitive damages,
$75,000 in compensation and changes in policing. The civil lawsuit filed
in St. Louis County, Missouri, names the city of Ferguson, former
Police Chief Thomas Jackson and former police officer Darren Wilson as
defendants.Read More ...
Matt Bai: Lincoln Chafee’s 2016 run might matter more than you think
Hillary Clinton shouldn't laugh off the Republican turned Democrat as others have done in the past.Read More ...
Ex-general, CIA chief Petraeus gets probation, $100,000 fine in leak case
By
Colleen Jenkins CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) - Former U.S. military
commander and CIA director David Petraeus was sentenced to two years of
probation and ordered to pay a$100,000 fine but was spared prison time
on Thursday after pleading guilty to mishandling classified information.
He agreed under a plea deal to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized
removal and retention of classified material. U.S. Magistrate Judge
David Keesler raised the fine from the $40,000 that had been recommended
to the maximum possible financial penalty for that charge, noting it
needed to be higher to be punitive and reflect the gravity of the
offense. He resigned from the CIA in 2012 after it was revealed that he
was having an affair with the biographer, Army Reserve officer Paula
Broadwell.Read More ...
Hostage locations difficult to track - and may be getting harder
By
Warren Strobel and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. drone
strike that accidentally killed two hostages in Pakistan exposes
intelligence shortfalls that former and current U.S. officials say
appear to be growing more frequent as militants expand their safe havens
and as Washington gathers less on-the-ground human intelligence.
Obtaining timely intelligence on hostages has always been difficult,
especially in volatile regions where the United States has limited
access and where militants have well-established operations.Read More ...
U.S. strike inadvertently killed U.S., Italian hostages; Obama apologizes
By
Will Dunham and Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. drone
strike in January targeting an al Qaeda compound in Pakistan near the
Afghan border inadvertently killed an American and an Italian who had
been held hostage for years by the group, U.S. officials said on
Thursday. President Barack Obama apologized and took "full
responsibility" for all counterterrorism operations, including this one.
The deaths were a setback for the long-running U.S. drone strike
program that has targeted Islamist militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan
and elsewhere, and has often drawn criticism in those countries and from
civil liberties groups in the United States. Killed in the January
drone strike were aid workers Warren Weinstein, an American held by al
Qaeda since 2011, and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian who went missing in
Pakistan in 2012, as well as Ahmed Farouq, an American who was an al
Qaeda leader, U.S. officials said.Read More ...
Thousands evacuated as Chile volcano roars back to life
Southern
Chile was on alert Thursday after the Calbuco volcano erupted for the
first time in half a century, lighting up the night sky with spectacular
bursts of volcanic lightning and lava, and forcing some 5,000 people to
evacuate. Until minutes before the blast, volcano eruption monitoring
systems had picked up nothing.Read More ...
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