Sen. Warren hits back at Obama in Pacific Rim trade fight
She wants legal experts to determine whether a pact could be used to weaken U.S. bank rules.Read More ...
White House calls story about Osama bin Laden raid ‘baseless’
Famed
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh is standing by his controversial
account of the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden despite a growing chorus
of critics.Read More ...
Tom Brady, Patriots get hammered by NFL in deflate-gate punishment
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Boston bomber told nun 'no one' should suffer as his victims did
By
Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for the
Boston Marathon bomber on Monday wrapped up the case to spare Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev's life with testimony from a Roman Catholic nun and
death-penalty opponent who said Tsarnaev told her "no one deserves to
suffer" as his victims had. Since testimony began in Boston federal
court in early March, the jury has heard from about 150 witness,
including parents who lost children in the attack, first responders who
attended to victims who had lost limbs, and Tsarnaev's Russian relatives
who remembered him as a loving young boy.Read More ...
Three shot near Santa Barbara, California, university campus
(Reuters) - Three people were shot near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara on Monday evening, according to campus and fire officials, but no further details were immediately available and it was not clear if anyone was killed. The Santa Barbara County Fire Department website said the shooting occurred in the community of Isla Vista. A UC Santa Barbara security alert said a male suspect was seen fleeing the area in a white sedan around 7:30 p.m. and advised residents to stay indoors while police searched the area. The shooting comes roughly a year after Elliot Rodger, 22, stabbed three men to death in his Isla Vista apartment before fatally shooting three more people near the campus.
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Texas, Arkansas governors declare disasters after deadly tornadoes
By
Lisa Maria Garza and Steve Barnes VAN, Texas/LITTLE ROCK, Ark.
(Reuters) - The governors of Texas and Arkansas declared disasters on
Monday in parts of their states hit by tornadoes and floods in a storm
series that slammed central states, leaving at least five people dead,
injuring more than 50 and reducing buildings to splinters. A husband and
wife were killed near a trailer park in Van, Texas, about 70 miles (115
km) southeast of Dallas, a town of about 2,500 people where scores of
homes were shattered. The National Weather Service said an EF3 category
tornado packing winds of around 140 mph (225 kph) hit the town. Near the
west Arkansas town of Nashville, a baby girl was pulled from the
wreckage of a mobile home where her parents died in a tornado.Read More ...
Latest Zimmerman dust-up linked to prior road rage incident
LAKE
MARY, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer
who has had a series of run-ins with girlfriends, his ex-wife and random
strangers since killing an unarmed black teenager, narrowly missed
getting shot Monday after a mysterious dispute.Read More ...
NFL suspends Brady 4 games for deflated footballs
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Texas teen tweets of love for his truck during flood rescue
‘A massive wave pushed me off the road,’ teen says on TwitterRead More ...
5 killed, homes destroyed as tornadoes hit Texas, Arkansas
A young couple died trying to shield their daughter from the storm.Read More ...
Mother: Son accused in officer killings had drug problem
With
lowered flags and prayers, a southern Mississippi city is mourning two
police officers, while the four people arrested after their shooting
deaths await an initial court appearance Monday.Read More ...
Tsarnaev defense: Feds haven't shown impact of boy's death
Lawyers
for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested their case Monday
to save him from the death penalty, portraying him as an impressionable
teenager from a troubled family who was lured into the deadly plot by
his radicalized older brother.Read More ...
Police say they didn't see FBI bulletin before Texas attack
The
Texas police department protecting a controversial Prophet Muhammad
cartoon contest wouldn't have changed their response even if they had
known about an FBI memo sent to local authorities about one of the
gunmen beforehand, the department's chief said Monday.Read More ...
Oil leak cleanup after nuclear plant transformer fire
Part
of a New York nuclear power plant remains offline as cleanup continues
of transformer fluid that leaked into the Hudson River. The plant owner
says it could be weeks before Indian Point 3 is reopened. ...Read More ...
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