What we know about Abu Sayyaf: The Islamic State leader killed by U.S. forces
Before
Saturday, most Americans had never heard of Abu Sayyaf. But according
to the Department of Defense, the senior Islamic State leader wielded
the kind of power worthy of sending U.S. Special Operations forces into
eastern Syria on a rare and risky mission to capture him.Read More ...
Neither China nor U.S. giving ground over projects dispute
BEIJING
(AP) — China and the United States are budging not a bit over Beijing's
assertive development in disputed parts of the South China Sea, with
Chinese officials politely but pointedly dismissing Washington's push
for U.S.-proposed ways to ease tensions.Read More ...
Bodies of Marines, Nepalese recovered from crashed chopper
KATHMANDU,
Nepal (AP) — The bodies of six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers who
were aboard a U.S. Marine helicopter that crashed during a relief
mission in earthquake-hit Nepal have been recovered, Nepal's army said.Read More ...
Condemned Boston Marathon bomber may spend years in prison during appeal
By
Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Condemned to die for his part in
the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is likely to await
his fate over the course of years, if not decades, locked up in grim
prisons under extreme conditions while his lawyers appeal his sentence.
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has not yet decided where Tsarnaev will go,
but he is likely end up in one of two high-security detention
facilities, Colorado's ADX or Indiana's Terre Haute, according to U.S.
District Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz. First the judge will
hold a hearing where he will formally pronounce the sentence, Ortiz said
after a jury decided on Friday that Tsarnaev, 21, deserved the death
penalty. He will then pass into the custody of the Federal Bureau of
Prisons, which will determine where he should be held.Read More ...
Philadelphia train may have been hit by projectile before wreck
By
Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Amtrak train that derailed
in Philadelphia and a separate commuter train in the vicinity may have
been hit by projectiles of some kind shortly before the wreck, a U.S.
transportation official said on Friday, after investigators interviewed
members of the Amtrak crew. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
was called in to examine a remnant of the Amtrak locomotive's shattered
windshield with a circular damage pattern, Sumwalt said. The revelation
that Amtrak train No. 188 might have been struck by a bullet, rock or
other object added an unexpected twist to a crash probe that initially
focused on why the train had accelerated to over 100 miles per hour (160
km per hour) in the minute before it barreled into a curved track
segment where the authorized speed limit was just 50 mph (80 kph). An
assistant conductor told NTSB investigators on Friday that the train run
that day had been unremarkable until a few minutes after pulling out of
Philadelphia's 30th Street station, the last stop before the accident,
Sumwalt said.Read More ...
Tornadoes touch down in parts of Texas, Oklahoma
(Reuters) - Several tornadoes touched down in northwest Texas and western Oklahoma Saturday evening, part of an night of severe weather predicted for a swath of the U.S. ranging from Oklahoma to Nebraska, the National Weather Service said. The twisters that swept down to the ground in the Texas panhandle and in Oklahoma in the early part of the evening landed in areas that were not highly populated, said Keli Pirtle, a spokeswoman for the Storm Prediction Center of the National Weather Service. A tornado that hit the city of Van, Texas, southeast of Dallas, May 10 killed two people and caused $40 million in damage, authorities said.
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Bush's tough week exposes challenges for his likely 2016 bid
SCOTTSDALE,
Ariz. (AP) — Jeb Bush worked his way through the dim hallway of an
Arizona resort for hours, shuttling from room to room and meeting with
dozens of Republican officials, many for the first time.Read More ...
Amtrak told to expand speed control at deadly crash site
Amtrak says it will immediately abide by an order by federal regulators to expand use of a speed restriction system in the area of Tuesday's deadly train derailment that killed eight people and injured more than 200 others.
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Mark Everson ran the IRS. Now he wants to be president.
There
comes a moment in the career of many government bureaucrats when they
sit across the table from a high-ranking elected official — the
president, even—and think, You know, I’m just as smart as these guys.
“You understand they’re just another person,” says Mark Everson, who
served in the Reagan administration and as commissioner of the Internal
Revenue Service under George W. Bush. “You ask yourself, Do you like
this? Do you think you qualify?” The answers he arrived at — yes and yes
— led him, after a long period of soul-searching, to the Lincoln Dinner
of the Linn County (Iowa) Republican Committee on May 1, where he
shared a dais with the only other presidential candidate who showed up,
an Indiana contractor named Mike Petyo. Because the hard truth about
presidential politics is that while you may be just as smart as the guys
who win, you almost certainly aren’t as famous, charismatic or rich.Read More ...
Clintons report $30M from speeches, book in past 16 months
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton
reported Friday that they earned more than $30 million combined in
speaking fees and book royalties since January 2014, putting them firmly
within the upper echelon of American earners as the former secretary of
state seeks the White House again.Read More ...
Was Amtrak train hit by a flying object?
The
Amtrak train that derailed along the nation's busiest tracks may have
been struck by an object in the moments before it crashed, investigators
said Friday, raising new questions about the deadly accident.Read More ...
House panel to hold Amtrak hearing; Schumer blasts Boehner
NEW
YORK (AP) — A U.S. House committee announced Friday it would hold a
hearing on the deadly Amtrak crash while U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer
launched another push to get Congress to pay for train safety technology
and infrastructure improvements in the wake of the derailment.Read More ...
Bin Laden top aide sentenced to life in embassy bombing plot
Khaled al-Fawwaz was convicted of conspiring in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.Read More ...
What Marco Rubio's stumble on immigration says about his ability to lead
No one doubts Rubio's raw talent. But there are doubts about his readiness for the presidency.Read More ...
IS seizes government HQ in Iraq's Ramadi
Islamic
State fighters seized the government compound in the city of Ramadi on
Friday and edged closer to what would be their biggest victory in Iraq
this year, officials said. The loss of the capital of Anbar province,
which Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had said would be the next target
of government forces after wresting back Tikrit last month, would be a
major setback. The government stressed that Ramadi had not fallen yet
and announced that a major counter-offensive was under way as Abadi held
an emergency meeting with top security officials. IS has threatened to
take control of Ramadi for months, and the breakthrough came after a
wide offensive on multiple fronts in the province, including an assault
using several suicide car bombs in Ramadi on Thursday.Read More ...
Nepal rescuers find 3 bodies near crashed US Marine chopper
KATHMANDU,
Nepal (AP) — Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the
wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter that disappeared this week during a
relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, and officials
said it was unlikely there were any survivors from the crash.Read More ...
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