Report: Cleveland, DOJ reach settlement over police
Federal authorities cite a pattern of unconstitutional policing and excessive use of force, the New York Times reported.Read More ...
Charter nears deal for Time Warner Cable
Charter
Communications Inc. is close to buying Time Warner Cable for about $55
billion, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.Read More ...
Governor says deadly flooding is worst ever seen in Texas area
By
Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott on
Monday likened the ferocity of flash flooding that killed at least three
people to a tsunami, and authorities said a dam had given way in a
state park. Abbott declared states of disaster in 24 counties and flew
over the area south of Austin to assess the damage caused by tornadoes,
heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and flooding that forced evacuations and
rooftop rescues and left thousands of residents without electricity.
"This is the biggest flood this area of Texas has ever seen," Abbott
said.Read More ...
Obama heralds first U.S. Memorial Day without ground war in 14 years
President
Barack Obama heralded the first U.S. Memorial Day in 14 years without a
major ground war in an annual ceremony of remembrance on Monday for
fallen American forces. In remarks at Arlington National Cemetery near
Washington, Obama paid tribute to U.S. military personnel who served in
conflicts such as World War Two as well as the more recent wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan, which he wound down as commander in chief. "For many of
us, this Memorial Day is especially meaningful.Read More ...
Cleveland, U.S. Justice Department reach settlement over police: New York Times
Cleveland
has reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over what
federal authorities said was a pattern of unconstitutional policing and
excessive use of force, the New York Times reported on Monday. The
settlement could be announced as early as Tuesday, the newspaper said,
citing people briefed on the matter. The settlement would come days
after a judge declared a white Cleveland police officer not guilty in
the shooting deaths of an unarmed black man and a woman in 2012.Read More ...
Plane safe? Hacker case points to deeper cyber issues
Security
researcher Chris Roberts made headlines last month when he was hauled
off a plane in New York by the FBI and accused of hacking into flight
controls via his underseat entertainment unit. Other security
researchers say Roberts - who was quoted by the FBI as saying he once
caused "a sideways movement of the plane during a flight" - has helped
draw attention to a wider issue: that the aviation industry has not kept
pace with the threat hackers pose to increasingly computer-connected
airplanes. It will force the hand of organizations (in the aviation
industry)," says Jonathan Butts, a former US Air Force researcher who
now runs a company working on IT security issues in aviation and other
industries.Read More ...
Afghan official: 19 police, 7 soldiers dead in ongoing siege
An
Afghan official says that 19 policemen and seven soldiers have been
killed by Taliban militants who have surrounded a police compound in an
ongoing siege.Read More ...
Obama at Arlington: Never stop paying tribute to the fallen
President
Barack Obama is paying tribute to the nation's fallen service members
at Arlington National Cemetery, laying a wreath at the Tomb of the
Unknowns and saying Americans "can never fully repay the debt" to those
who made the ultimate sacrifice.Read More ...
Mexico officials stand by account of deadly ranch shootout
Mexican
officials stood by their account Monday of a shootout that killed 42
suspected criminals and one federal police officer last week, dismissing
questions raised about the lopsided death toll.Read More ...
Anonymous threats against airliners prompt plane searches
A
series of anonymous telephone threats against commercial airliners
Monday, possibly from the same source, prompted searches of at least two
planes at Kennedy Airport and nearly interrupted a third flight from
England, authorities said.Read More ...
Tens of thousands turn up for funeral of Saudi suicide attack victims
Tens
of thousands of people turned out at a mass funeral in eastern Saudi
Arabia for 21 Shi'ite Muslims killed last week in a suicide bombing
claimed by Islamic State, a Reuters witness said. Saudi security forces
stayed away from the funeral in Qatif, as delegates converged on the
city from various regions in the eastern province, where most of the
country's Shi'ite Muslim minority live, to attend the burial. "Here I
am, O Hussein," the crowd chanted, invoking the name of Prophet
Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein, one of the most revered figures in
Shi'ite Islam, as they marched toward the cemetery behind the
flower-covered coffins, held shoulder-high by local men.Read More ...
At least three dead, 12 missing in US flooding
Rescuers
searched Monday for at least 12 people missing in spectacular flash
flooding in Texas and Oklahoma that also left at least three dead. The
raging waters destroyed hundreds of homes and sent cars floating down
streets, rolling and bobbing like giant toys. In the Texas city of San
Marcos, residents were ordered to evacuate their homes as flood waters
rose menacingly around them, following torrential rain that turned
streets into meandering rivers.Read More ...
Fighter Jets Scramble Following at Least 6 Reports of Threats to Passenger Planes, Officials Say
At
least six flights were impacted by threats at airports in New York, New
Jersey and Boston today, according to airlines and law enforcement. An
Air France plane was escorted to JFK Airport in New York City this
morning after an anonymous threat was made against the flight, law
enforcement officials told ABC News. Authorities said that the decision
to have the plane escorted by two fighter jets was done "out of an
abundance of caution" after the Maryland State Police McHenry Barrack,
in Garrett County, received an anonymous call of a “chemical weapons
threat” aboard Air France Flight 22, which was en route from Paris to
the New York City airport.Read More ...
Conservative challenger Duda wins Polish presidential vote
Conservative
challenger Andrzej Duda has won Poland's presidential election and
ousted the incumbent in a runoff vote, according to official results
Monday.Read More ...
Twister kills 13 in Mexico border city; 12 missing in Texas
A
tornado raged through a Mexico border city shortly after daybreak
Monday, destroying homes, upending cars and killing at least 10 people.Read More ...
America celebrates Memorial Day weekend
Navy
Vietnam War veteran Dennis McClelland of Murrells Inlet, South
Carolina, holds a U.S. flag during a Veterans March on Ocean Boulevard
in honor of Memorial Day in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, May 25, 2015.
REUTERS/Randall HillRead More ...
3 killed, homes washed away in Texas, Okla. floods
Record rainfall wreaked havoc across a swath of the Plains and Midwest on Sunday.Read More ...
Candlelight vigil marks 1 month since deadly Nepal quake
Hundreds
of people held a candlelight vigil in Nepal's capital Monday evening to
mark one month since the earthquake that killed thousands of people and
affected millions.Read More ...
Police: Pressure cooker from suspicious DC vehicle destroyed
A
bomb squad safely destroyed a pressure cooker found in a "suspicious"
vehicle left unattended Sunday afternoon on the National Mall near the
U.S. Capitol building and the vehicle's owner was located and arrested, a
U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman said.Read More ...
Thousands of bikers gather in Washington to honor vets
One
week after a gathering of biker gangs in Texas that resulted in nine
deaths and 170 arrests, thousands of motorcycle riders roared into the
nation's capital Sunday to honor military veterans, prisoners of war and
soldiers missing in action.Read More ...
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