Bernie-mania! Sanders launches 2016 campaign
The 73-year-old former Burlington mayor and independent senator is beloved by Vermonters.Read More ...
Appeals panel won't lift hold on Obama immigration action
NEW
ORLEANS (AP) — President Barack Obama's plan to shield as many as 5
million immigrants living in the U.S. from deportation remained on hold
Tuesday after a federal appeals court panel refused to allow it to take
effect immediately.Read More ...
What would White House be like without a dog?
Every
president since Theodore Roosevelt has had a dog in the White House,
and almost certainly the next one will, too —unless it’s Bernie Sanders.Read More ...
Storms kill 17 in Texas, Oklahoma; Houston flooded
By
Kristen Hays and Amanda Orr HOUSTON (Reuters) - Torrential rains have
killed at least 17 people in Texas and Oklahoma, including four in
Houston where floods turned streets into rivers and led to about 1,000
calls for help in the fourth-most populous U.S. city, officials said on
Tuesday. The death toll is set to rise with numerous people still
missing in Texas after the storms slammed the states during the Memorial
Day weekend, causing record floods that destroyed hundreds of homes,
swept away bridges, and even unearthed a coffin from a Houston cemetery.
"A lot of folks drove their car into high water and had to abandon
those vehicles," Houston Mayor Annise Parker said at a news conference.Read More ...
Data thieves gain access to 100,000 U.S. taxpayers' information: IRS
(Reuters)
- Tax return information for about 100,000 U.S. taxpayers was illegally
accessed by cyber criminals over the past four months, U.S. IRS
Commissioner John Koskinen said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of
data thefts that have alarmed American consumers. From February to May,
attackers sought to gain access to personal tax information 200,000
times through the agency's "Get Transcript" online application, which
calls up information from previous returns, he told a news conference.
The breach did not affect any IRS data outside the "Get Transcript"
application, and the agency said it would strengthen its security
measures.Read More ...
Colorado movie gunman wrote of 'obsession to kill' since childhood
By
Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo., (Reuters) - Colorado cinema gunman
James Holmes wrote in a notebook he sent to his psychiatrist prior to
opening fire in a suburban theater that he had harbored an "obsession to
kill" since childhood, a police officer testified at his murder trial
on Tuesday. Holmes mailed a package to the psychiatrist that included
the notebook a day before he opened fire inside a cinema in the Denver
suburb of Aurora during a screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight
Rises." Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for
Holmes if he is convicted of killing 12 moviegoers and wounding 70
others in the July 2012 rampage. Aurora Police Sergeant Matthew Fyles
read aloud excerpts from the 29-page notebook, in which Holmes allegedly
wrote: "The obsession to kill since I was a kid, with age became more
realistic." Fyles said that Holmes wrote in another entry that he had
thought about multiple ways to kill, including with nuclear weapons and
biological warfare.Read More ...
Cleveland, Justice Department announce police settlement
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Cleveland officials and the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday
announced their settlement over a pattern of excessive force and civil
rights violations by the city's police department.Read More ...
Floodwaters deepen in Houston after city gets more rain
Officials have confirmed 11 deaths so far in holiday weekend storms in Oklahoma and Texas.Read More ...
Joint Chiefs Chairman says U.S. blindsided by fall of Mosul
Gen. Martin Dempsey admits in a new documentary that the Pentagon did no contingency planning for the Islamic State advance.Read More ...
Iraq begins operation to oust Islamic State from Anbar
BAGHDAD
(AP) — Iraq vowed Tuesday to retake Anbar province — now mostly held by
the Islamic State — by launching a large-scale military operation less
than two weeks after suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of the
extremists in the provincial capital of Ramadi.Read More ...
Lawyer says allegations B.B. King was poisoned 'ridiculous'
LAS
VEGAS (AP) — Two B.B. King heirs who've been most outspoken about the
blues legend's care in his final days have accused King's two closest
aides of poisoning him, but the attorney for King's estate called the
claims ridiculous and police said there was no active homicide
investigation.Read More ...
Washington Post reporter on trial in Iran for spying
Washington
Post correspondent Jason Rezaian went on trial behind closed doors in
Iran Tuesday on charges of spying, in a case that has clouded a
rapprochement with the United States. The United States blasted the
trial's "complete lack of transparency", and renewed calls for Tehran to
drop "absurd" spying charges that Rezaian's brother called "laughable".
Rezaian's wife, Yeganeh Salehi, who is also a journalist, appeared in
court alongside her husband and a female press photographer, Iran's
official IRNA news agency reported.Read More ...
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