Sepp Blatter wins FIFA re-election the old fashioned way
Despite
scandal all around him, Sepp Blatter remained FIFA's president thanks
to a voting bloc he's spent years building using old-school politics.Read More ...
Another round of rain brings more serious flooding in Texas
HOUSTON
(AP) — Floodwaters submerged highways and threatened homes Friday in
Texas as another round of heavy rain added to the damage inflicted by
storms that have killed at least 22 people and left 13 missing.Read More ...
Cuba removed from U.S. terror list
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Swollen Texas rivers prompt evacuations, severe weather kills 21
By
Lisa Maria Garza and Jim Forsyth DALLAS (Reuters) - More heavy rain
caused Texas rivers to overflow their banks and prompted widespread
evacuations on Friday after a week of historic storms flooded Houston,
killed at least 21 people and damaged more than 4,000 buildings.
Thousands of cars were trapped for about six hours on a suburban freeway
blocked by floodwaters near Dallas, where rainfall reached about seven
inches (17.8 cm) between Thursday night and Friday. The Red Cross
distributed Girl Scout cookies and water to stranded motorists.Read More ...
Live anthrax found in U.S. military shipment to Australia: official
By
Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An investigation of a U.S. military
facility's mistaken shipments of live anthrax bacteria has turned up
another live sample, this one from a 2008 batch sent to Australia, a
U.S. defense official said on Friday. The disclosure, if confirmed,
suggests the possibility of a broader problem among anthrax samples
meant to have been made inactive at the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving
Ground in Utah. Suspected live samples sourced to Dugway have already
been traced going to nine U.S. states and a U.S. air base in South Korea
over a period from March 2014 to April 2015 before being discovered
this month.Read More ...
Idaho abortion restrictions are unconstitutional: appeals court
By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An Idaho law that prohibits abortions of fetuses 20 or more weeks after fertilization is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday. The ruling, from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, also struck down an Idaho law that required all second-trimester abortions to occur in a hospital. Bans on abortion after 20 weeks have been passed in 12 U.S. states since 2010, according to NARAL Pro-Choice America, an abortion rights advocacy group.
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Barbara Scrivner's difficult journey after receiving clemency
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National Spelling Bee ends in tie for 2nd year in a row
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Psychiatrist: Colorado shooter knew what he was doing
CENTENNIAL,
Colo. (AP) — The man who killed 12 moviegoers and wounded scores of
others in a suburban Denver theater was mentally ill but legally sane, a
court-appointed psychiatrist testified Thursday.Read More ...
Google wants to store all your photos for free, forever
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Chicago’s heart of mercy for the disabled
Nestled
away in a northern Chicago suburb, among tree-lined streets, white
picket fences and perfectly manicured lawns, is a 31-acre complex known
as Misericordia. Misericordia, whose name means “heart of mercy” in
Latin , is home to more than 600 children and adults with a wide range
of physical and mental disabilities.Read More ...
CDC investigating error that caused live anthrax shipments
WASHINGTON
(AP) — The U.S. Army's top general said Thursday that human error
probably was not a factor in the Army's mistaken shipment of live
anthrax samples from a chemical weapons testing site that was opened
more than 70 years ago in a desolate stretch of desert in Utah.Read More ...
Pataki record: A Roosevelt Republican from N.Y.’s crime-crackdown years
Amid
a growing group of long-shot Republican presidential hopefuls that
already includes a neurosurgeon, a deposed Silicon Valley CEO, and two
failed contenders from presidential primaries past, few official or
potential primary candidates have been as quickly dismissed as George
Pataki.Read More ...
Putin accuses US of meddling into FIFA affairs
MOSCOW
(AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of
meddling in the affairs of soccer's governing body and hinted that its
corruption investigation is part of an attempt to take the 2018 World
Cup away from his country.Read More ...
George Pataki announces 2016 presidential bid
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