D.C. watchdog group calls for feds to probe alleged violations by NRA
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watchdog group asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the
National Rifle Association for failing to disclose $33.5 million in
political expenditures on its tax returns over a six-year period.Read More ...
Person of interest in upstate New York prison break: Who is Joyce Mitchell?
Authorities
are questioning Joyce Mitchell, a female prison employee, about the
inmates who escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility last weekend.Read More ...
McKinney police officer blames aggression at pool party on emotional stress
The
lawyer for a McKinney, Texas, police officer who has become the
country’s latest exemplification of bad cop behavior on Wednesday blamed
her client’s aggressive actions on emotional stress.Read More ...
US orders more troops to Iraq, but no overhaul of strategy
WASHINGTON
(AP) — President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of up to 450 more
American troops to Iraq on Wednesday in an effort to reverse major
battlefield losses to the Islamic State, an escalation but not a
significant shift in the struggling U.S. strategy to defeat the
extremist group.Read More ...
NTSB: Amtrak engineer wasn't talking, texting on cellphone
A new report deepens the mystery of what caused the accident that killed eight and injured about 200.Read More ...
New trial for man who said he killed New York boy to open in 2016
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new trial for the former New York deli worker who confessed to
strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz in a case that changed the way the U.S.
responds to missing children will open in 2016, a judge said on
Wednesday. A month after declaring a mistrial because of a hung jury,
Judge Maxwell Wiley told Pedro Hernandez that a new jury would be picked
as early as December to hear the kidnapping and murder case in state
Supreme Court in Manhattan. Seven jurors from Hernandez' first murder
trial, in which a single holdout declined to convict him in the 1979
killing, returned to court to hear the judge's decision.Read More ...
Colorado cinema gunman outwardly shy but outgoing in private: ex-girlfriend
The
former girlfriend of Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes testified at
his capital murder trial on Wednesday that the admitted shooter was
quiet in public but was more outgoing when alone with her or their
friends. The line of questioning appeared to focus on the personality of
the man prosecutors say went on a killing spree just months after
facing difficulties in graduate school and being rejected by his
then-girlfriend, Gargi Datta, who said she met Holmes when they attended
University of Colorado-Denver in 2011. Holmes, 27, has pleaded not
guilty by reason of insanity to fatally shooting 12 moviegoers and
wounding 70 more at a suburban Denver multiplex in July 2012.Read More ...
Rapper Rick Ross arrested for marijuana possession: official
(Reuters)
- Rapper Rick Ross was arrested on Wednesday in Georgia for marijuana
possession, according to the Fayette County Sheriff's Office. The
39-year-old Ross, whose legal name is William Leonard Roberts II, was
pulled over at around 4 p.m. on Highway 279 in Georgia for a window tint
violation, according to an official with the sheriff's office, who
declined to be named. Deputies went to his car, smelled marijuana, and
after searching the vehicle placed Ross under arrest for possession, the
officer said.Read More ...
McKinney officer who pulled his gun on teens resigns — but is it enough?
The white police officer who threw a black bikini-clad girl to the ground and pulled his gun on two others while responding to a disturbance at a pool party in McKinney, Texas, resigned on Tuesday. But some community members say his resignation is not enough.
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Hunt for killers expands to Vermont; staffer under suspicion
DANNEMORA,
N.Y. (AP) — The manhunt for two escaped killers expanded to campsites
and boat slips in Vermont on Wednesday, and State Police said a female
prison staff member being questioned may have had a role in helping the
men.Read More ...
LeBron leads Cleveland to 2-1 NBA Finals lead
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Obama considers sending more troops to help train Iraqi forces
JERUSALEM
(AP) — The Obama administration is nearing a decision on how to improve
and accelerate the training of Iraqi security forces in light of recent
setbacks against the Islamic State, including the possibility of
setting up new training camps in Anbar Province, U.S. officials said
Tuesday.Read More ...
S.F. Giants' Chris Heston no-hits Mets
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Dennis Hastert makes 1st court appearance in hush-money case
The
former House speaker pled not guilty to charges that he violated
banking rules and lied to the FBI in a scheme to pay $3.5 million in
hush money to conceal misconduct from his days as a high school teacher.Read More ...
Reporters tweet their evacuation from White House press briefing room
Secret Service interrupted a press briefing at the White House Tuesday, evacuating reporters from the briefing room.Read More ...
Judge in Colorado theater shooting trial dismisses 3 jurors
CENTENNIAL,
Colo. (AP) — The judge in the Colorado theater shooting trial dismissed
three jurors Tuesday after learning that one was exposed to news
coverage of the case and discussed it with the others.Read More ...
Community leaders ask judge for arrests in Cleveland boy's death
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Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Community leaders asked a municipal
court on Tuesday to invoke an obscure Ohio law so that a city judge
could bring murder charges and issue arrest warrants for two policemen
in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy. The two Cleveland officers
involved in the shooting are white and the boy, Tamir Rice, was black.
"The police’s use of deadly force was fatal, unconscionable, that we
deem criminal in nature," read the 131-page citizen complaint filed in a
Cleveland Municipal Court.Read More ...
How the White House plans to work with Hillary Clinton’s campaign
There are legal limits on how and how much people who work in the White House can cooperate with a presidential campaign.Read More ...
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