Jeb Bush jumps in GOP race, both guns blazing
Appearing
before a raucous rally in front of thousands of supporters here Monday
afternoon, former Florida governor Jeb Bush showed he is a force to be
reckoned with in the presidential election as he officially launched his
campaign.Read More ...
Million-dollar identity theft insurance for government workers
The
public may never know the full national security repercussions of a
pair of catastrophic hacking attacks on the Office of Personnel
Management (OPM) that were disclosed earlier this month.Read More ...
Blackhawks win Stanley Cup at home for first time in 77 years
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Man held for trial in sledgehammer killings of California family
A
California judge ruled on Monday that prosecutors had presented
sufficient evidence for an ex-convict to face trial in the 2010
sledgehammer killings of a family of four whose remains were found more
than two years later buried in the desert. The decision capped a daylong
preliminary hearing in the case against Charles "Chase" Merritt, 58,
described by authorities as a former business associate of the slain
father, Joseph McStay. San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge
Michael Smith said that evidence outlined by investigators in the
proceedings, including cell phone records and DNA analysis, had
established probable cause for prosecutors to proceed to trial.Read More ...
Two Catholic U.S. bishops resign in child sex abuse scandal
Pope
Francis on Monday accepted the resignation of two U.S. bishops on
Monday, 10 days after a Minnesota prosecutor filed criminal charges
against their diocese for failing to protect children from a sexually
abusive priest. Wehmeyer, who has been dismissed from the priesthood, is
serving a five-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in 2012 to
criminal sexual conduct with two minors and possessing child
pornography. The pontiff accepted the resignations the week after
approving an unprecedented Vatican tribunal intended to judge bishops
for covering up or failing to report sexual abuse, which has caused
worldwide scandal for more than a decade.Read More ...
Washington state NAACP leader embroiled in race controversy resigns
Rachel
Dolezal, a civil rights advocate who has been accused of falsely
claiming she is black, announced her resignation on Monday as leader of a
local branch of the NAACP in Washington state. Dolezal, 37, who served
as president of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, the country's oldest and largest civil
rights organization, said the controversy over her race had shifted
dialogue away from key social and political issues. "It is with complete
allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that
I step aside from the presidency and pass the baton to my vice
president, Naima Quarles-Burnley," Dolezal said in a statement on the
NAACP Spokane chapter's Facebook page.Read More ...
Can Rachel Dolezal really be 'transracial'— or Is white privilege to blame?
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Beachgoers lose limbs in shallow-water shark attacks
OAK
ISLAND, N.C. (AP) — Beachgoers cautiously returned to the ocean Monday
after two young people lost limbs in separate, life-threatening shark
attacks in the same town in North Carolina.Read More ...
Jeb Bush faces challenges in ‘16 bid
Bush
launched a GOP presidential bid months in the making Monday with a vow
to get Washington “out of the business of causing problems."Read More ...
Head of Spokane NAACP quits amid furor over racial identity
SPOKANE,
Wash. (AP) — Rachel Dolezal resigned as president of the NAACP's
Spokane chapter Monday just days after her parents said she is a white
woman posing as black — a dizzyingly swift fall for an activist credited
with injecting remarkable new energy into the civil rights
organization.Read More ...
Prison worker charged with aiding escapees appears in court
DANNEMORA,
N.Y. (AP) — A woman charged with helping two convicted murderers escape
from a maximum-security prison in far northern New York made another
court appearance Monday as the manhunt for the men hit its 10th day.Read More ...
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