Boston police officer shoots and kills terror suspect
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terror suspect who was shot and killed by a Boston cop this morning was
under 24-hour surveillance because he had made statements indicating he
desired to attack police officers, sources briefed on the case told ABC
News. The FBI knew Usaama Rahim was armed and potentially dangerous and
moved on him this morning when it appeared the threat he posed to
uniformed officers in the Boston area had somehow increased, the sources
said. In a related arrest, Massachusetts State Police and Boston police
arrested a man in nearby Everett who had also allegedly expressed an
interest in taking up the ISIS call to attack police.Read More ...
Obama signs bill reforming NSA surveillance program
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Patricia Zengerle and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President
Barack Obama signed into law on Tuesday legislation passed by Congress
earlier in the day reforming a government surveillance program that
swept up millions of Americans' telephone records. Reversing security
policy in place since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the bill
ends a system exposed by former National Security Agency contractor
Edward Snowden. Passage of the USA Freedom Act, the result of an
alliance between Senate Democrats and some of the chamber's most
conservative Republicans, was a victory for Obama, a Democrat, and a
setback for Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.Read More ...
'Call me Caitlyn': Vanity Fair editor and stylist talk to Katie Couric
Buzz Bissinger and stylist Jessica Diehl share the story behind Caitlyn Jenner's debut.Read More ...
Colorado theater shooter views death, life sentences as equal punishments
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Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes
told a psychiatrist that he views life in prison and execution as equal
punishments but wants his life spared out of concern for his family,
jurors in his capital murder trial heard on Tuesday. The disclosure from
the former neuroscience graduate student now on trial for opening fire
in a Denver-area cinema came during a videotaped interview session
conducted last year by court-appointed psychiatrist William Reid that
was shown in court. Holmes, 27, has pleaded not guilty by reason of
insanity to fatally shooting 12 moviegoers and wounding dozens more
during a shooting rampage at a midnight screening of the Batman film
“The Dark Knight Rises” in July 2012.Read More ...
One dead, eight injured in Chicago bus crash: local media
(Reuters) - One person was killed and eight were injured on Tuesday when a Chicago bus ran up onto a downtown sidewalk during the afternoon rush hour, local media reported. Local officials told the Chicago Tribune a Chicago Transit Authority bus struck at least four vehicles and one pedestrian near the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Lake Street at about 5:45 p.m. local time, the paper reported. A 51-year-old woman involved in the crash died at a local hospital and the bus driver suffered minor injuries, the paper reported.
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Congress sends NSA phone-records bill to president
The bill revives and remakes a disputed post-9/11 surveillance program two days after letting it temporarily expire.Read More ...
Sepp Blatter says he will resign as FIFA president
Sepp
Blatter, FIFA’s long-time president, announced on Tuesday that he will
be resigning as soon as an extraordinary FIFA congress has elected a
successor.Read More ...
Report tells of rapid capsize on China cruise ship
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