Oldest Texas death row inmate is executed
Lester Bower, 67, was put to death for killing four people in an airplane hangar in 1983.Read More ...
Republican candidate Cruz apologizes to Biden for joke
Republican
presidential candidate Ted Cruz apologized on Wednesday for making a
joke about Democratic Vice President Joe Biden, whose son died on the
weekend. "It was a mistake to use an old joke about Vice President Biden
during his time of grief, and I sincerely apologize," Cruz, a Texas
senator seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, wrote on
Facebook. "The loss of his son is heartbreaking and tragic, and our
prayers are very much with the Vice President and his family." U.S.
media reported that Cruz had said on Wednesday in Michigan: “Joe Biden …
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What you need to know about Lincoln Chafee
A long-shot candidate, the former Rhode Island governor joined the Democratic Party just two years ago.Read More ...
Transgender woman pushed onto N.Y. subway tracks in possible hate crime
An
incident involving a transgender woman who was pushed onto subway
tracks in a New York City subway station is being investigated as a
possible hate crime, the New York Police Department said today.Read More ...
North Carolina governor will sign bill for 72-hour wait for abortion
By
Marti Maguire RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) - North Carolina Governor Pat
McCrory said on Wednesday he will sign a law requiring pregnant women to
wait three days between consulting a doctor and having an abortion,
among the longest waiting periods in the nation. McCrory, a Republican,
faced intense lobbying from pro-choice advocates who hoped he would veto
the measure, citing his campaign promise not to sign any further
restrictions on abortion. “Some very positive progress was made during
the last several days to protect women’s health,” McCrory said.Read More ...
Slain Boston man had planned to behead police officers: FBI
By
Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts
man slain by law enforcement officers on Tuesday had discussed plans to
behead police officers with an associate arrested the same day,
according to papers filed in Boston federal court on Wednesday. Usaamah
Abdullah Rahim, 26, who law enforcement officers shot to death after he
allegedly confronted them with a large knife, had told David Wright "I'm
just going to, ah, go after them, those boys in blue," an FBI agent
involved in the investigation said in an affidavit. Rahim had ordered
three knives, with blades ranging in length from 8 inches (20 cm) to
9.75 inches (25 cm), from online retailers and had joked in wire-tapped
phone conversations with Wright, 24, about "thinking with your head on
your chest," according to the affidavit.Read More ...
After three decades on death row, Texas inmate Bower executed
By
Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday executed
Lester Bower, one of the longest-serving inmates on the state's death
row who had said he was wrongly convicted of killing four men in 1983
and had spent three decades trying to halt his capital punishment. Bower
was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CDT after being given a lethal
injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville, a prisons official
said. A former chemical salesman with two children, Bower became the
oldest death row inmate put to death in Texas since the U.S. Supreme
Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.Read More ...
FBI: Boston knifeman had talked of attacking 'boys in blue'
BOSTON
(AP) — A knife-wielding man killed by the terror investigators who had
him under surveillance was confronted because he had bought knives and
talked of an imminent attack on "boys in blue," the FBI said Wednesday.Read More ...
A tumultuous week ends as Blatter gets standing ovation
A
day after announcing his decision to resign, Sepp Blatter was back at
work at FIFA headquarters on Wednesday as the worst corruption crisis in
the governing body's 111-year history continued to unfold.Read More ...
New case may hold clues about missing Indiana student
The
mysterious case of Lauren Spierer has bewildered detectives in the
charming college town of Bloomington, Ind., ever since June 2011, when
the Indiana University sophomore disappeared after a night of partying.
Nearly four years later, the death of another IU student and the
interest of a former FBI investigator turned TV crime show host are
breathing new life into the cold case.Read More ...
Ukraine battle tests cease-fire to breaking point
KIEV,
Ukraine (AP) — A major battle erupted Wednesday on the western edge of
the main separatist rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine, leaving more
than a dozen dead and threatening to tip the country back into
full-blown war.Read More ...
George W. Bush now more popular than Obama
A new CNN/ORC poll finds a majority view the former president favorably for the first time in more than a decade.Read More ...
Terror suspect shot dead by Boston police officer
The suspect was under surveillance because he had made threats against police, sources say.Read More ...
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