Wednesday, July 8, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 7/9/2015





Hillary Clinton talks trust and Trump in first campaign interview
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to the media after a campaign event in Iowa CityHillary Clinton covered trust, Trump and the ten-dollar bill Tuesday in her first nationally televised interview since announcing her 2016 campaign.



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AP source: Fed's gun used in San Francisco pier slaying
Francisco Sanchez, center, is lead out of the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, right, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, left, after his arraignment at the Hall of Justice on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, in San Francisco. Prosecutors have charged the Mexican immigrant with murder in the waterfront shooting death of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The gun used in the seemingly random slaying of a woman on a San Francisco pier belonged to a federal agent, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter said Tuesday.



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Hong Kong stock index down 8 percent amid China sell-off
A man walks past a screen showing the Hong Kong share index at a brokerage firm in Hong Kong, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. The Hang Seng Index has dropped in morning trading following more big losses on mainland markets. Chinese stocks led a slump in Asian markets on Wednesday as the sell-off in Shanghai intensified and Greece's future in the euro remained highly uncertain. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's main stock index dived 8 percent on Thursday as a sell-off in mainland Chinese shares accelerated despite new measures to support the market.



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Felon in immigration furor pleads not guilty to San Francisco shooting
Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez is led into the Hall of Justice for his arraignment in San FranciscoA convicted felon who had been deported five times from the United States to Mexico pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to first degree murder in a San Francisco shooting that has spawned passionate debate about the city's immigration policies. Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, 45, was charged with murder on Monday for last week's apparently random shooting of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle. The gun used in the shooting belonged to a federal agent, anonymous sources told the San Jose Mercury News and the Los Angeles Times.



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Gunmen kill three, wound one near Baltimore university: police
Two gunmen emerged from two separate light-colored vans and began shooting people just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday (0300 GMT Wednesday), campus police said in a statement. A male was pronounced dead at the scene and a male and a female died while receiving medical treatment, the police said.

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New York governor to name special prosecutor for killings by police
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo attends a Cuomo told reporters he would issue an executive order valid for one year that would place Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in charge of investigating and prosecuting police-involved killings, taking those cases out of the hands of district attorneys. "We will be the first state in the country to acknowledge the problem and say we’re going to create an independent prosecutor who does not have that kind of connection with the organized police departments," Cuomo said, according to the New York Times. Cuomo said the appointment of a special prosecutor would help rebuild public confidence in law enforcement, following several high profile killings of unarmed black men by officers.



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New charges in Charleston church shooting: Attempted murder
The man accused of killing nine people attending Bible study at a historic black church in Charleston has been indicted on three new charges of attempted murder, prosecutors said Tuesday.

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China stock market freezing up as sell-off gathers pace
A floor trader reacts as he checks share prices during morning trading at the Hong Kong Exchanges in Hong Kong, ChinaChina's tumbling stock market showed signs of seizing up on Wednesday, as companies scrambled to escape the rout by having their shares suspended and indexes plunged after the securities regulator warned of "panic sentiment" gripping investors. Beijing, which has struggled for more than a week to bend the market to its will, unveiled yet another battery of measures to arrest the sell-off, and the People's Bank of China said it would step up support to brokerages enlisted to prop up shares. With nearly half the market on a trading halt and another round of margin calls forcing leveraged investors to dump whatever shares could find a buyer, blue chips that had been supported by stabilization funds earlier in the week bore the brunt.



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FBI agents search Subway spokesman Jared Fogle’s home
Authorities arrive at home of Jared FogleThe FBI and state police searched the Indiana home of Subway restaurant spokesman Jared Fogle early Tuesday. The food franchise later announced it had suspended its relationship with Fogle.



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NTSB: 2 killed when F-16, small plane crash; jet pilot safe
Military plane crashes in southern Arizona, sparks fireMONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — An F-16 fighter jet smashed into a small plane Tuesday over South Carolina, killing two people and raining down plane parts and debris over a wide swath of marshes and rice fields.



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