Hillary Clinton talks trust and Trump in first campaign interview

Hillary
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

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

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

A
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

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

China'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

The
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

MONCKS
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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