Man wielding pellet gun, ax attacks theater; shot by police
The attacker was shot dead by a SWAT team after firing pepper spray at audience members.Read More ...
Japan marks 70th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing
HIROSHIMA,
Japan (AP) — Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of
Hiroshima on Thursday, with Mayor Kazumi Matsui renewing calls for U.S.
President Barack Obama and other world leaders to step up efforts
toward making a nuclear-weapons-free world.Read More ...
Mixed messages on 777 part frustrate Flight 370 families
KUALA
LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The confusion and frustration that punctuated
the investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
erupted anew Thursday after officials offered conflicting levels of
confidence on whether a piece of a wing found washed up on an Indian
Ocean island last week came from the vanished plane.Read More ...
Police fatally shoot ax-wielding man at Nashville movie theater
A
man with a history of mental health issues who wielded an ax and a
pellet gun at a Nashville-area movie theater was shot dead by police on
Wednesday, authorities said. Montano injured three people when he doused
the theater with pepper spray, police said. The man also had a device
in a backpack that was supposed to look like a bomb, Nashville police
said.Read More ...
Majority of Americans say more must be done to fight racism: Pew
A
majority of Americans, white and black, believe that more needs to be
done to fight racism in the United States, following a year of protests
over the treatment of minorities by police, according to a Pew Research
Center survey released on Wednesday. The survey, which had a margin of
error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points among the total sample of
2,002 adults, was based on telephone interviews with respondents living
in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.Read More ...
Senator 'alarmed' by reports U.S. military families harassed
A U.S. Senator said on Wednesday he was alarmed by reports of an FBI alert that relatives of U.S. military personnel in Colorado and Wyoming were harassed outside their homes by Middle Eastern men who may have had them under surveillance. "I am alarmed by reports out of Denver that military members' families have been harassed outside their homes and may be under surveillance," U.S. Senator Cory Gardner, a Republican from Colorado, said in a statement.
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Obama: Alternative to Iran nuclear deal is war
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Tennessee movie theater shooting suspect pronounced dead
A suspect reportedly armed with a gun and hatchet is killed in a shootout with police at a Nashville-area theater.Read More ...
Biden reportedly considered resigning as VP after son's death
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Obama: Critics of Iran nuclear deal 'selling a fantasy'
WASHINGTON
(AP) — President Barack Obama argued Wednesday that the Iran nuclear
accord builds on an American tradition of "strong, principled diplomacy"
with adversaries, including the former Soviet Union. He linked those
who oppose the pact to politicians who pushed for the 2003 invasion of
Iraq.Read More ...
Debate field is set: Trump, Bush in; Santorum, Fiorina out
Fox News has named the Republican candidates who will take part in Thursday night's debate.Read More ...
Dems hit Bush after comments on funding for women's health
NASHVILLE,
Tennessee (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush vowed
Tuesday to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood if elected to
the White House, but drew immediate fire from Democrats for adding, "I'm
not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues."Read More ...
Christie vows GOP 'not going to be backed into a corner' in Planned Parenthood fight
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Family of woman found dead in Texas jail files wrongful death suit
The
family of Sandra Bland filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday
against a Texas trooper, a sheriff's office and her jailers, accusing
them of being responsible for the woman's apparent suicide in a county
jail.Read More ...
Special Report: State Department watered down human trafficking report
By
Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the weeks
leading up to a critical annual U.S. report on human trafficking that
publicly shames the world’s worst offenders, human rights experts at the
State Department concluded that trafficking conditions hadn’t improved
in Malaysia and Cuba. The State Department’s senior political staff saw
it differently — and they prevailed. A Reuters examination, based on
interviews with more than a dozen sources in Washington and foreign
capitals, shows that the government office set up to independently grade
global efforts to fight human trafficking was repeatedly overruled by
senior American diplomats and pressured into inflating assessments of 14
strategically important countries in this year’s Trafficking in Persons
report.Read More ...
GOP forum in N.H.: More cattle call than debate
Fourteen of the 17 Republican candidates show up, but they're hamstrung by the format.Read More ...
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