Monday, October 26, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 23/10/2015





'History isn't finished with Joe Biden'
The vice president is being praised by Democrats and Republicans for his decision to stay out of the presidential race.



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Mets complete sweep, reach first World Series since 2000




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Person of interest held in Albuquerque road rage shooting




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Biden won't run in 2016, boosting Clinton's White House hopes
U.S. Vice President Biden announces his he will not seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination during an appearance in the Rose Garden of the White House in WashingtonBy Jeff Mason and John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he would not run for president in 2016, ending months of indecision and removing one of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's biggest potential obstacles to the party's nomination. Biden, 72, appeared in the White House Rose Garden with his wife Jill and President Barack Obama to say the window for mounting a successful campaign had closed. Biden's announcement ended a highly public "will he or won't he?" political guessing game about his intentions that had shadowed Clinton's campaign and frozen the support of some Democratic activists and donors.



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At odds with Republicans, Hillary Clinton to testify on Benghazi
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters at the conclusion of a By Jonathan Allen and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Whether it's a fact-finding mission as Republicans insist or the political witch hunt that Democrats anticipate, the congressional committee investigating the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Thursday will hear from Hillary Clinton, then the secretary of state and now the top candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Clinton and many of her fellow Democrats have seized on the comments in recent weeks by Republican lawmakers as evidence that the goal of the Benghazi committee in the U.S. House of Representatives was to hurt her front-runner status in the campaign for the November 2016 election. Clinton's appearance follows months of unflattering reports about her use of a private home email server for her State Department work.



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Deliberations begin in trial of ex-NFL player charged with four murders
By Olga Grigoryants LANCASTER, Calif. (Reuters) - A Los Angeles County jury began deliberations on Wednesday in the murder retrial of former Oakland Raiders defensive end Anthony Wayne Smith, charged with killing four Southern California men over the course of nearly a decade. The 48-year-old onetime National Football League star, whose original trial in one of the slayings ended in a hung jury, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.

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Suspect in NYPD officer shooting charged with murder
Suspect in NYPD Officer Shooting Charged With Murder, Police SayThe gunman who allegedly shot and killed a New York City police officer has been charged with murder, officials said. Tyrone Howard, 30, of East Harlem, who has prior gang-related offenses, was also charged with robbery in the shooting death of Officer Randolph Holder and stealing a bike in the process, officials said. Holder and other officers were responding to reports of gunshots in East Harlem, which police sources said was connected to gang activity.



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Rubio uses ‘Back to the Future’ to mock Clinton and Biden in new Web ad




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Biden: I’m not running for president in 2016




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New testimony shows Clinton 'devastated' by Benghazi attack
FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2015 file photo, former Hillary Rodham Clinton aide Cheryl Mills listens at left as House Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington following her deposition before the panel investigating Benghazi. Democrats on the House committee investigating the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, have released a full transcript of testimony by Mills. The release comes a day before Clinton is expected to testify. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A "devastated" Hillary Rodham Clinton worked late into the night on Sept. 11, 2012, trying to protect her people caught in an attack on a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that ultimately killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, a close Clinton aide said in testimony released Wednesday.



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