House GOP leaders reach budget deal with Obama White House
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Oklahoma woman charged with plowing into crowd had mental illness: lawyer
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woman suspected of killing three adults and a toddler and injuring
almost 50 people by ramming her car into Oklahoma State University’s
homecoming parade has a history of mental illness, her father and
attorney said on Monday. A judge on Monday ordered that Adacia Chambers
be held on $1 million bond on four counts of second-degree murder and
granted a defense request that she be given a psychiatric examination.
Speaking to reporters at Payne County Courthouse, Chambers’ attorney,
Tony Coleman, and her father, Floyd Chambers, said the 25-year-old woman
had sought mental health treatment twice in recent years.Read More ...
S.C. police officer slams black student; video sparks outrage
(Reuters) - A video of a white male police officer at a South Carolina high school flipping and slamming a black girl to the ground in a classroom arrest sparked outrage on social media on Monday. The 15-second video was apparently recorded by another pupil at the Spring Valley High School in Columbia on Monday. It begins with Ben Fields of the Richland County Sheriff's Department, an officer assigned to the school, approaching the girl, who is seated at a desk.
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U.S. police chiefs call for background checks for all gun purchases
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Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - Police chiefs from across the United
States called on Monday for universal background checks for firearms
purchases, saying opinion polls consistently show that most Americans
support such restrictions. The proliferation of firearms is one of the
factors behind a rise in homicide rates in many U.S. cities this year,
according to senior law enforcement officials at the International
Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Chicago. Acknowledging the
power of the gun lobby and the reluctance of Congress to enact stricter
gun laws, the police chiefs told a news conference they were not
anti-gun but wanted to keep weapons out of the hands of people with
criminal backgrounds.Read More ...
For House Republicans, a crucial week
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Big quake in Afghanistan and Pakistan kills over 200
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major earthquake struck the remote Afghan northeast on Monday, killing
more than 200 people in Afghanistan and nearby northern Pakistan,
injuring hundreds and sending shock waves as far as New Delhi, officials
said. The death toll could climb in coming days because communications
were down in much of the rugged Hindu Kush mountain range where the
quake was centered. In one of the worst incidents, at least 12 girls
were killed in a stampede to flee their school building in Taloqan, just
west of Badakhshan province where the tremor's epicenter was located.Read More ...
Graham on GOP field: ‘How am I losing to these people?’
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