Carson: Egypt's pyramids were for grain, not tombs
The GOP presidential front-runner made the controversial remarks in a 1998 speech.Read More ...
Democratic senator: Obama still has no strategy for Syria
Sen. Tim Kaine says the president does not have a clear plan for confronting Islamic State in Syria.Read More ...
Ex-President George H.W. Bush blasts Cheney, Rumsfeld
Former
President George H.W. Bush takes some unexpected swipes at Dick Cheney
and Donald Rumsfeld, key members of his son's administration, over their
reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks, in a new biography of the 41st
president, Fox News reported on Wednesday. In "Destiny and Power: The
American Odyssey Of George Herbert Walker Bush," author Jon Meacham
quotes Bush as saying that Cheney and Rumsfeld were too hawkish and that
their harsh stance damaged the reputation of the United States, the
cable news network said.Read More ...
San Diego gunman in custody; flight diversions at airport end
San
Diego police took into custody a gunman who fired at officers
responding to a domestic violence report on Wednesday after an extended
standoff that prompted the nearby international airport to temporarily
divert inbound flights. There were no reports of injuries, but all
arrivals into San Diego International Airport were put on hold during
the incident at an apartment complex in the city's Bankers Hill
neighborhood, at the eastern end of its runways. Police named the
suspect as Titus Colbert, 33, and said he will be charged with
attempting to murder a police officer.Read More ...
Man shot dead after stabbing four at University of California campus
The four victims - two students, a campus employee and a construction worker credited with helping prevent more bloodshed - were taken to hospitals for treatment, two by helicopter, though all are expected to make a full recovery, officials said. The identity of the suspect, a student in his early 20s who lived on campus, was not being publicly released until his next of kin were notified, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke told a news conference hours later. Classes at UC Merced, a campus of about 6,600 students, 300 faculty and about 1,000 other staff, were canceled through Thursday, and university officials said they hoped to resume normal operations on Friday.
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U.S. women paid less in all industries, every level: report
Women
in the United States are paid less for equal work than men in all
industries and a new report released on Thursday showed the widest
discrepancy in wages is between married men and women with children.
Fathers earned the highest overall median salaries at about $67,900,
compared to $46,800 for married mothers, and single women with children
had the lowest median salary at $38,200. "The gender pay gap is
absolutely real," said Aubrey Bach, senior editorial manager of PayScale
Inc., the online salary, benefits and compensation information company
that compiled the report.Read More ...
Sanders introduces Senate bill to end federal pot prohibition
If successful, the bill would remove all references to cannabis in the Controlled Substances Act.Read More ...
Officials: Bomb may have downed Russian jet
A U.S. official believes Islamic State may have planted an explosive device on the plane that crashed in EgyptRead More ...
Man arrested in California stabbing of French train hero
SACRAMENTO,
Calif. (AP) — A tip led police in California's capital city to arrest a
28-year-old man Wednesday in the stabbing of a U.S. airman who was
hailed as a hero for helping thwart a European terror attack.Read More ...
Polls: Carson surges in Republican race
The
brash billionaire must now share frontrunner status in the US
Republican presidential nominations battle with retired neurosurgeon and
fellow political outsider Ben Carson, fresh polling showed Wednesday.
The conservative Carson, the only African-American in the 2016 White
House race, is virtually tied at the top with Trump, trailing him by one
percentage point, according to the Quinnipiac University survey
released Wednesday. Tuesday's NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has Carson
surging into a six-point lead, quite a showing for a candidate who has
largely shunned traditional campaign strategies and refused to play
rough and tumble campaign politics with his rivals.Read More ...
Illinois policeman committed suicide, embezzled funds: officials
The
northern Illinois policeman whose September death prompted an extensive
manhunt for murder suspects committed "a carefully staged suicide" as
authorities began an audit that would have exposed his embezzling public
funds, authorities said on Wednesday. Fox Lake Police Lieutenant
Charles Joseph Gliniewicz used public funds for personal purchases,
stealing and laundering money over the past seven years, and forging
signatures on documents, Lake County Major Crime Task Force Commander
George Filenko said. The investigation "strongly indicates criminal
activity on the part of at least two other individuals," Filenko said,
adding that because the investigation was ongoing he would not comment
further.Read More ...
Oklahoma woman charged in parade crash that killed 4
OKLAHOMA
CITY (AP) — A woman accused of running a red light and purposely
driving around a barricade and over a police motorcycle before crashing
into spectators at Oklahoma State University's homecoming parade was
formally charged Wednesday with four counts of second-degree murder and
46 counts of felony assault.Read More ...
Deep distrust persists between Iran, US despite nuclear deal
TEHRAN,
Iran (AP) — As Iran marks the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the
U.S. Embassy in Tehran, one could be forgiven for thinking relations
were just as bad as ever between the Islamic Republic and America.Read More ...
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