U.S. issues worldwide travel warning in wake of terror attacks
The alert says ISIS, al-Qaida, and Boko Haram may be planning attacks in multiple regions.Read More ...
Turkey shoots down Russian war plane on Syria border
NATO
member Turkey on Tuesday shot down a Russian fighter jet on the Syrian
border, threatening a major spike in tensions between two key
protagonists in the four-year Syria civil war. The Turkish presidency
said in a statement that the plane was a Russian Su-24 fighter jet,
while Turkish media said one pilot had been captured by rebel forces in
Syria. Reports said two pilots had ejected from the plane and Turkish
television pictures showed two white parachutes descending to the
ground.Read More ...
Congress is running out of time, and will, to respond this year to Paris attacks
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Source: Chicago cop expected to be charged in teen's death
CHICAGO
(AP) — Cook County prosecutors are expected to charge a white Chicago
police officer with murder in the death of a black teenager who was shot
16 times more than a year ago, an official close to the investigation
said Monday night.Read More ...
U.S. appeals court rules against Wisconsin abortion doctor law
Abortion
providers in Wisconsin had challenged the state law, which requires
doctors to have privileges at a hospital within 30 miles (50 km). A
federal judge in March permanently blocked the Wisconsin law, ruling
that the health benefits, if any, were outweighed by the burden on
women's health caused by restricted access to abortion. The U.S. Supreme
Court earlier in November agreed to take up a major abortion case for
the first time since 2007.Read More ...
ACLU sues Indiana governor over refusal to resettle Syrian refugees
Pence
is one of more than 25 U.S. governors, mostly Republicans, who have
publicly called on President Barack Obama to stop resettling Syrian
refugees following the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.
In the lawsuit, the ACLU said decisions concerning immigration and
refugee resettlement are exclusively the province of the federal
government and cannot be dictated by state officials. "Attempts to
pre-empt that authority violate both equal protection and civil rights
laws and intrude on authority that is exclusively federal," ACLU of
Indiana legal director Ken Falk said in a statement.Read More ...
Black Lives Matter protesters sue over treatment by California police
Protesters
and journalists covering a Black Lives Matter rally in Berkeley,
California, have filed a lawsuit alleging "unconstitutional police
attacks" on attendees, court records showed. The civil rights lawsuit
was filed in federal court on Sunday by the San Francisco Bay Area
chapter of the National Lawyers Guild against the city and police of
Berkeley and nearby Hayward. The Dec. 6, 2014 march stemmed from the
decision days earlier by grand juries in New York City and Ferguson,
Missouri, to not criminally charge police officers for killing unarmed,
black men, the complaint said.Read More ...
France finds explosive belt, detects Paris suspect's phone
By
Chine Labbé and Gabriela Baczynska PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A
suspected explosive belt was found dumped near Paris on Monday and the
mobile phone of a fugitive believed to have taken part in the attacks on
Nov. 13 was detected in two locations in the city, a source close to
the investigation said. France and Belgium have launched a manhunt
following the attacks that killed 130 people, with a focus on Brussels
barkeeper Salah Abdeslam, 26, who returned to the city from Paris hours
after the attacks and is still at large. Abdeslam's mobile phone was
detected after the attacks in the 18th district in the north of Paris,
near an abandoned car that he had rented, and then later in Chatillon in
the south, the source said on Monday.Read More ...
Family of Muslim teen seeks $15M in clock incident
IRVING,
Texas (AP) — Attorneys for a 14-year-old Muslim boy arrested after the
homemade clock he took to his Dallas-area school was mistaken for a
possible bomb said Monday he was publicly mistreated and deserves $15
million.Read More ...
The doomsday ideology of ISIS
The terror group's claim that the apocalypse is nigh is a powerful recruitment tool.Read More ...
Belgium police arrest 16, Paris fugitive still at large
Police detain 16 people in 22 raids but Paris fugitive Salah Abdeslam is not among them.Read More ...
US military helicopter crashes in South Korea, killing 2
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A U.S. military helicopter crashed in South Korea during a routine training mission Monday, killing both pilots on board, the U.S. Army and South Korean police said.
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Police: Shooting at New Orleans playground wounds 16
NEW
ORLEANS (AP) — Hundreds of people were gathered at a New Orleans
playground for a block party and music video shoot when two groups in
the crowd opened fire on each other, wounding 16 people in the shocking
Sunday evening violence, police said.Read More ...
Fact check: On climate science, most GOP candidates fail
WASHINGTON
(AP) — When it comes to climate science, two of the three Democratic
presidential candidates are 'A' students, while most of the Republican
contenders are flunking, according to a panel of scientists who reviewed
candidates' comments.Read More ...
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