Ferguson mayor: No severance package for Wilson

Ferguson mayor: No severance package for Wilson
Hong Kong activists, police clash outside govt HQ
Coalition airstrikes pound IS stronghold in Syria
Data: Bricks-and-mortar holiday sales edge lower, online surges
Justices weigh limits of free speech over Internet
Ferguson police officer resigned on safety concerns, lawyer says
FAA drone rules to address aircraft certification and operation
Online threats case to show if U.S. justices are down with rap
U.S. lawmaker's aide draws ire over first daughter scolding
Ferguson officer Darren Wilson resigns
Ferguson lesson: Police can better calm situations
Pope: Islamist violence a 'grave sin against God'
Surgeon who died of Ebola eulogized at Maryland service

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 10:16 AM PST

Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson did not receive any severance package when he resigned over the weekend, the St. Louis suburb's mayor said Sunday. Wilson, 28, won't receive any further pay or benefits, ...

Hong Kong activists, police clash outside govt HQ

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 09:59 AM PST

Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters faced off with Hong Kong police late Sunday, stepping up their movement for genuine democratic reforms after being camped out on the city's streets for more than two months.

Coalition airstrikes pound IS stronghold in Syria

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 07:09 AM PST

U.S.-led coalition warplanes carried out as many as 30 airstrikes overnight against Islamic State militants in and around the group's de facto capital in northeastern Syria, activists said Sunday.

Data: Bricks-and-mortar holiday sales edge lower, online surges

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 04:12 AM PST

(Reuters) - U.S. shoppers spent slightly less money at brick-and-mortar stores on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday than across the same two days in 2013, while online sales surged to record highs, data showed on Saturday. Sales at retail stores totaled about $12.29 billion on Thursday and Friday, down 0.5 percent from the $12.35 billion spent last year, according to estimates by ShopperTrak. The research firm stuck by its forecast for November and December sales to increase 3.8 percent. ...

Justices weigh limits of free speech over Internet

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 05:11 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthony Elonis claimed he was just kidding when he posted a series of graphically violent rap lyrics on Facebook about killing his estranged wife, shooting up a kindergarten class and attacking an FBI agent.

Ferguson police officer resigned on safety concerns, lawyer says

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 09:34 AM PST

By Daniel Wallis and Edward McAllister FERGUSON, Missouri (Reuters) - The white police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager to death this summer in a St. Louis suburb decided to resign from the force because of threats against fellow officers after a grand jury decided not to indict him, his lawyer said on Sunday. Darren Wilson's resignation, announced on Saturday, came nearly four months after the officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on Aug. 9. ...

FAA drone rules to address aircraft certification and operation

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 08:57 AM PST

By Amanda Becker (Reuters) - U.S. aviation officials have seen hundreds of cases in which unmanned aircraft may have posed a danger to planes, and new rules on drones expected this year are designed to prevent collisions and other accidents, the top aviation official said on Sunday. "The thing that we are most concerned about is to ensure that any aircraft in this system do not come into conflict with one another," Michael Huerta, who leads the Federal Aviation Administration, said on CNN's "State of the Union. ...

Online threats case to show if U.S. justices are down with rap

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 05:01 AM PST

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A case before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning threats that a Pennsylvania man made toward his estranged wife and others on Facebook could hinge on how the nine justices interpret the sometimes violent imagery in rap lyrics. The justices, not known for their pop culture bona fides, are set on Monday to hear a one-hour oral argument in an appeal filed by Anthony Elonis. He was convicted for making threats aimed at his wife, law enforcement officers and others after posting statements on Facebook in 2010 soon after his wife left him. ...

U.S. lawmaker's aide draws ire over first daughter scolding

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 07:07 PM PST

A US lawmaker's communications director was facing social media calls she be sacked after her Facebook rant about President Barack Obama's daughters prompted widespread anger. Elizabeth Lauten, spokeswoman for Republican Congressman Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, wrote a scathing post to her Facebook account scolding Malia and Sasha Obama, 16 and 13, for looking bored while attending a public event with their father on Wednesday. In the post, since deleted but widely reproduced in screen grabs, Lauten tells the girls to "try showing a little class.

Ferguson officer Darren Wilson resigns

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 08:50 PM PST

The officer who fatally shot Michael Brown will leave the force, his attorney says.

Ferguson lesson: Police can better calm situations

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 01:52 PM PST

SEATTLE (AP) — The grand jury that declined to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson was focused on whether he might have acted in self-defense when he shot and killed unarmed, 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Pope: Islamist violence a 'grave sin against God'

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 06:44 AM PST

By Philip Pullella and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Pope Francis said Islamic militants were carrying out a "profoundly grave sin against God" in Syria and Iraq, calling on Sunday for inter-religious dialogue and action against poverty to help end the conflicts there. Turkey is sheltering nearly 2 million refugees from Syria, thousands of Christians among them. ...

Surgeon who died of Ebola eulogized at Maryland service

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 02:24 PM PST

By Tom Ramstack LANDOVER HILLS, Md. (Reuters) - Martin Salia, a surgeon from Sierra Leone who died in a Nebraska hospital earlier this month after contracting Ebola in his homeland, was remembered as a humanitarian and a hero at his funeral in Maryland on Saturday. The 44-year-old doctor was born and raised in Sierra Leone and lived as a permanent resident of the United States with his wife and two sons in New Carrollton, Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C. ...