Rising tension ahead of Ferguson grand jury decision

Rising tension ahead of Ferguson grand jury decision
Kerry says gaps remain in talks about Iran's nukes
Ferguson experiences 3rd straight night of unrest
Activist group: US-led Syria strikes kill over 900
Volunteer snow shovelers hit Buffalo streets as flooding fears rise
Four dead in murder-suicide on South Dakota reservation, police say
Mother's death leads NFL player to fight domestic abuse
House intel panel debunks many Benghazi theories

Posted: 22 Nov 2014 08:25 AM PST

Tensions were high on Saturday in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, with a US grand jury poised to decide whether to prosecute a white police officer for killing an unarmed black teenager. US President Barack Obama has called for calm, Missouri's governor declared a state of emergency and activated the state National Guard, and the FBI has deployed an extra 100 personnel to the area. Police helicopters trained search lights over Ferguson late Friday as a small gaggle of protesters braved the cold to demand that officer Darren Wilson stand trial for shooting 18-year-old Michael Brown dead on August 9.

Kerry says gaps remain in talks about Iran's nukes

Posted: 22 Nov 2014 08:37 AM PST

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned of "serious gaps" in talks about a nuclear deal with Iran, but as Monday's deadline approached his German counterpart said Tehran and six world powers have "never been closer" to agreement since they started negotiating more than six years ago.

Ferguson experiences 3rd straight night of unrest

Posted: 22 Nov 2014 08:20 AM PST

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities arrested three protesters during a third straight night of unrest in Ferguson as tensions mount amid speculation that a grand jury could decide soon whether to indict the police officer who killed Michael Brown.

Activist group: US-led Syria strikes kill over 900

Posted: 22 Nov 2014 03:54 AM PST

BEIRUT (AP) — A prominent Syrian activist group monitoring its civil war says U.S.-led airstrikes in the country have killed over 900 people since September, many fighters of the militant Islamic State group, though some civilians as well.

Volunteer snow shovelers hit Buffalo streets as flooding fears rise

Posted: 22 Nov 2014 09:52 AM PST

By Aaron Ingrao BUFFALO (Reuters) - As temperatures near Buffalo, New York, rose above freezing on Saturday, volunteers fanned out to help their neighbors clear the walls of snow that have paralyzed parts of the region this week, but the warming trend also raised the threat of flooding. More than 200 volunteers, called the Shovel Brigade Mob, armed themselves with shovels and headed into neighborhoods south of downtown Buffalo. The group said some residents were still stuck in their homes, days after a lake-effect system clobbered the region with up to seven feet of snow. ...

Four dead in murder-suicide on South Dakota reservation, police say

Posted: 22 Nov 2014 09:55 AM PST

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A South Dakota man shot and killed three people and critically wounded a fourth person before taking his own life at a residence on a Native American reservation, law enforcement officials said Saturday. Local police cooperating with Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribal Police had launched an early morning manhunt for the shooting suspect but later said the gunman was among the dead found inside a residence in the city of Sisseton, on the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation. ...

Mother's death leads NFL player to fight domestic abuse

Posted: 22 Nov 2014 04:06 AM PST

By Steve Ginsburg (Reuters) - Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback William Gay remembers arriving at the hospital as a confused 7-year-old trying to understand why members of his family were sobbing uncontrollably. He soon learned that his mother had been shot in the back three times. The assailant, Gay's stepfather, shot himself in the head, the .38 caliber revolver landing between the bodies. Gay's mother, Carolyn Hall, was alive for five hours at the hospital before succumbing, while her husband died instantly. ...

House intel panel debunks many Benghazi theories

Posted: 21 Nov 2014 02:22 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees.