FBI looking into teen's hanging death

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• FBI looking into teen's hanging death
• Autopsy: Cleveland boy was shot once by officer
• Senate to take up $1.1T spending bill
• Palestinian wounds five Israelis in suspected acid attack
• Award-winning Washington Post photographer dies of heart attack in Liberia
• Oil sinks below $63 a barrel
• Mudflows spur evacuations in Southern California
• CIA chief challenges Senate torture report
• Senate leader Reid hopes for budget approval Friday
• Major storm moves into southern California, prompts evacuations
• Cleveland boy's death in police shooting declared homicide
• U.S. congressional staffers stage walkout in latest police protests
• Ebola cases require rare dual air ambulance rescues

FBI looking into teen's hanging death Posted: 12 Dec 2014 09:36 AM PST BLADENBORO, N.C. (AP) — The FBI is looking into the death of a black North Carolina teen after his family questioned the official ruling the young man found hanging from a swing set at a trailer park had committed suicide, a prosecutor confirmed Friday.

Autopsy: Cleveland boy was shot once by officer Posted: 12 Dec 2014 09:32 AM PST CLEVELAND (AP) — A 12-year-old boy carrying a pellet gun died from a single shot fired by a rookie police officer, according to an autopsy released Friday.

Senate to take up $1.1T spending bill Posted: 12 Dec 2014 07:52 AM PST It's now up to the Senate to pass a huge spending bill to keep the government running.

Palestinian wounds five Israelis in suspected acid attack Posted: 12 Dec 2014 06:27 AM PST JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian man threw a chemical substance believed to be acid at an Israeli family in the occupied West Bank on Friday, injuring a man and four children, Israeli police and the military said. The assailant was shot and wounded immediately after the attack, which took place at a checkpoint south of Jerusalem. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the attacker had "poured an unknown substance suspected to be acid on a Jewish family." She said a civilian at the scene shot and wounded the assailant. ...

Award-winning Washington Post photographer dies of heart attack in Liberia Posted: Award-winning Washington Post photographer dies of heart attack in Liberia

Oil sinks below $63 a barrel Posted: 12 Dec 2014 09:53 AM PST By Barani Krishnan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil fell $2 a barrel to plumb new five-year lows on Friday after the world's energy watchdog forecast even lower prices on weaker demand and higher supplies next year. Benchmark Brent oil tumbled to below $62 a barrel and U.S. crude slumped to under $58 to extend Thursday's landmark fall below $60. Surging crude inventories in the United States and top oil exporter Saudi Arabia's reiteration that it will not cut production had roiled prices over the past two days despite data pointing to strong U.S. economic recovery. ...

Mudflows spur evacuations in Southern California Posted: 12 Dec 2014 10:26 AM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) — A soaking storm swept into Southern California, causing several mudslides, flooding streets and cutting power to tens of thousands Friday after lashing the rest of the state with much-needed rain.

CIA chief challenges Senate torture report Posted: 12 Dec 2014 12:30 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director John Brennan is acknowledging that agency officers did "abhorrent" things to captive terror suspects, and he says he can't prove the harsh treatment made the prisoners cooperate. But he defends the overall post-9/11 interrogation program for stopping attacks and saving lives.

Senate leader Reid hopes for budget approval Friday Posted: 12 Dec 2014 09:27 AM PST By Richard Cowan and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate looked set to pass a $1.1 trillion spending bill in time for a Saturday night deadline, following a narrow House of Representatives vote that averted a government shutdown. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said he hoped the bill would pass on Friday to spare Americans the drama of yet another budget crisis. ...

Major storm moves into southern California, prompts evacuations Posted: 12 Dec 2014 02:32 AM PST By Curtis Skinner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A major storm that pummeled northern California and the Pacific Northwest with heavy rain and high winds and killed two people moved south overnight, prompting evacuation orders in areas prone to floods and mud flows. The National Weather Service forecast the system to track through southwestern California late on Thursday and into Friday, brining the possibility of strong thunderstorms, as well as waterspouts and small tornadoes along the coast. ...

Cleveland boy's death in police shooting declared homicide Posted: 12 Dec 2014 10:24 AM PST CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The death of a 12-year-old Cleveland boy fatally shot by police in November has been formally ruled a homicide, according to a county autopsy report released on Friday that found he was struck once in the abdomen. Tamir Rice, who was black, was shot on Nov. 22 by a white police officer responding to a call of a suspect waving a handgun around in a Cleveland park. The weapon turned out to be a replica that typically fires plastic pellets. The sixth-grader died the next day. ...

U.S. congressional staffers stage walkout in latest police protests Posted: 11 Dec 2014 06:08 PM PST WASHINGTON/OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Dozens of U.S. congressional staff staged a walkout on Thursday to protest decisions by grand juries not to charge white police officers in the killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City. The staffers, including members of the Congressional Black Associates group, held a prayer service on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and raised their hands in a reference to the "Hands up, don't shoot" chants that have become a feature of protests around the nation. ...

Ebola cases require rare dual air ambulance rescues Posted: 11 Dec 2014 01:57 PM PST An American nurse possibly infected with the Ebola virus in West Africa was flown to the National Institutes of Health on Thursday. The rescue was one of two air ambulance missions flown this week by Georgia-based Phoenix Air.

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