| Feinstein: 'CIA detainees were tortured' Posted: 09 Dec 2014 10:32 AM PST  Investigators deliver damning report on interrogation practices after the 9/11 attacks.
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| Republicans insist CIA methods helped capture terrorists Posted: 09 Dec 2014 08:27 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican leader of the U.S. Senate and the party's top member on the Senate Intelligence Committee insisted on Tuesday that CIA interrogation methods detailed in a newly issued report developed intelligence that helped capture important terrorists and take down Osama bin Laden. "Claims included in this report that assert the contrary are simply wrong," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Senator Saxby Chambliss, the ranking member of the intelligence panel, said in a joint statement. ...
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| Supreme Court rules no worker pay for security screening Posted: 09 Dec 2014 08:13 AM PST  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a victory to employers over worker compensation, ruling that companies do not have to pay employees for the time they spend undergoing security checks at the end of their shifts in a case involving an Amazon.com Inc warehousing contractor. ...
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| More than 150 arrested in California during police killing protests Posted: 09 Dec 2014 03:36 AM PST  By Emmett Berg and Noel Randewich BERKELEY, Calif./NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 150 protesters were arrested in California overnight after shutting down a major freeway in another outbreak of nationwide demonstrations against police use of deadly force on minorities. Across the other side of the country late on Monday, basketball stars in New York including Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James joined the protests by wearing shirts emblazoned with "I can't breathe" -- the last words of Eric Garner, a black man who died after a police chokehold. ...
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| British royal couple pays respects at New York's September 11 Memorial Posted: 09 Dec 2014 10:52 AM PST  By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, paid a solemn visit on Tuesday to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, greeted by a small but resolute crowd of admirers who withstood driving rain and wind for a glimpse of the royal pair. Kate, the duchess of Cambridge, laid a bouquet of white roses and a handwritten note at one of the two memorial pools marking where the World Trade Center towers once stood. Etched along the pools are names of the nearly 3,000 people killed on Sept. 11, 2001, when two hijacked planes destroyed the twin towers. ...
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| Iraqi leader asks U.S. for more air power, weaponry Posted: 09 Dec 2014 06:09 AM PST  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday that his army is taking the offensive against the Islamic State group but needs more air power and heavy weaponry to prevail.
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| Senate report condemns CIA's post 9/11 methods Posted: 09 Dec 2014 10:37 AM PST  The agency misled the public and policymakers about its interrogation techniques.
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| FBI probe Into Eric Garner death 'will take months' Posted: 08 Dec 2014 02:31 PM PST  The FBI investigation into the choke hold death of Eric Garner is now in the most preliminary of stages, a law enforcement official briefed of the situation told ABC News.There is no set timeline for how long the investigation will take, but the law enforcement official said "it will take months."The federal investigation was launched after a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo on any criminal charges stemming from Garner's death on July 17.The Staten Island district attorney's office has already begun handing over evidence to the FBI. ...
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| U.S. on alert ahead of torture report's release Posted: 09 Dec 2014 12:01 AM PST  U.S. embassies, military units and other interests prepare for possible security threats.
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