| Live updates: Grand jury decision in Eric Garner case sparks more protests Posted: 04 Dec 2014 09:57 AM PST  Protests continue over the New York grand jury's decision.
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| Republicans seem poised to expand Senate majority Posted: 04 Dec 2014 06:45 AM PST  Rep. Bill Cassidy's race against Sen. Mary Landrieu could complete the 2014 GOP onslaught.
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| Matt Bai: Jeb Bush is right about 2016 Posted: 04 Dec 2014 02:55 AM PST  The smart play for 2016, if you're a Republican like Jeb Bush or Chris Christie or Marco Rubio, may be to let the other guys fight it out for Survivalist of the Year and set your sights on the party's other, broader constituencies: the right-leaning independents and mainline conservatives who fear that a Republican nominee too easily caricatured as extreme will lead the country straight into the embrace of Hillary Clinton. If you can unify that voting bloc, more or less, and end up going one-on-one with a candidate like Rand Paul or Scott Walker on Super Tuesday, then you've got a very real path to the nomination.
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| Fresh protests set after no charges in NYC chokehold case Posted: 04 Dec 2014 10:53 AM PST A new round of demonstrations over the Eric Garner verdict are set to take place in New York. |
| NASA scrubs Orion launch; will try again Friday Posted: 04 Dec 2014 10:38 AM PST  NASA's new Orion spacecraft will have to wait a little longer to fly.
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| Protests erupt after chokehold decision Posted: 04 Dec 2014 10:12 AM PST  New York reacts after a grand jury fails to indict a cop in the death of Eric Garner.
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| Yemen's al-Qaida threatens to kill U.S.hostage in video Posted: 04 Dec 2014 02:01 AM PST  Al-Qaeda in Yemen released a video Thursday threatening to execute a US journalist taken hostage last year. In the video dated December 2014, the hostage said his name was Luke Somers, 33, and that he was kidnapped more than a year ago in Sanaa. The photojournalist was kidnapped in the Yemeni capital in September 2013, US-based monitoring agency SITE Intelligence said. The video featured a message by Nasser bin Ali Al-Ansi, of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), threatening to kill the hostage in three days if Washington failed to meet unspecified demands.
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| Justice Department finds Cleveland Police use excessive force Posted: 04 Dec 2014 11:01 AM PST  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An investigation by the U.S. Justice Department has found the Cleveland Police Department systematically engages in excessive use of force against civilians, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday. The investigation began in March 2013 and carries added weight after an incident last month when a Cleveland police officer shot dead a 12-year-old boy who was carrying what turned out to be a toy gun on a playground. The findings will prompt federally mandated reforms, which have yet to be determined, but carry no criminal charges. ...
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| Jury finds Texan charged with killing prosecutors guilty of murder Posted: 04 Dec 2014 10:49 AM PST  By Lisa Maria Garza ROCKWALL, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas jury found a former justice of the peace accused of shooting dead two Texas prosecutors guilty of capital murder on Thursday, after a prosecutor called him "a ruthless killing machine" who had carefully plotted out his crimes. Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for Eric Williams, 47, who was charged with shooting dead District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife, Cynthia, and Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse in 2013. ...
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| Gun battles in Chechen capital leave 19 dead Posted: 04 Dec 2014 04:49 AM PST  GROZNY, Russia (AP) — Security forces in the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya stormed two buildings, including a school, in fierce gun battles with militants early Thursday that left at least 19 dead, authorities said.
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| Justice Dept. to investigate Eric Garner death Posted: 03 Dec 2014 07:27 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will conduct a federal investigation into the chokehold death of an unarmed black man after a grand jury in New York City declined to indict the white police officer who applied the move, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.
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| Obama's AG pick targets convicted Clinton bundler Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:46 PM PST  Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney nominated by President Barack Obama to be his next attorney general, is asking a federal judge to impose a stiff prison term on a former Hillary Clinton fundraiser convicted of making illegal campaign contributions. The court filing by Lynch's office comes at a time when she is facing a potentially tough grilling from Republican lawmakers on her nomination to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder. "It won't hurt for Loretta Lynch to be sending a major Democratic fundraiser to prison right before her confirmation hearing for attorney general," said one Washington lawyer.
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| NYPD starts pilot officer-camera program Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:47 PM PST  A federal judge ordered the test after ruling that officers were stopping and frisking some groups illegally.
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| McConnell on Obama meeting: 'It's not the bourbon summit' Posted: 03 Dec 2014 10:50 AM PST  Before Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell was scheduled to meet President Barack Obama at the White House — their first sit-down since Election Day — the incoming Senate majority leader told Yahoo News that the pair would not be drinking bourbon on the job.
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| Live updates: No charges for NYPD officer in chokehold death of Eric Garner Posted: 03 Dec 2014 08:29 PM PST  The city responds following the decision to not indict a cop who used a deadly maneuver.
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| House plans to extend tax breaks through December Posted: 03 Dec 2014 12:07 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is moving Wednesday to extend a massive package of expired tax breaks through the end of the year, adding about $42 billion to the budget deficit over the next decade.
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| No indictment in NYC chokehold death Posted: 03 Dec 2014 12:05 PM PST  A grand jury decides against criminal charges on a police officer who used the maneuver on Eric Garner.
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| 5 million children out of school in West Africa due to Ebola Posted: 03 Dec 2014 09:40 AM PST  By Misha Hussain DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Some five million children are out of school in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone because of the deadly Ebola outbreak, according to a report by the Global Business Coalition for Education. Schools and other public buildings have been closed because they are believed to increase the spread of the virus. Many are now used as holding centers for Ebola patients. ...
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