| Obama: Europe needs to better integrate Muslim communities Posted: 16 Jan 2015 10:40 AM PST  The president says Europe must not 'simply respond with a hammer' to attacks.
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| Islamic State group reaches for Afghanistan and Pakistan Posted: 16 Jan 2015 10:32 AM PST  CAMP SHORABAK, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan and Pakistan, home to al-Qaida and Taliban militants and the focus of the longest war in U.S. history, face a new, emerging threat from the Islamic State group, officials have told The Associated Press.
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| To run or not to run? Posted: 16 Jan 2015 08:18 AM PST  Tom Steyer — the San Francisco hedge-fund manager turned environmental activist who has spent the last few election cycles spending vast amounts to influence climate-change policy nationwide — is considering a run to succeed retiring California Sen. Barbara Boxer. One of his advisers agreed to provide Yahoo News with a behind-the-scenes look at Steyer's decision-making process.
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| Obama, Cameron pledge to help seek justice for Paris attacks Posted: 16 Jan 2015 10:37 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a show of trans-Atlantic unity, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged a joint effort on Friday to fight domestic terrorism following deadly attacks in France. They also strongly urged the U.S. Congress to hold off on implementing new sanctions on Iran.
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| Arizona students face new graduation requirement Posted: 16 Jan 2015 07:49 AM PST  Students in the Copper State must take a test that's the first of its kind in the nation.
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| Saudi Arabia postpones lashing blogger 1,000 times Posted: 16 Jan 2015 07:13 AM PST  Saudi Arabia postponed Friday the next round of flogging for a blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam because his wounds from last week's beating have not yet healed, his wife said. The public flogging of Raef Badawi, who is also serving a 10-year jail sentence, has sparked an international outcry and a campaign by Amnesty International and other rights groups to free him. Badawi received the first 50 lashes of his sentence outside a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on January 9. He is expected to undergo a total of 20 flogging sessions until his punishment is complete, but his wife Ensaf Haidar said the second round of lashes had been postponed on Friday.
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| GOP’s biggest tech challenge for 2016 is closing small-donor gap Posted: 16 Jan 2015 02:23 AM PST  In the world of money and politics, Democrats talk a lot about wealthy Republican donors, but the reality is that in recent years they've had a cash advantage over Republicans that the GOP has not been able to match.
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| Pakistanis protest Charlie Hebdo Posted: 16 Jan 2015 06:47 AM PST  Anti-Charlie Hebdo protesters face police outside the French consulate in Karachi.
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| Anti-terror raids yield arrests across Europe Posted: 16 Jan 2015 10:45 AM PST  More than two dozen suspects have been detained in Belgium, France and Germany.
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| Pentagon to deploy 400 troops to train Syrian rebels Posted: 15 Jan 2015 10:13 PM PST  The U.S. military is planning to deploy more than 400 troops to help train Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State, along with hundreds of U.S. support personnel, a Pentagon spokesman told Reuters on Thursday. The U.S. military has not yet identified where it will draw its forces from for the training mission, expected to begin in the spring at sites outside Syria, Colonel Steve Warren said. The training program is a part of President Barack Obama's multi-year plan to field local forces in Syria to halt and eventually roll back Islamic State fighters, while pounding them with U.S.-led airstrikes.
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| Obamacare's lead agency chief announces her resignation Posted: 16 Jan 2015 10:47 AM PST  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration official who oversaw the botched rollout of the Obamacare website, Healthcare.gov, announced on Friday she will resign as head of the agency that also manages the Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs. "It is with sadness and mixed emotions that I write to tell you that February will be my last month," Marilyn Tavenner, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), said in an email to staff. A former nurse and hospital chain executive, Tavenner, 63, joined CMS in February 2010, a month before President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. An administration official said Tavenner was leaving "at the right time" after her agency had hired capable new officials in leadership positions.
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| San Francisco train stations closed by anti-police protests Posted: 16 Jan 2015 10:40 AM PST  By Robert Galbraith and Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO _ (Reuters) - Activists protesting police shootings of young black men staged demonstrations at three San Francisco rail stations on Friday, forcing officials to divert trains and sending morning commuters miles out of their way. No injuries were reported, and two people were arrested on misdemeanor charges of interfering with the operation of a rail system, Bay Area Rapid Transit police spokesman Jim Allison said. The protests, dubbed "BART Friday: No Business as Usual," targeted a commuter rail system that serves more than 400,000 riders a day in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and surrounding suburbs.
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| U.S. woman accused of killing mother in Bali seeks funds from her estate Posted: 16 Jan 2015 09:12 AM PST  A U.S. woman who is being tried in Indonesia for the murder of her mother on the resort island of Bali has filed a lawsuit seeking money from a trust in her alleged victim's name to pay legal bills, court records showed. The woman, Heather Mack, and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, could face the death penalty if found guilty of murdering Sheila von Wiese-Mack, whose battered body was found in a bloody suitcase outside a luxury hotel in August. Mack filed a suit in Chicago on Thursday seeking to transfer $150,000 out of her mother's $1.6 million trust fund to pay her legal expenses, according to her attorney, Anthony Scifo. Mack is the sole beneficiary of the trust, administered by William Wiese, the dead woman's brother, Scifo said.
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| Oklahoma carries out its first execution since botched one Posted: 15 Jan 2015 08:55 PM PST  Another inmate is executed in Florida using the same three-drug method.
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| Charlie Hebdo cofounder blames slain editor for provoking attack Posted: 15 Jan 2015 12:16 PM PST  Stéphane Charbonnier is criticized for "overdoing it" by publishing provocative cartoons.
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| Bill Cosby praises fans for loyalty before Denver shows Posted: 15 Jan 2015 03:00 PM PST  Bill Cosby released a statement thanking his fans for sticking by his side and buying tickets to his upcoming performances in Denver.
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| Immigrants can now get Mexican birth certificates in U.S. Posted: 15 Jan 2015 07:11 PM PST  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — For Mexicans living in the U.S. illegally and hoping to stay in the country under President Barack Obama's new immigration policy, things just got one step simpler.
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| Watch Live: Journalism after #CharlieHebdo Posted: 14 Jan 2015 05:03 PM PST  Katie Couric leads an expert panel discussing fallout from the Paris attacks.
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