| Rally for unity against terrorism is France's largest ever Posted: 11 Jan 2015 11:21 AM PST  Protected by an unparalleled level of security, the event will honor the victims of three days of bloodshed in Paris.
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| Firebombing at German paper that ran Charlie Hebdo cartoons Posted: 11 Jan 2015 09:42 AM PST  A German tabloid that reprinted cartoons from the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo lampooning the Prophet Mohammed was targeted in firebombing Sunday, police said. With security services on high alert after a killing spree in Paris by Islamic extremists, police in the northern German port city of Hamburg said no one was injured in the blaze at the headquarters of the regional daily Hamburger Morgenpost, which caused only slight damage. Whether there was a connection between the Charlie Hebdo cartoons and the attack was the "key question", the spokesman said, adding that it was "too soon" to know for certain.
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| Indonesia confident AirAsia fuselage discovered, zero in on black box Posted: 11 Jan 2015 01:40 AM PST  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Charlotte Greenfield PANGKALAN BUN/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian search teams believe they have found the fuselage of an AirAsia airliner that crashed in the Java Sea two weeks ago, and divers hope calmer waters on Monday will allow them to retrieve the black box flight recorders. Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control in bad weather on Dec. 28, less than halfway into a two-hour flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. None of the 162 people on the aircraft survived. ...
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| Christie may reach for reset button in New Jersey state of state Posted: 11 Jan 2015 05:34 AM PST  By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, under pressure to decide whether to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2016, has a chance next week to reset his governorship after being stymied all year by national controversies and home-grown fiscal crises. On Tuesday, Christie will deliver his state of the state address, potentially the biggest speech he'll make before announcing his presidential intentions, a decision that could come by the end of the month. ...
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| U.S. Supreme Court to weigh new religious rights case Posted: 11 Jan 2015 05:31 AM PST  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will take up a new religious rights case when it considers whether a town in Arizona discriminated against a local church by forcing it to remove signs notifying the public of its worship services. The nine justices are set to hear a one-hour argument in an appeal filed by the Good News Community Church, which objected to its treatment by town officials in Gilbert, Arizona. The church says its free speech rights, protected by the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, were violated. ...
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| North Dakota county feels Bakken boom ebb away as oil falls Posted: 11 Jan 2015 06:14 AM PST  By Ernest Scheyder CROSBY, N.D. (Reuters) - Just over a decade ago, this sleepy farming community on the fringe of North Dakota's Bakken shale formation hosted the state's first horizontal oil well to be hydraulically fractured, or fracked, helping set in motion an economic revolution that shook the world. Today, Divide County may be another vanguard for the state, this time ominous, as the first to feel the full effect of a collapse in prices that has lopped more than 50 percent off the price of oil since the summer. ...
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| New York artist remembers friend slain in Charlie Hebdo shooting Posted: 10 Jan 2015 03:08 PM PST  A New York cartoonist mourning a fellow artist killed when gunmen stormed the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris Wednesday says he is confident the attack will not silence the beliefs his friend championed.
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| Thousands march to honor victims of Paris attacks Posted: 10 Jan 2015 12:39 PM PST  Citizens carrying a placard reading "Coward, Chicken, Yellow-Belly (top) and They, didn't hide. They they did not run (Bottom)" take part in a Hundreds of thousands of French citizens solidarity march (Marche Republicaine) in the streets of Paris January 11, 2015. (REUTERS/Yves Herman) |
| Muslim worker at Paris grocery store saved customers from gunman Posted: 10 Jan 2015 01:45 PM PST  A worker at the kosher market Hyper Cacher in Paris helped protect customers from a gunman by hiding them in a walk-in freezer.
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| Hunt for female suspect in Paris attacks Posted: 10 Jan 2015 01:39 PM PST  Hayat Boumeddiene left France several days before the shootings, a source says.
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| Obama to focus on cybersecurity issues next week Posted: 10 Jan 2015 10:47 AM PST  Continuing the break with State of the Union tradition, President Barack Obama will spend most of the coming week previewing more of the proposals he will outline in the address, including on identity theft, electronic privacy and cybersecurity, the White House announced Saturday.
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