| Romney senior advisers meet in Boston to discuss 2016 Posted: 23 Jan 2015 09:45 AM PST  The 2012 GOP presidential nominee is considering a third run for the White House.
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| Marco Rubio preparing for 2016 run Posted: 23 Jan 2015 05:39 AM PST  "He has told us to proceed as if he is running for president," a senior Rubio adviser said.
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| Deadline for Islamic State ransom passes Posted:  Deadline for Islamic State ransom passes
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| U.S., Iraq preparing for big assault Posted: 22 Jan 2015 06:25 PM PST  The United States and Iraq have started preparing for an offensive by summer to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul, which was taken by Islamic State militants last June, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Preparations include selecting and training military units for the planned assault and cutting supply lines to Islamic State fighters, General Lloyd Austin, head of the U.S. military's Central Command, told the Journal. Mosul is the largest city in a self-declared Islamic State caliphate straddling the border between northern Iraq and eastern Syria. A senior Iraqi official told Reuters in November that Mosul was the focus of government efforts to defeat Islamic State, because of the city's size and symbolic status.
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| Middle East roiled by Yemen chaos and Saudi succession Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:32 AM PST  A security expert tells Yahoo News' Michael Isikoff what the turmoil means for the U.S.
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| Russians will 'eat less' for Putin Posted: 23 Jan 2015 05:18 AM PST  DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, on Friday warned the West against trying to topple President Vladimir Putin and said that Russians are ready to sacrifice their wealth in Putin's support.
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| A mother pleads as Japan hostage deadline passes Posted: 23 Jan 2015 03:09 AM PST  The deadline set by Islamist militants threatening to kill two Japanese men unless they were given $200 million passed Friday, after one captive's mother made a desperate plea to save her son's life. Japan had heard nothing from the extremists holding Kenji Goto, a freelance journalist, or Haruna Yukawa, the self-employed contractor who he had gone to rescue, the chief government spokesman said. "There has been no message" from the Islamic State group since the 72-hour deadline expired at 2:50 pm (0550 GMT) Friday, Yoshihide Suga told reporters. Reporters waiting for any announcement on the two men's fate said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looked tired and drawn as he rushed from one commitment to the next.
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| Northeast preps as 1st significant winter storm approaches Posted: 23 Jan 2015 08:32 AM PST  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A fast-moving coastal storm is forecast to blast several major cities in the Northeast with a mix of snow, sleet and rain on Saturday in the season's first real taste of winter along the busy Interstate 95 corridor.
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| One suit dropped, one remains in dispute between MLK's children Posted: 23 Jan 2015 08:23 AM PST  By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - One of two lawsuits involving the children of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has been dropped, possibly signaling a thaw in their tense relations as they continue to fight over the sale of his Bible and Nobel Peace Prize. Bernice King said in a statement late Thursday that her father's estate had voluntarily dropped its August 2013 lawsuit against the non-profit Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, which she heads. King's sons, Dexter King and Martin Luther King III, acting as majority board members of their father's estate, had sought to revoke the center's right to use King's name and image unless Bernice King was removed as CEO. Bernice King said the estate's decision to drop the suit vindicated the King Center's position on its licensing rights and offered a promising sign that the feud pitting the children against one another was on the road toward reconciliation.
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| Winter's first big snow expected in U.S. Northeast this weekend Posted: 23 Jan 2015 09:59 AM PST  By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Up to 8 inches of snow is expected to fall over parts of the Northeast this weekend, and a wintry mix could make for a messy Monday morning commute in New York, Boston and other cities, the National Weather Service said on Friday. Rhode Island, parts of Connecticut and central Massachusetts were expected to be hit the hardest from twin snowstorms, beginning Friday evening and followed by a second storm late Sunday. "Bring it on!" said Tom Meyers, spokesman for Wachusett Mountain Ski Area in Princeton, Massachusetts, about 50 miles west of Boston. The weather service said the same system that brought heavy snow to the southern Plains would bring a wintry mix to the mid-Atlantic and New England at the start of the weekend.
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| Moody's slashes Atlantic City rating on bankruptcy potential Posted: 23 Jan 2015 10:03 AM PST  (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service slashed Atlantic City's credit rating six notches deeper into junk territory on Friday, a day after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appointed an emergency manager with a mandate to consider a debt restructuring. Atlantic City has about $344 million of long-term debt outstanding. Moody's dropped the city's general obligation rating to Caa1, down from Ba1, indicating that the credit rating agency thinks there is a substantial risk of default over the next five years. The order from Christie to consider a restructuring also marks a "rapid, dramatic" change from the usually strong oversight New Jersey provides its local governments, including the requirement that they pay their bond debts, Moody's said.
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| Tsarnaev attorneys renew bid to move Boston bombing trial Posted: 22 Jan 2015 12:45 PM PST  Citing juror bias, attorneys for accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are pushing to move his trial out of Boston.
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| Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah dies Posted: 22 Jan 2015 03:53 PM PST King Abdullah's expected successor is his 79-year-old half-brother, Prince Salman. |
