Syria begins destruction of chemical weapons facilities

Syria begins destruction of chemical weapons facilities
Plea to imams to fight extremism draws Islamophobia charge
'Selma' stars including Oprah march in Alabama
Attorney's biggest challenge: Defending the accused Boston Marathon bomber
Which current members of Congress voted against making MLK Day a federal holiday?
EU calls for anti-terror alliance with Arab countries
Tributes, protests mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Oil spills in Yellowstone River after pipeline leak
Yemeen rebels seize state media, battle soldiers
Secret Service: Shots fired outside Bidens' Delaware home
'Flash-freezing' turns Northeast roads deadly
Patriots roll over Colts, will play Seahawks in Super Bowl
Seahawks return to Super Bowl with miracle win

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 06:52 AM PST

The destruction of production and storage centers begins.

Plea to imams to fight extremism draws Islamophobia charge

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 08:26 AM PST

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Muslim groups accused the British government of copying the language of the far right on Monday and of stoking Islamophobia after ministers wrote to imams asking them to explain to Muslims how Islam is compatible with being British. In a letter to over 1,000 imams last Friday, Eric Pickles, the minister for local government and communities, asked them to explain to Muslims how Islam can be "part of British identity", arguing they had a duty to do more to fight extremism and root out anyone preaching hatred. Muslim groups said the letter unfairly singled them out. "The letter has all the hallmarks of very poor judgment which feeds into an Islamophobic narrative, which feeds into a narrative of us and them," Tahla Ahmad of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) told Sky News.

'Selma' stars including Oprah march in Alabama

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 09:07 PM PST

Hundreds marched to recall one of the bloodiest chapters of the civil rights movement.

Attorney's biggest challenge: Defending the accused Boston Marathon bomber

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 02:16 AM PST

Judy Clarke is known as the "patron saint of defense attorneys" for her willingness to take on the cases of notorious killers and finding a way to save their lives. But she faces her biggest challenge yet in trying to spare accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from the death penalty.

Which current members of Congress voted against making MLK Day a federal holiday?

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 02:11 AM PST

In 1983, Congress voted overwhelmingly to approve legislation to honor the memory of the late Martin Luther King Jr. by observing a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January. But not every elected official was onboard with the effort.

EU calls for anti-terror alliance with Arab countries

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 02:43 AM PST

The proposal comes in the wake of deadly attacks and arrests across the EU.

Tributes, protests mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 10:17 AM PST

By Laila Kearney and Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tributes to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. were held around the United States on Monday as protests over the treatment of minorities by law enforcement rolled on across the country. Observers of Martin Luther King Jr. Day have this year linked the federal holiday to a rallying cry in recent months during demonstrations over police brutality: "Black lives matter." In a pre-dawn rally in Oakland, California on Monday, about 40 people converged on the home of Mayor Libby Schaaf, calling for harsher punishment of police who use violence against civilians. They chalked outlines of bodies on the tree-lined street, played recordings of King's speeches and projected an image of the slain civil rights leader with the words "Black lives matter," on the mayor's garage door. Other protests were planned in major cities such as Dallas and New York, where the family of Eric Garner, who died after being placed in a police chokehold, was set to lay a wreath on the Brooklyn street where two uniformed officers were ambushed in December by a gunman claiming to avenge Garner's death.

Oil spills in Yellowstone River after pipeline leak

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 10:27 AM PST

(Reuters) - Crews worked on Monday to clean up crude oil that spilled in and near the Yellowstone River in eastern Montana even as Bridger Pipeline LLC tried to determine what caused the weekend breach, the Wall Street Journal reported. The release of crude oil from Bridger's Poplar Pipeline system near Glendive, Montana began on Saturday morning, the company said in a statement. Bridger said its initial estimate was that 300-1,200 barrels of crude oil had been released.

Yemeen rebels seize state media, battle soldiers

Posted: 19 Jan 2015 08:16 AM PST

Rebel Shiite Houthis battled soldiers near the presidential palace and elsewhere across the capital.

Secret Service: Shots fired outside Bidens' Delaware home

Posted: 18 Jan 2015 02:34 PM PST

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Multiple gunshots were fired from a vehicle near the Delaware home of Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday night, the U.S. Secret Service said Sunday. The vice president and his wife were not at home at the time of the shooting, authorities said.