| U.S. loosens embargo on Cuba Posted: 15 Jan 2015 08:11 AM PST  The White House is changing its policies on trade and investment in the island nation.
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| Turkey opens probe against columnists over Mohammed cartoon Posted: 15 Jan 2015 08:04 AM PST  Turkish prosecutors on Thursday opened an investigation into two commentators writing for daily newspaper Cumhuriyet who illustrated their columns with the controversial Prophet Mohammed cartoon published by Charlie Hebdo. The prosecutors were investigating Cumhuriyet columnists Ceyda Karan and Hikmet Cetinkaya on suspicion of "inciting public hatred and insulting religious values", the official Anatolia news agency reported. The probe was opened a day after Cumhuriyet published the special edition marking the first edition of the French satirical weekly after the attack on its offices that killed 12 people.
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| Pope on Charlie Hebdo: There are limits to free expression Posted: 15 Jan 2015 08:36 AM PST  ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis said Thursday there are limits to freedom of speech, especially when it insults or ridicules someone's faith.
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| Matt Bai: Dear Mitt Romney — Shake it off Posted: 15 Jan 2015 02:36 AM PST  The pundits are saying Mitt Romney can't win in 2016 if he runs for president. But Matt Bai is here to tell him he shouldn't take any of that seriously. Our columnist explores the many arguments in favor of running, starting with Romney's hair.
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| FBI: Ohio man planned to bomb U.S. Capitol Posted: 15 Jan 2015 10:03 AM PST  The 20-year-old suspect expressed his support for the Islamic State, officials said.
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| Spain to probe Paris gunman Coulibaly's Madrid stay Posted: 15 Jan 2015 06:36 AM PST  A Spanish High Court judge has opened a preliminary investigation into French Islamist gunman Amedy Coulibaly's stay in Madrid days before last week's Paris attacks, a judicial source said Thursday. Judge Eloy Velasco will probe the visit by Coulibaly, his partner Hayat Boumeddiene and a "third person who may have helped her reach Syria," the source said. Coulibaly was shot dead by police after he killed four Jewish men in a siege at a kosher supermarket in Paris on January 9.
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| Michigan must recognize legal marriages of 300 same-sex couples Posted: 15 Jan 2015 09:56 AM PST  Michigan must recognize the legal marriages of about 300 same-sex couples who were wed in the state in a one-day period last year after a federal court struck down a ban on gay marriage and before the decision was put on hold by a U.S. appeals court, a judge ruled Thursday. The same-sex couples who married in Michigan during that brief period acquired a fundamental right under the U.S. Constitution even though a U.S. appeals court has reversed the 2014 decision that struck down the Michigan law, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Goldsmith ruled. Eight same-sex couples had challenged Michigan's refusal to recognize their marriages entered into after a federal judge ruled on March 21 that the state's ban was unconstitutional and before a 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals stay closed the window the next day. Thursday's ruling comes as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to take up cases concerning gay marriage bans in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee, all part of the Cincinnati-based 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that upheld same-sex marriage bans in November.
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| Protests against police violence close Boston highway Posted: 15 Jan 2015 10:41 AM PST  Massachusetts State Police on Thursday arrested 29 people who stopped traffic on two sections of a major highway into Boston during the morning rush hour to protest the recent killings by U.S. police of unarmed black men. Protesters stopped traffic north and south of Boston during the morning rush hour, officials said. "Our nonviolent direct action is meant to expose the reality that Boston is a city where white commuters and students use the city and leave, while black and brown communities are targeted by police, exploited and displaced," organizer Katie Seitz said in a statement. Massachusetts State Police said the protesters prevented an ambulance carrying a crash victim with life-threatening injuries from reaching a trauma center in Boston, and forced it to divert to a smaller hospital outside the city.
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| NY union boss leading revolt against mayor faces own rebellion Posted: 15 Jan 2015 02:54 AM PST  By Michelle Conlin NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hours after two New York policemen were shot dead in their patrol car last month, police union boss Pat Lynch accused the mayor of having "blood on his hands." Lynch's attack was prompted by what many police officers saw as the mayor's failure to defend them against criticism that overly aggressive tactics had caused the death of a black suspect. In the weeks that followed, Lynch was the face of an extraordinary revolt by many officers against Mayor Bill de Blasio. Lynch's union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA), is in turmoil, beset by infighting, according to interviews with more than 40 police officers and union insiders. On Tuesday, a group of union insiders is set to announce a campaign to unseat him in the upcoming June election, several PBA trustees said.
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| Shakeup at Secret Service; 4 executives reassigned Posted: 14 Jan 2015 04:00 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Four of the highest-ranking Secret Service executives have been reassigned following a series of security mishaps and scathing reports questioning leadership within the agency, the Secret Service said Wednesday.
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| CIA absolves itself in torture report snooping Posted: 14 Jan 2015 07:06 PM PST  A panel clears agency officials of wrongdoing when they accessed Senate committee computers.
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| NASA Curiosity rover’s drill smashes Mars rock, collects important samples Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:41 PM PST  The Curiosity rover drilled a hole in the Mojave rock target on Mars. The freshly broken rock pieces could help NASA understand the importance of crystals that were spotted in that location two months ago.
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| Chilling images of scene inside Paris kosher supermarket Posted: 14 Jan 2015 11:03 AM PST  New footage shows Amedy Coulibaly holding hostages and issuing orders to staffers.
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| Watch 2 Chainz and Nancy Grace debate marijuana legalization Posted: 14 Jan 2015 08:21 AM PST The rapper and HLN television host sparred over pot legalization on Tuesday night. |
