| Family, friends say 3 slain in NC left a legacy of giving Posted: 12 Feb 2015 10:24 AM PST  The funeral for the three Muslim family members killed in Chapel Hill is held today.
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| UN warns Yemen 'collapsing' as Qaeda seizes army camp Posted: 12 Feb 2015 11:23 AM PST  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned Thursday that Yemen was falling apart and called for action to avert chaos, as Al-Qaeda fighters overran an army camp and seized heavy weaponry. The UN chief was reporting to the 15-member council after talks with Gulf officials that he said concentrated on "preventing civil war in Yemen". "Let me be clear: Yemen is collapsing before our eyes. Long on the front line of the war against Al-Qaeda, Yemen has descended into chaos since Shiite militiamen, known as Huthis, seized Sanaa in September and ousted the government last week.
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| Democrats pick city for 2016 convention Posted: 12 Feb 2015 10:00 AM PST  Those hoping for a convention in Brooklyn are out of luck.
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| Putin announces Ukraine cease-fire deal Posted: 12 Feb 2015 09:34 AM PST  The Russian leader says the warring parties have agreed on a truce to begin on Sunday.
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| Matt Bai: The always amusing Brian Williams Posted: 12 Feb 2015 03:04 AM PST  What resonates in the case of Brian Williams, who was suspended by NBC for six months, is the collision of celebrity, politics and media that first occurred with Gary Hart in 1987. Nearly three decades later, TV news and entertainment are almost impossible to separate, and probably no one has embodied that cultural shift more comfortably than Williams.
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| CBS correspondent Bob Simon dies in car crash Posted: 12 Feb 2015 01:00 AM PST  The veteran "60 Minutes" reporter was killed in a car accident in New York City.
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| 3 winning tickets in $564M Powerball drawing Posted: 12 Feb 2015 09:35 AM PST  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Somebody who stopped by a Shell station in southern Puerto Rico was potentially $100 million richer on Thursday, winning a share of a $564.1 million Powerball jackpot — the first winner outside the continental United States.
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| U.S. appeals court to hear arguments on moving Boston bombing trial Posted: 12 Feb 2015 08:08 AM PST  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday said it would hear arguments on whether to move the trial of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect out of the city that was the site of the largest mass-casualty attack on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The appeals court's decision to hear arguments on Feb. 19 comes after a district court judge three times rejected pleas by defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys to move the trial. Defense attorneys contend too many people in the Boston area had a direct connection to the event to empanel an impartial jury. Three people were killed and 264 injured when two homemade bombs went off at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013.
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| Body of 'American Sniper' Kyle surrounded by weapons, Ranger testifies Posted: 12 Feb 2015 09:37 AM PST  By Jon Herskovitz STEPHENVILLE, Texas (Reuters) - The former Navy SEAL whose best-selling autobiography was turned into the hit movie "American Sniper" was found dead at a rural Texas shooting range, the only loaded weapon within reach a 1911-style semiautomatic pistol, a Texas Ranger told a court on Thursday. Former U.S. Marine Eddie Ray Routh, 27, is on trial for murdering Chris Kyle and friend and neighbor, Chad Littlefield, in February 2013 at a shooting range about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Fort Worth. Kyle and Littlefield had been shot multiple times, with two guns. "The only weapons on the scene that were loaded were two 1911-style handguns," Texas Ranger Michael Adcock told the court in rural Erath County.
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| Lawyer for accused 9/11 plotter alleges mistreatment at Guantanamo Posted: 12 Feb 2015 10:45 AM PST By Tom Ramstack FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) - An attorney for a Saudi man charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks accused his U.S. jailers at the Guantanamo Bay military prison on Thursday of mistreatment. The charges by defense attorney Walter Ruiz at a pretrial hearing at Guantanamo prompted arguments about whether the remaining 122 inmates at the prison in Cuba should be treated under standards of U.S. or international law. "Constitutional rights do not stop at a prison door," said Ruiz, who is defending Mustafa al-Hawsawi, 46, against war crimes charges. |
| Court sentences Korean Air nut rage exec to 1 year in prison Posted: 12 Feb 2015 06:23 AM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An onboard tantrum dubbed "nut rage" culminated Thursday in a one-year prison sentence for Korean Air heiress Cho Hyun-ah, a humiliating rebuke that only partially quelled public outrage at the excesses of South Korea's business elite.
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| San Francisco commuters possibly exposed to measles on train Posted: 11 Feb 2015 09:27 PM PST  By Robin Respaut SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of commuters on San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system may have been exposed to measles after an infectious Bay Area resident rode a train to and from work for three days last week, public health officials said on Wednesday. The rider represents the first case of measles confirmed by Contra Costa County health officials during an outbreak of the disease that began in late December. "Although the risk of contracting measles by being exposed on BART is low, Bay Area residents should be aware of the situation," the county public health department said in a statement. The California Department of Public Health said on Wednesday that 110 cases of measles had been confirmed in California, many of them linked to the outbreak that authorities believe began when an infected person from out of the country visited Disneyland in late December.
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| Self-proclaimed atheist charged in slayings of Muslim students Posted: 11 Feb 2015 12:55 PM PST  The suspect professes on Facebook to be an atheist who dislikes all religions.
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| Congress clears Keystone XL pipeline bill, setting up veto Posted: 11 Feb 2015 05:43 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Congress cleared a bill Wednesday to construct the Keystone XL oil pipeline, setting up a confrontation with President Barack Obama, who has threatened to veto the measure.
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| Costa Concordia captain sentenced to 16 years in prison Posted: 11 Feb 2015 11:37 AM PST  The captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship was convicted Wednesday of multiple charges of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in jail, Italian court officials said.
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