| Former U.S. Air Force mechanic charged with trying to join IS Posted: 17 Mar 2015 10:20 AM PDT Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh is accused of trying to cross into Syria |
| Israel's Netanyahu fights for survival in tight race Posted: 17 Mar 2015 11:04 AM PDT  With his future in question, Israel's leader made a last-ditch appeal to hard-liners.
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| Boat owner details moment he found Tsarnaev hiding Posted: 17 Mar 2015 10:35 AM PDT  A long-time friend of the alleged Boston Marathon bomber testified in court today that he gave Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the gun later used in the shooting death of an MIT police officer. While wearing a beige prison jumpsuit, Silva testified that two months before the bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line, he gave Tsarnaev a 9-millimeter handgun that had an "obliterated" serial number.
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| Prosecutor: Durst had nearly 150 grams of pot when arrested Posted: 17 Mar 2015 09:44 AM PDT  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities found more than a quarter-pound of marijuana and a revolver in millionaire Robert Durst's hotel room when he was arrested over the weekend, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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| Violent passenger restrained by fellow flyers on United flight Posted:  A United Airlines flight had to return to Washington, D.C., after a passenger became violent and ran "toward the cockpit."
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| Accused Boston bomber told friend about 'very strict' brother Posted: 17 Mar 2015 10:15 AM PDT  By Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told a high school friend his older brother was "very strict" and might not like him because he was not Muslim, the friend testified on Tuesday. Stephen Silva, who federal prosecutors contend loaned Tsarnaev the gun used in the shooting, said he had long been friends with the defendant but had never met his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, who died following a gunfight with police four days after the bombing. Defense lawyers opened the trial at U.S. District Court in Boston with the blunt admission that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had carried out the crimes he is charged with, focusing their hopes on the jury sentencing him to life in prison rather than the death penalty he could face if found guilty.
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| Republican budget offers deep cuts to end deficits in 2024 Posted: 17 Mar 2015 09:14 AM PDT  U.S. House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a budget that seeks to eliminate deficits by 2024 through deep cuts to social safety net programs, domestic spending and another attempt at repealing "Obamacare" health reforms. The plan from House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price proposes $5.468 trillion in spending cuts and interest savings over 10 years compared to current tax and spending policies. To gain support in a divided Republican caucus, Price's plan nominally adheres to "sequester" spending caps next year but seeks to boost U.S. military spending by adding nearly $40 billion to an off-budget war funding account. Some 70 Republicans had signaled they would reject their party's budget if it failed to at least match Democratic President Barack Obama's $561 billion base military budget request.
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| Awaiting extradition, real estate scion Durst to remain in New Orleans jail Posted: 17 Mar 2015 10:28 AM PDT  By Jonathan Kaminsky NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Real estate scion Robert Durst, who has agreed to be extradited to California on a murder charge, was ordered held for several days in a New Orleans jail on Tuesday after being booked locally on firearms possession charges, prosecutors said. Durst, 71, the subject of a six-part HBO documentary series called "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," was picked up by a filmmaker's microphone saying he "killed them all," apparently acknowledging his crimes, while also admitting that he was "caught," in footage aired on Sunday. He was arrested a day earlier by FBI agents at a New Orleans hotel with a revolver and a controlled substance in his possession, according to a police report, after Los Angeles County issued a warrant for his arrest in the 2000 killing of longtime friend Susan Berman. On Tuesday, a New Orleans judge set a hearing for Monday to determine whether Durst is a flight risk, as law enforcement and prosecutors contend, and whether he should be granted bond, said Christopher Bowman, spokesman for Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office.
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| Joe Biden announces federal funding to end rape kit backlog Posted: 16 Mar 2015 02:38 PM PDT  At the Maryland State Police Forensic Science Laboratory on Monday, Vice President Joe Biden outlined how the government's $41 million plan to test existing rape kits and prevent future backlogs.
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| Attorney: Ferguson shooting suspect didn't target officers Posted: 16 Mar 2015 05:14 PM PDT  CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A man accused of shooting two officers last week in Ferguson was not targeting police or aiming at demonstrators at a late-night protest, his attorney said Monday as he countered an earlier police description of the crime.
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