| IS claims deadly museum attack in Tunisia Posted: 19 Mar 2015 09:00 AM PDT  According to an online audio recording, the militant group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a museum in the Tunisian capital on Wednesday which killed 20 foreign tourists. It praised the two attackers whom the recording said were "knights of the Islamic State" who were armed with machineguns and bombs. (Reporting By Omar Fahmy; Writing by Noah Browning; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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| Why Mitt Romney isn't running for president Posted: 19 Mar 2015 02:23 AM PDT  The former GOP candidate tells Yahoo's Katie Couric the reason he decided not to run again.
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| Matt Bai: A Yelp for teachers Posted: 19 Mar 2015 01:32 AM PDT  Maybe what we need, and what teachers should welcome, isn't the data on the test scores and "value-added" rankings that some parents are demanding — or, at least, not that alone. What we need is for some tech entrepreneur to come up with a Yelp or an Angie's List for public schools, because the amalgamated voice of the consumer is the most powerful kind of accountability in American life.
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| Virginia to investigate bloody arrest of black college student Posted: 19 Mar 2015 12:05 AM PDT  The arrest of Martese Johnson, 20, sparks campus protests and claims of police brutality.
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| Tunisia makes arrests after deadly museum attack Posted: 19 Mar 2015 06:11 AM PDT  Authorities have arrested nine people in connection with a gun attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis that killed 22 people and two alleged attackers, a spokeswoman for the Tunisian presidential office told ABC News.
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| Remains of pressure-cooker bomb shown at Boston Marathon trial Posted: 19 Mar 2015 09:01 AM PDT  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Marathon bombing trial jury on Thursday saw the remains of a pressure-cooker bomb that prosecutors say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hurled at police during a gunfight four days after the bombing, a device an FBI agent described as similar to the twin bombs set off at the race. The bomb was extracted from a Honda Civic in which it embedded itself on a Watertown, Massachusetts street after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, detonated it during the gunfight. The pressure cooker was the same type as was used in the bombs that killed three people and injured 264 on April 15, 2013, said Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Brian Corcoran, though the pieces found in Watertown were more intact than those discovered at the race's finish line. "Those pieces were typically more fragmented, more cut up," Corcoran testified in U.S. District Court in Boston, looking at both the main pot and its lid, which was found halfway down the block from the blast site, in a child-sized soccer goal in a home's side yard.
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| One killed, five wounded in shooting spree in Phoenix suburb Posted: 18 Mar 2015 10:15 PM PDT  By David Schwartz MESA, Ariz. (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire inside a motel room in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa on Wednesday, killing a man and wounding two women before shooting three more people as he sought to elude an exhaustive manhunt that ended in his capture, police said. Officers using a stun gun subdued the suspected gunman, identified as Ryan Elliot Giroux, 41, at a vacant condominium where he had taken refuge, some four hours after the initial shooting, Mesa police spokesman Esteban Flores told reporters.
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| Pentagon official who sought to move judges to Guantanamo quits Posted: 19 Mar 2015 09:02 AM PDT A Pentagon official who sought to move military judges to Guantanamo Bay to speed up slow-moving trials of al Qaeda suspects is resigning, the Defense Department has said. Retired Marine Corps Major General Vaugh Ary, who sparked a judicial rebellion as overseer of military tribunals at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, will be replaced on an interim basis by Paul Oostburg Sanz, the general counsel of the Navy Department, the Pentagon said in a Wednesday statement. |
| Affidavit: LAPD analyst's error delayed Robert Durst link Posted: 18 Mar 2015 06:23 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — A Los Angeles Police Department document examiner's erroneous handwriting analysis in 2001 delayed authorities linking millionaire Robert Durst to a friend's killing by as much as 16 months, a search warrant released Wednesday reveals.
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| Glenn Beck: 'I'm out of the Republican Party — I am not a Republican' Posted: 18 Mar 2015 01:42 PM PDT  The former Fox News host and founder of the Blaze says he's become so disillusioned with the GOP in recent years that he can no longer support it.
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| Yahoo News’ Capitol Hill Bracket Challenge Posted: 18 Mar 2015 12:46 PM PDT  Yahoo News got brackets from a half dozen members — including Speaker John Boehner of Ohio — that reveal not just these politicians' parochial biases or sports acumen. They will also show whether Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., ultimately is correct in his assessment that no one knows more about college basketball than his colleague, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.
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