| Jeb Bush remarks on ethanol have Iowans reading tea leaves Posted: 07 Mar 2015 01:35 PM PST  Bush gave a nod to free-market conservatives on government subsidies for industry, but in actuality his position appears to be one of full support for the Renewable Fuel Standard.
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| Hillary Clinton emails: Obama, Colin Powell, Feinstein, others weigh in Posted: 08 Mar 2015 07:57 AM PDT  Lawmakers and pundits from both sides of the aisle weighed in Sunday on the controversy swirling around Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email account during her time as secretary of state.
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| Bloody Sunday commemoration continues in Selma Posted: 08 Mar 2015 07:42 AM PDT  A series of events are scheduled before a group retraces the steps that helped secure equal voting rights 50 years ago.
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| Russia questions five suspects over Nemtsov killing Posted: 08 Mar 2015 04:34 AM PDT  Russian investigators on Sunday questioned five suspects over the killing of opposition activist Boris Nemtsov in a probe yet to reveal the motive for the brazen assassination in the centre of Moscow. The suspects were detained a little over a week after Nemtsov, a longtime critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot four times in the back as he strolled with his girlfriend along a bridge in full view of the Kremlin and Red Square. A spokesman for the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, wrote on Twitter on Sunday that the powerful body had asked a Moscow court to confirm the "arrest of five people linked to the assassination of Boris Nemtsov.
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| On Selma anniversary, Obama says racial progress made but more needed Posted: 07 Mar 2015 04:11 PM PST  By Jeff Mason SELMA, Ala. (Reuters) - With a nod to ongoing U.S. racial tension and threats to voting rights, President Barack Obama declared the work of the Civil Rights Movement advanced but unfinished on Saturday during a visit to the Alabama bridge that spawned a landmark voting law. Obama, the first black U.S. president, said discrimination by law enforcement officers in Ferguson, Missouri, showed a lot of work needed to be done on race in America, but he warned it was wrong to suggest that progress had not been made. "Fifty years from Bloody Sunday, our march is not yet finished, but we're getting closer," Obama said, standing near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where police and state troopers beat and fired tear gas at peaceful marchers who were advocating against racial discrimination at the voting booth. The event became known as "Bloody Sunday" and prompted a follow-up march led by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. that spurred the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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| Flipping a coin: rare U.S. coin market hits records Posted: 08 Mar 2015 07:27 AM PDT  By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A rare five-dollar gold piece and a prized silver dollar each could fetch $10 million or more in upcoming auctions, making the American rare coin market as attractive, though not nearly as glamorous, as fine art. Sales of rare U.S. coins reached a record of nearly $536 million last year, and now collectors are turning to the D. Brent Pogue Collection, which could boost it higher. Gathered over more than 30 years by Texas property developer A. Mack Pogue and his son, D. Brent, it is considered the most valuable collection of federal American coins dating from the 1790s to the late 1830s in private hands. An 1822 Half Eagle five-dollar gold piece, one of only three known to exist, and an 1804 Silver Dollar dubbed the "King of American Coins" are expected to be among the top lots when the collection is sold in a series of auctions in New York beginning in May and continuing into 2017.
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| Toddler rescued from car 14 hours after Utah river plunge Posted: 08 Mar 2015 10:37 AM PDT The 18-month-old girl was flown to hospital after she was discovered by a fisherman on Saturday, Spanish Fork Police Department Lieutenant Matt Johnson said. Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck, the girl's 25-year-old mother, who was the driver, died in the accident. When authorities arrived, they discovered the girl in her car seat, police said. |
| MH370 report: Underwater locator beacon battery had expired Posted: 08 Mar 2015 08:52 AM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The first comprehensive report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 revealed Sunday that the battery of the locator beacon for the plane's data recorder had expired more than a year before the jet vanished on March 8, 2014.
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| Obama weighs in on Clinton email controversy Posted: 07 Mar 2015 09:36 PM PST  President Barack Obama cautiously threw his weight behind his former top diplomat Hillary Clinton, as she battles a fallout over her use of a private email account while heading the State Department. Obama told CBS News he only learned this week, after a New York Times report, of Clinton's practice of conducting her official email business from a personal account on a private email server connected to her New York home. His comments came amid mounting pressure, particularly from Republican foes, for Clinton to release all of her email correspondence, which she said she was asking the State Department to do. In the face of accusations that her move was inappropriate, Obama defended Clinton's overall record.
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| CUNY refunds fees to undocumented students who unknowingly overpaid Posted: 06 Mar 2015 03:42 PM PST  The majority of undocumented high school graduates don't go to college, despite being eligible for some financial aid.
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| Obama uses familiar rhetoric in 'Bloody Sunday' speech Posted: 07 Mar 2015 01:58 PM PST  The president sounded a bit like his 2008 self while talking about voting rights heroes.
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