| Live: Day 1 of the Boston Marathon bombing trial Posted: 04 Mar 2015 09:35 AM PST  Follow Yahoo News' live coverage from inside the courtroom.
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| US clears officer in Ferguson case, criticizes police force Posted: 04 Mar 2015 10:38 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department won't prosecute a former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old, but in a scathing report released Wednesday faulted the city and its law enforcement for racial bias and unconstitutional practices.
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| Justices sharply divided over health care law subsidies Posted: 04 Mar 2015 10:20 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court was sharply divided Wednesday in the latest challenge to President Barack Obama's health overhaul, this time over the tax subsidies that make insurance affordable for millions of Americans. |
| McDonald's dropping human antibiotics from chicken Posted: 04 Mar 2015 10:20 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's says it plans to start using chicken raised without antibiotics commonly used in humans, and milk from cows that are not treated with an artificial growth hormone.
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| U.S. Supreme Court divided over Obamacare challenge Posted: 04 Mar 2015 09:56 AM PST  The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on ideological lines on Wednesday as it heard a second major challenge to President Barack Obama's healthcare law targeting tax subsidies intended to help people afford insurance, with Justice Anthony Kennedy appearing to be the possible swing vote in a decision. Kennedy, a conservative on the nine-member court who often casts the deciding vote in close cases, raised concerns to lawyers on both sides about the possible negative impact on states if the government loses the case, suggesting he could back the Obama administration. Chief Justice John Roberts, who supplied the key vote in a 5-4 ruling in 2012 upholding the law in the previous challenge, said little during the argument to signal how he might vote. If the court rules against the Obama administration, up to 7.5 million people in at least 34 states would lose the tax subsidies that help low- and moderate-income people buy private health insurance, according to the consulting firm Avalere Health.
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| Ferguson police review of Brown shooting remains a secret Posted: 04 Mar 2015 12:58 AM PST  Seven months after one of its white officers fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old, the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department's own findings of what transpired remain under wraps. Excessive force and possible civil rights violations by the suburban St. Louis department have been the focus of a Justice Department investigation since Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown Jr. multiple times last August.
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| Doctors, patients scramble ahead of high court Obamacare decision Posted: 04 Mar 2015 07:27 AM PST  By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the U.S. Supreme Court takes on a make-or-break Obamacare case this week, a growing number of U.S. patients and their doctors are already devising a Plan B in case they lose medical coverage. The Court's ruling, expected by late June, will determine whether millions of Americans will keep receiving federal subsidies to help them pay for private health insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare law. The White House, which said it is confident the justices will rule in favor of the subsidies that are a key element of Obamacare, said it has no immediate fix if the decision goes the other way. Worried about newly-insured patients such as those who have just begun treatment for cancer or other serious illnesses, they are dusting off playbooks they retired when Obamacare slashed the number of uninsured people.
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| Snowden says U.S. not offering fair trial if he returns Posted: 04 Mar 2015 10:14 AM PST  Edward Snowden, the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of the government's mass surveillance programs, said on Wednesday he is not being offered a fair trial if he returns to the United States. "I would love to go back and face a fair trial, but unfortunately ... there is no fair trial available, on offer right now," he said in a live question and answer discussion organized by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, Ryerson University and the CBC.
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| Opening statements set for Boston bombing trial Posted: 04 Mar 2015 01:12 AM PST  The case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev begins today after nearly two months of jury selection.
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| Man killed by LAPD was wanted by U.S. marshals Posted: 03 Mar 2015 09:36 PM PST  A homeless man shot by police was a convicted bank robber living under an assumed name.
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| Alabama Supreme Court halts gay-marriage licenses Posted: 03 Mar 2015 08:47 PM PST  The court orders the state's judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.
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| Reforms demanded in Missouri after U.S. probe finds racially biased policing Posted: 04 Mar 2015 10:12 AM PST  Sweeping reforms are needed in Ferguson, Missouri, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday after a federal investigation found broad racial bias in the city's police force and municipal court system but cleared a white officer in the killing of an unarmed black teenager last August. The Justice Department said after a months-long investigation it had determined the fatal Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson "lacks prosecutive merit." But the department said it found "a pattern or practice of unlawful conduct within the Ferguson Police Department" that is driven in part by racial bias, but also by the city's focus on raising revenue through tickets and court fees rather than on public safety. "This emphasis on revenue has compromised the institutional character of Ferguson's police department, contributing to a pattern of unconstitutional policing," the Justice Department report said.
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| Netanyahu speech exposes bitter divisions Posted: 03 Mar 2015 10:05 AM PST  Tthe optics of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech on Tuesday were just as important as the speech itself.
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| 72 passengers reach settlements in Asiana crash Posted: 03 Mar 2015 07:25 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 70 passengers aboard an Asiana Airlines flight that crashed in San Francisco two years ago have reached a settlement in their lawsuits against the airline, attorneys for the passengers and airline said in a court filing Tuesday.
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| GOP’s net neutrality point man says fight is not over Posted: 03 Mar 2015 03:28 PM PST  The Republican Party's point man in Congress on net neutrality admitted Tuesday that the GOP has been slow to act on the issue but insisted that Congress must be the body setting the rules for how the Internet will be regulated.
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| Ex-CIA chief admits sharing military secrets with mistress Posted: 03 Mar 2015 08:25 PM PST  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an affair with his biographer, has agreed to plead guilty to charges he gave her classified material — including information on war strategy and identities of covert operatives — while she was working on the book.
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