| Live updates: Airbus A320 crashes in French Alps; 150 feared dead Posted: 24 Mar 2015 06:04 AM PDT  One black box has been found in the wreckage of the Germanwings flight.
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| Could John Kasich be the GOP's secret weapon in 2016? Posted:  Spend a few days with the governor and you start to see how he could shake up the race.
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| Israel denies report it spied on U.S.-Iran nuke talks Posted: 24 Mar 2015 01:44 AM PDT  Israel has spied on Iran's nuclear talks with the United States and other major powers, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Israel quickly dismissed the report as "not true", and denied spying on the United States. The Journal report, quoting current and former US officials, said the operation was designed to infiltrate the talks and help build a case against the emerging terms of a deal. Besides eavesdropping, Israel obtained information from confidential US briefings, informants and diplomatic contacts in Europe, the officials told the Journal.
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| Angelina Jolie has ovaries removed to reduce risk of cancer Posted: 24 Mar 2015 10:34 AM PDT  Two years after her double mastectomy, actress, director and humanitarian Angelina Jolie said she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to avoid the risk of ovarian cancer, the disease that killed her mother at age 56. The wife of actor Brad Pitt and the mother of six children said in an op-ed column in the New York Times on Tuesday that she had the surgery last week after blood tests showed what could have been early signs of the disease. This second public revelation by one of the biggest names in Hollywood prompted a new round of praise from cancer specialists for increasing awareness about genetic testing and prophylactic surgery to reduce the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. The 39-year-old, who carries a mutation in the BRCA1 gene that increases her risk for both types of cancer, said she went public with her decision so women would know about options available to them.
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| Utah becomes only state to restore firing squad Posted: 24 Mar 2015 03:20 AM PDT  Utah became the only US state to restore the firing squad as a method of execution on Monday, as its governor Gary Herbert signed a bill on the emotive issue into law. The legislation, approved by the western US state's senate earlier this month, allows for a firing squad if drugs used for executions are unavailable, as has recently been the case in a number of US states. "We regret anyone ever commits the heinous crime of aggravated murder to merit the death penalty and we prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued," added the spokesman, Marty Carpenter. "However, when a jury makes the decision and a judge signs a death warrant, enforcing that lawful decision is the obligation of the executive branch," he said.
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| Warrant: Ferguson shooting suspect confessed on hidden cam Posted: 23 Mar 2015 03:00 PM PDT A confidential informant wearing a hidden video camera recorded accused gunman Jeffrey L. Williams admitting that he fired the shots that seriously wounded two police officers during a recent demonstration in Ferguson, Mo., according to search warrants obtained by Yahoo News. |
| Poll: Most Boston residents oppose death penalty for Tsarnaev Posted: 23 Mar 2015 01:39 PM PDT  A new poll finds most Boston residents oppose the death penalty for admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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| Roots of accused Boston bomber's note argued at trial Posted: 24 Mar 2015 08:33 AM PDT  By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and a terrorism expert serving as a prosecution witness argued on Tuesday over whether the defendant was paraphrasing Al Qaeda propaganda in a note he left four days after the deadly attack. While hiding in a boat hours before his arrest, Tsarnaev scrawled a note reading, in part, "we Muslims are one body you hurt one you hurt us all," a message that counter-terrorism expert Matthew Levitt said was similar to extremist writings found on his computer. Defense attorney David Bruck asked Levitt if it was not possible that Tsarnaev, now 21, had heard those words from his older brother, Tamerlan. Maybe," Levitt acknowledged at U.S. District Court in Boston.
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| School bus carrying students crashes into Philadelphia area home Posted: 24 Mar 2015 07:38 AM PDT  (Reuters) - A school bus carrying nine elementary school students careened off the road and crashed into a occupied home in suburban Philadelphia home on Tuesday, and no injuries were reported, police said. Neither the students, the driver nor a resident who was on the home's second floor at the time of the 7:45 a.m. crash were injured, Whitpain Township Police said in a press release. A photograph of the scene showed a yellow school bus piercing the first-floor window of a white plaster home in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia. "All nine students and the driver were able to exit the bus through the rear emergency door and all were uninjured," police said in the release.
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| 20-foot deep sinkhole in New Jersey forces home evacuations Posted: 24 Mar 2015 09:43 AM PDT  (Reuters) - A 20-foot deep sinkhole forced the evacuation on Tuesday of four New Jersey homes after crumbling part of a roadway and swallowing up a car, police said. An underground water main break likely caused the hole to form suddenly in a residential area of South Amboy, New Jersey, a city about 20 miles south of Newark, the South Amboy Police Department said in a statement.
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