| EU leaders call for emergency talks after 700 migrants drown off Libya Posted: 19 Apr 2015 09:07 AM PDT  Rescuers responded to one of the worst disasters seen in the Mediterranean migrant crisis, officials said on Sunday.
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| Oklahoma City and Boston bombings are linked by an enduring mystery Posted: 18 Apr 2015 10:38 AM PDT  Yahoo News' Holly Bailey, who covered both tragic events, speculates on a common thread.
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| Clinton patches relations with liberals at campaign's outset Posted: 19 Apr 2015 05:09 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — This time, Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to be on liberals' good side.
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| From Okla. City to 9/11: 20 years on, rescue workers who responded to both share a bond Posted: 17 Apr 2015 04:08 PM PDT  It was just after 9 a.m. on April 19, 1995, when the bomb went off outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. It was one of those events that seem to make the world stop turning. At the time, it was the worst terror attack on U.S. soil. Lt. (now Capt.) Stephen Spall of the New York City Fire Department was driving home from his shift when he heard the news on the radio. He immediately called in to see if he needed to go back to work. The next day, he was on a plane to Oklahoma.
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| Oklahoma City victims remembered 20 years after bombing Posted: 19 Apr 2015 09:57 AM PDT  By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Hundreds of people gathered on Sunday at the site of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to remember the 168 men, women and children killed when a truck stuffed with tons of explosives blew up at a downtown federal building. Former President Bill Clinton was among the dignitaries who addressed the crowd outside the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum. "Oklahoma City, you had to choose to redeem your terrible losses by having to begin again," said Clinton, who was in his first term in office at the time of the attack, one of the deadliest of its kind ever staged on U.S. soil. "It was 60 minutes of terror," said Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett.
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| Life or death? Boston bomber's trial turns to sentencing Posted: 19 Apr 2015 04:03 AM PDT  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is set to return to court on Tuesday for the next phase of his trial, when prosecutors will argue that he should be sentenced to death for his role in the deadly attack in 2013. In sharp contrast to the guilt phase of the trial, when lawyers for the ethnic Chechen defendant did not contest that their client had killed three people and injured 264 in the bombing, the next four weeks are expected to feature emotional testimony from both sides as Tsarnaev fights for his life. The question of whether Tsarnaev, 21, should live or die is highly controversial around Boston. Polls have shown that a plurality of area residents, 49 percent, prefer a life sentence, and family members of two of the people he killed have also spoken out against executing him.
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| Fast-moving brush fire forces home evacuations near Los Angeles Posted: 19 Apr 2015 12:08 AM PDT (Reuters) - A fast-moving brush fire east of Los Angeles has forced the evacuation of more than 200 homes just hours after it started, fire department officials said on Sunday. The blaze, named the "Highway Fire," was zero percent contained and had spread over 175 acres in Chino Hills, a suburb about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, according to a statement released by the City of Riverside Fire Department. |
| Paul, Graham clash on foreign-policy on U.S. campaign trail Posted: 18 Apr 2015 04:13 PM PDT  By Andy Sullivan NASHUA, N.H. (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopefuls Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham took their debate over America's role in the world from the U.S. Senate floor to the campaign trail on Saturday in an early sign that foreign policy is likely to be a flash point in the 2016 election. At a gathering of 18 potential and actual White House contenders, Paul accused fellow Republicans of being too willing to commit U.S. troops to foreign conflicts without a clear idea of how to get them out. There's a group of folks in our party who would have troops in six countries right now, maybe more." That drew a rebuke from Graham, a South Carolina senator and Air Force reservist who frequently criticizes Democratic President Barack Obama for not being aggressive enough with adversaries like Iran and the Islamic State.
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| California prepares for historic mandatory cutbacks on water Posted: 18 Apr 2015 02:46 PM PDT  California water officials drafted a slate of mandatory conservation regulations Saturday, part of a first-ever attempt at mandatory rationing for the state, which is facing its fourth consecutive year of drought.
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| 2 Cuban dissidents up for election in unprecedented vote Posted: 18 Apr 2015 09:05 AM PDT  At least two dissidents made it past a first round of voting and are standing as candidates in municipal elections that will be watched on and off the island Sunday as an unprecedented test of Cuba's single-party system.
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