| GOP presidential hopefuls say no thanks to White House Correspondents’ Dinner Posted: 24 Apr 2015 06:43 AM PDT  It's one of the hottest tickets in the political world — unless you're a Republican hoping to win your party's nomination.
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| Police respond to suspicious package at Statue of Liberty Posted: 24 Apr 2015 11:28 AM PDT  New York City police say they're responding to a report of a suspicious package at the Statue of Liberty.
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| Why U.S. won't recognize 'forgotten genocide' Posted: 23 Apr 2015 11:22 AM PDT  Katie Couric examines the controversy over the massacre of Armenians 100 years ago.
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| Italian authorities: Terror suspects planned Vatican attack Posted: 24 Apr 2015 07:58 AM PDT  MILAN (AP) — An Italian prosecutor says Islamic extremists suspected in a bomb attack in a Pakistani market that killed more than 100 people had also planned an attack against the Vatican in 2010 that was never carried out.
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| More than 12 hurt as stage collapses at Indiana high school Posted: 24 Apr 2015 08:06 AM PDT  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than a dozen students suffered minor injuries after a stage packed with dancing and clapping youths collapsed during a musical performance at a central Indiana high school, authorities said Friday.
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| Pakistan says botched strike highlights dangers of US drone war Posted: 24 Apr 2015 04:15 AM PDT  Pakistan said Friday the botched US drone attack that killed two foreign hostages showed the risks of the controversial tactic, as details came to light apparently pinpointing the fatal strike. President Barack Obama admitted on Thursday that one American and one Italian hostage were accidentally killed in a counter-terrorism operation in January targeting a suspected Al-Qaeda hideout. Obama said US consultant Warren Weinstein and Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto were killed along with Ahmed Faruq, an American described as a leader of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).
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| Ex-general, CIA chief Petraeus gets probation, $100,000 fine in leak case Posted: 23 Apr 2015 04:02 PM PDT  By Colleen Jenkins CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) - Former U.S. military commander and CIA director David Petraeus was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay a$100,000 fine but was spared prison time on Thursday after pleading guilty to mishandling classified information. He agreed under a plea deal to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Keesler raised the fine from the $40,000 that had been recommended to the maximum possible financial penalty for that charge, noting it needed to be higher to be punitive and reflect the gravity of the offense. He resigned from the CIA in 2012 after it was revealed that he was having an affair with the biographer, Army Reserve officer Paula Broadwell.
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| Statue of Liberty evacuated, suspicious package reported Posted: 24 Apr 2015 11:00 AM PDT  Visitors to the Statue of Liberty were evacuated from Liberty Island in New York Harbor on Friday after a report of a suspicious package, the United States Park Police said, and law enforcement officials are investigating the site. The New York Police Department's bomb squad is assisting in the security sweep of one of the New York area's most popular tourist destinations, a NYPD spokesman said. The evacuation was ordered after a telephone bomb threat and police dogs detected a suspicious scent on a package, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing park police. Sergeant Lelani Woods of the U.S. Park Police said she could not confirm that anyone phoned in a bomb threat.
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| Indiana HIV cases reach 142 in rural outbreak, more expected Posted: 24 Apr 2015 09:32 AM PDT  (Reuters) - The number of confirmed and presumed HIV cases stemming from abuse of intravenous prescription drugs has increased to 142 in a rural part of southeastern Indiana and more cases are being identified every day, a state health official said on Friday. The HIV outbreak, the biggest in state history, is centered on Scott County near the Kentucky border and now includes at least five cases in neighboring Jackson County, officials said. "We likely haven't reached the peak of this outbreak, but we hope to soon through the continued comprehensive response made possible by the joint efforts of so many people and organizations," state Health Commissioner Jerome Adams said in a statement. Typically, Scott County has fewer than five new HIV cases in a year.
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| Arizona sheriff acknowledges investigation into judge's wife Posted: 23 Apr 2015 06:12 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — In a bombshell revelation, Sheriff Joe Arpaio acknowledged Thursday that his office was behind a secret investigation into the wife of the judge presiding over a racial-profiling lawsuit against the brash Arizona lawman known for his anti-immigration patrols.
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| Lawsuit: Ferguson probe was botched from start Posted: 23 Apr 2015 03:16 PM PDT  Ex-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson destroyed potentially crucial evidence shortly after fatally shooting Michael Brown, the slain teen's family alleges in a lawsuit filed Thursday.
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| Oklahoma’s earthquakes triggered by wastewater disposal wells Posted: 23 Apr 2015 02:23 PM PDT  Oklahoma state scientists shook the ground on which the oil and gas industry stands by linking their practices to earthquakes. Now the state needs to pick up the pieces.
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| Lynch becomes U.S. attorney general, first black woman in post Posted: 23 Apr 2015 01:04 PM PDT  The Senate confirmed Loretta Lynch as the nation's first black female attorney general Thursday, installing an aggressive counter-terrorism prosecutor as the top law enforcement official for President Barack Obama's final 21 months in office.
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| Petraeus sentenced to 2 years' probation for military leak Posted: 23 Apr 2015 03:21 PM PDT  Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, has been sentenced to two years' probation and a $100,000 fine for giving her classified material while she was working on the book.
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