The NRA's brazen shell game with donations: A Yahoo News investigation

The NRA's brazen shell game with donations: A Yahoo News investigation
Live updates: Sentencing phase in Tsarnaev trial
Trafficking deal clears path for attorney general vote
Court sentences ousted Egypt president to 20 years in prison
Boston bomber's attack 'essence of terror': prosecutor
Baltimore police name officers suspended over suspect's death
U.S. couple found guilty of 'sadistic' Bali suitcase murder
CDC: 10 listeria illnesses now linked to Blue Bell foods
Clinton defends family foundation from charges of favoritism

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The organization may be violating several federal election laws, according to experts.

Live updates: Sentencing phase in Tsarnaev trial

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The convicted Boston Marathon bomber will learn his fate after being found guilty on all 30 counts.

Trafficking deal clears path for attorney general vote

Posted: 21 Apr 2015 10:22 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders announced a deal Tuesday to move forward on a stalled human trafficking bill, clearing the way for a vote on President Barack Obama's attorney general nominee within days.

Court sentences ousted Egypt president to 20 years in prison

Posted: 21 Apr 2015 07:48 AM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentenced ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison on charges linked to the killing of protesters in 2012, the first verdict to be issued against the country's first freely elected leader.

Boston bomber's attack 'essence of terror': prosecutor

Posted: 21 Apr 2015 09:11 AM PDT

By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Marathon bombing was the "essence of terror," a U.S. prosecutor said on Tuesday as the government began making its case that convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death for the 2013 attack and its aftermath. Tsarnaev, a 21-year-old ethnic Chechen, was found guilty on April 8 of killing three people and injuring 264 at the marathon finish line and fatally shooting a police officer as he and his older brother, Tamerlan, prepared to flee three days later. "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev murdered each one of them in a way that they had time to feel pain," said Nadine Pellegrini, an Assistant U.S. Attorney, in the prosecution's opening statement of the sentencing phase.

Baltimore police name officers suspended over suspect's death

Posted: 21 Apr 2015 10:05 AM PDT

Baltimore police on Tuesday identified six officers suspended over the death of a black man in police custody, a case that has renewed concern about U.S. law enforcement's treatment of minorities. Freddie Gray, 27, was arrested by white officers on April 12 and died on Sunday after slipping into a coma.

U.S. couple found guilty of 'sadistic' Bali suitcase murder

Posted: 21 Apr 2015 02:18 AM PDT

By Trisha Sertori DENPASAR (Reuters) - An Indonesian court found a young U.S. couple guilty on Tuesday of murdering the woman's mother and stuffing her battered body into a suitcase on the resort island of Bali. Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer, both from the Chicago area, were arrested last August after staff at a luxury hotel discovered the body of Mack's mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, in an abandoned suitcase in a taxi. The pair were tried separately in Denpasar District Court and it was not immediately clear if they would appeal.

CDC: 10 listeria illnesses now linked to Blue Bell foods

Posted: 21 Apr 2015 10:23 AM PDT

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries has recalled all of its products after two samples of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream tested positive for listeria, a potentially deadly bacteria.