| Virginia fraternity chapter says it will sue Rolling Stone Posted: 06 Apr 2015 10:59 AM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The University of Virginia fraternity chapter at the center of Rolling Stone magazine's retracted article "A Rape on Campus" said on Monday that it planned to sue the magazine for what it called "reckless" reporting that hurt its reputation. The chapter of Phi Kappa Psi said in a statement that it would pursue all available legal action, a day after a team from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism concluded the magazine failed to follow basic journalistic safeguards in publishing the story. (Reporting by David Ingram; Editing by Alan Crosby)
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| Clinton to start 2016 bid with focus on voter interaction Posted: 06 Apr 2015 08:20 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to launch her campaign for president sometime in the next two weeks and will initially focus on intimate events, rather than soaring speeches to big rallies, as her team looks to put her in direct contact with voters in states with early primaries or caucuses.
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| Ukrainian leader lifts objections to vote on regional power Posted: 06 Apr 2015 04:11 AM PDT  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday publicly lifted his objections to a referendum that could give more powers to the restive regions engulfed in more than a year of warfare, reversing his government's previous position. Russia-backed separatists, however, dismissed Poroshenko's gesture as meaningless.
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| Tsarnaev 'wanted to punish America': prosecutor Posted: 06 Apr 2015 09:33 AM PDT  By Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev "wanted to punish America" when he killed three people and injured 264 with a pair of homemade bombs at the 2013 race, a federal prosecutor said on Monday. In closing arguments before a jury decides whether Tsarnaev, 21, is guilty of the April 25 bombing and of fatally shooting a police officer three days later, Assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke Chakravarty described the attack as deliberate and extremist. He wanted to awake the mujahedeen, the holy warriors," Chakravarty said. He wanted to punish America for what it was doing to his people." Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen who moved to the United States about a decade before the attack, could be sentenced to death if the jury that heard 16 days of testimony against him finds him guilty.
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| Three dead after van carrying musicians crashes in Georgia Posted: 06 Apr 2015 10:45 AM PDT The 15-passenger van was carrying 12 occupants and traveling southbound on Interstate 85 about 65 miles north of Atlanta, near the city of Commerce, when it went down an embankment and collided with a tree, the Georgia State Patrol said in a statement. Police would not release the names of the victims or the bands. |
| Energy secretary: Obama seeks "forever agreement" with Iran Posted: 06 Apr 2015 10:04 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says the nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran shouldn't be described as a 10-year pact but a "forever agreement" in its beginning stages.
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| Kentucky star's age does not excuse slur toward Wisconsin player Posted: 05 Apr 2015 01:40 PM PDT  Around the Kentucky program they'll describe Andrew Harrison as uniquely competitive and occasionally emotional, much of which plays out on the court.
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| Obama defends Iran deal as 'once in a lifetime' opportunity Posted: 05 Apr 2015 06:39 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama staunchly defended a framework nuclear agreement with Iran as a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to prevent a bomb and bring longer-term stability to the Middle East. He insisted the U.S. would stand by Israel if it were to come under attack, but acknowledged that his pursuit of diplomacy with Tehran has caused strain with the close ally. |
| NYC's Easter Parade brings out creative hats Posted: 05 Apr 2015 07:24 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The bonnets appeared on Fifth Avenue for the annual Easter Parade — outlandish 21st century headpieces that were hardly bonnets, featuring everything from bunnies and butterflies to grassy, egg-dotted lawns and even a tall ship on the high seas.
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| Niger's Christians try to forgive on first Easter after church attacks Posted: 05 Apr 2015 02:05 PM PDT  Thousands of Christians across Niger tried to forgive and move on as they celebrated the first Easter since their churches were torched during deadly riots spurred by the publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed. The walls and ceiling are still black from flames at the Saint Gabriel parish church in the capital Niamey, which was left without doors or windows by the unrest in January that killed 10 people and destroyed eight out of ten of the country's churches. We have forgiven, but what happened is still in our hearts," said Father Paul Wendyam Sandwidi, a priest at Saint Gabriel's. Saint Gabriel and 44 other churches were torched -- causing three million euros in damage -- during protests set off when the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo published the image of the Prophet Mohammed on its cover three months ago.
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| Kenya names law graduate as gunman in student massacre Posted: 05 Apr 2015 09:20 PM PDT  Kenya authorities have named one of the gunmen who killed 148 people in a university massacre as an ethnic Somali Kenyan national and law graduate, highlighting the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab's ability to recruit within the country. Interior ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said high-flying Abdirahim Abdullahi was "a university of Nairobi law graduate and described by a person who knows him well as a brilliant upcoming lawyer". The spokesman said Abdullahi's father, a local official in the northeastern county of Mandera, had "reported to the authorities that his son had gone missing and suspected the boy had gone to Somalia". Describing Abdullahi as an A-grade student, Njoka said it was "critical that parents whose children go missing or show tendencies of having been exposed to violent extremism report to authorities".
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