| Witness to S.C. police shooting ‘thought about erasing the video’ Posted: 09 Apr 2015 07:09 AM PDT  The bystander who captured cellphone video says he feared other cops might retaliate against him.
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| Matt Bai: Two friends. Two principles. One answer on Iran. Posted:  If Barack Obama has a close friend in Congress, it's Tim Kaine.
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| Meet DJ Patil: Obama’s Big Data dude Posted:  DJ Patil is still settling into his White House office. It's by far the most prestigious place he's ever worked, but it looks more like a bootstrapping startup than a precinct of Washington power.
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| TV crew's action leads to threat of mistrial in Aaron Hernandez case Posted: 09 Apr 2015 07:37 AM PDT  Two jurors say a TV van suspiciously approached them Wednesday as they left court, a potential violation of Massachusetts law.
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| Rand Paul up, Clinton down in 2016 presidential poll Posted: 09 Apr 2015 06:39 AM PDT  Democrat Hillary Clinton has slipped against leading 2016 Republican candidates in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia, according to a poll released on Thursday that cited damage from the furor over the former secretary of state's emails. The Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll also showed Clinton in a close race with U.S. Senator Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who declared his candidacy on Tuesday.
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| South Carolina officer dismissed after shooting man in back Posted: 08 Apr 2015 05:01 PM PDT  By Harriet McLeod NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A white South Carolina police officer has been fired after being charged with murder for shooting a black man in the back as he fled, but questions remained on Wednesday about some details of the killing that was filmed by a witness. The shooting occurred on Saturday in North Charleston, a town of about 100,000 people, nearly half of whom are black, but it gained national media attention on Tuesday when the video became public. The incident was recorded by a man identified by NBC News as Feidin Santana. In an interview with the network, he said the victim, 50-year-old Walter Scott, had been hit by the officer's stun gun before fleeing to avoid further stun gun fire.
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| Judge in ex-NFL star's murder trial warns of mistrial risk Posted: 09 Apr 2015 09:33 AM PDT  By Scott Malone FALL RIVER, Mass. (Reuters) - The judge in former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez's murder trial on Thursday reprimanded a local television station after two jurors reported being followed by one of its trucks, warning the incident could have led to a mistrial. The jury has begun its third day of deliberations on whether Hernandez, 25, is guilty of murdering an associate, in the first of two murder trials he faces this year. After the jury in Fall River, Massachusetts, determines whether he killed semiprofessional football player Odin Lloyd, he will face a trial in Boston on charges of fatally shooting two Cape Verdean men outside a nightclub in 2012. Before deliberations began, Bristol County Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh said that two of the 15 jurors reported they had been followed by a van from WHDH television.
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| Victims react to Boston bombing verdicts Posted: 08 Apr 2015 03:22 PM PDT  A jury finds Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts for his role in the 2013 attacks.
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| Iran's Khamenei breaks silence in nuclear deal, says sanctions must go Posted: 09 Apr 2015 09:00 AM PDT  Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday demanded that all sanctions on Iran be lifted at the same time as any final agreement with world powers on curbing Tehran's nuclear program is concluded. Khamenei, the Islamic Republic's most powerful figure and who has the last say on all state matters, was making his first comments on the interim deal reached between Iran and the powers last week in the Swiss city of Lausanne. He repeated his faith in President Hassan Rouhani's negotiating team. Everything is in the details, it may be that the deceptive other side wants to restrict us in the details," Khamenei said in a speech broadcast live on state television.
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| Secret Service supervisor placed on leave after allegations Posted: 08 Apr 2015 08:21 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service has placed a high-ranking supervisor on administrative leave and suspended the supervisor's security clearance after what it called "allegations of misconduct and potential criminal activity."
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| Video of fatal police shooting may have major impact Posted: 08 Apr 2015 06:45 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Graphic videos have surfaced previously that kindled outrage over police use of force — the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles, last year's chokehold death in New York City. The new video from South Carolina is perhaps the most striking yet — its depiction of a fleeing, unarmed black man being shot in the back by a white policeman so vivid that a murder charge came swiftly.
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| Man arrested for making ‘disturbing’ phone calls to Sandy Hook school Posted: 08 Apr 2015 02:50 PM PDT  A Connecticut man was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly placing harassing phone calls to Sandy Hook Elementary School, accusing staffers of staging the 2012 school shootings.
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| Guilty verdict in Boston bombing trial Posted: 08 Apr 2015 11:12 AM PDT  A jury finds Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts for his role in the 2013 attacks.
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| Islamic State group releases over 200 captive Iraqi Yazidis Posted: 08 Apr 2015 12:19 PM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — The Islamic State group released more than 200 Yazidis on Wednesday after holding them for eight months, the latest mass release of captives by the extremists targeted by U.S.-led airstrikes and an Iraqi ground offensive.
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