| 1 death linked to Oklahoma tornado outbreak Posted: 07 May 2015 08:55 AM PDT  A woman drowned in a flooded underground storm shelter, and at least 12 people were injured.
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| U.S. appeals court: NSA phone record collection is excessive Posted: 07 May 2015 09:06 AM PDT  The bulk collection of Americans' phone records by the government exceeds what Congress has allowed, a federal appeals court said Thursday as it asked Congress to step in and decide how best to balance ...
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| Clinton event funded by controversial mining firm Posted:  A Moroccan government-owned firm is paying $1M to host the Clinton Global Initiative.
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| One dead, 12 hurt in Oklahoma tornadoes, more storms to come Posted: 07 May 2015 09:17 AM PDT  By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - One person was killed and about a dozen others injured by tornadoes that touched down near Oklahoma City, part of a storm system that flattened homes and caused flooding in several Great Plains states, officials said on Thursday. One woman who sought safety in her home's storm shelter died when it flooded in Wednesday night's storms, Oklahoma police said, according to local media reports. The weather system battered a region from Texas to Nebraska and spawned dozens of reported tornadoes on Wednesday. Six people from a mobile-home park damaged by a tornado southwest of Oklahoma City were taken to an Integris hospital in the region, including an 80-year-old woman in critical condition with hip injuries, spokeswoman Brooke Cayot said.
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| U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: appeals court Posted: 07 May 2015 10:23 AM PDT A U.S. spying program that collects data about millions of Americans' phone calls is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, adding pressure on lawmakers to decide quickly whether to end or replace the program, which was intended to help fight terrorism. While stopping short of declaring the program unconstitutional, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Congress did not authorize the National Security Agency to collect Americans' phone records in bulk. The existence of the NSA's collection of "bulk telephony metadata" was first disclosed in 2013 by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Writing for a three-judge panel, Circuit Judge Gerard Lynch said Section 215 of the Patriot Act governing the collection of records to fight terrorism did not authorize what he called the NSA's collection of a "staggering" amount of information, contrary to claims by the Bush and Obama administrations. |
| Baltimore probe into black man's death fails to support charges: CNN Posted: 07 May 2015 09:50 AM PDT  (Reuters) - The Baltimore police investigation into the death of a black man from injuries sustained in police custody fails to support some charges filed by the city prosecutor, CNN reported on Thursday. Citing officials briefed on the separate probes by prosecutor Marilyn Mosby and police into the death of Freddie Gray, the television news network said the lack of support for charges from the police findings could allow lawyers representing the officers to undercut the prosecution. Officials familiar with the probes say the homicide investigation run by police at most contemplated a manslaughter charge, not second-degree murder as Mosby charged one of the officers, Caesar Goodson. Homicide investigators briefed by the medical examiner's office believed the autopsy report would likely find the cause of death to fall short of homicide, one official familiar with the case told CNN.
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| Dana Perino on giving White House press peacocks ‘the bird’ Posted: |
| From zombies to Jade Helm 15, some conspiracy theories just never die Posted: |
| Report: 1,580 IRS workers evaded taxes over 10-year period Posted: 06 May 2015 02:29 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 1,600 IRS workers were found to have willfully evaded taxes over a 10-year period, including some who were responsible for enforcing the nation's tax laws, a government watchdog said Wednesday.
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| Final polls show dead heat ahead of British election Posted: 06 May 2015 03:44 PM PDT  The final polls released on the eve of Britain's general election on Thursday showed main rivals Labour and the Conservatives locked in a dead heat. Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative party and the Labour party led by Ed Miliband have been neck-and-neck for much of the campaign. The last survey data released before a ban on the publishing of opinion polls comes into force indicated that a flurry of last-minute campaigning to win over undecided voters had failed to sway the race one way or another.
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| Israel's Netanyahu completes formation of government Posted: 06 May 2015 03:01 PM PDT  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finished the deal less than an hour before a midnight deadline.
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