Bulk domestic surveillance: Where the 2016 candidates stand

Bulk domestic surveillance: Where the 2016 candidates stand
Patriots owner says he'll accept deflate-gate punishment
U.S. looks into whether hostage was kept by IS leader
Clinton urges State to speed up release of emails
Motorcycle gang shootout started with parking dispute
Takata declares air bags in nearly 34 million vehicles defective: U.S.
Conductor hurt in Philadelphia train derailment sues Amtrak
Boston bomber to face about 20 of his victims at sentencing
Unions urge Amtrak to put 2nd engineer in every locomotive
Gangs in deadly Waco biker brawl
Latest on Amtrak crash: Feds not sure if windshield was hit

Posted:

The candidates are split on one of the USA Patriot Act's most controversial provisions.

Patriots owner says he'll accept deflate-gate punishment

Posted: 19 May 2015 10:19 AM PDT

Robert Kraft said he will accept the punishment of commissioner Roger Goodell in deflate-gate.

U.S. looks into whether hostage was kept by IS leader

Posted: 19 May 2015 08:34 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility that the Islamic State militant leader killed Friday was the captor of American hostage Kayla Mueller for a time.

Clinton urges State to speed up release of emails

Posted: 19 May 2015 10:02 AM PDT

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday pressed the State Department to expedite the release of 55,000 pages of emails from her time as secretary of state, telling reporters in Iowa, "I want those emails out."

Motorcycle gang shootout started with parking dispute

Posted: 19 May 2015 11:40 AM PDT

WACO, Texas (AP) — A deadly weekend shootout involving rival motorcycle gangs apparently began with a parking dispute and someone running over a gang member's foot, police said Tuesday.

Takata declares air bags in nearly 34 million vehicles defective: U.S.

Posted: 19 May 2015 11:15 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese air bag manufacturer Takata Corp has agreed to declare nearly 34 million vehicles defective due to problems with air bag inflators, the U.S. Department of Transportation and National Highway Safety Administration said on Tuesday.

Conductor hurt in Philadelphia train derailment sues Amtrak

Posted: 19 May 2015 10:12 AM PDT

(Reuters) - A conductor critically injured in last week's deadly train derailment in Philadelphia has sued Amtrak, accusing the publicly funded passenger rail company of negligence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, adding to a string of lawsuits since the crash. Emilio Fonseca, 33, was taking a restroom break in the first car during his work shift when the passenger train went off the rails, attorney Bruce Nagel told a news conference, saying the train suddenly surged forward and then crashed. Fonseca, who is married and lives in Kearney, New Jersey, suffered a broken neck, back and both shoulders, and was believed to be the most severely injured Amtrak employee, Nagel said.

Boston bomber to face about 20 of his victims at sentencing

Posted: 19 May 2015 07:47 AM PDT

By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will face about 20 of his victims at a hearing next month when he will be formally sentenced to die for the 2013 attack, a U.S. judge said on Tuesday. The same jury that found Tsarnaev, 21, guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, sentenced him to death for his crimes last week. "We could proceed rather expeditiously," in making the jury's sentence formal, U.S. District Judge George O'Toole told prosecutors and defense attorneys in the same courtroom where Tsarnaev was tried.

Unions urge Amtrak to put 2nd engineer in every locomotive

Posted: 19 May 2015 10:24 AM PDT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The union for Amtrak's locomotive engineers on Tuesday urged the railroad to put a second engineer at the controls of trains on the busy Northeast Corridor, where a derailment killed eight people and injured more than 200 others.

Gangs in deadly Waco biker brawl

Posted: 18 May 2015 10:03 AM PDT

Waco Police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said that five gangs had been identified in a shootout that left 9 dead and 18 injured Sunday, but he would not give them publicity by naming them. Earlier reports, however, pinpoint at least two outlaw motorcycle gangs at the center of the chaos.