Carly Fiorina announces 2016 presidential bid

Carly Fiorina announces 2016 presidential bid
Famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson announces White House campaign
Garland shooting: Keynote speaker was on al-Qaida ‘wanted’ list
The U.S. military is failing its canine veterans. Inside one Marine’s fight to save her dog.
Ben Carson, famed neurosurgeon, running for president
Police raid home of gunman in Mohammad cartoon attack in Texas
Georgia-based Clayton State University evacuated after bomb threat: report
New York jury resumes deliberating case of boy missing since 1979
Arab coalition 'reconnaissance' troops land in Yemen

Posted: 01 May 2015 01:09 PM PDT

Watch Katie Couric's live interview with the first woman in the GOP race at 2:45 ET Monday.

Famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson announces White House campaign

Posted: 04 May 2015 08:34 AM PDT

DETROIT (AP) — Retired surgeon Ben Carson has made it official, telling a crowd in his hometown of Detroit that he's running for president.

Garland shooting: Keynote speaker was on al-Qaida ‘wanted’ list

Posted: 04 May 2015 08:41 AM PDT

Geert Wilders, who spoke at a controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, where two gunmen were killed Sunday night, was on an al-Qaida hit list that included Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier.

The U.S. military is failing its canine veterans. Inside one Marine’s fight to save her dog.

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Ben Carson, famed neurosurgeon, running for president

Posted: 03 May 2015 05:45 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon turned conservative star, has confirmed that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.

Police raid home of gunman in Mohammad cartoon attack in Texas

Posted: 04 May 2015 10:16 AM PDT

By Jon Herskovitz and David Schwartz GARLAND, Texas/PHOENIX (Reuters) - Police and FBI on Monday searched the Arizona apartment of one of two gunmen shot dead on Sunday after they allegedly opened fire with assault rifles outside a Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. Police and federal agents had planned security for months ahead of the event in the Dallas suburb of Garland, which was organized by American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), a free-speech organization that is also described as a hate group, and that paid $10,000 for extra protection. The shooters, who injured a security guard before they were shot dead by a police officer using his duty pistol, wore protective gear and carried extra ammunition in their car, Garland police spokesman Joe Harn said. Two law enforcement officials, who asked not to be named, said one of the dead shooters was Elton Simpson of Arizona, who had been monitored by the FBI since 2006 and had been convicted for lying to FBI agents over his desire to join violent jihad in Somalia.

Georgia-based Clayton State University evacuated after bomb threat: report

Posted: 04 May 2015 11:07 AM PDT

(Reuters) - Clayton State University, an Atlanta-area school, was evacuated on Monday afternoon due to a bomb threat, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper reported. The school's website asked that all campus buildings be cleared, but it did not specify a reason for the evacuation. School officials did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. (Reporting by Jonathan Kaminsky in New Orleans)

New York jury resumes deliberating case of boy missing since 1979

Posted: 04 May 2015 08:34 AM PDT

By Natasja Sheriff NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jury deliberations resumed for a 14th day on Monday in the trial of a former deli worker who confessed to the 1979 killing of Etan Patz, a New York boy whose disappearance brought national attention to the issue of missing and abducted children. The jury has been struggling since April 15 to decide on kidnapping and murder charges against Pedro Hernandez, 54, in the death of 6-year-old Patz, who vanished on May 25, 1979 as he walked alone for the first time to a school bus stop. Last Wednesday, the jury told Justice Maxwell Wiley at state Supreme Court in Manhattan that it was deadlocked but he sent them back to keep trying. Patz's disappearance from his Soho neighborhood in Manhattan changed the way the United States responds to reports of missing children, and his picture was among the first to appear on milk cartons in a national campaign to locate them.