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| Marine general chosen Joint Chiefs chairman Posted: 05 May 2015 10:47 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated a respected, combat hardened commander as his next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to lead the military during a key period of transition.
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| Boston Marathon bomber's lawyer points to family dysfunction Posted: 05 May 2015 08:15 AM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's father was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming he was tortured in a Russian camp during the Russian-Chechen war in the 1990s, a psychiatrist testified Tuesday.
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| U.S. probing Islamic State claims it was behind Texas cartoon attack Posted: 05 May 2015 10:51 AM PDT  By Ian Simpson and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. investigators were looking into claims by the Islamic State militant group that it was behind a failed attack on a Texas exhibit of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in which two gunmen were killed, but officials said on Tuesday they doubted the group's direct involvement. The Syria- and Iraq-based Islamic State (IS) said on its official online radio station that "two soldiers of the caliphate" carried out the attack on Sunday in Garland, a suburb of Dallas.
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| Attorney general visits Baltimore after charges in Gray case Posted: 05 May 2015 05:08 AM PDT  New Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the head of the Justice Department's civil rights division will travel to Baltimore on Tuesday, the week after the city's top prosecutor charged six police officers in the death of a black man. Lynch planned to meet with city officials, members of Congress, law enforcement, faith and community leaders, a Justice Department official said. Lynch was to be accompanied by Vanita Gupta, head of Justice's civil rights division, and Ronald Davis, director of its Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS.
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| Widow's friends say elder Boston bomber was cruel and controlling Posted: 05 May 2015 09:21 AM PDT  By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - The older of the two brothers who carried out the Boston Marathon bombing was a controlling boyfriend who terrified his future wife's friends, a former roommate of the woman testified as lawyers fought to save the younger brother's life. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died four days after the April 15, 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264. His younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, last month was convicted of carrying out the attack and could be sentenced to death. The lawyers, who at the trial's opening in March conceded that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had committed all the crimes of which he was accused, contend that Tamerlan was the driving force behind the bombing, with his younger brother going along out of a sense of sibling loyalty.
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| Eyeing the White House again, Huckabee can’t escape lifelong anxieties about money Posted: 05 May 2015 02:00 AM PDT  Eyeing the White House again, Huckabee can't escape lifelong anxieties about money Mike Huckabee could add a populist edge to the Republican field. Huckabee and a close friend from Arkansas, David Haak, who owns the house next door, spent months combing the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida for the "sweet spot" where they could build homes they would eventually retire in. Owning a house next to the ocean, he said, "was something I had never even imagined." His beachfront enclave, valued at just under $3 million, is a long way from his hometown of Hope, Ark., where Huckabee grew up in a tiny rental house next to the railroad tracks on the poor side of town — not far from where Hope's other famous son, President Bill Clinton, once lived.
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| Garland shooting suspect's father says son 'made a bad choice' Posted: 04 May 2015 07:53 PM PDT  The father of one of the suspected gunmen in the Garland, Texas, shooting told ABC News today that his son "made a bad choice." "We are Americans and we believe in America," Dunston Simpson said. "What my son did reflects very badly on my family."
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| Obama jokes with Letterman about post-retirement life Posted: 05 May 2015 12:08 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama is envisioning a future of playing dominoes with retiree David Letterman.
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| Obama-inspired foundation gets its start, with $80 million in the bank Posted:  President Barack Obama announced Monday that a new nonprofit aimed at empowering young men and boys of color has already raised $80 million from PepsiCo, Deloitte and other corporate sponsors.
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| Boston bomber emotional as aunt breaks down on stand Posted: 04 May 2015 01:35 PM PDT  Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev showed emotion in court for the first time on Monday, wiping his eyes as a distraught aunt was removed from the courtroom, too overcome to testify. A jury is mulling whether Tsarnaev -- found guilty last month of all counts related to the April 15, 2013 attack on the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded 264 more -- should be sentenced to death or life in prison without parole. Last week, his defense team began presenting evidence in a bid to save his life, and had arranged for his aunt, 64-year-old Patimat Suleimanova, to come from Russia to testify.
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| Obama on protests: 'There are consequences to indifference' Posted: 04 May 2015 08:37 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — In a deeply personal response to outbreaks of racially motivated protests, President Barack Obama on Monday blamed a lack of opportunity in minority communities and harsher treatment of black and Hispanic men by police for fueling a sense of "unfairness and powerlessness."
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| FBI probed Texas gunman 'over jihadist sympathies' Posted: 04 May 2015 10:19 PM PDT  One of the men shot dead by police when he and an accomplice attempted to storm an event hosted by an anti-Muslim group in Texas was investigated by the FBI over alleged plans to wage holy war, court documents show. Investigators were delving into the backgrounds of the two suspected Islamist gunmen -- they were roommates, The Los Angeles Times reported -- who opened fire with assault rifles outside Sunday's controversial exhibit of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. A quick-acting Texas policeman shot the two suspects before they were able to enter the venue in Garland, a suburb of Dallas. There was no confirmed claim of responsibility for the failed attack, but several US media identified the shooters as 31-year-old Elton Simpson and 34-year-old Nadir Soofi.
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| Britain welcomes naming of baby Princess Charlotte Posted: 04 May 2015 05:03 PM PDT  Britain's newspapers lauded the choice of Charlotte Elizabeth Diana as the name of the new baby of Prince William and his wife Kate as a tribute to family on Tuesday. Britain had been on tenterhooks waiting to discover what names the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would give their little princess, who was born on Saturday and is fourth in line to the throne. "Charlotte Elizabeth Diana: a name to honour the women in William's life" read the headline of The Times newspaper. Charlotte is the feminine form of the name of William's father Prince Charles, the heir to the throne.
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