Sepp Blatter wins FIFA re-election the old fashioned way

Sepp Blatter wins FIFA re-election the old fashioned way
Another round of rain brings more serious flooding in Texas
Cuba removed from U.S. terror list
Evacuations near swollen Texas rivers, severe weather kills 21
Live anthrax found in U.S. military shipment to Australia: official
Idaho abortion restrictions are unconstitutional: appeals court
Barbara Scrivner's difficult journey after receiving clemency
National Spelling Bee ends in tie for 2nd year in a row
Psychiatrist: Colorado shooter knew what he was doing
Google wants to store all your photos for free, forever
Chicago’s heart of mercy for the disabled
CDC investigating error that caused live anthrax shipments

Posted: 29 May 2015 10:19 AM PDT

Despite scandal all around him, Sepp Blatter remained FIFA's president thanks to a voting bloc he's spent years building using old-school politics.

Another round of rain brings more serious flooding in Texas

Posted: 29 May 2015 11:20 AM PDT

HOUSTON (AP) — Floodwaters submerged highways and threatened homes Friday in Texas as another round of heavy rain added to the damage inflicted by storms that have killed at least 22 people and left 13 missing.

Cuba removed from U.S. terror list

Posted: 29 May 2015 08:18 AM PDT

Secretary of State John Kerry has signed an order as part of the process of normalizing relations between the Cold War foes.

Evacuations near swollen Texas rivers, severe weather kills 21

Posted: 29 May 2015 10:46 AM PDT

By Lisa Maria Garza and Jim Forsyth DALLAS (Reuters) - Rivers in Texas flooded their banks on Friday after historic storms had pounded the state for more than a week, with the severe weather leaving at least 21 people dead, damaging more than 4,000 structures and prompting widespread evacuations. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for Central Texas into Kansas, with additional rain swelling Texas rivers already at dangerously high levels. Across Texas, people spent the night in shelters as this week's floods turned streets into rivers, ripped homes off their foundations and swept over thousands of vehicles.

Live anthrax found in U.S. military shipment to Australia: official

Posted: 29 May 2015 10:56 AM PDT

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An investigation of a U.S. military facility's mistaken shipments of live anthrax bacteria has turned up another live sample, this one from a 2008 batch sent to Australia, a U.S. defense official said on Friday. The disclosure, if confirmed, suggests the possibility of a broader problem among anthrax samples meant to have been made inactive at the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Suspected live samples sourced to Dugway have already been traced going to nine U.S. states and a U.S. air base in South Korea over a period from March 2014 to April 2015 before being discovered this month.

Idaho abortion restrictions are unconstitutional: appeals court

Posted: 29 May 2015 10:26 AM PDT

By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An Idaho law that prohibits abortions of fetuses 20 or more weeks after fertilization is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday. The ruling, from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, also struck down an Idaho law that required all second-trimester abortions to occur in a hospital. Bans on abortion after 20 weeks have been passed in 12 U.S. states since 2010, according to NARAL Pro-Choice America, an abortion rights advocacy group.

Barbara Scrivner's difficult journey after receiving clemency

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National Spelling Bee ends in tie for 2nd year in a row

Posted: 28 May 2015 08:51 PM PDT

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — They couldn't be rattled. They couldn't be denied. Gokul Venkatachalam and Vanya Shivashankar had worked too hard and come close too many times not to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Psychiatrist: Colorado shooter knew what he was doing

Posted: 28 May 2015 08:28 PM PDT

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The man who killed 12 moviegoers and wounded scores of others in a suburban Denver theater was mentally ill but legally sane, a court-appointed psychiatrist testified Thursday.

Google wants to store all your photos for free, forever

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Chicago’s heart of mercy for the disabled

Posted: 28 May 2015 10:00 AM PDT

Nestled away in a northern Chicago suburb, among tree-lined streets, white picket fences and perfectly manicured lawns, is a 31-acre complex known as Misericordia. Misericordia, whose name means "heart of mercy" in Latin , is home to more than 600 children and adults with a wide range of physical and mental disabilities.

CDC investigating error that caused live anthrax shipments

Posted: 28 May 2015 04:54 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Army's top general said Thursday that human error probably was not a factor in the Army's mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples from a chemical weapons testing site that was opened more than 70 years ago in a desolate stretch of desert in Utah.