| US: Iraq's 'will to fight' at issue after IS takeover Ramadi Posted: 24 May 2015 09:20 AM PDT  The U.S. defense secretary delivers a harsh assessment of Iraqi fighters.
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| Malaysia finds mass graves of suspected trafficking victims Posted: 24 May 2015 04:03 AM PDT  Malaysian authorities make the grim discovery near the border with Thailand.
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| Streets calm after 71 arrested in Cleveland protests Posted: 24 May 2015 07:47 AM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — The streets returned to calm Sunday after police arrested dozens of demonstrators overnight when protests grew increasingly aggressive in the wake of a patrolman's acquittal in the deaths of two unarmed black suspects.
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| Cleveland protests erupt after officer found not guilty in fatal shooting of two unarmed suspects Posted: 23 May 2015 10:49 PM PDT  By Aaron Josefczyk and Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A Cleveland police officer was found not guilty on Saturday in the shooting deaths of an unarmed black man and a woman after a high-speed car chase in 2012, one in a series of cases that have raised questions over police conduct and race relations in the United States. Judge John O'Donnell said Officer Michael Brelo, 31, acted reasonably in shooting the two suspects while standing on the hood of their surrounded car and firing multiple rounds through the windshield. Protesters took to Cleveland streets on Saturday night as police patrolled in riot gear.
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| After bruising safety crisis, U.S. car watchdog shows its bite Posted: 24 May 2015 05:11 AM PDT  The U.S. auto safety watchdog, long criticized as toothless and slow, is showing both bark and bite under its new boss - a testimony to his credentials as a safety expert and a hardening of the administration's policy after a wave of deadly defects. Having taken the helm of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in January, Mark Rosekind has wasted no time in forcing reluctant companies into recalling millions of defective vehicles. In doing so, he has shown greater willingness than some of his predecessors to use the government's full legal powers over the industry, some for the first time. In the past week alone, the agency announced the biggest recall in history, involving nearly 34 million vehicles with potentially deadly Takata Corp air bags.
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| Mathematician John Nash, who inspired 'A Beautiful Mind,' killed in car crash Posted: 24 May 2015 08:09 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner who inspired the movie "A Beautiful Mind," was killed in a car crash along with his wife in New Jersey, state police said on Sunday. The couple were in a taxi cab whose driver lost control and crashed into a guard rail on Saturday afternoon while driving on the New Jersey Turnpike, said Sgt. Gregory Williams, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police. Nash was 86 and his wife was 82, and were living in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, according to New Jersey police.
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| GOP navigates the new politics of energy abundance Posted: 24 May 2015 04:09 AM PDT  By James Oliphant OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (Reuters) - U.S. Republicans have had to watch from the sidelines as the Obama White House has taken political credit for America's unexpected energy boom and tumbling gas prices. Now it has left their presidential candidates scrambling for a way to reclaim leadership on an issue the party once seemed to own. "We've got an abundance of supply," Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said this week in Oklahoma at a gathering of putative Republican candidates for next year's presidential election.
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| Pipeline that leaked wasn't equipped with auto shut-off Posted: 23 May 2015 05:46 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The pipeline that leaked thousands of gallons of oil on the California coast was the only pipe of its kind in the county not required to have an automatic shut-off valve because of a court fight nearly three decades ago, a county official said.
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