| Fire injures scores attending party at Taiwan water park Posted: 27 Jun 2015 10:29 AM PDT  A fire on a music stage spread into a crowd of spectators at a party Saturday night at a Taiwan water park, injuring more than 200 people, authorities said.
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| French terror suspect took selfie with beheaded victim Posted: 27 Jun 2015 10:20 AM PDT  A detained truck driver with a history of radical Islamic ties is refusing to speak to police investigators over his implication in an explosion and beheading in southeastern France, a French official said Saturday, adding that one of the other suspects initially arrested has been released without charge.
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| Greece's future in balance as creditors reject aid extension Posted: 27 Jun 2015 10:08 AM PDT  Greece's place in the euro currency bloc looked increasingly shaky on Saturday after eurozone nations rejected a monthlong extension to its bailout program and the prime minister called for a risky popular vote on the country's financial future.
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| Charleston suspect's life a troubled road to radicalization Posted: 27 Jun 2015 09:33 AM PDT  The people who know Dylann Storm Roof — the people who watched his progression from a sweet child to a disturbed man — are struggling with guilt. How could they have missed the signs? Could they have done something to prevent the deaths of nine innocents at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church?
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| Shaken tourists flee Tunisia after seaside massacre Posted: 27 Jun 2015 10:09 AM PDT  Planeloads of shocked foreign tourists flew out of Tunisia Saturday after a beachside massacre claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed 38 people and prompted a major security clampdown. Many of the victims were from Britain, which announced that at least 15 of its citizens were killed in Friday's gun assault in the popular resort of Port el Kantaoui and that the number "may well rise". One woman from Portugal and one from Ireland were said by their governments to have also been killed when the assailant pulled a gun from inside a beach umbrella and opened fire on tourists on the sand and by a pool.
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| Surviving inmate still on the loose after 1 escapee killed Posted: 27 Jun 2015 08:47 AM PDT  The shooting death of one escaped killer brought new energy to the three-week hunt for a second escaped murderer as helicopters, search dogs and hundreds of law enforcement officers converged on a wooded area 30 miles from the prison.
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| Escaped N.Y. inmate Richard Matt killed by police, partner on run Posted: 26 Jun 2015 03:18 PM PDT  Escaped convicted murderer Richard Matt was shot and killed by authorities in upstate New York today, according to officials, 20 days after he made an elaborate escape from prison.
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| Cosby lawyer: Unsealing court docs 'terribly embarrassing' Posted: 26 Jun 2015 08:51 PM PDT  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A lawyer for Bill Cosby argued Friday that it would be "terribly embarrassing" for the comedian if documents from a 2005 sex-assault lawsuit were unsealed.
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| Jim Obergefell on historic gay marriage ruling Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:09 PM PDT  The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Friday that same-sex marriage must be legal nationwide. Yahoo global news anchor Katie Couric spoke to Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the case that challenged the ban on same sex marriages.
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| Dozens killed in attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France Posted: 26 Jun 2015 07:16 PM PDT  SOUSSE, Tunisia (AP) — A young man pulled a Kalashnikov from a beach umbrella and sprayed gunfire at European sunbathers at a Tunisian resort, killing at least 39 people — one of three deadly attacks Friday from Europe to North Africa to the Middle East that followed a call to violence by Islamic State extremists.
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| Landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizes gay marriage nationwide Posted: 27 Jun 2015 01:58 AM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement. The court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex marriages. With the landmark ruling, gay marriage becomes legal in all 50 states.
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| New York manhunt for prison escapee heats up after accomplice killed Posted: 27 Jun 2015 10:20 AM PDT  A day after killing the first of two convicted murderers who escaped from a maximum security prison in New York, hundreds of law enforcement officers were scouring an area near the Canadian border on Saturday in hopes of apprehending his accomplice. After Richard Matt was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol officers, a tight security perimeter was set up in the area where Sweat was believed to be holed up. New York State Police declined to provide additional information about the search and would not say why they thought Sweat was in the area.
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| Activist takes down Confederate flag outside South Carolina state capitol Posted: 27 Jun 2015 08:18 AM PDT  The Civil War-era flag has been a focal point for soul-searching across the southern United States in the aftermath of the fatal shooting last week of nine African Americans during a Bible study session at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina. The suspect in the shootings, Dylann Roof, 21, had posed with a Confederate flag in photos posted on a website that also displayed a racist manifesto. Following the removal of the flag in Columbia, two people were arrested and charged with defacing a monument, the South Carolina Department of Public Safety said in a statement.
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| Bitter dissents in gay marriage case reveals deep divide in high court Posted: 26 Jun 2015 06:03 PM PDT  Justice Anthony Kennedy almost always votes alongside his four conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court. But when he doesn't, it's often in big, transformative cases, like Friday's gay marriage decision. His defection clearly has made his conservative peers hopping mad.
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| 'The Reverend President': Obama sings Amazing Grace in eulogy Posted: 26 Jun 2015 03:04 PM PDT  Barack Obama, who celebrated "audacity" in his first run for the White House, declared this week that he has entered the "fearless" phase of his consequential two-term presidency. But no one expected the urgent blend of personal, political and religious themes in the eulogy he gave Friday for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, slain along with eight others during Bible study last week at Emanuel AME Church — a speech so like a sermon that the next two people to speak called him "the Reverend President."
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| Tourists describe scenes of panic in Tunisia attack Posted: 26 Jun 2015 11:56 AM PDT  British holidaymakers told how they fled in panic from Friday's gun massacre on a Tunisian beach resort, screaming and running for cover when they realised they were under attack. Frightened tourists hid in their hotel rooms and barricaded themselves in, while a pregnant woman went into labour in the confusion. Olivia Leathley, 24, heard "loud bangs" and saw from her hotel room people fleeing the beach, as holiday company representatives blew whistles.
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