| Obama remembers Joe Biden's son for living 'life of meaning' Posted: 06 Jun 2015 10:58 AM PDT  The vice president will mourn his eldest son, whose death from brain cancer a week ago triggered an outpouring of grief in Delaware and beyond.
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| Behind tough talk on Russia, G-7 leaders face tough reality Posted: 06 Jun 2015 10:53 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Behind the tough talk on Russia expected from President Barack Obama and other leaders gathering in Germany this weekend is a stark reality.
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| Vets, visitors return to Normandy to mark D-Day anniversary Posted: 06 Jun 2015 05:06 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Allied veterans and families of their fallen comrades gathered Saturday at the U.S. cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach to mark the 71st anniversary of the D-Day invasion that helped defeat the Nazis in World War II.
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| Obamas, Clintons join Vice President Biden at son Beau's funeral Posted: 06 Jun 2015 10:31 AM PDT  By Jeff Mason WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his family joined a host of U.S. political figures including Bill and Hillary Clinton on Saturday to mourn Vice President Joe Biden's son, Beau, who died last week of brain cancer at the age of 46. Obama, his voice breaking on occasion, delivered a moving funeral eulogy for the popular son and politician in his own right, who served as Delaware's attorney general and completed a year-long term in Iraq as a member of the Delaware Army National Guard. "Beau Biden was an original.
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| Big U.S. data breaches offer treasure trove for hackers Posted: 06 Jun 2015 08:31 AM PDT  By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A massive breach of U.S. federal computer networks disclosed this week is the latest in a flood of attacks by suspected Chinese hackers aimed at grabbing personal data, industrial secrets and weapons plans from government and private computers. The Obama administration on Thursday disclosed the breach of computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management and said the records of up to 4 million current and former federal employees may have been compromised. U.S. officials have said on condition of anonymity they believe the hackers are based in China, but Washington has not publicly blamed Beijing at a time when tensions are high over Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea.
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| Two convicted murders escape from New York prison Posted: 06 Jun 2015 09:23 AM PDT By Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two convicted murderers have escaped a maximum security prison in New York state near the Canadian border and were the subject of a manhunt on Saturday, U.S. police said. The two men were missing at early morning bed check in the Clinton Correctional Facility, a men's state prison in Dannemora, about 40 miles (65 km) south of the Canadian province of Quebec. Both men are considered a danger to the public, New York state police said. |
| Ten fascinating facts on the 71st anniversary of D-Day Posted: 06 Jun 2015 03:03 AM PDT On June 6, 1944, about 150,000 troops stormed the beaches of France in the epic D-Day invasion that proved pivotal to the Allied war effort. But how did the idea originate and how did the Allies pull off such a huge task? |
| Fan injured by broken bat at Red Sox game Posted: 05 Jun 2015 08:49 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — A woman bleeding from the head was carried out of the Fenway Park stands after being hit by a broken bat Friday night, and police said her injuries were life threatening.
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| TLC's Duggar daughters say forgive brother for molestation Posted: 05 Jun 2015 07:27 PM PDT  Two of the daughters in TLC's reality show "19 Kids and Counting," told Fox News on Friday that they had forgiven their brother Josh Duggar for molesting them in the past, but said they felt 'revictimized' in recent weeks by the media outlets that have dredged up the juvenile offenses. Jill Dillard, 24, and Jessa Seewald, 22, told "The Kelly File" host Megyn Kelly that they weren't initially aware of inappropriate advances around 12 years ago from their then-teenaged brother. "It was very subtle, and so I think that for us, we realized this is serious, but at the same time, it wasn't like a horror story." Dillard and Seewald, both now married, said that their family had forgiven Josh Duggar, now 27, who was never arrested or charged for the offences that involved four sisters and a babysitter, including a girl aged under 10 at the time.
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| IS using chlorine as a weapon, Australia’s Foreign Minister says Posted: 05 Jun 2015 09:00 PM PDT  By Morag MacKinnon PERTH (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have used chlorine as a weapon and are recruiting highly trained technicians in a serious bid to develop chemical weapons, Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop warned. In a speech to an international forum of nations that works to fight the spread of such weapons, Bishop said the rise of militant groups such as ISIS, also known as Daish, posed "one of the gravest security threats we face today." "Apart from some crude and small scale endeavors, the conventional wisdom has been that the terrorist intention to acquire and weaponize chemical agents has been largely aspirational," Bishop told a meeting of the Australia Group in Perth. "The use of chlorine by Daish, and its recruitment of highly technically trained professionals, including from the West, have revealed far more serious efforts in chemical weapons development," she said.
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| 2 friends of Boston Marathon bomber sentenced to prison Posted: 05 Jun 2015 02:58 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Two college friends of marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were sentenced Friday to prison after one tearfully apologized to the residents of Boston for impeding the investigation and the other had a show of support from former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
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