Ted Cruz: Justices 'rewrote the Constitution'

Ted Cruz: Justices 'rewrote the Constitution'
Supreme Court upholds use of controversial execution drug
French beheading suspect denies jihad motivation
US stocks fall in early trade as Greece debt woes escalate
Meet the officer who caught escaped killer David Sweat
Decisions in last 3 Supreme Court cases expected Monday
Supreme Court upholds lethal injections, blocks pollution rule
Shot New York prison escapee is serious but stable
Co-worker recalls Colorado movie massacre gunman acting 'spaced out'
Huckabee expects civil disobedience in response to SCOTUS gay marriage ruling
SpaceX rocket destroyed on way to space station, cargo lost

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 05:52 AM PDT

The presidential candidate tells Yahoo's Katie Couric that the Supreme Court overstepped on gay marriage and Obamacare.

Supreme Court upholds use of controversial execution drug

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 11:12 AM PDT

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the use of a controversial drug that has been implicated in several botched executions. Two of the justices said for first time that death penalty itself probably is unconstitutional.

French beheading suspect denies jihad motivation

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 09:53 AM PDT

The man being held in France under suspicion of beheading his boss and trying to blow up a chemicals plant has told investigators there was no religious motivation behind the attack, a source close to the inquiry said on Monday. The source said Yassin Salhi, 35, told investigators he was not a jihadist and repeated earlier statements that he committed the act outside the southeast city of Lyon on Friday after a row with his wife the day before and his boss a few days earlier. The severed head of his boss was found hanging on the fence of a site belonging to U.S-based gas and chemicals company Air Products, next to flags bearing professions of the Muslim faith.

US stocks fall in early trade as Greece debt woes escalate

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 06:42 AM PDT

Greece shuts its banks for six days in a dramatic turn in its struggle with heavy debts.

Meet the officer who caught escaped killer David Sweat

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Sgt. Jay Cook was alone and on a routine patrol when he shot and captured the fugitive.

Decisions in last 3 Supreme Court cases expected Monday

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 12:37 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is meeting for the final time until the fall to decide three remaining cases and add some new ones for the term that starts in October.

Supreme Court upholds lethal injections, blocks pollution rule

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 11:08 AM PDT

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a setback to opponents of the death penalty, endorsing Oklahoma's method of lethal injection, and objected to a key Obama administration air pollution regulation as the justices on Monday ended their annual term with acrimony. The court also upheld a voter-approved plan that stripped Arizona state lawmakers of their role in drawing congressional districts and accepted an important case for its next term, plunging into a another fight over the contentious issue of affirmative action in college admissions. In two big rulings last week, the justices made gay marriage legal nationwide and rejected a conservative challenge to a key element of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.

Shot New York prison escapee is serious but stable

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 09:37 AM PDT

Doctors updated the condition of New York prison escapee David Sweat to serious from critical on Monday, a day after he was shot by police after more than three weeks on the run, hospital officials said. Sweat, 35, is being treated in the state capital where a trauma team at Albany Medical Center determined that the convict did not require surgery, the hospital said in a statement.

Co-worker recalls Colorado movie massacre gunman acting 'spaced out'

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 10:01 AM PDT

Lawyers for Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes sought on Monday to build their case he was legally insane, calling a former co-worker at a pill-coating factory who remembered him as quiet, antisocial and acting oddly. Public defenders are seeking to save Holmes' life after the 27-year-old former neuroscience graduate student pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to killing 12 people and wounding 70 in the July 2012 shooting rampage. Jose Sanchez worked with the defendant for three or four months beginning in the fall of 2010 at a pill- and capsule-coating factory in San Diego county, California.

Huckabee expects civil disobedience in response to SCOTUS gay marriage ruling

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SpaceX rocket destroyed on way to space station, cargo lost

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 05:02 PM PDT

An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff. It was a severe blow to NASA, the third cargo mission to fail in eight months. The ...