| More bickering between Clinton team, House Benghazi panel Posted: 25 Jul 2015 10:36 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The bickering has flared once more between Hillary Rodham Clinton's team and the Republican-led House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks, this time over negotiations for the former secretary of state's possible testimony.
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| Woman who died in Texas jail called a 'courageous voice' Posted: 25 Jul 2015 09:59 AM PDT  LISLE, Ill. (AP) — Family and friends of an Illinois woman found dead in a Texas jail are remembering her as a "courageous voice" on social justice.
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| Tipsters help police seeking theater shooter's motive Posted: 25 Jul 2015 11:07 AM PDT  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Police on Saturday thanked the many people calling in tips about John Russell Houser as they worked to reconstruct his movements before he killed two people, wounded nine and then committed suicide inside a movie theater.
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| Clinton, congressional Benghazi panel at odds over appearance date Posted: 25 Jul 2015 11:02 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign said on Saturday the former secretary of state will testify on Oct. 22 before a House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attacks, but a spokesman for the panel said no date had been set. Republican Representative Trey Gowdy, chairman of the Benghazi investigation committee, had sought to hear from Clinton on the attacks, in which four Americans were killed, and her use of a private email account while she was America's top diplomat. A spokesman for Clinton, the front-runner in polls for the Democratic nomination in next year's presidential election, said she had accepted an offer from the committee to testify on Oct. 22.
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| Suspect in Louisiana theater rampage had history of mental illness Posted: 24 Jul 2015 11:32 PM PDT  John R. Houser, who bore a volatile relationship with family and railed against the U.S. government online, opened fire on Thursday with a .40 caliber handgun about 20 minutes into the comedy film "Trainwreck," sending panicked theatergoers ducking behind seats and running for the exits. This is Anywhere, USA," said Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, a presidential contender who went to the crime scene in Lafayette. "This just shows these senseless acts of violence can literally happen anywhere." Houser bought the gun legally from a pawnshop in Alabama in 2014, police said, despite a history of mental illness and having been denied a concealed-carry permit seven years earlier because of a domestic violence complaint and a prior arson arrest.
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| Hundreds gather for funeral of woman found dead in Texas jail Posted: 25 Jul 2015 11:12 AM PDT  By Mike Lansu LISLE, Ill. (Reuters) - Hundreds of mourners lined up on Saturday in a Chicago suburb for the funeral of a black woman found dead in a Texas jail days after she was arrested following a minor traffic offense, in a case that has become the latest focus of concerns about race and policing. Outside the DuPage African Methodist Episcopal Church in Lisle, Illinois, hundreds of people waited nearly an hour in the sun before being ushered into the crowded church for the wake and funeral of Sandra Bland, 28. Originally from the Chicago area, Bland had been preparing to begin a job in Texas.
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| Federal judge orders information be seized from Arizona sheriff Posted: 24 Jul 2015 07:59 PM PDT  A federal judge on Friday ordered U.S. marshals to seize documents from the office of controversial Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio as part of an ongoing racial profiling case. U.S. District Judge Murray Snow issued the order at an emergency hearing he convened after a court-appointed monitor reported that the sheriff's office had failed to turn over information being sought in connection with the case. In a brief order, Snow required that 1,459 identifications apparently taken from people by sheriff's deputies during law enforcement actions and which were about to be destroyed be produced for federal marshals.
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| Louisiana remembers victims in movie theater shooting Posted: 24 Jul 2015 01:12 PM PDT  Mayci Breaux, a 21-year-old from Franklin, La., and Jillian Johnson, a 33-year-old from Lafayette, La., were shot and killed while watching "Trainwreck" Thursday.
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