Clinton personally paid staffer to maintain private server: report

Clinton personally paid staffer to maintain private server: report
Exhaustion, elation as 6,500 migrants reach Austria, Germany
Ohio voters' measured view of 2016 race as wild summer fades
Supporters gather at jail for Kentucky clerk held in gay marriage dispute
Prosecutors seek to re-argue case that ended Connecticut death penalty
Annual pillow fight turns bloody at military academy: NYT
Patriots star Tom Brady breaks silence on deflate-gate
Why Democratic senators from red states support Iran deal

Posted: 05 Sep 2015 07:21 AM PDT

Hillary Clinton used personal funds to pay a State Department staffer to maintain an email server she used for both personal and government matters when she was U.S. secretary of state, The Washington Post said on Saturday, citing a campaign official. The unidentified official for Clinton's campaign for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination told the Post the pay arrangement with Bryan Pagliano ensured taxpayer dollars were not spent on a private server that was also used by Clinton's family and aides to former President Bill Clinton. Pagliano was IT director for Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and went to work for the State Department when Clinton took up the Cabinet job.

Exhaustion, elation as 6,500 migrants reach Austria, Germany

Posted: 05 Sep 2015 09:16 AM PDT

Thousands of exhausted, elated migrants reached their dream destinations of Germany and Austria on Saturday.

Ohio voters' measured view of 2016 race as wild summer fades

Posted: 05 Sep 2015 06:40 AM PDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It's been a tumultuous political summer.

Supporters gather at jail for Kentucky clerk held in gay marriage dispute

Posted: 05 Sep 2015 09:09 AM PDT

By Steve Bittenbender GRAYSON, Ky. (Reuters) - Around 200 supporters gathered outside a Kentucky jail on Saturday to support a county clerk held there for defying a federal judge's order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, 49, who refused the licenses due to her Christian belief that marriage can only be between a man and a woman, said she was prepared to remain in jail where she has been reading a Bible since her incarceration for contempt on Thursday, her lawyers said. On Saturday, a white banner spray-painted with the black letters "Kim Davis POW" was placed near the jail entrance and a bagpipe and drum corps from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property played "You're a Grand Old Flag" and marched to the detention center.

Prosecutors seek to re-argue case that ended Connecticut death penalty

Posted: 05 Sep 2015 09:54 AM PDT

Connecticut prosecutors asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to reconsider its recent decision on a narrow vote to end the state's death penalty, the Hartford Courant newspaper reported. Prosecutors late Friday filed a motion asking the justices to allow them to re-argue the case in which justices called the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment and concluded that it "no longer comports with contemporary standards of decency." The ruling, on a 4-3 vote, added Connecticut to the growing list of states backing away from the death penalty, including Nebraska and Maryland most recently. Thirty-one states have the death penalty.

Annual pillow fight turns bloody at military academy: NYT

Posted: 05 Sep 2015 10:32 AM PDT

The event, part of a tradition for first-year students at the service academy in West Point, New York, is intended as a way to help them blow off steam and build morale after a summer spent preparing for a grueling program, the newspaper reported. Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Kasker, an academy spokesman, told the Times the matter was under investigation and there were no plans to cancel the tradition. "West Point applauds the cadets' desire to build esprit and regrets the injuries to our cadets," Kasker told the Times.

Patriots star Tom Brady breaks silence on deflate-gate

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