Hillary Clinton calls McCarthy's Benghazi comments 'deeply distressing'

Hillary Clinton calls McCarthy's Benghazi comments 'deeply distressing'
Trump says he has license to carry: 'Somebody attacks me, they’re gonna be shocked'
Dangerous East Coast storm brings misery to South Carolina
Chaffetz's bid for House speaker muddies GOP leadership race
Oregon shooting victim professor Larry Levine loved nature, writing
Doctors Without Borders leaves Afghan city after airstrike
Gunman in Oregon college massacre committed suicide
Four California students arrested for plotting mass shooting
Search for missing cargo ship in Bahamas enters third day
Obama pledges probe into fatal airstrike on Afghan hospital
Guatemalan mudslide death toll reaches 69, hundreds missing

Posted: 04 Oct 2015 11:10 AM PDT

Hillary Clinton says House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's suggestion that the select committee investigating Benghazi was summoned to derail her 2016 presidential bid is "deeply distressing" because it dishonors the four Americans who died in the terror attacks.

Trump says he has license to carry: 'Somebody attacks me, they’re gonna be shocked'

Posted: 04 Oct 2015 10:35 AM PDT

Donald Trump continues to court Second Amendment supporters in the wake of last week's deadly shooting in Oregon, suggesting the teachers at Umpqua Community College should have been armed — just like he is.

Dangerous East Coast storm brings misery to South Carolina

Posted: 04 Oct 2015 11:15 AM PDT

Trees and power lines across the Carolinas and Virginia are vulnerable.

Chaffetz's bid for House speaker muddies GOP leadership race

Posted: 04 Oct 2015 09:54 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — An up-and-coming House committee chairman announced his long-shot candidacy Sunday for speaker of the House, adding a new dose of turmoil for reeling House Republicans.

Oregon shooting victim professor Larry Levine loved nature, writing

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 08:30 AM PDT

Larry Levine, one of the victims in the Umpqua Community College shooting, loved fishing in the great outdoors and was passionate about writing.

Doctors Without Borders leaves Afghan city after airstrike

Posted: 04 Oct 2015 08:39 AM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The International medical charity Doctors Without Borders said on Sunday it had withdrawn from the northern Afghan city of Kunduz after a deadly airstrike destroyed its hospital and killed 22 people, as the U.S. and Afghan governments vowed to get to the bottom of the carnage.

Gunman in Oregon college massacre committed suicide

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 09:28 PM PDT

By Courtney Sherwood and Emily Flitter ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - The gunman who killed his English professor and eight others at an Oregon community college committed suicide after a shootout with police who arrived within five minutes and exchanged fire with him almost immediately, authorities said. Investigators had previously said the 26-year-old shooter was killed by the officers who raced to the rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, which ranks as the deadliest among dozens of U.S. mass shootings in the past two years. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin told a news conference on Saturday the state medical examiner had determined that the gunman, Christopher Harper-Mercer, took his own life.

Four California students arrested for plotting mass shooting

Posted: 04 Oct 2015 10:52 AM PDT

Authorities took four unidentified students into custody after they uncovered their plan to shoot and kill faculty members and students at Summerville High School, the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office said on Saturday. High school officials reported to authorities on Wednesday that three students were planning to carry out an attack. During their investigation, detectives learned that a fourth student was involved in the plot, the sheriff's office said.

Search for missing cargo ship in Bahamas enters third day

Posted: 04 Oct 2015 08:23 AM PDT

By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. Coast Guard pilots searched for a third day for the cargo ship El Faro and its 33 mostly American crew members after it went missing in the eye of Hurricane Joaquin as it passed over the Bahamas on Thursday. Search-and-rescue crews found three life rings in waters to the northeast of Crooked Island in the Bahamas, about 75 miles (120 km) from the ship's last known position before it went missing, the Coast Guard said on Sunday. The Coast Guard confirmed that one of the life rings was from the El Faro.

Obama pledges probe into fatal airstrike on Afghan hospital

Posted: 04 Oct 2015 01:36 AM PDT

President Barack Obama has promised a full investigation into an apparent US air strike on an Afghan hospital that killed 19 people, a bombing which the UN said could amount to a war crime. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said patients burned to death in their beds during a raid that continued for more than an hour early Saturday, even after US and Afghan authorities were informed the hospital had been hit. Afghan forces, backed up by their NATO allies, claimed to have wrestled back control of the city.

Guatemalan mudslide death toll reaches 69, hundreds missing

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 07:02 PM PDT

SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala (AP) — Rescue workers using shovels and pickaxes recovered more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed hillside on the outskirts of Guatemala City on Saturday as an official said the death toll had risen to 69 with another 350 people believed missing.