| Russia, Egypt dismiss US, UK claims bomb brought down jet Posted: 05 Nov 2015 04:19 AM PST  Russia and Egypt on Thursday dismissed suggestions by Britain and the United States that a bomb was likely to have brought down a Metrojet flight packed with Russian vacationers leaving an Egyptian resort, ...
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| Martin O’Malley gets his opening, at last Posted:  The Democratic candidate's moment has arrived, if only he can figure out what to do with it.
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| Democratic senator: Obama still has no strategy for Syria Posted:  Sen. Tim Kaine says the president does not have a clear plan for confronting Islamic State in Syria.
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| Carson: Egypt's pyramids were for grain, not tombs Posted: 04 Nov 2015 06:49 PM PST  The GOP presidential front-runner made the controversial remarks in a 1998 speech.
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| Alabama boy discovered in Ohio 13 years after reported missing Posted: 05 Nov 2015 09:23 AM PST  U.S. federal investigators located Julian Hernandez after he used an incorrect Social Security number for his college applications, said Lieutenant Kevin York of the Vestavia Hills, Alabama police department. "He was applying to several different colleges and the Social Security number didn't add up," York said on Thursday.
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| Star NHL's Blackhawks, Patrick Kane, will not face rape charges Posted: 05 Nov 2015 09:51 AM PST  NHL superstar Patrick Kane will not face rape charges because the accusations made by a woman who had met him at a Buffalo, New York nightclub contained inconsistencies and were not backed up by credible evidence, a county prosecutor said on Thursday. The woman, whose name has not been disclosed, had accused the 26-year-old Chicago Blackhawks player of raping her at his offseason lakeshore home in Hamburg, a Buffalo suburb, in the early morning hours of Aug. 2. Kane is one of the National Hockey League's top stars and has led the Blackhawks to three Stanley Cup championships.
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| Guantanamo prisoners should remain there: House speaker Posted: 05 Nov 2015 08:51 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prisoners being held at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should remain at the facility, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday. "Guantanamo detainees should be in Guantanamo," Ryan told reporters at a news briefing. His comments come amid an expected new U.S. plan to close the prison that officials said is likely to be unveiled in the coming days. (Reporting by Susan Cornwell, David Lawder and Susan Heavey; editing by David Alexander)
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| Ex-President George H.W. Bush blasts Cheney, Rumsfeld Posted: 04 Nov 2015 05:38 PM PST  Former President George H.W. Bush takes some unexpected swipes at Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, key members of his son's administration, over their reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks, in a new biography of the 41st president, Fox News reported on Wednesday. In "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey Of George Herbert Walker Bush," author Jon Meacham quotes Bush as saying that Cheney and Rumsfeld were too hawkish and that their harsh stance damaged the reputation of the United States, the cable news network said.
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| Sanders introduces Senate bill to end federal pot prohibition Posted:  If successful, the bill would remove all references to cannabis in the Controlled Substances Act.
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| Officials: Bomb may have downed Russian jet Posted: 04 Nov 2015 07:43 PM PST  A U.S. official believes Islamic State may have planted an explosive device on the plane that crashed in Egypt
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| Man arrested in California stabbing of French train hero Posted: 04 Nov 2015 05:52 PM PST  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A tip led police in California's capital city to arrest a 28-year-old man Wednesday in the stabbing of a U.S. airman who was hailed as a hero for helping thwart a European terror attack.
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| Polls: Carson surges in Republican race Posted: 04 Nov 2015 03:35 AM PST  The brash billionaire must now share frontrunner status in the US Republican presidential nominations battle with retired neurosurgeon and fellow political outsider Ben Carson, fresh polling showed Wednesday. The conservative Carson, the only African-American in the 2016 White House race, is virtually tied at the top with Trump, trailing him by one percentage point, according to the Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday. Tuesday's NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has Carson surging into a six-point lead, quite a showing for a candidate who has largely shunned traditional campaign strategies and refused to play rough and tumble campaign politics with his rivals.
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| Illinois policeman committed suicide, embezzled funds: officials Posted: 04 Nov 2015 12:42 PM PST  The northern Illinois policeman whose September death prompted an extensive manhunt for murder suspects committed "a carefully staged suicide" as authorities began an audit that would have exposed his embezzling public funds, authorities said on Wednesday. Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz used public funds for personal purchases, stealing and laundering money over the past seven years, and forging signatures on documents, Lake County Major Crime Task Force Commander George Filenko said. The investigation "strongly indicates criminal activity on the part of at least two other individuals," Filenko said, adding that because the investigation was ongoing he would not comment further.
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