Terror attacks in Paris kill more than 120

Terror attacks in Paris kill more than 120
Paris attacks: Harrowing video captures concertgoers fleeing Bataclan
IS group claims Paris attacks, says France at 'top' of list
Carson: Trump doesn't know what he's saying
New York, other U.S. cities beef up security after Paris attacks
Supreme Court's Texas abortion ruling to have broad impact in states
Demands at Missouri similar to 1969's, but this time, action
Justices agree to hear first abortion case since 2007
GOP field strikes back after Donald Trump’s anti-Ben Carson rant

Posted: 13 Nov 2015 05:14 PM PST

More than 120 people have been killed in shootings and explosions around Paris, many of them in a popular concert hall where patrons were taken hostage, police and medical officials said. Yahoo News is following the latest in the live blog below.

Paris attacks: Harrowing video captures concertgoers fleeing Bataclan

Posted: 14 Nov 2015 07:35 AM PST

A French journalist who lives in an apartment behind the Bataclan in Paris captured harrowing footage of concertgoers attempting to escape the concert hall during Friday's terror attacks before he was wounded trying to help a victim on the street below.

IS group claims Paris attacks, says France at 'top' of list

Posted: 14 Nov 2015 05:21 AM PST

CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for a wave of attacks in Paris that killed 127 people and said France would remain at the "top of the list" of its targets.

Carson: Trump doesn't know what he's saying

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New York, other U.S. cities beef up security after Paris attacks

Posted: 13 Nov 2015 08:51 PM PST

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York, Boston and other cities in the United States bolstered security on Friday night after deadly gun and bomb attacks on civilians in Paris, but law enforcement officials said the beefed-up police presence was precautionary rather than a response to any specific threats. The New York Police Department said officers from its Counterterrorism Response Command and other special units were deployed in areas frequented by tourists, and at the French Consulate in Manhattan. "Teams have been dispatched to crowded areas around the city out of an abundance of caution to provide police presence and public reassurance as we follow the developing situation overseas," the NYPD said in a statement.

Supreme Court's Texas abortion ruling to have broad impact in states

Posted: 14 Nov 2015 09:29 AM PST

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Friday to hear a challenge to tough abortion restrictions in Texas raises questions about the legal fate of similar laws in more than a dozen other states. The court's ruling, due by June, could spell out the extent to which states can impose clinic regulations likely to restrict access to abortion as an outpatient procedure. If the court upholds the Texas law, similar laws would also fall.

Demands at Missouri similar to 1969's, but this time, action

Posted: 13 Nov 2015 08:33 PM PST

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The criticism was blunt: Blacks at the University of Missouri are harassed and threatened, the university has too few African-American faculty members, the administration doesn't seem to care, and all of that needs to change.

Justices agree to hear first abortion case since 2007

Posted: 13 Nov 2015 02:08 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is giving an election-year hearing to a dispute over state regulation of abortion clinics in the court's first abortion case in eight years.

GOP field strikes back after Donald Trump’s anti-Ben Carson rant

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