| Chicago mayor fires police chief in wake of video release Posted: 01 Dec 2015 10:46 AM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired the city's police superintendent Tuesday, a week after the release of a dash-cam video that showed a white Chicago officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times.
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| Giuliani refutes Trump's 9/11 claim Posted:  "We had some pockets" of people celebrating — not thousands, says the mayor of NYC on 9/11.
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| Obama: Climate action an economic and security 'imperative' Posted: 01 Dec 2015 08:11 AM PST  US President Barack Obama said Tuesday global warming posed economic and security risks that had to be tackled immediately, but insisted the climate problem could be solved. If global warming continues, "then before long we are going to have to devote more and more of our economic and military resources not to growing opportunity for our people but to adapting to the various consequences of a changing planet," Obama said. "Climate change is a massive problem, it's a generational problem," Obama said on the sidelines of the November 30-December 11 UN conference being held north of Paris.
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| Police investigate death of Alaska's capital city mayor Posted: 01 Dec 2015 09:44 AM PST  The newly elected mayor of Alaska's capital city was found dead at his Juneau home, and police are investigating a range of possible causes. The Juneau Police Department released few details on the death ...
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| AirAsia crash due to faulty component, crew response: probe Posted: 01 Dec 2015 06:44 AM PST  Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee said a major factor was a fault with a system that helps control the rudder's movement.
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| Chicago creates police task force after officer charged with murder Posted: 01 Dec 2015 07:36 AM PST  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday announced the creation of a police accountability task force following days of unrest over the alleged murder of a black teenager by a white policeman. The announcement came a week after the officer, Jason Van Dyke, was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times. "The shooting of Laquan McDonald requires more than just words," Emanuel said in a statement.
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| Trump says meeting with black clergy went 'very well' Posted: 30 Nov 2015 04:38 PM PST  By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump met a group of black pastors on Monday, some of them polarizing figures in their own right, despite objections from other African-American clergy and academics who have assailed what they call Trump's racially charged rhetoric. The meeting was held with the Coalition of African American Ministers, clergy from across the country connected to one another through the South Carolina-based Christian broadcaster, the NOW Television Network. The group included a former contestant on Trump's reality TV show "The Apprentice" and a New York pastor who has attracted national attention with anti-gay statements and harsh criticism of American leaders, including President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush.
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| Amazon gadget sales more than triple over Thanksgiving weekend Posted: 01 Dec 2015 10:31 AM PST  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said sales of its electronic gadgets more than tripled over the Thanksgiving weekend from last year, with the Fire tablet the top-selling product.
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| Chicago police chief ousted amid tensions over black teen's killing Posted: 01 Dec 2015 10:25 AM PST  Chicago's police chief was ousted on Tuesday following days of unrest over video footage showing the shooting of a black teenager and the filing of murder charges against a white police officer in the young man's death. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced during a news conference he had asked Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy to resign. The white officer, Jason Van Dyke, was charged a week ago with first-degree murder in the killing of Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times.
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| Puerto Rico avoids second default, but future payments uncertain Posted: 01 Dec 2015 11:13 AM PST  NEW YORK/SAN JUAN (Reuters) - Puerto Rico made a crucial debt payment on Tuesday but warned that its deteriorating finances could trigger future defaults, as the governor granted the U.S. territory power to take revenues from public agencies. There had been speculation Puerto Rico would default on all or part of the $355 million notes issued by its financing arm, the Government Development Bank. While Puerto Rico first defaulted in August, failure to make the payment on Tuesday would have been more significant because part of that debt was protected by the commonwealth's constitution.
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| Putin: Turkey shot down Russian plane to defend ISIS oil supplies Posted: 30 Nov 2015 11:46 AM PST  By Denis Dyomkin PARIS (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday the reason Turkey downed a Russian warplane last week was that it wanted to protect supplies of oil from Islamic State. Putin, speaking at the global climate conference in Paris, added that the decision to shoot down the plane was a "huge mistake" and that he had not met Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, despite them both being in Paris. "We have received additional data which confirm that Islamic State oil ... enters the territory of Turkey," Putin said.
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| Police shooting of black teen cited in U of Chicago threat Posted: 30 Nov 2015 06:31 PM PST  Federal authorities said an online threat that led the University of Chicago to cancel classes Monday targeted whites and was motivated by the police shooting of a black teenager, video of which was released ...
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| Putin, Obama discuss Syria political settlement Posted: 30 Nov 2015 02:02 PM PST  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he and President Barack Obama have a shared understanding on how to move toward a political settlement in Syria, but added that incidents like the recent downing of a Russian warplane by a Turkish fighter jet stymie broader cooperation against extremism.
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